mr. murphy of pennsylvania. mr. murphy -- the chair: the gentleman veck nighed. -- is recognized. mr. murphy: on monday, charges were filed against members of the communist chinese military affirming what i as chairman of the congressional steel caucus and other members have contended for quite some time. it proves we're losing manufacturing jobs not because the u.s. stopped making great products but because the chinese government is stealing ideas, inventions and intellectual property straight out of western pennsylvania. the chinese government has hacked into our computers, stolen blueprints, erected trade barriers all to give state-owned enterprises an unfair and illegal advantage in the american marketplace. for example in 2010 as american factories were shutting down because of dumped and illegally traded chinese pipe, chinese agents were trying to cheat import as well. they hacked into computers at u.s. steel and the united steelworkers union to obtain privileged communications about the crucial unfair trade case being litigated before the commission on the oil company tubular go

mr. murphy: thank you, mr. president. there was a fairly remarkable hearing in the house of representatives yesterday, the energy and commerce committee, upon which i used to sit when i was there, called together some of the nation's biggest insurers to talk about all of the failures of the affordable care act as seen through the lens of the insurance companies. first up on the docket for republicans was the claim that no one had paid their premiums, that all these people had signed up for plans but a report that had been released by the energy and commerce committee in the house suggested that, in fact, only maybe about 60% of them have actually paid their premiums. and so they asked representatives from wellpoint and aetna and other insurance companies to confirm that fact, and, of course, they did not. wellpoint said that in fact 90% of the people that have signed up for wellpoint plans, the biggest insurer across the country, through the affordable care act had paid their premiums. aetna said the number for them right

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mr. murphy is up first. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from west virginia, mrs. capito, and the gentleman from florida, mr. murphy, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and submit remarks extraneous materials for the record on h.r. 3329, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. capito: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. capito: thank you. i'd like to thank mr. luetkemeyer and mr. murphy of florida for drafting this legislation before us this afternoon and for working together on the financial services committee. h.r. 3329 provides targeted regulatory relief for small bank holding companies. under the current regulatory framework, the federal reserve's rul

mr. murphy. the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the gentleman from washington for yielding. i want to thank the chairman for his efforts on this evening's work. i rise today in support of my amendment to improve meble mental health and suicide -- mental health and suicide prevention for our nation's veterans. every day our country loses 22 of our nation's heroes to suicide. this heartbreaking statistic remains a devastating reality that should shake every member in this house. truly providing our heroes with the respect and care they have earned means treating not only physical but invisible wounds as well. with damning reports about the v.a. failing our veterans and our country, my amendment would insist on more accountability by requiring an independent third party evaluation of existing suicide prevention efforts to improve coordination and integration between the d.o.d. and the v.a. outcomes of service member and veteran suicide prevention programs are too important to be left to g

mr. murphy joins us now on the phone.ike, what do you think after not only the earnings report, but one of the worst days we've ever seen for shares of whole foods? >> it's an unbelievable reaction to the quarter, and, you know, first, i'd like to say hats off to pete. he was right yesterday. i was dead wrong on it. but i'm in the position, right around 51. i bought more of the stock this morning just over 38. and to me, on a down 20% on this quarter, they did miss by 3 cents, scott, obviously, and the margins did get squeezed and the same-store sales got squeezed a bit. >> and the outlook was bad. i mean, you could go on and on, enou murph, if you want to. >> but as pete mentioned, you're buying it 20% cheaper. do you believe in it? if the a answer is yes, you buy more. what's hurting whole foods right now is their expansion. i think they and myself underestimated the competition out there, but they've signed 114 new leases. so they're going out, opening new stores to deal with the competition, and even though this quart

thank you chairman murphy mr. kelly appreciate hearing from you and learning from you and i want to thank the members for coming and those of you who are here today appreciate you taking the time. there comes a time when denial is no longer possible. we have reached that time. many of us and perhaps most of us are here now because of that denial. think about it. because we have denied that serious mental illness unmanaged can go away just because you will it to, what is the difference between serious mental illness and just mental illness? it's serious enough to warrant treatment and it doesn't just go away because we deny it exists or we have urged our gaze. we are here because we are in denial that serious mental illness doesn't go away just because hospitals close so the people who are in the hospitals get discharged. where did they go? we are in denial because the biggest institutions in the world in america are now prisons congratulations. you have the right to remain silent. feel better now? that you are not

mr. chairman. >> thank you senator enzi. senator murphy. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. there was a remarkable hearing in the house on the subject yesterday which house republicans called to testify in part as to what they believe to be incredibly low rates of premium payments. the headline from "the new york times" this morning is called by republicans health insurance deliver unexpected testimony that wasn't part that wellpoint suggests that 90% of their customers have paid premiums and suggest the numbers are in the low to mid-80% range. they also according to this article declined to endorse republicans predictions of sharp increases in insurance premiums. next year this comes on the heels of the health affairs report that suggest suggests that though there certainly have been cancellations of policy since the law was passed not out of step with the rate of cancellations that happened before the law was implemented a new gallup survey shows an absolutely astounding number of people who are uninsured a 25% drop according to gallup over the course of the third quarter

mr. murphy: thank you. i want to briefly join my colleagues here in support of the effort be led by senator durbin warren, reed, harkin. they have done incredible work on behalf of students around the country. one of the most amazing statistics is a simple one. not so long ago the united states was number one in the world when it came to the number of young people who have college degrees. we have precipitously fell from number 1 to number 12. that is due to the fact that other countries have caught up which is an issue in and of itself but it also has something to do with the fact that the cost of college has become calamitous for students all across this country and it is just taking kids a lot longer to complete their degrees many of which are starting and never even finishing. i am an example of the squeeze that american families are in. i don't complain about the income that me and my wife make, but we are both paying back our student loaned and we are saving for our kids' student loans. so i know the

mr. murphy, congressman murphy. what you are seeing is something different going on. we have had tons of mental health bills. this is the first one that focuses on the elephant in the room, which is how do we get people known to have serious mental illness and particular adults -- adults known to have serious mental illness to go untreated? doesis the first bill that that. we agree with the majority report. we are not advocates for mental health. we are not advocates for improving the mental health of all americans. we are advocates for the most seriously mentally ill. not all mental illness is serious. have theirlts can mental health improved. 20% of adults have a diagnosable mental illness. that is people in this room and your coworkers on prozac or zoloft to were doing quite well. only 4% have severe mental illness. we have to stop ignoring the most seriously ill. we cannot go on pretending that they do not exist. until the 1960's, virtually all mental health expenditures were spent on the most seriously ill because the expenditures went to state psychiatric hospit

mr. murphy, for five minutes. . mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of our nation's veterans. the men and women who put their lives on the line in service to our country. i was honored to have the opportunity to spend memorial day with our troops stationed in afghanistan. sharing this most solemn holiday with members of our armed services who go above and beyond every day was truly a humbling experience. it was an experience that reinforced my belief that one of the best ways americans can may tribute to the brave men and women who risk their lives fighting for us is to recommit ourselves to duty to care for them when they return home. that is why i will be introducing three bills to help our troops and veterans. too often we hear that our nation's heroes after fighting for our country come home only to have to fight to get the care, support, and respect they so deserve. we must make sure that the brave men and women who have risked everything for our country are never forgotten or ignored. that we fight for them as they have f

mr. murphy, congressman murphy. what you are seeing is something different going on. we have had tons of mental health bills. this is the first one that focuses on the elephant in the room, which is how do we get people knows to have serious mental illness, and in particular, adults. there's been a lot of effort to children, veterans, but adults know that go untreated and this is the first bill that does that. we agree with the majority of the report and we are not advocates for mental health. we are not advocates for improving the mental health of all americans. what we are is advocates for the most serious mentally ill. not all until illness is serious. 20%, 100% of adults can have the mental health improved and that's where a lot of the federal money goes. 20% of adults have a diagnosed mental illness. that's people in this room and your coworkers on prozac doing quite well but only 4% have a serious mental illness that includes the 1% of schizophrenia into the 2% which is why polar and some other individuals. by one message is we have to stop ignoring the most ser

mr. murphy: thank you, mr. president. i hope that the presiding officer had a great mother's day. i hope that senator klobuchar had a wonderful mother's day, got a phone call from her daughter in new haven, connecticut. i'm here today to tell the story of three pretty heroic mothers who are representative of far too many with similar stories across the country. i want to tell you very quickly this afternoon about wiycox sally, mary jelatty. all three of them are no longer with us, they are among the 31,672 victims of gun violence a year, 2,639 deaths a month, 86 people a day are killed by guns all across this country. i want to try to lend the voices to a few of these victims tonight, mothers, who were killed by their intimate partners, by their spouses in an act of domestic violence that frankly could have been prevented if not for the law of this land. first, the story of gwen cox salary. -- sally. gwen was killed two days after she finally took out a restraining order against her husband. she had a long history of abuse with her husband michael scott sally. most recently, he ha

mr. chairman. >> senator murphy. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you all for being here. madam secretary, as you know, i along with a few others on this panel were amongst the earliest to advocate for sanctions against the yanukovych regime. we have argued for a robust american response to this crisis. but i think it's important for us to recognize a simple fact and that's this. that the future of ukraine matters more to russia than it matters to the united states. it is a neighbor of russia. it is on the other side of the world from us. and i sometimes worry that the hand wringing that happens over those who want a much more robust response risks viewing the world through an extinct prism in which russia is our chiefÑi adversary and whereby o actions have to be equal, maybe not in exactitude of tactics but in proportion to the tactic that is russia uses. that's not the world we live in any longer. we should respond, we should be robust in that response, but we shouldn't be expected to care about this as much as the russians do. and so let me posit a slightly complicated

mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor east berlin, pennsylvania, on its 250th anniversary. it was founded on may 8, 176 , by john frankenburger, a prussian who purchased 200 acres of land from thomas and richer penn. mr. perry: john laid out a town with 85 lots, one main street, four cross streets, and five alleys. he named the town berlin after his native town in prussia. east was added to the name in 1827 when the town post office was established. today east berlin is a thriving community of over 1,00 residents in adams county. i'm proud to congratulate east berlin on this momentous day and wish the borrough another successful 250 years. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new hampshire seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kuster: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to express my contin

mr. bush is up there giving his speech and what a magnificant man he was. we are realizing how lucky we were to have him. i am sitting at the staff table with admiral murphy who was the four-star navy admiral who was mr. bush's chief of staff. and i had been with benedict monks at school and i thought i knew about authority figures and then i went to work for a four-star admiral and boy are they strict. he said as the greek historian -- and he was looking for a constinent and he was going on and admiral murphy is now giving me the eye ball of death and i am going i didn't make up this word. it was like being in a lamaz class. i was saying push. push. you can do it. and finally it slipped out and admiral murphy came up and jabbed me in the chest with his fingers and said next time say plato. [laughter] >> so that was the dawn of the platonic era. bush rhetoric. but random house said no i don't know about calling it that. so there was a piece and i said let's call it wish i had said that. this was a piece i did for all things considered the npr show. i had been called for jury duty in washington, d.c. and this is a civic duty of every american, you know. bu

been fully broken mr moore and houses lined up a new job and will stay by the successor is found the question is whether that will be another outsider or a civil servant david murphy rte news. let's pick up the point for the second lowest of all those children who joins us to an ash on the cd also looking outside the department for a successor to mr moore looking outside is brody where they are going to go to no decision made on this yet as far as where oh where i thought to be a problem with looking at side is that outsiders whether they intend to move around from job to job of it within their careers for his career civil servants by definition to the stadium house for the longer a whole and the focus was to board. i cut them out to the crisis. i was the moving all we've seen something similar in the central bank another organization the size for children that prices for their part in a regulator from outside. he stayed for three years and moved on to the banking industry adopted a chief economist came from sweeteners have gone after betty year about how two years. this guy that made him an offer he couldn't refuse now somebody at the department of finance we've

i am sitting at the staff table with al murphy, the 4-star navy admiral who is mr.'s chief of staff. and i had been with benedict and months for four years in boarding school and thought i knew something about authority figures. then i went to work for of four-star navy admiral. boy, are they strict. [laughter] and so until he gets to of thucydides and something happens. as the greek historian. [laughter] he walks of looking for a continent. and admiral murphy giving me the call on pawlenty of i didn't make up this word. it was like being in the malls of half. push. c'mon. finally. at mom murphy came up and jabbed me in the chest with his finger. next time say plato. so that was the dawn of the platonic year. bush rhetoric. the random house said : no. so there was a piece. when school it wish i said that. this is a piece that had done for all things considered. i have been called for jury duty in d.c. this is a civic duty of every american, but not an experience that particularly recommend in d.c. there is surely no more prophetic site and 72 adults trying to squirm

mr. boehner's colleagues calling for the head of the va secretary now? patrick murphyhe first veteran of the iraq war to serve in congress. he's now a msnbc contributor. patrick, i start with that question. you just heard that john boehner is actually kind of waiting to see what happens, and is not immediately calling for shinseki's resz ig nation, but so many of his colleagues on the other side of the aisle are. what do you suppose that's happening now? >> well, because these allegations, joy, are so outrageous. to have over 1,400 veterans on this phantom secret waiting list to get care, care they've earned, is potentially criminal negligence. because allegedly there's 40 veterans that have died because of it. it's not often, joy, i agree with speaker boehner. but in this case, i do. shinseki made it clear when he found out about these allegations, he immediately ordered the ig to investigate. and he's now called just about 30 minutes ago, called for a face-to-face audit in every va hospital across the country. that's the least we can do. we have to get over on top of

murphy. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you both of you. i wanted to continue along the line of questioning with you, mr. kramer, because this is all an exercise in priority setting, for this committee, for the administration, for the secretary of state in terms of what he talks about with our european allies when he's across the stable with them. and i, too, was impressed with the gravity to which you ascribe the crisis. you, i think, referred to it as the greatest crisis that the united states has seen in decades. which strikes me as surprising because to me the world is not aligned any longer around who's with the united states and who's with russia, who's with the west and who's with the east. there are paradigms that matter much more to us than that. who has nuclear weapons, who does not, who's aligned with shia, who's aligned with sunni? those seem to be the things that should be first and foremost. this doesn't strike me as the gravest crisis we've seen in decades. it's important. it deserves all of the time that we're spending on it

couple of other key questions but i want to turn to my colleague, senator murphy -- senator merkley. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you to all of you. i want to ask just a limited question that has come from several of my transit districts, so given your experience on the ground i thought you might have some insight on this. this is essentially a situation where the discretionary grant has been changed to a funding formula in the bus and bus facility program under map-21. and the result of a couple of my transit districts is there having a great difficulty acquiring replacement buses in the fashion that they did before, which means they're buying fewer, therefore not getting group but discounts, and they're keeping inefficient buses that need high levels of maintenance on routes for longer to the detriment of the agency. have you all experienced in your own respective realms in the challenge like this? invite any of you to answer. >> i haven't. >> i haven't, no. >> i have not at the key but we have 15 regional transit authorities which are much smaller systems and other keep a good overview fr

mr. boehner is going to be gone and the question is cantor and mccarthy. joining me from atlanta is my friend, the lovely patricia murphyf -- by people, me -- tend to think of john boehner as a hapless tanner. but behind the scenes, when it comes to his own power, he seems to be an arm-twister and vaguely ruthless. >> he is definitely an arm-twister. i think that he has reserved his ruthless side until now. i think that he knew that that tea party group that came in that made him speaker in the first place, that was such a wild bunch of people who just had so much energy to burn off. and i think a lot of rebellion in their hearts that they need to sort of process through their systems. and then along comes ted cruz and you have the whole thing going on in the senate. and i think that john boehner knew that he was not going to be able to control this group of tea partiers until they really controlled themselves and had circumstances start to control them. and so ted cruz -- john boehner let him go ahead and shut down the government. that didn't work. and we've seen a lot of tea party challenges come up and completely flo

mr. cicilline: tomorrow i will introduce the 21st century buy america act with senator chris murphy to modernize decades old buy american standards and help create new manufacturing jobs in the united states. congress should make american taxpayers ought -- ought to make sure american taxpayers dollars are used to buy goods and hear at home and not overseas. our bill will strengthen existing buy american standards and make a number of important changes to support our domestic manufacturing base t will make manufacturers of items in short supply here at home eligible for resources to help them compete against foreign manufacturers for u.s. government contracts. in addition, this bill increases transparency requirements for agencies that provide waivers. and it increases the domestic content percentage requirement so that to qualify as american made you have to prove that a majority of the materials are actually made right here in america. most importantly, this legislation will help grow our manufacturing sector, create new jobs by providing an increased demand for american made products by the f

murphy. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, carol. >> good morning. >> sally, mrs. take it easy for a year. here she is giving speeches, bill is standing up for her. will this hurt her chances in 2016 if she decides to run? >> nobody knows, right? hillary clinton right now, if she does end up running, all the polls show she has a higher lead than any non-incumbent candidate this early out ever, since polls have been done. so we don't know if it's going to hurt. there's two things we do know. one, that folks like deval patrick who are thinking of running if hillary doesn't get in, this sure is inconvenient for him, right? he'd like to know, he'd like to know so he can start putting his name out and campaigning. everybody is holding back. that's number one. number two, what we also don't know is should hillary decide not to run and say deval patrick and others get into the race, she could have ultimately helped them by taking so much of the heat this far out that then this -- we have these sort of incredibly long campaign seasons that can become incredibly ugly and sh

mr. huff -- >> five senate democrats are joining republicans and calling for shinseki to resign, mark ushg call, jeanne shaheen and john walb. political columnist congressman patrick murphy and he's the first iraq war vet to serve in congress and he's also an america s nbc contributor. gentlemen, thank you so much for your time. >> hi, tamron. >> patrick, i'll start with you on this, and looking at the numbers and the information coming from the report we were told a lot of the decisions would be made pending this information that's been revealed that's been stunning. the numbers are absolutely staggering to hear that people waited 115 days. it goes beyond unacceptable. >> i absolutely agree with you, tamron. this is criminal negligence. the folks who doctored the books and may have resulted in veterans' lives being lost is absolutely unacceptable and general shinseki called me yesterday on this issue and the report that he ordered which came out yesterday, he's now relieved seven people, the three people in phoenix, one person in wyoming and one person in north carolina and then the head of the veterans health administration. so his top person for health care in the va

mr. christie, a man who whom he was unshakeablely loyal is reprehensible. we reached out and he said there's no basis for any correction and added that our report stands as. joining me brian murphyassistant professor of political history. this strikes me as a big deal for two reasons. one, stepyan has been a good soldier and is no longer inside the tent. and two, he's saying christie lied to everyone. >> that's right. christie had a conversation with them where they discussed this on the 12th and christie went out on the 13th and said nobody was involved on my staff in this. >> he says it's clear to everyone on my staff that if anyone had any knowledge they need to come forward and tell me. does that include stepyan. stepyan is saying that's a straight up lie. >> that time line got more complicated because christie's press secretary testified that they had a conversation on the 5th of december where the spokesman told the governor, bill stepyan and bridget kelly might have a role in this and christie said apparently if we believe him, christie told drun yak, i've been wondering if bill is involved in this. >> there's afamous moment in his press conference when he said i was read

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator alexander. i have in orderer, senator warren, senator isaac san, mccull ski, robert, enzi, murphy, baldwin, caseynders. i'll recognize senator warren. >> thank you, chairman harkin. thank you, ms. burwell, for being here today. ms. burwell, there seems to be broad bipartisan agreement that we need to reduce federal health care spending. and republicans argue that to accomplish this, we need entitlement reform. but they shouldn't forget that we passed major entitlement reform just four years ago as part of the affordable care act. and that it's already working to reduce medicare spending. so i just had a couple of numbers to look at. in 2009, before obamacare, the medicare trust fund was projected to go bankrupt in 2017. today, the medicare trust fund is solvent at least until 2026. moreover, every congressional budget office estimate of medicare spending since the aca was passed has continued to show bigger savings, that's bigger, not smaller savings, than the report before. in fact, last month cbo projected that medicare spending for 2014 to 2020 will be $500 billion less than they originally pr

mr. murphy: thank you, mr. president. one of the protagonists of lee owe tolstoy's epic "war and peace" is the iconic general. he was brought out during the pole invasion and his unorthodox strategy confounded and frustrated his superiors and his underlings alike. he becomes convinced as tolstoy depicts that napoleon will lose the war by overextending his army. he believes that by playing the long game, he will exhaust and defeat the seemingly invisible and unstoppable french army. tolstoy creates a fictionalized version of the general, of course, but one of the most famous passages from "war and peace" is worth repeating here today. speaking of those who doubt his strategy, he says -- "patience and time are my warriors, my champions." he goes on to say he knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green. it is fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe, the apple is spoiled, the tree is harmed and your teeth are set on edge. like an experienced sportsman, he knew that the beast was wounded and wounded as on

mr. murphy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: i would ask that we dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. i want to tell my colleagues the story of charlene dill for a moment if i could. on march 21 of -- march 21, charlene dill was supposed to bring her three children over to the south orlando home of her best friend, cathleen. the two friends had cultivated really close relationships since 2008. they shared every resource they had, from debit card pins to transportation to baby sitting to house keys. they helped one another out. they essentially had become each other's safety net. as cathleen describes it, they hustled, they picked up short-term work. they went to every event that they could get free tickets to for her kids. they lived a high life on the low-down, cleaning houses for friends just so they could afford daily necessities of life. they were the quintessential working poor, and they existed in the shadows of this economic recovery that h

mr. murphy: i ask that we dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. dina new was sitting at her church in oakland, california. she was asked a question and she repeated it back, knowing there was really no way to really answer it. she said what is it like to bury both of my kids? ms. new lost her two sons in episodes of gun violence nod more than three weeks apart in february of this year. her youngest son was an eighth grader. he was walking down the street one day. the description says that surveillance cameras actually show him almost skipping down the street. he was walking home from the bus stop. usually he called his mom to pick him up but his cell phone battery had died that day. on the video, you can see a gunman approach, carrying a semiautomatic rifle and shoots little lee, an eighth grader, 28 times. he wasn't in a gang. frankly, it shouldn't matter whether he was in a gang or not, but he wasn't in a gang. he was -- he loved to play drums. his neighbors said he was a great kid. he stayed home a lot playing