mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. madam president, in my lifetime, no american president has ever had a more disastrous overseas trip than the one that was just concluded by president trump. five days of disaster after disaster, insult after insult, capitulation after capitulation, and now today donald trump has america weaker in the world than at any time in recent memory. let's start with what just happens today that has the whole world reeling. to the shock and horror of the american public, president trump stood on stage with vladimir putin and told the world that he believes putin when putin insists that russia did not try to interfere in the american elections in trump's favor in 2016. despite what president trump wants to us believe these days, there are some truths left in the word. not everything -- world. not everything is political spin. not everything in the world is up for debate. russia did attack our elections in 2016. they plan on attacking our elections in 2018. in 2016 they did so with the explicit p

mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. madam president, in my lifetime, no american president has ever had a more disastrous overseas trip t

mr. murphy here overhead please as you can see, he purchased mr. murphy's -- mr. patrick murphy's how's next door and this is the same -- house next door and this is the same house that everybody's pointing is going to be another roof deck on it. i'm just pointing out this is just not right. this arrogance of power is not right and should not be permitted. just, you know, please you know like -- okay. thank you. >> vice president melgar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> commissioners mark hermann, i live directly across the street from this project. this project started five years ago with a well documented attempt to use the property as a single-family home. we saw it from 2013 a failed dwelling unit merger and the project sponsor's own statement at the last hearing. in the last five years, we saw this building being used at best as a corporate rental today we have an unchanged floor plan screaming for legal. tomorrow we have the project sponsor's vacant two unit building next door with proposed remodel details, very suggestive of future unit accommodation. if

mr. murphy: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor to talk for a few quick moments about what the stakes are as we begin this debate over a new swing vote on the united states supreme court. this is a fairly simple chart listing off a number of preexisting conditions that tens of millions of americans have and what it says is that the supreme court could take away your health care if you have a history of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, pregnancy, lupus, parkinson's. the list goes on. the reason for this is that the new priority for those that oppose the affordable care act and the protections that are built in it for americans who are sick or have ever been sick, the new strategy is to use the court system as a reason to try to invalidate the protections in the law for people with preexisting conditions, protections, by the way, that republicans said that they supported during the debate over the affordable care act. the case is currently before the district court level. it's texas v. united st

mr. democrat chris murphy also spoke out against the summit from the senate floor. more disastrous overseas trip than the one that was just concluded by pres madam president, in my lifetime, -- five days of disaster after disaster, capitulation after capitulation. has america weaker in the world than at any time in recent memory. s

mr. murphy: at this point i'm pleased to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from regon, mr. blumenauer. -- mr. smith: at this point i'm pleased to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. mr. blumenauer: i appreciate the gentleman's courtesy for allowing me to speak on this, i'm pleased that this bill has been named after senator mccain. it was my privilege to work with him on one particular area, deal twheg people who worked with us , along istan and iraq with senator kennedy over the last 10 years. help ed to put these -- these peoples who worked with us as translators who have being left at the mercies of people with long memories like al qaeda and isis. we still have 17,000 applicants who want to have these visas to come to the united states to safety. i'm disappointed that we've been unable to be able to have the funding for additional visa allocations. i appreciate that due to an accounting convention, would be at the expense of other important things that we are fighting for. but i would hope that we're able to focus on what the cost wou

heitkamp: thank you for holding this hearing and thank you to mrs. murphy and dr. ponled for joining us today. i think everyone in this room, as well as every member of congress from either party, would agree that we want a more efficient, better federal government. federal government honestly must do better. it must be more efficient, it must be more effective and do a better job of connecting with its citizens. that's why i'm looking forward to improving federal agencies and i know that that's always a great idea. congress, the administration and the public should always be exploring ways, woring together to come up with -- working together to come up with new ideas and structures to execute on those new ideas. with that in mind, i really look forward to today's conversation. the administration has proposed some bold and actually interesting ideas and it's government-wide reorganization proposal. one of the key proposals is the focus of today's hearing. merging most of o.p.m.'s functions with g.s.a. and creating a whole new agency. last week the full committee go

mr. murphy to play himself. i would hire him to be the military advisor in a hot second. i would be foolish not to. his story is a great one. there is a script circulating, has been circulating for the last year or so that begins from the moment he gets the medal of honor on to his death. i do not know if it will ever get made. i thought they cut a lot of corners and it was nonsense. i am so sick and tired of seeing old m 41 walker bulldogs painted haze grey with a black cross on them and being passed off. that movie was full of them, as were most of the early world war ii movies. any tank is a tank and off they go. no it is not, but there you have it. i would do it better. >> another question from online. you have just finished a project down the road from us in baton rouge. "greyhound." it is directed by a certain someone who you have worked with a lot. can you compare the two directors of steven spielberg and tom hanks? capt. dye: tom did not direct "greyhound." he wrote it and stars in it. it is a story of the u.s. destroyer shepherding a convoy of merchant men across

mrs. murphy: thank you, mr. chairman. i thank my colleague, mr. vargas, for yielding me time to speak and i support his amendment. i also support the bill more generally because it supports the quiet heroes in our intelligence community. they don't seek public praise. in fact, they shun it. while others enjoy the lime light, they work hard in the shadows. section 1505 is a version that i wrote called the poise act. this information was entrusted by the u.s. by a key ally. section 1505 says a member of the executive branch, including the president, discloses top secret information to an adversary government outside established intelligence channels. as a former national security specialist at the department of defense, i know these disclosures are dangerous because our adversary could use the information to harm u.s. interests and our partners could stop sharing intelligence if they don't trust us to keep it confidential. the congressional notification requirement will deter irresponsible disclosures and enable congress to conduct oversight and lim

mr. murphy: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor to talk for a few quick moments about what the stakes are as we begin this debate over a new swing vote on the united states supreme court. this is a fairly simple chart listing off a number of preexisting conditions that tens of millions of americans have and what it says is that the supreme court could take away your health care if you have a history of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, pregnancy, lupus, parkinson's. the list goes on. the reason for this is that the new priority for those that oppose the affordable care act and the protections that are built in it for americans who are sick or have ever been sick, the new strategy is to use the court system as a reason to try to invalidate the protections in the law for people with preexisting conditions, protections, by the way, that republicans said that they supported during the debate over the affordable care act. the case is currently before the district court level. it's texas v. united st

mr. murphy, thank you. >> from the u.s. chamber of commerce joining us here on the closing bell still ahead, just as home prices were starting to ease, there's a thu report that say demand is surging in key areas going to praek down numbers and tell you what's causing the uptick >> plus, shares of rku okyu. why a firm thinks there's much more upside ahead. >>> welcome back about 35 minutes before the early holiday close. the market is off its highs. modest rallies russell 200 in a little bit of a continuation trend is up almost half a percent nasdaq down a little bit more than a third of a percent. let's check individual market movers today roku getting an upgrade from oppenheimer to outperform. the firm says a rapid adoption of the channel gives them confidence in the company's able toy garner new viewership. that stock up 5.8% >> so roku is a physical product i can buy. it's a device. i attach it to my can computer they have gotten into the content creation and providing business not just a distribution. >> they have a ch

the clerk: amendment number 79 printed in house report 115-80 offered by mrs. murphy of florida. the chair: the gentlewoman from florida and a member opposed each will control five minutes. >> i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise in support of this endment with congressman fitzpatrick. this amendment would provide additional sport for two additional initiatives. irst, it would increase by $600,000. this builds on last year's bill which boosting funding. the house would provide $19 million for wc bmp's when the house and senate meets. ere are over 100 women-women that receives financial support. these wmp b crmp provide mentoring geared to women. and this ry w bmp c is capital counseling. my central florida district is home to talented entrepreneurs. if this amendment is adopted. it will increase nationwide ap increase the chances. this would help many of my constituents to grow their small businesses and further they are strengthen our local economy. this would increase outreach rom $12.3 million. they use these resource is to serve veterans. they provide mentorship

mr. president, i'm julie murphy from wal-mart and we commit to train and develop over one million associates in the next five years. [applause] president trump: thank you very much. that is fantastic. thank you. so that's a big beginning. that's much bigger beginning, ivanka, than anyone thought possible. we're very proud of everybody in this room. you folks for so many years i've known so many of you but that is really a great commitment so we appreciate it. we're just getting started. we need people to be trained. we need people that are going to go out and really love their job and that's what you're going to do and those are great jobs. thank you all, fred, thank you, everybody. this is a big, big day for our country. there's never been anything done like this before. and you see the numbers. so we're going to need all of these people. and most importantly in the room, good luck to you. good luck. thank you. [applause] president trump: good luck. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for i

mr. murphy: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, we are on the verge of the one-year mark since the united states senate attempted to take away health care from 30 million americans and was told no by the american public. for virtually the entire time since the passage of the affordable care act, republicans in the house and the senate engaged in an exercise that was futile while president obama was in office but then was made possible by the election of donald trump. that was the repeal of the affordable care act, which extended care to 20 million americans who didn't have it, guaranteed that health insurance would actually cover the things you need and protected people who were sick or people with preexisting conditions from discrimination. when republicans finally took over, they realized that they had spent a whole lot of time criticizing the affordable care act but not a lot of time figuring out what would come next. and most of 2017 was spent in an embarrassing series of proposals that, according to the congressiona

mr. murphy: at this point i'm pleased to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from regon, mr. blumenauer. -- mr. smith: at this point i'm pleased to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. mr. blumenauer: i appreciate the gentleman's courtesy for allowing me to speak on this, i'm pleased that this bill has been named after senator mccain. it was my privilege to work with him on one particular area, deal twheg people who worked with us , along istan and iraq with senator kennedy over the last 10 years. help ed to put these -- these peoples who worked with us as translators who have being left at the mercies of people with long memories like al qaeda and isis. we still have 17,000 applicants who want to have these visas to come to the united states to safety. i'm disappointed that we've been unable to be able to have the funding for additional visa allocations. i appreciate that due to an accounting convention, would be at the expense of other important things that we are fighting for. but i would hope that we're able to focus on what the cost wou

mr. president, i'm julie murphy from walmart -- >> walmart, wait million you hear this number. >> and we commit to train and develop over one million associates in the next five years. [applause] >> thank you very much. that is fantastic. thank you. so that's a big beginning. that's a much bigger beginning, ivanka, than anyone thought possible. we're very proud of everybody in this room. you folks, for so many years i've known so many of you, but that is really a great commitment, so we appreciate it. we're just getting started. we need people to be trained, we need people that are going to go out and really love their job, and that's what you're going to do. marilyn, those are great jobs. thank you all. fred be, thank you, everybody. this is a big, big day for our country. there's never been anything done like this before. and you see the numbers, so we're going to need all of these people. and most importantly in the room, good luck to you. good luck. thank you. [applause] good luck. [applause] liz: flanked by a long group of ceos in attendance who all stood up and pledged to create op

for their work, the catalin murphy foundation recently received a grant from warrington cares, the employee charity of warington township. mr. speaker, i'm proud to represent such thoughtful and generous people in our i applaud the work of the catalin murphy foundation and warington cares and i'll continue to do my part here in washington to end this public health crisis. and lastly, i'd like to extend my appreciation to catalin's parents, tim and pat murphy of doylestown, catalin's brother, shawn, and the organization's president, emory murphy, of warington, for all their work in our community. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the -- lewoman from poirt reek, puerto rico, miss gonzalez-colon, for five minutes. miss gonzalez-colon: on june 27, i was joined by more than 40 mibs members of this house 6246, oducing h.r. 42 -- the puerto rico mission act of 2018. that number has since grown to almost 50 members. this is truly a bipartisan bill that sets forth a process that -- result in the formal into a permanent union with the rest of the states. will help puerto rico who twice in the pa

murphy and mr. pon for your work on behalf of the american people. as i said last week we all share the priority to work toward a more efficient and effective federal government i think this could be a starting point how to reorganize the federal government but the devil is in the details as governor i propose changes to the structure of our states government so i appreciate the challenges that come along with this kind of proposal. so with those recommendations specifically i'm curious to hear where the idea came from? we spoke last week how some of these ideas were top-down and some were bottom-up. so mr. pon did this come from the agency or the white house or somewhere else? do you thank you for the question senator with the process of the last 18 months executive order for reorganization happened 18 months ago and the agency submitted ideas to omb and through synthesis of this omb prepared the overall proposal to release that to agencies so trading information back and forth in the proposal came out since then emily and i have set a task force to

murphy. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. secretary, for being here. i associate myself with many of the comments by the chairman. i think that the administration, the president making up foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. if you have a tiger by the tail, you have a difficult and enviable job and i appreciate you spending so much time with us here this morning. we focus on words from the president because our allies and adversaries listen and calibrate their actions based on the words and while you're right that the president about 20 to 30 hours did correct himself to say he did indeed agree with u.s. intelligence services and not with putin, five days later he went back on twitter and said this. so president obama knew about russia before the election. why didn't he do something about it? why didn't he tell our campaign? because it is all a big hoax. that's why. that's the most recent statement from the president saying that russia's interference in the election is all a big hoax. so i guess my question is, why shouldn't we accept this most recent

murphy: okay. thank you, mr. chairman. >> before i turn to senator isaacson, in essence the communique we saw coming out of the singapore meeting, that is the sum total of the agreement we have with them? sec. pompeo: yes. we've also had conversations after that. it is also the case that that agreement incorporated the panmunjom declaration which in turn incorporated previous inner korean agreements as well. the singapore summit is stacked on a series of agreements, each of which is encompassed in the agreement between president trump and chairman kim. you can look to the full breadth and scope of those agreements korean agreements as well. the things that north koreans have agreed to. >> i don't think any of us expect a meeting in singapore and all the issues would be worked out. i think we all understand it's going to take a long, a long time to get this all worked out. senator isaacson? sen. isaacson: i spent all week trying to come up with intuitive, brilliant, incisive questions to ask you, recognizing how i

mr. speaker. 100 years ago today a young marine from murphys burro illinois gave his life on the frontlines of world war i. paul stout, graduated in 1916 from murphy's borrough high school and enlisted in the marine corps in february of 1918. in june of 1918, he was deployed to the frontlines. at age 20, he was killed in act in france in july of 1918. for his heroic action, he was awarded the purple heart, the bronze star with a v device for valor. paul stout, american legion post 127 is my hometown american legion post. his name and it is named after private stout. i had the opportunity this last year to visit the battleground at bela wood where he fought -- bella wood where he fought a month and a half before passing in the battle later on farther into france. i can tell you it was a truly moving experience. although memories may fade over time, we must never forget those who served and gave their lives in defense of freedom and liberty in every war across this great globe. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from hawaii see

mr. chairman, i yield back the time i do not have. >> the gentleman from illinois, christopher murphy. >> senator krebs, on april 5 of this year, governor nielsen had this to say about the 2016 elections. she said, quote, unquote, two years ago the russians conducted a brazen interference campaign aimed at undermining public faith in our democratic process and in our elections specifically. you may have alluded to this before. i assume the dhs stands by the secretary's statement, correct? >> the dhs stands by the secretary and the secretary stands by the assessment. >> and you do the same, you stand with the secretary as well as the intelligence community? >> yes, sir. >> on january 26, 2017, the office of the dni had this to say about russian attacks. quote, unquote, we also assess putin and the russian government a spider to help president-elect trump's election chances when possible by discrediting secretary clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. on july 19 of this year, secretary nielsen tweeted the following. quote, unquote, i agree with the intel community's assess

murphy? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. secretary, for being here. i certainly associate myself with many of the comments by the chairman. i think the administration, a president who is making up foreign policy on a day-by-day basis, i think you have a tiger by the tail, you have a difficult and enviable job and i appreciate you spending so much time with us here this morning. we focus on words from the president because our allies and our adversaries listen to those words and calibrate their actions based upon those words and while you're right that the president about 20 to 30 hours later did correct himself after the helsinki summit to say that he did, indeed, agree with u.s. intelligence services and not with putin, five days later, he went back on twitter, and said this, so president obama knew about russia before the election. why didn't he do something about it? why didn't he tell our campaign? because it is all a big hoax, that's why. that's the most recent statement from the president, saying that russia's interference in the election is all

mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize 83-year-old united states navy veteran monoroe murphy of dryden who recently graduated with a high school diploma, 68 years after putting his education on hold and enlisted in the navy at 16 he served in korea, received an honorable discharge, returned home, married his high school sweetheart ann, and raised their seven children on the family farm in michigan. he worked at suffolk airfield, general motors and his own service station in romeo. with the help of his daughter he enrolled in adult education and began a three-year journey to attend classes to receive his high school diemployee masm he graduated in june of this year at the top of his class and gave the commencement address to his family and friends present. he plan tones roll in college classes. congratulations, monroe, and keep up the great work. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman s recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i am proud today to recognize the reopening of highway 1. loc

mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. madam president, in my lifetime, no american president has ever had a more disastrous overseas trip than the one that was just concluded by president trump. five days of disaster after disaster, insult after insult, capitulation after capitulation, and now today donald trump has america weaker in the world than at any time in recent memory. let's start with what just happens today that has the whole world reeling. to the shock and horror of the american public, president trump stood on stage with vladimir putin and told the world that he believes putin when putin insists that russia did not try to interfere in the american elections in trump's favor in 2016. despite what president trump wants to us believe these days, there are some truths left in the word. not everything -- world. not everything is political spin. not everything in the world is up for debate. russia did attack our elections in 2016. they plan on attacking our elections in 2018. in 2016 they did so with the explicit p

mr. murphy: mr. president, two weeks ago secretary pompeo appeared before the appropriations committee, and i got the chance to ask him a simple question. i asked him whether it was still the position of the united states that russia should not be allowed to join the g-7 without adhering to the outlines of the minsk agreement, the agreement that seeks to try to resolve the crisis created in europe and in the ukraine by the russian invasion of eastern ukraine. i give secretary pompeo credit because his answer was brutally honest. he said that he certainly could foresee a series of trade-offs with the russians by which they would be allowed to join the g-7, rejoin the g-7 without withdrawing their forces from eastern ukraine or crimea. that is a stunning reversal of prior u.s. policy, the idea that we would trade away ukraine for some set of concessions from russia on another area of national security, maybe in the middle east. but it is unsurprising. it is unsurprising because as donald trump has made

murphy. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will resume executive session. the senator from west virginia. mrs. capito: i have 11 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. president. i want to take a few moments to talk what i believe is an excellent choice president trump made monday and that is in selecting judge bret kavanaugh -- brett kavanaugh to fill the supreme court vacancy. his credentials is well suited for the supreme court. he excelled as an undergraduate and law student at yale and clerked for justice kennedy, the man he would replace, along being a clerk for the federal appeal court judges. he served in a critical position in president george w. bush's administration, and beyond his resume is respect and effectiveness. he is highly regarded by his colleagues on the federal judiciary, and i think that says a lot about his potential and his character in terms of potential to become a supreme court justice. he is also impressed other