the bodies of 22 people who went missing after a downburst 6 months ago and south eastern state of mr rice the catastrophe killed 270 people the mining company that operated the dam has agreed to pay compensation to the victims' families but many say that's not enough they want criminal convictions. plants are growing again at the edge of what used to be the dam but down below the mud is toxic and the search continues for bodies. but i giving up is not an option 22 people are missing in the sludge there what are families that are waiting for answers. there's a farm near you and the bottom miles village lost half its residents during the catastrophe almost everyone here worked in the mine even and his wife who each lost a sister palooza the dam break wasn't bad luck it was a crime. this isn't the 1st broke and i have no doubt it will happen again we have many many downs just like in the middle. the dam was controversial there had been warnings but the tram and ratings agency to visit said it was fine the courts will now decide why the metals and mining company valley has to pay compensation

mr. rice. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rice: mr. speaker, the democrats' assault on rural america continues. the congressional budget office estimates if this minimum wage law were enacted, up to 3.7 million jobs in america would vanish. and what areas would lose the most? obviously the areas with the most minimum wage jobs, rural areas. you see, these areas have a much lower cost of living. you can rent an apartment for $500 per month instead of $3,000 per month in san francisco, where nancy pelosi is from. food costs are lower. taxes are lower. utilities are lower. an american family can have a comfortable living on half what it takes than san francisco, seattle, or new york. a $15 minimum wage would cost these poor rural counties thousands of jobs. even blue state oregon recognized this fact when it adopted a tiered minimum wage with one rate for urban areas and another for suburban and another for rural. i represent three poor south carolina counties, marian, d

i'm going to yield my last minute to mr. rice. thank you. >> you said earlier that people moved into your wonderful school district, and i'm glad you have a great school district. education is a top priority, but they moved there and sacrifice to -- because they have to pay high taxes to get in that school district, but don't you understand that when you reallocate this tax liability and you give all these millionaires a tax break, you're raising taxes on the rest of the people, and that my poor folks, my poor african american folks in south carolina are being -- you're saying your people are sacrificing to move to that wonderful school district. you're asking my people in marin, south carolina to sacrifice for your wonderful school district. >> thank you for the question. and i would not be suggesting a tax increase for the poorest americans. what i'm saying is what's happening in our school district is we have hardworking americans sacrificing to live in our school district being hurt by this and being double taxed. and i'm aski

are supposed to be 15 percent for very low and low income >> that is not what this item is about, mr. rice>> talking about development. >> it is interim uses, but go ahead. >> are talking about uses of properties. >> not her housing. >> interim uses while sites are under the permit process. >> will - i still want to highlight all my other issues. with this time that i got related, i believe you should address that issue, because you've got a problem. it is discrimination in housing. you're not following your own rules and regulations pertaining to that redevelopment agency rules and then have other situations where you use parts of the same administrative code and try to pertaining to redevelopment. using regulations that you favor for high income bracket people. when you get a situation that favors the low income bracket people, he refused to use it. i want to highlight that to you, to make sure that you correct this problem. here's your chance to have that heard, this hearing coming up pertaining to mission rock and the rest of the building complexes that are being in the pipeline and th

mr. biden, susan rice was there. and i think brennan was there. and they all discuss the dossier. susan rice was there as well. obama knew about the dossier and the text messages between strzok and page. the white house wanted to know about this. when it came to going aftere trump on the dossier and the obama administration it was all hands on deck and was orchestrated out of the white house. and i think the big issue is for the media and investigators, why isn't president obama being asked to serious questions about this? >> sean: not one time. i know sleepy creepy crazy uncle biden will be asked about this. great work as always. judicial watch. this weekend the president called out the radical socialist new leaders in theat democratic party in a huge way. he rebuked a lot of the anti-american comments. essentially told them love it or leave it, and when you fix a country you came from, then you can come back and show us. there's been a lot of media mob democratic outrage. but today the president afterom last night, he denounced the chant that called for congresswoman omar to be

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, i'd like to recognize miss rice for five minutes of questioning. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. bonzanto, although the va has procedures for investigating whistleblower complaints, these procedures have allowed the program office of the whistleblower, reported misconduct to conduct the investigation. so gao even found instances in which managers investigated themselves for misconduct. how do you plan on addressing this issue going forward to ensure independence in the report -- in the investigation and if things are on the -- you know, done in a nonbiassed way. >> that, um, for oawp we investigate all allegations related to retaliation. we also investigate allegations into senior leadership poor performance and management. we have the authority similar to osc to refer cases back to the administration. part of improving processes internally is we develop a questionnaire to basically triage these cases to ensure we're not referring cases back to an office where a manager who is involved in the case is going be part of that investigation. so it's improving my internal

mr. texas speaker. i rise today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. in his famous 1961 speech at rice university in houston, texas, president john f. kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. president kennedy spoke these now famous words, quote, we choose to go to the moon on this decade and do other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. end quote. president kennedy understood the importance of american leadership in space. he added, quote, whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man and only if the united states occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. end quote. military professionals will tell you that whoever occupies has the upper hand. folks, there is no higher ground than space. america must remain the leader in space. it's just that simple. in 1969 the crew of apollo 11 fulfilled that very mission to put a man on the moon. today we honor not only the astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael col

miss rice: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to welcome rabbi mark getman of temple emanu-el of canarsie and thank you for leading us in prayer on the house floor. i was proud to invite him to give our opening prayer today and proud to call him a constituent of new york's fourth congressional district. he's a military veteran, a cancer survivor, a community leader, and a man of deep faith. he embodies the strength, leadershipship, and patriotism that we look for in every american. i can't express how grateful i am for rabbi getman for making the trip down to washington today to represent our community and to deliver a message of harmony and compassion. i believe that is a message that our country needs to hear, perhaps now more than ever. rabbi getman graciously reminded us today we are a country united under god in our pursuit of prosperity and peace for all people, and he reminded us this shared purpose is more powerful, more important than any political division we may have, and i couldn't agree more. as a member

mr. obama get off his app app -- apathetic keister. then national security sadvise roor susan riceaites to stand down. instead of standing up for democracy and sticking it to the russians. why done presiden don't presideo more when he had the chance. to keep vladimir putin close to him for the deal. assuming people were dumb enough to buy his nonaction as a solution. poor joe biden tried to fire up the way back machine, but he misfired. he said, you think that would have happened on my watch or brack's watch, you can't ar ser, that but i promise, you it would not va and i have and it didn't, joe, it could and it go in 2015 and 16. you realize you were vice president then. don't you honey? that poor man, he is not going to the white house be he is going to a home, wha' happened. this will happen all over again, not because mother russia will birth more chaos in 2020, because china infiltrated software, colleges and every other institution, those commies are labors for real pandemonium. that is the memo. >> first volume of mueller report details how russian ran a massive disinformati

mr. texas speaker. i rise today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. in his famous 1961 speech at rice university in houston, texas, president john f. kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. president kennedy spoke these now famous words, quote, we choose to go to the moon on this decade and do other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. end quote. president kennedy understood the importance of american leadership in space. he added, quote, whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man and only if the united states occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. end quote. military professionals will tell you that whoever occupies has the upper hand. folks, there is no higher ground than space. america must remain the leader in space. it's just that simple. in 1969 the crew of apollo 11 fulfilled that very mission to put a man on the moon. today we honor not only the astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael col

willing to spend eight hours eating lamb and rice wanted to stay sober because it went on for so long and he had the patience to wait him out until he said finally mr. president. i didn't understand how hard diplomacy was until he got into his life, how much stamina it takes. i picture it lik climbing a moud briefing at the high-altitude. the great crown of his career it earned a prize. bill clinton said his group talbott he probably would have gottewouldn'thave gotten it if t tried so hard. you look back and it begins to recede. anyway, here's this passage. history is officially brutal. date and most of the highest peak afterwards. it wasn't the marsh plant opening to china. assaulting nasty problem but it didn't create something new and big. those who lived through the war, suffered on the inside of care on the outside, it was all he mattered but pull for devoted three years of his life to a lie smallbore in an obscure place with no consequences in the long run beyond itself disproportion i respected him for it. whatsoever thy hand find to do, do it with night that dave and dave and mark a new path in the story. it was closer to the end of someth

rice county farmers union and is a member of minnesota corn growers. mike, thank you so much for being here. >> now i'd like to recognize mr. carbajal. >> it is my pleasure to introduce dan sutton, pove located in oceano, california. he is my skon stit went from the 24th congressional district. dan has worked for pove for the last 18 years. he oversees the day-to-day operations of pove including sales, marketing, accounting, operations and food safety. currently he is the board member and past president of the san louis he is business poe county farm bureau. has been selected as chairman of the california leafy greens marketing agreement advisory board. as you can see from his past and current experience mr. sutton has played an extraordinary role in our local economy by working to represent our central coast growers and producers. i am glad to welcome dan to washington, d.c. welcome, dan. >> i now recognize mr. austin scott for an introduction of our fourth and final witness. >> thank you, it's my whoen for introduce a friend and farmer from my district, mr. bart davis. he grew up in dell ron, georgia, home of the sun belt

miss rice: i yield one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. schiff. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. schiff: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. this amendment adds the under secretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis to the d.n.i.'s consultation requirement for its report on reports and requires the report's dissemination to state and local law enforcement. ensuring that relevant counterterrorism information is distributed tore state and local law enforcement is a key priority in the operation of department of homeland security. adding recipients fusion mechanism improves the bill and i urge my colleagues to support the amendment and underlying bill and i thank my colleague for her work. the chair: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. miss rice: i'm ready to close. madam speaker, i want to thank chairman schiff and ranking member nunes for supporting the amendment and i yield back. the chair: gentlewoman has yielded back. the question is now offered on the amendment offered by the

mr. hill: i thank my friend from south carolina. he's welcome in the beautiful rice country of arkansas to hunt duck this is fall at any time. i appreciate his leadership of the sportsman's caucus, the largest bipartisan caucus we have here in the house and all the good work it does in wildlife conservation. so thank you my friend for that. it's true i appreciate also his work in this house energy action team and that of our whip, steve scalise of louisiana, and that's because we are talking tonight about the importance of energy to our economy, the importance of energy to our families, and how that has to be balanced in the world of public policy. madam speaker, in 2018, crude oil was the world's number one export product. last year, the u.s. accounted for 98% of global growth in oil production. since the congress lifted the ban, u.s. production continues to set records and just last month an all-time high of exporting 3.3 million barrels of crude per day. ifting the ban has filled pipelines in new shipping infrastructure around the u.s. total crude imports have als