mr. roy: i thank the gentleman from kentucky. i thank, madam speaker, and i applaud the work by the speaker. my colleague from texas on her work on this important recognition. and the gentlelady, the speaker, knows that we've discussed on the floor some of the concerns that i have that i share with my colleague from louisiana. i wish, because i do believe that there will be some division that comes out of embracing this so quickly, rather than running it through committee, by embracing a name that is going to be seen as conflicting, whether correlated something with our july 4 national independence recognition. i understand and it's been referred to as independence day over the years, and i understand that and i understand why. i think for purposes of recognition by the united states government, it would be my preference and i'd offer an amendment if such things were ever done on the floor of this body, it's not, which is a sad state of affairs for the people's house, we literally never amend anything on the floor of this body. i

mr. roy: i thank my friend from texas and thank him for referring to me as young. interestingly and i will have more, 10 years ago in july that i was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma with a four-month old daughter and not quite two-year-old son and i wasn't sure that i could see my son play baseball and my daughter go to camp. that shifts the world about what is important and what is not important and i can tell you that my dedication to public service was fully renewed after getting through that and i was very blessed and got through cancer free in a matter of months. i'm knocking on my head instead. but i'm honored that you would join me and say such nice things and i know that the gentleman knows that part of the purpose here is our collective desire in this body to do what is right for this country. and what i cannot for the life of me understand is why my democratic colleagues continue to insist on using this body to stoke division and to separate us by race, by sex, by, wherever we come from, all the different ways to divide us rather than finding ways to uni

mr. roy: i thank the speaker. i rise today to talk about the state of affairs here in the people's house and the extent to which the majority has been using the time and the floor of this valuable body, the people's house to woke first rather than america first. it is what we see every single day and i know my colleagues are with me because this is an important time in our country's history and there are so many issues we need to be addressing and the people's house is not addressing them and instead, the people's house is focusing on advancing wokeness first instead of america first. i have a number of things i'm going to get into and talk about addressing these particular issues. but i would just note that my good friend and someone i admire a great deal birthday is tomorrow and that is justice clearance thomas. and for those who know his story and read his story written through the eyes of his grandfather, justice thomas, i think represents all that is great and good of this country and represents all that is g

mr. roy: the gentleman from meese just referred to the possibility of the vice president going to the border for a border op. if she can find the border on the map and use her taxpayer funded airplane and fly to the great state of texas and fly to the border and actually find the time in her duty as the vice president of the united states to give a whiff about the people of texas, then maybe she could actually have a photo op. but perhaps the people of this country and the state of texas, which i represent, would like more than a photo op. perhaps we would like a vice president who cares about the people of texas, who cares about the ranchers that i see my colleagues muttering under their breath right now, how dare i speak up about the people of texas hon want to be protected, how can dare i speak up about the narcotics flying up i-35, running through texas, san antonio, the nine immigrants found in a car being driven by an american citizen and being paid by a cartel. the two that were bound

mr. roy: the gentleman from meese just referred to the possibility of the vice president going to the border for a border op. if she can find the border on the map and use her taxpayer funded airplane and fly to the great state of texas and fly to the border and actually find the time in her duty as the vice president of the united states to give a whiff about the people of texas, then maybe she could actually have a photo op. but perhaps the people of this country and the state of texas, which i represent, would like more than a photo op. perhaps we would like a vice president who cares about the people of texas, who cares about the ranchers that i see my colleagues muttering under their breath right now, how dare i speak up about the people of texas hon want to be protected, how can dare i speak up about the narcotics flying up i-35, running through texas, san antonio, the nine immigrants found in a car being driven by an american citizen and being paid by a cartel. the two that were bound

so let's come to mr roy dungeon. we're hearing already some very staggering stories. so what you must be getting in your office must be out of this world. how many cases do you get to an average of people complaining about police behavior. between much the cause of june, we received of a 500 complaint and but then i want to see that those are not but he's killing bonds. those lead from i thought the date is, of course, but he's kidding, but the us, but he's got docked so how many has i poor, how many convictions has they managed to get in 6 convictions on life sentences and hang and hanging, but i don't want you to look at, that's the stick. come on. i knew that one must do that. we understand that the cases take really long and judicial service also has its problems. but if you thing 500 complains in a span of a couple of months. and 6 convictions since a body was formed, possible for all the companies that you get to not adopt in court. because we see that we look at what is we didn't know him, i did what is not the norm? i did, we delegate that as possible. what th

mr. roy: i thank the gentleman from kentucky. i thank, madam speaker, and i applaud the work by the speaker. my colleague from texas on her work on this important recognition. and the gentlelady, the speaker, knows that we've discussed on the floor some of the concerns that i have that i share with my colleague from louisiana. i wish, because i do believe that there will be some division that comes out of embracing this so quickly, rather than running it through committee, by embracing a name that is going to be seen as conflicting, whether correlated something with our july 4 national independence recognition. i understand and it's been referred to as independence day over the years, and i understand that and i understand why. i think for purposes of recognition by the united states government, it would be my preference and i'd offer an amendment if such things were ever done on the floor of this body, it's not, which is a sad state of affairs for the people's house, we literally never amend anything on the floor of this body. i

mr. roy: in december of 1992, my friend defeated tiger woods in a tournament called the orange bowl in florida. a year later my friend was denied entrance and asked to go in the back where the caddies go in when he went to the south african amateur championship. he went on to win that tournament. becoming the first black man to win the south african amateur. and unfortunately 20 years ago this wednesday, my friend lewis, my brother in christ, my teammate at the university of virginia, went to see the lord when he passed away from viral meningitis. my teammates will be regaling his life this wednesday. i'm going to take to the floor for a special order in july to talk more about this man who was ultimately inducted into the hall of fame in south africa with a speech from the famous gary player. but with that, i will yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there any further requests for one-minute speeches? under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from georgia, mr

mr. roy: right now in texas today, a little girl is being trafficked in human trafficking and sex trafficking. that's occurring. she's going to be put into the sex trafficking trade and be abused. and she's going to be done so because we've allowed cartels to have operational control of our border. that's true. these are facts. we know these are the facts. it's happening every single day. we see it on the ground. get the vice president of the united states -- yet the vice president of the united states only found a way to go to el paso as a pit stop on the way to los angeles. rather than meet with people in texas to see what's going on in texas. we have no funding at all for the border, for i.c.e., for border patrol. you know what we have plenty of funding for? abortion. taxpayer funding for abortion. it is absolutely despicable the values that are being presented in the united states house of representatives, in the people's house. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committees on

mr. roy: i thank the gentleman from oklahoma. and i appreciate his work on this important matter and my colleagues on the republican study committee. i'm happy to be working on a task force to advance health care freedom, personalized health care, the ways that we know we believe we can get the american people to see the doctor of his or her choice without having to see an insurance bureaucrat or government bureaucrat and be able to get access to care. and that's all germane by the way to this question of spending. but i think it's really important here and i'm going to talk in a minute about how good i believe it is that we have a five-year balanced budget, that the republican study committee has put forward, and proving that it can in fact be done. but let's talk for a minute about the irresponsible budgeting and spending of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. most americans hear these large numbers and they don't know how to put them in context, right? what our national debt is, over $28 trillion. nobody knows what

mr. speaker, jo cox and also as former chief -- sir roy stone. gave amazing service to me as chief whip during the worst of the -- [inaudible] dealing with the occasional disruptive -- [inaudible] [laughter] mr. speaker, northern ireland faces some challenges over the coming weeks in terms of nominating a first and deputy first minister. would the prime minister agree that it's -- stick to the agreements that have been made a, the approach which he and i negotiated months ago and that in failing to do that, we ultimately -- [inaudible] >> mr. speaker, it give me great pleasure to thank my right honorable friend for all the work that he did in the new decade, new approach deal, and i do agree that it will be a good thing for the whole package to be agreed, and i certainly support the approach that he set out. and i think that what the people of northern ireland want is a stable, functioning, mature -- >> thank you, mr. speaker. advocates are take up positions in -- [inaudible] legal jurisdiction in the u.k. or, indeed, in the western world is the g

jeffries and mr. roy for sponsoring this legislation and i urge members to support it and i reserve the balance of my time. . . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. bishop: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 2694, the criminal judicial administration act of 2021. this bill strengthens existing laws that provide for the transportation and subsistence for indigent criminal defendants. h.r. 2694 allows a magistrate judge to finally decide postjudgment motions in a misdemeanor case or if that magistrate judge was the judge that handled the underlying case. this bill will improve the efficiency of our court system by allowing our courts to manage caseloads in a more economical manner. i'd like to thank the bipartisan sponsors of this legislation and urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill. i'm prepared to close and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr.

ok, let's try again, mr. roy. >> can the chairman hear me? >> yes. >> i appreciate that. appreciate your service and appreciate you being here today. last month, i had a letter that my colleagues requested further information on prosecutions of individuals who were present at the capital january 6 but you talked about there being over 500 investigations come arrests or prosecutions that might be underway. you had them in three categories , those who peaceably assembled and those who engaged in violence in damage to property and harming police. my concern is making sure that those who were there exercise their first amendment rights and weren't being swept up into being wrongfully arrested. will you commit to join personally along with people necessary to bring in the fbi to have a briefing for all members of congress, not just this committee, on this question of the arrests and how that investigation is going? fbi dir. wray: i appreciate the question. i want to clarify one thing based on what you summarized, we are not conducting investigations, to my mom -- to my knowled

joining me is the chair of the senate republican committee, roy blunt, mrs. a member of the intelligence committee. let me pick up on holding putin accountable, senator blunt. you saw here, there has been plenty of attempts. it hasn't worked. is there a better way to hold putin accountable that we haven't tried? >> well, as chairman warner pointed out, we did see in the 2018 elections, we really did push back. remember in 2016, as late as early 2017 we had cyber defense capabilities, but we didn't have the authority, the president had never given the authority for cyber offense. so when we did push back, we pushed back pretty hard in 2018 it stopped. to some extent, chuck, you have to treat russia like virtually a criminal enterprise. they harbor criminals. they don't of law or any kind of level of personal freedom, and i do think we have to push back. when there's no penalty, there's no sanctions, hard to find who is doing it, even when you can find where they are, we haven't really effectively sanctioned the countries that are protecting this kind of activi

ok, let's try again, mr. roy. >> can the chairman hear me? >> yes. >> i appreciate that. appreciate your service and appreciate you being here today. last month, i had a letter that my colleagues requested further information on prosecutions of individuals who were present at the capital january 6 but you talked about there being over 500 investigations come arrests or prosecutions that might be underway. you had them in three categories , those who peaceably assembled and those who engaged in violence in damage to property and harming police. my concern is making sure that those who were there exercise their first amendment rights and weren't being swept up into being wrongfully arrested. will you commit to join personally along with people necessary to bring in the fbi to have a briefing for all members of congress, not just this committee, on this question of the arrests and how that investigation is going? fbi dir. wray: i appreciate the question. i want to clarify one thing based on what you summarized, we are not conducting investigations, to my mom -- to my knowled

there were several letters and memos from the reagan white house that were generated by root roy cowen to mrs reagan and president reagan when they were new york and it was to give him a wide girth as much as possible. his views were outside considering who reagan was and careful whose advice you to. >> host: beau is an georgia. good afternoon beau. >> caller: two things first when i lived down the street from the -- and the other thing i want to ask you about one of the books he wrote about reagan between 76 and 80 i remember reagan debating his fellow conservative though buckley about the panamas canal treaty and that elevated reagan international status. guess who it sure did. i'm sorry. host the hese is done craig shirley. your turn. guess goat the panama canal treaty everybody was talking about it in 1977 and 1978. the isthmus of panama was dug out and the panama canal was created. over the 70s and the 1960s and 70s we had jurisdiction over the panama canal but there was this anti-imperialism belief or theme in america that we should return the right to sovereignty to the panamanian peop

court held 27 days of hearings on roy cohn's case, deciding whether or not he would be permanently disbarred. one of the people who appeared as a character witness on mr. cohn's behalf was a man he had worked with and had a long relationship with at that point, donald trump. trump appeared in person as a character witness for roy cohn before he was disbarred. roy cohn was still disbarred. and cohn said he didn't care. he cared less about that than he would about a new brand of mayonnaise. but he was disbarred at the end of june in 1986. he was dead by the beginning of august that year at the age of 59. roy cohn had been closeted his whole life, it's believed he died of aids. he maintained to the end it couldn't be aids. that's something only homosexuals got. he said he had liver cancer instead, but that's not likely what he died from. 35 years ago today, donald trump's lawyer roy cohn was disbarred for dishonestly, fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation. one of the weird sidebars of the trump presidency and in fact the russia investigation was that we learned a lot about how much donald trump as president used to wax rhapsodic about how much he missed r

roy. his coverage of the arizona audit, it's real even crazier for what's happening there. mr.d, thank you for being with. us i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me on. >> is this exercise in arizona over? or, it's been a little hard to. tell we thought they might be wrapping up last week it seems now maybe they are wrapping up now? >> well, honestly, it's hard to tell. it's been very much a moving target from the get-go. when it comes to this audit a lot of things are constantly changing when it comes to the procedures or when it's going to lock up later we were told that things would end at a certain time but then things got extended and we saw what happened when the issues with the least in what happened with graduation service kind of that issue that happened there. when it comes to this, audit nothing is -- everything is cut out in the air. we never really know what's going to happen as reporters here in arizona keep us on our toes of what's going to happen. as far as we know from efficient channels, we've been told that it's going to be wrapping up and it has

mr. president. i'm here today, and soon on the floor, my good friend, senator roy blunt of missouri, will be here as well to talk about an issue that we both care very, very passionately about. in fact, on october 31, 2013, which is, -- i guess it's amazing how time flies, mr. president, but in 2013, senator blunt and i stood here on the senate floor together to mark a very important anniversary. it was 50 years to the day after president kennedy signed into law the community mental health act. 50 years to the day. and tragically, it was the last piece of legislation he ever signed. and it was one of the most important. the community mental health act was ground breaking. its goal -- to provide full funding for comprehensive mental health services in the community. how important. unfortunately, that has yet to fully happen. instead, behavioral health is funded primarily through grants that start and then the grants stop. you'd never say to someone who is having a heart attack we'd love to help you, but we're so sorry the grant ran out. can you come back in six months? and yet, that's what we say to

mr. trump. the prosecutors were investigating who was leaking information about contacts that associates had with russian officials. reena royeporter: the current justice department inspector general is now announcing an investigation into former president trumps department of justice. new details have emerged about subpoenaing the communications data of at least two democratic members of congress and members of their family.their family.th. the inspector general released a statement saying in part, the review will examine the department's compliance with applicable doj policies and procedures and whether any such uses or investigations were based upon improper considerations. bressman adam schiff tells msnbc he was targeted. >> it is hard to express how shocking and what an abuse of power this is. >> reporter: jeff sessions subpoenaed apple for the data in 2018. the information comes out now with apples gag order expiring. congressman eric swalwell spoke out on cbn saying his data was also seized. >> i was notified by apple that they did seize my records. it is wrong. this is what they do. they smear and try to clear. >> re

mr. president. how will the will change while the time you make has enough women to all of us telephone or bill we the 1st thing that the 2nd thing melia roy, while we realized know the importance of science and technology is a, b, c. and now we know how important it is to unite our combat for crime. now we know that only where you need me occasion of our efforts, kenway, chief, the design, and certainly you pushed the please with the industries that technology intensive and pretty late with ability and exactly something that when you find the scientific progress in the future applies to the a, i know, technologies an advocate with that and so on and so forth. but the key thing to me is now we are truly aware of the actual and highest value that we have is the well being of us. the true human life communication is something that we've lacked very badly and we still lack it's very badly in the time of fund demik. each relationship. we really got to feel that our health wellbeing and the human communication is an absolute value. and this is something that we should be guided by when we structure life in the future w. ladies and gentlemen, th

the roy throw strike, math grade, leave them a deceptive. manipulate so much of these weapons. so open up your welcome . everybody to watching the hawk. i'm a mr. cross. tyrrell is on vacation. joining me now is adjunct professor of law at georgetown university law center, who just happens to teach l g b t q health law and policy press. mitchum, welcome back crescent. don't want to be sure rather me. well, preston is, you know, i quoted your tweet because it gets to the core pride month, but also the ratio of black and latino community members from it. why does this continue to happen and what will it take for the voices of the l g. b t community members of color to finally get there, do whenever we don't talk about history enough, where doomed to repeat it. one of the very reasons why i always talk about pride in a riot in pride in an action against violence is because if we don't ground that in our true history of what the private movement have met for so many black and brown, we are fans and by near people, we're going to forget that hit through all the time. the storm already happened in 969, and it actually was more than one day for a few

roy gross, right. matt grays, and leave them a deceptive manipulate so much with these weapons. so open up your welcome, everybody to watching the hawks. i am hi robin, and i'm a mr cross. you know, i'm sure will all the other networks w w e to hell out of the upcoming meeting between joe biden and russian president vladimir putin. to me, this is the real story that we have because this directly affects us all the fact that most americans, if not all americans, except for a very small percentage, pay their taxes dutifully, but really they're not getting democracy back unless they got the green to influence washington, that to me is what's more frightening than anything going on in the world today. you're right. and i think that that needs to be amplify more. we hear in the context of certain progressive leaders, how corporations aren't paying their fair share. what we don't here is how those corporations in the corporate leaders have basically funneled money into campaigns on both sides for very long time. and one of the reasons why they've been sheltered from tax reform is because it's hard to tag someone for their taxes when off the top. they've been paying you

mr speaker. ijoin with the premise the's remarks in relation to sir roy stone. doing in her name. jo and i were in the same intake into this house and our children around the same age and there is not a date that goes by that we don't missjo. i speak not just for these benches but for many across the house when i say that today we rememberjo. does the prime minister recognise that his decision to keep our borders open contributed to keep our borders open contributed to the spread of the delta variant in this country? ida. to the spread of the delta variant in this country?— to the spread of the delta variant in this country? no, mr speaker, i think that captain _ in this country? no, mr speaker, i think that captain hindsight - in this country? no, mr speaker, i think that captain hindsight needs| think that captain hindsight needs to adjust his retro spectoscope because he is wrong. we put india on the red list on april the 23rd and the red list on april the 23rd and the delta variant was not so identified until april 28 and was only identified as a variant of