mr. ryan: at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to the chairman of the subcommittee, mr. roskam. the speaker pro tempore: gentleman from illinois is recognized for three minutes. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, chairman, for yielding. one of the questions that i get at home a lot is how did the lois lerner scandal happen. how did it come to pass that that happened? and how do you make sure that it doesn't happen again? mr. marchant's bill doesn't deal necessarily with lois lerner 1.0, but deals with lois lerner 2.0. it's a prohibition against this very cavalier attitude we have seen coming from the i.r.s. and that's to be cavalier about taxpayer information. it hasn't just been leaked through emails. it's been leaked in other sources and other ways and shapes and durations, but the effect is the same and the effect is devastating. so this takes away any ambiguity that somebody can use their own private email account and begin to do official activity. if that's the bright

mr. ryan: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1058, taxpayer bill of rights acts of 2015. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. does the gentleman call it up as amended? mr. ryan: yes. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 1058 a bill to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to clarify the duty of the commissioner of internal revenue is to ensure that internal revenue service employees are familiar with and acts in accord with certain taxpayer rights. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from georgia, mr. lewis, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks rorle. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: today is tax day. we are bringing to t

mr. ryan: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1075. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 1075, a bill to designate the united states customs and border protection port of entry located at first street and pan american avenue in douglas, arizona, as the raul hector castro port of entry. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 1075, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection so ordered. mr. ryan: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use. mr. ryan: mr. speake

the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen. the gentlewoman from texas, ms. granger. the gentleman from ohio mr. tiberi. the gentleman from california, mr. nunes. the gentleman from arizona, mr. salmon. the gentleman from missouri, mr. long. the gentlewoman from california ms. pelosi. the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer. the gentleman from california, mr. becerra. the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley. the the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro. the gentleman from california, mr. honda. the gentlewoman from california, miss ma suey. the gentleman from california mr. takano. the gentleman from hawaii, mr. takai. the gentlewoman from colorado ms. degette. the gentleman from washington, mr. mcdermott. the gentleman from texas, mr. castro. vice president biden: appoints the following senators and members of the committee on the part of the senate to escort his excellency shinzo abe into the chamber. senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell. the senator from texas, mr. cornyn. the

now, mrs. ryan reynolds.his "gossip girl" has the eyes of the world on every style step she takes. is there a lot of pressure on you in terms of what you wear because you're a fashion icon at this point. >> i love to play dress-up. it's like, you know, playing dress-up but in front of a bunch of people. the audience is bigger than your parents. >> for a young actress she's really getting her fashion groove on. >> blake takes style inspiration from iconic hollywood screen legends. she's currently the face of gucci. >> gucci premiere, the new essence for women. >> at one mtv movie awards, blake wore an electric blue dress with purple suede louies vuitton s, a red silk gown with a tulle ruffle skirt. at the gala she arrived in sea green. >> this is christian, louis vuitton, of course. >> one of her favorite designers, marcasa. blake is clearly at the cutting edge of style. >> i grew up always having such a love and appreciate for fashion. >> i love the fact she's wearing one of this season's trends. the mullet d

mrs. meeks. >>> the honorable catherine russell and the honorable thomas donilon. >>> honorable paul ryan and mrsur son? >> yes. >> my daughter is a senior in high school but he's a junior at georgetown so he's always my date. >> how old are you? >> 21. >> so you can direct now. >> that's what i told him. he just turned 21. he said he didn't want to drink though. >> have you been to the white house before? >> yeah, i got to go to the white house before. >> not too shabby. >> i asked him last night. >> yeah, you know. >> she's going to be more excited if she sees him on tv. i've got this thing at the white house. do you want to go? >> and you had the tux ready to go? >> no, we called the rental place. >> last time they still had his measurabilities but i wanted to make sure because this is his last week of finals. i wanted to make sure -- >> are you studied up? >> yeah, yeah, i'm good. i have an oral exam friday but i'm good. >> thanks so much. >> thank you all. enjoy. >>> all right, guys. we are done. >>> that wraps up the arrival of guests of the state dinner of mr. shinzo abe and look for the t

mr. ryan is making tax reform, fixing this broken tax code a top priority and this measure helps us take a step towards that by creating certainty for taxpayers by creating more score keeping and budgeting, because we are going to extend this temporarily. it makes no difference doing it permanently but creates that and removes the provision so we can do tax reform that creates a much healthier economy. at the end of the day if you support fairness for taxpayers in sales tax states if you believe we ought not to discriminate depending on where you live, we not in states who believe that sales tax is the right way to go, this measure is for you. i acknowledge the president has threatened a veto on this bill. i guess my question is why turn your back on hardworking taxpayers middle-class economics means helping those who are living paycheck to pay check and making sure they can keep a little bit more of what they earn. i urge support for a permanent extension of the important sales and local tax

mr. boehner: i have not seen what his steps are but i do expect he'll say something later on today. >> i'm interested in this ryan-murray idea that you're floating. mr. boehner: i'm not floating it. >> all right. you've spoken out more fragly than you have in the past about the possibility of reprizing it. as you know, ryan-murray happened after a shutdown, after september 30 after the process came to a halt. are you open to doing that kind of negotiation or blessing that process in summertime before you have a potential shutdown? mr. boehner: nobody is interested in shutting down the government. we're interested in real fiscal responsibility. and if such an effort is called for in the budget agreement if such an effort can get off the ground, hope springs eternal. >> mr. speaker, did you have any conversations with the president about the death of these two hostages prior to him coming out this morning? i'm wondering if you've had preist consultations with him. mr. boehner: he and i have not talked about this. >> on that same issue, you said we need to have all the facts. were you briefed on the counterterrorism

mr. bondra. first period action. rangers, they strike first. ryan mcdonough with the blast, and kevin hayes puts home the rebound. check it out. hits this one in midair past braden. new york up 1-0. later in the period more from the rangers. they're on the power play here. no one stopping this laser from derek brassard. it's 2-0, blue shirts. the capitals down 3-0, but on the power play alex ovechkin fires one past henrik lundqvist. the caps down 3-1. no love lost between them. they met in the play yofz two years ago. glass and gleason going at it. not sure who wob that fight. the rangers won the game though 4-2. the capitals always doing what they do. the home finale giving their jerseys off their backs to the adoring fans. they'll play closer attention to the islanders-blue jackets game. >> every now and then just to check it out because we would like to have home ice. that was a goal of ours in the beginning of the year but we're not banking on it. if it doesn't happen we're not going to be [ bleep ] about it but i would like to see what happens

and thank the leaders of the ways and means committee and chairman up ton and chairman ryan mr. levin and mr. pallone and all of the members and their staffs hole really worked hard to get us to this moment. and special thanks to the doctors caucus here in the house who have been working to solve this problem. about a year ago, after 17 patches over the past 11 years, i decided that we had enough of this doc fix. and so in recent months we began an effort to see if we could find common ground. a lot of hard work by our committees and 484 votes in the house and senate, we have reached this important moment and on the 100th day of this new congress. we have a lot more to do to fix these entitlement programs for our kids and grandkids but have taken a good step here and we have done it by finding common ground on behalf of the people that we serve. ms. pelosi. ms. pelosi: this is a happy day indeed. thank you for your leadership. i'm pleased to welcome our colleagues from the senate to the house side for some of them back to the house side and i want to acknowledge senator wyden an

leaders of the ways and means committee, the energy and commerce committee, chairman upton chairman ryan. mr levin and mr. pallone and all of the members and their staffs who really worked hard to get us to this moment. and a special thanks to the doctors' calk here in the house who have been working to solve this problem for a long time. you know about a year ago after some 17 patches over the last 11 years, i decided that we've had enough of this doc fix. and so in recent months leader pelosi and i began an effort to see if we could find common ground. with a lot of hard work by our community and 484 votes in the house and senate we've reached this important moment, and on the 100th day of this new congress. we know we've got more to do to fix these entitlement programs for our kids and grandkids, but we've take ten a good step here. again, we've done it by finding common ground on behalf of the people that we serve. ms. police? >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. this is a happy day indeed. thank you for your leadership. pleased to welcome our colleagues from the senate to the house side

ryan owens in oklahoma. >> anything you'd like to say mr bates? >> no. >> reporter: seconds after pleading not guilty to manslaughter, reserve deputy robert bates asks the judge for permission to go on a carribean vacation. the 73-year-old insurance executive wants to spend almost a month fishing in the bahamas, even though he's out on bail after confusing his gun for his taser -- >> i shot him, i'm sorry. >> reporter: killing eric harris earlier this month. the judge told him he's free to leave the country. >> long planned vacation with his family. >> reporter: the family of the man he killed can't believe it. "at a time when we are still mourning the death of a loved one that he shot down in the street, mr. bates will be relaxing and enjoying his wealth and privilege." from the beginning, attorneys for harris' family have claimed bates wasn't properly trained and was getting special attention. he's donated thousands in equipment to the sheriff's department, is close friends with the tulsa county sheriff, who just yesterday, acknowledged he's bee

mr. bates faces second degree manslaughter charges. >> thank you ryan. >> let's bring in mr.eserve deputy and mr. bates charged with manslaughter. thank you for joining us counselor. the charge of manslaughter is inappropriate because? >> this was truly an accident something that occurred by accident and misfortune, which is the essential element of exexcusable homicide defense, and there was no culpable negligent under this circumstance and i want to make sure that everybody understands that this is three distinct events. the gun, and the incident where the shooting occurs and everything that happens afterwards which my client didn't have any part of it. >> isn't it by definition that you see in the law that it's reckless disregard of a situation? yes, it was accidental but you want to play top and you put on the taser and weapon and you don't know which one to use and you are taking a risk when you go out there and mr. bates had to know that and his lack of experience ended in another man's death. >> i don't think characterizeing his lack of experience is a fair description

mr. chairman, we can resolve this today. i appreciate your work on this, and congressman ryan's work and camp before him. i would hope that with this strong bipartisan push we can get it done. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i want to commend senator portman. he put in a great deal of hard work over a long period of time to reach a very, very sensible conclusion here. what this does its seems to me is it creates a far better mechanism for companies to be able to get the exemption from tariffs they're due. they don't have to come to an individual member of congress on bended knee. if they qualify for this the product they need for the input of processes is not made in the united states, and therefore, should be exempt from the tariffs. this is a better way to do it. the congressional prerogative to have final say is still there. but we get away from the idea that we're going to bestow certain favors on some companies, which should never be in the process. i want to commend everyone who worked on this. it's a sensible outcome, and it's been a long time coming. >> i want to commend both of you and othe

ryan keisel executive director of the aclu. thank you both for joining us. i'd like to start off with you with this report you heard mr. bates in his interview on the "today" show he can prove his record was not falsified and also linking the individuals in the report to lawsuits against the sheriff's department. let's quickly play what his attorney said dismissing the credibility of the sources in the tulsa world report. let's play that. >> the so-called evidence of falsified training records comes from a person that was terminated by the sheriff's office seven years ago. he signed an affidavit. mr. bates would have been with the department as a reserve just about a half a year or a year at that time so seven years ago, that is their evidence and he is a person represented by the firm that's representing the family and he has a year ago been charged with first-degree murder. so the credibility of the witnesses should have been -- or that particular witness, should have been waived before running that story. >> what was the paper's response to that? >> we firmly stand behind our story. the deputy who was fired and char

ryan reynolds in "woman in gold." take a look at this. >> we're very sensitive to the government's concerns, mr. chief justice.he can and extracting just the one little worm with a pair of tweezers, and then quickly closing it shut again. the defendants in this case have continuously tried to frustrate our attempts, raising every possible objection, threatening an armageddon in international relations, but let's put things into perspective here. this is a case of one woman wanting back what is rightfully hers. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: ryan reynolds. "woman in gold." april 3rd. it comes out april 3rd. i didn't mean to say "ryan reynolds, woman in gold." because that's not -- [ laughter ] that's not your nickname. >> punctuation's important in that one. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's not your nickname at all. you're not the woman in gold. >> no. thank you though. >> jimmy: but april 3rd is when the film comes out. i always like to play some fun games and stuff like that when people come, and have a good time. we have fun, don't we? >> i always like to lose when i come play fun games. >> jimmy: apparently

mr. chairman, may we do that? >> yes, let's open public comment. >> i have a few public comment cards. public comment will be two minutes. paul followed by richard goldman, newton butler, momte hill and ryan basinger. >> thank you, supervisors, for this opportunity to speak on this issue and for everybody who has done so much work in bringing it to our attention. i am a long-term survivor, i was diagnosed in 1986. for me actually -- before i make a couple specific suggestions i want to be clear about the idea that everybody -- there's implication anyway that everybody is doing really well since the cocktails came out. the fact is many of us have struggled even with the cocktails with quality of life issues and side effects from medications that have been on-going for most of us. as bill i think mentioned, the opportunity for some of us to go back to work is not an option as we reached retirement age. for me in my situation my income will decrease by almost 50 percent when i reach retirement age. and arizona i think of some of the services that i've taken advantage of and that i would like to see increased are, other than more money for housing that -- i'm not sure if this is the venue for

mr. jordan did to survive. >>> today family and friends will attend the funeral of a spotsylvania county teen who died in a plane crash. ryan mccall will be buried at oak hill cemetery in frederickburg. at the controls when it crashed. >>> investigators say two witnesses reported seeing a trail of smoke from the engine just before the plane fell to the ground in orange county. the flight school owner says mccall appeared to make a left turn earlier than usual. mccall was flying on his first solo trip involving a stop and return flight. hk mccall had just over 30 hours of flight experience. >>> d.c. officials will announce they plan to he said a policy of routinely shackling juveniles appearing in court. starting monday individual judges will decide whether a juvenile should be shackleded. the announce p willment will be at noon. >>> d.c. police want to track the online activity of a woman they say killed an attorney and they need your help. police want to speak with anyone who had contact with the e-mail address chrissanchez chrissanchez0906@yahoo.com. according to court documents, david messerschmitt communicate the with s

ryan t.p.a. bill by ranking member sander levin. i'd like to have those submitted in the record. senator hatch: without objection, it will be -- mr.onohue: mr. chairman, there are few materials like my formal testimony. senator hatch: we'll put them all in the record. mr. trumka: i'd like to state, mr. chairman, by stipulating that tom donohue is an expert of presidents. he goes back to abe lincoln's days. is' ably qualified to be an expert on those presidents. i want to thank you chairman hatch -- senator hatch: you're goings to have that white hair before it's all said and done. mr. trumka: i want to thank you, members of the committee, and tom donohue. for strengthening labor and environmental provisions, for reforming investment rules, for finding the appropriate balance and regulatory measures and intellectual property protections, for fair rules of origin and finally including meaningful currency provisions among many other issues. far from being opposed to trade on principle, we have supported trade deals when warranted. some examples would be the jordan trade agreement the african growth and opportunity act, the generalize

hatch-wyden-ryan bipartisan congressional trade priorities and accountability act of 2015 falls far short of doing that. congress must not agree to fast track a fast track bill right now, mr. chairman. the time allotted between the introduction of the bill hearings, committee consideration and floor action is really short. and it's a sign that i believe that if it had more time and more people knew about it, more people, not less people, would oppose it. a new and effective trade negotiating authority must do the following -- it must ensure that congress approves trade agreement partners before negotiations begin. create negotiating objectives that are specific to the individual trading partners that we're dealing with, because they're all different. ensure that congress, not the executive branch, determines whether the congressional trade objectives have been met. ensure congress has effective opportunities to strip expedited consideration provisions from trade deals that fail to meet congressional objectives or to incorporate congressional and public participation. increase access to u.s. trade policymaking, trade proposals and negotiating text for congress, congression

mr. sarao to appear in front of them. mark? mark: and what more are we learning about his trading practices? ryan you know, we are learning that he's been trading for a very long time. at his home. but also at trading outfits. including one outside of london. in the city of woking where he worked when he was in his 20's. but he is a daytrader with significant amount of experience. now, what has happened over the last 24 hours is people have begun to ask the question of who's really to blame here? criminal charges a sign that the u.s. has opened against him. is it the regulators or is it mr. sarao himself? that's a conversation happening in the marketplace. a lot of people say mr. sarao. was just a lone trader. a day trader. and is it really fair to blame him for causing an entire market collapse? was he really capable of that? what about the regulators and what about the individuals run being the markets that mr. sarao was operating on? like the futures market run by the c.m.e., state side in chicago. and there are a couple of questions. for example, on the penalty side, there was another individ

mr. jordan spieth. >> pretty cool. >>> #:26 now. crews will be back on the water near a blare bridge this morning -- bay area bridge this morning. the latest on the search for a missing motorcyclist. >> and i'm ryan takeo live at at&t park. the giants are passing out the replica (mom) when our little girl was born we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. ♪ with kaiser permanente you'll connect with your doctor any time anywhere. another way care and coverage together makes life easier. ♪ become a member of kaiser permanente. because together, we thrive. ♪ what's that thing? i moved our old security system out here to see if it could monitor the front yard. why don't you switch to xfinity home? i get live video monitoring and 24/7 professional monitoring that i can arm and disarm from anywhere. hear ye! the awkward, teenaged one has arrived. switch to modern security. add xfinity home for $29.95 a mo

mr. stutzman: i rise in support of h.r. 1105 the death tax repeal act. i want to thank chairman brady and chairman ryan for their leadership in addressing this issue that's so important for my district in indiana, and folks across the hoosier state. in indiana, under the leadership of mike pence, we officially repealed our state's death tax in 2013. with this bill we can do the same thing on the federal level. as a fourth gep racial farmer, i see how family-owned businesses already struggle each year with a destructive mess that is our federal tax code. the death tax, which is a double tax on americans' hard work, only adds to the problem. it stifles prosperity. and it prevents individuals and families from making the personal decisions they want to make with their savings and their property for generations to follow them. madam speaker, it's time to repeal the death tax. only accounting for a fraction of a percent worth of annual revenue for the federal government, let's call it what it really s it's a distorted attempt to redistribute the earnings of america's hard work. with that i strongly urge my

ryan changing the program is one thing. whether or not that program was legit with mr. bates very different in light of this new reporting. thank you for setting the groundwork for us there. let's bring in the reporters who are offering this story. dylan goforth and zeva they are of tulsa world. thanks for both of you being here. let's set the table. when this happened with bates, the police department came out, the sheriff's department the authorities, they gave us the training documents. they gave us a memo saying he was trained. his lawyer then came on the show and echoed that sentiment about how don't see him as a 73-year-old business owner, he was just like any other deputy. listen to what he said. >> he's got the training. every news outlet has checked with the certifying agency in the state of oklahoma. everyone has been told he is a certified reserve deputy in the state of oklahoma and has all the requisite powers that come with that. he's done the training. he's proven himself on the firing range. >> dylan, what do you make of that statement in light of your reporting? >> well from what i understand from talking

ryan tpa of 2015 falls far short of doing that. congress must not agree to fast-track a fast track bill right now. mr. chairman. the time allotted between the introduction of the bill, hearings, committee consideration and floor action is really short. and it's a sign that i believe that if it had more time and more people knew about it more people, not less people, would oppose it. a new and effective trade negotiating authority must do the following. it must assure that congress approves trade agreement partners before negotiations begin. create negotiating objectives that are specific to the individual trading partners that we're dealing with because they're all different. ensure that congress not the executive branch, determines whether the congressional trade objectives have been met. be sure congress has effective opportunities to strip expedited consideration provisions from trade deals that fail to meet congressional objectives or to incorporate congressional and public participation. increased access to trade policy and proposals or negotiating text for congress, congressional staff and the public and

ryan zinki. he reflects on his military service and role as as a official. >>> we'll hear from anita mack bride that served as chief of staff to mrs bush. hear that at 9:30 also on c-span >>> next former house majority leader eric cantor and former health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius give their perspectives on the current health care system. that was held at new york university's washington, d.c. campus. >> good evening everyone. i'm michael orr director of nyu washington d.c. i'm happy to welcome to you the abramson family auditorium. we're here for the weisberg forum for the discourse in the public square. this is for thoughtful and respectful discussion of controversial contemporary topics an issues. special things to nina wiseburg around the wiseburg foundation for their generous support of this program. we're greatful for the support of nyu's global institute of public health. the institute is working to arm the next generation of global public health pioneers with the critical thinking skills acumen and entrepreneurial approaches necessary to help solve the world's most pressings public health problems. ple

. >> congressman paul ryan chairman of the house ways and means committee joins us now with more. good morning. i'm going to call you mrine. >> okay. and then i read about rob portman. i mean i've never seen -- in the "journal" today, i don't know if you saw that piece, paul. >> there's an op-ed with ted cruz in the "journal." >> no. he wants to put some currency manipulation language in it which wouldn't work. he's up to re-election and that's pandering to his interests in ohio. god almighty. everybody has got a horse here. strange bedfellows, you and the president. nice. nice to see. but the president said elizabeth warren is wrong. there's fighting on all different sides. it's weird. >> it is different, i'll give you that mr. kernen. hello, mrs. quick, mr. sorkin. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you guys too. look, here's the deal. this is about more jobs and higher wages. one in five jobs in america are tied to trade. 95% of the world's consumers don't live in america, they live in other countries. so if we want more jobs if we want higher paying jobs and trade-based jobs typically trade more we need to open up

hatch-wyden-ryan bipartisan congressional trade priorities and accountability act of 2015 falls far short of doing that. congress must not agree to fast track a fast track bill right now, mr. chairman. the time allotted between the introduction of the bill hearings, committee consideration and floor action is really short. and it's a sign that i believe that if it had more time and more people knew about it, more people, not less people, would oppose it. a new and effective trade negotiating authority must do the following -- it must ensure that congress approves trade agreement partners before negotiations begin. create negotiating objectives that are specific to the individual trading partners that we're dealing with, because they're all different. ensure that congress, not the executive branch, determines whether the congressional trade objectives have been met. ensure congress has effective opportunities to strip expedited consideration provisions from trade deals that fail to meet congressional objectives or to incorporate congressional and public participation. increase access to u.s. trade policymaking, trade proposals and negotiating text for congress, congression

mr. scully: thank you for your time and thank you for sharing your story with us. we appreciate it. representative torres: thank you. >> you can watch another profile interview tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern with ryan zinke. he reflects on his former military service. representative zinke: i can laugh sometimes being a congress is sometimes more difficult than being a seal, in that as a seal you can watch things get done. you can engage. you have a terrific team around you. normally, you had the resources to win come and you can watch progress being made. on the hill, in the current polarization there is progress to be made. it is fixable. it is absolutely fixable. progress is not as rapid as what you would like. you got to make sure you exercise some patience. and some of it is just political rhetoric. some people do not want the facts. they do not care about the facts. what they care about is an agenda. and i never looked at life through a red or blue lens. it is always been red, white and the with me. and as a former seal commander i never asked the political affiliation of the folks around me. what i cared about was how good they were. were they skilled, were they committed, did they have the r

mr. president any member of congress who is concerned about a lack of transparency in trade negotiations should be a cosponsor of the hatch- hatch-wyden-ryan t.p.a. bill. currency the last concern i'll talk about today mr. president deals with currency manipulate. specifically i've heard from colleagues that our t.p.a. bill should include stronger enforceable standards to prevent our trading partners from engaging in currency manipulation. now make no mistake, i think currency manipulation is a serious issue. like my colleagues, i am worried that the currency policies of a number of countries including some of our trade partners, continue to have negative consequences on u.s. businesses and workers and i believe congress should carefully consider ways to address this issue. that's why for the first time our t.p.a. bill includes a negotiating objective intended to address currency manipulation. and while i understand that some of my colleagues would like that provision to be stronger, this is a very complex issue. many have expressed valid concerns that by requiring our trade agreements to contain enforceable currency provisions, we would b

mr. president if you'll allow me i just want to read their names into the record. ross almadine. jamie bishop brian bloom ryan clark austin michelle kloid, josselin nowak daniel alejandro cueva matthew gwaltney jeremy herbstreet emily hillshire, matthew laporte, henry lee liviu lebrecue lauren mccain, daniel o'neill juan ramon ortiz aaron peterson, michael polley julia pride mary karen reed, reamos ramaha, leslie sherman, maxine turner, and nicole white. 32 precious, precious people of amazing accomplishment and even more amazing promise. 17 others were shot that day and wounded. six others were not shot but were injured leaping from windows in a classroom building to escape the carnage. and so many others were affected mr. president first responders pastors counselors the entire hokie nation is what we call the virginia tech community. i know there has been a presentation on the floor about mental health issues and first responders, some of the most painful discussions i had in the aftermath of this shooting and i had many with family members and students who were injured but some of the most painful were fi