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mr. sherman i think there's no other speakers on the public. >> thank you very much supervisor mar and colleagues do we have any more questions on this issue. i thank supervisor mar >> i want to thank all the speakers in the public especially sf save and the bicycle coalition for working with us. a lot of the jazz reports and the long-term term hope to work he sugsdz from the police department. i think that the great study done has a lot of practical advise. i'm feeling much better about the 40 years of having my bicycle stole in middle school. i think with the police departments suggestions i feel like the law enforcement side is one of the key points of having a much stronger prosecution and ability to go after the theft rings that some people brought up 90 from the public and so my hope is we can look at those long-term issues and with the district attorney's office. on the other side i'm grateful for the that your, honor with save and especially from the it depends that have spoken here today. but i feel better about louis my bike and we need to promote bicycle as a key mode of traffic. and i

mr. sherman: i thank the gentleman for yielding. in february i joined with our ranking member and chairman and others in introducing this legislation which passed our committee unanimously. congress needs to act now because while we go on summer break, new faster centrifuges ill be spinning 24/7, 365. we are seeing iran as we have seen in hearings before our committee, evade the current sanctions. so if we are going to keep the sanctions enforced, we need the legislation to plug the loopholes they are exploiting. two facts remain unchanged by the iranian elections. their program to create nuclear weapons continues and the supreme leader is making the decisions. our committee adopted many and on those who sell them, dissident supressing technology. those who oppose this bill and y why iran needs suppressing technology. let's pass this bill. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves the balance of his time. who seeks recognition? the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. ellison: the gentleman from

mr. sherman? >> they were from the entire leadership of the department that we needed to get the facts and we needed to learn the lessonses of benghazi and we needed to be good colleagues in the inner agency, yes. >> so does that the entire leadership include secretary clinton? >> secretary clinton was, as she testified her self, the leader in saying we had to get to the bottom of this. that we had to take responsible for what had gone wrong and we had to fiction it, yes, sir. >> did you have any conversations with secretary clinton about the talking points or, the specific concerns that you raised? >> at no point that evening or subsequently did i talk about the talking points with secretary clinton. >> you did talk with mr. sherman about these concerns, however? >> i did not. >> so, the, your concerns were unilateral, these were concerns based on the instructions you had received from your leadership but not concerns that they specifically told you to have? >> correct. and as i said before, and

mr. sherman? >> you can submit that in writing. >> that being said i can't. >> that would be the correct assumption. >> i would like to point out your qualifications to be a none of you are in question today. you may have different views and beliefs, but because you care about the issue, you are experts on the issue and impacted the issue and on behalf of the committee we are pleased that you are here with us today. >> i join the chairman and his observation. >> thank you mr. chairman. first, mr. roy and mr. capretta to a question if we can. we haven't talked much about this during the hearing. but since the enactment of obamacare to this point when the employer mandate has been temporarily suspended for year, what you think the overall impact of the enactment have on gdp growth relative and also add mr. dennis as well what is your thought on the impact of the slow growth we have had on gdp over the past few years relative to the implementation or the proposed implementation of this enactment, wha

mr. sherman of california, mr. richmond of louisiana. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. horsford of nevada for today and balance of the week and mr. young of florida for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa rise? mr. latham: mr. speaker, i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands adjour >> in a few moments, a forum on the federal budget trust us. that includes comments from 2 former chairman of the senate budget committee. in a little less than 2.5 hours, a senate or in relations committee hearing on ambassadorial nominations. couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow on c-span 3. the shunt -- the senate judiciary committee holds an oversight hearing of government surveilla

sherman? how are we going to solve this if mr. obama wants something that he knows he can't possibly get? >> we ought to pass the appropriations bills and go to conference and determine how much we'll be spending in the fiscal year that starts october 1st. hopefully without shutting down the government. if we can't reach agreement, we should pass a cr or give them a few more weeks to negotiate. we don't want to see a default on the debt and we can't be in a position where you turn to a president and say you either stop sending out the social security checks or stop making the interest payments on the debt. you decide. we cannot default upon our obligations to pay social security checks or our obligations on bonds. we need to spend the amount of money that congress appropriates and i realize the republicans will have a lot to say in making that decision. >> steve, how much hardball will you play? as i understand it, mr. boehner's rule is still in place. every dollar increase in the debt limit has to have a dollar cut in spending. and that's on on top of the sequester. i ask you, will you s

sherman did not violate. non-violently. [laughter] so the negotiations started. to mr.time we got lincoln, we had a conference, a consultation with mr. wilkens of the naacp and a philip randolph and dr. martin luther king jr., and dr. king said temeka majane, did that sound like you? said to me, john, did that sound like you? and randolph said, can we stay together? i could not say militant brand of. he was my hero -- i could not say no to randolph. he was my hero. in 1955 when i was 15 years old i first met him. i met him when i was 18. i suggested that we had the seven villages, seven hamlets. and i said, wake up america, wake up america. the rest is history. >> i did want to ask about some of the noted people that you have known over the years. let's begin with dr. king. birthday,man whose whose life we now celebrate every year as a national holiday. you knew him well before he was a national holiday. >> dr. martin luther king jr. was a wonderful man, a wonderful human being. i will try to make this short period -- short. inn i was growing up, alabama, finishing high school in 1957, i wrote dr. king in a letter and i told him i n

sherman ware incident. so, if only those who decided to condemn mr.iously as they did would have taken just a little bit of time to find out who it was that they were condemning, it would never have happened. and it certainly wouldn't have happened if he was black, because those people who decided that they were going to make him the scapegoat would not have. >> there are a lot of explosive statements there. o'mara has told cnn that he blames martin family attorney ben crump. that's the man on your screen. for getting zimmerman charged in the case and making it a larger story about race. >> let's continue talking about this a little bit. shortly after trayvon martin was killed back in 2012, the reverend jesse jackson publicly demanded that officials in florida arrest the man who had pulled the trigger. well, now george zimmerman, the man who did pull the trigger, he is a free man, found not guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter in trayvon martin's death. let's talk more about all of this, the racial overtones, what this means going forward wi

sherman did non violently. [laughter] the negotiations started. [laughter] to mr.time we got lincoln, we had a little conference, a consultation with naacp and s of the mr. randolph and martin luther don'tr. and dr. king said ifso rigid and he asked martin luther king contrived -- could grow his hair he was my hero and inspiration. 1955 and was 15 years old and met him in 1958 when as 18. -- when i was 18. there was some rhetoric here and there. would march on certain cities, certain towns and certain villages, certain hamlet. in the end, i said wake up america, wake up america. the rest is history. >> i wanted to ask you about some of the note to people you have known over the years. let's begin with dr. king. iss is a man whose birthday likely we will set -- celebrate as a national holiday but you knew him before he was a national figure. what was he like? >> he was a wonderful man. he was a wonderful human being. i was was growing up, out of troy, alabama, finishing high school in 1957. wrote to dr. king in a letter. i told him that i needed his help. i needed his support. a lot to attend a little state college called troy state only two miles away.