mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield four minutes to the distinguished gentleman from colorado, an original sponsor of the bill, and like i said, a giant when it comes to pushing human rights in ethiopia, mr. coffman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for four minutes. mr. coffman: i thank the gentleman from new jersey. mr. speaker, today the united states house of representatives will have an opportunity to vote on house resolution 128, supporting respect for human rights and encouraging inclusive governance in ethiopia. house resolution 128 calls upon the government of ethiopia to take clear and decisive steps towards becoming more incluesive, more democratic and more respectful of the basic human rights of its people. there will be those who will argue today that this resolution is counterproductive, in that the government of ethiopia has been a strong and dependable ally of the united states of america. the opponents will say that the national security interests of th

mr. smith: mr.aker, i move to suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 2809, the american space commerce free enterprise act, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2809. a bill to amend title 51, united states code, to provide for the authorization and supervision of nongovernmental space activities and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, and the gentleman from california, mr. bera, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on h.r. 2809, the bill now under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes

mr. smith: mr. speaker, morning consult recently asked americans about their views of television's political bias. respondsants were four times as likely to say programs present a more liberal perspective than a conservative one. four times. the liberal media, including hollywood studios, have dismissed the views of most americans. they portray american life in their own liberal image. news reports, movies, and tv shows reflect the liberal leanings of the media producers, not most americans' values. to be fair and balanced, the media should represent american families and their values, not just the producers' political and cultural philosophy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, the russians lied. in

mr. smith: thank you, mr. chairman. again, this amendment just asks the comptroller general to assess our current situation for aviation and pilot needs. and canceled flights have been a major problem for communities with the smaller airlines and certainly we want to prevent something from -- in a similar manner from impacting the larger airports around the country as well. i thank the chairman and ranking member for their support and i urge others to support this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from nebraska. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment agreed to. -- the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 75 printed in art a of house report 115-650. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? does the gentleman have an amendment at the desk? mr. lewis: mr. speaker

jimmyr member that movie stewart did, where the congressman -- mr. smith goes to washington.immy stewart, imbued with all of the wonderful -- i want to help america. he comes to washington and he works very hard with this beautiful vision of everything and he brings down inflation, he brings down in -- burns down interest rates. it's wonderful, the enemies of america's pushed offshore. -- whatyou remember the happened to mr. smith's salary? nothing. he was paid just the same. can you imagine his evil twin? bad one. on employment and inflation go way up, interest rates go way up, the stock market collapses, the fields are barren and brown, the kids are all java -- all dying. what happens to that congressperson's salary? it stays exactly the same. these people are not incentivized to behave correctly. companies.o company a and company b. officers ande directors have no stock options and are paid. lori's. company b, the officers and directors have low salaries and are given stock options. which of those would you rather invest in? the one with the incentives. these guys are not

the gentleman from missouri, mr. smith. the gentleman from north carolina, mr. mchenry. the gentleman from california, mr. royce. the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson. the gentleman from ohio, mr. latta. the gentlewoman from california, ms. pelosi. the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer. the gentleman from south carolina, mr. clyburn. the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley. the gentlewoman from california, ms. sanchez. the gentleman from georgia, mr. lewis. the gentleman from california, mr. schiff. the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. keating. the gentleman from new york, mr. meeks. the gentlewoman from florida, mrs. murphy. and the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. esty. vice president pence: the president of the senate at the direction of the body appoints the following senators as members he of the committee on the part of the senate to escort his excellency emmanuel macron, the president of the french republic, into the house chamber. the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell. the senator from texas, mr. cornyn. the senator from missouri, mr. blunt. the s

mr. smith. three minutes please. >> thank you. as i tried to be clear in my

mr smith thank you as always for your time we really appreciate it that's matthew smith of forty five writes joining us from bangkok thanks elizabeth now ministers from egypt saddam and ethiopia holding talks on who controls the world's longest river egypt which depends on the non for water as worried about a dam being built upstream by ethiopia then it smith explains in the northeast of africa the waters of the nile irrigate crops that feed millions of people who want no flows from uganda through south sudan and into saddam the blue nile from ethiopia into saddam and in the capital khartoum they converge on the world's longest river heads to egypt not far from the border with sudan ethiopia is building what will be the largest diamond africa a one thousand six hundred eighty square kilometer area is being flooded to create the dams lake how quickly this is dumb is one of egypt's main concerns you give. to believe us. to believe he toopid. believes in you could have a little it isn't a little a vision of resources we approach. into corporations at a cost of almost five billion dollars

because like similar to what i think mr. smith had said earlier about how, like, in terms of promoting books and stuff, you have to come to twitter and social media because that's where the young people are. what can the young people do to, i guess, come to the older folks? >> do you have a grandparent? >> yeah, but -- >> okay. you have a grandparent? >> yeah. >> are they alive? they're alive, right in. >> yeah. >> okay. you can start talking to them. you can sit down with them over lunch. hey, granddad, let me take you out to ihop. what was it like in the '40s. was you in world war ii? what was it like? is tell me, grandpa, the story of your life. and when your grandfather tells you the story of his life, he will be talking sociology, politics, race, economics and everything. so i think that -- and one of the things that troubles many people in my generation is that the young folk don't talk to us. we are a fount of information. we've done amazing things. but our grandchildren never ask our advice. we reach out to them, they're o

he showed up in washington and both kind of mr. smith going to washington.i remember that feeling as well. the class of republicans, 85 new folks coming in so i know that just had to be chaotic. how did you meet? tell us about the experience, the orientation, hiring staffs, putting your way around. trey, start us off. >> just the word overwhelming. i had no legislative branch experience so i was relying upon jeff and nick and tim came to p me there, and they were tremendously helpful. it was historically large class but make no mistake, he was arguably the best known member of the incoming freshman class. duffy from mtv fame, but he was the elvis presley of that class, and very gracious. didn't sing like elvis preston but i think you with the president of the freshman class if memory serves me correctly. >> right. >> back home that's a really big deal and i remember him declining the opportunity to run for freshman class president. he would appoint by acclamation. it would've been no a vote thao popular he was. but he didn't run and i thought that's the curi

that gave mr. smithuse the two were potentially at each other but reached a settlement under which lopez, steele and bridget ryan burman who will be agreed on by both sides, has been agreed on will join and stepping down are two of or stepping down officially is one of icahn's board members and another one won't go on the board. that was david atchison who is carl icahn's son's friend from college. he'll not stand for election all of this putting the pressure on mike polk, the embattled ceo of newell after they had a series of poor quarters following its acquisition of jarden and fight with martin franklin on the board who sold jarden to newell he was initially aligned with starboard smith and stepped off entirely once icahn got his directors on but polk has got pressure on him now to perform and people close to the company tell me he's well aware of that. the question will be, can he make it work six directors of those on the board who are going to be putting pressure on him from mr. icahn and mr. smith

the late mr goldwyn smith, who thought his own country unworthy of his citizenship and the took himselfasion, he observed, "next time i come back, i shall expect to find a woman and a horse standing for southwark. " looking back over the last 50 years for the work for women, i can truly say it has been a joyful and an exhilarating time, punctuated by victory after victory. what we were able to do, without suffrage, without the vote, is in the highest degree in encouraging for our successes. they, with franchise, with the vote to back their efforts, will be able to do so much more than we. can only hope that those who are beginning their work now may have as joyful a 50 years before them as i and many of my dearly loved colleagues have to look back on. things done our won. joy, soul, lies in the doing. applause thank you, helen. a of the statue, thereafter photographic etchings commemorating 59 other people other than millicent fawcett who played key roles in achieving universal suffrage. four men are among the 59. one man is among this morning's speakers. he supported this campaign in h

the issue of privacy came up in court and it was put to mr smith by sir cliff richard's barrister thatd to be privity issues. and an e—mail sent by gary smith to collea g u es an e—mail sent by gary smith to colleagues was read out in court, and it said there may be fall out this coming week, eg if sir cliff directly accuses the bbc of invading his privacy, which he has not done yet. alternatively it may all blow over. i hope so. in court, gary smith responded, saying the issues of balancing the privacy and public interest were in my mind. it was not something that came back to me but was in my mind throughout. gary smith has finished giving his evidence and we have been hearing the start of the evidence by another senior bbc news editor, head of news gathering jonathan munro. as i say, sir cliff richard has been here in court listening to proceedings. thank you, helena lee. our top story this lunchtime... police in canada question the suspect in the van attack in toronto, in which ten people were killed coming up... ballroom hits the west end. we hear from the acclaimed film director

i'm sorry to interrupt again, mr smith.to anyone, even people who don't know about housing issues, they need help. absolutely. the relationship between the children's services part of the council and the homeless department was not as good as it should have been and that should have been picked up. our responsibility was to the children rather than the family because the family had been deemed to be intentionally homeless at one stage. but the ombudsman found, the father regularly tried to register for housing but the council fails to accept his applications even after they told the council they had a new baby with disabilities. we absolutely accept that our systems did not work quickly and properly. and there were a couple of occasions where the father had identified a property to move into that he needed the council to pay the deposit and we didn't act quickly enough. there are obviously failing sear otherwise we would not have the ombudsman report that we have, but as always we have to learn from those feelings and make

if i say to you, mr. smith, you know, i have talked to your friends, and you are nothing. everybody says smitty does not know a damn thing, so i do not even know why i have you in this room, unless you tell me something, i want you to get out of here. that is called ego down. or you say you know, mr. smith, , i read your bio, and geez louise, are you a heck of a warrior. it is an honor to meet you. that is called ego up. as anlie to you interrogation technique. i can say you know, jones told me that you murdered all of those people. if you did not do it, you had better tell me who did. those are proper interrogation techniques, but they were not working well enough. u.s. air force jagged gitmo who asked for extraordinary interrogation techniques. andasked secretary rumsfeld some of them were sort of like, "what?" like permission to lightly slap someone, ok, permission to raise your voice to them, things that you think i am not sure how extraordinary that is, but ok. if you want to go outside the lane a little bit. and one of them was waterboarding. and that was another pla

mr. smith: mr. speaker, to ensure environmental progress, we must let technology lead the way. however, the liberal media often ignores news about innovations that would mitigate climate change. a recent report by the environmental protection agency shows that u.s. greenhouse gas emissions have declined by 11% since 2005. no other industrialized country has made so much progress. investors business daily points out in an editorial how -- that backethroughs in technology and not one-size-fits-all regulations are the reason for u.s. success in at reducing emissions -- in reducing emissions. it also notes that many countries that sign the paris accords continue to increase their emissions. instead of innovating theerks countries are regulating. regulatings -- regulations set impossible targets for emissions and have little impact on the environment. the media should report on technological innovations that address climate change. instead they use scare tactics to promote more government regulations and

he was asked what led mr smith to take the view that your conduct suggested a rather heavy—handed approachoodwin. she was head of media at south yorkshire police. i was quite surprised commies said, and my initial reaction was, i was mystified, why is she saying that? i don't think i have acted at all like that. danjohnson have acted at all like that. dan johnson will continue giving evidence here in court after the lunch break and we are expecting later on this afternoon to hear further evidence from some abc news senior further evidence from some abc news senior managers. further evidence from some abc news senior managers. thank you. the world's first global cancer database has been launched by an australian billionaire. patients will be asked to hand over their health records to the universal cancer databank, which will share information about emerging new treatments. the former labour minister, dame tessa jowell, who has an aggressive brain tumour, has become the first person to sign up, as our health correspondent, catherine burns, reports. it was one of her biggest achievements as a

mr. smithurse, rhetoric around -- which is an assault upon a younger generation. because people have amnesia. they forget that older people used to be young. and if they get mad at black lives matter, they forget the snick was involved in a very serious fashion in resistance and were demonized similarly. tell us about your understanding of multigenerational resistance and why it's so important for older people to embrace younger people, and for younger people to understand, as ms. newsome said that they're stepping into a moving river of tradition over which they should be washed by it, and also to appreciate it. so tell us about the relationship between those two generations. at least. >> i hope you can hear me. >> jesse. >> i'm suffering from an affliction that i usually do not suffer from, being lost for words. however, we have had the most consistent continuity of any movement ever. the fact is that the people that i derive my knowledge from, the reverend jim lawson, mike cody, dr. king, be

. >> my theory of mr. smithgoes to washington, a synonym for deer in headlight i wanted to stay in south carolina. i had no desire but every time i went everyone said healthcare? that's washington. that's washington we might look for you. >> i found myself not wanting to challenge the covenant looking back it worked out okay. but when i arrived in washington the strategy to get there was enough to get successful there. the thing that i found to be true about trade, very quickly was that he was grounded. that his disposition was not based on polls is based on experiences. having someone so grounded and anchored in something that does not move made it easier for me to defer to him on important issues, there was the great jeff duncan and myself. >> he wanted a self promoting. these are for horsemen. you're from the upstate of north carolina and you had dinner regularly for a long time. i've a few things underlined here. trey, you mentioned an early in the book that television was a powerful force. you had 85 freshm

mr. smith. three minutes please. >> thank you. as i tried to be clear in my brief, my point in this appeal is not to antagonize any group of people or one philosophy. i am trying to see that the rule of law is apply here. i am very distressed that it has not been applied thus far. the comments we heard recently i don't know the woman's name with the young child. it was political. they are political. everyone is racist that supports it. i can stand up here all day and say i am not racist. according to who because of rand i inherited the racist genes. whatever. i can argue that the carols were native-americans. but that doesn't change anything. we are not talking politics or ethics. we are talking fundamental principles. do what is right. we do not burn books, we do not destroy art. it is just inconceivable that a city that prides itself on being multicultural, multinational would destroy art. there is no question that is what they are doing. when you take one piece of art and take the lips off the mona lisa. it is ridiculous. the a

mr. chris smith of new jersey. mr. smith: thank you for convening this very important hearing. welcome to ambassador studderfield and dr. mitchell. i would like to note that the former member of congress from west virginia, nick rahall is here with us, great to see him again. let me ask a few questions, at least five, i have many more but time won't allow more than that. on monday, american pastor andrew brunson endured a 12-hour-long hearing on the groundless terrorism charge he is faced with our ambassador at large for religious freedom sam brownback in attendance as well as sam till liss. he was remanded to custy until -- dustky until his next court date in may. sit the belief of the department that diplomacy will effectuate his release or is it time along with the religious infracksered an is practices to look at other methods. in 2004, i authored a law to combat anti-semitism. nita lowey wrote an op-ed carried by a number of politicians appealing to the administration and the incoming secretary of state, we could not get to first base unfortunately with secretary tillerson

it's like mr. smith goes to washington. it's going to be that kind of thing.se for it. >> brian: loretta lynch had to get ahead of this book. that's why she insists on doing that interview. she is contradicting james comey's comments. >> geraldo: who fired james comey? rod rosenstein. remember that. rod rosenstein fired james comey. before you want to get rid of rod rosenstein, remember that. >> brian: let the record show i was asked one question. coming up next, the marijuana industry has an interesting new spokesperson, former speaker of the house john boehner. why the republican now is a warrior for weed. that story next. ery six months i'm accident free. and i don't share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. ♪ come to my window ♪ ohh ♪ crawl inside ♪ wait by the light of the moon ♪ applebee's to go. order online and get $10 off $30. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. and get $10 off $30. booking a flight doesn't have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it's the best

. ♪ >> hi mr. smith. wait. i thought today was the big trial day. where is everybody?e's been a change of plans. we're moving into private arbitration. >> oh, what's that? >> it's a closed door process in which a third party resolves a legal dispute after all parties agree to be bound by the decision. >> oh, well i agree to be bound all right. >> no, not like tied up but you would be legally bound to abide by the court's decision. >> oh, okay. that's a bad dhing. thing. >> could by a big blow to our case. >> a big blow huh? >> yes keep in mind the federal arbitration act favors arbitration in many types of disputes and federal courts have applied that law than have the state courts. got a long uphill legal battle ahead of us. >> uh-huh. we're not going to have sex are we? >> just ash. >> okay. do you want help. >> okay. bye. >> jimmy: i know it's disappointing. [ cheers and applause ] but education. tonight on the show, music from hayley kiyoko, ike barinholtz is here, and we'll be right back with dwayne johnson. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ is really this good ♪ you sh

gentleman from ohio mr stivers the gentleman from georgia mr collins the gentleman from missouri mr smith gentleman the. north carolina mr mchenry the gentleman from california mr royce the gentleman from south carolina mr wilson gentleman from ohio mr latta the gentlewoman from california ms pelosi the gentle men from maryland mr hoyer the gentleman from south carolina mr cliburn the gentleman from new york mr crowley the gentleman from california ms sanchez the gentleman from georgia mr lewis the gentleman from california mr shift the gentleman from massachusetts mr keating the gentleman from new york mr meeks the gentleman the gentlewoman from florida ms murphy and the gentlewoman from connecticut miss s.d. . does it is this thing of the delegate. being named a now. let's take a look why were atmospherics and during this visit so important was this visit lupul for trouble from a crawl i think that this is more important from a crime to be quite frank because there are two deadlines looming for things that france really cares about and he needs to deliver that he has to move trump not t

human beings and you are in a b-17 over europe in world war ii and you see half a dozen attacking mr. smith your b-17 crew can do that they can't deal in the probably can deal with six. can't deal with 106. stalin said quality is a problem of its own. a human who can't deal with that many and i don't know what the threshold is but 100 will be beyond it so a swimming drone attack is of concern to us because of the mass but in ai system i hope can be trained to deal with just such things and i mean in mathematical terms, you know, i like to fall back on the geek that i am the targeting problem's forming drones is a version of a traveling salesman problem in programming. it's a tough problem and in fact you can prove there is no optimal solution available to you but there are some pretty good solutions and you can prove that they are pretty good. if we can implement, you know, some of those kinds of solutions in an ai scheme which properly prioritizes the ones which are some combination of the ones that are nearer and the ones that are faster and the ones which are apparently headed for the mo

what was it like on your marriage was it like mister and mrs. smith or spiritually base as well.i was so grateful to have joseph by my side. i don't think i could've gotten through that level of stress without him as my rack obviously ten years of that. working every day constantly looking for hostile surveillance. took its toll on us. it was deftly hard on our marriage especially towards the end. but he also strengthened our marriage because you are the only ones who know what you been through together. we know things about each other that no one well ever understand fully and said to have a spouse by your side helping to keep you safe i was so grateful. the other thing you have to praise joseph on is the fact that it's joseph who taught me the intricacies that i needed to do my job well. it's stuff you can't learn inwe a textbook. i would pepper them with a thousand questions like when they say this what are they actually mean. what are they thinking when they say a beer see. and answer a lot of questions. you don't want people to know you are married. there is a great story ab

they may have gone to washington with hopes of mr. smithse brand-new congressmen who let cameras follow them around say wow, this is not what we signed up for. >> you said it's only $7 billion, can we move on? where i come from, our entire state budget is $7 million. that's a lot of money where we come from. guess what we did? we moved on. >> martha: there wasn't time to talk about it. former congressman jason chaffetz knows a thing or two about this situation. we'll talk to jason when we come back. whatever you do to stay healthy. you might be missing something. your eyes. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. it has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. >>hey. oh, that's my robe. >>is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance and still get great coverage for you and your family. call for

and mrs. smith? also spiritual based?>> i was so grateful to have joseph by my side because i don't think i could have gotten through that level of stress without him as my rock maybe you could say the same and ten years of that working every day thinking that you will be ambushed or attacked took its toll on us that was hard on the marriage especially toward the end but also strengthen the marriage because you are the only ones who know what you have been through together. we know things about each other that nobody will ever understand fully so to have your spouse fireside i'm so grateful. also joseph taught me the intricacies of arab culture that i needed to do my job well. it is stuff you cannot learn in a textbook or a classroom i would ask 1000 questions when you say this what do they mean or what if they say this? he had to answer a lot of questions. >> when you work together you didn't want people to know you were married so how difficult was it by the book but there is a great story how hard it was not to let on.

if there's any, mr. smith. >> good afternoon, commissioners. cory smith on behalf of the san francisco housing action coalition. i love data, so this was a cool thing to see and quantify some of our goals. i think some good and some bad. i think the number was 83% increase on subsidized and affordable housing. i would love to a year from now see another 83% increased. i think most of us would. obviously, this stuff takes place over a long period of time. i don't know if any of you are familiar with an organization called open land, they were formerly called state craft, and they look at pipeline information based on the planning department's available data, and what they look at is total affordable applications through, when they go through the process, they try to make some projections about what we're looking at in 2018-2019, so we're looking forward based on simple metrics, like how many units are currently under construction. it's really fascinating to look at. we've hired them to create our own dashboards on a similar basis, and a year fro

something i -- mr. smith goes to washington is sin knock of deer in the headlight us. was a fish out of water. i wanted to stay in south carolina, had no desire to come to bases washington but every time i'd going on the stump to talk about issues for the lieutenant governor, western said, health care? that's washington. talk about military, brother's service? that's washington. you're running nor wrong office. we might vote for you for lieutenant governor, but you need to be a better congressional candidate, and at the time henry brown was still the seat. he is like the david that killed goliath. i looked for an open seat. >> smarter. >> i don't knowment done pretty well. i saw myself not really wanting to challenge the incumbent. i find myself in the race, sentence. out of nine getting in the rate, strom thurmond son and carol campbell's son in the race. when i arrived in washington i realized the strategy to get there was not enough to be successful in. one reason why i've been able to lean on trey and his old scripture, iron sharpens iron so one person does the oth

what your company, did, mr. smithws anchors and journalists to read corporate talking points talking points that couldn't exactly refuse to say since according to bloomberg you have the draconian noncompete clauses in contracts that would not only leave them out of a job for six months, but could force them to pay you damages of up to 40% of their annual paycheck. strong-arming, that is what i would call it. that wraps things up this hour. ali velshi picks things up now. i need a hug but i won't take one today. >> we'll wait until next year and hug a news person day. thank you. >>> good afternoon, i'm ali velshi. the president is holding a round table meeting right now. meant to praise his tax bill, despite a slew of controversy, domestic and international hanging in the back drop. trump aides are working to stave off worldwide concern over a trade war that sent market news a fren-- frenzy and they recove today but then the president's seemingly spur of the moment decision to send the national guard to the u.s.-mexica

mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i was joking with staff up here that i think what we all ought to do only question we should ask is ask secretary wilson to tell us what she thinks about the space koran just have a constant conversation about that because i this i that would be interesting. i'll leave that to mr. rogers and cooper, actually. >> but the question i do want to ask is where can you save money? because i've often said that ever since i've been on this committee 21 years, it has an easy to track theme. and that is people come over from the pentagon and tell us all kind of horror stories about what they don't have. about how short they are. about their under funded requirements about all the money they need and the lack of money will lead to one cataclysm after another. and i don't discount the threat environment that the chairman just described. but if we are going to get to good on that stuff, it can't all be up, up, up. there has to be someplace in $700 billion budget where you go gosh i don't want to sp

mr. smith: mr. speaker, first of all, let me thank the gentleman from virginia, the chairman of the judiciary committee, for yielding me time. and also for his tireless efforts over the years to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. mr. speaker, today the house of representatives votes to protect future generations from our debilitating debt. thomas jefferson believed that, quote, the public debt is the greatest of dangers to be feared, end quote. he wished it were possible to obtain a single amendment to the constitution, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing, end quote. it is past time that we listened to jefferson's comments -- commonsense advice. american families balance their check books, states and local governments balance their budgets. so should the federal government. the last balanced budget occurred in the 1990's. the previous balanced budget was during the eisenhower administration. surely it is not too much to ask that we take a major step towards h

was a resident one night i got up to go to the restroom, and i heard my nurse screaming at parent, mr. smith, will you please wake up. i have to give you your sleeping pill. i went up to her and i said, you're waking this poor guy up to give him a sleep pill. she says yay because i know he'll page up in 15 minutes and then he'll wake me up and then i'll wake you up. i said please give him the sleeping pill. as i looked into the whole situation i discovered that 90% of the prescriptions in the hospital were for fire things: pain, anxiety, nausea, and insomnia and constipation. >> the big five. >> and the acronym is panic. that's the big five. in any case, good sleep, stress management, and n any form, for us, again, mindful awareness, mindfulness, that is the great gift that the buddha gave to the world, the gift oft mindful awareness, which was very complete awareness of sensory experience, awareness of body, awareness of what is happening inside your body for those of you who practice yoga, it's called these days we call it intro ception but he called it awareness -- the yoga term of how yo

and mrs. smith -- [laughter] or how was it spiritually based as well?so i was so grateful to have joseph by my side because i don't think i could have gotten through that level of stress without him as my rock and probably he would say the same. i mean, obviously, ten years of that, you know, working every day, constantly looking for hostile surveillance meaning somebody about to ambush you or attack you took its toll on us, definitely was hard on our marriage especially towards the end. but it also strengthened our marriage because, i mean, you are the only ones who know what you've been through together. i mean, we know things about each other that no one will ever understand fully. and to have a spouse by your side is helping to keep you safe, i was so grateful. and the other thing i just have to praise joseph on was the fact that it's joseph who taught me the intricacies of arab culture that i needed to do my job well. it's stuff you can't learn in a textbook, you can't learn in a classroom. but i would pepper joseph with a thousand questions like,

mr. wicker. >> aye. >> miss fisher. >> aye. >> miss heights smith. >> aye. >> miss klobuchar. >> no. >> miss feinstein. >> no by proxy. >> mr. shield. >> no by approximate yiel. >> mr. durbin. >> no. >> mr. udall. >> no by approximate yiel. >> mr. horner. >> no by approximate yiel. >> mr. leahy. >> no by proxy. >> mr. king. >> no. >> miss cortez. >> no. >> chairman? >> vote -- >> chairman blunt. >> vote yes. >> the ayes are 10. the theresa mays are 9. resolution 355 as maended is reported fach or bly. i ask unanimous consent in preparing the measure for reporting the staffs is authorized to make any technical and confirming changes. i think we've told our leaders today we want a vote. now we can, i'd like to get the nomination process working better so we can get the other things we are supposed to do to have the time to do those. but i like i said i'm pleased to be able to chair this committee again. i'm pleased to serve on the appropriations committee with our new chairman senator shelby. i think senator klobuchar and i are going to do our best to bring the institution of the senate to wha

mr. smith: mr. speaker, a recent poll of texas voters show that they want to reduce and refor legal immigration and save jobs formericans. the post opinion research survey found that 63% of texans favor less immigration than the current annual level of one million. 56% support cutting the number of green cards by at least half. only 14% of the voters questioned want to increase immigration. the poll also determined that texas voters by a 2-1 margin want to end chain migration and only admit spouses and minor children of immigrants. also respondents strongly support work force verification to prevent illegal immigrants from taking jobs away from americans. congress should listen to texans' views on immigration policy. with the 2,000-mile common border with mexico, texas continues to bear the burden of our current misguided immigration system. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. pelosi: mr. speaker, i ask unani

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