mr. smith: yes. mrs. houchin: does this bill increase taxs? mr. smith: no. mrs. houchin: has congress ever passed a bill that raised the debt ceiling while cutting back on future setting? mr. smith: has congress ever -- mrs. houchin: whileet kra*elting spending reductions? mr. smith: yes we have. mrs. houchin: what's the consequence of defaulting on our debt? mr. smith: it never happened. it could be catastrophic. mrs. houchin: we heard a lot today that the fiscal responsibility act isn't the answer. what alternative are we looking at if we don't move forward with this negotiated atkpwraoepltd? mr. smith: a blank check debt limit increase. mrs. houchin: thank you. before i close i want to note we would likely have not been able to secure the conservative items in a fiscal responsibility act as stand alone bills. we did pass a bill to reduce spending for the i.r.s.ment chairman smith, where is that bill now? mr. smith: it's waiting for action in the senate. mrs. houchin: we did rescind covid funding. where is that in mr. smith: waiting for action in the senate. mr

mr. smith: you know, mr. speaker, we hear the other side of the aisle over and over talk about the tax cut and jobs act. let me tell you about the tax cut and jobs act. last year, we had record revenue into the united states of $4.9 trillion. which was not $900 billion plus more than what joint tax and c.b.o. predicted what would happen upon passage of the joinb act. the tax cut and jobs act deliver forward family of four who makes less than $60,000 a year that they pay zero in federal taxes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. members will remove their conversations from the floor. the gentleman deserves to be heard. the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: mr. speaker, let's talk about tax cuts. the other side passed something called the inflation reduction act and it was tax cuts for their wealthy donors. in fact, the c.b.o. just came out with a new score saying that it cost over $700 billion. but guess what. 90% of your tax credits go to corporations with more t

mr. smith: thank you. with that, mr. speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from kansas, mr. estes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas has three minutes. mr. estes: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of the protecting taxpayers and victims of unemployment fraud act. right now our federal government is borrowing one out of five dollars we spend. over $45,000 a second. this fact alone should outrage every american. yet we face another outrageous problem here in the swamp. waste, fraud and abuse. not only are we borrowing at historic rates but we're borrowing to cover the cost of rampant fraud that exists, frequently unchecked in our systems. this was magnified during the height of the covid-19 pandemic. while there were good reasons to expand unemployment benefits when many americans were displaced from work through no fault of their own, we are already three years removed from the passage of the cares act, and the pandemic emergency declaration is over. not because the biden administr

mr. smith -- i'm going to claim my time and you will have an opportunity. the president submits the budget and gives the republicans. the republicans don't file. late march, early april, the house adjourns for two-week break. finally house republicans introduced their bill, not a budget blueprint, but a bill. they passed it that same week and then the house adjourns for another recess. the day the house comes back, the president the speaker, the senate leadership and minority leader of the house to have a conversation about resolving the impasse. again, facts are facts. obviously, we are going toville disagreements about the propriety of the spending cuts that are being proposed today. let us dispense with the plame around delays that unfortunately my colleagues have been so stuck on. now ranking member boyle, you said something that i thought was important for folks tuning in and usually we don't have much media in the rules committee. we don't have these interesting hearings but because the s

so mr. smith was so enraged as the crafts describe in their own narrative by the site of this child who bore a such a strong physical resemblance to her own husband, to allen's father and she was so upset that allen was for a legitimate child of the family that at the soonest opportunity she gave away ellen craft as a wedding gift to her own 18 year old daughter. when this 18 year old daughter was going to get married so be at the end of this rain soaked journey into megan upstairs in the space and opening up this book to find this paper by which this action was made possible to see and this beautiful hand, i mean, the handwriting was just gorgeous. see, in this beautiful hand, james, saying out of the love that i bear for my daughter, eliza i'm giving her this property. and i'm not just giving her this property, but i'm giving this property. allen and all of her increase, which meant that for generations upon generations, allen's crash children and their children and their children would forever

mr. smith: mr. speaker, for purposes of debate only i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. the ranking member on trade. and the committee of ways and means. pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. without objection. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the veto message of h.j.res. 39. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i rise in support of overriding president biden's veto of h.j.res. 39. a congressional review act resolution disapproving of the rule submitted by the department of commerce relating to procedures covering suspension of liquidation, duties, and estimated duties in accord with presidential proclamation 10414. two weeks ago the ways and means committee held a hearing at the port of staten island in new york to listen

mr. smithi'm going to claim my time and you will have an opportunity. the president submits the budget and gives the republicans. the republicans don't file. late march, early april, the house adjourns for two-week break. finally house republicans introduced their bill, not a budget blueprint, but a bill. they passed it that same week and then the house adjourns for another recess. the day the house comes back, the president the speaker, the senate leadership and minority leader of the house to have a conversation about resolving the impasse. again, facts are facts. obviously, we are going toville -- to have disagreements about the private -- propriety of the spending cuts that are being proposed today. let us dispense with the plame -- blame around delays that my colleagues have been so stuck on. now ranking member boyle, you said something that i thought was important for folks tuning in and usually we don't have much media in the rules it's often that we don't have these kinds of interesting

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mr. smith: additional 30 seconds. speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. smucker: it's not about taking away unemployment benefits for those who relied on them. it's quite the opposite. this bill goes after those who robbed unemployment benefits from those who needed it. i'm hopeful that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will recognize that this is commonsense legislation to right a wrong and to protect our constituents and our taxpayers. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. davis: i yield one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. thompson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, the covid-19 pandemic significantly impacted the economies of every country around the world, resulting in great economic shutdown. however, our country, the united states, came out of the pandemic ahead of other natio

you would 1st have to ask mr. smith, to watch surveillance, videos, identity, and decide which people look suspicious for, and, you know, i was curious, cassandra just just pupa and i'll come if it's something else. you know, really, of course, the outcome is then based on mr. smith, judgement, which may be by adult signatures. you thank you and as long as it is mr. smith who is talking points, you're aware that he is expressing his opinions. but as soon as you use his conclusions to train a deep learning system to the bias is no longer on the roof. q some kind of look at text, socio new context, secretaries usually context, the social psychological and tomorrow the context will remain incomprehensible to computers. i think he has to come concepts. both of these things, systems like judgment is on what did they base their decisions? no monk. so it says use mom, but on the basis of statistical missions for the bus, the just that just to just demo. and those all studies have proven lead to racial and gender discrimination

, judgement, which may be by it don't seem as soon as you think, and as long as it is mr. smith who is talking points, you're aware that he is expressing his opinion. but as soon as you use his conclusions to train a deeper learning system to the bias is no longer on the roof. can some kind of look at dicks social new context. sequels usually context, the social psychological and tomorrow, the context will remain incomprehensible to computers. i think he is to come on some of these things. systems like judgment is on what did they base their decisions? no monk, sewage sewage mom but on the basis of statistical missions for the bus. the just that just to just demo. and those are studies of proven lead to racial and gender discrimination, but some of that did seem not shown to just come national washer. and these conditions all you work on the front lines and the criminal justice system. you make decisions every day that impact the community users. that's why the north points sweep in a dozen us state beside go square in feelings, judges during trials about the risk of a defendant

mr. smith, he mentioned the corn issue. the usmca dispute with mexico in regards to that, is important. my district is home to a thriving biotech sector. our success is dependent on strong, global, intellectual property rules. also, the enforcement of the rules, which ensure the safe products can be sold and used without unnecessary interference from protection policies. i would like to hear from you about the administration's effort to hold mexico accountable in and gml -- gmo corn case. what opportunities are for biotech as we move forward. i am interested in taiwan. i would like to hear about the progress we're making with taiwan and similar agreements helping to strengthen our national security. my third question, the canadian lumber issue. i understand, we know it is a long-standing dispute. i understand some of canada's top lumber producers are interested in seeing this dispute resolved. i would like to hear your thoughts on this, and if the u.s. and canada can restart lumber negotiations. >> thank you so much mr. tho

mr. smith, you are what of my heroes and your predecessor, bill anderson, a republican who did an awful lot working with people like tony hall and others to try to prevent hunger in this country and it's always amazing to me that giving the number of people who are food insecure and hungry in this country, it's only be billed congress, but let me end by saying and repeating what i said in my opening statement. you know. again, we don't hold the defense environment accountable for the cost of offerings. we keep going. we are doubling down on four people in national security means more than the number of bombs and bullets we have. it's whether people have access to adequate nutrition. means whether they have a roof over their head. that means whether or not circuits can get a decent education or they live in an environment that is not polluted. where there is hope for the future and they can retire with some sense of security and i think we need to keep that in mind as we move forward but i have

ugh, a director came here to film the identification of mr. and mrs. smith, a translator.me here with some cool drones that shoot in 3d, and it made a completely 3d scene with a dream with the remains of a dream with a timer . when they saw it, i thought that there was a little bit of a fever, they started calling everyone there and threatening sooner or later some kind of art film, they started to do whatever they wanted, this is a monument to the russian people, it's hard to imagine what was in that head that salted this ear and it was rusty and the soviet 100% phallic symbol kadyrovets i they dug up here literally a day, that is, they buried some of their corpses or just shook it, they did not bury their corpses, they partially collected them, of course, but uh, in most cases, if we talk about uh to gut, they just threw them, there was such a situation that we even had to partially move our positions somewhere 200-300 m to the side, simply because the personnel could not bear this stench , because, as you know, the fields were like in warhammer covered with their bodies

looks like nosification and that's all, the director who filmed bourne's identification mr. and mrs. smithcool drones that shoot in 3d and it made a completely 3d scene with a dream with the remains of a dream by a stangar when the sbushniks saw it, i thought that they had a little bit of a fever there, they started calling everyone there and threatening sooner or later some kind of art film appeared in any way, it's a monument to the russian, it's hard to imagine what was in that head that wore that er ear and it was rusty and soviet 100% folic symbol kadyrovets i they dug up here literally a day , that is, they buried some of their corpses or just shook it, they did not bury their corpses, they partially collected them, of course, but uh, in most cases, if we talk about uh when we went there further to gut, they just threw them, there was such a situation that we even had to partially move our positions somewhere 200-300 m to the side, simply because the personnel could not bear this stench , because the fields are like warhammers you know, they were covered with their bodies, which, wel

mr. smith, or chairman smith, excuse me, i was going to ask you. you commented a little bit about the budgeting process, but there was an excuse with what of the members regarding the budget and what has happened in the past because i wanted to make sure that was clear as to how it's been handled the last few years. >> absolutely. thank you, representative. the last four years, the republicans took the majority in january, the democrats were in charge and throughout those four years, the democrats never had a budget in there committee marked up. they did a couple show budgets on the floor to trigger reconciliation that led to the trillions of dollars of bending, which led to the highest inflation of a generation, which led to the fastest increase of interest rate in the last 15 years, that is hurting every american and it's more of a struggle for them to put food on their table, clothes on their back augustine in their cars, but you, the democrats, when they were in control, never had a budget

some, like mr smith, under a controversial new law, the public order act. they think are planning to disrupt. but using those powers was justified according to a cabinet minister. they will have made operational decisions on a case—by—case basis as to what steps they should have taken. and i know that they took into account, and i think they were quite right to take into account, the context of the event as a whole. we were on the global stage. there were 200 foreign dignitaries in the uk, in london, at an event. the commissioner of london�*s met police was out with a distinctly peaceful bunch for lunch today. his force said its focus yesterday wasn�*t protesters but potential disruptors. it said it had received intelligence about plans to deface monuments or disrupt the coronation procession. labour wants more of an explanation, though. people can disagree, and disagree well, i hope. i think it is for the met to explain the arrests and make sure they got the balance right. and as we've seen, if they didn't get it right, you know, i think the casey review d

since mr. smith indicated the intent of this legislation, i have no reason to disbelieve him although i don't really see it statutorily inflating line after line overpayments with fraud is only intended to have defrauded thesis but certainly all of us want payments for the $2 billion we set aside in this bill to be utilized to go after people in criminal organizations or our colleague here whose name was used to apply for unemployment benefits. we certainly want to go after every single one of those people. but since there is an intense to hold those people who are innocent but my amendments deal with the most vulnerable people who perhaps received employment benefits. and so briefly i will talk about my four amendments. i will only lift up two of them. and just submit in writing my entire statement. >> 's >> alongside their own children, their other responsibilities and now to say that we are going to, i apologize for that. that was for you regarding when i was going to come here. to say that we are

senator smith: mr. joyner. mr. joyner: similar to express scripps, we also would applaud and enjoy the lowering of drug prices. senator smith: this gap that senator collins showed on her chart, which appears to be the rebates and discounts, then you would get rid of those. >> i think there are two things. one is that's what the p.b.m. has done to date. the prices that have been announced on that chart is actually below the cost that they have listed for coverage. senator smith: mr. mudson. mr. hudson: to be clear, it was 2018 we brought a lower price. nothing to do with recent policies or announcements. reduced the price of that three times. then it was last august that we brought -- made in the same factory. 60% off. long before this year's debate. i'm a bit perplexed because they have been there. senator smith: sen. smith: to the p.b.m. executives, what do you say to this critique that your profitability is enhanced or higher when list prices are higher? >> so, i'll give the example. because i think it's an import

this of course, like mr. and mrs. smith yes, that is, she could do anything there speak there to confess some of their feelings. yes, i, uh, there, too, fully say. so he closed her needs just like that, like in a man in terms of. there she had no questions about what would happen tomorrow, and it was friske who chose the role of the father of her child. she always said so. i want my own child. i want our child there her romance with a young dancer, you can’t call it fleeting, they lived together for almost 5 years. peter worked with her on stage and starred in her music videos. well, on vacation. they didn't move away from each other at all for there four. four-five years, and zhanna there gave me her love attention and was with me, and even when the whole country thought that the showman seemed to be courting the singer, dmitry shepelev , my closest friends saw that in fact i saw my soul when i was the situation was different situation. somehow emotionally disturbed her and a little, well, there was a different look, there

according to the times, the subpoena, quote, suggests that mr. smithwhether there's any connection between mr. trump's dealmaking abroad and the classified documents he took with him when he left office. and it's not the only bad headline for the ex president today. in the documents case, there is now new reporting from the guardian that one of trump's current attorneys has received a potential obstruction. the guardians reporting, nbc news hasn't confirmed, that trump's attorney evan corcoran we served nearly 50 pages of contemporaneous notes detailing that trump was warned about retaining classified documents after he was subpoenaed by doj in may. and as if things could not get any worse for trump legally, he is now facing new trouble for comments he made about writer e. jean carroll on national television, just one day after being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and ordered to pay $5 million in damages. tonight, miss carroll is seeking in manhattan federal court a, quote, very substantial additional amount of damages in response to tru

mr. smith has many more records and much more stuff. we can change the access by which we tell the story. i went back into my writing and looked at the sentence and the paragraph in the section to see who is a subject, a direct object, who gets the thesis, who gets the story because that is something we can change. in all of your reframing's, we can shift the access upon which the story is told. >> who wants to come in? >> i will go. for me, i had access to survivors' testimony before congress. what is really interesting about those sources is they are full of all this information that lawmakers and some historians have deemed irrelevant. they tell us a lot about the family's transitioning from slavery to freedom. who is selling hogs. they have a listing of their earnings. a number of them detail how much property they have acquired. how much they paid for it. when they were driven off their property. how much they lost in earnings for that year. you have a lot of rich information about those families. what i wanted to do was sit with t

special counsel's office today and asked whether trump's lawyers had also requested a meeting with mr. smithefore sending that letter. the special counsel spokesperson declined to comment. joining us now is a former federal prosecutor who also served as law clerk for merrick garland, and also joining us is mary mccord, former acting assistant attorney general at the doj. there are no two better people to speak with on this. let me first ask you about what you think is happening in this letter? first of all, do you have any reason to suspect there is an official purpose here? there's cleary a political purpose. if there is some official purpose to this, what might it be? >> so i don't think there's an official purpose to this, alex. i don't think it's really a serious letter because as you pointed out, the attorney general is not the right person to meet with the would-be target, you know, would-be defendant donald trump. so it is common for sort of high profile targets to ask for a meeting with the attorney general. when i was at the department of justice there was a person in the deputy att

. >> the second track of what mr. smith is looking at is mar-a-lago and the classified documents.mployee. here's what the post story says. the employee had a conversation with an i. it. worker at the site about how the security cameras worked and how long images remained stored in the system. the person familiar from w that aspect of the investigation said. now if you want to take the negative view on that, okay. an employee asking the i.t. guy, how does this work? what are you worried about that there are pictures of moving documents. >> you're not really kconcerned about policies unless there's documents, video or audio, unless you want them to go away. that's what that suggests. why yould you ask about that? which could be great. it could show no tampering of anything. >> we have a calendar looking at the timeline. it's in mid-july. it was in august when the fbi showed up to serve the search warrant. it was when a regular justice department official came to retrieve documents. this was clearly an issue. what did the government know? and when the government asks questions, will

mrs. smithife and i didn't know that we both worked for the same organization, we didn't we will pronounce. yes, but in fact, you know, i looked at the footage, but this social event. yes, and some such, kind arnold schwarzenegger, now in the prime of life, we will call it that way, we really are some. a kind smile there are such signs, because everything is cool. really. life is good dear, arnol. it's such a trademark, it's practically amazing. it looks like a childlike smile to me. well, the truth is, this is a thunderbolt, and there is so much kindness in it, straight. it's great. it's true, by the way, it's him stated that the artist must remain children. right there for the rest of your days. it definitely helps a lot creatively really. so we also decided to stay with olgovitskaya, and with the children, and in such a way, i don’t know even children’s and youthful delight. and notify you about everything interesting. and by the way, our colleague. we really bolenkova also hold the same opin

the times reports that the subpoena suggests that mr. smith is exploring whether there is any connection between mr. trump's dealmaking abroad and the classified documents he took with him when he left office? >> did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? >> not really. i would have the right to. by the way, they were declassified. >> what do you mean not really? >> not that i can think. of let me just tell you, i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. >> this weekend, a trump criminal defense lawyer gave an interview on television which donald trump called categorically false. donald trump made that statement through a spokesperson. attorney timothy -- announced last week that he decided to quit the trump criminal defense team. >> the real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be. in particular, there is one individual who works for him, boris epstein, who had really done everything he could to try to block us. to prevent

trump's former attorneys, mr. smithy smith, has also been asked to do a deposition, and has indicated that because he is possibly somewhere between a witness and a target of willis' investigation, he would be taking the fifth amendment during that deposition. so the plot thickens there, because that takes us -- that representation made by mr. smith's own lawyers to try to avoid a deposition in the civil case, that ruby freeman and shea moss brought, indicates that willis is looking at ray smith, an attorney for trump, as somebody who has relevant information and potentially has his own criminal culpability. so i know this can get confusing for people, because we're talking about intersections of civil cases and criminal cases, and people who have fifth amendment rights or seek to assert their fifth amendment rights, which we normally associate with a criminal case, because that's where the right of self-incrimination rises. but asserting those rights even in a civil case because of their concerns about their own crimina

so what did mr. smith say about this case? >> just to be clear, doctor, your opinion is that mr.away from the gate some ten feet from the gate? >> yes, that is correct. >> and that he fell to the ground on his back? >> that is correct. >> and then he was shot a second time, landing in this death position and those ones to the hand lined up perfectly? >> line up perfectly. >> the big mystery that, according to prosecutors was, why. why would joseph campbell have shot him in cold blood? well. do you remember that video of campbell taken by a hunting party in 2008? prosecutors played it for the jury, to show that campbell was not afraid to confront. and chase of anyone who prepared to cross his property. even when he was on outnumbered. >> you can see on the video he was not afraid of those hundreds. so to accept his story that he was terrified of tim newman? a man? a neighbor of his seems to not be plausible. >> they also cited another incident. >> your relationship with campbell, how would you describe that relationship? >> one word, miserable. >> and he looked up at me and he sai

mr. massie: what about you, chairman smith? mr. smith: yes, it will reduce spending without increasing taxes. i know the prior representative was talking about the president's budget that will reduce the deficit by $3 trillion. but in that same budget, the president increased -- >> we're leaving this here to honor our over 40-year commitment of live gavel to gavel coverage of congress. the u.s. house is coming back in on this tuesday to cover several financial services bills as well as a resolution calling on elected officials, faith leaders and civil society leaders to condemn and combat anti-semitism. live coverage here on c-span. >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 2792, the small entity update act, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2792, a bill to require the securities and exchange commission to carry out a study in rule making on the definition of the term small entity for purposes of the securities laws and for other purposes. the s

this is the legal filing obtained by cowboy state daily saying, quote here, mr. smiths the student -- langford by watching the members of the sorority house visibly with an erection. the national chapter of kappa kappa gamma are saying you're taking this person, he's going to live with you. the local girls in the sorority didn't have a choice. that's a problem. >> that is a big problem. as a mom of daughters who was once a young woman that went to college, this is the most uncomfortable situation. i can't even articulate how -- everyone says where's the safe space? where's the safe space, right? this is not a safe space for young women in the sorority. listen, i don't have any personal connection to this particular chapter of kappa kappa gamma. i do want to back it up and say how in the world did the national chapter have the wherewithal to offer this young man bid to join the group? it is wrong! it is not safe for women! it's a complete abandonment -- it's evidence of a complete abandonment of truth and reason in our society right now. >> trace: both my daughters are

. >> mr. smith, this administration wants to spend 87000 irs agents. are they going after unemployment insurance fraud? what is their main? >> the irs agents would be going after the taxpayers revenues. and clearly you can tell after the 1099k provision of the american rescue plan if anyone is spending more than $600 in k powered then monitor this with the irs agents are going to be going after. need to make sure every penny and any americans couch cushions are accounted for. not to go after billionaires it's clearly about working-class families in fact cbo came out and said that this would affect a lot of individuals under $75000 a year. >> are not that concerned about the billions spent on actual fraud that taxpayers time to pay for? what's mr. norman i believe it's having all of the lives and livelihoods of hard-working americans. >> the 5 billion i think is the number in here that has been covered so far, where's that money going? >> that would come back into the fund. but five and half billion dollars has been recovered. but the department of labo

not just a guy, mr. smith carries a gun. you gotta have the right training and protocols and all of that. we made tens of millions of dollars in investment in new hampshire around the hardening of our schools, right investing and safety. it isn't just met with some has a gun and a training or not. we have that of course. it's really about lockdown systems, communication, safe doors, all that sort of thing. those things can sound small but in the moment of the crisis they can be very big deals. we take that very seriously. >> teachers across the country don't necessarily want to be armed. they've been -- police groups they are not calling for more teachers to be armed. nor are first responders calling for more teachers to be armed. i'm calling that out as -- >> i'm not calling for more teachers to be armed and to say of school should have the ability to provide some type of resource officer. some type of safety protocols officer whether it's being armed or not. whatever they think is the right thing to do. if it's a teacher,