mr. reschenthaler: you hit it. we're the only nation that's signed on the paris climate agreement that reduced carbon emissions. we talk about carbon emissions, even if we reduce to zero which i don't think is possible in the mid-term, you still have china putting out 27% of the world's global emissions. what's worse is china is not reducing that. they're actually going to increase their emissions. on the front page of "the new york times" -- >> you can watch the rest of this on our website, c-span.org we take you live to the u.s. house of representatives. today an age discrimination bill is on the agenda. you're watching live coverage on c-span. get the number here -- 5763, the further surface transportation extension of 2021. here we are calling up another short-term extension of these programs. as i stated when the house took up the first extension on october 1, the house of representatives did its work last summer, which included a five-year authorization of surface programs, well in

mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress member napolitano, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will vote yes on h.r. 4089. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, i inform the house that ms. wasserman schultz will vote yes on h.r. 4089. the speaker pro tempore: and for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts seek recognition? ms. clark: as the member designated by mr. cooper, i inform the house that mr. cooper will vote yes on h.r. 4089. as the member designated by mr. keating, i inform the house that mr. keating will vote yes on h.r. 4089. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 379, the nays are 51. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the moti

mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 5434, the surface transportation extension act of 2021. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 5434, a bill to provide an extension of federal-aid highway, highway safety and transit programs and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio, and the gentleman from missouri, mr. graves, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 5434. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 5434, the surface transportation extension act o

mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. the september 21 post and courier of south carolina editorial analyzed the biden tax and borrow schemes. what would you call a neighbor who spent lavishly to redecorate his house but ignored the leaking roof? perhaps foolish, irrational or dumb. what about a congress who constantly enacts programs while programs have heavy devastating cuts? the treasury department issued the annual reports of the trustees for social security and chair that show that these trust fund programs are scheduled to run out of money. there are very serious fiscal problems but congress instead is focusing on legislation to expand entitlements, hurting their children in the long run while millions of elderly are thrown into poverty, end of quote. in conclusion, god bless our troops who

mr. cole: mr. chairman, i have an amendment. mr. mcgovern: mr. cole. mr. cole: first, i want to congratulate my friend from california for just getting through that. that was a long rule. but mr. chairman, i move that the committee strike from the rule the section that considers the senate amendment to house amendment to s. 1301 is adopted and provides for separate consideration under a closed rule. mr. mcgovern: i heard the gentleman's discussion. the voting is on the cole amendment. dr. burgess. mr. burgess: this is extremely important. i don't know people watching today really understands what's happening here. a lot of language is being said. we're passing an almost half a trillion dollar expansion of the debt limit with no further debate, no further input from anyone on the majority or minority. mr. chairman, you referenced about a manufactured crisis but i don't know. watching this weekend and watching the plan pan plea of manufactured crisis by this administration -- the border with my state and a major country and ally, mexico is in shambles and yo

mr. bannon, who worked at the white house in the early months of the trump presidency, was claiming executive privilege to avoid appearing before the committee. a vote by the full house to hold mr. bannon in contempt could come later this week, requiring a simple majority. >> the select committee to investigate the attack on the capitol welcome to order. the select committee is meeting this evening to consider a report on a resolution recommending the house find stephen kay bannon and contempt of congress for refusal to comply with the subpoena issued by the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess. i recognize myself for opening statements. let me start by saying it gives me no joy that i was forced to call this meeting. my colleagues feel the same way i think. the expectation of this committee is that all witnesses will cooperate with our investigation. witnesses who h

mr. disbref mr. jeffries: as the member designated chairwoman eddie bernice johnson, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that chairwoman johnson will vote yea on h.r. 41111. melgd chairwoman zoe lofgren, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that chairwoman lofgren will vote yea on h.r. 4111. as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote yea on h.r. 4111. as the member designated by congressman brendan boyle, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that congressman boyle will vote yea on h.r. 4111. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. lori trahan of massachusetts, i inform the house that mr. tray -- mrs. trahan will vote yes on h.r. 411, the sovereign debt on track capacity act. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia with the massachusetts accent seek recognition? mr. connolly: as

mr. schiff. >>aye. clerk: mr. aguilar. mr. murphy. this to rest in. mr. raskin. mr. kinzinger, aye. chairman, you are not recorded. mr. thompson: i vote aye. clerk: mr. chairman, aye. mr. thompson: the corporal report the vote. clerk: there are 9 ayes, zero nos. mr. thompson: the motion is agreed to. vice chair is recognized. ms. cheney: pursuant to a clause and rule, i request members have two calendar days to file with the clerk of the committee supplemental or additional views on the measure recorded by the committee tonight. mr. thompson: so ordered. without objection, staff is authorized to make any necessary technical or conforming changes to the report to reflect the actions of the committee. there being no further business, without objection, the select committee stands adorned. [gavel pounds] >> i would say what we just saw was a unanimous bipartisan determination by the january 6 select committee to ensure that our subpoenas are observed.

mr. pallone: i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 4369 national centers of excellence in advance and continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing act, asallieded. the clerk: union calendar number 111 a bill toll amend the 21st century cures act to provide for designations of institutions that provide leadership on continuous manufacturing as national centers of excellence and continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuan t to the rule, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, and the gentleman from kentucky, mr. guthrie, each will control 20 minutes. mr. pallone: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and stepped their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 4369. and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized mr. pallone: my colleagues and i on the energy and commerce committee have worked to invest and support am

>> mr. speaker the commitment of the government to bring forward that package remains on gemini when it went to deny the gentleman his anticipation and excitement, but he won't have long to wait. >> mr. speaker, on another important commitment on abortion we are clear the cycle of inaction must and. it is a serious matter that the legal obligation is is still being ignored so with the commissioner can serve a report in the guardian that the attention struck commission services. will that require legislation and when will he act? >> mr. speaker as the honorable lady will know he will be delighted to talk to her. >> order. i would like to point out the british sign language interpretation proceeding for the questions in the statement will be able to watch-- [inaudible] i think it's important that people should be able to listen about what we are providing and now the questions and answers from the chancellor's checker will be available to watch on parliament live tv. the question to the prime

mr. thompson: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote no on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. graves, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. graves will vote yes on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? mr. lynch: geeng, mr. speaker. as the member designated the honorable mr. james langevin of rhode island, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. langevin will vote no on the motion to adjourn. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? it -- >> as the member designated by mr. fallin of texas, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. fallon will vote yes on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. jeffries: as the member designated

mr. lynch: good afternoon, madam speaker. as the member designated by the honorable mrs. lori trahan of massachusetts, and pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mrs. trahan will be voting yes on the en bloc amendment number 1 offered by the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on the amendments en bloc number 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. jacobs: i inform the house that mr. kahele, i inform the house that mr. kahele will vote yes on amendments en bloc number 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. kelly, i inform the house that mr. kelly will vote no on en bloc number 1. the speaker pro te

mr. davis: mr. chairman, i now yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. davis: the covid-19 pandemic hit all of our communities hard but for vulnerable use in foster care, it was terrifying. especially for those youth approaching the age of independence at which they lose access to the support that faster care provide, my good friend and i teamed up last year to provide states with flexibility and funding to help these youth. we hoped and expected the pandemic would be over by now and these youth would be back on track getting an education, starting jobs and finding a place to live and establishing independent lives. the pandemic hit hard. to the current foster youth that reached out to our colleagues to share their stories, we hear you. and we are committed to continue to respect the lessons of your lived experiences in foster care. the legislation we are considering today, the continued state flexibility to assist older foster youth act wil

mr. thune: mrs. miller? mrs. miller: yes, sir. mr. thune: how about the article that detail how tiktoking a gore rhythms serves up drugs and sex to minors? mr. beckerman: thank for you the question. sex and drugs are violations of our guidelines and have no place on tiktok as it relates to "the wall street journal" article we disagree with that being an authentic experience an actual user would have. mr. thune: your platform is more driven by algorithms than any other platform today, more so even than facebook and unlike facebook tiktok is not constrained by a user's social net york. on july 2020 tiktok's former c.e.o. kevin meyer wrote, quote, we believe all companies should disclose their algorithms and data flows to regulators, end quote. tiktok states on its website it makes tiktok source code available for guessing and evaluation to guess at its transparency and accountability center. has tiktok disclosed their algorithms and data flows to any federal or state regulators? mr. beckerman: nor, yes. as we pointed out we have these t

. >> mr. speaker, reaffirmed by our 25-year environmental plan, the government is committed to sustainable -- and it is a principle of maximum sustainable yield. and, of course, she'll be pleased that we are also helping industry to reduce the adverse impacts on marine environment and adapt to climate change. >> [inaudible] >> only 13 of the g20 nations have committed by law, does the prime minister expect all to commit by law at -- >> mr. speaker, i would like every country to set forward with a target. it's now 80% and, of course, of course, we need those -- [inaudible] >> we now come to the questions of the prime minister. but before -- but what i would like to point out that the british sign language interpretation of this proceedings is available to watch on live tv. we now start with questions to the prime minister. rachel. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> prime minister. >> mr. speaker, i have a meeting with might ministerial colleagud others later today. >> [inaudible] >> both tragically

mr. >> mr. desaulnier. ms. ross. >> no. >> mr. neguse. no. >> mr. cole, mr. coal aye. >> mr. burgess. eye. >> mrs. fischbach. >> absolutely yes. mr. chairman. >> no. the clerk will report the total. the motion is not agreed to. let me just say before i go to our panelists here today. i'm a little puzzled because usually in the rules committee the complaints we hear from the minority is that the package before us is already finalized and that there is no opportunity for change. what we are doing here, by the way it is the light of day. it's 3:00. i think it may be cloudy out but it's still the light of day, what we are doing here today is i think is actually a good and healthy thing. we are having a discussion and we are talking about the details of a very important bill which, by the way, i think will be transformative and help a lot of my constituents. but help a lot of people across the country, who by the way, have been neglected for far too long. and we can talk about the good and what people have problems with. and there is still opportunities and chances for change. so

mr. cole: ok. mr. neal? mr. neal: same position. most of the things we'd be discussing cropped out of the bill -- dropped out of the bill. ms. foxx: i haven't heard from the chairman if we might meet again through best -- again but there's definitely a major change on the effect on proprietary colleges and the significant number of people that they serve. as i said, veterans, primarily minority, and working people. and i think it would be very helpful if we had a discussion of that. but i haven't heard of anything. mr. smith: i have requested with the chairman of my committee to recop veen and modify the rules of reconciliation to give them the opportunity to increase the debt limit and to make sure that they have all the tools available. so would love for that to happen so we don't turn into another crisis in december. >> mr. cole, i believe it would be very helpful for the energy and commerce committee to reconvene. we marked up 16 titles within a three-day period. that is extraordinary. just huge changes within policy. we were gi

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, let me remind my good friend that the compromise we are votinon was designed by republican leader, mitchcconnell. it's not what i wanted. i wanted to get this out of the way, make it longer, quite frankly. we weren't lurching from one deadline to another. i also say to my friend own the -- on the rules committee, that it is a little bit hard for us to stand over here and to listen to some of my republican colleagues complain, because what we are doing here is we are paying for the bills that donald trump and the republicans accumulated. i didn't like the tax cut that my friends forced through. by the way with no democratic support or consultation. it added trillions to our debt. but we have to pay for it. my republican friends went tout to a fancy restaurant, drank champagne, and ate caviar before paying paying the bill and now they want us to take the responsibility for paying their bills. you know what we have some experience in cleaning up the messes that have been left be

mr. thompson: by direction of the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol, i call up house resolution 730 and ask for its immediate. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 730, resolution recommending that the house of representatives find steven k. bannon in contempt of congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 727, the resolution is considered read and shall be debatable for one hour equally divided among and controlled by the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson, the gentlelady from wyoming, ms. cheney, and an opponent or their respective designee. the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson, the gentlewoman from wyoming, ms. cheney, and the gentleman from alabama, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognize

mr. schiff: mr. swalwell. mr. swalwell: i think the most urgent and important issue facing the work force today are the terrorizing attacks happening globally which are referred to as anomalous health i want dent -- incidents. i guess my first question, director burn, considering we are not doing this to our own people, they are not doing this to themselves, public reports suggest they're happening in an escalating fashion worldwide. can we stop calling them incidents and call them attacks? mr. burns: well what i know, congressman, having talked to dozens a dozens of my colleagues who have been victimized is that real harm is being done to real people and we take each report very seriously, i know all my colleagues do across the intelligence community. i think we worked very hard to improve care. the care that our officers and sometimes their family members deserve. we have mounted and extraordinarily vigorous effort to get to the bottom of the ke question of who and what may be causing these as well. we're going

mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress member napolitano, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will vote yes on h.r. 3110. mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress member vela, i inform the house that congress member vela will also vote yes on h.r. 3110. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, thank you. as the member designated by mr. nehls, i inform the house that mr. nehls will vote nay on h.r. 3110. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? mr. stanton: as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, i inform the house that mrs. kirkpatrick will vote yes on h.r. 3110. and as the member designated by mr. huffman, i inform the house that mr. huffman will vote yes on h.r. 3110. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by michele stelle, i

mr. speaker. i welcome the 866 northern project. this 1 billion-pound investment will improve safety and congestion and help the level of our region supporting jobs and tourism, but we have to get the project right. will my right honorable friend asked the department to transport the minimum-- ministry of defense to work together pragmatically and recently with amendments to ensure local community are not left blighted. >> mr. speaker, he is right that the development he refers to, infrastructure revolution, but he's also right that we should consider local feedback from stakeholders in the community when finalizing the design. >> the leader of the opposition is isolating so i'm calling into question-- [inaudible] thank you just like the old days >> i presume-- he's delaying it. >> one time only. >> mr. speaker we all need to deliver next week because failing to limit global warming 5 degrees will have devastating consequences. that sentiment is shared across this house appeared does the

mr. schumer: for the information of members, i have a brief statement. i have some good news. we have reached an agreement on an extension of the debt ceiling through early september, and it's our hope that we can get this done today. -- early -- what did i say? september has passed already. let me revise my statement. madam president, we have reached agreement -- we have reached agreement to extend the debt ceiling through early december, and it's our hope that we can get this done as soon as today. i yield the floor. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the minority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: republican and democratic members and staff negotiated through the night in good faith. the senate is moving toward the plan i laid out yesterday to spa

mr. bannon and mr.mp's privilege arguments do however appear to reveal one thing. , they suggest president trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of january 6. and this committee will get to the bottom of that. let me add one further thought for my republican colleagues. we all agree america is the greatest nation on the face of god's earth. truth, justice, and our constitution have made america great. almost every one of my colleagues knows in your heart that what happened on january 6 was profoundly wrong. you all know that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud sufficient to have changed the results of the election. you all know that the dominion voting machines were not corrupted by a foreign power. you know these claims are false. yet former president trump repeats them almost daily. he has now urged republicans not to vote in 2022 and 2024. this is a prescription for national self-destruction. i asked i colleagues -- my colleagues to please consider the fundamental

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mr. bennet, in your -- mr. bennett, you talk about the results and other things, not just the numbers. envelope affidavits, missing serial numbers, matching duplicate ballots of the originals. you also talked in your testimony about a lack of cooperation or willingness for the local board of election officials to work to get these answers. did you get any answers how many numbers were looking at missing or unmatched signatures, missing serial numbers, voting abnormalities? mr. bennett: i would say the audit did not receive those answers but the audit report has gone to the senate. the senate has forwarded that to the state attorney general, who i think is going to be working through his election integrity unit directly with the county to get answers to those questions. for example, i believe the county reported that they rejected about 1400 envelopes for lack of signatures of a subcontractor. they thought there could be as many as 3500 to 4000 either missing signatures or just scribbles. those kinds of things w

mr. graves: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i think everybody in this body wants an infrastructure bill. we all want to see better roads and bridges. we want to see more sustainable, resilient communities. mr. chairman, this bill, about half of it actually is money for infrastructure. about halving -- about half. we've been able to cut red tape, break logjams. projects, mr. speaker, dates back to before i was born, we've been able to work through all of the obstacles and impediments and get the authorization in place and get them funded. this bill doesn't give us a fair shot and let me explain. mr. speaker, in the law today, it describes the criteria for how dollars are supposed to be handed out under various grants programs. the secretary of transportation came out and ignored all of that and invented his own new criteria for climate change, for racial equity, and for environmental justice. i don't have problem with those objectives. what does it have to do with transportation? when we saw it applied for the first tim

mr. horowitz: mr.ers: every inspector general faces that and the integrity committee as well in terms of the weaponnization of complaints. we have a process for it and particularly in the pandemic we have a lot of complaints coming in. soat basically is this a valid complaint that alleges some form of wrongdoing that's actionable and from a committee's perspective, whether or not there's person. for a typical complaint that comes in, say, for example, to nasa when i was there or amtrak, we have a specific section that does that, that has a sifting process that assesses the facts versus the criteria of whether something is actionable or not. : we want get your testimony of subpoena power to make sure no one can just retire and avoid a pursuit on this. we talked about trying to get to succession is it we need to get inspector we've spoken frequently about how to get more inspectors general, that they just don't appoint a inspector general and leave it open for a long time and becomeseems don't know about

mr. biggs so he can keep the government out of the laws of arizona. >> this for vice chairman gates and chairman sellers. i'm trying to understand because we have some of thematic thing i'm trying to understand how the auditors, whether they are the auditors you hired or those that work for the state senate how were they able to do new type of validation of the 2020 republicans if the data base was cleared before they got started? >> that is something that i would prefer if we can provide a follow-up answer to you on that. but this was all available and i believe there may have been a public records request. i'm not sure if there was on that. but -- >> you cleared the servers and you backed them up to the archive you said. just to containing slightly, auditors hired by y'all to do the audit there were not f.t.c. certified forensic auditors. they were -- >> they are certified to operate on these machines. they are from voting system laboratories. >> but they are not certified auditors beca

mr. becker man? mr. beckerman: likes, we appreciate your efforts and the work you have done to promote and to spur competition. that is something that we all benefit from as it relates to specific challenges we face, i would be happy to discuss in detail those issues. sen. klobuchar: thank you very much. thank you, everybody. >> senator, i found the answer. if you don't mind. we've reviewed over a million videos since we started rolling out covid misinfo and over 130,000 videos as it relates to vaccine misinformation. it is an area we put a lot of effort behind. thank you. sen. klobuchar: ok, thank you. thanks, everybody. >> thank you, senator klobuchar. i seem to be the last person standing or sitting and i do have some questions. ms. stout and mr. beckerman, over 10 million teens use your app. these are extremely impressionable young people and they were a highly lucrative market. and you've immediate tense of, probably hundreds of millions from them. there is a term snapchatdysmorphia. kids use the fi

mr. raskin aye. mrs. luria. >> aye. >> mr. kinzinger. >> aye. >> mr.r. chairman, you are not recorded. >> i vote aye. >> mr. chairman, aye. >> the clerk will report the vote. >> mr. chairman, on this vote there are nine ayes, zero no's. >> the motion is agreed to. the vice-chair is recognized. >> mr. chairman, pursuant to clause 2 l of rule 11, i request that members have two calendar days to file with the clerk of the committee sub mental or additional views on the measure order reported by the commit tonight. >> so ordered. without objection, staff is authorized to make any necessary technical or conforming changes to the report to reflect the actions of the committee. there being no further business, without objection, the select committee stands adjourned. >> and that is a wrap. the committee adjourns. nine members unanimously vote to favorably recommend that the house of representatives vote through contempt charges against steve bannon. the members of the committee, who you saw, bennie thompson, for mississippi, who was the chair, zoe lofgren of

mr. clyde, is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. it's no secret that this country bases an uphill battle to restoring in our election. democrats claimed that republicans didn't win races in 2000, and repeat the big lie that russia stole the election and that repeated for five years. and now they're looking at those that dare ask in the election process. when do we stop pointing fingers and carry out our duty to ensure our constituents can trust our elections verifying that all of those are legal and cast by eligible voters. building trust does not start by harassing a private company doing a job that it was contracted to do. nor does it start by violating the 10th amendment or rule of law by stepping in with the feds know best attitude. the federal government does not and should not have a stay how the state of arizona carry out its elections or prohibit from carrying out an audit on the election law or destroying trust at the polling booth. we need less federal involvement in our ele

mr. clyde is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. it's no secret this country faces an uphill battle in restoring integrity in our elections. the democrats claim republicans did not win races fairly in 2000 and again in 2004. and since 2016 we've listen to the left repeat the big lie that russia stole the election. that lie has been repeated now for almost five years. now those same voice are simply beside themselves that republicans would dare ask for integrity in our election process. so the question is when do we stop pointing fingiers and start carrying out our duty to ensure our constituents with trust our election? building trust starts with steps. building trust does not start by harassing a private company doing a job it was contracted to do. nor does it start by violating the tenth amendment, federalism and the rule of law by stepping in with the feds know best attitude. the federal government does not and should not have a say over how the state of arizona carries out its elec

mr. bennet, in your -- mr. bennett, you talk about the results and other things, not just the numbers. envelope affidavits, missing serial numbers, matching duplicate ballots of the originals. you also talked in your testimony about a lack of cooperation or willingness for the local board of election officials to work to get these answers. did you get any answers how many numbers were looking at missing or unmatched signatures, missing serial numbers, voting abnormalities? mr. bennett: i would say the audit did not receive those answers but the audit report has gone to the senate. the senate has forwarded that to the state attorney general, who i think is going to be working through his election integrity unit directly with the county to get answers to those questions. for example, i believe the county reported that they rejected about 1400 envelopes for lack of signatures of a subcontractor. they thought there could be as many as 3500 to 4000 either missing signatures or just scribbles. those kinds of things w

mr. himes: thank you. mr. chairman, i yield back. mr. schiff: mr. turner. mr. turner: thank you for being here. director haines, i want to thank you for your references to historically black colleges and universities. i happen to be co-chair of the historically black colleges caucus and serve on the inclusion caucus we passed a number of bills in the national defense authorization act relating to coordination between the department of defense and historically black colleges and universities for internship, mentor, recruiting and as was discussed in many of your comments, to get people clearance while in school in order to give them a leg up to get positions. i have four pages of questions i'm going to ask from the d.o.d. representatives about the implementation of those laws and then the request to the rest of the i.c. as to how they can look to administratively, perhaps, implement some of these recommendations and i'm going to submit that for the record. i want to show my support for the ranking member's questions concerning michael ellis. i too received, from