mr. duncan. mr. speaker, how much time do we have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 21 minutes remaining. mr. garrett: thank you, mr. speaker. with that, i yield five minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. mr. gohmert: i thank my friend, mr. garrett, and it is important that we discuss what's been going on in iran. i recall, i was on active duty in the united states army back en president carter stood by and basically encouraged the taking out of the shah of iran. no prince, according to his own conduct, but he made a statement welcoming the ayatollah khomeini back to iran as what he called him, i believe it was a man of peace. he could not have been more wrong. there's been less peace because the ayatollah khomeini took over state government, a national government, and a powerful any time since world war ii. they have been the largest theyor of state terrorism, have, we've been told, probably provided most of the i.e.d.'s that have killed -- killed and maimed americans fighting for freedom in the middle east, esp

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mr. duncan, for five minutes. . mr. duncan: in today's "washington post" there is a major story on the front page of a style section about a young sarah, -- named sara, pull, she has a baby and job but fears she's be paying off loans until she ties. she had loans of $60,000 and now owes $69,000. she's quoted as saying i keep paying it's like pouring into a buck wet no bottom. for several years i have been speaking out about how harmful of the federal student loan program has become for many, many hundreds of thousands of students and families around this country. in may of 2015, i wrote an article for the washington examiner newspaper with ideas how to bring down the cost of college. in that article i quoted a hedge fund manager who wrote that we're graduating a generation of endentured students. ohio university economist wrote a book several years ago by led "going broke degree." in the february issue of chronicles magazine, i have another article and in there i say student loan debt in the united states is now $.48 ril

mr duncan smith is not saying anything explicit about who he thinks is responsible for the leak, buturces are saying responsible for the leak, but some sources are saying that the imprecations of this are favourable to the philip hammond view of the world, the chancellor's view, that the uk economy would be better off maintaining its position as close as possible to the eu and the single market. and whilst we will look at these forecasts and what they mean for business, one of the big retailers in the uk this morning, house of fraser, has been saying, we wa nt house of fraser, has been saying, we want a definite signal about what kind of brexit deal we are having. business wants to know what the deal will be and then they can plan. yes, indeed. and the fact that we have this analysis looking at such a wide range of potential outcomes is indicative of the fact that they will probably have to live with a certain amount of uncertainty for some time yet. it perhaps would have been useful if this analysis had contained some assessment of what the government's preferred option is. this ide

not polite even in diplomatic relations to do so so we demand respect for venezuela but we told mr duncan the truth about from this whether we left some material for. him to study some issues that he has no knowledge about and we believe we can open good channels of communication with this government and with the government in the future of course arguably you can't blame him i mean he had some information from the british embassy in caracas but he gets information like the british public and the public in nato countries from the media are you saying that c.n.n. b.b.c. the state mandated media here are you saying that they're journalists don't understand your country because they're stupid or because they are up again and more than the journalist the owners of this the shareholders of these companies they don't want venezuelan revolution to survive because we are threat ideological threat philosophical for it for the capitalist world for the neo liberal policies in the world so it's an aggression an integral aggression against our country and it has a media expression as well and we know

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not polite even in diplomatic relations to do so so we demand respect for venezuela but we told mr duncan the truth about venezuela we have some material for him to study some issues that he has no knowledge about and we believe we can open good channels of communication with this government and with the government in the future of course arguably you can't blame him i mean he had some information from the british embassy in caracas but he gets. information like the british public and the public in nato countries from the media are you saying that c.n.n. b.b.c. the state when dated media here are you saying that their journalists don't understand your country because this stupid or because they are up again and more than the journalist the owners of this the shareholders of these companies they don't want venezuelan revolution to survive because we are threat ideological threat philosophical for it for the capitalist world for the neo liberal policies in the world so it's an aggression an integral aggression against our country and it has a media expression as well and we know it's differ

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mr. duncan, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 3326, which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to increase accountability, combat corruption, and strengthen management effectiveness at the world bank. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from texas, mr. hensarling, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. waters, each will control 30 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. hensarling: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time. mr. hensarling: mr. chairman, i rise today in support of h.r. 3326, the world bank accountability act. frankly don't understand quite why every member is not rising in support of h.r. 3326. this is important legislation which is sponsored by my friend from kentucky, the chairman of the monetary policy and trad

we now proceed to congressman duncan hunter of california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm going to tie in with what chairman wittman's line of questioning was. in san diego -- six years ago or so i went to the lcs simulator, if you will, by 32nd street. it's the bridge of an lcs. it's a virtual environment. can walk around on it, see all the way around. i think it moves even. the water looks like it moves. it's a fairly realistic setup and it's cheap because it's not a real boat. i've also seen the lcs course, it's game-based learning, immersive virtual ship environment learning as well. use it for the engine plants in one of the lcss. i don't remember which. it works. it's game-based learning. it's new. all the kids do it. they know how to play an xbox, they know how to do this. so specifically, then, in light of the value of the lcs training program, how do you man on leveraging that type of thing where you don't have to go out for a year at sea, you can spend three weeks on the bridge of a ship like the one you're going to take over, you're going to be on the deck o

mr. trump made no mention of russia's supervision to the 2016 election but was overhead with jeff duncan talking about releasing a classified gop memo that alleges survey a lance abuses by the fbi, a move democrats say is meant to undermine the russia probe. >> don't worry. 100%. >> reporter: after that big hint he dropped on the state of the union floor last night, and with the state of the union out of the way, he face ace big decision about what to do with that memo. one of the other things that he is not going to be doing this week is taking his policies and his state of the union message out on the road. the president is not expected to do what a lot of previous presidents have done to reinforce their messages by going out into the country. he will remain for the most part close to washington. alisyn and chris. >> abby, thank you very much for all of that. let's bring in white house correspondent for the "new york times", maggie haberman. maggie, great to see you. let's start with what abby was just reporting. do you know why the president doesn't want to make this on the road and d

mr. trump made no mention of russia's supervision to the 2016 election but was overhead with jeff duncan talking about releasing a classified gop memo that alleges sur is have a lance abuses by the fbi, a move democrats say is meant to undermine the russia probe. >> don't worry. 100%. >> reporter: now, with that out of the way, the president is expected to make a decision about that controversial gop memo sooner rather than later, sources tell cnn. but what he won't be doing is taking his state of the union policies out on the road as previous presidents have done. the president has no plans to go out giving speeches as prior presidents have done in order to reinforce some of the messages that he pet out last night, alisyn and chris. >> abby, thank you very much. what did he say? what will it mean going forward? a couple of big brains, executive director of political programming mark preston. and cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. chris, what were your big takeaways in. >> number one, preston has an awesome title. director of political program stkphrg it changes 6t

mr. trump left te house chamber after the state union address, he seemed to assure republican representative jeff duncan of south carolina that he would make it public. s great to meet you. let'lease the memo. >> oh, yeah. oh, don't worry, 100%. >> yang: this morning, white house press secretary sarah sanders suggested on cnn that the release could take some time. >> we've said all along, from day one, that we want full transparency in this process. we haven't hidden that. but at the same timee still going to complete the legal and national security review. that has to take place before putting something out publicly. and that's the place where we are right now. >> yang: later, the f.b.i. issued a statement saying, "we ve grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy." sense of all of this, we are joined now by devlin barrett, who covers stice department and f.b.i. for the "washington post." thanks for j rning us. as yorted, deputy attorney general ready rosenstein and fbi director christopher ray were at the white house on monday to make their case in per

mr. drexel offered to the grants was modest in size, but had six rooms upstairs and a few rooms downstairs. been a smallally inn built by duncan macgregor. it was built to accommodate a resort, and the resort was expanded to the point where a 100 room hotel just above the cottage. the whole property was turned victorian wilderness resort, you could call it. mountaintop wilderness resort with overlooks and pathways. obviously wonderful air. there was one advertisement for the hotel that victorian wilders said, if we don't cure your hayfever, your stay is free. known and was seen as -- mountain air was seen as curative at the time. the day grant arrived, it was incredibly hot. his trip up was very difficult. once he got off the train and came up to the cottage, he immediately got changed, came back out on the porch, and the cool air of the mountains seemed to really revive him, and seemed to have a good effect on him right away. most importantly, he was able to be with his entire family here at the cottage. we will head into grant's bedroom. this is where grant would have come in from the outdoors. one thing you will notice is m

mr. shelby: i rise to pay tribute to a former staff member of mine, william d. duncan iii who dedicated over 20 years of his life's work to the united states senate. prior to his time on capitol hill he served as a naval officer and the commission on the assignment of women in the armed forces. bill received his juris doctorate from catholic university and a bachelor of arts degree from his home state, the university of wisconsin. in 1995, bill dunkey joined my staff to handle defense, foreign relations and judiciary policy. he quickly revealed his high work ethic and innate ability to thrive when tasked with the most challenging of assignments. after swiftly climbing the ladder in my office, bill became my staff director and general counsel when i chaired the senate intelligence committee. and later the senate banking committee, where he was a general counsel and staff director. he also served as my staff director when i was ranking member of the senate appropriations committee when the democrats were in control. as a former flight, naval flight officer, bill always b

mr. drexel offered to the grants was fairly modest in size, but had six rooms upstairs and a few rooms downstairs. it had originally been a small inn built by the first owner of mountain, duncan mcgregor. it was moved to accommodate the thension of the resort in early 1880's and the resort was expanded to the point where was a 100-room hotel above the balmoral just the cottage. the whole property was turned into a big victorian wilderness resort, you could call it. mountaintop wilderness resort with wonderful overlooks and pathways. and obviously wonderful air. there was one advertisement for the balmoral hotel that said, if fever,t cure your hay your stay is free. so mountain air was seen as curative at the time. when grant and his party left of york city, on the morning june 16, 1885, grant was in very poor condition. the day he arrived, it was incredibly hot on his trip up very difficult. although once he got off the train and came up to the cottage, he immediately got changed, came back out on the porch, and the cool air of the mountains seemed to really revive him, and seemed to have a good effect on him right away. most importantly, he was able to be with his entire fam