mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise to offer my amendment that utilizes the holman rule to recuse the salary of secretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis ken beneath wane steyn. in 2020 he claimed this president donald trump's leadership was a threat to the rule of law and endorsed joe biden for president of the united states. i'll tell you what the threat to the rule of law blatantly violating federal immigration law and intentionally facilitating a complete and total invasion at our southern border. i'll tell you what's a threat to the rule of law, refusing to cooperate with state and local law enforcement officials as required under section 287-g of the immigration and nationality act. i'll tell you, mr. chairman, what is a threat to the rule of law. pursuing a radical open border agenda purposefully and willfully circumventing every safeguard, check, and balance required by law. allowing terrorists and deadly drugs like fentanyl to freely flow into our great country. this administration has

mrs. boebert: mr.hair, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 47 printed in part d of house report 118-216 offered by mrs. boebert of colorado. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 723, the gentlewoman from colorado, mrs. boebert, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from colorado. mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. chair. i rise today to offer my amendment that utilizes the rule to reduce the salary of u.n. ambassador to $1. ms. thomas greenfield has been entrusted with representing the united states on the world stage and has done a terrible job. she made the decision to allow the u.s. to rejoin the anti-semitic united nations human rights council, which routinely ignores some of the world's most -- worst atrocities and grants membership to countries with egregious human rights violations. giving countries like china, russia, cuba, venezuela, pakistan and somalia an international

mrs. boebert of colorado. the chair: the gentlewoman from colorado, mrs. boebert and a member opposed, the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from boebert. mrs.boebert: shoba shiva practice sad. and it is staffed with people that literally want to abolish the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement arch agency whose mission is to protect america from the cross border crime and illegal immigration that threaten. the woman that leads d.h.s.'s office for civil rights and civil liberties once said that illegal immigrant felons convicted of murder and rape shouldn't be eligible for deportation soley because of their crimes. let me repeat that. she believes that illegal immigrant felons convicted of murder and rape should not be deported. she has advocated for purging the term illegal immigrant and tried to humanize to allow mass illegal immigration. this bureaucrat has pursued pro-policies and helped immigrants that should have been difficult ported. she is enabling and supporting the biden border crisis. since joe biden took office, more than 6 million aliens ha

mrs. boebert: madam chair, i yield the gentleman one minute. mr. harris: madam chair, the thrifty food plan, this is the political appointee who decided that the snap benefits weren't enough, that they deviced a new food plan used as a vehicle to just increase the snap benefits. the bottom line is we're spending over $100 billion a year and have a $2 trillion deficit. we should re-evaluate that increase in the thrifty food plan that resulted in a double-digit increase in snap benefits, and what this amendment does is sends a clear signal to the administration this probably wasn't a well thought out idea. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the chair recognizes the gentlelady from colorado. mrs.boebert: i offer my amendment that utilizing the rule to reduce the salary of the food and nutrition services of the department ofagriculture to $1 dollar. as the deputy for food nutrition and consumer services at usda, mrs. dean has spent her career helping bureaucrats to gut requirements for aibled-bodied adults and by

mrs. boebert, of course. mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. neguse. with all of this, of course this administration is going to make it a shutdown as painful as possible. we've already heard that the president is willing to fund ukraine but not certain parts of our federal government. will not puz funding for ukraine. that's what's been reported in some arias. and i understand the tactic of my colleagues on the other side to really, let's allow that pain to set in. by pulling on the heart strings of the american people. and saying oh look at how awful they're being to you because they want process and want you to feel this well if you are concerned with the paychecks of our border patrol agents and alike, if you are truly concerned and putting that on us for a potential possible short-term, short time shutdown, my question to you is, are you willing to vote in favor of our homeland security bill that does provide our border patrol agents with a paycheck? are you willing to vote no to end their paiblgs or would you come on board and support that and he

mrs. boebert and amendment number 49 and 50. amendment number 58 by ms. hageman of wyoming. amendment 63 by mr. burchett of tennessee. the chair will reduce to two minutes the maximum time for any electronic vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 8 by the gentleman from arizona, mr. crane, on which further proceedings were postponed. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8 printed in part d of house report 118-216 offered by mr. crane of arizona. the chair: a request for a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited

mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. chair. there is nothing hateful about truth. do i urge my colleagues to support my amendment -- i do urge my colleagues to support my amendment to defend our nation. i look forward to this holman rule being utilized to reduce the salary of secretary sean skelly, assistant secretary of defense for readiness to $1. thank you, mr. chair. i yield. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. ms. mccollum: well, i'm just baffled here that we can pick and choose what science, what's not science, what is human rights and dignity and respect and what is not human rights and dignity and respect. i look forward to having a discussion on climate change based on science with the gentlewoman from from colorado at some point in time. with that, mr. speaker, at this point i thank all our service men and women for their service. their families that serve alongside them. i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the

mrs. boebert cut you off that it was early and mr. biden hadn't been linked at this point. i think that's true. he's not been linked to any of these allegations that have been raised. i did want to talk about a couple of them specifically. with respect to the prosecutor issue, the removal hoff prosecutor general shokin. a couple of points on that front. key one i think is that the removal of shokin was actually detrimental to hunter biden and burisma. it was pretty clear based on statements and testimony that's been given here in the house before these committees and other instances that he was not doing a great job, to say the least. he was sitting on the investigation. he wasn't moving it forward. i think there's been statements that have been made with respect to the imf pressuring to have him removed by threatening to withhold $40 billion in international assistance unless he was removed. the president's request to have him removed along those lines was consistent not only with what he pushed for or the imf pushed for but what others were pushing for as well, including

mrs. boebert, of course. mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. neguse. with all of this, of course this administration is going to make it a shutdown as painful as possible. we've already heard that the president is willing to fund ukraine but not certain parts of our federal government. will not puz funding for ukraine. that's what's been reported in some arias. and i understand the tactic of my colleagues on the other side to really, let's allow that pain to set in. by pulling on the heart strings of the american people. and saying oh look at how awful they're being to you because they want process and want you to feel this well if you are concerned with the paychecks of our border patrol agents and alike, if you are truly concerned and putting that on us for a potential possible short-term, short time shutdown, my question to you is, are you willing to vote in favor of our homeland security bill that does provide our border patrol agents with a paycheck? are you willing to vote no to end their paiblgs or would you come on board and support that and he

mrs. boebert. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from colorado is recognized for two minutes. mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the chairman for yielding me this time. i rise to oppose the motion to instruct conferees to not include my colleague, representative ronny jackson's amendment, in the fiscal year 24 ndaa. it's a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars to circumvent state laws and violate the decades old partisan -- bipartisan hyde amendment. it is clear that joe biden and lloyd austin's department of defense is more focused on appeasing the woke mob of pink hat wearing feminist that focusing on keeping our nation safe. this is the same d.o.d. that surrendered to the taliban, costing the lives of 13 brave service members. this is the same d.o.d. treating our military like a woke social experiment. and this is the same d.o.d. the house will vote to fund later this week. the department of defense should be focused on readiness and lethality. not spending taxpayer dollars to kill the lives of innocent unborn babies. we are not going to give up on this cause that is r

mr. timmons voted aye. >> ms. boebert has voted aye. >> mr. chairman? mr. chairman? >> how am i recorded? >> mr. fallon has voted aye. >> mr. chairman, parliamentary inquiry. there is a motion to close the vote and it was properly seconded. >> will the clerk call the roll? >> mr. chairman, on this vote the ayes are 20, nays are 19. >> motion passes to table the raskin motion. i'm pleased to welcome an expert panel of witnesses who each bring experience and expertise to today's hearing. i would first like to welcome professor jonathan turley, the shapiro chair for public interest law at george washington university law school. he is a nationally recognized legal scholar published work in areas from constitutional law and legal theory. next ms. eileen o'connor, former assistant attorney general tax division. as former assistant attorney general she supper fivesed d.o.j. litigation of civil, criminal, trial and appellate tax cases. next we have mr. bruce, the founder of a consulting company, a forensic accountant. 40 years of investigative and dispute consulting and tes

mrs. -- ms. boebert boebert. >> thank you to the witnesses for being here today. i'm from eagle county two. principle deputy director colder 50% of his federal lands and 90% of the blm to a 45 million acres are located in western rural committees. consequently this rule will negatively impact rural america particularly urban areas. why didn't blm breathe public on this rule in denver away from our most rules actually are? >> thank you for the question congresswoman congress on it. i'm glad to get the opportunity as someone who was that out all of the public information session as well as additional briefings we have been doing. >> i'm short on time and i would just like to know was why was held in denver. >> we help three sessions in three areas where we felt a lot of people would be working. >> where were those areas? >> 3 information sessions were held in denver colorado, albuquerque, new mexico and nevada. >> denver is a very urban area and my rural area in the colorado district is impacted the most by this and you chose to have that meeting in person in denver

mr. turley's comments and i think you are saying before ms. boebert cut you off it was early that mr.idene hadn't been linked t this point. i think that'spr true and he hasn't been linked to any of these allegations. i want to talk about a couple of them specifically. with respect to the prosecutor issue, the removal of prosecutor general shogan a couple of points i want to makee on that front. a key one i think is at the removal wasn't detrimental to hunter biden because it was pretty clear based on statements in the testament that's been given here in the house before this committee in other instances that he was not doing a great job to say the least. he was sitting on the investigation and he wasn't movingor it forward and i think the statement could have been made with respect to the imf, pressuring to remove by threatening to withhold $40 billion in international assistance because he was removed.ea president biden's request to have them removed along those lines was consistent not only with what he pushed for at the imf pushed for but where others are pushing for so including s

the general woman from colorado miss boebert is recognized for five minutes. i >> thank you mr.irman. postmaster general dejoy you talk about 90% of the nations by pollution receiving their mail and packages in three days or less. a portion of mail is delivered on time and rural areas in america? >> our overall standard of first-class mail to the service standards is 92% right now. >> those are pretty high numbers. i asked that because i've heard my constituents in rural america who are receiving service from the postal service. i know a lot of issues of them brought up today and we are working to get solutions to thank you so much for being here providing answers as we work through this. the struggles we are seeing our veterans and seniors not receiving important prescriptions in a timely manner and postal positions have been unfilled for long periods of time in local post offices have been closed or have had extremely limited hours. packages have been seen piling up in lobbies and some people did not receive a single piece of mail for three weeks in my district. we timed it in

bebert of colorado, 89 by boebert of colorado, 90 by good of virginia. 91 by good of virginia, 92 by good of virginia, 93 by good of virginia, 94 by good of virginia, 99 by mr. stauber of minnesota, 101 by miller of illinois, 102 by rosendale of montana. the chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time forlyny electronic vote after the first vote in the series. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment 76 printed in part f of house report 118-216 by the gentlewoman from indiana, ms. spartz, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 76 printed in part f of house report 118-216, offered by ms. spartz of indiana. the chair: those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. is off number having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage