>> as the member designated by mr. smith, i inform the house that mr. smith of washington will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. gomez will vote yes, mr. gomez will vote yes. >> as the member designated by dr. dunn of florida, i inform the house that dr. dunn will vote yes on h.r. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. demings, i inform the house that mrs. demings will vote yea on h.r. 4489. as the member designated by mr. crist, i inform the house that mr. crist will vote yea on h.r. 44 # 9. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from georgia rise? mrs. greene: as the member designated by mr. hice of georgia, i inform the house that mr. hice will vote yes on h.r. 4489. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by ms. underwood, i inform the house that ms. underwood will vote yes on h.r. 4489. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> madam speaker, as the member design

mr. smith: thank you, madam speaker. here we are again, late at night, debating last-minute legislation needed to fix problems the current majority created. when considered alongside the ongoing covid pandemic widespread work force concerns and the cloud of uncertainty created by unnecessary vaccine mandates, it is clear the combined effects of upcoming medicare reimbursement cuts are a critical threat to our medical system. while i commend the efforts made over the last few days to draft solution which address the concerns of health care providers, instead of coming together to pass a bipartisan compromise we again find the majority attaching controversial, unrelated material to this bill. tonight, the majority has chosen to jeopardize urgent relief for health care provide wears political gimmicks relating to the debt ceiling and pay-go issues we saw coming from miles away. i'm disappointed to see yet another erosion of the rules and precedents of congress. i urge all members to oppose this bill and i yield back the bala

mr. smith: thank you, madam speaker. here we are again, late at night, debating last-minute legislation needed to fix problems the current majority created. when considered alongside the ongoing covid pandemic widespread work force concerns and the cloud of uncertainty created by unnecessary vaccine mandates, it is clear the combined effects of upcoming medicare reimbursement cuts are a critical threat to our medical system. while i commend the efforts made over the last few days to draft solution which address the concerns of health care providers, instead of coming together to pass a bipartisan compromise we again find the majority attaching controversial, unrelated material to this bill. tonight, the majority has chosen to jeopardize urgent relief for health care provide wears political gimmicks relating to the debt ceiling and pay-go issues we saw coming from miles away. i'm disappointed to see yet another erosion of the rules and precedents of congress. i urge all members to oppose this bill and i yield back the bal

now mrs. smithll her the truth because her representation was they wanted to turn themselves in and that they were on their way to do that. however, they didn't turn themselves in and we were told they were out of town except that yesterday morning they withdrew $4,000 from an atm in rochester hills, very close to where they could have turned themselves in with no evidence and no efforts on behalf of law enforcement. instead, they fled and sought multiple attempts to hide their location and were eventually tracked down after they parked their car somewhere, a witness saw it, and the entire fugitive apprehension team with multiple other law enforcement agencies went into a vacant building and searched it from top to bottom and these two individuals were found locked somewhere in a room hiding. these are not people that we can be assured will return to court on their own, and then lastly, pursuant to mcr 6.106 we also should consider or the court should consider whether or not they are members of the

mr. chris smith of new jersey, i inform the house that mr. smith will vote no on the ocasio-cortez amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. connolly: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. higgins of new york, i inform the house that mr. higgins of new york will vote aye on the owe kosio cortez -- ocasio-cortez amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. reschenthaler of the great commonwealth of pennsylvania, i inform the house that will be reschenthaler will be voting no on amendment number 25. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. brownley: as the member designated by ms. bass of california, i inform the house that ms. bass will vote yes on the ocasio-cortez amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. fleischmann: mr. speaker, as the

caller: yes, well, that was awesome you had mr. smith speaking. he is incredible.'m late daughter of a world war ii veteran who was an army navigator in the pacific. on one occasion i went to the world war ii memorial in d.c., and i went with my dear friend, whose father was a prisoner of war in germany, he fought in the european phase of world war ii. anyway, we show up and senator dole is there greeting people. i guess he did that several times a week, it became a passion for him to greet the visitors at the memorial, so i actually got to shake his hand. and just interact with him briefly. and he was so charming. and i miss that era of republicans. i was a longtime republican, longtime gone from the party. i guess you would call me a charlie baker republican. but there is no place for me in the party these days. but i miss that era of, of funny, compromising, decent and um, his marriage to misses dole, she is a force to be reckoned with in her own right. and i admired senator dole, i guess, more than anybody in public life. of all the icons, he was one of them. t

mr. smith of new jersey. i want to thank senator rubio from florida for working with the gentleman from massachusetts on finding a bipartisan and bicameral compromise to bring this important legislation to the floor. and mr. speaker, it is past time for this chamber and the congress to act to stop the chinese communist party from using american consumers to subsidize its brutality. preventing products made with slave labor from contaminating our market is long standing priority of u.s. trade. not just because it puts american manufacturers at a disadvantage but because the american values that we all share will not tolerate it. truly free trade cannot involve slave labor. but today, the c.c.p. is using the forced labor of uighurs and other minorities to help bank roll its genocide against those very same groups. the repression taking place right now in xinjiang is breathtaking in its scope and in its brutality. more than a million people have been locked in concentration camps, subjected to sur

uh, the owner put out a quote with the children with moles bucket i spoke with mr. smith in the past for dental deposits. he still just wants to meet with everyone united. somebody can go to school on the bush, but to call them a with a bit. it is a question. i didn't get them to thought him yet in you mean what get a at the norm. you know, you get it should wish to improve. that was to be cleaner. he, i think you them better to mike, you know, bite, i'm giving out like it's not as yet. right. you go to the house, you buy should be it. i wish it allocated support case you have to proceed with media where people do a deceptive media and oversee sort of feature so that the sure the put globally bureau forget the full shared clue but he's gone home. i little bit of july out please if roster mashini didn't get a response. me in that list that would be doable if we didn't by via the election ballot here. if someone was any other limited copy of the machine gun that was going to see, asked me to put the sticker with a little compromise that didn't that avoid with collection. yo

and probably this, mr. smith is trying to show it to his new master. then he's very compressed with them. he's very boring, is hearing what. ready ready they want. ready and just say we try to. ready find a . ready joint formation, john, thank you very much for your wishes on your time. you're not the international guy, math and journalist and former speaker of geneva parliament. thank you. thank you. thank you. now we have reached out to one of the main european authorities dealing with press freedom to get its position on the dispute. the overseas representative on freedom of the media told us our request will be considered as soon as possible . well, that's it for this hour. the cause report heading away just a few i'm, it's time we return in half an hour. will the latest join us again? oh, the join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. ah howdy, a max kaiser? this is the kaiser report. we are in mexico city, heading south to el salv

really cracks and that is the part with your background of books and reading and legislating with mr. smith goes to washington. it's a special place and then how w to trust and then to be what we are called as legislators and to get here in one of the things that we did with music modernization of how we deal with cloud computing but then to see that the value by everybody but then to be a congressperson but then to bring that up about during this time that we were dealing and stuff from a passionate side in my opinion was not helping anyone to get into it later. but also just looking around said if you are a legislator this is the point in that is that background to as you do something and not i be something and then to be critical of any particular person. and think how did i get here and then you think how? and then you want to help people being in the military with the national defense authorization act and that is the overseas contingency. in my opinion even being in the military really don't even have time to talk about the budget anymore. and then to increase the budget m and a membe

mr. smith. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 4996, the ocean shipping reform act. i thank mr. johnson, mr. garamendi, and others for joining me in raising the alarm back in march in a letter to the federal maritime commission about the empty container ships leaving american ports. this bill follows on that effort offering necessary reforms to federal regulations overseeing the ocean shipping industry in order to address problems like have been discussed. agriculture exports are critical to not only feeding the world but to the livelihood of the producers i represent in nebraska. we cannot do that if container ships leave american ports completely empty. this bill prohibits foreign ocean carriers from refusing u.s. exports unreasonably and gives the f.m.c. more tools to ensure these carriers are held accountable and to a high standard. trade only works if exports reach their des

mr. chris smith of new jersey, i inform the house that mr. smith will vote no on final passage of h.r. 5314. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. soto: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist, i inform the house that mr. crist will vote yea on h.r. 5314. >> as the member designated by ms. granger of texas, i inform the house that ms. granger will vote nay on h.r. 5314. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. sires, i inform the house that mr. sires will vote yes on h.r. 5314. as the member designated by mr. donald payne, i inform the house that mr. payne will vote yes on h.r. 5314. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from georgia seek recognition? mrs. greene: as the member designated by mr. hice of georgia, i inform the house that mr. hice will vote no on h.r. 5314. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas

smith. they knew we were planning to bring in mr. and mrs.hey knew we were in communication with them, contrary to what was presented in the media. your honor, they hired our office thursday. we are prepared to defend this case. they are absolutely taking this case seriously. they are devastated by the events in the oxford incident. this is not something being taken lightly by them or us, your honor. i agree with miss smith, $500,000 is not warranted in this case. the charges are very serious, but as the court is aware, they are allegations at this point. as miss smith stated, both clients are presumed innocent unless proven guilty, your honor, and from what we know, your honor, the facts aren't what was presented to the court and the public. i again echo what miss smith indicated. our clients are more than happy to have a gps tether, to be on pretrial service supervision. i am again requesting $50,000 or $100,000 bond. mr. crumbley as with mrs. crumbley is not a flight risk, he is not a danger to the community. there's no risk they're going

mr. smith, here are journalists. where gcr approaches overlapping and where do they diverge? >> well, he's writing the first draft, the journalism, the first draft of history. i think they are similar in the sense that, well, we have to do investigations. we have to think of things in terms of the story. those are alike. trying to think of some different -- >> i think that for me i was trying, i was not trained a historian but i was, i got my doctoral degree and trained by sociologist. while i'm not an academic, i was drinking the academy and so i think a lot about what rigorous research means and what it looks like and what it takes to do that. part of what i want to do with this book was take the best of the history that i read, take the best of long-form journalism and narrative journalism that i've read, take the best of the novelists and the poets that i've read, take the best and then put those things in conversation with real people. i kind of wanted to write a book of history that felt novelistic in which i was sort of the protagonist traveling through these different

we can spend the next three days beating up on joe manchin, who fancies himself mr. smithhington but he's really more of a senator payne in the character of that movie, who he thinks he is. but he has to decide for himself when he looks in the mirror what his integrity is. there's two fundamental problems here that have nothing to do with joe manchin. you have a coachable football team with a bunch of assistant coaches and a bunch of other players whose only play, whose only singular play was a post pattern to joe manchin, a player who didn't want to run the pattern, was reluctant to play the game and they defend that was their own play of the coach to get this done was somebody that had been telling them he didn't really want to run the play. yes, joe manchin should be held responsible but why is your only play dependent on a player who couldn't want to play. that's or first problem. they're still operating in washington, d.c., too many democrats in my view, as if we're still in the functional democracy, operating like we can 20, 30, 40 years ago. this is a new world we'r

refuse to stop speaking for a very long time, a little more like what was made famous in the movie mr. smith of a very long time being set aside for that real talking filibuster, then, the vote would go ahead and a 50-vote majority could pass the bill. so that happened yesterday. the actual plan, put forward by tim kaine, this is how we could do it. well today, nbc news reports that democrats held a special caucus meeting, all democratic senators were invited to know there to talk about moving ahead with this plan. for that meeting, this is interesting brought in not one, but two guys named marty and these martys are the world's basically two greatest known experts on how the rules of the senate works. one of the martys worked for senate republicans for decades, the other marty worked for senate democrats for decade, again, no one knows more about senate rules than these two senate staffers from both sides of the aisle. senate democrats talking through not just how important this is, and if they're going to do it, but how to do it. which is something, we've been watching grass grow all year

and that means room for a long talking filibuster with a mr. smithnd of event that would bring a lot of attention to voting rights if they do not do a carve out with the rule changes instead. >> jonathan alter and eugene robinson, thank you both for joining us tonight and happy holidays to both of you. >> same to you. >> thanks. >> thank, you thank you. coming up, one thing you might have noticed about most of the articles written about vice president kamala harris these days is that they rely on unnamed whispers instead of observable facts. our next guest david rothkopf took a close look at the vice presidents first year in office and in the headline of his article for the daily beast, he says, she's doing a great job but her story is not getting. out david rothkopf joins us next. oins u next h for weeks? now they can. downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load. and enjoy fresher smelling laundry. if you want

humpty dumpty back together again, but that leaves room even for a long talking filibuster with mr. smith of event that would bring a lot of attention to voting rights if they don't do the carveout and do a talking filibuster rule change instead. >> jonathan alter and eugene robinson, thank you for joining us tonight and happy holidays to both of you. >> same to you, lawrence. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, one thing you might have noticed about the articles written about vice president kamala harris these days is they rely on unnamed whisperers instead of observable facts. our next guest took a close look at the vice president's first year in office and in his headline for the daily beast, he says she's doing a great job but her story's not getting out. david roth cop joins us next. knows a moment this pure... ...demands a lotion this pure. new gold bond pure moisture lotion. 24-hour hydration. no parabens, dyes, or fragrances. gold bond. champion your skin. (vo) for fourteen years, subaru and our retailers have been sharing the love with those who need it most. no parabens,

the least, we can spend the next three days, beating up on joe manchin, he who fancies himself a mr. smithhington, but he is really more of a senator pain in that movie, in the character in that movie. who he thinks he is. he has to decide for himself, when he looks in the mirror, what his integrity. isn't he has to face the voters of west virginia. i think there's two fundamental problems here that have nothing to do with joe manchin. and the problem is, is that you have a coach of a football team, at the given analogy, a sports analogy, you have a coach of a football team, some assistant coaches, and a bunch of other players whose only play, only singular play, was a post pattern to joe manchin. a player who did not want to run the pattern. who is ripped into play the game, who made -- that was their only play, they're only play of the coach to get this done, was somebody that has been telling them, he didn't really want to run the play. and so the fault, yes joe manchin should be held responsible, but in the end, it's why is your only playing getting this done, dependent on a player, wh

like the way mr. smithg like voting rights. this speech that you gave tonight makes me think that you are calling for something new. that you are calling for a essentially a carve out for the filibuster. so that voting rights can pass with just a simple majority vote. this is a shift for you, isn't it? >> yes it is, because the foundation of voting rights is at stake. and part of what has really influence to me is just seeing this acceleration of measures of the state level. where they are working to take in administered elections and turning them into a partisan exercise. and if that happens, if we can't rely on our voting rights being counted and tallied and our election results carrying not about who winds but about making sure that the elections are just free and fair then we really are seeing the crumbling of the very foundation of our democracy. and that is the foundation on which everything else is built. >> that anecdote, that dystopian portrait that you laid out for your colleagues talking about ho

it is really true, mr. smith goes to washington, this is a special place. those of us succumb to washington, d.c. have a trust with those who went before. all the way from starting our country until now. we are called in legislatures. into ghetto. in one of the things that we did, criminal justice reform. the interesting on how we deal with computing and law enforcement read the big ideas to get those done. but to see that was not valued by everybody. it was not about legislating it was about being a congressperson. i think that for my background and i appreciate you it's interesting that you should bring that up. it's always got me during this time especially this very difficult time. we were dealing from a passionate side that was not in my opinion helping anyone. it was designed, will get into it later get out of present it that they didn't like but also looking around. why are we here. if your legislature and never have legislated, are we missing the point? from my perspective that is the background. i believe you came to do something, not be something.

it is really true, mr. smith goes to washington, this is a special place. those of us succumb to washington, d.c. have a trust with those who went before. all the way from starting our country until now. we are called in legislatures. into ghetto. in one of the things that we did, criminal justice reform. the interesting on how we deal with computing and law enforcement read the big ideas to get those done. but to see that was not valued by everybody. it was not about legislating it was about being a congressperson. i think that for my background and i appreciate you it's interesting that you should bring that up. it's always got me during this time especially this very difficult time. we were dealing from a passionate side that was not in my opinion helping anyone. it was designed, will get into it later get out of present it that they didn't like but also looking around. why are we here. if your legislature and never have legislated, are we missing the point? from my perspective that is the background. i believe you came to do something, not be something.

mr. kristen smith, the international hi representative to bosnia and herzegovina. thank you very much for talking to al jazeera. the pleasure i'd like to start by asking you, sir about the current political situation in the country. it has been described by many senior officials, both in the international community, the united nations, as well as actually regional figures as the most dangerous or the deepest crisis that the country has witnessed since the war ended in 1995. what is your assessments of the situation in bosnia right now? yeah, thank you. in detail situation, bernezi covina young. the is an a bet shape of these days. i have reported this some add to the secret a channel of united nations until the united nations security council in my re port where i referred especially to him and of the increase of his functionality and the state and inflammatory rhetoric which are probably could go beyond a chest rhetoric and that is the concern i have that, that reports that you mentioned there, mr. schmidt, which was presented to the united nations security counci

mr. smith, what about my thought that one of the most important -- i mean, there are not enough state troopers in the world to guard every election worker. so bearing that in mind, isn't the best solution for our leaders to tell the truth to their followers about the fact that 2020 and every election in history has been straightforward and honest and try to wean people from this idea that there's widespread massive voter fraud? >> not only are there not enough state troopers in the world to protect every election official, but there certainly aren't to protect their families as well. i think you're absolutely right in terms of the root or the core of the problem and that the solution normally to lies is to tell the truth. but that has only met with so much success. typically that would be the antidote, and i haven't seen that as being successful as i would like it to. and in addition i think it is really about removing motivations for elected officials to lie about elections. on the one hand, a

i also want to thank mr. smith as indicated by the speaker who has, from the time i have been in congress, has been his focus on human rights around the world. and as the speaker has indicated and as i indicated with mr. mccaul, you'll see coming up his other bills, we worked on collectively, leaving politics out of it. focused on leading the world. that's what i look forward to locking arms, sending that message around the world that we are not going to allow slave labor to flourish, to exist on this planet. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 1155, as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative -- for what purpose does the the gentleman from new york rise. >> recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-s of house resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause

now, mrs. smithto the point where they could have turned themselves in with no evidence and no efforts on behalf of law enforcement. instead, they fled and they -- [inaudible] multiple attempts to hide their location and were eventually tracked down after they parked their car somewhere, a witness saw it, and the entire fugitive apprehension team with multiple other law enforcement agencies went into a vacant building and searched it from top to bottom, and these two individuals were found locked somewhere in a room hiding. these are not people that we can be assured will return to court on their own. and then lastly, pursuant to mcr6.106, we also should -- the court should consider whether or not there are members of the community to vouch. there are. none here. in fact, there are none here because there are, there's not one person in that community that will vouch for these two defendants. so i'm asking that you set a $500,000 bond for both defendants -- [inaudible] >> let's, i'd like to hear from

. >>> we're back at 8:14 with one of our favorite series here at the "today" show mr. smithht a box of kleenex there's a place in america that really thinks bedford falls is a very real and genuine place. >> reporter: spend a little time in seneca falls, new york, this time of year and you'll begin to wonder if the town is having an identity crisis. >> hello, bedford falls! >> did you see the signs coming into town, there's a placard that goes over seneca that says bedford. >> reporter: the connection between seneca and bedford falls starts with a bridge movie fans remember jimmy stewart wondering if his life had been worth living. >> i suppose it would be better if i had never been born before. >> what happened here on this bridge in 1917. >> in 1917, a young woman came on the bridge and jumped he managed to get her close enough to shore where another gentleman lifted her from antonio's arms saving her, but antonio disappeared from sight. >> he was the angel. >> he was the angel. >> i'm your garden angel. >> frank had visited seneca ju. he managed to get her close enough to

(music throughout) >>> we are back with mr. smithss changing lives. >> she is logging a record breaking get this 1,000 wins this year and she is a towering figure to the athletes off the field, too harry, we've been looking forward to this story all morning long good morning >> good morning, kristen and pete eastern jacob good to be with you this morning. this is one of the stories people say how do you come up with this stuff? and my wife andrea joyce was at the u.s. open this past fall somebody comes up to her and says you should tell your husband about this field hockey coach in pennsylvania. and the next thing you know, we were driving westward to meet this once in a lifetime coach. >> reporter: late fall a cold night and the field hockey team for the high school is in a familiar spot a state semifinal play-off game. >> lexie, drop in and turn you can help >> the game is tight the coach knows moment by moment just what to do. >> now listen to me. we need to play good defense that's most important thing when you go in. >> and just

hi, mr. smith, it's guy molinari. no, really, how are things going? like he just lived and breathed this, and this was all you did. you know, i had a baby late and loved this job, but it's two jobs. while i don't cry for me argentina, but when the media says congress is back in vacation, they're not. they're back in their district doing what they're supposed to do. and i never loved it. if you want me to be at your kid's eagle scout award, you said that i can vote whether to go to war. like, this is a big deal. so wherever you want me, i am going to be all the time. and, so, i would do that, friends would come over, take care of my daughter. she had no idea, she was having a great time, but i missed her. and then i would be with her, and i felt guilty about not being out at your kid's eagle scout award. and so when i got the opportunity, which isn't, like, a good idea at the time to anchor a show on cbs, which was supposed to be more political than it turned out to be, and work three days a week, sort of keep your hand in it but not really. it just se

caller: yes, that was awesome that you had mr. smith speaking. he is incredible.nyway, i am a daughter of a world war ii veteran. on the one occasion i went to the world war ii memorial in d.c., and i went, ironically, with my dear friend whose father was a prisoner of war in germany. he fought in the european space of world war ii. anyway, we show up, and lo and behold, senator dole was there greeting people, and i guess he did that several times a week. it was a passion for him to greet visitors to the world war ii memorial. and i actually got to shake his hand and interact with him very briefly, and he was just so charming. and i miss that era of republicans. i was one time a republican that has long time gone from the party to extremes. i guess he would call me a charlie baker republican, but there is no place for me and the republican party these days. i miss that era of funny, compromising, decent, and his marriage to elizabeth dole, boy, she is a force to be reckoned with in her own right. i admired senator dole. there are a lot of great icons out there, an

mr. smith: thank you for your extraordinary leadership. madam speaker, injustice need not be forever. by affirming the mississippi pro life law, the supreme court can take a power. step toward inclusion and justice and respect for the weakest and most vulnerable. shockingly, since the infamous 1973 abortion decisions, more than 62.5 million unborn children have been killed, a staggering loss of children's lives that equates with the entire population of italy. abrogating both duty and due diligence, the 1973 court wrote and i quote we need not resolve the difficult question of when human begins. sidestepping that question and give nothing benefit of the doubt to the child they went on to legalize abortion on demand until birth as if the baby was a tumor to be excised oor disease exb vanquished. for decades, abortion advocates have gone to extraordinary lengths to ignore, trivialize and cover up the battered baby victim. today, thanks to ultra sound, unborn babies are more visible than ever before. which begs the question, why does dismembe

mr. sprayberry: i totally agree. sen. smith: some are arguing that state and local government should medicate. that is what this is designed to do. i have worked at the state level , and i have worked in both of these places where we were dealing with significant disasters, and i do not see a capacity there. the last time that minnesota received funds was in 2008 when budgets were hit incredibly hard by massive flooding, and at the same time, those budgets were being impacted by opportunity and the great recession. a lot of this was happening in rural communities where smaller towns were really hard hit and not in a position. can you address this question? is it reasonable to fill this gap if we were not doing that? dr. martin: thank you for that question. you are absolutely right that this is critical for rural communities. i can tell you that the qualitative components of our studies have looked at the capacity issues and there are persistent issues with managing rural counties and townships that have not been able to afford

smith. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my constituents are -- including identity on their own children. not anything that they allocated to -- [inaudible] if can the prime minister explain why my constituents cannot if an -- cannot access an nhs dentist? >> prime minister. >> i thank her. we're putting record money into the nhs including dentistry, and if she'd like to write me with the cases that she mentioned, i'd be happy to take it up with the secretary of state for health. >> [inaudible] >> thank you, mr. speaker. on many occasions the prime minister as has spoken i know to primary-age children about careers and the opportunities that are ahead of them. does my right honorable friend agree with me that every child should have the chance to meet adults from different professions, different backgrounds to be inspired for the future, and this could place a major -- play a major part in delivering the leveling-up agenda? >> prime minister. >> yes, mr. speaker. and i thank my honorable friend. it's absolutely true that career strategy, we've invested so far 2 million pounds for creative

i'd like to applaud senator rubio, of course, and my colleague, mr. smith of new jersey for working on this legislation. and just to clarify, when i was talking about the watered-down version that the administration was trying to water down, i was talking about the senate version of this bill. if i misspoke, i want to clarify the record now, that's what i was speaking to. again, i applaud anybody that's working on holding the chinese communist party accountable for the atrocities they're committing on the uighurs. let me be clear about something, house republicans will continue to stand against all forms of hate, including islamophobia. we will continue to stand with uighurs in china and with all people experiencing religious persecution. unfortunately, h.r. 5665, this piece of legislation, is a rushed bill. it presents serious first amendment concerns. it will complicate existing efforts to protect human rights and religious freedom around the globe. it's also incredibly duplicative. we already have the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor. we alrea

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smith. >> number one, please, mr. speaker. >> mr. speaker, i'm sure the whole house will want to join me in wishing you, all members of staff a merry christmas. and a happy new year. the house will also want to join me in sending our warmest wishes to all our armed force and health and care workers and especially those who will be working over christmas and not least hose in our national mission -- those in our national mission -- [inaudible] this morning i have meetings with ministerial colleagues in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have is other such meetings later today. >> mr. speaker, can i congratulate the prime minister and his wife on the birth of his new daughter. last week -- [inaudible] was a success for you, prime minister. [laughter] >> i'm very grateful, and i thank him for his words. and, yes, it was, mr. speaker -- [cheers and applause] we showed that we are not only the party that is putting in the resources to fight crime, but we are the party that is finally getting tough on -- [inaudible] of children a

mr. chairman. >> thank you, i'll now recognize senator hyde-smith. >> thank you, during our confirmation hearing earlier this year, you were asked your views on how to strike a balance between environmental economic dues and impacts. you responded saying you are trying to work with congress and stake holders and tribes, farmers, cities, to find that said balance. farmers, ranchers in rural communities are, as you know, extremely important, not just for my state, but the entire nation. what is being done at the federal level to ensure maintenance backlogs within b.o.r. are being addressed? >> thank you, senator. i think a lot of the discussion today is done on the importance of maintaining our programs that help support the farming and ranching communities around the west. i think also talking about the need for improved infrastructure and the need for continued innovation in water recycling-type programs that are maintenance and operation issues are a priority, that those tie carefully, with respect, for example, to our land safety programs that and that may be what you are referring to.