mr. speaker, i yield to the gentlewoman from new jersey, ms. coleman watson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mrs. watson coleman: mr. speakerings i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record that the house should focus on the real priorities of americans instead of another attack on women's health care. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentlewoman from new york for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to incertificate my statement into the record. the house should be focusing on the real priorities facing americans, the economy, they should not be rolling back women's access to health care. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield to -- the speaker pro tempore: without objection. but the time of the gentleman will be charged. mr. mcgovern: i yield to the gentleman from kentucky for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. ms. delauro: i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement into the record, that the house should fo

mrs. watson coleman: thank you and god bless you. mr. green: god bless you too. mrs. watson coleman: how much time do we have left? the speaker pro tempore: about 15 minutes. mrs. watson coleman: thank you, mr. speaker. because i want to follow up on something that my colleague had alluded to and that is the impact of low wages on the government's need to subsidize. i think that he sort of spoke to it in a generalized way, but i'd like to just share with you what i think happens with an individual and a family that has a $15,000 a year income. since it's not enough to keep food on the table, those americans have to turn to food stamps. and since it's not enough to come -- and the jobs don't come with health care we've got to rely on medicaid. because $15,000 a year doesn't pay for the rent in most cities, and those americans rely on low income housing or subsidized housing. through section eight vouchers or whatever. or they're homeless and living in shelters. these workers' children are enrolled in children's health insurance programs and these families are getting su

country, that's the gentlelady from the garden state right next door to new york, congresswoman watson coleman. mrs. watson coleman: thank you very much to my esteemed colleague from new york. i am new to congress and i've had quite a few occasions to come to the floor and talk about issues that are very pressing to my community and to me. so i stand here as an african-american woman who represents the state of new jersey, but i stand here as a wife, a mother, a sister, an aunt and a cousin to african-american men. and in that capacity each and every day that one of them leaves our presence and leaves their homes i wonder, will they come back safely? i know they mean no one any harm, but i don't know that the police that they might encounter would see that in them as i do. my community has cried out for a long period of time that there has been unjustice and there has been -- injustice and there has been harm and needless death facing our young men and even some of our young women. as a matter of fact, mr. clyburn mentioned the issue of data collection as being such an important element here in hel

mrs. watson coleman: thank you very much, mr. speaker. with that i'd like to yield the balance of my time to mr. sarbanes from the great state of maryland. mr. sarbanes: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. speaker, on april 24, the arc of the moral universe will intersect with the 100th anniversary of the armenian genocide. many will bear witness to that intersection but sadly official recognition of the genocide by the united states government will be conpick with usly absent. -- conspicuously absent. let us review the facts. in 1915, more than 1.5 million armenians were systematically annihilated by ottoman empire turkish authorities. men, women and children were massacred, deported and condemned to death marches into the syrian desert where they died of thirst and starvation. no final rites, no burial and assault on the dignity of a dignified and proud people. this indisputable tragedy of history has been acknowledged by enumerable scholars and historians including the international association of genocide scholars, the elly wasle

mr. watson coleman is recognized. >> i just want to state for the record that i really don't understand the necessity of swearing in the under secretary when we had the inspector general who generated this -- the reason for our being here in the first place that we never once asked him to be sworn in. i just find that's unusual and unnecessary given this high elected -- this high appointed official who has such tremendous credentials on his behalf and i just want it stated or the record. thank you. >> and i appreciate the general lady's point of order, i suppose. the -- let me say the committee and house rules provide for the swearing in of any witness that the chair deem appropriate. i think given the serious allegations generated by the inspector general's report warrant the swearing in of this witness in particular and i, again, am giving the witness an opportunity to explain his side of the story. >> thank you, mr. chairman but may i just say that the reason that we are here is we are relying so heavily -- or you are relying so heavily on the limited and very my op pick findings of the

watson coleman: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise to remind my colleagues that we have not yet succeeded in bringing back the 219 nigerian girls abducted by boko haram on this day last year. for a moment, the plight of those young school girls captured the attention of the world, spurred by millions of tweets and a hash tag that nanded justice. as is so often the case of faces of color, their disappearance quickly left the headlines. we can neither forget nor give up on these girls. their abduction was a violent challenge to peace, freedom, and to the right of every girl to choose to better herself through education. mr. speaker i join my colleagues in calling for a renewed effort to bring back those girls and to bring justice to those responsible. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection