my good friend from massachusetts, ms. clark, is recognized for whatever questions she may ask. ms. clark: thank you, mr. chairman, and congresswoman delauro. especially for frank for your powerful testimony here this morning. but i have some powerful people with me from my home state as well. i want to introduce jan tobin from arlington. and we have -- very pleased to have maureen gallagher who is the executive director of the massachusetts down syndrome congress. but most of all, i want to introduce you to kate bartlett. kate, if you would stand up and just say hello. [applause] kate is one powerful advocate. to my te when she came to my office and signed me up as a co-sponsor of the able act. we share a love of politics. i know this is very bipartisan hearing and topic. we are kind of partisan. kate and myself. and we -- she's just an inspirational young woman. as i meet so many young women across my district. and i am delighted to have here -- her here today. we also share a first name spelled correctly with a k. but we also share something not so positive. kate has statistically

the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from massachusetts, ms. clark, for five minutes. ms. clark: mr. speaker, yesterday we grieved for 59 americans who were killed watching a concert, and 527 people who were injured as bullets rained down on them. as horrible as it is, it is only an inflexion point on the due to gun violence. we have our heart-felt grief followed by a moment of silence. but that has extended into years. families at home did not send us here for our thoughts and prayers. no one in this chamber was elected to tackle our country's challenges with moments of silence. we were elected to work together to debate, to argue, even fight tooth and nail about the problems americans are facing and what we can do to help. that's not what we're doing here. even after the massacre of children and now the worst massacre by guns in american history, our republican leaders continue to block debate on commonsense gun safety legislation that is backed by americans across the spectrum of political ideology. but now we had our moment of silence so it's back to business as usual.

simpson, he said ms. clark. it was weird. >> it was weird. i can remember it to this day because i was there for it. and it was the first time that they had seen each other. i want to bring in investigator reporter diane dimon. good to see you. i know you have lived this in realtime as you have been covering o.j. and his life inside the courtroom, outside the courtroom and also during this time that he's been behind bars. >> right. the day of the murders i was there the day they were taking the bodies away. >> when we think of what his life is now, steve is reporting here is 70-year-old o.j. simpson returning to a completely different world for 2017. but some of the press information that has already gotten out in the interest of o.j. to land a big interview deal and taking his own stuff from inside his prison cell to make sure it doesn't end up on ebay. is this going to be the same person that we know or do you think we'll have a reformed man reappearing in public? >> oh, gosh, what a good question. welcome to 800 count thread sheets after n

ms. clarke, for five minutes for questioning. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. i would also just like to remind everyone that we're talking about territories that are in tropical climate and that these are tri-island territories. i hear people talk about puerto rico as if it's a monolith. there's also two others. there's also three islands with respect to the u.s. virgin islands. and that is st. john, st. thomas, and st. croix. so i don't want us to see this as a monolith because each of these islands have their own identity, their own inhabitants, and i'm not hearing enough of a deep enough dive into what is happening with the inhabitants of all of these territories. because it's not one singular event. it's an event that hit three separate geographic territories. i'm putting that out there because i'm going to want to hear more about what is happening in terms of response to those territories. we're not hearing at all about how the people of st. john are receiving health care, the people of veecs are receiving health care. we're not hearing that information. t

ms. clark: i rise for amelia. this is her story. 18 years ago amelia was pregnant with her second child. she was happily married, financially secure and eager to welcome a new baby into her family. after amelia's baby was diagnosed with down syndrome, she was even more determined to raise her baby with love and compassion. imagine her devastation when after a 20-week ultrasound the aby was diagnosed with fetal hydrops and tests determined her baby would not survive to term. she ended her pregnancy rather than have her baby suffer. she went to boston and had through a wall of picketers that tried to tell her she was a murderer. in the waiting room she heard that same story, no one was carrying a healthy baby. under a 20-week ban, none of these moms could make a decision for their families with their doctors. we would make that decision for them in congress. on behalf of ameal yarks i urge my colleagues to vote no on h.r. 36. we must stop the bans. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gent

schneider from illinois, ms. clark from massachusetts, mr. jeffries from new york city, and mr. jenkins from west virginia. >> representative snyder, you're recognized for three minutes. >> thank you. thank you, chairman burgess. ranking member green, for inviting me here today to discuss the epidemic of opioid addiction, abuse, and overdose that is ravaging our communities. i represent the people of illinois' tenth district, including parts of cook and lake counties. and the opioid crisis has hit our neighborhoods extremely hard. in cook county, which includes the city of chicago, opioid overdoses increased by 87.4%. i repeat that, 87.4% between 2013 and 2016. over the same period, we witnessed a troubling increase in fentanyl. synthetic opioid which is even more deadly than heroin and whose overdoses are often fatal. in the face of these challenges, i would like to recognize the lake county opioid initiative and chicago area opioid task force along with other area organizations for their work to prevent opioid abuse, addiction, overdose, and death. in this epidemic, our advers

ms. clark five minutes. >> thank you very much madam chair and i thank our ranking member doyle and i change our commissioners chairman pai and commissioner carr, welcome. commissioner rosenwsarsal. >> perfect. >> welcome back. of course, it's good to see you commissioner cliburn. i wanted to just talk about how important today's hearing is, there's so many pressing matters and changes happening under the fcc's authority on a daily basis it seems and i can say that it's been quite instructively and interesting just listening to today's proceedings and your answers regarding these issues and the significance in facilitating announced changes. i want to talk about a couple of things that are currently on my mind and as co-chair of the multi-cultural media caucus with colleagues we're extremely interested in the recent media ownership changes. as you've indicated, chairman pai, the commission is poised to take an item to modify the local tv ownership rule at the next commission meeting. this impor

snipyder from illinois, ms. clark from massachuset massachusetts, mr. jeffries from new york and mr. jenkins from west virginia. >> representative snyder, you're recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, thank you mr. chairman burgess and ranking member green for inviting us here to discuss the open it a dadick opiod addiction and abboous. i represent parts of cook and lake counties and the opiod crisis has hit our neighborhoods very hard. in cook county, which includes the city of chicago, opiod overdoses increased by 87.4%. i repeat that, 87.4% between 2013 and 2016. over the same period, we have witnessed a troubling increase in fentanyl, a synthetic opiod, which is even more deadly than heroin and whose overdoses are often fatal. in the face of these challenges, i would like to introduce the lake county opiod initiative along with other area organizations for their work in trying to prevent abuse and overdose. we must ensure our doctors are up to date with the most recent best practices and research for preventing and treating this disease. earlie

helen clark is a former new zealand prime minister, who herself worked with mr peters. she had some advice for msst and commentator in new zealand. earlier we were speaking to your former prime minister, helen clark, and she was optimistic about how this coalition was going to work. what do you think? i thinkjacinda ardern, despite her youth, what do you think? i thinkjacinda ardern, despite heryouth, because people look at her and say that she is young and pretty and all the rest of it, but does she have substance? i have tracked this sometime, and she does have substance. she has substance in her intelligence, and in the way she deals with people. insiders say the reason winston peters chose the labour party in the end was because of the way she handled the negotiations. i think there is a fair chance she will in fa ct there is a fair chance she will in fact manage this 3—way coalition with the other partners as well, the greens, effectively through the three years. you have mentioned there are three. this is a crowded relationship. in the past, the greens and new zealand first have not always