ms. frankel: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 19 printed in part a of house report 114-326 offered by ms. franl of florida -- ms. frankel of florida. the chair: the gentlewoman from florida and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. frankel: i thank you. first, i want to just thank our chair, rank members, all my colleagues who worked so hard on bringing this legislation to the floor. my amendment is really about improving this bill, it's going to make it a better bill. and it's about making our nation's roads safer and the delivery of goods more efficient. there are 15.5 million trucks on the road each year, driving more than 93 billion miles annually, carrying over $1 billion worth of goods. there's no question that our nation's trucking industry is a huge economic driver, earning $650 billion annually, 5% of the united states' g.d.p. but with all that sunshine comes a little bit of rain

ms. frankel. . . frankel: i thank you sue and winter, a member of the austrian parallelment from the stream right wing party of austria, received the following post on her facebook, quote, the jews are the global problem, europe and particularly germany are getting what they did he seemb from zionist jews, particularly rich zionist jews. a response said, quote, it's great. you took the words right out of my mouth. unquote. mr. speaker, this resolution condemning anti-sefmentism and i support it emphatically. i yield back. mr. smith: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: history has shown us the tragedy of what can happen with this sort of hatred. it's past time for governments and communities to focus on the rising tide in europe and do whatever it takes to turn it back. we are keeping a close eye on the problem and action is needed now. i encourage any colleagues to support this measure and i compliment chris smith. no one works harder t

ms. frankel who said had we not invaded iraq years ago that the region wouldn't be destabilized as it isow but in light of that i wanted to know if you could respond and i also wanted to ask a couple of questions regarding the transitional, the future transitional government of syria. >> thank you. let me say that i was in a briefing yesterday and some of the responses on the activity and location of the special forces are classified and so perhaps we will come back to you in a written answer on that. i would be very happy to do so. their role is also a classified response but let me also say we are also deploying his eye mentioned -- the president is looking at a number of other options to intensify our efforts in this battle space. >> in terms of the future transitional government in syria there were talks held in vienna last week and i wanted to know if you could talk about those and in the future what do you feel is the best way to a negotiated's transition? for either one of you. >> let me give an outline if i might with the secretary's conversations in vienna last week he wanted to

ms. frankel's question, there's a lot of talk in different communities that we represent about whether thestates is doing enough to protect syrian civilians from the assad regime. if that's still one of the priorities of this administration and how is that priority manifested? >> certainly we try. we have provided over $2.5 billion for humanitarian assistance inside of serious so we are certainly trying to support the syrian populations who are under great stress and we certainly as you mentioned before we have certainly talked with the russians about preventing assad from attacking his own people. >> and the bombs that we have seen that have been attacking some of the forces with him we are dealing and whom we are protecting and we are arming and yet some of those airstrikes seem to be targeting the very folks who are supposed to be the good guys in this battle. what are we doing to make sure that ends? >> that is absolutely true congresswoman. we mentioned 85 to 90% of the strikes were against anti-regime forces and on your second question we can talk more about that in a closed session.

ms. frankel: mr. speaker, our folks back home are understandably fright and there's no question that isil must be destroyed and that the safety of americans must be our first priority. to deny refuge to women and children who are fleeing rape and torture and who go through a two-year vigorous entry process will not make us a safer country. at a time we're trying to forge a coalition of international nations, it is self-defeating to send a message of isolation. our anti-terrorism resources must be focused on terrorists, not on innocent human beings seeking shelter from the most unspeakable horrors. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from michigan is ecognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: thank you. members of the committee and of the house, instead of slamming our doors to the world's most vulnerable, we should be considering legislation to strengthen a

ms. frankel: mr.aker, our folks back home are understandably fright and there's no question that isil must be destroyed and that the safety of americans must be our first priority. to deny refuge to women and children who are fleeing rape and torture and who go through a two-year vigorous entry process will not make us a safer country. at a time we're trying to forge a coalition of international nations, it is self-defeating to send a message of isolation. our anti-terrorism resources must be focused on terrorists, not on innocent human beings seeking shelter from the most unspeakable horrors. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from michigan is ecognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: thank you. members of the committee and of the house, instead of slamming our doors to the world's most vulnerable, we should be considering legislation to strengthen and e

ms. frankel: mr.speaker, our folks back home are understandably fright and there's no question that isil must be destroyed and that the safety of americans must be our first priority. to deny refuge to women and children who are fleeing rape and torture and who go through a two-year vigorous entry process will not make us a safer country. at a time we're trying to forge a coalition of international nations, it is self-defeating to send a message of isolation. our anti-terrorism resources must be focused on terrorists, not on innocent human beings seeking shelter from the most unspeakable horrors. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from michigan is ecognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: thank you. members of the committee and of the house, instead of slamming our doors to the world's most vulnerable, we should be considering legislation to strengthen an