ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one mnt. -- minute. ms. pelosi: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentlewoman for yielding and congratulate her on her exceptional leadership as the ranking member of the appropriations committee. i also commend our colleague, congresswoman roybal-allard, as ranking member on the subcommittee on hurt for her great leadership to protect the american people. to keep american security strong and certain. i also thank the chairman of the committee, mr. rogers, for the important work that was done leading up to december to have bipartisan legislation, to have an omnibus bill that funded all of the departments of government, except, unfortunately, homeland security, for the full-time. that's really a disagreement because the first thing we do as members of congress is to take the oath of office to protect and defend the american people. that we would have this be the last bill that we would fund fully is really shameful. and the fact is is that the senate has acted in a strong bipartisan way. i always like to t

ms. pelosi, democratic leader of the house. the speaker pro temre gentlemafr cifni ms. poss recognized for one minute. ms. pelosi: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentlewoman for yielding and commend her and congresswoman lowey for their very important motion to instruct conferees to accept the senate language. i want to talk about what our previous speaker mentioned but i'll go to the most previous speaker. if you feel so strongly -- because i don't know if this is about thinking or feeling -- so strongly about the immigration issue and executive actions taken by the president, i respect that. but why are you jeopardizing the homeland security of the united states of america by attaching your emotions to this bill? that's what this is about. you have an argument about immigration, have an immigration bill come to the floor. let's have that debate. but it is totally irresponsible and you did say that we have given up the opportunity to act responsibly. well, that's exactly what you are doing today. policy differences about immigration or the rest are the legitimat

ms. pelosi thinks it's a partisan thing. do you believe the president asking you for authority to fight this war actually demonstrates any kind of commitment to win? >> well, that's certainly my concern. and, megyn we're not going to play politics with this. this is deadly serious. we're talking about an authorization for the use of the finest among us to try and keep this nation safe. it's really the last step in the process, the authorization. the first step is we have to recognize reality. i'm not sure president obama is doing that yet, but the first thing president obama really has to do is he's got to lay out exactly what the goal is. he's got to define -- >> degrade and defeat isil. >> what does he mean by defeat? i got degrade. what does he mean by defeat? kill every last one of them? containment? as we're being briefed i'm concerned all he's talking about is containment over a long period of time. and, megyn i don't think we can really toy with isis over a long period of time. i think we need to take them out. >> wha

ms. pelosi. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. pelosi: i thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him on being the ranking member on the education and work force committee. madam speaker, you know education is the single most important investment a nation can make in its future. a family can make in its children. nothing returns more money to a treasury than the investment in education whether it's early childhood education k-12, higher education post-grad, lifetime learning. and nothing contributes more to the success of our children than education, which gives them a chance to succeed. that is why in 1965, congress passed the elementary and secondary education act one of the great pillars of president johnson's war on poverty. president johnson told the people gathering at the bill signing, that, quote, from our very beginning as a nation we have felt a fierce commitment to the ideal of education for everyone. it fixed itself into our democratic creed, end of quote. the republican legislation makes a mock erie of this le

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ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. pelosi: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yield ing and for his leadership on this important issue. it's as important as the health of the american people. i salute congresswoman brownley for her alternative bill that we should be voting on if we can defeat this rule that keeps -- that helps students get manufacturing jobs. just what we have been asking for, a collaboration between business and education, where kids are trained for good-paying jobs as they leave school. instead, the republicans are putting forth this rule that would once again, for the 56th time, repeal the affordable care act. we come together on the floor of the house right now while we need to pass a homeland security bill. to protect the american people. the speaker said in december, when we didn't pass the appropriation bill for the year, we'll do it after the first of the year. in january the world was alarmed by what they saw in paris. the whole world was galvanized around the issue of

ms. pelosi leaves? it will just take a second. thank you so much. >> keep track of the republican-led congress and follow its new members to its first session. new congress, best access on c-span c-span 2, c-span radio, and www.c-span.org. the white house on monday released their 2016 budget totaling nearly $4 trillion. white house budget director shaun donovan was on capitol hill testifying about the president's plan before the senate hearing committee. this is two hours. >> good morning, i'll call this hearing to order. today we have the testimony from omb director shaun donovan of the president's budget plan for the upcoming 2016 fiscal year. when it comes to the budget, we all know that we've lived for too many years with too many blown deadlines, failed missions, heightened crisis and last-second deals. together, both parties, both chambers, and both ends of pennsylvania avenue have allowed this way of doing business to become the new normal for how we operate. it's long past time to restore regular order to our budget proces

ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership on helping to have a budget that produces growth, to reduce the deficit. today we're talking about issues in which we are very much in agreement in terms of the policy toward charitable giving. in fact, some of this legislation has been introduced by mr. levin and mr. thompson on the ways and means committee, in fact authoring an amendment in lieu of last night which was rejected by the rules committee, to go forward in a way that is fiscally sound and was paid for. so here is the problem that we have. we all want to have comprehensive tax reform. where we can close loopholes and we can lower the tax rate and we can have transparency in our tax code. in order to go to the table to do that, as i know there's bipartisan interest in doing so, we should go to the table with as much freedom as possible. and not constrained by taking rifle shots on the floor of the house for certain pieces of the tax code that will cost the whole pac

ms. pelosi: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous con -- consent that the house bring up h.r. 86 1, the clean department of homeland security funding bill that will keep the department open so it can carry out its mission of keeping the american people safe. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair understands that the gentleman from georgia has not yielded for that purpose. therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentleman from california for purpose of a request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. desauliner: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask that the house bring up h.r. 861. the speaker pro tempore: the chair understands the gentleman from georgia has not yielded for that purpose. therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: i yield to my classmate and good friend, ms. roybal-allard fro

ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership on helping to have a budget that produces growth, to reduce the deficit. today we're talking about issues in which we are very much in agreement in terms of the policy toward charitable giving. in fact, some of this legislation has been introduced by mr. levin and mr. thompson on the ways and means committee, in fact authoring an amendment in lieu of last night which was rejected by the rules committee, to go forward in a way that is fiscally sound and was paid for. so here is the problem that we have. we all want to have comprehensive tax reform. where we can close loopholes and we can lower the tax rate and we can have transparency in our tax code. in order to go to the table to do that, as i know there's bipartisan interest in doing so, we should go to the table with as much freedom as possible. and not constrained by taking rifle shots on the floor of the house for certain pieces of the tax code that will cost the whole pac

ms. pelosi: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlewoman from alabama, congresswoman terri sewell, for her leadership in introducing and driving forth this legislation to award the congressional gold medal to the foot soldiers of selma who fought for african-americans right to vote. thank you for the recognition to speak. . it's very interesting and moving and inspiring to listen to the de-- to listen to the debate on this legislation. to hear the majority leader and others in congress to talk about how important what happened at selma was to our country and what promise it made for the future of our country. i would hope that the logical conclusion of that when we seem people who are beaten and at some instance at that time killed fighting for the right to vote that we would truly honor them not only with a gold medal as wonderful as that is, but by passing the voting rights act on the floor of the house. today, listening to our colleagues i'm reminded of a day almost a year ago, around march of last year, when we d