he kind of leeward the police officers away from ms. smith and directed the police officers towards him to show that he was the victim and not melody smith. and the entire time it was melody smith. in fact, i think the police officers responded to her house at least 50 times before we locate ms. smith strangled and beaten to death. in fact, at one point while we are at the location, while we were at the location ms. smith helped us out in her case by fedex in herself a letter indicating who the suspect was who killed her. and that letter arrived at her residence while we were there that day. that's also one of the things we discussed in this book writer. >> one thing that kelvin, we talked quite a bit during, when i was reporter and he was a homicide detective. one of the things he let me know was how dysfunctional the system was in many cases like in the case of ms. smith without a protection order and call the police 50 times. and also the situation you had with the states attorneys office were many times kelvin would say look, i know who d

house and dealing with a person by the name of gregory he lowered the police officers away from ms. smith to show that he was the victim and not melody smith and to find out it was melody smith and in fact i think the police officers were there 50 times before we located ms. smith beaten to death. in fact at one point while we were at the location, while we were at the location, ms. smith helped us out in the case by sending fedex a letter indicating who the suspect was that killed her and that letter arrived while we were there that day so that's also one of the things we discussed in the book. >> we talk and when i was a reporter and he was a detective as he let me know how dysfunctional the system was like in the case of ms. smith who filed the protection order and called the police 50 times and also in the situation with the state attorney's office where many times they would say look i know who did this, i know who murdered this person, and i have a witness but i don't have two witnesses, so the attorney's office will not issue a warrant and this became a big issue in the campaign. t

in fact, at one point while we were at the location, while we were at the location ms. smith helped us out in her case by fedexing herself a letter indicating who the suspect was who killed her, and that letter arrived at her residence while we were there that day. so and that's also one of the things we discussed in this book right here. >> yeah. i mean, one of the things that kelvin, we talk quite a bit during his -- when i was a reporter and he was a homicide detective, one of the things that he let me know was how disfunctional the system was like in the case of ms. smith who had filed a protection order and called the police 50 times. and also the situation you had with the state's attorney's office where many times kelvin would say, look, i know who did this, i know who murdered this person, and i have a witness, but i don't have two witnesses, so the state's attorney's office will not issue a warrant. and this became a big issue in the campaign with our current state's attorney greg bernstein. but to me it was you get a call from kelvin, and he says, look, i could take

at while we wrap the location at one point ms. smith helped us out by faxing herself a letter indicating the suspect and the letter arrived at her residence while we were there that day. that's is also something we discussed in the book. >> we talk quite a bit when i was a reporter fifth and a homicide detective he let me know how dysfunctional the system was like ms. smith to file the protection order and called the police 50 times and also the state's attorney's office where saying i know who murdered this%. i have a witness but i don't have to witness this though the attorneys of the sonat issue a warrant. but to me, you get a call from till then that says i could take the murder of the street right now but to me that spoke to raitis functionality in the system where they pay a great deal of money to protect us and oftentimes that is lost in politics and a lot of the other things that should not affect an organization in trying to take murders off the street. but that was a big problem. >> aic those who may understand what we have be

ms. clark smith. you mention at the start of your presentation you type about some of the rural sort of middling pete l., not really taken an interest reason thinking possibly running the government. they just wanted the freedom. how much did money have to do with that? >> well, money had nothing to do with that. [laughter] that's really the ship between the kind of republican ideas of the late pete teens and early 19th century to the democratic ideas. certainly during the colonial period, there is a sense of person who was born to lead. that is why you were born into a certain class. if you're in that class you can have the kind of education, the kind of leader. you know, you know enough about the role to go make laws and rules. for the assumption is that ordinary farmers know enough to choose who will go, but they don't know enough to go be a legislator themselves. in some ways there is a notion. if you're an ordinary person you defer to your superior semites and go rule. if you're a farmer come you

ms. clark smith.you mention at the start of your presentation you type about some of the rural sort of middling pete l., not really taken an interest reason thinking possibly running the government. they just wanted the freedom. how much did money have to do with that? >> well, money had nothing to do with that. [laughter] that's really the ship between the kind of republican ideas of the late pete teens and early 19th century to the democratic ideas. certainly during the colonial period, there is a sense of person who was born to lead. that is why you were born into a certain class. if you're in that class you can have the kind of education, the kind of leader. you know, you know enough about the role to go make laws and rules. for the assumption is that ordinary farmers know enough to choose who will go, but they don't know enough to go be a legislator themselves. in some ways there is a notion. if you're an ordinary person you defer to your superior semites and go rule. if you're a farmer come you

ms. clark smith. you mention at the start of your presentation you type about some of the rural sort of middling pete l., not really taken an interest reason thinking possibly running the government. they just wanted the freedom. how much did money have to do with that? >> well, money had nothing to do with that. [laughter] that's really the ship between the kind of republican ideas of the late pete teens and early 19th century to the democratic ideas. certainly during the colonial period, there is a sense of person who was born to lead. that is why you were born into a certain class. if you're in that class you can have the kind of education, the kind of leader. you know, you know enough about the role to go make laws and rules. for the assumption is that ordinary farmers know enough to choose who will go, but they don't know enough to go be a legislator themselves. in some ways there is a notion. if you're an ordinary person you defer to your superior semites and go rule. if you're a farmer come you

ms. johnson phoned the police to report that her roommate, mr. smith, was suffering from psychological problems, had been drinking, and was taking medication. in her request for the police, this johnson indicated mr. smith was not known to carry weapons and that she wanted vice from officers on how to deal with mr. smith. she needed assistance based on his behavior. officers brodericks suguitan and samuel fung arrived at the scene within four minutes. officer suguitan and fung were met by the woman outside of her porch. officer suguitan observed at the front door of the residence was open and stepped inside. officer suguitan noticed mr. smith and mr. rios, an additional roommate, were standing face to face having a conversation. both men were approximately 7 feet in front of officer suguitan. officer suguitan looked at both men and stated, how are you doing, we are here to help. mr. smith and mr. rios both faced officer suguitan. immediately, officer suguitan realized mr. smith's and were behind his back and concealed from officer. officer suguitan dir

smith, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. lofgren, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. and include extraneous materials on h.r. 398 currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i support this bill which provides relief to military service members serving overseas who marry foreign spouses. our nation's military should not have to worry about red tape while they are abroad protecting our freedoms. when a u.s. citizen or permanent resident maris a foreign spouse, that spouse becomes a conditional permanent resident. after two years, the couple files a petition with the department of homeland security for the removal of the conditional status. if the petition is successful, the immigrant becomes a permanent residen

smith and mr. payne and ms. burkle to be here. this is an evil government. to hear how the u.n. could have done something, hitler was an evil man. this guy is an evil man. it's an evil government, regime change, but it's time for our government to do something. not talking about troops, but just give them the ability -- are the tanks that the southern sudan government tried to bring in, where are the tanks now? they are still in kenya. they have not been allowed to come in to defend themselves. i thank both witnesses. i appreciate this thing. we should send a message to the people of the south, nuba mountains, you know, nuba mountains and the kingdom of kush is mentioned in the bible, all the way back to biblical times. i wonder how some people in this administration will feel when they leave and know they missed the opportunity, how bi-moon will feel, and how when a book is wrote about this, bashir should be arrested and taken to the hague and tried. again, i thank you, mr. smith and mr. payne for being the leader on this, getting it on front, and speaking truth and thank both