the recidivism act by portman needs to be supported and the public safety act, federal reform act bypungement designed to enhance employment, that is the cory booker and rand paul act. those need to be supported. the last thing i want to say is, i love debate and argument. i love ideology and i love ideas, i love theory, i love being right. more than you know. this is the time to put data above demagogery and aevidence above -- and evidence above ideology. if there is ever an issue where we have to be data-driven and evident based and when you are talking about spending public dollars to take someone's liberty in making the community safer, both of which are precious liberty and community safety is precious, that is time to put that aside. there has been demy gogery aside and both sides are playing the race card and the other side hates everybody. all of that, i want to say to you as a partner and to you as partners and to pat nolan the great leader on this whole thing as you have this whole ball rolling a long time ago, you're not going to hear it from us. there is a racial dimensio

. >> among the american senators urging more military assistance to ukraine is republican rob portman who joined me a short time ago from capitol hill. thanks very much for joining me. why now? why the push for more arms to the ukrainian government now? >> we've been pushing for it for a long time. i saw the fact that ukraine is looking to the west. they view the united dates as an ally and frankly, we are letting them down. they need the ability to defend themselves. what has happened over the last few months is that the situation has escalated, become more violent. there have been more soldiers and civilians killed. russian troops are in ukraine and they are continuing their strong support for separatists and we at a minimum -- i do not just me the united states of america but nato countries and other allies around the world are to be providing ukrainian he ability to defend themselves. >> but the idea of giving more weapons to the ukrainian government puts you at odds with your ukrainian government. you've had some saying this could trigger a more strident reaction from moscow. >>

we ought to start with the shaheen-portman energy efficiency legislation. i have little doubt that democrats would support this as a stand-alone bill. energy efficiency is just common sense, and the energy experts remind us of something that our mothers and fathers taught us growing up: waste not want not. in other words the straightest line towards saving money for people businesses and institutions is to help them adopt the latest energy efficiency practices and technologies. even this has unfortunately become a partisan issue in the last several congresses with people worried that light bulb efficiency standards were part of some orwellian plot. but that's not what these department of energy standards do and that's not what shaheen-portman does. as its core, energy efficiency is simply this: use less and get the same result. using less means paying less. getting the same result means not having to sacrifice your way of life. the idea is not to ask people to do without. the idea is to just get more for our money. it's an old school conservative idea, and

members who supported our case including the former chairman of the republican national committee, rob portmanand import and senator who was a republican and more and more republicans are understanding that marriage between people who love one another is a value that republicans have to support or they are not ever going to win elections. so this is important not just to and people but people across the political spectrum who believe in american rights and republicans will not be accepted as a majority party if they wish to achieve a majority status in this country unless they recognize the rights of human beings to have that kind of freedom and liberty. >> are there any gay marriage issues coming back before the supreme court and if so are you involved in that? >> i'm not involved in it that we had but we had several cases including the virginia case that the supreme court decided not to take this year but there is another case involving kentucky tennessee and a couple other states the supreme court is considering right now. i believe the supreme court will take the case. i'm hoping that they

senator rob portman from ohio. this week, president obama released his annual budget proposal. it's a 2,000-page document that spells out how he'd like to spend your hard-earned tax dollars. but a budget is about more than just how much government spends and how much it taxes. as any family who has ever sat around the kitchen table to figure out how a budget works knows, it's about making tough choices and setting priorities for the future. unfortunately, president obama doesn't make those tough choices in this budget. it's no secret that washington is addicted to overspenld overspending, but boy, the numbers are simply staggering. every year of obama's president the government has spent hundreds of billions more than it takes in. those deficits add up. in the first six years of his administration, president obama has added a record $7.5 trillion to the national debt. to put that in perspective, that's about $60,000 in new debt for every american household. by the end of his presidency, president obama will have added nearly as much debt as every previous president in history c

you have to people who are conservatives who have -- senator portman, people like that have gay people in the family. you have people like dick cheney. it's a reality in our being. you know, i'm sort of a nature -- may be a part of both. it's just amazing how it's just gone into the families of the country politically left and right and challenged them to think again. >> right. that's something, like you say is, when people have personal experience with this, sometimes that changes their minds even if they had a strongly held opinion before and senator portman is a prime example of that. as gay marriage becomes more accepted in all these states, this is something that's a reality for a majority of americans. >> how does -- last question to you. how does the republican party stick to its platform? and ride a platform plank -- it's old time to talk about platforms. you say you're going to fight them. to say we're for traditional marriage, blah, blah, blah, the sanctity, and the wordage says we're against same sex. how do they run on that? >> i'm not sure they do. they have to pretend it'

chairman. >> senator portman. who used to be in your position. >> as he reminded me at my position hearing. >> congratulations, you've been nominated to my job. and my worst day is yours today. and congratulations, you're doing a good job defending it but we have to set the record straight on a few things, this notion that this budget as you said earlier is all about, in response to senator corker's question setting apart the ryan murray proposal of let mandatory spending and breaking the caps and more discretionary spending, it is not. and i think perhaps you wanted the last few years to look good and this is the reality and i'll give you the numbers and i'm not going to ask you a question because these are what the numbers are. spending on the discretionary side goes from 6.5% now down to 4.5% of gdp and defense going down to 2.3% and the numbers look better after 2022 and 2024. so it is $2 trillion in new taxes, a trillion in new spending and you said mandatory is spending more and i'm happy to share the charts

we thought second chance act that rob portman went to work on. john conniers has been involved in it for years. danny davis. it was, again, a left/right coalition. the essential message of the second chance act is that prisoners are people we should care about. their future after they leave prison is something that matters to us. and human dignity is an important part of it whether you are religious or not. those of us who are religious know each of us is a child of god created in his image. it's that divine spark that gives us dignity. government should never strip anybody of that no matter what they have done. and yet piper has done such a good job humanizing prisoners. prisoners are continually debased. i was in prison a little over 29 months probably 1,000 times i was told you ain't got nothing coming. and said with disgust. it says you are nothing. you come from nothing. you will be nothing. now, i came from a good background. i had a great education. i have had leadership positions. even though those words hurt i was able to take it. think

>> a flop was certainly "night of cops," hotly anticipated starring christian bale and natalie portman but the film was a complete disappointment to me. it really drove home the point that as a society we are at saturation point for movies where middle-aged white guys read a bunch of models to deal with a midlife crisis. it felt tired and ultimately very disappointing. >> we have to leave it right there. we will get your tops later. thank you very much. >> and thank you for joining us here at ew -- at dw. see you again at the top of the hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] çÑÑñÑñÑñÑñÑñÑñÑñÑñÑñÑñ >>> this week on wealthtrack investment wizard. john spent a lifetime protecting shareholders at first eagle funds further forces of financial evil. which market enemies is he fighting now? an exclusive interview with portfolio manager is next on khan sway la mack wealthtrack.

. >> thanks, senator portman. and thanks to your commitment to the national parks. i actually did work with my predecessor on this, trying to encourage congress to pass the centennial act. the national park service is arguably the most recognized and valued brand within the federal government. certainly a place where people are very, very interested in providing support. and research has shown that there is a tremendous interest in private philanthropy. we also know and i've done a lot of fund-raising myself, that a match is a great incentive to get people to give, sometimes two, three, four, five times the act, showing that we're putting our money up, and individuals will do so, too. the budget has in the discretionary part $50 million for a match, and additional $100 million in the mandatory proposal. we are confident that with a match, we can multiply that several times over. i think that there are parts of the park service where people will want to give private philanthropy. and other areas like some of the deferred maintenance, which are probably going to be le

as a midwesterner i have to note that congressman davis from illinois mentioned now senator portman from ohio and congressman sensenbrenner is here, as well. congressman sensenbrenner is from wisconsin as am i. and i think i have known him since he was in high school. and in the years that he served in congress in the judiciary committee and elsewhere he has been both tough on crime and sensitive to the need to improve and reform the criminal justice reform.

week senator grassley and i along with a number of our colleagues on the finance committee, nelson portman and brown, introduced the ace kids acts of 2015. this bill would improve how medicaid coordinates care for our nation's sickest children seeks to reduce the burden on families who often have to travel across state lines for their children's care. as you know, children who have complex medical conditions make up roughly 6% of the children in medicaid. but account for up to 40% of the programs caused, the issue is especially challenging given medicaid is largely a state-run program and these children often need highly dedicated care in multiple states where certain specialists live. given hhs's recent focus on alternative payment models, moving away from singular service, i wonder if your staff might be able to help work with us to provide the necessary technicologicalal assistance to work through this? >> because medicaid is state based, how do we make sure that that care is both quality and affordable across state lines. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. le

rob portman, senator from ohio, republican, saying "in administration can't even deliver what we've already promised to ukraine how long would defensive weapons take them?' john mccain saying "it is past time for america to support you can opening the arsenal of democracy that allows the people to defend themselves." richard blumenthal, democrat from connecticut with senator john mccain "urging defensive arms for ukraine where region -- where putin's aggression continues." kelly ayotte, the public and furniture, saying "defense secretary nominee ash carter says using five to provide legal defensive weapons to ukraine. hope president listens." tweets from capitol hill on the reaction last week when things began to intensify, another discussion coming to washington this week with the plan a meeting between german leader angela merkel and the president at the white house today. and joint news conference at 11:40 a.m. eastern time and we will have live coverage on c-span. we will continue to get your thoughts on this, whether the west should on the ukrainian forces -- should arm the ukrainian f

you say you account for it by off setting in mandatory senator portman may challenge that a bit, but there's a desire by some of us on the committee to replace sequestration, at least most of it, with a revenue component and a mandatory reform component. i just want to be in the camp of saying i'm not going to support a budget that continues to gut the military. and it's just not the military. it's the cdc, nih and a lot of other programs, so i support the idea you're trying to achieve. i just don't know if i agree with the methodology. about the workforce. how many retiree, how many workers do we have for a retiree today in the work force? >> it's three. >> when i was born in '55, it was 16. 16. unless there's a baby boom among 60-year-olds, i think we're in trouble. in 20 years, it goes to two. does that make sense to you? >> absolutely. >> that we're living longer and having fewer children. a lot of western nation face this problem, is that correct? >> absolutely. >> doesn't that cry out for rational immigration reform? where do the new workers come from? >> couldn't agree with yo

madam chair, madam secretary i just want to associate my comments with that of senator portman on the long-eared bat issue. i think this is a real opportunity for the service to really link closely the remedy with the science. the results of an overly broad structure of regulation as a result of any kind of listing would be just i believe catastrophic across the country, because the habitat is so broad, so this is -- i believe in the endangered species act but we have to be careful how we administer it that we don't undermine public support it and i think this is a good test case so i urng you,ge you, again, i associate my comments with senator portman. you notice i was playing with this, i wasn't texting or tweeting. i was sadly trying to find an app to buy a park pass, and when you put in national park pass to my dismay, you get australia national park pass. you don't get usa park pass. so then i went to the website, and found that i can buy a park pass, but just -- i didn't go all the way through it but just below are the most dreaded words on any website "if you need your pass wit

. >> thanks, senator portman. and thanks for your commitment to the national parks. did i actually work with my predecessor on this trying to encourage congress to pass the centennial act. the national park service is arguably the most recognized and valued brand within the federal government certainly a place where people are very, very interested in providing support and research has shown there is a tremendous interest in private philantropy. i've done a lot of fundraising myself. a match is a great incentive to get people to give sometimes two, three, four times the amount showing we're putting our money up and individuals would do so too. the budget has in the discretionary part $50 million for the match and $100 million in the mandatory proposal. we are confident that with a match we can multiply that several times over. i think there are parts of -- the park service where people will want to give private philantropy and some of the other areas like deferred maintenance which will be less conducive to that. our budget focuses our resources to that that are less

. >> and senator rob portman joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta.hould add that commissioner koskinen apologized to this vet. however, didn't return the $149,000. i think that's a ridiculous apology. i would not accept that what is going on with the irs? >> first of all outrageous and to andrew clyde, thank you for coming up to the hill and testifying we need to change the law, one, there needs to be some evidence of criminal wrongdoing. here is a guy who diagnose nothing wrong. >> and they kept his 149,000 or legal fees. >> they should pay the legal fees. any time the irs loses in this kind 65 suit they should pay the legal fees. because of i think that has a really good effect on whether they bring the case or not. you are a lawyer. you actually know how this thing works. have to pay the legal fees it might help. and a hearing right away. >> i would then be paying the legal fees as a taxpayer which i am gladly -- i'm sure many taxpayers would because this is a vet. something more a rogue agents doing this brutal thing and what's with the prosecuto

senator portman, senator feinstein, senator schumer deserve credit for their great contributions but the truth is this has been a collective effort of a lot of the numbers of the committee. indeed, i would daresay the whole committee. and i hope that we were successful us as we can get the bill to the floor passing this important legislation. the fight against human trafficking is one of the most important human rights issues of our time. in 1865, the 13th amendment was ratified out long slavery in the united states forever. yet nearly 150 years later thousands of american children will wake up every morning to a life of forced prostitution. today, we are here to help them put an end to that nightmare. at its core the justice for victims of trafficking act is about breaking down the barriers between victims, law enforcement and society by adopting a holistic approach to fighting domestic human trafficking. if we are going to end slavery in the united states we need to think big, and always keep the victims in mind. to this end this legislation will tackle the scourge of human traffic

. >> senator portman? >> thank you madam chair. appreciate you for having this hearing today. appreciate the witnesses giving us great testament to a rep as a file which didn't used to be viewed as a great natural producer, now we are thanks to marcellus shale find and also utica. most significant you did the right now. we are proud of that heritage. i appreciate the fact that national association of manufacturers is your supporting this bill, the chamber of commerce supports this bill. i am a cosponsor now because of look at the alternatives and i think this is the best balance. deal we does have the ability to review these plans and approve or disapprove based on the impact of the american economy. that's in this legislation but it's a balanced approach and again that's what so many manufactures are sporting a also i would tell you all how does a lot of manufacturing for facilities including lng export facility. i noticed in your testimony you talk about chart industries testified in ways and means committee, ohio-based manufacturer involved in lng supply chain. it's going t

. >> seth: "toy collectors" was a sketch you -- you and fred did "toy collectors" with natalie portman it costa rican? >> i think we were cuban maybe, but let's say costa rican. >> seth: yeah. but you were toy collectors who were going to buy like -- sort of like batman toys. >> all the cool toys when you go into, like, k.b. toys. like -- but we were cuban, so he'd be like -- [ speaking foreign language ] ghostbusters. [ laughter ] [ speaking foreign language ] yellow submarine. [ speaking foreign language ] jack skellington. [ speaking foreign language ] gene simmons aqui. [ laughter ] [ speaking foreign language ] the yellow submarine! it was just that for about 40 minutes. >> seth: it was literally just that. naming every toy. >> yeah. and then at the end she gets -- so we're like, "oh, great, she gets to see all the things." >> seth: yeah, she did a great job, listed it all in spanish. sudeikis on the cash register, ringing it up. >> and then, yeah, and it was cut. >> fred: we didn't have any money is what it was. >> the blow was we didn't have any money. we just didn't have any mo

it's now been a decade ago working when i was in the house of representatives with then congressman portman following up on the study that was done at the irs at the time. and it was the ways and means committee and senate finance committee that said to the appropriators, you had to have the resources to modernize. and it lasted about one year before the cuts came back. so this committee should be your advocate for adequate resources. instead, as you pointed out you have sustained real cuts while your commissions have increased dramatically. and we want to have tax compliance in all sections. this and senator cornyn's concerns about the earned income tax credit. the earned income tax credit is an extremely important provision in our tax code that offers fairness for middle-income working families. yes, we want to make sure it's complied with. and senator wyden and i are going after and hope to give you the authority to go after paid tax preparers who are not doing the right thing in that regard. we want to give you those tools. but it's interesting. i don't hear the same strength on behalf

it's a very bipartisan one, the co-chairman is senator portman of ohio. i look forward to working with you on it. let me ask you, and first of all, welcome your comments about the invisible wounds of war, thank you to your uncles and cousins for their service in vietnam and to your brother for his service i say that as a dad of a marine corps reserve veteran who served in afghanistan and another son who is currently in the navy and i would hope that you will continue to focus on those issues relating to post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury as they may be a cause of certain kinds of conduct that may be unwelcome, may even be criminal, because what we found is a better understanding of those invisible wounds of war and the inner demons that many of our veterans bring back with them can lead to more thoughtful and humane treatment through our criminal justice system. i want to ask you, finally, in the time that i have, about one of the criticisms that has been made of the department of justice in its allegedly too lenient treatment of certain cor

week senator grassley and i along with a number of our colleagues on the finance committee, nelson, portman and brown, introduced the ace kids acts of 2015. this bill would improve how medicaid coordinates care for our nation's sickest children, seeks to reduce the burden on families who often have to travel across state lines for their children's care. as you know, children who have complex medical conditions make up roughly 6% of the children in medicaid. but account for up to 40% of the programs caused, the issue is especially challenging given medicaid is largely a state-run program and these children often need highly dedicated care in multiple states where certain specialists live. given hhs' recent focus on alternative payment models, moving away from singular service, i wonder if your staff might be able to help work with us to provide the necessary technical assistance to work through this? >> we look forward to addressing that issue that i think you are articulating, that because medication is state-based how do we make sure that that care is both quality and affordable across sta

would like to call up the manager's amendment which is the work of several senators including senator portman and senator schumer. we incorporated the ringing missing children home act and we have incorporated a version of the survivors of human trafficking empowerment act. this amendment addresses the request of several victims rights groups. >> senator leahy. >> mr. chairman, i will speak very briefly because i do not want to hold up the time on the vote for loretta lynch who is weighted so long, far more time than the men who are confirmed ahead of her for attorney general. on senator cornyn amendment, i told him i will vote for it because i believe it does make important contributions in human trafficking. both he and i expressed concern. i don't think it goes quite far enough. i think we have to prevent victims from falling prey to sex traffickers which means reauthorizing programs for runaway and homeless youth. i told senator cornyn i will create an amendment to that effect on the floor when it comes up. i will consult with him before i do but i will vote for his substitute amendment a

. >> reporter: natalie portman's nose. jennifer garner's defined jaw.more real. >> now people are coming in with instagram filters. >> reporter: instagram setting off one of the hottest new trends in cosmetic surgery. patients asking doctors to alter their appearance to make them look in real life like the selfies they take using one of the photo filters. those filters capable of boosting selfie esteem. i tested them out. willow making my face looking more defined. early bird giving me a softer glow. janet ross says she fell in love with the way she felt the amaro filter improved her snaps. >> i can totally post this because i look good. i'm softer. >> reporter: the 47-year-old asking her doctor to mimic the filter but make the result a little more permanent. >> i have the fillers in the sides here. on the lips a little bit and then the botox -- dr. jonathan kaplan a plastic surgeon has been able to help many of his patients like ross ditch those instagram filters without going under the knife. >> the patients that are coming in with the filters from in

one of the panelists joe portman, runs alamo broadband, which is a wireless isp that serves only 700le across 500 square miles south of san antonio. what does joe think of title two? he thinks it's pretty much a terrible idea. his staff is and i quote, pretty busy just dealing with the loads we already carry. more staff to cover regulations means less funds to run the network and provide the very service our customers depend on. others feel the same way. just last week, 142 of them joined the chorus. these wisps have deployed wireless broadband to customers who have no alternative, including my parents. they often run on a shoe string budget with just a few people to run the business install equipment, and handle service calls. they have no incentive, and even if they did, they have no ability to take on commercial giants like netflix. they say the fcc's new regulatory intrusions into our businesses would likely force us to raise prices, delay deployment expansion, or both. or consider the views of 24 of the country's smallest isps. each with fewer than 1,000 residential broadband cu

. >> senator portman? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the fact that tax reform gets so much notice here today. because i do think it's an opportunity in this budget for us to try to make progress. i think senator scott's right. i think it's one where we have differences in terms of what the deemed repatriation rate is. i do think that the structure is consistent with what many of us have talked about on this side of the aisle. look, we need to do it. in ohio, companies choose to invert, buying a smaller company overseas and move the domicile from ohio to one of our, you know, global trading partners in developed countries. and this is happening all over the country. more importantly, i think a lot of companies who are u.s. companies can't compete. u.s. workers can't compete. so foreign companies are buying them. there's a study coming out soon that says that over 9,000 u.s. companies acquired by foreign companies in the last ten years alone. and finally, it's tougher to compete. even if you're not taken over been a foreign c

we should say there's senator rob portman of ohio who might be attracted to any republican on the topl candidates democrats and republicans they often say they are not interested in being vice president but when it comes down to number two they're anxious to become the vice president of the united states. >> it's a hard thing know when the party nominee asks you to serve your country. >> let's talk about something totally different. it's pretty strange. the white house in a bunch of press releases misspelling the word february. it's getting a little business out there. they are missing one of the rs there. i guess it's just a typo but it's happened a few times. >> i think maybe spell check is not exactly working at the white house, wolf. i think somebody's going to get in a bit of trouble at that. there was that buzz feed video in which the president was making fun of himself saying the word february which has an r. >> maybe he knew something when he was doing that when he was making fun. >> i don't think he writes the press leases. >> wed-nes-day. >> february. >> february 15th. febru

it's now been a decade ago working when i was in the house of representatives with then congressman portman following up on the study that was done at the irs at the time. and it was the ways and means committee and senate finance committee that said to the appropriators, you had to have the resources to modernize. and it lasted about one year before the cuts came back. so this committee should be your advocate for adequate resources. instead, as you pointed out you have sustained real cuts while your commissions have increased dramatically. and we want to have tax compliance in all sections. this and senator cornyn's concerns about the earned income tax credit. the earned income tax credit is an extremely important provision in our tax code that offers fairness for middle-income working families. yes, we want to make sure it's complied with. and senator wyden and i are going after and hope to give you the authority to go after paid tax preparers who are not doing the right thing in that regard. we want to give you those tools. but it's interesting. i don't hear the same strength on behalf

, i'd like to call up the manager's amendment which is work of several senators including senator portman, senator schumer. we incorporate their bringing missing children home act and senator boxer and representative ted poe from the house have we've incorporated a version of their survivors of human trafficking empowerment act. this manager's amendment also addresses the requests of several victims' rights groups including the alliance to end slavery and trafficking. >> senator leahy. >> mr. chairman, i will speak very briefly, because i do not want to hold up the time for the vote on loretta lynch, she's waited so much more time far more time than the four men who were ahead of her for attorney general. but on senator cornyn's amendment, i have told him i will vote for it because i believe it does make important contributions in human trafficking, something both he and i expressed concern about. i don't think it goes quite far enough. i think we have to prevent victims from falling prey to sex traffickers which would mean reauthorizing programs for run and homeless youth. and i've told

you say you spend more -- you account for it by offsetting in mandatory, i think -- senator portman mays a desire by some of us on the committee to replace sequestration. at least most of it with a revenue component and a mandatory reform component. i just want to be in the camp of saying that i'm not going to support a budget that continues to gut the military. it's just not the military. it is the cdc, nih and a lot of other programs. so i support the idea you're trying to achieve. i just don't know if i agree with the methodology. about the workforce. how many worsers ersworkers doí?c we have per retiree today in the workforce? it's three. when i was born in '55, it was 16. unless there is a baby boom among 60 year-olds, i think we're in trouble. in 20 years it goes to two. does that make sense to you? >> absolutely. >> that we're living longer and having fewer children. a lot of western nations face in problem. is that correct? >> absolutely. >> doesn't that cry out for rational immigration reform? where do the new workers come from? >> couldn't agree with you more, senator. >> othe

. >> senator portman -- or let me see? is that right? >> yes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i appreciate it and madam secretary thank you for being here because my colleague just talked about the two midnight rule i have to say i share his concern over. i've spent time with rural hospitals back home and spent time in urban hospitals and they don't get it. and it penalizes our beneficiaries and we have to come up with a way to address hospital in-patient and observation stays and you are creating by these rules you are incentivizing behavior that will cost us more in the end. so i hope you work with us on that. one thing i want to talk about is substance abuse and medicare advantage and the budget. with regard to medicare advantage, i have a strong concern about the way in which there is a buy as and the current way we're evaluating the program. and a back ground on this. yesterday i sent a letter to cms which is copied to you as well. senator nelson and i on this committee, co-authored it and we got 40 members to sign up and 21 members of this committee on a bipartisan basis

portman: thank you mr. president.i wish i could rise today to talk about the underlying legislation we're supposed to be talking about which is a bill to fund the department of homeland security and also address the president's executive order on immigration which went around the congress but also went around the american people. a judge down in texas agrees with those of us on this side of the aisle who look at this as an illegal act. instead the president ought to work with us, work with the house and work with the senate and work with the elected representatives of the american people to actually pass a law to help fix what's broken in our immigration system. but we're not able to get on that legislation not because we have differences about the bill that we could talk about, we could have votes on amendments, we could debate this issue. but because those on the other side of the aisle decided they don't even want us to have the opportunity to hash out those differences, to take those votes. so i mean i think the c

it's rob portman the former usdr under the bush administration.ese aren't folks that want to kill a deal. they want to make it work right. >> if you look at currency manipulation, that's in the eye of the beholder. there are people who could look at what our federal reserve has done for last seven or eight years and say we've been engaged in the same currency manipulation. >> sure, they can say that. they would be wrong. i mean the imf, wto have laid out strict guidelines on what it is. it includes the following tests. you need to have a current account surplus. the united states hasn't had one of those for decades. i'm not sure we ever will. massive holdings of foreign currency reserves. in the case of the united states, we hold a little more than a hundred billion which is a tiny part of our economy. when you take a snapshot of japan and china in comparison to that, you can see a world of difference. so it's a nice talking point but the reality is these are well-established rules. reagan, jim baker back in the 1980s did the plaza accords to get

host: is our security some portman, why not have a clean bill -- pass a clean dhs bill?: i want to make sure we keep our country safe and secure and that we address the issue by revamping and modernizing our system. that is my perspective i am providing to our leadership and i appreciate it if others calling to congress that. we revamp our system but the president should not be overreaching. he should not be addressing the issues he did with executive overreach but we have got to solve the problem ourselves. host: this is david, go ahead. caller: good morning c-span and the wonderful c-span audience. representative, i would hope when you're sitting in the committee room, that someone or yourself brings up a statistical analysis and by that, i mean this. to the best of my knowledge since 9/11, we have had 68 murder terrorist attacks of civilians or army personnel killed in the united states. to the best of my knowledge over in the area you are talking about, the death count has been 500,000 to one million based on bombing, and sanctions to our people. probably the great b

that's why this week i led a bipartisan letter with the presiding officer senator portman, senators brownbarrasso, blumenthal and others to president obama urging unions tons and nato to work together to ensure ukraine has the defensive capabilities and equipment to halt and reverse further russian aggression. thousands have been killed, thousands more displaced a civilian airliner was shot down murdering hundreds of innocent people and nationalistic fervor and soviet file style propaganda have been used to further problem the russian -- the ukranian people of their own political freedoms. let's recall how we got to this awful situation. in march of this year, putin used manipulation and military might to annex a region of crimea not because they were about to join nato, not because ukraine was about to join the european union not because ukraine was about to cut economic or historical ties to russia even if it did sign an association agreement with the european union and not because russian-speaking ukrainians were in any danger. no putin took this action because he needed to rally natio

senator portman, senator feinstein, senator schumer deserve credit for their great contribution but the truth is this has been a collective effort of a lot of the members of the committee. indeed, i would daresay the whole committee, and hope that we were successful as soon as we can get the bill to the floor, passing this important legislation. the fight against human trafficking is one of the most important human rights issues of our time. in 1865, the 13th amendment was ratified outlawing slavery in the united states forever. yet nearly 150 years later, thousands of american children will wake up every morning to a life of forced prostitution. today, we are here to help them put an end to that nightmare. at the core the justice for victims of trafficking act is about breaking down the barriers between victims, law enforcement, and society by adopting a holistic approach to fighting domestic human trafficking. if we're going to end slavery in the united states, we need to think big, and always keep the victims in mind. to this end this legislation will tackle the scourge of human traf