raskin: i got you. i read it too. that's what jumped out at me. do you think we could define it with sufficient precision, to map off, to rope off the kinds of cases we see in the new jersey case, with the trump attempt to take over the widow's house, or in ms. barnes' case? mr. buzbee: i'm not sure. accounting ical keeps track of all money so they know which pool money is coming from, then it might be quite easy for governments to say, this is, you know this money is from the federal government and be prohibited from using it. on the other hand, if it goes generally to a department in which is handling public housing and vouchers and the rest, and some development efforts, then it might be difficult to handle. mr. raskin: that would then argue for the more sweeping approach that seems to be embody ined in the legislation now -- embodied in this legislation now, which is don't go down this road at all because you're going to lose federal money in general. mr. buzbee: i don't think in the end -- mainly t

raskin: i may proceed. well, look, the substantive issues at stake are are obviously complex and i would invite americans to research what's going on. but if you have the time to study the more than a century that we had fraudulently joinder rules and go in and examine the bill as submitted by the majority, then just consider the procedure that has gotten us to this point. there has been no hearing on this bill. there has been no call for this bill by anybody who has been injured in a civil tort case. and all of the groups that try to stand up for citizens against the largest corporations that are bank rolled by billions of dollars and force everybody into arbitration and shut the courthouse door, all of those groups are opposed to the legislation because they understand what it's going to do and make it far more difficult for people to prosecute civil claims when they have been injured in claims like a sexual harassment case or a sexual violence case, a discrimination case, an asbestos poisoning case. it w

raskin: mr. chair. the chair: the gentleman from maryland. mr. raskin: excuse me. thank you very much. you know, we obviously have a different advantage point on what is taking -- vantagepoint on what is taking place. on our side we look out over america in the courts and we see millions of our neighbors, our fellow citizens who are suffering the effects of asbestos poisoning, which is real, not imaginary, lead poisoning, which is real, not imagine near, manufacturing defects by -- imagine near, manufacturing defects by automobile manufacturers and others and they look at it and all they see is fraud and they want to put the class action mechanism in a straitjacket to make it extremely difficult if not impossible for people to pursue class actions. they want to put the names of asbestos victims up online for the whole world to see. obviously we got a division of opinion within the legislative branch. what about the judiciary itself? well, the judicial conference of the united states, the policymaking arm of the federal judiciary and the american bar association bot

raskin: ms. waters, thank you for your zealous work on behalf of your constituents and all americans. i turn now to our colleague if new york mr. nadler, a leading move the house judiciary committee. mr. nadler: madam speaker, there is an obvious cancer at the heart of the credibility, perhaps even of the he yit macy of the trump administration that cancer consists of questions pertaining to the relationship of this administration with russia. we know that the russians intervened in the last election with the goal of advantaging trump's campaign over hillary clinton's. we know that there were numerous trump campaign transition team and administration officials in contact with the russians. prior to, during, and after the campaign. we know that there's a pattern of these individuals at first denying such contact but later after being forced to come clean admitting them. examples to date include former national security advisor michael flynn, attorney general jeff sessions, and roger stone who admi

raskin: thank you again, mr. speaker. this is the final amendment to the bill which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. if adopted the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. the purpose of this amendment is simply to carve out from the provisions of the legislation any rules that we have adopted in order to prevent conflicts of interest and in order to promote financial transparency and disclosure by executive branch employees. mr. speaker, since i became a member of the house in january and joined the judiciary committee, we have been subjected to an onslaught of bills seeking to free corporate polluters, lead paint and asbestos manufacturers, and other abusers of the rights of consumers and citizens from having to face the people they injure in court and having to comply with the rules that have been worked out over the decades to protect our air, our water, our land, our people, our health, and our workplaces. in most cases, we don't even get hearings on these bills. the judiciary c

raskin. mr. raskin: at this point i'd like to yield to my colleague, mr. cummings. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: i thank the gentleman from maryland for yielding time. i support this amendment to exempt rules under the clean air act from this bill. according to a 2011 study by the environmental protection agency, the central benefits of the clean air act exceed costs by factor of more than 30-1. the high benefits exceed costs by 90 times. clean air provides exceptional economic benefits because it results in the improved health and productivity of americans and reduces medical exsmenses for air pollution related health problems. the clean air act will prevent thousands of early deaths, and quality and health benefits, including the prevention of heart attacks and reduction of pulmonary diseases like chronic bronchitis which will grow over time. representative raskin's amendment, which would exempt all rules that relate to the clean air act, is based on common sense, cleaner air benefits every man, woman, and child in the country. the environm

raskin: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i'm delighted to have the time on behalf of the minority and the progressive caucus. we have a number of very distinguished representatives who want to talk about what is going on with people's health care in america and the attacks leveled against it this week in congress. before we do, i've agreed to yield just one minute to my distinguished colleague from new to who has something else do but i would like to turn it over to him. mr. jeffries: i thank the distinguished gentleman from maryland for yielding. it was all a dream. i used to read "word up" gazine, salt&pepa in the limousine saturday -- every saturday rap attack. those were the words of the late, great, notorious b.i.g. bigie smalls. frank white. the king of new york. he died 20 years ago today. in a tragedy that occurred in los angeles. but his words live on forever. i've got the privilege of representing the district where bigie smalls was raised. we know he went from negative to positive. and emerged as one of the world'

raskin, for five minutes. mr. raskin: thank you very much. i'm indeed the congressman from n.i.h. from the eighth congressional district in maryland and the n.i.h. is very much in the heart of my district. being the representative from this area, i know intimately and i keep close track of all of the research that's going on into leukemia, lung cancer, colon cancer, cystic fibrosis, asthma, bulimia, drug abuse, alcohol abuse. it's just extraordinary the range of scientific inquiries and endeavors taking place at the n.i.h. i also want to speak as a survivor, and i wasn't aware of a survivor caucus, i would be delighted to join you, mr. desaulnier, in that. i had colon cancer back in 2010. i was then teaching at american university law school. a state senator. sontag n essay by susan which she said something that was very poignant which is everybody's born with two passports. a passport to the land of the living, and the healthy, and a passport to the land of the sick. and all of us are going to have to use both passports at some point in our lives. what's striking to me is that th

raskin: mr. mcgovern, thank you very much. mr. speaker, we're here to discuss the rule for voting on trumpcare, ryancare, whatever they are calling it today based on whoever's billing to put their name to t but we learn upon arrival, the rules are, there are no rules. it's lord of the flies day here in the house of representatives. they want to make us vote on bill that no one's even read. no one can find it. anything goes. the whole process has been a disaster. a debacle. a mockery of democracy. no hearings. no witnesses. no experts, no process, no deliberation, and now no bill even. but the american people are saying no way. the polls show people are turning dramatically against that wreck of legislation that is missing washington today. yesterday we heard about the buffalo bribe. the hudson hustle. the kinderhook kick back. every men manner to try to round up votes from members who know their political careers are in danger for going anywhere near this bill. what do they propose to do? we know they want to kick 24 million ameri

with that, i will yield back to ongressman raskin. mr. raskin: we salute you for the hard work. mr. speaker, how much time do i have left? i just want to tie up some loose ends here by exploring a few of the points that mr. ellison raced. one of the very messy features of this legislation that is barreling through congress is that the g.o.p. leadership understand stood thousand the pre-existing e on conference. that is going to be a mainstay. people should not be denied and that is the reason they should get health care. they understand that is politically toxic. but they continue want to have the mandate for individual to purchase insurance. that's been the major problem they have with the a.c.a. and can't stand that. but guess what, you can't have one without the other, if you believe in economics, they will have to concede that, why? if i'm a healthy young person, i would say, an insurance company has to cover me. perfectly healthy and until maybe one day i have a problem, i'm in an accident where i get a diagnose and i go to an insurance company and they cover me. they kept the

raskin the the counselor to refer their clients to those who do have that understanding of domestic abuse>> in illinois stylus have to undergo one hour of training for part of their license. it has to be renewed every two years. in new york there is no law, but in new york city the administration for child services had a similar program in washington heights. >> with any feel good like this, i think it comes out of the gate strong and people feel like you're going to increase your calls and reporting, but if you look into the details in illinois, it's one hour adding on to their continuing education. i don't know what the hairstyles go through but i have a number of real state licenses and i do continuing at every two years. there there is no bigger waste of time. >> have to get to the point where you actually want to tell someone you let your hair down literally, it's the best venue. you tall your tell your secrets to your hairdresser. i know i do. that person is the best person to identify a problem with the relationship and start the conversation. >> i wonder how many people are going

raskin: thank you. i think the message is getting through to the american people. 24 million of us are about to lose their health care if this legislation goes through. in my home state of maryland, 375,000 people are ask estimated to be on the chopping block in terms of their health insurance. n my district, we could have 75,000 or 80,000 people lose their health care. we were able to cut the uninsured rate in half with passage of the affordable care act seven years ago. and now they want to turn the clock back. and take us in exactly the wrong direction. if a foreign power like russia, for example, tried to throw 24 million americans off of their health care, we would consider it an act of sabotage, aggression and war. but this is something that's happening inside the country. and nobody knows why they want to do that to older people with this age tax. why they want to do it to children, to people who have special health needs, to the sick. it's also getting through that there's going to be $600 billi

raskin: mr. mcgovern, thank you very much. mr. speaker, we're here to discuss the rule for voting on trumpcare or ryancare or whatever. they are calling it today based on whoever is willing to put their name to t but we learn upon arrival the rules are, there are no rules. it's lord of the flies day here in the house of representatives. they want to make us vote on a bill that no one's even read. no one can find it. anything goes. the whole process has been a disaster. a debacle. a mockery of democracy. no hearings. no witnesses. no experts. no process. no deliberation. and now no bill even, but the american people are saying no way. the polls show people are turning dramatically against that wreck of legislation that is missing in washington today. yesterday we heard about the buffalo bribe. the hudson hustle. the kinder hook kick back. every manner to try to round up votes from members who know their political careers are in danger for going anywhere near this bill. what do they propose to do? what we know is they want to kick 2

raskin. thank you, congresswoman. we are proud of the leadership you are showing in both washingtons in resisting the terrible cuts to the domestic budget to the people of the united states and in showing eadership also especially in dding american values when t comes to immigration and affording a refuge to people fleeing religious and political oppression. you are a true leader and i'm proud of you. and yite grateful that you are sharing a couple of minutes to talk about the astonishing news of the day, which is the most dramatic and draconian budget -- offered perhaps in our -- and what exactly will be cut with these budget proposals. i wanted to start with a little exchange that took place today mulvaney and i had a press conference and he was asked about the implications of these billions and billions of dollars of cuts, on meals and wheels. he was asked about one specific program and he had no problem basically casting meals and wheels to the curbside saying, quote, it's just not showing any results, which is wh

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from the democrats range from sort of mixed to maddened by the president's speech tonight, and jamie raskin from maryland and montgomery county sort of summed up the democratic response in his level of frustration of what trump staid tonight versus what we have seen so far. >> i felt like i was witnessing an inaugural or, you know a state of the union speech in the hunger games or something like that. >> reporter: you will not be surprised to hear the republicans for the delegation here and across the country loved the speech tonight. they loved it not just in the substance but also in the style. it was the donald trump that the congressional republicans have wanted to see for a very long time. he was restrained, and he didn't get caught up in the petty personal grievances that have sometimes sidetracked him from the personal issues. you heard that from andy harris, a republican from maryland. >> i heard a lot of objectives i think we can all agree with. we didn't hear much on how to get there or how to do it, which was a lot like the trump campaign where he promised extraordinary things bu

raskin: yes, i would. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. raskin: i move to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on adjournment. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. mr. raskin: i would ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the noes have it. the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 308. the nays are 98. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 314. the nays a

raskin, to get his two cents worth in your. >> thank you so much, mr. conyers. welcome to the witnesses. indeed a very engaging and fascinating subject before us today. i'm particularly interested in what the witnesses have to say with respect to developments in the states since the kelo decision. as i recall, kelo, the court set up database -- everybody seems to agree that if you have the government just nakedly taking property from a in getting it to be, everybody seems to agree. on the other end of the spectrum if you have the government that is developing for a public purpose like a bridge or a road or a park or whatever it might become that it can be taken with just compensation under the clause and then the question in the case was what happens if you have a general social purpose for redevelopment of a committee or neighborhood and you're taking one persons property that may not even be quote blighted, which is been the traditional justification for doing this. and it ends up in the hands of another private party as part of an overall development scheme a

raskin, thank you. the national institutes of health has a stall ar representative and so do the people of maryland. as you told your own story of one of the dreaded diseases, i'm delighted to see you stand here in good health and you have recovered from that. and i suspect that recovery was in good health at the outset and the research that was done in the preceding years through the national institutes of health. we have seen a decline in cancer deaths as a result of that research. we -- i want to take a moment just to talk about where we are. we had a huge debate last week on repealing the affordable care act. and what it would mean to americans and a lot of that debate centered around the cost of medical services. tragically, one of the ways that the proponents of repealing the affordable care act would save oney is to reduce the medicaid proom. in different ways but the end result was to reduce the medicaid program. 60% of the medicaid program is for people in long-term care facilities. a good perc

raskin talked about health care and the affordable care act. and during his speech, the president unfortunately renewed the theme that the affordable care act has been a disaster. and he talked about his ideas for health care. and he said some things that all of us could agree with. he said we deserve health care that lowers cost for people. i would like that. he said we deserve health care that increases quality of care. absolutely. but, unfortunately, neither the president nor republicans in this chamber have offered us a replacement plan. to repeal the affordable care act, which has provided so much benefit to people, more than 20 million americans gained health care through the affordable care act, but if republicans succeed in repealing it, 30 million people will lose it. 150 million will see their protections stripped away leaving them vulnerable. you cannot preekt the most expensive and the most valuable provisions of the affordable care act if you do not continue to keep the pool large enough full of healthy people so those provisions a

jamie raskin joins us on president trump's items particularly the affordable care act and immigration policy and arizona republican congressman, paul gosar on appealing the aca and energy and environmental policies under the trrm administration and republican congress. be sure to watch "washington journal" live thursday morning. join the discussion. >> british prime minister theresa may was asked about the rise of anti-semitism on university campuses and she took questions from the house of comm commons. >> questions to the prime minister. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister. >> mr. speaker, i'm sure the whole house would like to join me in wishing people in the uk and across the world a happy st. david's day. i'm sure the whole house -- i'm sure the whole house will also want to join me in paying tribute to our former colleague, sir gerald coughman, who died over the weekend. he was an outstanding parliamentarian, a committed mp who dedicated his live to the future of his constituents and as father of the house his experience will be very much missed across this house and our thoughts

local democratic congressman jamie raskin has issued a report saying in america we don't arrest artworkstart of spring means the return of some farmers markets. but that late winter cold snap could have hurt some of those crops. local farmers tell us how they're doing and what's at risk. >>> and the mural on the side of ben's chili bowl were removed. now there are some thoughts about wt should replace it. ha >>> it's a friendship forged from tragedy. a little girl's inbreakable bond with the man who saved her more than a decade ago. 2005, 3-year-old la shea brown gave a big hug to an air force jumper after he rescued her and others from hurricane katrina. member of the junior rotc. she chose the sergeant to be her escort to the group's annual ball. >> he means a lot to me. he's more like a family member than a friend. >> i'm credited with over 1100 lives saved. i have over 300 combat missions. you know what, though? none of it matters. the thing that matters is i got a hug from a little girl during katrina. that eclipses everything that's ever happened to me. >> he says he spent years t

mike: speakers include jamie ra isekin who was he can -- raskin who was heckled. >> he called the crowd paid protesters. >> this is baloney. they won't accept the election results. >> no one has to pay me to be out here in the freezing cold. i should be at home working, home schooling my kids. feel free. i will you my address. send the check. mike: this protest happened before the attorney general announced he would recuse himself. but the protesters today made clear they would not stop demonstrating until after j sessions resigns. reporting outside the department of justice, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. alison: thank you. we want to get back to breaking news from oxon hill, maryland, and anna-lysa gayle at the senior potomac high school where a teenager has been killed. anna-lysa? anna-lysa: that is right. the boy in his teens was shot and killed just outside the southview apartments in the 1400 block of southview drive before 3:00 p.m. neighbors believe it was a driveby shooting but police are trying to figure out if it was random or targeted. there are several kids in the neighbor

policy issues that impact you, coming up thursday morning, maryland democratic congressman, jamie raskin joins us on president trump's items particularly the affordable care act and immigration policy and arizona republican congressman, paul gosar on appealing the aca and energy and environmental policies under the trrm administration and republican congress. be sure to watch "washington journal" live thursday morning. join the discussion. >> british prime minister theresa may was asked about the rise of anti-semitism on university campuses and she took questions from the house of comm commons. >> questions to the prime minister. >> mr. speake

raskin, to get his two cents worth in. >> thank you, so much, mr. coniers. welcome to the witnesses. it's indeed a very engaging and fascinating subject before us today. i'm particularly interested in what the witnesses have to say with respect to developments in the states since the kilo decision. as i recall kilo, the court set out kind of a tie polling of answers to different kind of situations. everybody seems to agree that if you have the government just nakedly taking "a's" property and giving it to "b" that runs afoul of the taking clause. everyone seems to agree on the other end of the spectrum that if you have the government developing for a public purpose like a bridge or a road or a park or what it might be, that it can be taken with just compensation under the takings clause. and then the question in the case was what happens if you have a general social purpose for redevelop meant of a community or neighborhood? and you're taking one person's property that may not even be, quote, blighted, which has been the traditional justification for doing t

coming up thursday morning, maryland democratic congressman jimmy raskin joined us to s' strategy democrat on key items. particularly on repealing and replacing the formal care act and foreign policy. repealing efforts to replace the ac as well as changes in environmental and energy policies under the trump administration and republican congress. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live beginning at 7 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> sunday night on q&a, wall street journal investigator talks about his front-page story, the rise and fall of a k street and again, about the career of evan march. >> a herd murmurs about this guys lifestyle for a while. i watch and wait and see if anything else became public. about this guy. and a year later i started looking into his life and his campaign donations and spending and what made him want to watch drug company lobbyists. c-span's q&a. >> tonight the bipartisan policy center presented former vice president joe biden with their annual congressional patriot award. which recognizes political courage and leadership. he ta

raskin: thank you very much, congresswoman jayapal. you've been such a sensational leader within the democratic caucus and within the progressive caucus. especially on the issues of immigration and the rights of refugees. and it is such an honor to be able to serve with you. i appreciate being able to spend some moments just reflecting on what took place in our chamber last night. with the president's speech. we should start by giving credit where credit is due. this speech was not american carnage two. it w aasiro ulsa orllf e olt d apocalypc imagy anrhetorith w saw inhe inaugural address. hats off to the president's new speech writer, whoever that may be. however, having said that, i think it's simply old wine in a new bottle. steve basic extremist bannon infrastructure governed that address. despite the fact that the manners ha improved considerably. when i thought about president trump's speech in this chamber last night, i thought about george or well. not because of "1984 "ing request. although ied a might -- admit my copy of thi

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raskin: that huge thro ghmbings of brave russians, including hundreds, arrested and jailed by vladimir putin, were protesting those running the country, a key target, demetri who has yachts, mansions worth more than $1 billion. we should be standing with the protesters, but the corrupt autocrats of russia have found good friends of international businessman donald trump whose administration is experiencing a spreading staph infection. isgraced michael flynn appeared at russia events. and former c.e.o. of exxonmobil, a close friend of vladimir putin, who was awarded in 2013 a title of mobility called the russian order of friendship. paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager, who advanced the agenda of russia and russian oligarchs. we should be standing with the protesters. 2/3 want to see a complete 9/11-style investigation into the russian connection and we owe them no less. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentl

policy issues that impact you, coming up thursday morning, maryland democratic congressman, jamie raskin joins us on president trump's items particularly the affordable care act and immigration policy and arizona republican congressman, paul gosar on appealing the aca and energy and environmental policies under the trrm administration and republican congress. be sure to watch "washington journal" live thursday morning. join the discussion. >> british prime minister theresa may was asked about the rise of anti-semitism on university campuses and she took questions from the house of comm commons. >> questions to the prime minister. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister. >> mr. speaker, i'm sure the whole house would like to join me in wishing people in the uk and across the world a happy st. david's day. i'm sure the whole house -- i'm sure the wle