the gentleman from rhode island. mr. langevin: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentlelady from florida, mrs. demings. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mrs. demings: thank you so much, mr. speaker. and thank you to my colleague from rhode island, mr. langevin, for this time. mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 4627, and i thank my colleague, mr. donovan, for this important legislation, which contains a critical provision to ensure that our anti-terrorism funds go to their intended purpose. three months ago we heard rumors of plans to use precious homeland security funding to distribute guns to teachers. i introduced language to block this idea and i'm glad to say that this language has indeed been included in h.r. 4627. as a former law enforcement commander, i was assigned to orlando international airport during the 9/11 air tax. i have seen firsthand the vital -- attacks. i have seen firsthand the vital need for our anti-terrorist funding to be used wisely, carefully and prec

the gentleman from rhode island. mr. langevin: i have no further speakers as well and i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. langevin: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, as the terrorist threats evolve so too must our counterterrorism efforts. since the september 11 attacks we've seen that raising public awareness about reporting suspicious activity can be effective at detect, deterring and combating to terrorism in the homeland. i encourage my colleagues to support h.r. 5094 tone sure that d.h.s. strategically engages stake holders to improve suspicious activity reporting. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. again want to thank my colleague, mr. langevin, for his work on this and so many other pieces of bipartisan legislation and the outstanding work he does on the subcommittee and the committee. i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro temp

[inaudible] [inaudible conversations] i want to thank my colleagues from the great state of rhode island for joining me here. as you just heard from e majority leade we will be spending a considerable amount of time here in august. we democrats welcomes this additional time because it gis us the opportunity to address the issue that is on the top of the mind of so many of the american people and one that republicans have badly miss handled up to this point. healthcare. we welcome the opportunity and we will work very hard in august to require republican colleagues to do something about it. in the months ahead here in the nation capital premiums for the american people will be rising across the country as well. summer is the time to act. as you have seen over the last few weeks, state after state has announced healthcare premium increases in each and every time the insurers blame the trump administration and congressional republicans for those hikes. this gives them time to reverse themselves and republicans have big tax breaks to insurance companies but the premiums keep going up. we dem

langevin of rhode island. the chair: the gentleman from rhode island and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from rhode island. mr. langevin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: without objection. mr. langevin: i offer this amendment today to direct $3 million to the office of science of the department of energy for science work being done across the country. these funds would support diverted tests. the fusion community has identified the need for this for diverted testing for a necessary research facility. fusion science, mr. chairman, is the future of energy production offering unique and substantial advantages compared to other advantages. it is safe, clean and sustainable energy source that can provide the united states with limitless energy supply. and the future is closer than we think. the production is a very real possibility within the next 10 years. however, there are outstanding technical issues that must be solved before we harness

langevin of rhode island. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 964, the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from rhode island. mr. langevin: i thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: without objection. mr. langevin: thank you. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. langevin: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to thank the rules committee for making my amendment in order as well as chairwoman granger and ranking member visclosky for your hard work on this important defense appropriations bill. mr. chairman, i offer this bipartisan amendment with my good friends, mr. correa, mr. lieu, ms. shea-porter, mr. ratcliffe and ms. stefanik. in order to secure the d.o.d. cyber scholarship program. they have funded a.s.p. in order to boost the nation's cyber work force through grants. recipients are required to fulfill a service obligation by working in a cybersecurity position at d

in rhode island. not because he thinks everyone believes are valid, but he believes pretty much everyone except for his wife is going to hell for what they believe and maybe that should be punishment enough and so rhode island becomes this sebastian of misfits, jews, baptists, quakers, you know. like roger williams .-dot quakers had to write to live there. one time he spent three days debating them to the extent that i think they wanted to kill themselves, but meanwhile, back home in massachusetts, quakers are actually being hanged. so, he is a very weird unlikable annoying person, but i found him sometimes hard to like, but easy to love. people can do great things and maybe you don't want to have lunch with them. [laughter] [applause]. >> i love that reading the books for the history and i love also the side jon's you take places like bruce springsteen's voice at home and what you learned in all you delve into and i was wondering if you are like writing people like lafayette and winthrop, do you know

and so they boot him out, and another misfit leaving home, he goes to rhode island, and founds rhode island and for a lot of non-hippie-dippie reasons basically establishes freedom of religion in rhode island. not because he thinks everyone's beliefs are valid, but because he believes pretty much everyone except for his wife is going to hell for what they believe, and maybe that should be punishment enough. and so everyone -- so rhode island becomes this sebastian of misfits, jews, baptists, quakers, you know, like roger williams. he thought the quakers had the right to live there. he spent -- one time he spent three days debating them to the extent that i think they wanted to kill themselves, but meanwhile, you know back home in , massachusetts, quakers are actual being hanged on boston common. so, he is a very weird, unlikable, annoying person, but i found him sometimes hard to like, but easy to love. you know. so people can do great things , and maybe you don't want to have lunch with them. [laughter] [applause] sarah: yes, yeah? >> i love that reading the books for the history, an

david cyst silley from rhode island. rhode island. om . mr. cicilline: we have a tradition of welcoming people from all over the world who are fleeing violence and war and repression. it's in fact one of the founding values of our country. and the words on the statue of liberty remind us of that. ve me your tired, your poor, your masses yearning to breathe free. the retched refuse of your teaming shore, send these, the homeless tell pest beside the golden door. and what we are here tonight to do, mr. speaker, is to raise our voices and be sure the american people understand what is under way in our country. the trump administration has put forth a program that -- they call zero tolerance. to explain what this means, people who are fleeing gang olence, persecution, incredible deprivation, domestic violence, travel a long distance, come to america, for the hope of being safe. and we have laws in this country that say, if in fact you are legitimately fleeing violence or persecution, and you can demonstrate that, you are eligible for something cal

langevin of rhode island. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 961, the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin, and a member opposed, each will control phi minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from rhode island. mr. langevin: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: without objection the gentleman is recognized. mr. langevin: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to first of all thank the rule committees for making my amendment in order as well as chairwoman granger and ranking member visclosky for your hard work on this important bill. mr. chairman, i offer this bipartisan amendment with my good friend and colleague mr. gallagher in support of the electromagnetic rail gun, a technology described as revolutionary and a potential multimission game changer for long-range land attack, ballistic missile and cruise missile defense and anti-surface warfare. in brief this weapons system uses mag kneltic fields to launch a guided projectile with sufficient kinetic energy t

the work for the da's office at 350 rhode island has already commenced. what we need are the funds for these two allocations so it's $5.4 million rather than the $7.9 in the first year and those funds will be applied towards the design, the tenant improvements and the actual moves for the various departments including adult probations, police along with the da's office. this would help to exit from the hall of justice which will then help us to demolish and rebuild that building. >> for what reason are you not interested in seeing these funds placed on budget reserve? i understand that there's just -- there's not a detailed spending plan. >> so we provide many pages of detailed planning for the budget analyst. what the funds are needed for are essentially to facilitate the work now. we have some of the leases that are becomiing active as of july 1st. by having these funds available it will allow us to now do the design work for some of the other properties and then to actually fund the tenant improvements directly themselves. the lease budgets are actuall

i yield to my friend from rhode island, mr. langevin to speak in support of the amendment. mr. visclosky: i'm happy to yield to the gentleman from from rhode island for as much time as he consumes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. langevin: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i want to thank the ranking member whose work on this defense appropriations bill and congresswoman granger and thank my colleague, mr. courtney, for his tireless work as the ranking member of the sea power subcommittee and mr. wittman. our submarines are the true unsung heroes and i know that because much of this critical fabrication of these submarines are built in my home state rhode island. admirals say they cannot get enough submarines which are desperately needed across the globe to protect the interest of the united states. they are only able to meet 60% or 65% of the demands of the request of the combatant commanders. despite this urgent number, the number of our fleet is dropping. by 2028, the number of submarines will drop from 52 to 42. how can we support this 20% drop when we have

donovan and the gentleman from rhode island mr. langevin each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. donovan: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. donovan: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized.

democratic congressman from rhode island david cicilline tacked about message heading to the 2018 midterm election. be sure that watch c-span's 7:00ngton journal live at a.m. eastern. join the discuss. coming up tonight on c-span, education secretary betsy devos on the 2018 budget for rt. evolving u.s. mexico relagses with current and form are official fra each country. laterring a i.c.e. director on the mission to enforce immigration laws. senate vote onhe judicial nominations on and on health and 9:45 a.m. human services secretary testifies before the house education and work force committee about his agency's policies and priorities. 2:30 p.m. kentucky senator ra paul leads the homeland financial impact ande hearing oh constitialal implitions of the action under the existing authorization for use of military force. >> on once a, memorial service marking the anniversary of kennedy.tion featured speakers include family, friends, members of congress and former president clinton. watch the rfk50th's memorial 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. on the orgst free c-span radio app. eye believe educ

democratic congressman from rhode island talks about democratic messaging heading into t8 midterm elections. be sure to watch c-span's live atton journal" 7:00 a.m. wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> president trump held the bill signing ceremony at the white house for the childhood cancer survivorship, treatment, access and research active 2018. participants included childhood cancer patients, their families, members of congress, and health and human services members. >> hello, everybody. hello folks. see how nice they are? [laughter] the nicest people in the whole world. believe it. i am pleased to sign into law a childhood cancer survivorship eatment accessnd resrch act of 2018. it is a big deal. very important. the people up here have helped us so much. azart to thank secretary for being here along with members of congress were here with us, including shelley, dean howard, representatives mike kelly, michael mal thank you. and michael burgess. thank you. more than 15000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. tragically, cancer is the leading cause of death by disease amon

then a democratic congressman from rhode island talks about democratic messaging heading into the midterm election. watch "washington journal", live at 7:00 a.m. e dny morning. discussion. >> tonight on c-span2, a senate hearing on the sexual abuse of olympic athletes, tina smith delivers her first floor speech. senator, elizabeth warren talks about the trump administration of deregulation. >> at a senate hearing on the sexual abuse of olympic catholics, former usa gymnastics ent, steve penney invoked his fifth amendment right not to testify. the former teen dr. of the program, larry nasser has been convicted of sexual abuse of athletes while employed by univ. the former

i'm in rhode island, i see the statute, i know some people have died, maybe in rhode island and outside, maybe they have moved to california, i do not want them voting in my state or people pretending to being them in my state. what do i do? >> i do not have a detailed understanding of that, but i understand there is a national database with information provided by all of the states whose list who have died. >> the question also included people who moved. what about them? >> there are a variety of ways within the state. the bureau of motor vehicles has change of address process and under the nvra, if you change your driver's your registration is automatically updated. if you move from cincinnati to cleveland, they are required to notify within 10 days. then you have the ncoa process. they provide an address to the post office. on an annual basis, those addresses get compared to the statewide database. those people get taken care of long before the supplemental process. >> or is that a commonsense argument? >> show what? >> that when you move, you notify someone. had anstate never y stat

so you see the consistency of 350 rhodes island, brennan and bryant, being able to return to an entirely differnt hall of justice site. remember there was a rationale for doing leasing, because we have a long-term vision to bring these units together at 850 bryant in a totally new wonderful resilient building. connece doos. cohen: vhow yo thank you, i try. we did secure riht of first option which was important given the amount of money we are proposing to put in the tenant improveme dithe best we could given conditions under the financing that burdens the property. they couldn't give us a solid tori purchase at a price and date certain. but if they elect to sell the property we have the first option to acquire the property. the numbers $37 a square foot a year, annual increase 3% a year. renewals at 103%, the most recent base rate % fair market rent, whichever is greater, that's what you are more used to seeing. we provided market evice to support the lease rate anticipate occupancy between spring and fall of 2019. this is a pretty robust tenant while for design and delivery, a lot of se

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langevin of rhode island, amendment number 20, by mr. poe of texas. the chair will reduce to two minute votes. the unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 9 offered by the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin on which further proceedings were postponed and the noes prevailed. the clerk: amendment number 9 printed in part a of house port 15-783 offered by mr. langevin of rhode island. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support will rise. a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-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 epresentatives.]

in my state the state of rhode island it has the second highest loan debt ratio per capita of any stateountry so young people are graduating on average with about 35,000 dollars in debt. congressman david cicillline of rhode island and drew ferguson of ga have written a bill to protect borrowers.... it makes absolutely no sense to strip away a license from someone when they're trying to payback their student loans. ferguson says 19 states that have laws allowing state officials to take away state professional, teaching, or drivers licenses for falling behind or being unable to pay back student loans the idea is is you're making it even more difficult for these students to repay their debts and get further behind.. the congressmen say young people have enough challenges after graduating -- and worrying about a career being stripped away shouldn't be one of them. the protecting job opportunities for borrowers act would prevent states from doing that... we've got a real issue here when you take away the license from someone who is trying to earn a living so they can do the very thing we wa

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and the governor of rhode island will not send -- rhode island national guard and the governor of connecticut said he will not send national guard and andrew cuomo will not send new york national guard troops. like governor hoagin in maryland and in virginia and roy coopner north carolina, they also announced today that -- it wasn't just that they wouldn't send national guard in the future, they are actively taking national guard personnel from their states who are on the border right now and they are calling them home. they are rescinding orders and bringing the national guard troops and materials home from the border. and there is no ambiguity as to why the governors are doing it. the governor of north carolina, governor cooper cited, quote, the kuehl policy of tearing children away from parents. the governor of virginia, governor northam said, quote, as lo -- as long as the trump administration continues to enforce this, we will not actively or tacitly support it. so this is just a 24-hour snapshot of what is going on in the country. started as a little trickle last night, the interesting

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president, as we approach the vote on final passage of fiscal year 2019 authorization bill, at the complete of the floor debate on the ndaa last year, i remarked in my closing statement that i was disappointed in the lack of cooperation in the senate. senator mccain and i both hoped that last year we would be able to return to regular order. but in the end, we were disappointed. unfortunately this year, i, and i know many of my colleagues, are frustrated by the inability to be able to bring up debate and vote on worthy amendments. so comparison, during consideration of the fiscal year 1994 national defense act, there were 16 roll call votes on amendments. in 1995 during consideration of the fiscal year 1996 ndaa, there were 20 roll call votes and amendments. and the following year for the fiscal year 1997 ndaa, there were 19 roll call votes and amendments. on this bill there was not a single up-or-down vote on an amendment. i was one of the few senators who was able to debate an amend

congressmanatic from rhode island talks about democratic messaging heading to the 2018 midterm election. be sure that watch c-span's journ live at 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. ♪ >> on this prime primary day one states we will focus on now montana from nbc montana. producer and reporter. good morning to you. >> good morning. to mon tan.it comes a everybody is folk seng happened with the senate today. you describe that tohe vires? autos sure. the, the democrats in senate need to gain two seats. they want to make sure they lose any ground there and na

the decision in rhode island that the federal court upheld that they could break contracts now the state police for retirement and medical benefits. there is a lot of states that are in dire straits. they cannot fulfill this, and now they are going to find a way. i have a reasonable belief that is what the supreme court did. i think they were already contacted. host: let me give jessica a chance to respond to the monetary issue. we are talking potentially billions of dollars that can be collected from consumers going into the coffers of states. guest: that is absolutely right. the money is driving this, no daddy. -- no doubt. perhaps you feel like states have a revenue problem. or perhaps you feel that states have a spending problem. it is certainly much, much easier for them to tax other businesses than to make tough political choices. they would rather tax people who cannot vote them out of office, and they would rather sell those tax coffers been cut programs that are popular with their constituents. no politician like doing that. i think that is exactly right. as far as the supreme c

. >> on facebook they want to know if any rhode islanders are playing.l turn to the, for that. >> i do not see any rhode islanders playing tonight. the rhode island, the house and senate as far as i can tell has not been in this game. they're not playing this year. i have not seen much presence of rhode islanders in this game for a while. >> jack reed 51 democrats lead a beautiful night fo for a game. >> it's a very good crowd here tonight. here comes a 2 - 2. here in the outfield and you can get a sense of its on our cameras. even down the right side. >> there's fans all the way out past the visiting bullpen. >> here is the 2 - 2. it's a second too late. the republicans now have runners on first and second with one out. that's a base hit. >> blake is on first and richmond is quickly back to work. >> he gave steve scalise first aid last year. one of the many heroes of that day. that was just a year ago. >> there quickly behind zero and two. it's a second out of the inning. richmond brings him out. that is the fourth strikeout of the night. without the ba

the clerk: the senator from rhode island, mr. reed, proposes an amendment numbered 2885 to amendment number 2276. mr. reed: i ask consent the reading of the amendment be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: i call apamendment 2273 to the underlying bill. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from oklahoma mr. inhofe for mr. rounds proposes an amendment numbered 2273 to the language proposed to be stricken by amendment number 2282 as modified. mr. cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i'm glad we're making such great progress in the defense authorization bill, and i know some additional work needs to be done. but i wanted to come to the floor and comment briefly on the meeting that occurred this last week, this historic meeting with north korean officials in singapore. president trump, secretary of state pompeo, national security advisor bolton an

i am just asking that are for 350 rhode island. >> that is a new lease cost, yes. >> supervisor cohen: go ahead. continue. >> the second item is we're renegotiating our property lease for the existing 732 brann kz an street property. and that projected increase is about $3737,000. >> supervisor cohen: what is the increase for? just the lan lord? >> cost of living. the lease and rates went up. market value rate goes up. and increase of $100,000 for litigation expenses. litigation expenses include all the different things that go along with prosecuting a case that includes transcript, tran population, expert witness, and everything under the sun. >> supervisor cohen: and the coit funded case management system, have you already received some money for that? >> yes. this is to pay the first year maintenance for the case management system. we already received funding last year to fund and this is the first year of maintenance. >> supervisor cohen: does litigation expenses go up every year? >> pretty much. as we do business with different vendor, they charge us what they chage us, and if th

in other instances, i was dealing with rhode island, the situation, they decided they were not going to correct it. go territorytry to by territory. so consumers are not deceived on the money being paid into these funds. those who do not have sufficient funding to operate call centers. you have tremendous problems, longer call times. lower morale. at risk.fety put today withetter out mexico, trying to address their situation. they had a particular problem. are not a diverter. they do not look to be. we are trying to decipher what the reason is. we do to correct it? some states, new york, my old state. they are clear they do not have any intention of changing behavior. bad actors, like i talked to read we have them here. it is at the fcc level, friends in congress who have been picking up the issue. one way to do that is to say you cannot qualify for grants. >> there is existing program that has that. from being a number eligible for this program, modernizing their equipment. level.t multimedia, pictures for public safety individuals. see what everyone has. congress made a clear decis

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cicilline seven children and teens are killed by gun violence. 40 more are shot and survived. most of the time the incident could have been prevented if the gun involved was unloaded and locked away safely. 1.7 million american children live in a home with a loaded unlocked gun and three out of every four children ages 5 to 14 know where guns are kept in their home. so that's why today i'm introducing a resolution to recognize june 21 as national ask day, the first day of summer, to encourage parents to ask a simple question, to anyone who is responsible to a children, is there a loaded, unsecured gun in your house? asking this simple question will help save lives and reduce the level of gun violence in our country. this is a commonsense idea that both democrats and republicans ou be able to agree on, because no matter what our politics is, we all believe our children should be free fro

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and of course then i yield to the senator from rhode island. the first vote i believe we're going to have is going to be the reed amendment. and i do oppose it. this amendment would require congressional authorization for the development of nuclear weapons for one simple reason. congress has already required to authorize the development of nuclear weapons in each year's authorization appropriations bill. so the debate really isn't about the authorization. it's about the nuclear posture review. the nuclear posture review calls for the united states to develop a low-yield nuclear capability which some in congress are against. and that's fine. that's what this system, that's what this vote is all about. we should debate it. we have debated it in the past. certainly in our committee we have, and that's the reason that it is on the committee and would have to be taken off here on the floor if that's the desire of the majority of members. that is not my desire. and that's just what we did. the armed services committee considered an amendment to limit

in rhode island this is not covered by the state. health care professionals in providence, rhode island, already have pain medications available but no guarantee they are taken. there is a recommendation but no garneteesm my amendment simply -- guarantee. my amendment simply makes sure our veterans get that guarantee. i urge my colleagues to join in amendment.this -- guarantee. rib. i yield to the gentlelady from florida. ms. wasserman schultz: i thank the gentleman for yielding. pain management education for the prescription of opioids in the amendment. rib. i yield to the gentlelady from florida. ms. wasserman schultz: i thank the gentleman for yielding. pain management education for the prescription of opioids in the v.a. could help with opioid abuse, that's clear. the v.a. has guidelines regarding the management of opioid therapy for chronic pain and provides clear and comprehensive evidence incorporating current information and practices for practitioners throughout the d.o.d. and the v.a. health care systems. these guidelines a

host: democratic congressman from rhode island talks about democratic messaging heading into t8 midterm elections. be sure to watch c-span's live atton journal" 7:00 a.m. wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> president trump held the bill signing ceremony at the white house for the childhood cancer survivorship, treatment, access and research active 2018. participants included childhood cancer patients, their families, members of congress, and health and human services members. >> hello, everybody. hello folks. see how nice they are? [laughter] the nicest people in the whole world.

we heard about them being placed in michigan, new york, rhode island, elsewhere. that's the reason we came together as a group of mayors to say enough is enough. this is ridiculous. this is not what we're about as a nation. >> so that was a few days ago. do you think there's any progress in trying to figure out how to connect children to their families? and do you know anything about what's happening to those children? we can't get any specific information, reporters can't go in there to do a proper job of figuring out what's happening to the most vulnerable? >> it's complete chaos, i think is the word to use. and to the point raised to your question, we're not talking about property. we're talking about someone's children. my wife and i have 10-year-old twins i cannot imagine what it would be like to be separed from them for such a long period of time. even separated for a short time would be traumatic for any parent or young child. it's clearly a chaotic situation, we talked about the first travel ban earlier in the interview, that first travel ban when it came

. >> is senator from rhode island. thank you for the senator for his extraordinary leadership obviously year all fired by sherman mccain with his incredible leadership over the last many years but and very tyollegial and activity and then operating under those rules and a close connection to the department of defense that this is about the men and women in uniform in united states. every year we pass the bill because the leadership but every year they see this as the only train leaving town and we have toan keep in balance this is about the department of defense. with the national security administration and other agencies in we like to open the floor to amendment that are closely connected to the department of defense and that is the adl. what you have spend the time to get to the bill but we will get it done and we hope toho be able to accommodate our colleagues as much as possible and then to be directed once again to the activity and the needs of the men and women of the armed forces. if we do that we have a very s

host: we will go to jack in providence, rhode island, democrat. caller: hello? can you hear me? host: you are on the air. caller: ok, i would like to take issue with commerce and ted lieu -- congressman lieu on this north korean situation. if you heard secretary of state pompeo, he indicated yesterday that north korea is going to have to denuclearize its arsenal. it's going to have to be verified. once that process is going on, they basically can't turn back. now donald trump -- and you know this, mr. lieu. you are smart. i watched you. he told lindsey graham that he is going to solve this problem "one way or another" by the year 2020, his first time. its meaning that they agree to denuclearize. my wife happens to be chinese, too. my ancestry is german. secondly, if they don't, you know as well as i do -- you are a smart guy. ronald reagan dealt with the soviet union. he took care of them. host: hurt your point. let us have the congressman response. d. guest: any nuclear deal will take a number of years to implement. the president said the iran deal did not meet his standards. i

rhode island, elsewhere.the reads we came together as a group of mayors to say enough is enough. this is ridiculous. this is not what we're about as a nation. we need rational immigration reform. we do need to protect our borders, but we need rational immigration reform. >> what about people having access to these children? none of the press has been able to see them. we don't really know what's going on. even congress people are told that they have to give the authorities two weeks' notice to be able to see these children. >> we were told the same thing, christiane. we were told that we needed to -- we threw this meeting together in about 48 hours. we thought it was imperative that we speak immediately because of the incarceration of the children, but secondly, knowing that immigration reform is supposed to be voted on this week in the house of representatives -- in fact, i think today. so, we wanted to have a voice representing cities from both sides of the united states, east and west coast, and central am

. >> we will go to jack, providence, rhode island, a democrat. >> yes, hi. hello. can you hear me? >> we can, jack, you are on the air. >> caller: okay, thank you, okay. i would like to take issue with congressman lieu on this north korean situation. if you heard secretary of state pompeo, he indicated yesterday that north korea is going to have to denuclearize its arsenal. okay? and it is going to have to be verified. and once that process is going on, they basically can't turn back. now donald trump -- and you know this mr. lieu, you're a smart guy, i've watched you, that he told lindsey graham that he's going to solve this problem, quote, one way or the other, by the year 2020. his first term, meaning, that if they agree to denuclearize and their people get rich. my wife happens to be chinese too. my ancestry is german. and secondly if they don't, you know as well as i do, you're a smart guy, talking about nuclear power, ronald reagan dealt with the soviet union. he took care of them. >> jack, we heard your point. let's have the congressman respond. >> thank you, jack, for your

for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island eek recognition? mr. langevin: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. langevin: mr. speaker, i rise today to decry last week's supreme court decision in the hio voting case. mr. speaker, the ruling appears to have willfully misinterpret the national voter registration act of 1993. it lays ways to congressional intent and sets a dangerous precedent of being permissive of voter suppression across the country. the nvra was enacted with the expressed purpose of increasing voter registration and protecting against voter purges and prohibits states from removing voters by the rolls. yet, this is exactly what the state of ohio is doing. ohio officials are purging voters if they do not vote in three consecutive federal elections. i believe that every person should vote in every election, but they may be reasons why they have not, for whatever reason, and we should be

i was dealing with rhode island yesterday in the situation where they decided they're not withstanding all the promises early in the year they decided they're not going to correct it. call the program something different and renamed the program. we have state and territory by territory. in the bigger problem is they don't have sufficient funding to operate their call centers. tremendous problems in longer call time, lower morale for employees. public safety is putting it at risk. we have a new letter out today with new mexico trying to address their situation where they had a particular problem in 2017 in 2018 going forward don't look to be a diverter ever again. we are trying to decipher the particular reasons they had a problem or what led them to practice in the past and what can we do to correct it. i was in new york. my old state and they are very clear they don't have intention of changing behavior. that will require more activity and forceful action like bad actors in the previous conversation. we have to figure out how the fcc level are working with friends in congress who've b

. >> well -- >> i'm in rhode island. i see the statute. i know some people have died maybe in rhode island. maybe outside. maybe they've moved to california. i don't want them voting in my state or people pretending to be them voting in myat what do i do? >> i do not have a detailed understanding of this. it wasn't really part of the issue. but i understand there's a nation national database. >> what about people -- the justice's question was also people who moved. what about them? >> people who move, there are a variety of ways that you fin them. ifhey move within t the first thing that happens is the bureau of motor vehicles has a change of address. and under the mva if you change your driver's license address, your registration is automatically updated. you're registered if you move from cincinnati to cleveland, you're fine. >> how often do you change your driver's license? >> when people move it a different place in ohio, they're required to do it within ten days. whether they do that, i don't know. but then you have the ncoa process.

and also a delegation letter from the entire rhode island delegation to administrator verma. mr. chairman, this is important to us. it's not -- >> i'll make that part of the record fr record. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> mr. chairman, i know we went to a second round. >> no, we're not going to a second round. i think we've got to respect -- >> what? >> can i ask one question? >> sure, you can ask one question. but i'm not going to a second round. i think the secretary has been more than gracious. he's answered every question. and he's answered them well as far as i'm concerned. >> mr. chairman, thank you. i know the secretary has been here awhile. just very briefly, the issue of children at the border and the separation policy. i've said the policy straight from the pit of hell. i think most people agree with that. i know the executive order is in place. the problem, though, is zero tolerance led to the problem of separation. zero tolerance will continue to separate children. and unless you change and have alternatives to that policy. but here is my question. you've read,