we saw happen was an amendment coming from sean maloney.s not tied to the exact same language, but it is born of that. moment just had in the -- head amendment on the floor of the appropriations bill. this happened thursday. guest: it said you cannot use federal -- contractors are discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender gendertion or general -- identity. they shouldn't get money from federal contract. it's part of the same place. it came out as a latebreaking thing on thursday morning. those after there was a very emotional debate about it a few days before. republicansd is untilfor the amendment the time for the amendment vote was stretched out. you sully it yes folks at taking down until he lost by one. this has become a thing where people on both sides are saying there other things we have to do. there are democrats saying we need to bring this up again. we need to shame on the republicans upset now. they on the wrong side of history. are saying there are other places with the president has overstepped his authority h

so what you saw happened was an amendment from sean maloney who -- it's not specifically tied to the expected -- to the exact same language but it is born of that frustration that came up. democrats from new york put an amendment on the floor for this appropriations bill. this happened on thursday morning. it said, you cannot use -- contracts that are discriminating on that basis of sexual orientation or gender getting should not be taxpayer dollars on federal contracts. direct hit on russell but it is born of the same place. after there was an emotional debate about it a few days before. enough republicans voted for the amendment that it seemed like it had won, until the time for the amendment vote was stretched out and he started seeing the yes votes ticking down. so now this has become a thing where people on both sides are saying, there are other things to do here. democrats say that we need to bring it up again, shame on the republicans who voted no. and this people on the more conservative end who say, there are places where the president overstepped his authority having to do

i thank sean patrick maloney for his partnership on this legislation and i certainly thank chairman upton and ranking member pallone of the energy and commerce committee for leading this and other bipartisan bills to passage today that address this pressing national issue. this bill and the larger package together are a great step forward in the fight against the scurge ever drug addiction. in my home state of new jersey, we face a drug epidemic that is hitting many communities hard and that is true across the entire nation. this crisis strains law enforcement and taxpayer resources and of course, tragically cuts too many lives short. h.r. 4976 targets opioids addiction's strong ties to prescription drug abuse and the issue of overprescription. studies have shown health care providers write nearly 300 million opioids prescriptions a year in this country. that number is truly staggering. our legislation will make sure that the food and drug administration rigorously reviews the benefits and the risks of opioids pain medications and how they are communicated to prescribers and patients. the

legislation to fund the veterans programs for this year and amendment did i democratic congressman sean maloneyf new york that would ban lgbt in contracting. and that is what we call sometimes a poison pill that you put an amendment into legislation and then people vote against the overall bill. well, they not that narrowly got that amendment out of the bill in the va. and then passed it, but those came home to roost on the energy and water bill. and they defeated this overall bill. the final vote was 305-112. the problem was last night that the maloney amendment passed. it became part of that bill and that became a poison pill to the legislation. and this is where house speaker paul ryan said. >> earlier i stood up here and said some bills might fail because we're not going to tightly control the process and predetermine the outcome around everything around here. well, that's what happened here today. >> ryan criticized democrats for voting for the maloney amendment on the lgbt issues but then not supporting the overall piece of legislation. democratic california congressman lucille said,i cou

now, last night democrat sean maloney, the author of the amendment, offered this again to another spendingill, made some small modifications and it got adopted. republicans in response pushed forward their own plan to reaffirm federal support for that north carolina bathroom law that prohibits transgender folks from using bathrooms of their choice. both of those got included into the annual spending bill. what we saw was a final passage vote go down very, very hard. this spending bill went down in the senate more than -- i'm sorry, in the house, and more than 300 house members voted against it throwing the annual spending process into disarray. the leadership, republican leadership, said this is part of paul ryan's commitment to allow for votes of all kinds, open up the floor process, and let people -- let the house express its will but it really goes to show it's also a big problem and a big challenge for paul ryan going forward as they try to, you know, do the basic job of governance which is funding the government and dealing with just major national issues like this one. we'll hear wha

during the debate, new york congressman sean patrick maloney offered an amendment intended to reverse language that was added to the defense authorization bill which the house passed last night. we spoke with a capitol hill reporter to learn more. host: the u.s. house got rowdy with the defense spending bill. , tellng it for "the hill" us what that fight is all about. >> two years ago, president obama issued an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against members of the lgbt community. house republicans inserted an amendment into this year's defense bill that states religious organizations and other contractors for the federal government cannot be discriminated against on the basis of religion and the lgbt community and democrats interpreted that as a potential opportunity that would open up discrimination against the lgbt community. host: that came up in the motion to recommit late wednesday in the defense authorization bill that was shot down, the authorization bill passed and then again it came up as an amendment this time once again it was sean patri

the amendment sponsored democrat sean patrick maloney of new york tweet every single republican who voted against my amendment should be ashamed of themselves. your children will remember your hate. >>> let's switch gears and get a check of the weather. it is friday! the weekend is upon us. what you got? >> i'll get to the forecast in a second. i want to start off anyone who is interested still. the skies have been clear over the eastern mediterranean so good for searching today and sun sets at 6:00 to 7:00 and when the cloud move in and hopefully find more information during the day today. >>> back home to the northern gulf. big storms in mobile alabama gusts but that scale of that system. also we will watch the warmer conditions moving into the mid-atlantic today. a beautiful day. a lot better than what you're going to get over the upcoming weekend. the heavy rains in the south. saturday, in the areas of the mid-atlantic. and possibly creep up towards southern new england late into saturday afternoon and saturday night and then on sunday, that is still kind of lingering here in the east

authorization bill passed and then again, it came up as an amendment this time once again it was sean patrick maloneythe , congressman democratic , congressman, bringing forth an amendment. what was he trying to do? cristina marcos: that is right. last night was the defense authorization, democrats used a procedural maneuver that would have amended the defense authorization to eliminate that republican provision that was intended, that was framed as promoting religious freedom. however maloney, who is openly gay, was warning that this was personal for him and that, you know, this could open up discrimination against people like him. so with the military construction veterans affairs funding bill, he was trying to prohibit any funds from being used to go against the executive order president obama issued. host: and the new york congressman's amendment came up for a vote. you saw it on c-span, your headline captures some of the affair at thehill.com. chaos in the house after g.o.p. votes down lgbt measure, linking to our video. what happened in that vote? why was that vote unusual? cristina marcos: so

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authorization bill passed and then again it came up as an amendment this time once again it was sean patrick maloney, the democratic congressman, bringing forth an amendment. what was he trying to do? guest: last night was the defense authorization, democrats used a procedural maneuver that would have amended the defense authorization to eliminate that republican provision that was intended, framed as promoting religious freedom. maloney, who is openly gay, was warning that this was personal for him and that, you know this could open up discrimination against people like him system of he was trying to -- in last night's and this morning with the military construction veterans affairs funding bill, he was trying to prohibit any funds from being used to go against the executive order president obama issued. host: and the new york congressman's amendment cape came -- came up far vote. you saw it on c-span, your headline captures some of the affair at thehill.com. chaos in the house after g.o.p. votes down lgbt measure, inking to our video. why was that vote unusual? guest: house republicans, upon takin

so what you saw happened was an amendment now come from sean maloney who -- it's not specifically tied to the exact same language into the russell amendment but it's kind of borne of that frustration that came up. maloney had an amendment on the floor -- democrat from new york. had an amendment. put an amendment on the floor for this appropriations bill, the military construction and veterans affairs one. this happening thursday morning, exactly, i'm sorry, that said you cannot use federal -- you cannot basically contractors are discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender orientation -- gender identity shouldn't be getting taxpayer dollars on federal contracts. it's not directly addressing the religious liberties issue. it's not a direct hit onerousle but it came out of the same thing. it was a late breaking thing on thursday morning after there was an emotional debate over it a few days before. what happened, it's very interesting, is that republicans -- enough republicans actually voted for that amendment that it seemed like it had won until the time for the amendment

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and sean maloney, introduced the human trafficking prevention act. lots of individuals, lots of folks who helped in the house and then we had support from over 200 organizations throughout the country trying to get this legislation passed. some of those rights for girls, coalition against trafficking of women, shared hope international, end child prostitution and trafficking in the u.s.a., national children's alliance, national association to protect children, quality now, national conference of state legislatures, and the national criminal justice association, we're all on the same page in the hymnal, singing the same song. mr. speaker, that song is that we are going to do everything we can to stop this scourge of human trafficking. we want those folks to know that trafficking young children , they have no place to hide. and those customers that buy those kids, they have no place to hide. there is no safe place for them. and we want victims to know, there is a safe place. that we will help them and help them to recover from what has happened to them

authorization bill passed and then again it came up as an amendment this time once again it was sean patrick maloney forth an amendment. what was he trying to do? guest: last night was the defense authorization, democrats used a procedural maneuver that would have amended the defense authorization to eliminate that republican provision that was intended, framed as promoting religious freedom. maloney, who is openly gay, was warning that this was personal for him and that, you know this could open up discrimination against people like him. in last night's and this morning with the military construction veterans affairs funding bill, he was trying to prohibit any funds from being used to go against the executive order president obama issued. host: and the new york congressman's amendment came up far vote. you saw it on c-span, your headline captures some of the affair at thehill.com. chaos in the house after g.o.p. votes down lgbt measure, linking to our video. what happened in that vote? why was that vote unusual? guest: house republicans, upon taking the majority in 2011, brought back this procedure

sean patrick maloney of new york. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> by direction of the committee on rules i call up house resolution 720 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: a clerk will report -- the clerk will report theres. rution. the clerk: house calendar 112, resolution 120. resolved, that at any time after adoption of this resolution the speaker may, pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 18, declare the house resolved into the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of the bill h.r. 4641, to provide for the establishment of an interagency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes. the first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. general debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by t

sean maloney of new york. insert the following, section. none of the funds made available by this act may be used in controvention of the executive order number 13672 of july 21, 2014, further amendments to executive order of 14478, equal employment opportunity in the federal government in executive order 11246, equal employment opportunity. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 736, the gentleman from new york and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. maloney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, last night this house adopted a provision as part of the defense bill that rolls back anti-discrimination provisions contained in executive orders issued by the president in recent years. this is one of the ugliest episodes that i experienced in my three-plus years as member of this house. the inclusion of such hate-based language in a defense bill designed to support our military sends exactly the wrong message at a time when we should all be unified in supporting the efforts of

representative sean patrick maloney has committed to continuing to push for his amendment, which he tried to include on the first appropriations bill that came to the house floor, the house military construction v.a. bill. we spoke -- which would provide protections to federal contract workers who are lgbt individuals. now, that amendment fell on military construction bill, he committed to bringing it up on energy and water and he did. now, republicans included a second degree amendment to his, but -- that would basically stipulate that certain parts of the constitution would provide some type of an exemption to his amendment, there was a bit of a debate on it on the house floor. ultimately the house agreed to adopt his amendment. but subsequently following the agreement on maloney's amendment there were two other amendments that democrats said were related to lgbt discrimination and that ultimately led to almost all democrats opposing the energy-water bill on the floor. the two amendments, the first one was from representative robert pittinger from north carolina. basically placed a limi