shuster: thank you, mr. speaker. it's now my privilege to recognize for three minutes the chairman of the subcommittee on railroads, pipelines, and hazmat material, the gentleman who did a lot of work on the amtrak bill which made it into this final bill. with that i yield three minutes to mr. denham. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. denhamon thank you -- mr. denham: thank you. was a ece of legislation bipartisan effort between the -- not only republicans, democrats in the house but as a conferee, working between the house and the senate, we have now culminated a number of different issues that for years we have had hearings on. specifically in the subcommittee that i chair, rail, hazardous material. we are dealing with passenger rail in this bill. rail safety. and hazardous material. on the hazmat title of this bill, it contains many important provisions on crude, by rail safety. first we will require all new tank cars carrying flammable liquids to actually have a thermal b

david shuster has the story. >> reporter: in the wake. i.s.i.l.-inspired rampage, amid concerns that attacks are coming, president obama urged americans not to overreact. >> let's not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear. >> soothing public fear about violence can be difficult. less than 24 hours later, donald trump went the other way. >> we can be politically correct or stupid. it will get worse and worse. >> as dramatic about trump's rhetoric may seem. in this campaign, the ex-ploy takes of fear has been growing. >> i want surveillance of certain mosques, if that's okay. i wants surveillance. >> do you know what, we had this before. we'll have it again. >> i would not advocate that we put a muslim in charge of the that. >> reporter: some point out in the early context the sentiment could be beneficial. >> particularly in states like iowa and south carolina, where you have a lot of white evangelical christians, a lot of those voters are likely to be among the voters suspicious of islam, not just as - you know, not sufficient islamic ter

david shuster, al jazeera. >> feeling the force around the word, star wars fans flock theaters for one of the most anticipated movies in history. >> take another live look at capitol hill, the house just approved a one dollar and one cents trillion tax and spending plan. the vote was overwhelmingly in favor, 313 house members voted yes, the senate is expected to sign off later today. >>> scientists are finding the effects of climate change in some unexpected places. techno's phil torres reports. >> this is the bay in california, a little slice of heaven about 90 minutes north of san francisco. this is where you come for the freshest oysters. >> order for missy. >> served up straight out of the bay. this is also one of those places where the future is now. climate change is a reality here. all along this bay, oyster farmers are fighting a hidden enemy, ocean acidification. >> this is an ocean acidification monitoring system. >> tessa hill is associate professor at u.c. davis marine laboratory and this is her makeshift lab. can't get any closer to the action, right inside the pump room a

david shuster went searching for the truth. >> reporter: it was another debate where donald trump mayave connected with republican sentiments but got his facts wrong. >> our country is out of control. people are pouring across the southern border -- >> reporter: in fact the flow of illegal immigration has dropped to its lowest level in decades. 15 years ago, government data says the figure was 1.6 million. trump dlifed a whopper when he spoke about getting tough on the families of terrorists, and mentioned 9/11. >> when you had the world trade center go, people were put into planes, that were friends and family, and sent back for the most part to saudi arabia. they knew what was going on. they went home and wanted to watch their boyfriends on television. >> reporter: but the september 11th investigation found that the hijackers had largely cut off contact with their families, and none had their families in the united states. one of the night's biggest clashes involved rand paul and marco rubio. [overlapping speakers] [ cheers ] >> reporter: paul hit rubio hard in his support a few yea

david shuster, al jazeera. >>> one group of american muslims was watching the debate.hey were just outside washington, d.c., and as al jazeera's bisi onile-ere found out, they had strong opinions on the candidates, the issues and most of all donald trump. >> if we exchanged the world islam to jewish none of this would have happened. >> we're not talking about religion, we're talking about security. >> reporter: the muslim public affairs council, a non-profit group for american muslims holding this gathering. as the nine candidates faceoff, reaction heats up. >> crime, terrorism is a problem, but there are so many other things that america is facing. >> reporter: deadly attacked have rocked paris and southern california. with the u.s. us on edge, this man says islamaphobia is at its highest since 9/11. >> while the sentiment may have existed after 9/11. now it is almost acceptable. >> reporter: the group rated the candidates on issues such as the syrian refugee crisis, isil, and national security. as a republican american muslim, how do you feel about what you heard tod

shuster: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. shuster: and i want to thank mr. capuano, mr. denham and mr. defazio. i think mr. capuano said it accurately, this is what transportation and infrastructure bills should be coming to the floor in a bipartisan way because this is good for america. nothing to do with republicans or democrats. but what's good for the american people and the american economy and the surface transportation board is the federal economic regulator of the freight system. since it was passed, i believe mr. capuano mentioned, our freight rail system is the envy of the world. it's strong and vibrant. it does a great job, but this s.t.b. re-authorization and making some of the significant changes i know is going to be beneficial to everybody. mr. denham kicked off a list of different stakeholders, people that utilize the rail that are in favor of this and they sat down and worked it out. it will allow them to run efficiently and improve the nation's econom

david shuster, al jazeera. >>> republican presidential candidate donald trump met with african american today. he held a private meeting with the min terse of new york city. last week he said 100 ministers would endorse him, but some members of the african american community published a letter urging them not to meet with trump. >> we had meaningful dialogue with mr. donald trump and we voiced concerns that were sensitive to the african american community, and we asked questions and the questions were answered and we're a unified front right here. >> trump says the ministers did not tell him to change his tone. this reverend was among those who were invited with trump but he declined. >> our problem is in terms of the absence of policy. i can't find on what thread they would be able to agree with. he has not spoken to anything that reflects the pain of the people they pastor in terms of mass incarceration, aggressive policing. dealing with every sort of societal ill. he has not spoken to it or about it. it's disheartening for me and so many across the country. and i put an exclamation p

david shuster is in for ali. >> tonight on target donald trump's rhetoric about muslims. critics say trump is helping i.s.i.l., we ask a former head of the british intelligence service mi6. >> and the republican party is looking for ways to kill donald trump's candidacy, we'll examine efforts and so if it's the g.o.p.'s own fault >>> and why is the government good at eliminating child pornography on the internet but challenged in tracking terrorists online. all that and more in "on target." >>> next, in the aftermath of trump's comment, what it means to be muslim in america. >>> we heard the reaction to donald trump from politician and pundits. there are other voices like that of mosunmogad. >> ne. his persons came from kashmir, they are americans, so is he. he has a message for donald trump. this is his opinion, commentary and tonight's first person report. >> mr trump, as an american i am terrified at your rhetoric because having worked with refugee youth and followed the middle east in your work, i see little distinction between what i.s.i.s. is promoting in terms of d

here with the details is david shuster. >> reporter: tony she said she would do things like strengthenonsumer financial protection bureau, that agency that is supposed to help consumers against the excesses of wall street. she said she would close some of the loopholes. she would regulate short-term trading. she would impose a tax on some of the i willingest banks but it doesn't go as far as bernie sanders, and so much of this seems it doesn't go far enough for the most liberal wing of the democratic party. but it may be her attempt to say i have a plan for regulating wall street. >> a lot of change being suggested there. those who are purely her correctics, what are they saying? >> reporter: they are saying this is pure politics with bernie sanders saying he would put a transaction free on every trade, and then use that money on infrastructure spending. hillary clinton is being caught in the middle on this. there you have somebody far to the left who says i would break up the big banks and reimpose glass-steagall. hillary clinton doesn't go that far, but her team argues that breaking

i'm david shuster. thank you for joining us. ray suarez is up with "inside story." we leave you with a shot at the empire state building. there it is with the colors of the holiday. merry christmas and happy holidays. ♪ ♪ >> first, megamergers created two beer giants. in bev and sab miller. now the two titans want to become one. and produce one of the two brews people consume, brewnanza, on "inside story." >>co

david shuster, al jazeera. >>> al jazeera has learned the u.s. is setting free 17 prisoners from guantanamo bay. ash carter has approved the release of the men considered to be lower level detainees. not clear who the men are or which countries agreed to take them. the transfers would likely happen next month. this would lower the prison population at guantanamo bay to 90 inmates. >>> for some u.s. citizens traveling to cuba, it's about getting a lot easier to travel. the two countries announced today that commercial flights are due to resume. the state department says there could be up to 110 round-trip flights per day. that's nearly four times the current number of charter flights. general tourism is still banned, but americans can visit if they fall under one of the 12 special categories. >>> new diplomatic relations between the u.s. and cuba led to a surge in cubans seeking refuge here. most are not traveling on makeshift boats to florida, but they make their way to texas through mexico. heidi jo castro reports. >> reporter: it's 2:00 in the

. >> i'm david shuster in new york. we begin with a surprise visit to pakistan by india's prime minister, a possible sign the strained reasons shil between the nuke two nuclear-armed countries could be improving. modedy is the first prime minister to visit pakistan still 2004. it was unannounced. >> reporter: neighbors not friends is perhaps how the relationship between these two nations could be described. this was not only a surprise visit by the indian prime minister to pakistan, but a historic one. no indian head of government has visited the neighboring country in more than a decade. back home in india, one of the modi's political allies sees this as a pivotal moment. >> translator: the prime minister said if pakistan takes steps further, than india would take two steps forward. the steps being taken must be welcome because if ties improve, it will benefit both nations, the surrounds region and the rest of the world. >> reporter: that's a rivalry that dates back to the earliest days of independence. india and pakis

i'm david shuster. thank you for joining us. ray suarez is up with "inside story." we leave you with a shot at the empire state building. there it is with the colors of the holiday. merry christmas and happy holidays. ♪ ♪ >> first, megamergers created two beer giants. in bev and sab miller. now the two titans want to become one. and produce one of the two brews people consume, brewnanza, on "inside story." >> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. just about everywhere i've been in the world there's a loam beer. the brand d -- local beer, the brand that sponsors sports teams, shows up on restaurant coasters, is part of a restaurant culture. some of that is an illusion. some are run and controlled on the other side of the planet on many cases and subject to economic forces much broader than ads for your local baseball team. the fall of the berlin wall and the growing reach of international trade agreements drew people who produced a lot of different things into closer ties with each other around the world. one huge yet underrecognized industry caught in the same

. >> on our people scene at 12:30, simon and shuster has put out a call for taylor swift. another super swiftie will serve as an honorary offer interested fans should upload short vo videos to the publisher to make their case. >>> brad pitt says the greed is good, he bought the rights to a book on the mortgage crisis turned it into the big short. he wanted to compose the workings of wall street to show how so many people lost their savings. >> all right, meteorologist, david murphy back with a final check of the forecast for your monday. >> reporter: what an afternoon, clouds and sun, thicker clouds later on. as we look at the temperatures in the northern and western suburbs, 66 degrees, we have light rain not until after 5:00 p.m. mostly cloudy with winds, a couple of spots going up to 70. down the shore cooler along the beach. 64, 65 and mostly cloudy skies building in later on with that late afternoon rain. >> okay, david. thank you. >>> well you think you've got a lot of christmas lights, tonight on the great christmas light fight meet the delaneys of tennessee they bo

i'm david shuster, thank you for joining us. >> in 1978, joseph sledge was convicted of murder in north carolina. >> they made me the scapegoat because they had no one to blame. >> at his trial, an fbi scientist testified that hairs found at the crime scene were 'microscopically alike' to joseph's. just months ago, joseph was released from prison, after serving almost forty years behind bars. dna testing had proved the hairs were not his. >> here's the hair from the defendant. here's the hair from the crime scene. i'm looking at them under the microscope and they have enough characteristics where i can say

. >> david shuster, al jazeera. >> let's go to jeannie dano now. thanks for being with us. almost as soon as the president's speech was over, the critics started lining up, mostly along partisan lines, but one former general said the partisan bickering is devastating to troops who question whether or not their country is behind him. is he right? >> i do think he's right. imagine you're deployed in a place like this or fighting on behalf of the united states and you have a country in which you have serious candidates for president who are belittling the current president, the current commander-in-chief -- and saying he is a fool and he is wrong and that we need a new president immediately. it does have to undermine your faith. now i do think our military men and women are equipped to handle that, but i think it's frustrating beyond the military, i think it's frustrating for voters at large looking at this kind of fiasco that's going on and impacting serious discussions like how to deal with terrorism and issues like gun control. >> former george w. bush said in his address t

i am david shuster we'll return to al jazeera america after this. >>> this is al jazeera breaking news, are you are looking at a live picture from san bernadino, california, where police say four hours ago up it three gunmen entered a facility, a social services building in the city and opened fire on a conference center, police say at least 14 people have been killed, another 14 were injured. police say the gunmen, plural, gunmen, fled the scene before police got there. the gunmen are believed to have fled in a black s.u.v. there was a massive search under way in san bernadino and surrounding areas, san bernadino is about 60 miles east of los angeles. the department. homeland security, the fbi, the atf. all the federal agencies are

david shuster, al jazeera. >>> coming up next on this broadcast, courting african american voters whyonald trump had to make a quick change to an event today. >>> and the pressure students are putting on college administrators to do more about allegations of racism on campus. after this. >> the only live national news show at 11:00 eastern. >> we start with breaking news. >> let's take a closer look. >>> hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. ♪ >>> race in politics, how donald trump is courting black religious leaders -- >> we will be working very, very closely with everybody, and we're going to be solving a lot of problems. >> and stirring up new controversy. >>> in custody, the death of freddie gray sparked protests and violence in baltimore. now the first officer goes to trial. >>> plus spy masters -- >> this country has better go on a war plain now. >> reporter: a new documentary with a rare look inside the secret world of the cia. ♪ >>> donald trump met in new york today with dozens of african american religious leaders. the republican presidential candi

david shuster, al jazeera. >> one of donald trump's business partnerships in the middle east appearso be cutting ties with him. lifestyle is a major home decor chain based in dubai. the retailer is removing trump brand products from its 195 establishments across the middle east. national business reporter jason told us earlier here that losing that deal won't mean much for donald trump. >> i don't think that those licensing agreements will turn out to be a big part of his income. certainly it's a big part of it and nobody is going to turn their back on that kind of money and certainly because trump's brand name is so synonymous with his business, anytime people desert that it hurts the core of what he's trying to do but as far as dollar amount isis not a big deal. >> can you picture a muslim golfer going to a golf course labeled trump? his company is developing golf courses in dubai with dumac. we have a picture of its chief executive who reportedly is standing by trump, calling him a good friend. are we hearing that money will talk louder than trump's rhetoric on muslims? >> we have

as al jazeera's david shuster reports, it's become an opportunity on the campaign trail. >> don't messwith my kids, marco's kids, hillary's kids, don't mess with anybody's kids. leave kids alone. >> in oklahoma, senator ted cruz hammered the washington post. on tuesday, it depicted cruz as santa claus and his two young daughters as dancing must not keys suggesting they were props for his presidential campaign. >> don't make fun of a 5-year-old girl and 7-year-old girl. >> the cartoonist said it was justified after cruz used hills daughters in this christmas themed campaign ad. >> it was the night before the shut down and all through the house, not a bill was stirring, not even a funding mouse. >> the grinch who lost her emails. >> i know just what i'll do she said with a snicker. i'll use my own server and no one will be the-wiser. >> ted cruz has put his children in a political ad, don't scream when cartoonists draw them, as well. the paper pulled the cash tune from its website. he had hyatt said: >> if the media wants to attack and ridicule every republican, that's what they're going

scientists blame the storms on el nino >>> good evening, i'm david shuster, and you're watching al jazeera america's international news hour. we begin with the latest in the fight against i.s.i.l. pentagon officials said today coalition air strikes like this have killed 10 senior i.s.i.l. leaders this month. one of the i.s.i.l. commanders in syria allegedly had direct contact with the suspects behind the november 13th attacks in paris. in iraq, the army is trying to consolidate and bolster its control over ramadi, a day after pulling out the i.s.i.l. fighters. he toured the city and thanked the iraqi soldiers. iraqi leaders are planning the next offensive against i.s.i.l. in addition to the celebrations a minister told reuters that retaking mosul was the next priority, but would require help from the kurds. i.s.i.l. had mosul for a year and an a half. jamie mcintyre is at the pentagon for the latest. >> the pentagon says effort to target and take out i.s.i.l. leaders is eroding i.s.i.l.'s effectiveness on the battlefield and sending a powerful psychological message - that there's no safe h

david shuster is here with more on that. the president has been taking a beating, especially from the republican candidates. >> keep in mind there's less than eight weeks when the presidential caucus begins in iowa, as a result they are getting a lot of platforms, and made their voices heard. >> reporter: in the wake of the californian shooting, presidential hopefuls had the talk shows fighting a battle of sem onlyics. we have a problem with radical terrorism. you can say it or don't have to say it. we have a president not issuing the term. >> donald trump was leading g.o.p. polls, slammed with the culture of political sworn 27 march. >> if you have people coming out of mosques with hatred and death in their eyes >>> he came out in support of tighter gun lawses. >> in paris, they had no guns. they were like sitting ducks. >> weak language translates to a week response. >> call it what it is. a fight for western situation. >> this is a problem with the president and secretary clinton providing leadership by islamism. they won

i'm david shuster, you're about to see a news conference from the baltimore city police department. this follows the news that the judge declared a mistrial in t in the first officer charged in the death of freddie gray. >> the jury ended its deliberations without being able to reach an unanimous verdict. all of us, if we believe in justice, must have respect for the outcome of the judicial process. this is our american system of justice. 12 baltimore city residents answered the solum call to serve. they listened to the evidence presented, and they rendered a decision. if some choose to protest, they must peacefully demonstrate. that is their right. but we want to be very clear about any potential disturbances in our city. we're prepared to respond. we will protect our residents we will protect our neighborhoods, our businesses, and we will protect the safety of our first responders i urge everyone to respect every in our neighborhoods, the residents of our cities, and for those who have answered the call to serve and protect. we will not and cannot be defined by the unrest of last

david shuster is in for ali tonight. >> remember that line from field of dreams, build it, and they willould change that to build it and make the fans pay for it. we're looking at how wealthy sports teams main age to build brand new stadiums and use tax dollars to foot the bill. that's "on target" at 9:00 eastern. >>> still ahead tonight, being involved, how four men are beating the stereo type of a dead beat father. >>> a new documentary, follows disadvantaged inner-city fathers who are working to break free from the dead-beat dad stereo type. >>> dad by don't go is a feature-length documentary that follows four young dads in new york city. >> i told myself i'm not going to be no dead-beat father. >> one in three children in america grow up without a dad. fatherlessness is linked with higher rates of poverty, higher risk of incarceration, you are also much more likely to drop out of high school. >> foot plus ball. >> football. >> you got that one. >> the court system very much favors mothers. men only win child custody cases 18% of the time, but they pay the majority of child support, s

. >> david shuster, al jazeera. >>> jeff greenfield is a political analyst, author, and emmy-winningournalist. jeff, welcome. good to see you. >> hi, john. >> i -- maybe you can help explain this to me. how can ted cruz run successfully when he is in the u.s. senate? >> i don't think that's a particularly tricky problem to solve. he came to the senate as a guy determined to be, if you will, a bomb thrower, in the sense that he said when he ran, i'm not here is to legislate. i'm not here to compromise, the whole system is corrupt, and everything he has done as a senator has been to argue to the base of his party that he is with them in believing that not just the democrats, and the media, and the white house, but the republican party itself is part of the problem. and you heard how much republican insiders hate him, and that's part of what he argues on behalf of his candidacy. he premised his candidacy on the idea that the republican base, and should he win the nominations, lots of people out there who aren't republicans who are so fed up, they like the idea he doesn't play ball. >> h

david shuster. a republican strategist. the president outreach under george w. bush. donald trump is a front-runner. will he do anything to change stats us? >> i think donald trump helped himself, he made it clear to the american people and rush cans, that he was going to run as a republican, and took off the table an ideas that he would be a third party candidate. for those on the sense, how serious he was, he solidified that last night. in terms of foreign policy he did what he needed to do. showing that he could be commander in chief. he was not as strong as he could have been. foreign policy was not his strong suit. he did find. >> as we pointed out. there were a lot of whoppers in the debate. as a strategist. do you tell the candidates to say whatever it takes to move the needle as far as votes are concerned, regardless of whether it's the truth or not. most do not pay attention to the fact checking after the debate. >> facts are important. what we tell candidates is to there the sound bite, resonating with the american people that are watching. not necessarily n

david shuster, al jazeera. >>> a controversial drug company c.e.o.n bail, martin shkreli became famous for raising the price of a life saving drug. >> he's been labeled the most hated man in america. martin shkreli's arrest has nothing told with the drug prizing controversy that thrust him into the spotlight. prosecutors allege that the 32-year-old used money from a bio pharmaceutical firm as a personal piggy bank to pay off debt from his hedge funds. >> shkreli ran his company like a ponzi scream, using each subsequent company to pay off investors from the prior company. >> he pleaded not guilty. the company he founded in 2011 sued shkreli in august, seeking $65 million. it replaced him more than a year ago because of what a company spokesperson described as serious concerns about his conduct. shkreli is more widely known as the poster boy for poster greed after raising the price of deraa prim to $750 a pill this summer. it treats h.i.v. and cancer patients with weak immune systems to fight a parasitic infection. after public pressure, shkreli backe

and david shuster. before we get to president obama, let's talk about the gun vote that took place in the senate around the same time, between the planned parenthood shooting in colorado, and the president has said again tonight. he believes people on a terror watch list should not be able to buy guns. the senate brought it up. here is the problem, randall. and that is the u.s. senate is not going to pass anything like this until democrats are in control of the chamber. that is the first thing. this is not going anywhere. republicans do not want to give the president anything in office. secondly, it's a little disingenuous. again, it's disingenuous to suggest they should focus on a watch list, because the two shooters were not on a watch list, and again, 2000 people on the terror watch list brought guns, none carried out mass shootings, the third thing, is even though mass shootings are up, gun violence over the last 25 years, it down less now than it was five years ago. as there are more guns, chances

david shuster is here. help me with contest on this. how big of a problem is this for the campaign, and how important is this database? >> the database is the lifeblood of the campaign. it includes millions upon millions of contact information and e-mails. it's the way that campaigns sort of figure out who are their targets in iowa and new hampshire. what you have an entire thing being blocked off now from the sanders campaign because a piece of it i, which was information entered by the hillary clinton campaign was accessed by bernie sanders' campaign. he said wait a minute. this is so over the top to stop our campaign cold to access and identify people from iowa and new hampshire, they're suggesting this is over the top for what they say was an improper breach by one of their staffers. >> so the dnc chair, debby wasserman schultz congresswoman debby wasserman schultz. she's an outspoken congresswoman and outspoken supporter of hillary clinton. >> that's correct. and that's fueling the theory that this is simply an effort through debby

shuster. i hate to admit it, but the name of the ranking member of ways and means -- mr. levin. excuse me. one of my favorite members. with that, mr. speaker, i'll yield back my time but i do want to end with one note. i want to join my friend, my valued colleague on the rules committee, and our joint hope we do not meet again in that context. i want to wish him and his family a merry christmas and all those in this institution and congratulate all involved in this on a job well-done. a hard deal, a long negotiation, but one where each side worked together. with that i yield back. move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i ask for the yeas and nays, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the

shuster: mr. speaker, i now yield as much time as he may consume to the chairman of the subcommittee on railroads, pipelines, and hazardous materials, mr. denham. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. denham: i thank the chairman to speak on the surface transportation board re-authorization act of 2015. this is an important piece of legislation that will reform the s.t.b. to work more efficiently to bert regulate the railroads. this year is the 35th anniversary of the passage of the staggers act of 1980 which saved the railroad industry from bankruptcy. earlier this year my subcommittee held a hearing on the successes of the railroad deregulation. we heard how railroads were free to act more like true businesses by charging market driven rates and being able to right size their operations along rail lines that made economic sense. this deregulation effort culminated in the creation of the s.t.b. and interstate commercial commission termination act of 1995. the s.t.b. is the sma

we have an indication from the chairman bill shuster that the bill would come out today and that the bill would also have a five-year authorization. congress is working on a tight deadline to get this final highway bill to the president's desk because current funding authorities expires friday, december 4. and schuster and other republican leaders and transportation policy makers are animate but they don't want to have another short of the highway fund operating under the short-term extension of that fund from 2009. host: you mentioned a five-year plan but the numbers before were six years, so why the change? caller: what i'm am hearing from several aides for the committee and grumbling on capitol hill, right now we don't have anything yet on the record from schuster and the other leaders but there have been some strong disagreements on how to take this bill so initially as he said, the senate and the house had unveiled six-year bills ranging anywhere from 300 and 40 billion to 60 billion dollars worth of authorizations. a strong dispute on how to fund these bills because congress is

lastly, i'd like to thank chairman shuster and ranking member defazio and their senate counterparts for all of their hard work in crafting this important legislation. this final products embodies the essence of bipartisanship, and i'm proud to serve on the transportation infrastructure committee. i urge the house and the senate to pass the fast act to strengthen our nation's transportation networks. i know my neighbors in south florida, especially those living in kendall and south dade, will be very grateful. mr. speaker, i rise today to give accolades to monroe county and the city of key west for holding their seventh annual southeast florida regional climate leadership summit. for seven years, they have created a forum for people to come together and discuss the importance of mitigating the effects of climate change. i thank them for their continued efforts and for being leaders on this critical issue that warrants serious attention. like me, they believe that humans are a contributing factor to climate change and that our years of living irresponsibly have caught up with us, leaving

we have an indication from the chairman bill shuster that the bill would come out today and that theill would also have a five-year authorization. congress is working on a tight deadline to get this final highway bill to the president's desk because current funding authorities expires friday, december 4. and schuster and other republican leaders and transportation policy makers are animate but they don't want to have another short of the highway fund operating under the short-term extension of that fund from 2009. host: you mentioned a five-year plan but the numbers before were six years, so why the change? caller: what i'm am hearing from several aides for the committee and grumbling on capitol hill, right now we don't have anything yet on the record from schuster and the other leaders but there have been some strong disagreements on how to take this bill so initially as he said, the senate and the house had unveiled six-year bills ranging anywhere from 300 and 40 billion to 60 billion dollars worth of authorizations. a strong dispute on how to fund these bills because congress is n

i also appreciate chairman goodlatte and shuster for their cooperation and ask that the letters exchanged between our committees be inserted in the record. i urge all members to join me in supporting this legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the chairman reserves. the gentlelady from california is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of hrment r. -- h.r. 3842, the federal law enforcement training centers reform and improvement act of 2015, and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mrs. torres: h.r. 3842 amends the homeland security act of 2002, to provide specific authorities for the director of the federal law fornsement training center -- enforcement training center or fltce. i'm proud in joining mr. carter in introducing this very important legislation. fltce, established in 1975, in transition from the treasury department to the department of homeland security in 2002, provides federal and other law enforcement agencies with high quality, cost e

before i conclude, i just want to pay tribute to chairman inhofe and chairman shuster and barbara boxer and her democratic counterpart in the house who led a conference committee who was able to sift through various issues and put together a very complex piece of legislation in a matter of just a few weeks. these two chairmen deserve a lot of credit for their efforts as do all the members who took part in the conference. today congress is making significant headway toward implementing the longest highway reauthorization bill in more than 15 years. we've heard time and again that a long-term highway bill would only be possible if we included a big tax increase, yet we have been able to defy the odds, provide much-needed funding for america's bridges, highways and roads for the next five years. this marks a watershed moment for our transportation community who will now have the security and stability they need to plan, implement and complete critical infrastructure projects. first of all, we have crossed a major hurdle today. our job is not yet over. there is still one more vote to go, bu