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speaker, i'm pleased to support this bipartisan legislation, which passed our committee by unanimous voice vote, and i urge my colleagues to support it. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california, mr. royce, is recognized. mr. royce: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from nebraska, mr. fortenberry, a member of the committee on appropriations and the author of this landmark legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. mr. fortenberry: thank you, mr. speaker. before i begin my remarks, let me thank chairman royce, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, for his extraordinary leadership, not only on this bill, but a whole array of conservation and security initiatives. thank you, mr. royce, for your chairmanship and for your long service in congress. let me thank, also, the support -- thank the ranking member engel for his support of the legislation and congress member sherman for your kind and generous remarks. i very much appreciate it. mr. speaker, the greater okavang

the european parliament committee support this. it has to just be formalised.ll it mean for the artist? it is terrible for small companies. the fact is we shouldn't be uploading copyrighted material to the general public without the right permission. that is what is right and wrong. you have to go back to what is right and wrong. artist don't make a penny and they rely on their content and their talent. if their music video is not shared at all because people are worried about copyright infringement, is that not worse for them? how many artist became really famous on myspace? they put their things up and they were picked up by scouts. we don't want to stifle creativity. imagine a young artist saying i can't do this because i can't afford it. i think there is a balance. from my point of view they have the right perspective. all right. ok. we are not sitting on the fence on that one. doctor in demand, ba bylon fence on that one. doctor in demand, ba bylo n to fence on that one. doctor in demand, babylon to open private gp surgery, a virtual gp surgery. i must adm

supportive role. contentney, options, and creative things we can do to help. we can help in several dma always. -- ways. that is to make sure we can do everything in the president's campaign and committee to support them and do everything we can to hold the house and the seats. emily: what are lessons you've learned knowing what you know now? what would you to be doing differently what will you be doing differently -- what will you be doing differently? >> in 2016, i do not have a basis of information. i came in with a clean slate which was an advantage for me. emily: you have never run a campaign? >> i run a campaign, but never put up a campaign. lots of product campaigns. i had great support. the republican national committee came in read i had jared kushner by me and he was my boss, and was great. we would bounce a lot of ideas off of each other. they are an amazing family. -- bestd the bed bought boss in the world. he was always leading the right direction. learned was how important it is to understand the data. i knew that going in now, and even more now to learn to ask questions to those who have experience doing it. i've been doing a considerable amount of reading in scriptures

that end, my objective for serving on the planning commission reflects my commitment to supporting the committee. we will continue to engage in authentic discussions and bring new insights when we look at the environmental and social and city-wide planning. those are challenges that we face every thursday and i reflect on them every week. i believe we need to add a new ingredient into the process, which is a comprehensive, broader view of the city of the future, where we can -- where we need to balance the important qualities of our city with a step-by-step thoughtfulness. it's not about good plans and long visions but how we achieve formulating that. in closing, i'm honored to serve again on the planning commission and today i ask for your support. i'm firmly committed to bring what i can to preserve and enhance a strong, traditional planning in the city that for me includes a voice for all neighborhoods. i would like to thank the many supporters that have written and spoken on my behalf and especially those who have come today to voice their support. i do also want to mention that i strongly s

look to the judiciary committee. supporters welcome to her at a military checkpoint in the west bank. became an icon for the resistance and the symbol for resistance by young people who refused the procedures and existence of the occupation and challenge this occupation with their bare hands of the clash . the circumstances that she leave then cause her to become a symbol for the difficult life israeli actions in the village day night always made her raise her voice and reach out to the world. with the seventeen year old was arrested in december along with several of her relatives she had been filmed slapping and kicking israeli soldiers after her cousin was shot at close range during protests a video of the incident went viral making a symbol of the palestinian resistance. the case turned the global spotlight on the detention of palestinian children by israel a practice that has been criticized by rights groups however some israeli politicians claim heads eight months in jail was too lenient. she is relaxed too mercifully with

committees. we fostered personal member to member conversations. to make sure that priorities in this bill were vetted and supported across jurisdictions. we held several public hearings and reviewed over 2,100 unique member requests as we put this bill together. as the bill passed out of this appropriations committee, it passed with bipartisan support. what more can you do? on behalf of america's kids and grandkids? as in past years, we aimed to provide the oversight and allocate taxpayer thrars with the greatest of care. but this bill includes resources to implement the tax cut and jobs act which cuts taxes for families and businesses all across our country, spurring economic growth. the funding in our blill help implement the law very quickly so american families can use the system without disruption whatsoever. in addition this bill prioritizes law enforcement, homeland security, and cybersecurity. for example, it provides record funding for the high intensity drug trafficking areas and drug-free community programs. and it updates the legacy i.t. systems that are government-wide. we've all seen it and heard about it. through the tech

support. the republican national committee came in. i had jared kushner by me and he was my boss, and was great. we would bounce a lot of ideas off of each other. they are an amazing family. and i had the best boss in the world. he was always leading the right direction. what i really learned was how important it is to understand the data. i knew that going in now, and even more now to learn to ask questions to those who have experience doing it. i've been doing a considerable amount of reading and with pasting lectures, going back hundreds of years. i've done everything i could to educate myself and this will be a much more grind it out, long-haul for me as campaign manager. i also believe the president can finish what he is going to do by getting rid of the unfair balance between china and the continuesblems, if he to grow the economy the way he does, with wages continuing to improve. as he continues to solve national security issues to make the world safer, i don't know if it will take a lot of work. i don't know how this is going t

support. the republican national committee came in. i had jared kushner side-by-side with me. he was my boss, and was great. i had eric trump also. we would bounce a lot of ideas off of each other. they are an amazing family. and i had the best boss in the world. a guy that is our constant director, our political director. he was always leading the right direction. what i really learned was how important it is to understand the data. i knew that going in now, and even more now to learn to ask questions to those who have experience doing it. i've been doing a considerable amount of reading in scriptures going back 100 years. i've done everything i could to educate myself and this will be a much more grind it out, long-haul for me as campaign manager. i also believe the president can finish by getting rid of the unfair balance between china and the tariff problems if he continues to grow his economy with wages and increasing personal economies. as he continues to solve national security issues to make the world safer, i don't know if it will take a lot of work. it might end up b

years --t like to true that was 1988, and i spent two or three years to get people on the committee to support me, trying to become john's friend. finally he said to me, if you can gather the votes on the committee, i may not vote for you, but i will not veto your membership on the committee. [laughter] to this day i don't know if he voted for me. yer,, told by stenny ho regional leader, that when my name came up, the speaker leaned over to john for the veto and he said, no, it's okay. that's my john dingell story. [laughter] i wanted to say a few things about the committee that i think are very important. that not only the question the committee has such broad jurisdiction and does so much good work, but i think the committee has the tradition of being bipartisan. there are bills that passed without partisan support, but i think we try hard to be as bipartisan as possible. we are very deliberative. argue, we like to talk about the bills. as a result, sometimes the committee hearings go for a very long time. i could mention so many, but the most historic one was on the repeal of the affordable

i think you'll find strong support on this committee for the funding to do what is necessary. but the time is limited. we talked about, before you said you support the leahy law and you enforce it, precip and necessary resources for that purpose. it's a law that the state department that's for individuals and you determine if they are eligible for u.s. aid. american taxpayers are looking at one case where american taxpayers are rightly concerned about a going to a military unit in other countries, among other things, are raping young boys. it's not what you want to spend money, and shouldn't. and i appreciate, you said you would support it. are all ambassadors been told they have to support? >> yes, sir, they are. it's part of the formal on boarding trainingsa processing. >> one u.s. ambassador said that the law does not apply in the country where he's posted, so he doesn't have to. he doesn't have to look at it, doesn't see any violations of it even though we spent a great deal of money to help send police and military forces in that country. is he correct? >> i'm not familiar

support. the republican national committee came in. i had jerod kushner side-by-side on a daily basis fighting the battle. he was my boss. , also, we would bounce ideas off of one another. in thehe best boss world, our political director. he was always leading in the right direction. was howwhat i learned important it is to understand data will stop i knew that going in, but now i know more. to learn to ask questions from those who have had experience doing that even more. i have been doing a considerable amount of reading. toid everything i could educate myself in everything that has ever happened. this will be a more grinded out long haul for me as campaign manager. i also believe the president, when he finishes what he is going to do, like getting bit of the unfair balance with china, the tear of problems, if he continues to grow the economy, people's wages increase, personal economy improves, if he continues to make the world safer, i don't know if it will be a lot of work. it might be starbucks on election day. emily: will you mak

the labour-management health and safety committee and we added to that to address the safe and supported schools policy. that is article 14.5 end date certificate of contract, page 43. we also created a space community committee that includes parents and districts and union. article 21.10. page 66. the climate team was never brought to the bargaining table. it might be a great idea, but the letter that i reference that was to show administrators included a described climate team's purpose, composition, duties and function. it feels like possibly an end run around the contract. it also could be possibly a parallel structure. a structure outside of the contract. if we are going to have a climate team, let's make sure that it's part of the plan and is not duplicative, nor does it take away from committees that we work very hard and it negotiations to create. thank you pick one more thing, sorry. i just want to point out the district data, which i, -- it is something we have to take extremely seriously. pick looking at the budget again and priorities, these items have to be prioritized. >> g

of just supporting the candidates is something that is changing or support the candidates, support the committee with the point of the spear still this can happen. one of our initiatives as the national democratic redistricting committee headed by eric holder. that is a committee that terry mcauliffe and diane president obama put together and now he's taking the lead. now it is about initiatives on the ballot. itni is about ending suppression in many different ways by taking inventory and having solutions and it's about doing so in a way that is attracting so many people to help, but the point is many lawyers from around the country and other people to be there, knowing their regions specifically to fight in this fight. it is very important because as you said, the talk about her visions, job, v pay for the future, health care, the sin not. i say what about the machines? that is a fear that people have. well, we have to address that and that is one of the things i'm disappointed that republicans did not join us when we wanted to send the letter after we realized this was all happening with the r

we are gathering former and current numbers of the intelligence committee to express our support for the men and women of the intelligence committee who were -- community who were denigrated by the president's work. whose often life risking work was undermined by the executive of the country, who disregarded their conclusions, wo essentially sided with the perpetrator of election interference rather than his own intelligence community. with theorked closely men and women of the ic for decades. producthat their work would be so cavalierly discarded was something that shocked us all. what the president did yesterday in helsinki went beyond disrespecting the men and women of the intelligence community. it was a wholesale betrayal of the values of this country. ronald reagan said he did not leave the democratic party, the democratic party left him. the republican party has left ronald reagan. there is nothing left of his legacy in the gop as represented by this president. this president said yesterday as between the work of his own intelligence director and the word of vladimir putin, who

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committee. and i appreciate his support for this important resolution. we disagree on several points. i know that mr. smith knows that the defense budget is not what is driving the debt in this country. i don't disagree we need a fiscal policy and we have to address our fiscal concerns, but it's also the case that we have the votes, that we have the ability as we have done in this house and as they could do in the senate, we saw in the senate appropriations committee the defense appropriations bill passed out 30-1. it is a bipartisan bill we ought to pass. we passed it across this floor. we ought to pass it across the senate floor, get it to the president's desk so he can can can sign it instead of being in a situation where we're holding it hostage to a whole range of other issues and concerns. mr. smith and i do have disagreements. the defense department was being strangled when barack obama was in office. nobody is accused president obama cutting taxes too much. the challenge that our military's faced and the challenge of reliable, sufficient funding isn't directly tied to tax poli

2014 s. 490 is similar to legislation during the previous congress was supported unanimously by the energy and commerce committee. this bill on this side of the aisle and i ask my colleagues me o join in support of s. 490. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. upton: i would yield two minutes to the gentleman from montana and he was the sponsor of the house companion bill, senate bill we are taking up, but he has great interest in it. we passed it with strong bipartisan support and i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from montana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from montana is recognized. mr. gianforte: they built the original dam between 1926 and 1929. the dam has served to capture spring snow melt for irrigation and prevent flooding in the region. this bill would build a turbine at the base of the existing dam. the ability to produce clean energy will benefit the county and the state by creating a new source of revenue. the construction of the power house will bring jobs to montana and the turbine will be built in such a way that helps the environment and enh

what else does this committee bill do? it supports funding for farm ownership and farm operating loans. with farm incomes on the decline, access to credit is crucial for farmers to stay in business. farm loans serve the most disadvantaged in the farming sector including farmers who are just starting out as well as ranchers, minorities, women, and veterans. i'm also pleased that we were able to include $150 million in funding for the watershed and flood prevention operations program to protect our watersheds and help prevent floods to reduce erosion and to protect wildlife habit at that s been theats. for domestic nutrition programs our bill maintains funding to provide access for food for low-income during the summer months when school is out of session. beyond that, the bill provides for $30 million in school meal equipment grants and $18 million for the farmers market nutrition program and $238 for the commodity supplemental food program. this bill also protects snap, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, that 42 million am

i'm glad jim is supporting that review. ethics committee here investigating things members do here. not that happened a couple decades ago when they weren't in congress. >> congressman jordan denies knowing or being told about the team doctor abuse. while he worked at the school. >> in arizona a huge fire destroys the safe way supermarket in phoenix. black smoke and flames 30 feet high could be seen shooting from the roof. the fire broke out before 6:00 p.m. wednesday. firefighters immediately began clearing the store of customers and employees. when the roof collapsed. fortunately no one was hurt. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >> also thank goodness no one was hurt here. clooney's crash in italy. his scooter hit an oncoming car. the actor is riding his scooter up a road on tuesday. you can see he collides head on with a dark colored car. the impact sent him high into the air and smashing to the ground. the 57 year-old was taken to the hospital and later released. bumps and bruises. he's recovering at home. >> tough guy. >> papa johns founder is in trouble. apologizi

support. as this committee and congress continue to work the issue, are there additional efforts underway of treasury to approve regulatory harmonization among the other federal regulators when it comes to the bsa aml regulatory structure? >> yes. we have a team working on that now. both a team of treasury and the tfi area. they're working with others and is actively underway. >> you anticipate they will put out some type of report? obviously they will report to you but we have an opportunity to see what the recommendations and suggestions are and >> i'm not sure will be in the form of report that we will make sure that we communicate back to you in terms of us putting out some type of guidance or general comments along those. >> excellent i look forward to that. i look forward to that time. >> the gentleman from michigan, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you mr. secretary for your time today and all of your tremendous work on our economy and job growth. it is just amazing. one of the benefits of going at the batting order is i get to listen to all of my colleag

i express my thanks to the committee for its continued support of alzheimer's disease research. thank you very much. [applause] thank you for having me today. .chairman collins, ranking membr casey and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today about my experience as a caregiver for my late father. i hope my story will bring more awareness to this awful disease that we call alzheimer's. my father passed away in february, so you'll have to youo forgive me for a minute. after living with alzheimer's for nearly 16 years, when he was 18, my dad left his home in wisconsin to join the u.s. navy that brought him to charleston south carolina where he would meet and fall in love with my mom and that story gets told enough times. my dad worked hard throughout his career in the navy and the civil service retiring in 1988 and then started a successful woodworking business. he will be remembered for his love of dogs, people come his amazing christmas lights displays in his love for family living six children i'm the oldest of the six to 11 grandchildren and 14 gr

committee. i urge all members to support this bill and i yield back mymy time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment to the h.r. 2353. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the senate amendment is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass house resolution 981 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 981, resolution condemning the violence, persecution, intimidation and murders committed by the government of nicaragua against its citizens. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. royce, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. sires, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from

becoming less inclusive, and that parents end up fighting a system that should support them.the education select committeeion numbers. last year there were 8 thousand permanent exclusions 20,000 children leave during their school years and are missing from the data. and during each year 48 thousand children spend time in alternative schools. 0ur education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports on what the report calls the "forgotten" children. these four boys are part of a hidden story — children managed out of our schools. some not even recorded as excluded. families persuaded the best option is to home educate instead. bailey told me he'd spent two years at home with his grandparents. he'd been on the brink of exclusion when they agreed to home educate. the family didn't realise they'd get no help with that. we were just told home—schooling is an option for kids who don't want to be in school. i didn't feel confident in public. i didn't feel like i could engage with other kids, but... it was... it was reallyjust a downer. bailey's been given a fresh start. today, mps warn of an alarming rise in hidden exclusi

committee. i urge my colleagues to support my bill. it's not my bill but the bill of the committee and subcommittee for economic opportunity and this is a bill that was amended as the navy seal william bill muddler improvement act of 2018. there is no greater honor to serve the men and women who served our country with honor and distinction. this will significantly improve the lives of our servicemen and women who are in transition from active duty to civilian life. when they come home, doesn't mean the conflict is over. it is a battle that continues to rage on inside of them and that is a big reason that we see unfortunately 20 veterans commit suicide every day in this country. one of those veterans was my good friend bill mulleder, after whom this bill was named. i'm proud this is named after bill and i'm glad to his family. he was a true american hero who served his country with honor and distinction and bill returned home from service with an internal struggle, with scars that you couldn't see with the naked eye and he was working t

of our parks and will be supportive of moving forward as chair of the committee. and i hope the full senate will vote on this legislation soon and vote on it now so that we can move forward quickly. we want to make the second hundred years of our national parks as magnificent and successful as the first hundred years has been. this bill is necessary to be able to do that. and i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation. thank you, mr. president. i yield back my time. mr. sullivan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the junior senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: thank you, mr. president. i want to commend my colleague from ohio on his legislation. the national parks means so much to us and alaska. i'm looking forward to getting on that bill as a cosponsor of a very important piece of legislation. so once again, senator portman is leading the way in the senate on so many issues. but, mr. president, what i want to do this afternoon was say a few words about the president's visit to nato and the nato meeting that we just had and talk about the im

support state and local officials during the task force. this task force brings together an election assistance commission, nist, the fbi, intelligence committee and dod. the purpose is to ensure that information is actual and timely shared broadly across the sector. .. specifically, we strongly support passage of legislation at dhs, which would rename and reorganize the actual protection programs directory of -- -- directive. thank you, and i look forward to your questions. the senator and i plan to stay for both panels and through this one. i think i am also interested to hear what other people's questions are. two areas where members of this congress and members of the senate specifically think they are experts at elections and air travel. you are here for the elections part of that and we will start joe,the senator cap followed by senator cortez masto. >> you for being here with us today. i would just like to ask a clarifying question. in the past i was the appropriate or on the subcommittee which provided the $380 million to the agency. looking the previous year 2017 that eac had a $9 million budget? >> yes that is our operating budget so

hava reports to the federal advisory committee and support includes research and development to support the development of a set of voluntary voting system guidelines or guideline that have been considered for adoption. version 1.1 of the guideline would have an approved and we immediately began work on the next iteration of the guidelines version 2.0. they are used as a part of the state and national certification process by the state and local officials were evaluating the systems for the potentially using their jurisdictions and by manufacturers who need to ensure the products fulfill the requirements to be certified. the guidelines address many aspects of the systems including determining the system readiness, ballot preservation, ballot counting, safeguards against system failure and tampering and auditing. we established a set of groups together together a wide variety of stakeholders in the development of the next iteration of the guideline 2.0. there are currently 963 members across the seven working groups three of which are aimed at the us and three groups focused on the cyber

strong support from outside stake holders, the american hospital association, and the children's hospital association. i thank dr. burgess and all our colleagues on the energy and commerce committee for their hard work and support for this important legislation and ask for all members to join us in support of dr. benjy frances brooks children's hospital g.m.e. support re-authorization act. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess is recognized. mr. burgess: at this time it's my flesh to -- pleasure to yield such i'm heas may consume to the chairman of the full committee, mr. walden of oregon. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. walden: i want to thank mr. green and mr. burgess for their great leadership on this issue. i want to -- i rise in support 2018 and thank them for their good work on. this this re-authorizes payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs and it does so for the next phi years, giving these programs great certainty going forward. this legislation will continue to enable the nation's freestanding children's hospitals to provi

i want to thank the chairman of the full judiciary committee for his support for this hearing. after senator clover shire and i each have an opportunity to give opening remarks, we will hear from our panel of witnesses. we will be hearing from each one of you. i will introduce each one of you briefly before that happens. then, after each of you has had a chance to speak,

supported. the highly politicized committee concluded the opposite earlier this year finding they found significant intelligence tradecraft failings. >> president trump's entire national security team last year saying they supported the intelligence communities report. >> do you believe the intelligence community assessment accurately characterizes the activities of the election? >> yes, i do, senator. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> but the president himself has repeatedly refused to accept the findings of his own government. >> the cia concluded that russia interfered to help you win the presidency. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it is another excuse. i don't believe it. >> last week the president continued to cast doubt. >> i will tell you what president putin said to me through the translator. >> the president trump will bring up the issue when he meets with putin in his first official summit on july 16th. >> we're going to talk about ukraine, about syria, we're going to talk about elections. we don't want anyone tampering with elections. >> a congressional dell graduation is currently in mo mo

senate intelligence committee is supporting the findings by u.s. vladimir putin meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign. the panel says putin and the russian government developed a preference for donald trump. the president tweeted that russia said it did not interfere . there's a report that epa administrator scott pruitt asked president trump the fire attorney general jeff sessions so he could take his job. trump advisors shut down the idea. global news 24 hours a day on air and on tic toc at twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more guy: thankuntries. you very much indeed. backling plans to scale the carriers global ambitions. generated by his predecessor. cranny. to manus point in aunctuation broader transformation program. we have a wide range of businesses. we've got interest in our travel management business. interest in etihad engineering. a,have partners such as jet waze, virgin australia. seychelles. in the past, we had the complete management structure that set over the top of that and pete has done an incredib

support the bill. there are certain things in the bill that are good for all states. we were asked by the committeeo voice our support. it was myself, secretary simon from minnesota, and secretary ashcroft from missouri. the three of us were there. jim: congress has allocated $380 million to states around the country to upgrade voting systems. how are you spending that money in vermont? jim: we received our money already. we were in the first group that received its money. we received about $3 million. part of it is being spent right now on a new accessible voting system as we speak. again we are adding to our , portfolio. this will allow anybody with a physical impairment to help us meet the mandate of the ada and be compliant with it. we also are using it for the two factor authentication. we have done some penetration testing. we will continue to do ongoing penetration testing. the most recent penetration test was completed at the end of april. we received our port in the beginning of june. it basically labeled us as one of the leaders in the country in this area of cyber security. they could no

is something that is changing the -- support the candidates, support the committee. and that's so we -- the point of the spear so we can make this happen. but in addition to that, one of our initiatives is the national democratic redistricting committee headed by eric holder. d that is a committee that terry mcauliffe and i and president obama put together. this is about litigation in the courts. it's about initiatives on the ballot. t's about ending suppression in many different ways by taking inventory and having solutions and it's about doing so in a way that has attracted so many people to help. certainly financial but that's not the point. the point is many lawyers from around the country and others around the country to be there, knowing their region specifically, to fight in this fight. it's very important because as you said, all over the country, i talk about our vision, better jobs, better future. they'll say what about the machines? what about the machines? and that is -- that is a fear that people have. well we have to address that and that's one of the t