be about susan brooks as you know. we are excited about what he was doing because we are going to try to help with what you're doing to the extent we can but the mission is the same. i don't think people realize that in the last cycle the chair of the recruitment committee recruited a record number of women to run for office. everybody wants to make it look like it happened on the other side you have a record number that stepped up and ran and they ran good campaigns with money matters. it was reined in from the other side and they targeted not just the women incumbents but the great candidates that you recruited so much so we only got one through the entire process. now that's the focus. you've got to find a great female candidates. we have a sitting state senator and rob bloom, republican was in the district she approached us the day and i think the swearing-in and since she's running. this is a former tv news anchor, sitting senator incredibly polished in what we did and this will now go to susan brooks. she meets w

what we did -- this will now go to susan brooks. she meets with every one of our women members of our conference. you give her the feedback, you give her the encouragement. liz, you tell them what they have. what they can do to run. we're going to keep building off of what you started and hopefully together we're going to expand this tent not just with all new women candidates, and some that ran because they should run again, but other communities that need to be part of the republican party. as the leader said, they have to be more reflective of our communities. >> tom, i know you are very committed to this. i just have to say, he has been wonderful. every female candidate that's reached out to the nrcc he has referred to many of our women members. he made sure i have had the opportunity to talk to them. ashley is one of them. kevin, my next question is for you. when you were a young member, you started the young guns program. you were very focused on developing metrics to ensure our candidates developed into the best possible cand

our calling to head up the recruitment but not just about susan brooks we are excited about what you are doing because we will align with you to help what you are doing to the extent that we can. but the mission is the same. people don't realize in the last sql one - - cycle elise recruited as a record number of republican women to run for office everybody was to make it look like it only happened on the other side with those who stepped up and ran good campaigns that money matters. it was rained in from the other side the bloomberg survey targeted not just women incumbents but the great candidates that you recruited so much so we only got one through the entire process. that's the focus find great female candidates. we had ashley the sitting state senator the most recently the republican in the district she approached us i think the day of the swearing in and said as a former tv news anchor sitting state senator and incredibly polished so she meets with every one of the women members of our conference and you give the feedback and encouragement but to your point you tell them what t

to be about susan brooks. we are excited about what you are doing, because we're going to align with you and help with what you're doing to the extent we can, but the mission is the same, and i don't think people realize but in the last cycle, elise stefanik is the chair of our recruitment committee and recruited a record number of republican women to run for office. everybody wants to make it look as though it only happened on the other side, but you had a record number of women who stepped up and ran, and they ran good campaigns, but money matters and the money was rained in from the other side, from the bloombergs, the steyers, the dccc, and they targeted not just women incumbents but the great candidates you recruited so much so that we only got one through the entire process. now, that's the focus. you have to find great female candidates, and i'll give you an example. we had ashley henson, a sitting state senator, rod blum's district, most recently rod blum was in that district. she approached us the day

leaders like ann wagner, diane black, kathy rogers, susan brooks, paul ryan, and john weiner. i will never forget the state they had in me and my team. because of that experience, i have focused on how to improve the time and efforts for nontraditional candidates. i was honored to serve , and we only added one new republican woman in the freshman class, carol miller who we love and support and need more of. , we can change the trend by supporting strong women candidates primary. as any candidate will tell you, this early investment is critical. i'm proud to announce today that in the 2020 cycle, e back to develop a slate of top women republican candidates pre- primary similar to the young guns program developed by a young kevin mccarthy, paul ryan and eric cantor. these candidates qualify by meeting benchmarks like fundraising, campaign strategy, district data and budget. the slate will consist of top tier women republican candidates and deepak will support them with direct contributions as well as bundling efforts in washington and around the country. unlike the young guns pr

we have amazing women in congress so i want to invite up to the stage congresswoman susan brooks from indiana who will serve as our moderator. susan has lots of fans here today. congresswoman jamie herrera butler from the state of washington, another amazing voice and congresswoman jackk c wilorsky. thank you for being here. i'll turn it over to you, susan. >> thank you, elise. it's wonderful to see you here. we're glad we made it. we may be joined by kathy mcmorris rogers who we think is on our way. but first of all i'm sorry we didn't get here -- there we are. kathy mcmorris rodgers, perfect timing. i just want to thank you elise stefanik for organizing the event. for people who may not realize it, we had 52 republican women on the ballot. she was the recruitment chair during that cycle and i just want to thank elise and if you could help me thank her for her work. she recruited strong candidates but i have to tell you i think it's caused us all to reflect this last election cycle because while she helped us put 52 candidates on the ballot, we didn't finish the job. we slid back, un

susan brooks, ann wagner. and chris smith. i signed representative smith's anti-trafficking bill yesterday. it was just signed. and i want to thank you very much. you worked hard on it. we all worked hard on it. and you know, just so we understand, human trafficking now is bigger worldwide, this is not a u.s. situation, this is a world situation, because of the internet, far worse than it ever has been. you would think that was an ancient form of criminality. it's not. a very modern day form. and because of the internet, what they do with the internet, how they find people through the internet is disgraceful. we're also honored to be joined by many from law enforcement who fight this heinous crime every single day. finally, i want to thank the aspiring advocates and survivors. and we have numbers of them with us, and maybe they'll say a few words. my administration has made the fight against human trafging one of the highest priorities. today's bill marks the fourth robust piece of bipartisan legislation, and it is bipartisan,

mccall, tatives michael my friend susan brooks, an smith.and chris i signed representative smith's anti-trafficking bill yesterday and i want t signed to thank you very much. hard on it, all worked hard on it, anti-trafficking. we understand, human trafficking now is bigger this is not a u.s. situation, this is a world of the n because internet far worse than it ever has been. ou would think that was an ancient form of criminality. it's not, it's a very modern day they do with the internet, how they find people through the internet is disgraysful. we're also honored to be joined by many from law enforcement who this heinous crime every single day. imely i want to thank the inspiring advocates and survivors and we have numbers of hem with us and maybe they'll say a few words. my administration has made the trafficking human one of the highest priorities. the fourth marks robust piece of bipartisan legs and it is bipartisan, i have to you, the democrats have been great. ith that signed and just the last few weeks, we have a couple of others here that are already with the ing to do same situation, a l

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susan brooks, tom emmer, trey gowdy, steve scalise, ann wagner, thank you to everyone.e look forward to staying in touch as we development this program and announce our slate of 2020 republican female candidates. thank you. [ applause ] >> we are going to do a short media availability with congresswoman stefanik, so if all the press could come gather up towards the stage, that would be great. >> over a hundred new members joined either the house or the senate. indiana voters elected mike brawn to the u.s. senate. he served in the state house. the senator owns a company that manufacturers and distributes parts for trucks. voters in indiana's sixth visit sent the vice president's brother, greg pence to the u.s. house. he was in the oil and gas industry earlier in his career. congressman jim baird represents the 4th district. he owns a family farm and a home health agency in indiana. he lost his left arm while serving as an officer in the u.s. army during the vietnam war. wisconsin added only one new member to their congressional delegation. representative brian stei lirl

i want to think elise, susan brooks, and, i hate to make a list of people, because i'm going to lead people off, jackie, and wagner, martha i could name many many female members of congress, that came out of the woodwork to help me. view pack, right now, women's pack, main street women, the aoa, they were, or, aoa, yes. aoa network. winning for women. all of these groups came out of the woodwork to support me. i had about 32% of my donors, were women. and, i made calls to men, for these, and this is the convocation i think, that we do not touch on. but, i made calls to men for money, and they would say, you need to talk to my wife. now, i do not know, i do not know if they are saying that question, you know, if a male candidate calls them, and they say, well she has got the checkbook, you're going have to talk to my wife. i did have that. but, at this moment, you cannot be afraid to go ahead and make that second call. you have to do it. and, you know they did not always donate. and no, today is not necessarily a note tomorrow. so, i wanted to make that point, that we do not often tal

i want to thank representative susan brooks and eshoo for their work and representatives latta and degette for their work on the over-the-counter monograph reform. i strongly support this legislation. i urge members to do the same. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield now three minutes to the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for three minutes. mrs. dingell: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong support of h.r. 269. this important bill re-authorizes the pandemic and all-hazards preparedness act, and provides f.d.a. with needed revenue and authority to improve oversight of over-the-counter drugs. the house of representatives overwhelmingly passed this bipartisan legislation at the end of the 115th congress. and i am pleased that we are acting on this bill once again at the beginning of the 116th congress. i'm proud to have helped introdu

representatives michael mccall, my friend, susan brooks, ann wagner and chris smith.'s anti-trafficking bill yesterday. that was just signed and i want to thank you very much. you worked hard on it. we all worked hard on it, anti-trafficking. just so we understand, human trafficking now is bigger worldwide, this is not a u.s. situation. this is a world situation, because of the internet, far worse than it ever has been. would you think that was an ancient form of criminality. it is not. it is a very modern day form, because of the internet, what they do with the internet, find people through the internet is disgraceful. we're also honored to be joined by many from law enforcement who fight this heinous crime every single day. finally i want to thank the inspiring advocates and survivors. and we have numerous of them with us. maybe they will say a few words. my administration made the fight against human trafficking one of the highest priorities. today's bill marks the fourth robust piece of bipartisan legislation. and it is bipartisan, i have to tell you. the democrat

susan brooks elected in 2012 and has served since 2013.nother freshman member of congress, tweet from just outside the capital visitor ilhan omar.elmar -- one provision of that rules package, here is how it is described by david hawking's. it is a change in a two century old prohibition on hats on the house floor, altered to prevent religious headwear as an accommodation for one of the first muslim woman in the house who wears a headscarf. that part of the rules package changed. one more tweet we want to show viewers, this is from former congressman john dingell, offering his thoughts from his twitter page this morning. begins, a bitss of advice for new members that i received back in 1955 -- for the next six months you will wonder how the hell you got here and then you will come onto the house floor, look around, and wonder how the hell all the other fools got here. host: john dingell, former congressman, with his thoughts. c-span,e gaveled in on and if you are interested in watching the 116th congress of the senate, on c-span two they wi

i would like to welcome you here today on behalf of the brookings institution foreign policy program. i'm susan maloney. i'm the deputy director of foreign policy here at brookings. we're here today to launch a paper entitled islamic state craft how governments use religion and foreign policy. authored by two of my colleagues. a senior fellow at the middle east policy and a nonsenior resident with brookings on u.s. relations with the islamic world and a seven fellow at the tuberculos berkeley center. for the past 40 years ever since a mass political movement toppled the monarch and impression national assembly sta -- impressionnabl authority. by extension it's loomed large for american foreign policy and global economy. the interest in and too often anxiety over islam in policy analysis and deliberation was magnified by the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent american interventions in a series of military conflicts in the middle east. too often, however, in our analysis, religion is seen as uncritical and overly simplistic terms as an explanatory factor, the presumption that some attachment to a pa

susan hennessey, sitting next to kate martin, fellow in national security studies at brookings institution. if you're not reading that, you are missing out on her book. serious consideration of hard national security choices but she focuses on national security, federal prosecutions, congressional oversight of the intelligence community. and finally, april doss, partner at the law firm where she chairs cyber security and privacy practice group prior to that, she was in a minority counsel to the russia investigation on intelligence but i should point out, april and sees in our prior councils at the national security agency but they have been in the business, they know it looks like and they know what is and is not necessarily possible. i want to kick it off your with a definition question essentially. exactly how do we define the deep state? let me give you the cambridge dictionary definition here, from the online edition. organizations such as military police or political groups said to work secretly in order to protect particular interest and rule a country without being elected, there's

brooks as one of television's most gifted creative writers. when you look back at the past women's role models on tv, it's easy to see susan harris' impact. >> susaneatest writer of her generation at that time, singularly. so all credit to her for coming up with so many iterations of something so amazing. >> do you think there is a woman's voice as a writer? >> woman's voice? generally they speak higher, softer. >> i should have known not to ask that of a writer. >> yes, of course there's a woman's voice. women have a different perspective. women laugh at different things. so, yes, there very definitely is a woman's voice. >> oh, do you know how many problems we have solved over a cheesecake at this kitchen table? >> no, dorothy. exactly how many? >> 147, blanche. >> hi, brian. it's cutthroat prime-time time this fall as some 23 new shows compete in one of the hottest ratings races in years. here's just about one everybody predicts will be a big hit. "designing women" on cbs. four friends forming an interior design business giving each other the business. >> suzanne, if sex were fast food, there would be an arch over your bed. one of the funniest

susan collins from maine crossed over as they said they would. we're seeing some other names too like lamar alexander as did mitt romney of utah, brooke.he democrats here. what i do think the takeaway is going to be is that what is clear is that there are not enough votes for either of these proposals to move forward but did enough ice breaking just to concur with these votes and show a hunger among -- a bipartisan hunger to actually get the government back open. i think that's what may create a path here and a more sense of urgency to get the government back open. >> and this is precisely what katelyn was telling us. david, thank you. >>> let me turn another corner here. we're following this breaking story involving this new tax plan to be proposed by massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, democrat, running -- now she wants to be president. the tax would be imposed on the wealthiest american. mj lee is parsing this out for us. talk to me about this ultra millionaire tax. >> this is a wealth tax on everyone with a net worth of over $50 million. there would be a 2% tax on households with a net worth between $50 million and $1 billion a