and that would be worse than with the bill of rights. madison agreed. then he runs as for the house to represent of the patrick henry contingent in virginia so you can see where he stands on the consolidated government. so madison is asked to use the absence of a bill of rights with the ratification argument that it will be a tyrannical government but a really appeals to the emotional worries or the anxiety what are we getting into with the federal government? and this continues and medicine promises in a campaign promise, i will propose a bill of rights as soon as i give in to congress and feels he ought to honor that campaign pledge even though he generally feels the power of enforcement is nil is referred to as the parchment barrier and i think madison thinking about proposing it is thinking about the same thing i know politically of that is a good idea but i really does not matter. also the federalist believe that the federal government would have power because of the bill of rights tonight be enumerated. and how were they in favor of the bill of rig

the bill was removed from the floor. it is too bad because it is a great bill. the interior appropriations bill did so many good things. it held back the epa's wild rampage towards regulating everything in the country among , other things. it's a good bill. it's too bad we had to remove it from the floor, but i hope we can incorporate the provisions of that bill sometime this fall. daniel: i'm sorry. it sounds to me like the process is installed. there are no more appropriations bills. rep. rogers: leadership is trying to resolve that issue, i hope they do so we can bring the bill back to the floor, but we will have to prepare a contingency. we will have to do something else. rachael: just a little bit more about that. how many members came -- did they come to appropriations of staff and say we need a vote on this or we can't support this bill? how many members were there? can you say where they were from? rep. rogers: i can't give you an exact number. it was substantial. rachael: more than a couple dozen? rep. rogers: i don't want to get into numbers, but it was

, the homeland bills coming forward today on the floor, and i real ji -- really have appreciated the opportunity and look forward to continuing to work with my ranking member, mr. vela, shoulder to shoulder on so many important issues before our country today. so mr. speaker, i would once again urge my colleagues to support this very strong intoirn piece of legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from michigan yields back her time. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 998 as amended. 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 bill is passed, without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker i move that the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2750 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2750, a bill

we are looking to having the financial services bill on the floor next week and other appropriation bills for the ball answer of the month. we want to have all 12 bills brought to the floor debated. and as we move back to regular order which the chairman has done a great job of moving this committee back to its historic importance. we appreciate your continued support this that process. as i mentioned on the forest service funding allocations, we are continuing to work to make sure that monies are available to fund the forest service research and development, to make sure that the analysis and inventory program continues to be funded. we recognize the renewable resource domestic timber supports local communities and u.s. industry especially in the west, also helps reduce fuel load in our national forests which is combrately needed because these fires are burning hotter and fire seasons are growing longer and more communities are at risk. our forests need to be managed. forest service estimates up to two million acres of land need to be actively managed. in the rocky mountains, 4 million a

we did get the bill through the house. chris runs into opposition from the conservatives in the senate. what -- we finally took that legislation we had worked on and it is art of the financial reform bill. that is the history. i did see that. what i did not see was how badly it would affect the rest of the system. i did hear from paulson and bernanke. they did, to their credit, it seems to me, come to us and say this is the problem. we have two choices if a big it goes bad create we can let it go bankrupt and dana and of the debts and have all kinds of problems or we can take it over in detail the debts area that is what played out in layman and aig. so we did see the subprime thing. i did not see the extent to which it would be so infectious for the economy. host : the first draft was much more radical than the bill that passed for you to have three agencies overseeing the entire financial them. could you talk about your thinking at the time, why you decided to make such a bold statement with your draft legislation and so

the bills careered the lower house earlier this month. ruling party members say the proposed legislation has yet to gain the understanding and support. they say they plan to provide detail explanations on why the bills are necessary. >>> leaders of japan's main opposition party and the largest labor group are to work together towards having security bills scrapped. democratic party of japan leader okata met the president of the japanese trait union confederation to discuss the bills. okata said lower house deliberations made it clear there are many problems with the bills. the number of polls express the disapproval of the cabinet has overtaken the number who approve. >>> we need to draw attention to public opposition so the bills will be scrapped. we will highlight the bills problem in the upper house debate. >> he went on to say his organization will step up its campaign against the legislation. legislation. about 400 people opposed the bills rallied outside the building. >> i'm calling for the withdrawal of the bill since japan could b

bill? where is the house bill? get it together, don't go on vacation wait until you finish this job because i'll tell you what happens when you do go on vacation. the first person in your state to see you who is laid off because states are cutting back -- we know from the association of general contractors that these states lost construction jobs last month. because we haven't acted on a long-term bill. alaska arizona california, florida, georgia illinois, maryland mississippi missouri montana nebraska, new hampshire, new jersey, new mexico, north carolina, ohio, oregon pennsylvania, rhode island tennessee utah vermont, washington, west virginia, and wisconsin. just last month the general contractors told us that construction workers were laid off because we not have acted. now, i want to say to the speaker ohio is on this list. you lost jobs in ohio. what are are you doing by just saying you don't like this bill? stay in. do your work. you've got terrific people on both sides of the aisle on your transportation and

the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 1300, a bill to direct the secretary of homeland security to make anthrax vaccines and anti-microbials available to emergency response providers, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 424. the nays are zero. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended the bill is passed, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. miller: mr. speaker, i as

move the bill. ere came a time when sitting in the ways and means committee room if you have been in the building, it is still there. mills and the general counsel and two or three people sat down and what became law was done in about 15 minutes. mills got together and said look, here's how we are going to do it. i am going to do hospitalization. mr. byrnes, the republican, you want to include the doctors? we are going to do supplemental medicare part b. over there medically indigent, medicaid. wilber cohen and wilbur mills cohen was one of the great architects. that bill was put together in about 15 minutes. medicare, medicaid and the doctors hospitalization part b. then they called lbj and said mr. president, we have got it done. wilbur mills began to explain it. speaker mccormick got on we pulled this out. lbj said i do not want any hypochondriacs in that bill. wilber -- wilbur cohen said let me explain why that will not happen. we are going to control costs. don't worry, no hypochondriacs. lynda:

the passage of this bill will represent the 34th short-term extension of the surface transportation bill. what country became great building its infrastructure eight months at a time six months at a time, a year at a time? it is a failure on the part of congress to be able to understand that you cannot pay for 2015 infrastructure needs with 1993 dollars. the last time we adjusted the user fee the gas tax, that supports the highway trust fund. i do see a little tiny glimmer of daylight with the three-month extension. i've personally been urging the president to indicate that this is the last extension that he will sign. the house ways and means committee could pass a funding measure in a week, if we'd roll up our sleeves. we have legislation there that is supported by the u.s. chamber, afl-cio by truckers, transit, auto, the triple-a -- a.a.a., a wide array of people who say, step up, raise our user fee fund the transportation system and do it right. we used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, now we're about 25th in the world and falling further. if the ways and means if the

>> using the appropriations bill. so getting that through not on its merits but by threatening -- i talked to the secretary of treasury and others the fear was the republicans would put a short term appropriations bill through and that would have damaged the economy. my own belief is the president vetoed it on those grounds and said this is what this is about. this is about how they can manipulate derivatives, they would have backed down. in any case the president -- it was not so much the substance on that one. i think that was a huge hole in the bill. it was the precedent of how they do it. i think at this point they have talked about repeal. compare obamacare to financial reform. they have had 50 60 votes on repealing the healthcare bill. there have been no votes on repealing the financial reform bill because they know it's popular. the fact i haven't seen that many bills repealed. the only bill i saw in 2011 to repeal the whole thing came from michelle bachmann who was not in the leadership echelon of the republica

when it came to no child left behind, the home security bill took seven weeks, the energy bill and the farm bill last year took four weeks so we have work to do. we have john mccain. we haven't seen it and i don't think that we should have - shouldn't we have time to examine? i don't think it would be outrageous to ask for a bill to be read but we haven't seen. >> i and others have worked on this bill and it's taken weeks to get it done. there's something here that basically says you take this or leave it. i'm going to do everything i can to move on the long-term highway bill. but we have to look at this and find out what the different committees thinking that different senators think and what people at home think. i have a lot of people at home interested in the bill. a member of the finance committee unless he learned something in the last hour he doesn't know what they are either. so, in short we want to be as cooperative as we can but we are not going to reach into this legislation without having had a chance to read in detail the bill and after having read it and having the discus

i was unfortunately detained for the last bill. and i wanted to make just a couple of points on the last suspension that just passed that mr. chaffetz brought to the floor h.r. 1871, the evidence-based policymaking commission act of 2015. right now we spend so much of our time here in congress and in the federal government focusing on measuring success of our policies based on measuring inputs not outcomes. how many programs are we creating how much money are we spending? not are these programs working or not. we will create a commission to look at the data we already collect and see if we can give access to academics and use this data more effectively so we can better measure outcomes of our policies. we want to make sure that we can use our data to evaluate better policy. we want to make sure we do it in a way that ensures people's privacy, but we want to move the kind of debate we've been having here from liberal versus conservative or republican versus democrat to what work to what doesn't work and no where is more crucial to tr

the senate bill is up in the air. the house bill is even more up in the air. host: the article by our guest nina rees, saying don't protesting out with the bathwater. if no child left behind is changed, testing should remain. good morning. caller: amen to the first caller. she said something very poignant and to the point. charter schools come to fruition only because the majority of the state funding is taken from the trust fund or pocket money of where the money goes for the public schools. unfortunately, the majority of these major tests everybody takes, especially the new part test that costs a lot of money. local municipalities and states are burdened with paying for that because the federal government has sewed up most of their pockets for money. host: thank you. guest: on the funding for assessment it is important to understand when no child left behind was written and those tests became required, the federal government does pony up cash to cover the costs to the tune of $400 million a year. that is not to say it coveralls -- covers all of the cost. tha

the bill passed by the committee is included in the multiyear transportation bill before the senate today would also advance the deployment of positive train control technology for averting accidents. i'm proud to note that we recently amended the multiyear transportation legislation to expand this authorization. never before has the senate authorized robust, dedicated and mandatory funding for positive train control implementation. the amendment accepted by the senate earlier today would authorize $199 million in p.t.c. grants and loan financing for commuter railroads in fiscal year 2016. this is the highest single-year authorization for p.t.c. ever. using the railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program commuter railroads will be able to leverage this funding for $2 billion in loans necessary to cover their p.t.c. capital needs. in addition to advancing deployment of p.t.c., the wicker-booker bill would require p speed passenger plans for railroads to address train modifications, crew communication practices and other measures to prevent overspeed derailment. it would requi

[laughter] move the bill. ere came a time when sitting in the ways and means committee room, if you have been in the long war -- the longwirth building, it is still there. mills and the general counsel and two or three people sat down and what became law was done in about 15 minutes. mills got together and said , look, here's how we are going to do it. i am going to do hospitalization. that'll will take care of the seniors. mr. byrnes, the republican, you want to include the doctors? we are going to do supplemental medicare part b. over there, medically indigent let's do medicaid. wilber cohen and wilbur mills, give people in this country have ever heard of wilber cohen. one of the great architects of medicare. that bill was put together in about 15 minutes. a three layer cake. medicare, medicaid and the doctors hospitalization part b. then they called lbj and said , mr. president, we have got it done. wilbur mills began to explain it. speaker mccormick got on, we pulled this out. the first thing lbj said was,

the house will vote on this bill today. i share the concerns of many of my constituents in california's 13th congressional district about the proliferation of untested genetically modified foods entering our food supply. and the risks to farmers public health created by the rushed commercialization of genetically engineered crops and genetically modified organism products. the american people deserve the best information possible when it comes to food choices they make for themselves and their families. already, some 60 foreign nations around the world require g.m.o. labeling. we need to be on the side of transparency and the safety of the people we represent. that's why i support legislation like representative peter defazio's gentlemen neatically engineered right to know act, h.r. 913, which would require the labeling of genetically engineered foods at the federal level. i hope my colleagues will defeat h.r. 15 9 and move forward with federal efforts of requiring adequate and clear labeling for the foods american families

the bill of rights and the debates that are echoed today. she speaks with the director of the institute for constitutional history at the new york historical society and george washington university law school >> host: it's nice to be having this conversation with you. i very much enjoyed reading your book the bill of rights the fight to secure america's liberties and my first question is an easy one why did you write the book? >> guest: probably for the same reason that i wrote a brilliant solution. i think that american are hobbled by about the myths of the birth of the country. i think all country have ms. a mess but it is a part of hours and i think that the story is much more interesting and admirable that i was tempted when i realized a lot of people i spoke to thought that the bill of rights was part of the original constitution and it was written by the statute standing in the park. all brilliant all amazingly self-interested, no egos and that it became instantly the most important part of the constitution and i thought there's one h

the bills would then be sent to the upper chamber. the prime minister and members of the ruling bloc want to see the legislation enacted by late september when the current session of the diet ends. >>> lawmakers with the ruling coalition are welcoming the committee's decision, but members of the opposition are voicing harsh criticism. >> translator: we made every effort to get an approval. i don't think there was a problem with the process. it's regrettable that opposition lawmakers didn't accept the bills. >> translator: we will use every opportunity to elaborate to get people to understand the meaning and the importance of the bills. >> translator: i strongly protest that they ram such controversial bills through the special committee. bills are highly suspects of being unconstitutional it is a big change for the national security policy. >> translator: that was terrible steam rolling. we had been saying that we need more discussion because we still don't have the public's understanding. but they forced a vote. >> translator: i stro

this comes after the country's parliament passed an austerity bill. so greece is set to receive much needed cash. what's next on the agenda. >> well, a lot of focus on trying to get the wheels of the economy rolling again for greece. focus on that. eurozone finance ministers have agreed to start negotiations on a new bailout package. the move came after the greek parliament approved an aw ter sister pi bill that the eurozone countries had demanded as a condition for the talks to go ahead. ministers reached this decision in a telephone conference. they'll discuss giving athens a three-year bailout of up to 86 billion euros or $93 billion once the parliaments of germany and some other countries give the green light. the germans are expected to vote on the issue friday. members have agreed in principle to provide greece with a three-month bridge alone of $7.6 billion. athens faces a series of deadlines in july and august for debt repayments. in a related move the european central bank has decided to raise the amount of emergency lending to greek banks. >>

the bill forced the f.a.a. to put notums in one secure place where everybody would have access to it. and all of these complaints were made were dealt w with. but a lot of the things that we wanted to happen wouldn't happen. now, in case you're wondering -- and i'll take it off now since there's no reason to keep it on -- but this is shall know what that is? thesethat's the pass you get into oshkosh. oshkosh -- and the chair knows this because the chair's husband has an f.b.o. operation in western iowa. well any washings i'veway, i have a gone to the -- the largest event in all worldwide is oshkosh the last weekend of july of every year. i've been to every one of those along with my sons for 36 years. never missed one. and i didn't miss the one last week either, even though we were having votes because you know, some things are really important. and so i went up there with the idea that we have the pilots' bill of rights 2 in order to correct the areas where the f.a.a. is either not complying with the intent of

the bills will now go to the upper house where the debate could heat up. opponents are intensifying their criticism and planning their next moves. if members of the upper house don't vote on the legislation within 60 days a provision would allow the governing coalition to use its two-thirds majority in the lower house to enact the bills. prime minister shinzo abe and his coalition hope to have the legislation become law by late september when the current session of the diet ends. abe spoke to reporters after the vote. >> translator: we plan to have deep discussions appropriate to the upper house known as a center of sound judgment. everyone in our party will make their utmost efforts to deepen the public's understanding of the bills. >> he said the bills are necessary to prevent war and to protect the lives of the japanese people. >>> lawmakers from the ruling party are welcoming the approval of the legislation, but members of the opposition are strongly criticizing it. >> translator: we want to make a solid frakwork to prevent war. we will be building up

the bill has two entirely unrelated aspects. i've never heard of a crazier name than the surface transportation and veterans health care choice improvement act. it's part of the problem of this body over the last several years the republican leadership has moved towards doing more and more omnibuses and mini buses. that means combining disparate bills. transportation-veterans in one bill which isn't healthy for accountability of this body among the electorate. if you vote against this bill, for instance, because you don't like the transportation division, does that mean you're against veterans? if you don't like the veteran provisions and vote against this bill, are you against transportation? how easy would it be simply to have two votes on each of these bills so members on both sides of the aisle can vote their conscience and our constituents could hold us accountable? of course it's necessary to give the v.a. the authority to transfer $3.3 billion for health care services. strong agreement on both sides. we could run the bill

we have passed the highway bill. the best advice i can give to the senate, it is a clean highway bill to december 18. to pass a clean highway bill and move it to the president. and i yield back. mr. hoyer: i understand that's the gentleman's desire. i know he's opposed to the ex-im bank re-authorization. as you know, we passed it in a bipartisan fashion when mr. cantor was the majority leader. the gentleman voted for it. he's changed his mind. that's certainly -- many of us do that from time to time. but my question to him is, if they don't do what the gentleman suggests, a clean highway bill, and they send it back as is apparently mr. mcconnell's, leader mcconnell's', thought that they will do, consistent with his representation to the senator from washington state and others, if they add the ex-im bank to that bill and it comes back, i know the gentleman's reluctant to speculate, but we have very, very short period of time left in this session before the august break. does he believe that if it comes back and is in

bills off the old bill we had before, and most of the bills track older bills. i don't think it's going to be that hard for us to detail our stay of to read it because here's the problem: if we don't we've got 800,000 construction workers that still are not back to work. we've got seven states that have stopped doing anything. so if we can just keep our eye on the prize, which is businesses being able to do what they want to do -- build -- i had a bridge collapse two days ago. you can't get from california toes a. so i hope tomorrow will be able to join with our friends and vote to proceed. if we don't like the bill, we'll have three more opportunities to vote "no." but i'd love to get on this bill and get moving on it and seeing if we can keep this economy moving in the right direction and not take a chance, as many economists said we will, if we don't do a long-term bill. i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: will the senator from california yield for a question? mrs. boxer: at yes i. mr. mcconnell: i understanding is that you and chairman inhofe have been discussi

but the greatest failure of this bill aside from the limited growth in investment, is this bill makes choices about revenue that i think the congress and the american people will regret. i mentioned a couple of them. let me talk about those that were part of the banking committee on which i sit and which i -- i think i probably know the most about. despite opposition from consumer advocates and participants in the housing market, including bankers, including realtors, the bill would increase the guarantee fees paid by homeowners that are charged to protect against losses of fannie mae and freddie mac. that means when you go to a closing, you will be assessed a fee. it will increase the cost of homeownership by $4,000 for borrowers who have 20% down payment as a median home price and even for more for those who have less down. this means increased the cost for homeownership and puts taxpayers at greater risk. there is a history of opposition to use of this fee for purposes other than housing. more recently, senators crapo a republican from idaho senator warren a democrat from virginia

the bill is passed. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid -- for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. lofgren: i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 241, and the nays are 179. the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal, whic

the bill would amend the current h.u.d. requirement to reallocate or return otherwise available funds from twice per year to just once per year this change provides h.u.d. and local agencies with administrative relief while having no negative impacts on beneficiaries of they have programs. in addition, this program is supported by the national alliance to end homelessness a national advocacy organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the united states. an identical bill passed the house last december on the suspension calendar by voice vote and i urge my colleagues to again vote in favor of this bill. i thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. mr. luetkemeyer: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. ms. waters: i yield to the gentleman, mr. peters as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. mr. peter -- mr. peter

the underlying bill is important. i urge all members to support the rule and the underlying bill. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts has three minutes remaining. mr. mcgovern: i yield one minute to the the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman from great state of massachusetts for yielding. this is an emotional time for many of us. this is an important bill but we have gone through an emotional time on this floor again raising up the ugliness of the rebel flag. and i try to educate my colleagues about the damage that this damage has done to so many. under that flag, many were killed in the name of slavery. and this is the 150th year of the elimination of slavery. when i spoke of disease, all falling on minority populations in life there are still issues that face you because you are different. i call upon this house to recognize that although we have many issues to debate, that when you pierce the heart of someone because you believe the

they confirmed the party should unite to enact the bill. of five opposition parties agreed not to take part in the vote on thursday. they said they cannot accept the bills being rammed through. >>> a senior u.s. government official has welcomed the outcome in the lower house committee. assistant secretary of state frank rose said he hopes japan's diet will pass the national security bills. rose gave a speech in tokyo on the u.s./japan alliance. he said the bills are a matter for japan to discuss but he suggested they're a step in the right direction. >> we strongly support a robust japan that can cooperate effectively with the united states across the full spectrum of security challenges we face. >> rose said the u.s. wants japan to be an ally that can help deal with newly emerging challenges. >>> a top japanese official is heading to china. he's expected to discuss the timing of a summit between the leaders of the two countries. shotaro yachi is japan's national security secretary in chief. he'll meet yang jiechi. who oversees foreign diplo

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we are now going to sign the bill. want to say it is with great pride that i am surrounded by members of the emanuel nine family. i want to thank them for taking the time to come. i also am surrounded by former governors who put their name on paper that said yes, while we have been part of south carolina's past we want to see south carolina go in the right direction for our future so i want to thank everybody that's with me today. with that, i am proud to say that the bill has been signed. i do want to also acknowledge these nine pens are going to each of the nine families of the emanuel nine. [applause] may we never forget the actions that those people took to get us to this point today. and then i have got a couple of other pens. many people have talked about the courage that took place by so many across this state, but one person started this almost two decades ago, and that was governor david beasley and the last time i saw him i said you started it. he said well, i need you to finish it. [applause] and the second o

senate on the bill. on the house side, i think we have some concerns on the house side. one specifically goes to pleadings and trying to meak sure that there is language in there to try to avoid the kind of gaming that can happen at the beginning of litigation. mothers letters are being sent out that don't assert what the claims are. the thought made clear what or how the patent is being infringed. we think that could be improved in the house bill and we'll continue to work with the house judiciary committee on the concern as well. it is good from our perspective to see things are continuing to move and congress is continuing to focus on trying to eliminate some of these concerns. michelle: just to add. we are working very closely with stakeholders and congressional members on these issues. and there are strengths, certainly more activity on the review side of the proposed amendments on the senate bill. the venue provision in the house in the house bill, not in the senate. there is a whole range in the mi

who are the main office of the bill? we are hearing it would include money for the veterans affairs department? >> caller: so the bill was sponsored by transportation infrastructure committee chair bill -- it has chairman paul ryan as a cosponsor, and we just got this bill text late last opportunity but is still pouring through it, including committee staff. not majority staff but ways and means, authorizing committee everybody is taking a look at this now. what we do know is that there is a provision in the bill to address the consolidation of veterans affairs health care programs. this is to deal with an impending cloture -- closure of certain of the hospitals but that is so something that has been figured out. over some type of an offset into bill for that. that's what i'm hearing from transportation advocates and other staff. but the main for the transportation part is that it would extend authorization to the end of october, october 29. but also includes $8 billion from the general fund an offset from the general fun

the g.m.o. labeling bill last night in committee. so i would urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand up for open debate and an open process and reject this. send a message to the republican leadership that enough is enough. mr. speaker, with regard to h.r. 1734, the so-called improving coal combustion residuals regulation act, this bill continues republicans' anti-science, anti-environment anti-public health fight. there's not a week that goes by we don't have a bill that seeks to try to undermine regulation or rule making that is designed to help protect the people of this contry. but this bill -- country. but this bill undercuts ep he's new coal ash rule, putting many communities at risk of exposure. coal ash is highly toxic and needs to be properly disposed of. the devastating effects are well-known. this bill is just another republican bill attempting to undermine commonsense health and safety protection from toxic chemicals. the american people deserve much better. i'm glad the white house has issued a veto threat

states for ratification and you can see in the next room, an original copy of the bill of rights along with rare copies of the constitution and the deck lar laration of in dependence and the original document doesn't cop tain just 10 amendments and the first 12 have not to do with free speech, but with the size of congress one for every 40,000 people which would have created a congress with 4000 people today and the second amendment says congress can't raise its salary without an election and that became the 27th amendment in the 1990s. so what a remarkable story that in this room, despite the fierce divisions of principle among the delegates, that these brave dissenters ultimately were vindicated and it is a reminder of the importance of dissent and political dissent was so crucial to the framing of the constitution and protections for dissent now expressed in the first amendment are at the heart of what makes america distinctive. >>> lucy hayes was the first first lady to earn a college degree and during the civil war soldiers serving under lincoln colded her servient

we are glad to see the new pictures. billasing a story about a bodybuilder who was killed. a stray bullet. >> rafael angelo a 51 -year-old competitive bodybuilder. very fit. that same strength may be the reason why he was put in harms way and shot in the back by police. i chased the story to a gym in brooklyn where medicine also by the name of rafael who told me this was his father's favorite hangout. he and his family are suing nypd for $25 million. they allege law fails rafael showed up to help a friend who was being attacked by her ex-boyfriend. they believe that police asked the bodybuilder to break down the door. >> please do their weapons and fired. >> what is interesting that is not what was told to the family. there is an official please document that says he was killed by the guy inside the apartment. >> lied to me about what happened. >> i spoke to the owner of the gym. she told me that he absolutely believes that police would have asked him to break down the door because he was that strong. how hard would it be? >>

the bill absolutely makes no sense. rather than improving public safety it will achieve the complete opposite. that is not just my conclusion. law enforcement agencies from across the united states and numerous organizations set as the sheriffs association, the fraternal order of police, the law enforcement immigration task force, the united states conference of mayors, and the natural leak of cities all oppose this bill. in effect, this bill will punish law enforcement officers by withholding the funds they need to do their jobs. it would require states and localities to prioritize federal immigration enforcement ahead of enforcing, enhancing doublet safety. reactionary proposals such as this legislation will only make our communities less safe because immigrants will not report crimes or otherwise cooperate with the police if they fear they, or their family members, will be asked for their immigration status. as a result, crimes will go unsolved, and so, unpunished. more people will be victimized. the funds from the lo

there are other problems with the bill. for example, block granting programs that will end up underfunding after-school programs, stem, arts education and others. these vital programs will do worse. mr. speaker, for those reasons, we should both defeat the rule and if the rule passes, we should defeat the bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. newhouse: at this time i'm pleased to yield to another freshman colleague two minutes to the gentlelady from new york congresswoman stefanik. ms stefanik: i rise in support of the rule and the underlying bill. we have a chance to put our education system back on track helping students all across this country. over the past six months, i have traveled in my district to listen to the concerns of teachers administrators, parents and students. one of the most common themes i hear is there is too much confusion coming from washington and those who know what's best are educators and pare

if the bill gets final approval the flag could be removed

the program takes care of the very poor. this bill will provide prepaid health care for the great body of our self-supporting proud people who remain so even after 65. anyway, i will do that. pres. johnson: is he committed to the doctors? sen. gore: i'm afraid he is, but he's happy to be away, and if i find out he will not be away -- pres. johnson: ok. >> president johnson and albert gore senior talking about medicare on september 2, 1964. later that day, lbj urges another democratic senator to support medicare. pres. johnson: i see goldwater is flying back. is that going to be a close vote? he says he is flying back from arizona. don't you let him beat us, carl. sen. hayden: you waited for us didn't you? pres. johnson: once you do that today? sen. hayden: i might. pres. johnson: do that. we can't lose this one. they've got to have these old people. the polls show that is the most population we got. sen. hayden: well -- pres. johnson: wait and see. if we don't need you, do what you have to. if we'd do need you, don't let us lose it. s

bill. it brings every to the table. this bill had six weeks of public review before even being formally introduced, resulting in substantial crowd source changes to the bill. our water future deserves that kind of open debate and real solutions. i have been joined by 34 co-sponsors on that bill because it provides both short and long-term investments in water supply reliability, the kind of cools that all western states will need. my bill includes significant resources to support farm workers and others who are out of work, not just lip service. i submit that if my republican colleagues really care about the challenges faced by farm workers and others affected by this drought they'll join us in backing real solutions that provide meaningful assistance in addition to stretching our limited water supplies. our bill is supported by the association of california water agencies, california sanitation agency, numerous other water agencies, environmental groups and stake holders and both the "l.a. times" and the "san francisco

we are now going to sign the bill. i want to say it was with great pride that i'm surrounded by members of the emanuel nine family. i want to thank them for coming. i want to thank the senators who came together to say, while we have been a part of south carolina's last, we want to see this part of south carolina's future going into the right direction. i want to thank everybody who is with me today. [laughter] governor haley: with that, i'm proud to say the bill has been signed. i do want to acknowledge these nine pens are going to the families of the emmanuel nine. [applause] governor haley: may we never forget the actions that those people took to get us to this point today. and then i've got a couple of other pens. many people have talked about the kurds that took -- courage that took place by so many across the state. but one person start this almost two decades ago. that was governor david beasley. the last time i saw him, i said, you started it. he said, now i need you to finish it. [applause] governor haley: and

the ex-im bill. our hope was that the senate would put the ex-im bank on our bill and send it back over to us. insed -- instead they're saying it would have to be on a long-term bill cannot possibly be finished by the 31st of july when the authorization runs out. we hope that they would follow the path we set here in a bipartisan way from the house to the senate, even though we're reluctant to support another short-term bill. but the fact is, july 31 is fast upon us. i believe the seeker's wish was not to have this take five months to do but that we could do a bill in a shorter period of time, two or three months and i would hope that the senate would recognize that and send us this bill. as they proceed to pass or not, their own long-term bill which we would then go to conference on. so there we are on that. the president has proposed the grow america act a six-year bill, it's robust it's paid for. it's exactly what this country needs. i hope that whatever we did was more -- looked more like the pres

the g.i. billis too important for our veterans to have these benefits ever questioned because of a scandal like this. stories like these abuses by the for-profit college industry and these unaccredited so-called schools appear more frequently in newspapers and other immediate outlets america this issue has never received so much attention. unfortunately here in the halls of congress, you can still hear the crickets when it comes to this issue. i hope this changes. if we're serious about really caring about our military and their families and our veterans if we're serious about caring about taxpayers' dollars if we're honest about this industry that's fleecing the american taxpayers and members of our military this congress should act on a bipartisan basis. but some of these schools have friends in high places. every time i have tried to call them out someone has stepped in to their defense usually in a private manner so the public doesn't know. the day of reckoning is coming on these schools these

bill. it expired at the end of 2009. and at that time, we should have started another one and -- another transportation reauthorization bill but we didn't do it. so we had short-term extensions. there's a guy named gary ridly out in oklahoma who's recognized nationally and he's been here testifying several times before us as a national real scholar. he really understands transportation. he's done an analysis. he says that if we'll look at the 33 short-term extensions that we operated under right here in america after 2009 and before this bill it cost about 30% off the top. now, i think it's important for a lot of people here because sometimes there are rating organizations that will say well we don't -- we're going to oppose a bill because it's a big spending bill. sure it's a big spending bill. you know, that old worn-out document called the constitution says what we're supposed to be doing here, defending america and bridges and roads. and so that's what this is all about. and we're going to be doing it. but for conserv

the bill in the senate. it's usually just a formality. then the bill goes to the house. we're expecting to see the bill introduced in the house today. then after that debate on the bill tomorrow. there is a 24-hour rule before debate can begin. then we're expecting a third reading of the bill on thursday. if the entire package passes by thursday, it would go to governor nikki haley's desk and then she would have until noon the following day, presumably friday to enact the taking down of the flag. >> a lot of anticipation what will happen today, especially with members of the house there speaking later this morning. thanks so much joy reid. >>> the fierce debate over immigration is escalating with prosecutors in california charging a mexican immigrant with murder in the shooting death of a woman on a pier. francisco sanchez is scheduled to be arraigned in the death of catherine steinle. sanchez spoke to our sister network in spanish saying he doesn't remember much of what happened but doesn't dispute that pol