new and current threats against the united states and what occurred on that day and on a moving forward basis. if you refuse to participate with the united states congress, if you subvert the process and take advantage of our structure, the honorable john boehner will then respond with that which is given to him and to the united states house of representatives, and that is to honorably pivot based upon something that happened less than a month ago, april 17. this administration chose to deliberately mislead the united states congress and we responded therein. on that day the administration delivered 276 documents consisting of 779 pages. they gave those to the committee on oversight and government reform, many of which continue to be heavily redacted. the same day the state department complied under a freedom of information act requested by judicial watch, and i believe that the timing of these two productions is not a coincidence as to whether or not congress would have received these documents absence judicial watch's foea -- foia request. the two sets of documents are incredibly similar and shockingly some of the documents received by the committee

united states military. we try to make sure we are responsive. when congress does not meet its task, i can assure the caller that we work in a bipartisan manner to ensure that we try to fix that and overcome it. ,ever perfect, but we own it and we try with legislative for theve to provide g.i. bill that came out. i have seen it work. backe seen veterans coming and finishing their education, families finishing education, engaging in job training. do better.ys we may not be able to do more, but we can always do better. we can always be more efficient. robustt facebook.com, a conversation is now underway. jimmy says to privatize the entire system. , give themike veterans a health card that can be used at any clinic or hospital, public or v.a. duke is joining us from summerville, south carolina. a veteran himself. welcome to the program. caller: good morning. thank for c-span. all right. i am a vietnam era veteran. i feel them now at this point in time the truth is coming out is what i think is happening right now. i think that both sides, the house and the senate

speaker, including a dedicated response from the united states congress. i am pleased that the bill before us tonight fulfills the request for funding for a new grant program to inventory and test rape kits, develop units to pursue new investigative leads and offer support to victims during the process. the new investment through this bipartisan bill is an important first step. however, through simple addition we can tally pending costs. thank you so much for your indulgence, mr. speaker, i yield back. the chair: for what purpose does the -- for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia

, and then onto russia to seek the protection of vladimir putin rather than coming to the united states congress, or someone else, or some other entity in the united states and seek the protection under our whistleblower statute. i think he could have done this very differently than he did. the consequences of him having done it the way he did it our as yet untold and a big concern to me and many others. >> could i just add to that? it is hard for me to imagine that snowden didn't realize he was breaking the law in several respects and that he was apparently willing to pay the price, or at least take the risk for that activity. i don't think there should be some committee seeking to give him a pass or lighten his responsibility. i have to assume that he realized that if he were detected that this thing would not work out too well. >> several of you have indicated that you hold the senate comes back with stronger language, but we also know this is a delicate compromise that has been reached over weeks and months. i think we know what the administration has said they could support. what makes you

none of us as members of congress want the citizens of the united states to be in any way intimidated by a government that's here to help them. and i stand here saying, we can come together to ensure that all of our government agencies work well. the president made the point in may of 2013, if in fact the i.r.s. personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups and it's been noted by the witnesses in the overesight -- oversight committee that they were targeting over groups as well, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it. there's no conflict in this. what we are now debating is the fallacy of the appointment of a special counsel and the $14 million and the 700,000 pages unredakotaed documents, more than 250 people that have been respond -- unredacted documents, more than too people that have been responding, and i ask to include the letter to congressman levin that talks about the litany of requests that the i.r.s. has been requested to do. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. j

on end, apparently all indications are, and they're saying she should be speaking to the united states congress. democrats have been careful not to defend lois lerner's actions at the tax collection agency, but they say they don't believe she's waived her fifth amendment right. for that reason, we expect almost all or perhaps all democrats to vote against this contempt of congress resolution. so bottom line, we should know shortly whether she's going to be held in contempt. all indications are she will. then the question is where does the irs investigation go from here? i have been speaking with leadership aides and officials here on capitol hill, and they say this is not the end of the irs investigation here in terms of the united states congress. they say you're going to be seeing a lot more oversight from them throughout the rest of this year, but this is a significant chapter. it is not every day that somebody is held in contempt of congress. greta. >> mike, her lawyer wanted to address congress at one time. that was obviously declined. and now if she is, if the vote goes she's held in cont

you can't look at the united states congress, fannie and freddie, long-term capital, various small banks, midsized banks, big banks, non-bank institutions, lehman brothers, the list goes on, and conclude -- there is one distinguishing feature around risk or complexity that we can now drill into that is a panacea in response to the concern and control the debate going forward. revealed thatarly it is more comprehensive in that regard. we can't just make a declaration. it is an important combination of all of that. there is nuance involved as to how to best approach that. the response to that at the time was, the dodd frank legislation. you just heard from the authors of that legislation. the best policy thinkers of that time or at least those that were charged with the responsibility to responding to the crisis in a congress that was not inclined to be generous to the industry. the dodd frank framework. the paint is not yet dry on that framework. it is not yet even fully implemented. we can certainly have a debate about what its affects might be, but the fact of the matter is it is not ye

60 needed to pass a comprehensive measure was in fact a day of shame and disgrace in the united states congress. >> he says he's determined to get measures passed that include mental health. police say elliot rodger passed a background check to buy a gun. that's despite a history of mental illness. >>> a san jose teenager is recovering from the physical and emotional trauma she suffered this morning as she was the innocent bystander of a drive-by shooting. >> i was in the house. it a passed me in -- it passed me in my chest and arm. >> reporter: she has minor wounds but 15-year-old carl law rodriquez is grateful -- karla rodriquez is grateful she was not seriously hurt. she was caught in the middle of a drive by that left her family with a flat tire and frayed nerves. it turns out rodriquez wasn't hit by a bullet. she was injured by flying debris. the gunfire was at around 4:45 on stow street in san jose. rodriquez and her cousin woke up to their car alarm going off. they went outside and saw a strange man hiding out in their driveway. moments later, they saw a car drive up and someone inside s

yes, no it's for united states congress. (laughter) >> jon: all right.one. either he had to take a very important call from his urologist during the debate or he's about to launch into a debate. yes, in the greatest debate tactic since lincoln asked douglas, "whoremonger says what?" charlie rangel did his entire opening statement in the form of a gag phone call with someone who just happened to want to know really terrible things about the two men sitting next to him. >> no, no, no, he's been here 18 years but he didn't say he passed any bills at all. well the guy was only there half of the time. (rangel on phone) how can he register to vote in new york when he lives in jersey? >> jon: no, i'm as confused about it as you are, person i made up! you know what? i think this is how charlie rangel stays in office so long. yes, he's corrupt but very likable. h he figured out how to be a total dick to the guys sitting right next to him, without having to take any responsibility for his dickishness. >> they love him at the, he's very active at the national actio

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anyone in the world from may to the rio de janeiro to moscow when figured out by now that the united states congress is not someone to listen to when trying to figure out the farm policy of the united states. okay last question him out to get the secrets that sad victory and a clinic said he had a history of corruption in ukraine and when he was accused of calling up the place i lived on protesters who was demonized by a lot of people saying it is inappropriate to do. now the government in kiev is using force against protesters in eastern ukraine calling anti operations and so on. foreign minister sergei lavrov said. this is a practice of double standards by western countries in kiev what you think about this again we are in the weeds there were in a tactical details which are important for day to day operations perhaps but they don't really matter in the greater scheme of things. everyone has some built on the side of the united states the eu ukraine itself. um moscow there's this there is tactical days in the current deal on all sides. and i just admitted that the united states there is a large bu

new and current threats against the united states and what occurred on that day and on a moving forward basis. if you refuse to participate with the united states congress, if you subvert the process and take advantage of our structure, the honorable john boehner will then respond with that which is given to him and to the united states house of representatives, and that is to honorably pivot based upon something that happened less than a month ago, april 17. this administration chose to deliberately mislead the united states congress and we responded therein. on that day the administration delivered 276 documents consisting of 779 pages. they gave those to the committee on oversight and government reform, many of which continue to be heavily redacted. the same day the state department complied under a freedom of information act requested by judicial watch, and i believe that the timing of these two productions is not a coincidence as to whether or not congress would have received these documents absence judicial watch's foea -- foia request. the two sets of documents are incredibly similar and shockingly some of the documents received by the committee

these are acts of the united states congress. nullified by executive acts of the president of the united states. we'll accept it if the court over across the street already nullify a law that is passed by the congress and signed by the president if they rule it unconstitutional. most of the time we accept that. sometimes we reject their judgment because we take an oath to the constitution, too, mr. speaker. but we should be appalled at the constitutional violations of the president of the united states who has continually overreached on immigration, on education, on welfare to work, on obamacare itself. the bill with his name and his signature. there are more than 30 changes that the president's brought about on that, some of them are clearly unconstitutional, most of them are difficult to litigate to a successful conclusion. . and so who calls the shots here? well, i make recommendations like anybody else does. each member follows their own conscience. senator schumer says, well, they listen to me. well, we listen to each other.

that directs the department of commerce, the united states trade representative, and the united states international trade commission to report to congress on the sanctions they can bring against companies that benefit from information acquired by hacking into private computers in the united states. the justice department recently indicted five chinese military officers for stealing commercially valuable information from a number of companies in the united states. these indictments highlight what we have known for a long time, namely, that china and governments around the world are hacking into computers into the united states and using that information they steal for their own economic advantage. these hackers have targeted the offices of westing house, u.s. steel, the united steelworkers union, algony technologies and solar world, five of which are located in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. the information they stole helped chinese companies in negotiations or trade disputes with each of the targeted organizations. while these indictments are the first of their kind, businesses in the united states have been facing cyberattacks like this for

today is is a -- today as a family in the united states congress we have a problem. we have a disease problem. whether it is a heart attack or stroke or cancer. or whether or not it is the terrible injuries of war. post-traumatic stress disorder. or those who have lost limbs. who have suffered traumatic brain injury. we have men and women who have worked in our veterans -- and our veterans have now come in later years, suffer the illnesses of age. all of us will take our fists and bang on this podium to be able to say that they are first in our priority. excessive ters deaths, those who may have died in texas or elsewhere. if this is a measure to begin that healing, to give the secretary the ability to be table focus in on those beyond the surgeons that are in the operating room the nurses that i visited with along the hallways when i go to the veterans hospital in my area, then we should go forward and i stand with this legislation working toward making the system work. and i want to make it work by curing the systemic and the problematic way that we have veterans w

held the congress of the united states in contempt. held them in contempt. lois learner has held the people and and the process they cherish and the agency, the irs who all have to account to as a manipulate a national election. targeted directed attempt and every road leads to lois learner. opportunity ce the to come before congress and to tell the whole truth and nothing she has failednd to do that and i urge that we contempt.learner in that's our responsibility and it done.e yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from california reserves and the gentleman from maryland recognizes. due respect to the the itan who spoke, even found that lois learner did not a year out it until afterwards. yield three minutes to the distinguished to mr. conway. virginia is from recognized for three minutes. >> thank you mr. speaker and i dear friend of the reform committee. if they had witnessed the proceedings on the oversight and reform community with they t to lois learner would have reaffirmed their ommitment to the fifth amendment because rights were on.ple

he may not recall but the president was rebuffed by the united states congress on syria quite direct fully and forcefully. >> yes, absolutely but one would have thought, we have an assertive and aggressive china rising who is challenging us in the western pacific. obviously putin has redesign of some kind of a russian empire. radical islam is clearly on the rise in the middle east and africa and while he tried to address the radical islam issue he clearly did not go into any kind of depth that gave you confidence he was going to deal with the issue and these other issues he just relatively ignored them. so i was surprised by what was not in it as well as disappointed by some of the things he chose to contrast in the speech. lou: general jack keane, thanks for being with us as always. >> good talking to you, lou. lou: general shinseki not the only one of the president's close staff to leave today. the president also announced white house press secretary jay carney is stepping down. he will be replaced or has been replaced by deputy josh earnest. carney stays on till mid-june of the pr

lois lerner held the congress of the united states in contempt and is holding it in contempt. lois lerner held the electoral process that is so sacred to his country in contempt. lois lerner has held the american people and the process they cherish and the chief financial agency, the i.r.s., who we all have to account to, as a tool to manipulate a national election. this was a targeted, directed focus attempt and every road leads to lois lerner. she's had twice the opportunity to come before congress and to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth and she has failed to do that and i urge that we hold lois lerner in contempt. that's our responsibility. and it must be done. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: with all due respect to the gentleman who ust spoke, even the i.g. found that lois lerner did not learn about the inappropriate terms until a year afterwards. the i.g. that was appointed by the republican president with.

>> why is it predom of information act request gets more information thang the united states congresss when a subpoena is issued. >> many democrats stand firm there is nothing more than a political witch hunt. >> it could take a long time to get answers. thank you elizabeth prann life for us th-- live for us this mo. >> the house inches closer to charging former irs official lois lerner with contempt. there's a meeting to consider that and a request for a prosecutor to investigate the targeting scandal. we could see a full house vote on the consent charges today or tomorrow. >>> planning a party or a barbecue at your house. it could soon be illegal. they are trying to ban people from having gatherings of over 50 people. today's residents in fairfax county virginia they will hold the first public hearing on that possible ban some calling it unconstitutional. >> you have to be concerned about government over reach. >> if you live in a freedom country you have to have a freedom of choice. >> citizen ry is being fed up with it and they are going to hear about it. >> pat hairity says they

this resolution puts the united states' congress on record expressing strong support for the people of nigeria, especially the parents and families of the girls abducted by boko haram. we join the international community in calling for the immediate and safe return of . ese innocent girls the world is shouting and we've seen this and heard this over and over again. bring back our girls. these girls were pursuing their education. these are crimes against humanity and cannot be tolerated. nigeria in partnership with the international community must do everything it can to protect all children and men and women against such violent attacks. since 2013 more than 4,400 men, women and children have been slaughtered by boko haram. these are terrorists who have gotten away with murder. enough is enough. we must do everything we can to bring our girls home and to bring an end to boko haram's reign of terror. and i want to commend and thank our administration for once again being on the right side of history. i thank this -- i think this resolution encourages and supports what's taking place now

much is made about the contention in the united states congress, there are it pleases me to say -- therefore it pleases me to say that the security of israel remains bipartisan never aspect. i have a number of members with us tonight who i will yield my time to to celebrate this wonderful occasion. first i'd ask and introduce, yield time to, my colleague from rhode island, mr. cicilline, the a distinguished member of the foreign affairs committee. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentlelady for yielding, i thank the gentlelady for her passionate support of the state of israel and it has been an honor to serve with you on the foreign affairs committee and be an active member of the jewish caucus here in the house. i thank you for the time. i rise today to celebrate 66 years of independence by the state of israel and 66 years of lasting friendship between our two nations. on may 14, 1948, under the leadership of future israeli prime minister david ben gureon, jewish leaders -- david ben gurion, jewish leaders established the state of israel. at that time, the president recognized the state and sent

what we owe this country as our nation's deliberative body here as representatives of the united states congress to discuss for two or three days all the issues that members on both sides of the aisle have brought forward relating to defense? including first and foremost, the most obvious issue of the war we're currently engaged in and the demands from our constituents that however -- whatever side prevails in that vote, and in the past i joined my colleague, mr. mcgovern and mr. jones on that issue, at least we should be able to debate and discuss whether an ongoing american presence in afghanistan is in our national security interest. the process under which these bills come to the floor prevents open dialogue and debate and frankly continues to undermine the reputation of this body, the united states congress, as a deliberative and representative body. one need not wonder why congressional approval ratings are so low. here we are having a debate for a day on national defense and we're prohibitive from debating and voting on the single largest issue relating to national defense. in addition, t

but why is a freedom of information act request gets more access, more information than the united states congressubpoena is issued, and why are they retroactively changing the clasfxz. when you look at the e-mails, they were originally unclassified, and now they're secret and we can't look at the content of those? >> i assume the select mitt coe is going to change things. is that going to stop the oversight investigation. the oversight committee has been pursuing it. does it give that authority to the committee? >> all four of the committees, which where think have done great jobs at looking at certain portions of this now have this focused and funneled under congressman gowdy. he picked the perfect person and the right spot to get to the bottom of this. all we ask for is truth and justice. we just want to understand what really happened. whatever that might be. >> do you want to be on this committee? >> it would be an honor. i poured my heart and soul into this. a lot of people have. it's what i believe the responsibility of congress is to do, to provide the oversight of the executive branch. if

today is is a -- today as a family in the united states congress we have a problem. we have a disease problem. whether it is a heart attack or stroke or cancer. or whether or not it is the terrible injuries of war. post-traumatic stress disorder. or those who have lost limbs. who have suffered traumatic brain injury. we have men and women who have worked in our veterans -- and our veterans have now come in later years, suffer the illnesses of age. all of us will take our fists and bang on this podium to be able to say that they are first in our priority. excessive ters deaths, those who may have died in texas or elsewhere. if this is a measure to begin that healing, to give the secretary the ability to be table focus in on those beyond the surgeons that are in the operating room the nurses that i visited with along the hallways when i go to the veterans hospital in my area, then we should go forward and i stand with this legislation working toward making the system work. and i want to make it work by curing the systemic and the problematic way that we have veterans w

it's because they don't want the oversight committee and the united states congress to understand who was involved in these discussions and when. >> while fox news has not reviewed all of the documents sent to congress, the same pattern is found in the september 12th email. the judicial watch document has fewer redactions and there were other discrepancies. this unclassified email was retroactively classified by the state department. while the judicial watch copy was marked secret, the capitol hill copy was mashlinged confidential. they saw the same thing when osama bin laden was killed by navy s.e.a.l.s. >> for example, a body wrapped in a burial shroud, there's nothing classified about that. >> while addressing none of the allegations as part of its defense, the state department released the email that tried to shape the public perception. >> they are undecided about the select committee and whether she -- they should be involved. >>> senior political analyst brit hume joins us now to discuss what we could learn from the committee and what we may never know. >> in his briefing today

state of oklahoma and the state of texas entered into a compact that was agreed upon by the united states congress that put to rest all of these issues. now from no where, the blm comes in and abilities like it has the right and entitlement tot 90,000 acres on the texas side of the red river, so we consider this to be a federal land grab of property that belongs to texas. >> you're saying basically the federal government in the form of the bureau of land management wants to steal your land. >> it's bizarre, lou, because they first acted like they were taking our land and then when we challenged them on it, now they're saying, well, it belonged to them all along. so i think this will turn out to be my 31st lawsuit against the federal government if they continue to assert a right and title to this land. >> and no attorney general has a better record than you do in prevailing against this administration's justice department, correct? >> we do have a winning record against the obama administration. and we hope to keep it that way. and lou, i wish we didn't have to file any of these lawsuits because i

be much more searching and penetrating oversight going forward by both committees of the united states congressd i think for our part chairman sanders is dedicated to improving health care provided by the vavt, and that's the reason i have urged so strongly, in fact, wrote the attorney general of the united states on wednesday of this week, that there be a department of justice investigation, only the department of justice can convene a grand jury. only the fbi has the resources, expertise and authority to reach those 40 senators. and now there will be more, i'm sure. and impose the kind of investigative resources that are necessary and appropriate. we need a prompt and effective investigation by the department of justice, now more than ever, but also let's keep our eye on the ball. this resignation is only a beginning. our priority has to be improving health care offered to veterans. in the short term, that means giving them access to private facilities. clinics, doctors, hospitals. and then having the va provide vouchers and reimbursement. and in the long term, hiring more doctors. making sur

the united states congress has the responsibility not to run from this issue but to stand up and vote and be counted and i hope one day that the gentleman from iowa will have an opportunity to vote on comprehensive immigration reform and i hope that the people in my district will have a chance to see me vote on this. the house should not delay any longer. this is an appropriations bill, we're not in the business of immigration reform on this bill, we're just trying to run the bare bones of the united states government and i hope one day we'll come back to this issue appropriately and i yield back the remainder of my time. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. mr. king: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceed option the amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from -- the gentlela

. >> are you okay with spending millions of dollars in the united states congress' time going through an issue they've been over and over again? it's all politics. what they're doing the republicans is playing politics with u.s. taxpayers' money on something that we know what happened. it was bad. it was wrong. >> you think it's worthwhile -- >> i'm going to answer your question, bob. it does bug me when the president of the united states politicized a tragedy to win an election. >> okay. i don't think -- if you think these republicans aren't doing this about 2014 you're kidding yourselves. these punks wouldn't do this unless -- >> they thought it enough to cover it up that it would hurt his reelection chances. >> helped his reelection. didn't make it. does that make it any better that they're doing this to play for 2014? >> there are four dead americans, bob. >> bob, you know what i did? a piece of paper i put hillary clinton on top and wrote on the left some of these things boko har haram, reset russia. on the right, maybe you can help me fill it in. >>> coming up, most workers woul

it requires the united states congress to fund a census. and even though the hatcheries in the -- in washington state deserve appropriate support, i think that the committee has moved in that direction, and i have opposed this on the basis that it again attacks an account that we have a responsibility to protect even though it may not have the same level of political or popular support as some of these items. i love eating the fish, but we got to make sure we count the census so that we can have -- live up to our responsibility as a congress. i yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from washington. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. the clerk will read. page 8, line 1. national telecommunications and information administration, salaries and expenses. $36,700,000 to remain available until september 30, 2016. public telecommunications facilities, planning and construction, for the administration of prior ye

the congress way in in a ham-fisted way, trying to mandate capital requirements from the united states congress is a wise way to go. preference, and that if i am not looking at cutting them in force, but i am a strong proponent of separating out the commercial banking business tied to the payment processnd the mediation for the broker-deal, investment trading activities completely, because here is why. purposes, whatul the federalou took safety net of the discount window and deposit insurance system confined mostly to the commercial banking industry and pushed it out and made it available to a whole different .ype of industry what did you think was going to happen when you give that kind of subsidy of an insurance program to those kinds of activities? didn'tu say the passage create this crisis, counterfactual's are always important. you begine behavior to initiate. a commercial bank who now has the ability to negotiate in broker dealing trader activities with a safety net behind them was in a winning position. if you were a broker-dealer, and you didn't have the safety net, you were subject to

don't think having the congress weigh in trying to mandate capital requirements from the united states congress is a wise way to go. >> ok. i do have a preference. i'm not looking at cutting them in force, but i am a strong proponent of separating the commercial banking business that is tied to the payment system from the broker-dealer, investment, high-risk trading activities completely. ere's why. when you passed this, what you did is you took the federal safety net of the discount window and the deposit insurance system that was confined mostly to the commercial banking industry, and you now pushed it out, and made it available to a whole different type of industry called broker-dealer trading, igh-risk activities. what did you think was going to happen when you give that kind of subsidy of on -- an insurance program to those kinds of activities. when you say this didn't create the crisis, counter factuals are always important, but look at the behavior you began to initiate. if you were going to compete, a commercial bank who now has a right and the ability to engage in broker-dealer trading

agreed upon and in 1994 brussels declaration and there was real enthusiasm certainly in the united states congress. the senate voted 89-19. that's a very initial vote these days in 1998 to ratify the addition of three countries to nato poland hungary and the check republic. 16 countries have now been added through six rounds of enlargement since the end of the cold war. but there were also skeptics. tom friedman the writer tom friedman who also is a former wilson scholar wrote an op-ed last month in which he quoted his 1998 interview with it then 94-year-old george kennan. said kennan, i think the russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. we have signed up to protect a whole series of countries even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. so segue to 2014 and the urgent challenge to de-escalate conflict and avoid miscalculation over the events in ukraine and russia. nato expansion is again being scrutinized. today's topic into the fold or out in the cold could not be more timely or fit better with what the wilson ce

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