veasey: thank you very much. i'd like to thank the gentleman from newark, new jersey, for his comments. and also to talk about the fact that i'm glad you mentioned facebook because one of the things that really surprised me was that, the fact that some of those ads were purchased in rubles and no one seemed to notice that. it seems absolutely amazing to me. we need to again just continue to have discussion and talk about these things. thank you very much for your comments tonight. now i'd like to recognize my friend and colleague from the great state of michigan, representing the state's 14th congressional district, bren ka lawrence and again, want to thank brenda for participating. she participates often in this hour and just really appreciate your comments, your district appreciates the comments, your state and our country, around appreciate you joining us this evening. mrs. lawrence: thank you. mr. speaker, i want to thank congressman veasey for his leadership, for his dedication. today, i am at this mic for a

marc veasey, from texas to carry on these issues. mr. veasey: thank you very much. you have done a great job of really making the congress aware and the american public aware of just how important the jones act is to our country. there have been a lot of misconceptions out there, a lot of reports on the news that was quick to pick up on a sound bite. the fact of the matter is when you talk about trade, taxes, labor and other things that you've added national security, it's the jones act that is keeping all of those things going strong in america and i just really appreciate you doing that. also, as you know, when you talk about middle class jobs in this country, there's been a lot of about how country we lost about how we lost a lot of middle class jobs over the last -- protect it and we need to make sure we keep those jobs here in america going strong. i'm so glad that you also cleared up confusion about what was really going on in relation to puerto rico. that the ships, american ships were doing what they were supposed to be doing, there were other issues why peo

. >>> and now i want to bring in texas democratic represent mark veasey who is a member of the armedes committee. congressman, let's start with this question of what congress is being told and how many updates are coming to congress. john mccain has been critical on the senate side of the information that is flowed to the relevant committees regarding this mission. do you feel you've been sufficiently briefed on what's going on in niger and on the deaths of these four men? >> no, i have not been sufficiently briefed at all. hopefully when we get back, you know, the house is out right now, the senate was in this week, the house is on congressional recess right now, we'll go back in on monday. so i'm expecting to be briefed as a member of the house armed services committee. and i've been raising this for a while, joy, that we need to be more focused about what's happening on the continent of africa. i mean, if you think about the fact that many of these islamist war fighters that are going to be leaving syria as they're pushed out of there, leaving yemen, they're going to want to go so

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veasey. cracks -- >> thank you, madam chair. i wanted to ask about the days leading up to the eclipse. like you're talking about, there is a lot of confusion about the glasses and amazon actually issued a recall about the glasses in the marketplace. i want to know from you about efforts your agency has spread for information about the glasses. so when we get ready for the next one, we're here having this committee today going into great detail about the eclipse and what it means. in 2024. they will want to know about what glasses to use. anything like that you can talk about? funded the american astronomical society with a web page of resources and it is fine if you know what to look for on the web page. but we need to be more about marketing that kind of web page and information and pushing out to the public rather than waiting for people to stumble across it because it showed up on their browser. we as a public institution directed people to that webpage as a trusted source of information, and we got our glasses directly for o

veasey. >> thank you, mr. chairman, secretary mattis, i wanted to specifically ask you about the state department and usa programs in afghanistan now, and how do funding cuts to the department, as proposed by the administration affect the overall mission there? i know in the past you've been very outspoken about the importance of diplomacy and other programs to support the mission. >> congressman, right now, what we're trying to do is get a lot more development aid from the international community. this is separate and distinct from what we're doing to lower the demand on the american taxpayer where we're paying an awful lot of the military piece of this and trying to raise money from our allies to carry more of the commitment on the military side. i am not certain what the cuts are as far as aid's budget for afghanistan. i can get back to you. i'll go to state department, to usaid and determine that and come back to you with an informed answer, sir. >> thank you very much. >> i also wanted to ask you about sp

veasey. >> thank you, mr. chairman, secretary mattis, i wanted to specifically ask you about the state department and usa programs in afghanistan now, and how do funding cuts to the department, as proposed by the administration affect the overall mission there? i know in the past you've been very outspoken about the importance of diplomacy and other programs to support the mission. >> congressman, right now, what we're trying to do is get a lot more development aid from the international community. this is separate and distinct from what we're doing to lower the demand on the american taxpayer where we're paying an awful lot of the military piece of this and trying to raise money from our allies to carry more of the commitment on the military side. i am not certain what the cuts are as far as aid's budget for afghanistan. i can get back to you. i'll go to state department, to usaid and determine that and come back to you with an informed answer, sir. >> thank you very much. >> i also wanted to ask you about sp

veasey and ms. gabard. from the permanent select committee on intelligence for consideration of matters of the jures -- within the jurisdiction of that committee under clause 11 of rule 10, nunez, stewart nd schiff. and marylandifications committed to the conference, johnson of ohio, bergman and yarmuth. from the committee on education and the work force, for consideration of sections 221, 551, 555, and 3509 of the house bill and sections 236, 551 and 600153, 3116, 5508 of the senate amendment and modifications committed to the foxx mr. byrne and scott of virginia. 723, sideration of 314, 72, 732, 3118 and 31 2 of the house bill and sections 6017, and 3114 1089-a, 1625, of the senate amendment and modifications committed to conference, walden, barton and pallone. from the committee on financial services for for consideration of section 86 of the senate amendment and modifications committed to conference, farr, williams, and ms. maxine waters of california. from the committee on foreign affairs for considera