it is my privilege to hand over the podium to chairman walden. thank you very much, don, for putting this together and inviting us to be here. thank you for your wonderful service. how about a round of applause? [applause] they marched to the capital and raced through the capital. he has explained the history of the capitol. seldom have i been able to stop and hear about the history of the capitol as i go about my great might -- about my daily activities. we could all benefit from your great leadership in this. i want to thank my colleagues on the energy and commerce committee who are here tonight in current service and those who served for quite a while and then left us but our back tonight. if you are a current staff member of the energy and commerce committee, would you raise your glass hand? while we thank you for your service, it is not yet 9:00. i'm trying to figure out -- i want to recognize my wife too who is back from oregon to be with us tonight. as i look into this great hall, i am reminded of the wonderful people who have gone before

i like to recognize chairman greg walden, chairman of the energy and commerce committee, congressman frank pallone, member of the rank and commerce committee. -- energy and commerce committee. distinguishedll members of congress to stand so they can be recognized. recognize ando thank our keynote speakers tonight, the honorable john dingell and the honorable fred upton. recognize theo committee vice chairman, congressman joe barton. moment toke to take a recognize our long-term president of the american historical society, ron harrison. at the end of april after 17 years, guiding the society through a number of critical years and we will be forever grateful for his leadership, and his inspiration for the work that we try to do on a daily basis. [applause] pleased that you could be here tonight to recognize the history and accomplishments of this committee. we honor one of the oldest and most important committees in congress. on december 14, congress established the committee on commerce and manufacturers, under the leadership of chairman benjamin goodhue of massachusetts. the committ

walden of oregon. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. walden: i want to thank mr. green and mr. burgess for their great leadership on this issue. i want to -- i rise in support 2018 and thank them for their good work on. this this re-authorizes payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs and it does so for the next phi years, giving these programs great certainty going forward. this legislation will continue to enable the nation's freestanding children's hospitals to provide education and to the graduates of medical school, enhance pediatric research capabilities and care for these vulnerable and underserved children. representative green and chairman burgess partnered to lead this bipartisan bill in our committee and they brought about unanimous votes in both the health subcommittee and in our full committee and i appreciate your work on this and thank you and your staffs for the great work you all have done as we work together to re-authorize these very, very important programs. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support us

george walden. now a devastating story about a town that was effectively wiped out by asbestos.om, in western australia, grew up around an asbestos mine in the 1940s, but little did the residents know at the time that asbestos was lethal and could cause lung diseases and cancer. bronwen duke lived in the town as a child and is one of the few members of her family who is still alive. people were warned, but they didn't take it seriously until people started to die. i lost both parents, both grandparents, my brother, three uncles, about four cousins that i can think of — and that's just the immediate family, in my world. i was born in 1958, in the far north of western australia, in the pilbara, in a little town called wittenoom. the blue asbestos mine was the genesis of the town. asbestos is a naturalfibre that's encased in rocks. they would extract the asbestos out of the mine and the mill would actually then bag it and ready for shipment. and it was sent to places around the world for the various things that they use asbestos for. fire—resisting, sound—insulating product known a

walden: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman mcclintock and my friend from arizona for their work on this, especially chairman bishop as well. the resources committee has been terrific to work with on this measure over a period of time. the bill is -- this is really an important public safety measure. this is a life and death measure. there are more than 5,000 people who live in crooked river ranch. this is an unincorporated community in central oregon. it's wedged between two river systems, river canyons. you can see it here on this map. i want to point out the two rivers here, it's on a peninsula. it sits up. these are deep canyons. to the west over here is where the wilderness study area is we're talking about. it is juniper, it is sagebrush, it is the most volatile fuels you can have. unlike here in the east coast where in the summer you get thunderstorms and heavy rain with it, in oregon we have humidity we call it rain. it stays in the ground. in the summer we don't get that. what we get is dry lig

.>> the gentleman yields back, mister walden the chairman of the poll committee is recognized for five seconds.>> thank you madam chair and i would like to thank you for your leadership on these topics specifically, i want to thank you for highlighting the improvement of the 911 emergency alert services as well as outreach to seniority on the reauthorization as we've reauthorized the fcc for the first time in 28 years under the act. and i think this is the last time you were here mister chairman. the efforts for wildfire and hurricane response was focused on call routing and location accuracy and key priorities for all of us and we reauthorized the fcc for the first time in two decades so we appreciated the commission's input on our work and thanks to the hard work of everyone on the committee we were able to incorporate provisions from 18 bipartisan bills that now form a act ii that is now law. so we do try to work together whenever we can regarding these issues for the 18 bipartisan bills and i think we did 57 bills on opioids virtually all of which are bipartisan. i look forward to

i'd leak to thank chairman walden, ranking member pallone, mr. green, my colleague, mr. hudson from north carolina worked very hard on the bill, and certainly mr. mullin for his partnership in leading this way. i urge my colleagues to support the important bill and i yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. >> i would like to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. green: we have no further speakers and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. mullin: i'm so excited about the bipartisan approach and i urge a yes from all my colleagues and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 5455 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 and the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid n the table. for what purpo

the big football match of the dice colombia england tough times the spotlight stadium feats michael walden shot on target from either side not a lot to even talk about. yes i think that's a plenty to talk about it's it's a very tense affair so a lot of bad behavior on the page from individual players in the referee the american referee mark guy but he's having a tough time controlling the play as he had an opportunity will show you that a little bit later from a free kick to act three percent. i like the fact that he didn't do that i would have and you know inflated this mismatch even more but. we've seen a few shots from distance but we've not really seen a clear cut chance the only thing we've had is a header from harry kane that came in the sixteenth minute. i needs i mean it just shows you exactly what kind of game it is that if this is the best chance of the whole game the right eye i want to show this is just to see the quality of hiking only he gets to that and get so much on it it's a completely difficult. header that most people will just get to the england set out for just how hu

walden, is recognized for one minute. mr. walden: thank you very much, mr. speaker. good morning. i rise today for the distinct honor and pleasure of welcoming pastor steven william schenewerk as the guest chaplain in the united states house of representatives this morning. he serves the congregation of community baptist church in winston, oregon. he was raised in the midwest but followed the call of god to the pacific northwest to become a pastor. his path led him to community baptist church where he has humbly offered spiritual guidance and encouragement to the community for over 25 years. pastor schenewerk's devotion to his community does not stop there, though. he serves on the community area partnership and involved in several organizations that help the needy in douglas county. pastor schenewerk has most recently become the chaplain of the local police force in winston. of all the joys in his life, nothing compares to that for his wife, cindy, his daughter, megan, and son, josh. pastor, thank you for your words this morning. they're most inspirational. i yield back. the spea

. >> reporter: wolf, that's the significant there, that's congressman greg walden of oregon, the chairmane house energy and commerce committee and oversees the office of refugee resettlement that's in charge of running these shelters where the children have been kept so, you know, that criticism from a fellow republican of how this entire process is playing out is rather significant, wolf. >> ed, how will the reunifications work? have you seen these reports that some of these kids all under the age of 5, some of them their parent or at least moms have been deported, the kids are still here? >> reporter: that is the question that i think is still unfolding. the latest indication we have and the latest plan seems to be that the kids will be turned back over to i.c.e. custody, imgrii immigration customs enforce. once in the shelters they're unthe hhs department and the federal government and then turned back over to i.c.e. to be reunited with their family members but that is the latest indication we have received but also very complex situation as you mentioned, wolf, complicated by the fact

we also try to get them into permanent places like a health right 360, walden house, those kinds of things. these are very complicated people with complicated issues. health department helps us with placement of people because a lot of people have chronic mental illness, both homeless and chronic mental illness in addition to these high risk charges, and we have high risk cases that we manage. i hope, supervisor stefani, that that answered your question. >> supervisor yee: can i -- >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: just in follow up, miss rube in, in th event that your budget will be increased 1.2, what kind of adjustments can you make? >> we will not be open seven days a week. plain and simple. we do not have the people. right now we have eight people managing 1200 cases. right now we're about one person to 45 cases. standard in the industry is one person to 15. that's what the 1.7 would get us, and the extended hours. >> supervisor yee: i really appreciate your argument, and i don't understand why it's not in the budget. >> that's why you've been seeing me a lot lat

amy how is the founder of scotus blog and served as counsel in over two dozen cases and michael walden is from the brendan center for justice at new york university and chief speechwriter for president clinton and the author of "the second amendment, a biography." amy, i want to start with you. you have heard from a number of lawmakers on the steps of capitol hill a moment ago of what he has said at the confirmation hearing at 2006. take a listen. >> do you consider roe v. wade to be an abomination. >> senator on the question of the roe v. wade if confirmed to the d.c. circuit, it is binding precedent and decided by the supreme court. >> but looking at the written decisions, there is a little bit more room for interpretation. in 2017, kavanaugh heard the case of a pregnant undocumented 17-year-old seek iing an aborti while being held by immigration authorities, and she wanted an abortion, and ultimately ruled she could get the abortion, but in his dissent he disputed the right to what he called the immediate abortion on demand arguing that the girl should be given a chance to be placed

venky chairman walden as well and to mr. cÁrdenas and the ranking member for holding this hearing on our legislation h.r. 2651, the horseracing integrity act. when i was first elected to congress i dedicated my service to promoting signature industries of kentucky, nothing is more synonymous with our commonwealth that thoroughbred reading and horseracing. my district, the 6th district of kentucky, in particular holds the title, horse capital of the world. now, eleven of the thirteen triple crown winners were foaled in the 6th district, including the most recent champion, justify. lexington is surrounded by more than 400 beautiful horse farms. and keenland hosts many notable races including the toyota bluegrass stakes and in 2015 the breeder's cup. however, this industry is not only prominent in my district but, horseracing is truly a national sport. therefore, advocating for this industry requires more than celebrating a proud heritage. according to the most recent economic impact study produced by the american horse council

this is the house energy and commerce chair, republican congressman greg walden, today led a bipartisan a migrant holding facility in texas. his committee oversees the office of refugee resettlement. >> our concern is to make sure that these young kids get reunified with family members as soon as possible, and that they are well taken care of while they are here. >> the children and parents will be reunited at ice facilities, then released to await further developments in their court cases. >> bret: casey stegall in brownsville. thanks. one of the members of the special counsel team investigating russian involvement in the 2016 election is being, himself, investigated tonight. the former fbi lawyer at the heart of the anti-trump texting scandal may soon be on capitol hill. this happens as we learn more about the possibility of president trump speaking directly to the special counsel in person. it chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has two nights update. >> in a series of network tv interviews, the president's attorney says he wants to see more evidence that justifies a

aware of is the good work being done by senator collins and senator alexander and representative walden and representative costello to make sure the people, 250% below, b that access toer lower premiums for their healthcare coverage. again, the problem is the unaffordable obamacare model which has all the mandates and provides spotty subsidies particularly for people below 250% of poverty. that would result if embraced wy congress -- the alexander collins walden stella bill would lower premiums for those in the individual market by 40% and make it more affordable. the tragedy is unfortunately the resistance that never trump approach to for the work here in the congress in washington has resulted in what used to be a bipartisan bill basically being abandoned by her democratic colleagues who refuse to even work with senator alexander and collins to work with. get a solution list premiums under obamacare. in addition to the good work that you are doing on prescription drugs which i applaud. you to continue these are two other areas that i wanted to late. one initiative by the administratio

walden, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i appreciate again the commissioners being here and i believe we've sent a letter as well to the companies regarding the same issue. we all care about privacy and about data location issues. something we've been pursuing for some time. van. the national public radio commercial broadcast companies depend on it for content distribution to about 100 million households. that's obviously a lot of people in every state, every congressional district. oncongressional district. one of the challenges to ensure non- interference with downlink system of the exact locations of hundreds of thousands of unregistered received only station. what's the commissio commissiont identify the location of these stations to ensure that protected harmful interference and what steps is the commission seeking to balance these goals to ensure we win the race to require more spectrum and protection of the broadcasters and cable companies depend upon? >> thank you for the question and i think you put your finger on

jerry walden recently wrote a book about the protection of hate speech. i know what my commitment is as a university leader and that i'm not going to use the category of hate speech as a reason for someone not to speak on campus. i think i can have good conversations in my community why, in the end, they don't want to give power holders the right to express views that they consider to be hateful. just think about the public official you trust and like the least and ask the question, how would they use that power if you gave them the sensory power? everybody is going to have a different person in mind, and that's sort of the point. i think those are interesting questions, but the fact that on college campuses, if not society in general, people ask that question. it is exactly the sort of question that should be asked on a college campus even if university leaders have to know what their legal and moral responsibilities are when those issues arise with respect to the question of what decision you're going to make on campus when you have to decide whether to

committee included attorneys chosen by those two senators as well as by republican congressman gregg walden. this is how judicial vacancies in or have been filled for the past two beings did, including the time when former republican senator gordon smith was in office. so this is extremely unfortunate that my colleagues have disregarded this process. i respect them very much. i think they should have had a say. i think they should have been consulted. and i think we should follow the blue slip process. thank you very much, mr. president, and i yield the floor. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i rise alongside my colleagues tonight to speak on two incredibly controversial circuit judge nominees the senate considers this week. the first, ryan bounds of the ninth circuit, has not received the approval of either home state senator. the majority is unfortunately moving forward with his nomination anyway, breaking a tradition that goes back 100 years, a bipartisan tradition, a moderating tradition, a tradition we need. this is merely the lates

the road decides to go out to walden on july 4th, lee retreats from gettysburg on july 4th. there's lots of things that happen later on almost prove n providencely on july 4th. >> but the initial founding, the break from independence and the 13 states institute a very separate founding from the one that occurred a decade later in 1787. and for many generations, historians would argue which was more important and was the founding of 1787 a repudiation of the more democratic revolution of 1776? and that is still a viable topic. is the constitution, in some sense, a reaction against the excesses, the democracy that was expressed in these state constitutions is in 1776? in fact, no one in 1776 anticipated in their wildest imaginations the kind of federal government that was created ten years later. a powerful government, as we know. because it's the same government that we have today. and what happened in that decade between 1776 and 17 177 is a matter of great controversy. >> it is. of course, i have the authoritative book on this. >> which is for sale in the lobby after the pr

walden: i send a privileged report to the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 982, resolution of inquiry requesting the president and directing the secretary of health and human services to transmit respectively certain information to the house of representatives referring to the separation of children from their parents or guardians as a result of the president's zero-tolerance policy. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. without objection, the chair apoints the following conferees on h.r. 2. the clerk: from the committee on agriculture for consideration of the house bill and the senate amendment and modifications committed to conference, messrs, quay, lucas, austin scott of georgia, crawford, mrs. hartzler, rodney davis of illinois, yoho, marshal, david cott of georgia, costa, walls, grisham of eu han new mexico of new mexico. from the committee on education and the work force for considerations of 4204 and 9131 of

walden's district in oregon, and i commend him for his hard work to make sure this clem en-- clem ensy happened for these people -- clemency happened for these people. good citizens who are well known, not only in oregon, but they have relatives and many friends in my northern california district as well. it's a prime example of the previous administration's overbearing regulation and enforcement on the users of public lands, while at the same time their poor stewardship has caused these dangerous conditions. it's too bad they will never get this time back served, but i'm indeed glad for president trump in the clemency for the hammond family. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair now lays before the house the following communications. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on july 11, 2018, at 9:13 a.m. that the senate agrees to co

thank you to chairman walden as well and to mr. cardenas and the ranking member for holding this hearing on our legislation hr-2651, the horse racing integrity act. when i was first elected to congress, i dedicated my service to promoting the signature industries of kentucky. and nothing is more synonymous with our commonwealth than thoroughbred breeding and horse racing. my district in particular holds the title horse capital of the world. now 11 of the 13 triple crown winners were foeled in the sixth district, including the most recent champion, justify. lexington, kentucky, is surrounded by 400 horse farms, including the home of the last triple crown winner, american pharaoh. however, this sport is not only prominent in our district, but horse racing is truly a national sport. therefore, advocating for this industry requires more than just celebrating a proud heritage. there is the responsibility of fighting for the future. and as the chairman pointed out, this is not just a sport, this is an industry with enormous economic bene

now proceed to the member question and answer part of the hearing and will still yield to chairman walden when he comes in for an opening statement. let me recognize myself five minutes for questions and, dr. collins, again, thinkings for being here, thanks for bringing your backup. so let me ask you a question about on the 21st century cures, we tried to identify ways to get regulation and policies that were inconsistent and give you some flexibility to move past some of these that are overlapping and unnecessarily duplicative to relieve some of the administrative burden. i think the act asked you to review that, so can you perhaps share with us where you are in the review and how nih has identified some opportunities to relieve the burden on investigators? >> yes, i'm happy to do so, and, again, thanks to the committee for making all of those changes part of this bill. some of them may seem kind of bureaucratic and administrative, but they make a huge difference to us in terms of the ability to carry out our mission. we've been asked to look at the faye in which we've asked our grantees

after a trip to the border yesterday republican congressman greg walden, the chair of that group saysfront lines doing the best with what they've got. listen. >> toured this facility. they are getting education, they get medical treatment within 48 hours, reviewed. they have the ability to seek mental health counselors. a lot going on in there for 10 to 17-year-old boys. the key is how do we make sure they are well cared for here and safely placed especially with a relative in the united states, reunified as soon as possible. >> the health and human services inspector general's office says that investigations have been launched and they are looking into those individual cases and allegations of abuse or mistreatment. >> bill: thank you for that. casey stiegel working that story for us in brownsville, texas. the president was asked about this on the south lawn before he left. you do it the right way and come into the laws based on our system. he is not waivering. >> sandra: meanwhile, it is mission accomplished in thailand. crews rescuing the last boys and their soccer coach from the f

the video right here, a imaginary mall called star court complete are retailers like radio shack, waldense anymore. no word on when the new season begins. i'll be watching for millly bobby brown, what happens to her. she's my favorite character. maria: it's becoming a crowded field, the streaming business. dagen: one of the things -- a couple things that netflix does have going for it. it has unique original content and the app actually works in terms of streaming. i have all of them and i have used all of them. direct tv now, which is still incredibly expensive, you're supposed to have live programming. i tried to watch hand a the intw with president trump, it didn't work. the direct tv app doesn't work. hbo app terrific but doesn't have as much content. hulu, they hood wink you into paying a lot more for live programming which is a little sleysy. you've got whatever disney does with the acquisition. gerri: that's why they're rolling out so much content. they have 112 emmy nominations. maria: that's incredible. >> it's not just domestic content. there's a lot of international content th

i'm joined by may's former advisor katie perrior and boris's former advisor will walden.stminster bubble, she's chosen to get the fence, and she has got a cabinet together and is going to go ahead and do that. it's not as damaging as something. boris johnson, resignation yesterday, scene is hugely significant. within this westminster bubble, people saying it had to happen. he thought about it andjumped. saying it had to happen. he thought about it and jumped. there was a bit in me that bought, if he can, he wants to fight from within but it's been the outlier. he believes he needs to be able to deliver the brexit that he campaigned for and given what happened at chequers, he made his objection clear on the friday night. he decided it wasn't now, it would be when it was watered down. the principal thing to do was resign. when you look at those words in the resignation letter, it's an acceptance, following eu laws, the dream of brexit is dying. government has a song to sing. the words stick in my throat. we are expecting it to be quite as stinging as that, when you left is