thank you, mr. raskin. mr. raskin: the gentleman yields back. thank you, mr. khanna, for your very moving statement that you made. and i will yield now to my .olleague, sheila jackson lee i believe she's here. ms. jackson lee, who's been a terrific champion for economic equity and social justice in our country and i'm delighted to yield to her now. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, congressman raskin. i want to thank you for your leadership, consistent leadership on these issues, and certainly, i think, the recognition of the fact that the poor of this nation, both in the biblical sense of our faith or the document of your faith, the poor have always been acknowledged and in a certain sense, the christian bible honored. and it is a sad state of affairs for us to come to this realize he nation to that our poor are suffering at large numbers and that there is no relief. i know that dr. king some 50 years ago, as he was planning the poor people's march, and many of us realized that he was not able to fulfill it for he was shot by an assassin's bullet on april

mr. jeffries? mr. cyst lynn ee votes no. mr. swalwell? mr. lieu? mr. lieu votes no. mr. raskin? miss ghia poll votes no. mr. schneider votes no. miss demings votes no. >> has every member voted who wishes to vote? >> mr. chairman. >> gentle woman is recorded wom no. >> we are going to wait another minute or two for the ranking member. so are you recorded? the gentleman is recorded. mr. chairman, how am i recorded? >> the gentleman from luis is not recorded. >> yes. >> mr. johnson votes yes. >> mr. chairman. >> gentleman from california. >> no. >> mr. swalwell votes no. >> chairman, may i make a parliamentary inquiry? >> state your parliamentary inquiry. >> mr. chairman, i'm trying to inquire of the basis of the emergency and the cause that has generated this resolution to ignore the regular order of the seven-day notice. >> it's not an emergency. it's good cause. the gentleman from maryland. >> how am i recorded? >> not recorded. >> no. >> mr. raskin votes no. >> good guess. mr. chairman, continue with your guess osity, can you state for the record what the good cause is? >> the

raskin. >> mr. chair, thank you very kindly. ms. romero, we got some information indicating that your office, and also the special inspector general found information that led to criminal charges against'415 people and criminal convictions with people sentenced to prison so that's not just taking the office out for lunch. what kinds of activities were taking place there and is this just in the hardest hit fund or ishat in tarp overall? >> thank you, for that question. tarp overall. so 100 of those are bankers, a good number of them are the banker's co-conspirators, we're talking about bank fraud, about 88 people who have gone to prison for scamming home owners in tarp housing programs, so there's a number of things related to the crimes that were-- >> the kinds of waste, fraud and abuse that you identified in the hardest hit program afflicts the other programs under tarp as well? >> well, i think in terms of the tarp housing programs we've found people who tried to scam home owners. the other ones are sort of program-related like ba

mr. raskin: thank you very much. mr. griffith, thank you for your succinct and excellent summary of the amendment. i rise in support of the griffith-raskin-jackson lee amendment. i want to thank chairman goodlatte for his excellent work on this, which -- with his professional staff. it's an important, consensus amendment. i also want to specifically a -- n the hard work of work of d.e.a. i want to thank the national institutes of health which is headquartered in my district. this amendment will do a lot to aid n.i.h. scientists and allied researchers across the country who are presently working on the science of addiction and advancing medical efforts to treat and to prevent it. the amendment constitutes a significant improvement in the text of the bill. with the amendment, researchers will not have to immediately cease their work while they wait to clear licensing hurdles if a substance is placed on schedule a. the amendment creates a two tiered system for researchers. one section is for schedule 1 or schedule 2 license

raskin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. raskin: mr. speaker, thank you. as a member of the judiciary committee, and a professor of constitutional law, i rise against this uncommonly silly and unprecedented so-called resolution of insistence. we've already received hundreds of thousands of documents from the department of justice as yet now they want to subpoena information relating directly to an ongoing criminal and counterintelligence investigation which the majority knows full well the department of justice cannot and will not release to us. and why are they doing it? well, presumably it's all to manufacture a constitutional crisis so somebody can get fired over there, so they can impeach rosenstein as they're talking about in the judiciary committee, so they can sack the attorney general, so they can get rid of mule ir. whatever. do your jobs. look what's going on in america. we have more than 2,000 kids that are separated from their families. their parents don't know where they are. let's do our job. let's reunify those kids with

farmer the chair now recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin. >> mr. chair, thank you very kindly. ms. romero, we've got some information indicating that your office, the office of the special inspector general, found information that led to criminal charges against 415 people, and 349 criminal convictions with 247 people sentenced to prison. so that's not just taking the office out for lunch. but what kinds of activities were taking place there? and is this just in the hardest hit fund, or is that in t.a.r.p. overall? >> thank you for that question. t.a.r.p. overall, so, 100 of those are bankers. a good number of them are their bankers' onsps. we're talking about bank fraud. there's about 88 people who have gone to prison for scamming homeowners in t.a.r.p. housing programs. so there's a number of things related to the crimes that we're looking at. >> the kin oe, fraud and abuse that you identified in the hardest hit program afflict the other programs under t.a.r.p. as well? >> well, i think in terms of the a.p. housing programs, we have found people

. >> mr. swalwell? mr. lieu? >> no. >> mr. raskin? >> ms. jayapal? >> no. >> mr. schneider? >> no. >> ms. demings? >> no. >> has every member voted who wishes to vote? >> mr. chairman? >> the gentle woman is recorded as no. >> we're going to wait another minute or two for the ranking member. so are you recorded? the gentleman is recorded. >> mr. chairman? how am i recorded? >> the gentleman from louisiana is not recorded. >> yes. >> mr. johnson votes yes. >> mr. chairman? >> the gentleman from california. >> no. >> mr. swalwell votes no. >> chairman, may i make a parliamentary inquiry? >> the gentle woman will state her parliamentary inquiry? >> mr. chairman, i'm trying to inquire of the basis of the emergency and the cause that has generated this resolution to ignore the regular order of the seven-day notice of the notice. >> it's not an emergency. it's good cause. the gentleman from maryland. >> how am i recorded? >> not recorded. >> no. >> mr. raskin votes no. >> good guess. >> mr. chairman, continuing your generosity, could you state for the record what the good cause is

. >> mr. raskin votes no. >> mr. chairman, continuing your generosi generosity, could you state for the record what the good cause is? >> the fact that we worked very hard with these two gentlemen who i very much appreciate adjusting their schedules to be here. i know the gentleman from new york -- >> mr. nadler votes no. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, 17 members voted aye, 13 members voted no. >> and -- >> mr. chairman, would you continue your sentence? >> i'm going to first declare that the vote is approved and the notice requirement is waived. now i'm going to recognize myself for an opening statement and i'll begin that opening statement by saying to both deputy attorney general rosenstein and director wray that i am very appreciative of the fact that they have changed their schedules to be here so that we could have this hearing today and in a reasonable amount of time after the inspector general's report and testimony before the committee and i would also like to acknowledge the presence of john loesch,

raskin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. raskin: mr. speaker, thank you. as a member of the judiciary committee, and a professor of constitutional law, i rise against this uncommonly silly and unprecedented so-called resolution of insistence. we've already received hundreds of thousands of documents from the department of justice as yet now they want to subpoena information relating directly to an ongoing criminal and counterintelligence investigation which the majority knows full well the department of justice cannot and will not release to us. and why are they doing it? well, presumably it's all to manufacture a constitutional crisis so somebody can get fired over there, so they can impeach rosenstein as they're talking about in the judiciary committee, so they can sack the attorney general, so they can get rid of mule ir. whatever. do your jobs. look what's going on in america. we have more than 2,000 kids that are separated from their families. their parents don't know where they are. let's do our job. let's reunify those kids with

the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin, for offering it with me, and mr. rothfus for all the work he's done in finding an effective approach to tackle the opioid cry sifments there are many bills and proposals that seek to address the opioid crisis, only be possible with commitment towards a coordinated strategy and unified approach. this bill through the re-authorization of the national drug control will provide the coordination, strategy, and unified approach we need. this is an important and timely bill. i urge my colleagues to support it. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman virginia tech. cannings: i want to thank chairman gowdy for his leadership and for working together to craft cannings: i w legislation. i thank chairman meadows and ranking member connolly for helping us reach the compromises that made this legislation possible. in 1

i urge passage of the allen-raskin amendment to sure the defense p.o.w.-missing persons office has the money it needs. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from texas. ms. granger: mr. chairman, i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it's now in order to consider amendment number 7 printed in part a of house report 115-783. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from arizona seek recognition? ms. mcsally: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in part a of house report 115-783 offered by ms. mcsally of arizona. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 961, the gentlewoman from arizona, ms. mcsally, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from arizona. ms. mcsally: thank you, mr. speak