whether it's a tax bill, an environmental bill, whatever bill. let's send a resounding message of support to make it clear that this is the bipartisan path forward to avoid a shutdown and do our jobs for the american people. again, i congratulate the chair, i congratulate the ranking member, and i'm so pleased that they are together and i join them in asking every member to vote for these bills. it is our job, it is our responsibility, it is our duty. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland yields back the balance of his time. the majority leader yields back the time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas rise? ms. granger: i yield to the gentleman from alabama, mr. aderholt, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for three minutes. mr. aderholt: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the ranking member and i also rise today in support of h.r. 1158, as the majority leader did. the consolidated appropriations act of 2020. while this bill is no

og dog today's bill -- mr. doggett: this provides critical support for minority serving institutions, it includes provisions from the bipartisan student aid simplification act which i introduced earlier this year and assist students in all universities and it is mighty important for graduates repaying student debt. i salute the chairman, mr. scott, for the work of his committee. college board and national college access network who have worked with me for months and senators murray and alexander for moving this through the senate. too many students find the current application for federal student assistance so complicated and the difficulty of getting all of the financial information required so demanding that they never complete the application. i was in san antonio this past weekend. the completion rate there is a mere 35%. so $2.6 billion in free money available for student financial assistance goes unclaimed each year. this bill will eliminate up to 22 fafsa questions and require the department of squeags a

for everything we did together. >> reporter: so what did eric know about bill and bill's relationship with nanette? the cops asked. >> i never met bill. >> you know who he is? >> i just knew of him. i knew of him and his, you know, partnership with nanette as far as business goes and stuff like that. >> reporter: eric told us nanette said she invented things, medical equipment, blood separators. sound familiar? and bill, she told eric, guided her through the process. >> that was her mentor. that was her business partner. and she could make her own schedule. she could work out all morning, grab lunch, do whatever she has to do, pick up the kids and take them to practice, be the team mom. >> reporter: pretty nice job. eric and nanette spent time at what she said was her house, right on the beach. what did you think? >> it was beautiful. beautiful house. right on the beach, right in newport. upstairs/downstairs, fully furnished. she had a picture of herself up in the upstairs bedroom, blown up. >> kind of a glamour shot. >> yeah. >> reporter: it never occurred to him, he said, that nanet

this bill, the d.h.s. opioid detection resilience act of 2019, is a bipartisan bill meant to address this capability gap. it requires c.b.p. to implement a strategy to ensure its chemical screening devices can identify narcotics, including opioids, and synthetic opioids that are less than 10% in concentration. the bill also requires that c.b.p. follow best practices and good government standards by testing new devices to understand their capabilities and limitations prior to deployment. recognizing that drug traffickers change their tactics and the chemicals used as precursors, h.r. 4761 also requires d.h.s. to take steps toward developing a centralized database for chemical screening devices. this would mean that as new chemicals are identified, their specific signatures will be more readily detected by the screening devices used by c.b.p.'s frontline personnel. d.h.s. must continually adapt and stay ahead of the criminal organizations seeking to exploit our systems. an effective and enhanced detection ca

legal bills in seven figures for what? we'll turn around while the same democrats can't take a minute, can't take a minute to pass infrastructure, reduce drug prices, keep the trump economy humming along. he is over in nato and they are trying to impeach him. america see the split screen government. >> bill: i have less than a minute to go. the i.g. report will be made public one week from today. you saw the interview by lisa page in the daily beast. she says she will no longer stay quiet. what is the white house official reaction to her interview? >> i read her interview and i haven't discussed it with the president. it was nato, keep the economy going. she didn't come up in the list. i found -- i will wait to talk about that until i see the i.g. report. i can't believe that she actually thinks it is the president who has kept her quiet. it sounds like she is very rattled every time the president tweets something out. sounds like she is very rattled in the interview. i read what she said. the biggest mistake she ever made

>> bill: i'm bill hemmer live in new york city on thursday. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. the speaker is set to make a statement any moment following a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill yesterday. the house judiciary committee holding its first hearing in the impeachment process. questioning multiple law professors on what is and is not impeachable conduct. >> president trump did not merely seek to benefit from foreign interference but he invited foreign interference in our elections. >> if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage we no longer live in a democracy. >> if what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable. >> i'm concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit evidence and abundance of anger. >> this is not an impeachment. it's a simple railroad job and today is a waste of time. >> sandra: we'll be joined by a member of that committee, republican congressman andy biggs of arizona. we go to mike emanuel tracking it all on capitol hill this morning. we await nancy pelosi any moment. to you f

this bill delivers brexit. i commend this bill to the house. steve barclay. well, with a majority of 80 in this new parliament — the result of the vote was never in doubt. the ayes to the right — 358. the noes to the left — 234. cheering. the ayes to the right — 358. the noes to the left— 234. so the ayes have it, ayes have it. unlock! cheering. so the bill passed it's second reading with a majority of 124. it means the bill can now go on to be considered in more detail, when mps return after the christmas break on january the seventh. they've agreed a timetable, which will give them three days to wrap up all the remaing stages of the withdrawal agreement bill in the commons — before sending it off to the house of lords. and that's it from me — and the day in parliament team — for now — and indeed for this year. we'll be back after christmas when mps and peers return on january the seventh. but until then from us have a very merry christmas and a happy new year. good morning. what a miserable week of weather it has been for many of us, with

. >> bill: here we go. get ready for what's known as the house rules committee comes front and center today taking up articles of impeachment that we'll watch together. set the guidelines for the debate in a full house expected possibly tomorrow. full house vote we should say. good morning. here in new york city on a tuesday, good morning at home. how are you doing, smitty? >> sandra: good morning to you. a busy one. i'm sandra smith. more moderate democrats represented districts trump won back in 2016 come forward to say that they will vote for impeachment. while lawmakers on both sides debate how to proceed. >> i told leader mcconnell i was ready to discuss trial rules. instead of talking to me, he spoke publicly about what a trial may look like. and said he was taking his cues from the white house. it was very partisan, very slanted, very unfair. >> the democrats have to pick every witness they wanted. republicans oh got to pick now and now schumer is complaining about that when they got to pick everybod

that is a bill hopefully they will get over there. stella is -- we have finally made permanent good faith negotiations between the broadcasters and satellite and cable companies on retransmission of their television content. that may be controversial within the battle between the broadcasters and the cable company but it is not necessarily a campaign issue. net neutrality is an issue that a little less bipartisan although it shouldn't be. it's not bipartisan in the country. people in my district and all across america regardless of their party affiliation would like to see us do something on that. a lot of the bills and legislation that we are passing aren't controversial. there are other issues around content on these platforms and privacy issues that are controversial and the subject of a lot of discussion in both parties. >> host: congressman, to help us to delve into some of these issues you mentioned john hindle from political joins us. >> guest: hello, john. >> hello, chairman doyle. i want to say a net neutrality and figure out

but their bill doesn't do anything on this. our bill does. why don't you tell the people just how that sham works. mr. carter: very quickly, pharmacy benefit managers are a big part of the problem. what we have to have in the drug supply train and -- in the drug supply chain is transparency, that's what we don't have now. p.p.m.'s bring no value whatsoever to the system. they don't do research and development. all they do is take from the system. mr. griffith: let me ask you if this is not true as i understand. the p.b.m.'s went to drug manufacturers and said, raise your prices we'll do rebates. but those rebates don't help those in the doughnut hole or those paying a high deductible. even with the rebate if you're in an insurance company that gets the rebate and you don't have to pay as much, they increase their profit margin and they're making hundreds of millions of dollars that we have no idea what they're contributing as you were just saying. is that true? mr. carter: that is true. very true. i thank the gentleman for bringing that up. i

and if we were doing with these bills, bill by bill, talking about them one by one, instead of trying to add them all together in a big package of nothing, if we were dealing with that, we could be talking about those specific issues and making those kinds of decisions. that's the way legislation ought to be done. this is not the way legislation ought to be done. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from hawaii is recognized. mr. case: madam chair, i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from the district of columbia, ms. mahomes norton. -- ms. holmes norton. the chair: the gentlewoman may proceed. ms. norton: i thank my good friend for yielding and i want to assure the ranking member that my program, the program i'm assessing, does not exist but should. i rise to express my strong support for the coastal and great lakes communities enhancement act which includes the text of my bill, the district of columbia flood prevention act of 2019. i thank my friend, natural resources committee chair, raul grijalva, and water oceans -- water, oceans and wildlif

will not get a surprise bill for the epidural. we'll get an all-inclusive bill. that is the result of the demand for price transparency. it is really a revolution. i am optimistic about health care because we are seeing this demand rise right now. host: a couple more calls. first on twitter, this is a democrat saying we cannot afford to pay insurance companies. for-profit insurance drives up the cost of care and it must go. steve says health care should never be subject to the insidious nest of capitalism. is starbucksat largest expense proves that we need national healthcare and stop all the unnecessary procedures and medications. steve is with us in anaheim, california. draw thehy don't you short stock. i think the lady from new mexico was right, debbie. that basically you are having to trust the charge master which every hospital uses to set prices along with insurance companies. and there is a bill in congress right now, hr three which is now hr six, which addresses some of the diseases that need to be cured. it's sitting on the colonel's desk. it hasn't gone

bill the infrastructure bill. these infrastructure investments bring real benefit to our communities in so many ways, whether it's improving flow of goods throughout the transportation network or improving, frankly, the quality of life of the people that we're honored to represent back home. this bill also meets our commitment to provide housing assistance to our most vulnerable citizens including the elderly, disabled and our hero the veterans. the agreement we reached on these 12 bills shows we can work together to meet the priorities of the american people. i think it's important achievement that we should not overlook as this bill starts to get us out of the cycle of endless continuing resolutions. we can agree that these are wasteful and counterproductive. i hope this group of bills puts us on the path to get all 12 bills done next year. this is the proper way to exercise our constitutional responsible and something we owe the american people. once again, i want to thank chairwoman lowey, we have all den that

for everything we did together. >> reporter: so what did eric know about bill and bill's relationship with nanette? the cops asked. >> i never met bill. >> you know who he is? >> i just knew of him. i knew of him and his, you know, partnership with nanette as far as business goes and stuff like that. >> reporter: eric told us nanette said she invented things, medical equipment, blood separators. sound familiar? and bill, she told eric, guided her through the process. >> that was her mentor. that was her business partner. and she could make her own schedule. she could work out all morning, grab lunch, do whatever she has to do, pick up the kids and take them to practice, be the team mom. >> reporter: pretty nice job. eric and nanette spent time at what she said was her house, right on the beach. what did you think? >> it was beautiful. beautiful house. right on the beach, right in newport. upstairs/downstairs, fully furnished. she had a picture of herself up in the upstairs bedroom, blown up. >> kind of a glamour shot. >> yeah. >> reporter: it never occurred to him, he said, that nanet

the bill -- the bill is modeled after congresswoman norton's prior bill enacted into law in 2018 as part of the f.a.a. regulation act that classified the smoking ban on airplanes, including electronic cigarettes. the committee on transportation and infrastructure passed this bill by voice vote and i urge my colleagues to support the bill. and with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized. ms. norton: mr. speaker, i am pleased to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from texas, my good friend, mrs. fletcher. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mrs. fletcher: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 2726, which simply codifies existing internal policy at amtrak that proribts -- prohibits smoking or use of electronic cigarettes on amtrak trains. amtrak instituted this policy in 1993 and has since updated it to address the use of electronic smoking devices. i think this is very important. last year we addres

many here and a some see the passage of the citizenship amended bill as a clear message from the hindu nationalist government that they are 2nd class citizens. in the coalition but with the other didn't get trying to make us minority in our own very spit in our own very religion but given citizenship to one that if you're. the new law would allow non muslim religious minorities from neighboring countries like bangladesh to claim indian nationality a campaign promise delivered by prime minister modi's b j p government which denies the measure discriminates against any group. brought up with this bill will not harm even a little bit in the minority especially our muslim brothers and sisters who live in this country because this will only give citizenship it doesn't take it away from anyone. but critics say the law undermines india's secular constitution and is blatantly anti muslim in this bill they are targeting the community without reading it it was the basic structure of the constitution it is divisive and exclusive it really destabilized up polity and it injured 20000000 people will

. -- in the bill. that i tried to get into the bill. so i have some strong opinions about things i would do differently. and yet, it's not about me. it's about what this process can produce. there's no question that what we have today on the floor is very different from the bill that the house passed on july 12. it's a very different bill. and it's also, the house-passed bill was very different than the senate bill which they passed something like 88 -- something line 86-8. bringing those two together has been a challenge. but it's done. i will confess, madam speaker, that i feel better that at least some members came to the floor to oppose it because i was beginning to worry that this conference report was not as good, as important, as i thought it was, but i do feel better that at least some members with whom i do not normally agree have come to oppose it and so i'm somewhat relieved on that point. i'm also relieved that the president has said emphatically that he will sign this bill. that he strongly supports the pay raise. the space

i learned as a child on school house rock i'm just a bill on capitol hill by the time the bill gets to the floor, it goes through leadership and unfortunately for americans across this country leadership changed that bill, not for members in the house, they changed that bill so when it came to the floor, it became partisan. and you know what? the drugs were not lowered, the bill did not become law and we're repeating the exact same thing today. you will have two choices. you will have a choice of h.r. 3 , had to be negotiated even this week with progressives on the other side to appease them that this could be as partisan as it can be. it won't become law. it will be another talking point. a moment of time to try to explain why you wasted the majority on investigation, but you will have another opportunity, a substitute. you want to lower drug prices in 2019, vote for h.r. 19. you know why? because every single provision n that bill is bipartisan. can we not with one issue at one moment in one time put partisanship aside? can we put people before politics? can we expand our life expect

this bill, set of bills not only does 3.1% increase for our military service members, but it also does an increase of 3.1% for our civil servants, many of them that work in oklahoma, and they do a remarkable job of being able to serve our neighbors. there's a lot of different areas that deal with things like military construction projects that are all over our state that affect not only the military but civilians and those who have retired as well. there's a lot of changes here including dramatic funding increases for the department of veterans' affairs to be able to fulfill what's called the mission act that allows more veterans to be able to get care closer to home where they're not having to drive 100 miles to go get radiology work. they can do that at a rural hospital close by. they can connect with their family doctor just like their spouse does. this gives them greater opportunity to be able to do this. this set of bills also deals with the electronic logging delays that are so incredibly important to those that are hauling ag and livestock. this deals with the fish and wildlife

bills. oday's bipartisan appropriations packages are the culmination of many months of ind work by both parties and both chambers. though this was a long road, i'm that the negotiations were ultimately successful. i often said funding the government and keeping it open is one of the most fundamental duties as members of congress we have. together both packages cover full-year funding for all 12 appropriations bills. this is significant. by advancing full-year appropriations, that means we are not relying on another short-term continuing resolution. while funding with the c.r. is certainly better than shutting down the government, doing so also abdicates congress' ability to adjust spending and policies to reflect the country's changing needs and priorities. it's important to remember that at the end of july of this year, congress passed and president trump signed into law the bipartisan budget act of 2019, which set budgetary levels for fiscal years 2020 and 2021. this bipartisan and bicamer

get into bills and things that you want into bills don't get into bills. so rushing into legislating is not the way and fairest way to do it. i'm pleased that at long last we're going to pass a national defense authorization act that protects our national security and supports our men and women in uniform. we still need to pass appropriations bills that fund much of our federal government. i'm the chairman of the homeland security subcommittee so i very much want to see us enact a bill that would provide critical resources to protect this country. homeland security, sure, we have border patrol. we have the wall. we have i.c.e. you know what else we have? coast guard, t.s.a., secret service, fema, absolutely essential services. this includes our funding for our immigration laws and also continuing to fund and work on the border wall system. so i want to see us pass all 11 of these bills as well as provide funding for our troops and our veterans. funding medical research. i'm committed to funding the research for the -- research of alzheimer's. addressing th

, a bill that has lower prices, a bill we can be proud of. lower cost more cures act it doesn't kill cures but accelerates them and makes it easier for patients to use their personal health insurance plans to lower costs for medicine and hold pharma accountable and pulls back the curtain and forcing the companies to justify their prices and help seniors lower their medicine costs. every member of congress who pledged to deliver lower costs for families and seniors and who truly want more cures for diseases will fulfill that promise in h.r. 19. i urge support. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. >> i gee with my republican colleagues ta we need action on drug pricing. negotiating is common delens. the amendment to this bill is not bipartisan. only republicans have co-sponsored this amendment. mr. walden: that's true on the bipartisan. but every provision in here in the bill has democrat support either as individual bills in other sectors. we brought only bipartisan bills int

ifm -i'm bill hemmer. thank you, heather for helping us out. >> i'm heather childress in for sandra smith. the chairs of the five investigating committees are expected to unveil at least two articles against the president. abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> bill: want to bring in doug collins. you know the events that are happening around you, thank you for your time. what do you think you got through yesterday? at the moment it does not appear that republicans can stop this train, sir. >> we've never thought we could stop this train, bill. they've been on this train since november of 2016. they had to find the motives, means and opportunities. look what they're riding now. abuse of power, so ambiguous and gray. they can make it up on the fly. obstruction of congress. are you kidding me after 70 days they'll charge the president with obstruction of congress? that isn't the way the place works. what isn't there is interesting. we've heard quid pro quo, bribery, those aren't going to be in the ar

this bill does that. at the end of the day we have the best military in the world because of our people. we take care of them and that is what this bill is all about. so we're here today because of the brave men and women who wear and have worn the uniform. we're safe and prosperous and free because of them. that's what this bill is all about. mr. president, the senate just passed the defense authorization bill for the 59th year in a row. there isn't much left around here that is -- that has that kind of longevity. it's a testament to the importance of the bill. it's also a testament to the hard work of the staff. they've worked tirelessly to bring the conference report. i want to take just a moment to recognize and thank everyone who made this bill possible starting with the armed services committee staff, especially staff directors john bonzo for the majority and liz king for the minority. they're the ones that provided the leadership there behind the scenes. they did most of the work. then there's my p

a bill. we decided that at the end of the process, with some help with others, that we wouldn't have things in the bill that hadn't traditionally been there. this is the place where much of the language that we debate in the appropriations bills of what can happen and can't happen, things like the hyde amendment has been in the appropriations bill for a long time, and it is in this one. other things that have not been there in the past are not there, and that was one of the things that allowed us to move forward. again, you had one body controlled by the different party. you had to come to bipartisan consensus, and i think we had. there are lots of competing programs, some of which we're all for but maybe not -- maybe our priorities are different. and, in fact, it could be that we just have more priorities on one side than the other. but these programs, range, madam president, from workforce range to early childhood education to infectious disease control. that's a pretty big span of things t

these bills, mr. president, are written entirely behind closed doors by a small handful of leaders from two parties. thousands of pages of spending. trillions of dollars in release to public scrutiny for the first time within only hours of what would otherwise become a government shutdown. and you see this is a feature, not a bug. for those in charge of this process, this is a good thing because this is what allows them to write it on their own. the law firm, as i sometimes describe it, the law firm of mcconnell, schumer, pelosi, mccarthy, and a small handful of staffers and a few other members around them write this bill and then it's presented to us as a single binary take it or leave it package. you fund this and everything in it or you fund nothing. you vote for this package or you're blamed for a government shutdown. it's not right. this we somehow manage to call rather euphemistically bipartisanship, and by too much of what washington calls bipartisanship these days, these spending bills are a f

we put them together in one bill. may already bill i put in there had passed already. we grouped them up afterwards. this is a complicated industry. that is what i have tried to do. what is the advantage to the consumer? i want to know what the prices. i want access. quality. i want competition. when we get to precision medicine, this incredible revolution in understanding the human genome. we will get down to where there is a solution that only works for you. how do we pay for that? i don't think we know how to do that yet as a country. it is not about republicans and democrats. we will have to have a policy that says, how do we pay for that? i met with a company this week that is in the final stages. they might have a cure for pancreatic cancer. that will be expensive. she has been on this new drug. i said, how is it doing? she shrugged. she said she has not been able to move her neck in 10 years. we have to have more cost transparency. on the other side of the break k, we need to come together. >> you are the former two-term chairman for the house republicans. we ha

there is bill. >> bill: now we have it. good morning to you. happy friday to you back there in new york. we're live from the ronald reagan presidential library here in simi valley, california. the sun came up 10 minutes ago. the fires we had a few weeks ago, you can see the scorched earth around the library. they saved the place but it was really close. we're here as partners with the reagan defense forum. you see the giant 707 on loan from the u.s. air force and a big weekend of events and interview. look for that here and on fox nation starting saturday. that's coming up for you. meanwhile nancy pelosi has made it official calling for democrats to proceed with articles of impeachment. here we go. >> our democracy is what is at stake. the president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit. >> sandra: the decision drawing swift reaction, republicans firing right back. >> where it's going the democrats cannot beat president trump in the reelection bid. they're willing to say and d

that is just one of many reasons why we oppose this bill. again, we thank you for your efforts and we urge passage of this resolution. thank you. >> caroline kennedy. like supervisor peskin, i put sb50 in item two. i want to reiterate this bill sb50 is an over reach with a huge negative impact on our city. it is the incentives to give value to developers without any additional inclusionary housing or incentives to build affordable housing we so desperately need in san francisco and the bay area. it also increases density without funding for investment in infrastructure to address transit and s.f.m.t.a. to need $22 billion of which we only have $1 billion for our rebuild that is needed for 2040. given senator wiener's rebuff to you, supervisor mar, and given how horrible this bill is in the present form, please wait to determine if amendments are useful until senator wean nor brings forward his revised bill 50. i am not sure you can put lipstick on this pig. we need a strong voice in the legislative process after we review the latest sb50 cha

the bill is passed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive to resume consideration of the vandyke nomination. mr. cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, as all america knows, climbing health care costs continue to keep the american people up at night. a kaiser foundation poll in september found that the number one health concern of the american people is prescription drug pricing, a whopping 70% of those polled think that lowering prescription drug costs should be a top priority -- a top priority for congress. making it the number one item on our to-do list. but our friend and colleague from new york, the minority leader, objected last time i offered unanimous consent to take up and pass a bill, which i'll describe here momentarily and i hope given the intervening time and reflection he will not do so today and we can get this bill passed and address this top priority of the american people. the good news is republicans and

will not labor support this bill. remain certain, as we remain certain, there is a fairer way for this country to leave the european union. one which would not risk ripping our communities apart. public services, or sacrificing hundreds of jobs in the process. >> this deal is a road map for which kless direction in the government and our prime inister are determined to take our country. they have done their upmost to the impact and continue to use gimmicks and slogans to turn away from their real intention. people have voted in the general election. supported the prime minister's deal. he s a democrat, surely people.heed the disappointed in the member.le >> i wish him well. he hasn't listened to anything that i have said. mr. speaker, on the question, nothing exposes the intention more clearly than the steps they already taken on workers rights. >> for all the promises over the few weeks, that they are at party to protect rights work, at the very first opportunity they have removed provisions they said would be part o

i'm sandra smith. >> bill: smitty, good morning. i'm bill hemmer. house judiciary chair jerry nadler releasing a report 600 pages in length outlining the democrats' case claiming the president betrayed the nation by abusing his high office. here is sean spicer just last hour with us here on "america's newsroom." >> largely this is a political and p.r. exercise, right? unless something unbelievably drastic happened there is no way this is going to end in anything less than an acquittal when the republicans control the senate. >> bill: we started on monday at the house with john roberts. good morning there. >> good morning. the push toward impeachment gathers momentum among democrats folks at the white house pushing back against the process in the house that got us to where we are and where it will go this week and then where it is going to go in the senate. the president tweeted this morning. read the transcripts. it's the greatest con job in the history of american politics. the fake news media and their partner the democrat party are working overti

this is a good bill because we made it a good bill. ask everybody to support this bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the outstanding republican whip, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized. mr. scalise: thank you, madam speaker. i thank chairman brady for yielding and i want to thank all the people that we've worked with to get to this point. because passing the united states-mexico-canada trade agreement is going to be a major victory for american workers. yet another sign that we can improve on our current trade relationships, i think a lot of people were concerned that maybe the president would pull out of nafta, because he was clearly critical of the flaws of the previous agreement. but what he did was actually go and negotiate with mexico and get a better deal for american workers. then he went to canada, who might have

we passed the amended house bill. that's over in the senate. we are waiting for the senate to take action on that. much earlier in the year, we passed our net neutrality bill that sits over in the senate. we are currently working on c-band and broadband mapping. it has been a busy time on the energy and commerce committee. these bills we have been marking up in committee are bipartisan. the whole plethora of bills we marked up a couple of weeks ago come out of the committee. we are a committee that likes to work across the aisle and with republican colleagues and find consensus to send these bills to the senate. unfortunately, they sit with about 276 other bipartisan bills that we would like mitch mcconnell and senate republicans to someday take up, but they seem to be busy doing other things. >> some of these issues you described and other issues have become campaign issues with mergers happening, tech companies being investigated by congress, etc. >> those aren't the bills we have over there. we are not arguing about robo calls, and that's a

donald trump has refused to step out and fully support that bill. ofre has been talk background check proposals that members of the administration have walked around congress, but when that happened, when bill barr and others were walking around those proposals, the very same day it was leaked that trump distanced himself from the proposals. it is hard to know on any given day where exactly donald trump stands. i think if the voters are paying attention, they would understand that trump and mcconnell and their allies in congress had the opportunity to act, have not, and i think they are angry and that anger will manifest in the voting booths on election day. >> earlier this month, the justice department announced the project guardian initiative which relies heavily on atf enforcement of existing gun laws. your group call that proposal inadequate, if i recall. if president trump and the senate, as you indicate, are not willing to move, what could the doj or attorney general barr do apart from that to a any of your concerns? administration, i will jus

the failed priorities is that sb50 is a real estate bill, not a housing bill. so far most of the car vouts have been geographic. they can be rescinded by future legislation or amending future legislation. at yesterday's meeting, there was discussion about the possible quote, unquote, reform of sb375 from 2008. another is increasingly strident rhetoric. it's been the bill's author and medimedia. there's attempting to wrap himself in self-righteousness the way others wrap themselves in the flag. in closing, it appears that the bill and his author are beyond redemption. once again, i'm urging the committee and the board to outright oppose sb50. >> i'm going to read some additional names, loraine petty, asi roam, anastasia and kyle dewolfe. >> thank you, supervisor. >> calvin welsh, the neighborhood council housing board member. and the difficulty with sb50 is in significant regard addressed in the proposed amendments, except that the proposed amendments, i think, make a misapprehension about the objective of sb50. and i think there needs to be one additional amend

this is where will you score a person's light bill, gas bill, photo bill, cable bill, and use that information, with the traditional credit, to allow that person to have maybe the little additional help needed so as to acquire a loan. it is a pilot program. we have passed a bill out of committee. it is h.r. 123. this piece of legislation will allow many, many persons with little credit, because they haven't been in the credit market, to get a home. many people who are paying now x number of dollars for rent will be able to acquire a home for x-minus some amount. meaning less than what they are paying for rent. they will be able to acquire a home. i'm pleased to say that many of the prudential agencies are in agreement and are encouraging this. just today we had a hearing with the housing subcommittee and mr. montgomery, who is the head of f.h.a. was there. and i will be visiting with him. he and i agreed to have an appointment so we can talk about these things and see what we can do to help with home ownership for persons who are not born in the suites of life and many who now find themselves

now, everybody sees what this man is." >> bill cosby. >> bill cosby. >> reporter: cosby is free on bail until his sentencing this september. the 80-year-old faces up to 30 years in prison. his defense team declined comment for this report. but right after the verdict, attorney thomas mesereau spoke to reporters. >> we don't think mr. cosby is guilty of anything. and the fight is not over. thank you. >> are you going to appeal? >> yes, yes very strongly. >> reporter: true to their word, they filed ap appeal. shortly afterward itself, cosby's wife rks camille, issued her own statement. she condemned the trial as ..".mob justice, not real justice." but these four witnesses say camille cosby's voice can't drown out the jury's verdict. >> when we last met, beverly johnson, also an accuser, said, "this body of women are moving the needle." >> not much. but we're still moving it and that's the power we all feel. >> you think you moved the needle? >> absolutely, absolutely. yeah. . >>> with each step we take, people who have been assaulted, sexually assaulted, feel more powerful to be able to c

we are moving forward on a bipartisan bill that i've introduced with doris matsui and bill johnson to do just that. because at the oversight hearing it was made clear to us that we need to give the fcc the authority to move forward on that so we can pay for so that we are able to do broadband deployment in rural america so that we are able to close the homework gap that commissioner rosenworcel talked about our oversight hearing. this is a tremendous opportunity for a win-win proposition where taxpayers will see this money in -- and we want to put it, , it's going to the treasury open want to put a lock box on that money to make sure we use for things like rural broadband deployment and that we use for 911 and that we use to help close the homework gap. so that's going to be a big push and we are moving forward on that, and it's bipartisan and i'm very optimistic we will be able to get that done. obviously we want to see stella in the law. the judiciary committee still has to do its part on this. there's about 800,000 homes that rely on that to get their satellite signals, and we got

elijah cummings would be proud of this bill, proud of this bill to carry his name. i urge passage and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields ack the balance of his time. mr. brady: i yield two minutes to a member of the ways and means committee, mr. lahood. mr. lahood: and i rise tonight in opposition to h.r. , the fewer cures and more government control act. the overal costs of prescription drugs are too high and there are bad actors in the system and i wonder why we are debating that puts a system. we should be finding ways to find more companies to gaming in cures and drive competition for lower costs. during consideration of h.r. 3

i can remember when this bill, voting rights bill could pass both houses unanimously. let's do that today and demonstrate that we are making this democracy work for all. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i now yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, representative maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for one minute. mrs. maloney: i rise in strong support of h.r. 4, for the people, the voting rights advancement act. s, sewell,my colleague fudge, nadler and others, for their extraordinary work on this critical legislation that protects the most basic and fundamental of american rights. the right to vote. ever since the 2013 supreme court shelby decision threw out the preclearance requirement, undermining the voting rights act, states and localities with histories of racial injustice have again started discriminatory voting practices like requiring i.d. this is particularly harmful to hispanic voters. moving voting places so it's more difficult to vote. and many

this isn't a border bill. bill.sn't a daca it's not a fence bill or an amnesty bill. this is a narrow bill with to do with having a stable workforce for agriculture in this country. california. so many of the crops are very labor intensive. i am a farmer myself. from this bill. we don't need that kind of labor. just to disclose. fromo many crops that come california and others like it, needful sely labor crops, would disappear. we will end up importing them we don't here else if have this workforce to continue. bill makes for a legal workforce, a documented workforce. why wouldn't we want that? but heaven knows. you same the word amnesty, people go running for the hills. running for cover. is not an amnesty bill. how could it bill when it has certified ag the workers to come in, to be vetted before they get that to have tion, benchmarks to become a legal permanent resident and, yes, at end, there is an opportunity for citizenship that would the process works probably take 18 to 20 years to accomplish. so for those that are really a cerned about it being handout for ci

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. 4803, a bill to facilitate the automatic acquisition of citizenship for permanent resident children of military and federal government personnel residing purposes.d for other the speaker pro tempore: the ant to the rule, gentleman from new york, is recognized for 20 minutes. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and .xtend their remarks the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. nadler: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may proceed. mr. nadler: i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to 4803, the r. citizenship for children of military members and civil servants act. bipartisan legislation provides a simple solution to ease the burdens imposed by our laws on itizenship those who have chosen to serve ur nation abroad and their children. most children born outside the united states are deemed u.s. birth.s at but under our current itizenship laws, this process can be more complicated for ch

and that protecting the spoon—billed sandpiper and the wetla nds spoon—billed sandpiper and the wetlands it depends on will prevent many other species from being lost. victoria gill, bbc news. that is it. get on touch with me on twitter. this is bbc news. hello there. saturday sunshine was in short supply. many of us got stuck with grey, gloomy conditions stop only the favoured few got to see much anyway brightness. a hopeful though that through the day ahead a few more of of us will get to see something just a little bit brighter and it certainly is going to feel mild, especially in the north of the uk with the speed of really warm f you can see these orange colours extending in our direction from the south or the south—west. and at the same time we are going to start to tap into some of the strayer across the near continent so that should allow us to break some holes in the cloud and give us a little bit more in the way of sunshine. so this is how we start off sunday, with a lot of cloud, the cloud began up in parts of the west to give the odd spot of drizzle, submissive, murky condi

we have a $14,000 bill for a stem cell transplant. i called them up and they said, wait a minute, whoever put your stem cell bill in didn't link your medicare. i hear the keys, and he goes, it's gone. but somebody might have just -- >> paid it. >> paid it. >> forget about retirement, these people are spending their life savings just for the chance to stay alive. and, remember, they have insurance. in the park's prayer garden, i meet up with the resident pastor to ask how a man of faith makes sense of something so unholy. >> have you ever prayed for the health care system? >> yes. i believe that if we want to see a change, a difference in it, i believe that you have to pray about some things. >> pastor hill is uninsured. his wife was diagnosed with a serious heart condition in 2018, and he stopped working to take care of her. >> how long have you been without health insurance? >> i have been without health insurance for i would say probably about a year and a half. >> okay. do you know if you qualify for medica medicaid? >> i believe t

i've and -- analyzing state transportation bills for the past year. have a personal background in i've spent many years at google leading programs for developer communities. the last four years working on early stage change projects for google x. i left last summer because i want to make a more in immediate impact to community organizing and policy work. transportation is important and interesting to me because i am sure as everybody knows it is the largest source of of emissions in california a whopping 41%. it's also so integral to our daily lives, safety. i mean, working climate change for the last five years has been depressing and a lot of eggs. the thing to remember is that many of our best solutions make life better and healthy for everybody. that drives me. that is really important to me. i've had a variety of different daily commutes including taking muni every day, taking google bus every day, biking every day all while being a healthy able-bodied woman, a parent with a small child i was recently something with a chronic illness that preclud

many here in assam see the passage of the citizenship amendment bill as a clear message from the hindu nationalist government that they are 2nd class citizens . no men but is the other didn't get trying to make us minority in our own very spit in our own religion by giving to the end of the ballot this year. the new law would allow non muslim religious minorities from neighboring countries like bangladesh to claim indian nationality a campaign promise delivered by prime minister modi's b j p government which denies the measure discriminates against any group here. a lot of this bill will not harm even a little bit any minority especially our muslim brothers and sisters who live in this country because this will only give citizenship it doesn't take it away from anyone. but critics say the law undermines india's secular constitution and is blatantly anti muslim in this bill they are targeting the community without leaving it it was the basic structure of the constitution it is divisive and exclusive it really destabilized up polity and 18 to 20000000 people would not trust us. and tweet

it into numeral two bills. they are reporting 2 bills. it is all the funding for the federal government through the end of next year at $1.375 trillion. host: why is it $50 billion more? caller: guest: -- studies of guns, which for 25 years we have not had the authority to look at the statistics related to guns. a number of provisions increasing national institutes of health by $2 billion. increaseases -- 3.1% in salaries for employees and also money for the president's wall. about $1.4 billion. host: it is two packages. 4 bills,ge contains including the defense homeland security commerce, giant -- commerce, science, the other holds 8 bills to fund agriculture, labor, health and human services, education, energy, interior, veterans ,ffairs as well as the epa congressional operations and water project. guest: it is all the government. is $1.4 trillion, that is only about 30% of all government spending. suchther 70% is in programs as medicare, medicaid, social security. safety net programs, food stamps, child nut

real bills. then the fossil fuel gets its brand-new hardware, political howitzers, and they go to the other side of the aisle and say anybody that crosses us is dead, and bipartisanship died that january on climate change. and it's only beginning, only beginning to resurge now. but the decade that we lost would have cost us a lot, and it makes the urgency of what we have to do now all the more important. this web of denial, paid for by the fossil fuel industry, has stymied congress for a decade. and i hope i don't need to remind anyone here that the fossil fuel industry has a conflict of interest as to this question. indeed, the international monetary fund has quantified it as a $650 billion a year conflict of interest. for $650 billion in conflict of interest, you can pay for a lot of nonsense organizations that are phony front groups to put out your poison and your political propaganda and your political pressure. is it not time at last that senators paid attention to the trusted science actual