building? mr. kerner: yes. ms. tlaib: does it include grounds of the white house? >> yes. ms. tlaib: why is it important that federal employees don't engage in this? mr. kerner: we cannot have people campaigning all day long on taxpayer dollars. ms. tlaib: kell mr. conaway: engaged in press introduce, is that correct? and i hate wanting to through this. there is a clip on april 24, i would like to show my colleagues. >> bernie sanders has problems with donald trump. and at this point in the primaries and connecting with the voters and the only difference between sand rs and trump, sanders is terrible and trump is a much better candidate. biden will be seen as the alternative. and look, old, white male career politicians is not having the democratic party -- ms. tlaib: based on that she was on white house grounds? mr. kerner: yes. ms. tlaib: is she campaigning? mr. kerner: this was one of the violations. ms. tlaib: a report that she was in front of the white house and she was a counselor to president trump, correct. when you see the text in the news chip with counselor of the united state

role in labor organizing in the civil rights movement in the city of detroit. ms. tlaib: james was born in alabama in 1919. he eventually moved to detroit where he became an auto worker. active in his workers union, he was passionate about the political issues facing workers and african-americans. his experiences and increasing interest in far left philosophies inspired him to pen the american revolution, pages from a negro worker's notebook, his most well-known work. mr. boggs married grace lee in 1953. their influence as a couple and individually had tremendous impact on the organizing community, drawing influence from global history, observations of the everyday struggles of people. together the boggs' grassroots efforts to uplift voices of community members resulted in their founding of a summer leadership program. that legacy and that program lives on and the james and grace lee boggs school in detroit. i am proud to acknowledge and uplift mr. boggs and many of his achievements as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birthday. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempo

sentiment that mr. raskin and ms. tlaib expressed because there is a reason that our government is designed the way that it is. and it is because it is designed to acknowledge the flawed human nature in our grand experiment of self-governance. unspeakable horrors have been executed by the united states in the name of citizenship, in the name of determining who is a citizen -- and by citizen, we mean who is a person in our democracy. that is what citizenship means. it is an acknowledgement of personhood in american democracy, an acknowledgement of power. and when i think about supreme court decisions, with this i think about dred scott. i think about cor mat sue versus the united states where the supreme court upheld japanese interment regardless of the citizenship status of japanese americans. how did that start? it starts with the united states census. we have laws on the books saying that information from the census cannot be used in any other way, that it must be confidential. and what happened? when the federal government, the executive branch, the president of the united state

better future and better quality of life for all the residents in the 13th congressional district. ms. tlaib: the young people who have participated in this program have shown determination to achieve their highest potential. it is an honor to recognize our young people in this program and hopefully be able to show that they can be an investment for the future and i acknowledge their outstanding accomplishments. thank you so much, madam speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. carter: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. carter: madam speaker, i rise today to recognize lieutenant colonel kenneth desire. for nearly 20 years of exceptional service to our country. lieutenant colonel dwyer started his career in the military as a special services officer where he was deployed to afghanistan on three separate occasions. in 2006 during his third

ms. tlaib for joining us even though you are a member of the general oversight committee being part of the subcommittee today. thank you for coming. meeting is adjourned. [ inaudible conversations ] [ in] prime time tonight on c-span three, the health affairs committee on global help holds a council on medical advances and lessons learned from previous outbreaks at 8 p.m. eastern. the national league of cities releases its annual report on the state of u.s. cities followed by discussion with a handful of mayors from ross the country. >> once tv was simply three giant networks and a government supported service called pbs and then in 1979 a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers decide on their own what was important to them. c- span open the doors to washington policymaking for all to see, giving you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. in the age of power to the people, this was true people power. in the 40 years since the landscape has changed, there is no monolithic media, broadcasting has given way to narrowcasting and youtube stars are thi

. gomb mr. mcgovern: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from michigan . ms. tlaib: i take offense from my colleague here from arizona saying we are not going to win. this is not a gym. these are people's libes. when my colleague says we need to try, we have tried. i'm asking them to try harder because we are creating a generation of children who will remember what we did and that we caged them up like analysis and ripped them away and pumped them with drugs to make them stop crying for their mothers. no amount of debating in this chamber will make it better. i'm asking my colleagues to be more humane to ask us actually debate real policy change that will address the crisis at the border. we must do better for these children. again, no amount of apology, no amount of debating, no amount of politicing will make it better. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: i'll make the same point i have been making for days on end, we have something that can pass versus something that can't. and i do