speaker i yield to minute fitted gentleman from california mr garamendi chemical california is recognized for 2 minutes mr speaker i rise today with great sadness and anger over the events that transpired on january 6th and i rise was steadfast determination to take every possible action to ensure that those who incited and committed the unconscionable acts on that day are brought to justice last week's violent insurrection on the u.s. capitol left at least 6 people dead and dozens injured it was a stain on our nation and our democracy they beat police officers they murdered a police officer they planted pipe bombs they brandish weapons and they left our nation shocked and morning just as this congress returned marrows after this insurrection to certify the lawful research results of the 2020 presidential election we stand here today prepared to take firm the size safe and necessary action to restart our country no president who invites thousands of his most devoted supporters to washington and urges them to fight his political enemies by committing a seditious act on our democracy should

after that the question can be asked again, what's your vote mr. garamendi but at this point i'm a no vote. >> what would it take to switch you to a yes vote? >> a lot more clarity, what our purpose, what our goal is, is it more than just credibility? i hope so. and what are the -- what are our allies doing? there was talk today that countries in the middle east would join us in a military effort. i'm concerned about that. it's nice to have allies but the problem of syria has always been is it a vortex in which a regional war would be -- could happen so we get all of our allies -- >> it is the unintended consequences that worry you the most? >> absolutely. >> even offering any additional proof about the presence of serin or vx or any particular chemical weapons isn't going to necessarily are enough to sway you to the other side on this? >> that's correct, that's correct. i'm pretty much satisfied that chemical weapons were used. there's still some question about whether assad directly or indirectly was involved. where did the weapons come from, how

mr. garamendi: they shut themselves down. he is a democrat from california. mr. grassley, a senior senator providing leadership in the senate. on the shutdown, a different view. worldwide, this is bloomberg. ♪ viviana: this is bloomberg surveillance. i'm viviana hurtado. jpmorgan plans to increase bonuses at his corporate investment banks. percentage increases will be in the mid-single digits. equity traders will get more. the division accounts for more than one third of jpmorgan revenue. ceo is rewarding investors must duck with him three structure and. he expects to buy back shares by the end of the are credit suisse falling 30% last year. -- end of the year. 38% lastuisse falling year. tom: how about a talk on economics? chart, it is a chart john ryding as attached to his left arm, this is the fed funds rate adjusted for inflation, up higher. i am sorry, it is not normal, real rates are nowhere in your were they should be, are they? -- are nowhere near where they should be, are they? komal: how do you do it through of monetary period easing. to expect that c

i'll get reaction from democratic congressman john garamendi. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first let's go to our political correspondent sara murray. sara, as the russia probe moves forward, the president's lawyers are now preparing to rebut whatever robert mueller's eventual report shows. >> that's right, wolf. rudy giuliani doesn't have any idea what mueller is going to do next or when he's going to do it, but he's preparing for any possible scenario pending his own report about the russia investigation in a strategy that seems to be as much a political and a p.r. move as a legal one. with little sign the russia probe is wrapping up, rudy giuliani is hatching a backup plan. the president's lawyer telling cnn's dana bash the legal team is already halfway through preparing a report to rebut a number of possible findings from special counsel robert mueller. it's slated to include sections on everything from collusion with russia in the 2016 election to fired national security adviser michael flynn to obstruction of ju

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this hour, i'll talk with congressman john garamendi, an armed services committee member. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our white house correspondent abby phillip. abby, another member of the president's national security team may be on the way out. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. christopher ruddy is one of the president's longtime confidants and he did spend the weekend in florida this week where he spoke to president trump, but ruddy is saying that sources are telling him that president trump might be souring on dan coats. now, this information from ruddy is coming just weeks after dan coats testified on capitol hill. it's essentially contradicting president trump on north korea. saying that north korea is unlikely to give up their nuclear weapons, but it also comes just days before president trump is ex. e expected to head to hanoi, vietnam, for a second summit with north korea's leader kim jong-un. >> hello, miami. >> reporter: tonight, the president may be considering firing his top intelligence official, as he fires ba

if you do, there will be severe repercussions, heavier sanctions coming your way. >> john garamendi, thank you so much. >>> the news just now breaking in north korea, kim jong-un issuing a long statement blasting president trump, calling him mentally deranged, a rogue and a gangster. more on that when we come back. or you can come in and have it all for less than you might imagine. don't wait. our 2017 models will be moving fast. you can drive a car. or you can drive a cadillac. during the cadillac made to move 2017 clearance event, current non-gm owners and lessees get this low-mileage lease on this cadillac ct6 from around $529 per month. but their nutritional needs (vremain instinctual.d, that's why there's purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of natural nutrition. purina one, true instinct. listen up, heart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cost inefficiencies, and data without insights. and fragmented care, stop getting in the

. >> before i get to representative garamendi, a quick followup, representative scott. cameron said he spoke to the vice president at his graduation to see if she could help and as i mentioned earlier, marco rubio is requesting president biden to intervene. >> it should be worked out through the secretary of the defense or the secretary of the navy, or the national defense authorization act won't be passed. but that's too late to him. we need to move on this issue. senator rubio forwarded a letter to the president of the united states. i'll have continued conversation with the administration and see if we can get some movement on this in the right direction. >> now to you, representative garamendi. i want you to listen to what cameron kinley said on this show and then we'll discuss. >> time is of the essence, with training camp starting july 24, if i don't have any new decision by then, there's no way for me to go back down in tampa bay. during my time in tampa, i wasn't getting any questions about football and who do we play at navy but it was all about the military an

he is a threat to the nation and for mr. brady and others to say, oh my, we shouldn't do anything, wrong. we have to impeach this person. we did that. the senate has to find him guilty. >> congressman john garamendi, thank you very much for your time. and we wish all of you safety and peace on this pivotal week that can be a uniting week for the nation. >> it could be. and it should be. >> i appreciate you. thank you for staying up late for us. >>> well, president trump may be leaving the white house, but his loyalists are not giving up the political stage. what does it mean for the future of the republican party? we'll have perspective ahead. my hygienist cleans with a round head, so does my oral-b. my hygienist personalizes my cleaning, so does my oral-b. my hygienist uses just the right pressure, and so does my oral-b. oral-b combines a dentist-inspired brush head with the gentle energy of micro-vibrations for the wow of a professional clean feel every day. my mouth says wow and so does my oral-b. let's get checked for ou

cnn learned mr. trump's advisers warned him not, repeat, not to elevate biden or other top democratic candidates, but the president clearly isn't following that advice. i will talk about breaking news wi john garamendi. and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, let's go to cnn law enforcement analyst, former fbi supervisory agent josh campbell, joining us from los angeles right now. josh, first of all, what are you learning about this alleged terror plot? >> hey, wolf. chilling details we are learning from officials regarding the arrest of a 26-year-old former army infantry man, resident in the los angeles area, they describe was in the process of attempting to place a bomb in a crowded area here in the los angeles area. this is a case that involved fbi undercover agents, informants and the suspect himself attempting to gather ingredients for the device. let's listen to officials describe his role. >> this is a case in which law enforcement was able to identify a man consumed with h

the exception should be made for mr. kinley. he should be allowed to pursue the nfl career. then let's let the armed services committee speak to how we're going to handle this in the future. >> before i get to representative garamendi, a quick follow-up here, representative scott. cameron, when he spoke to me, he said he spoke to the vice president at his graduation to see if she could help. and as i mentioned earlier, marco rubio is asking president biden to intervene. do you expect the white house to get involved? what can they do? or do you think this will be worked out by the armed services committee? >> oh, it needs to be worked out either through the secretary of defense, the secretary of the navy, who has the ability to reverse his decision, or the white house if it's going to work for mr. kinley. the national defense authorization act won't be passed until towards the end of the year, november, december. that's too late for him. so we need to move sooner rather thanlator on this issue. so senator rubio forwarded a letter to the president of the united states. i'm goi

a federal judge ordering mr. trump's longtime accounting firm in new york to comply with a subpoena and turn over financial records to a house committee. this as the trump administration is blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from answering lawmakers' questions tomorrow morning asserting he has immunity from testifying. let's discuss this and more. jim baker is joining us. he was the bureau's top lawyer during the russia investigation. jim, thanks for coming in. first of all, what do you make of this federal judge's rejecting the president's efforts to block a subpoena from the accounting firm for the president's financial records before he became president? >> i think it's a recognition that congress has a lot of power under the constitution. that's just the case. it has a tremendous amount of power. over the years it's not exercised that and been inclined in many instances to see over to the president or presidents, a lot of their power so this is them taking some of this back by trying to enforce th

you're likely -- highly likely to get approval of that. >> congressman john garamendi, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> new developments in the feud between president trump and fired fbi director james comey. more on that. >>> plus, a new clip of comey's intertrue was just released. we'll bring that to you. he takes on hillary clinton. again, we'll have that for you right after a quick break. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." ♪ experience a blend of refined craftsmanship... ...and raw power. ♪ new innovations... ...and a tradition of excellence. luxury... ...and performance, engineered to take the crown. presenting the all-new lexus ls 500 and ls 500h. experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. we believe nutrition is full of possibilities to improve your pet's life. we are redefining what nutrition can do. because the possibility of a longer life and a better life is the greatest possibility of all. purina pro plan. nutrition that performs. the blade quality you'd expect from gillette at a price you wouldn't. the new gillette3 and gillette5. available now for $7.99. gillett

the suit by the democratic party targeting mr. trump's son, his son-in-law among others, including the russian government. this hour, i'll talk to the dnc chairman, tom perez, in his first interview on the lawsuit. and congressman john garamendi is standing by along with our analysts. first, we'll go to miguel marquez. tell us more about the new hearing in los angeles in the stormy daniels case. >> reporter: yeah, another very dramatic day in court. lawyers for the president, michael cohen and stormy daniels go at it. the bi-coastal legal drama pitting the porn star against the president has its first hearing in a california federal court. >> the court recognized, to quote the court, that there are gaping holes in the application by mr. cohen and trump to delay this matter. >> reporter: tomorrowy d stormy daniels is aggressive wanting this case to move as quickly as possible. >> it is always our intention to make sure this case proceeded expeditiously. >> reporter: the stakes enormous if the case moves forward, the president himse

mr. garamendi: we now have new administration. trump says he'll wipe isis off the face of the earth. well, how he's going to do that, what does he need in terms of personnel, money, material, women and what's going to be the cost it, cost in human life, americans as well as others? these are profoundly important questions we need to come to grips with. we have not heard from the new administration about his plans although we begin to see that slippery slope in syria as well as iraq. and afghanistan, we know there is a probability of more troops going into afghanistan. ost: a headline from cnn, u.s. expanding in afghanistan and libya, is there a concern if the u.s. goes down someone else comes in to take its place and what does it do to stability? mr. jones: let me quickly speak on that. the most ironic thing is the crook who was at the head of fghanistan, karzai, is now out of office. he's trying to get the russians come back in. the russians spent 10 years and changed absolutely nothing. history has proven that afghanistan is the

mr. garamendi: can i interrupt? you put in the record a series of documents and i fleed to request unanimous consent that your material be placed into the record. ms. norton: i thank you for doing that. tifment just one moment. mr. garamendi: why don't we continue as we work out the details. ms. norton: this hearing was interesting because this notion of devolution and this means that we see these states are raising their gas tax. let's stop doing a federal highway or surface transportation bill. these states are raising their gas tax and waiting for us to do ours so that the partnership that is represented by state gas taxes and federal gas textes will remain whole until we find some other way to do this. what frustrates me -- would the gentleman have anything further? mr. garamendi: we have worked out the details so your material can be entered into the record. i request unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. garamendi: i would also -- i have an appointment that i must get to and yield

i thank you, mr. garamendi, for your relentless leadership. mr. garamendi: thank you. as i close, i will say, this is not the last of this debate. we're going make sure that the american public knows what's happening to them and what this republican congress is doing to the american public. thank you so very much. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. does the gentleman have a otion? the question is on the motion to adjourn. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow for morning hour debate. coming up wednesday morning, we will talk about your strip is get the latest on republican tax reform efforts. rob wittman will offer his perspective on president trump's trip to asia and u.s. national security interests in the region. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >>

mr. garamendi: mr. chairman, first, let me thank chairman hunter for his work on this bill and on the other work we've been able to do with the coast guard and the legislation. it's been a great pleasure to work with him. i rise in support of s. 756, the save our seas act of 2018, as amended, to include other important bills addressing maritime safety and ocean technologies. as explained by the majority manager, marine debris, especially plastics, is a persistent and growing threat to the global marine environment. many countries, including the united states, contribute to the plastic pollution. and it does add up. for example, in 2010 alone, according to the university of georgia study, a total of eight million metric tons of plastic entered the world's oceans. worse yet, the study predicts that number will grow 10 times, 10-fold as large by 2025. not only are floating plastic bags, straws, styrofoam cups, plastic bottles hurt the welfare of marine life, but marine debris threatens the food supplies of

garamendi of california. amendment number 3 by mr. buck of colorado. amendment number 4 by mr. perry of pennsylvania. amendment number 10 by mrs. hartzler of missouri. amendment number 5 by mr. gosar of arizona. amendment number 6 by mr. tom rooney of florida. the chair will reduce to two minutes after the first in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 1 printed in house report 115-217 by the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in house report 115-217 offered by mr. garamendi of california. the chair: a recorded has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device.

mr. garamendi: i have confidence in california's public health systems. those systems are likely to be overwhelmed. additional personnel will be brought in at least for the hot spot areas, solano county, now, from around the state. the normal process of identify, tracking down and isolating is dependent on testing. and therein lies the critical point. apparently the c.d.c. has authorized additional testing to be performed by rab la choirs -- laboratories around the nation. good. the question is, when will they be up and operating? in california, these labs were there, california asked to activate those labs and were told by c.d.c. no. send it to us in atlanta, samples, and we'll test them in the lab. minimum three-day turnaround. thank you. reporter: thank you. >> south carolina's democratic primary is tomorrow and we're on the road covering candidates. this afternoon we take you to columbia, where senator bernie sanders speaks at a get out the vote rally. that begins at 2:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. and this evening president trump holds a campaign r

mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker, i reserve what time i might take here and also ask that my comments be amended as necessary. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. garamendi: i want to join chairman hunter in strong support for the legislation and to advance this new policy initiatives to improve the oversight of the coast guard and major acquisition programs and to advance the safety and security of the u.s. maritime industry. the coast guard maritime transportation act is a bipartisan legislation. we talked about the provisions that are not in the bill and i'll try to talk about those in the bill. preserves the robust support from both -- members from both sides of the aisle. mr. hunter, i thank you for your support of the coast guard and the work we are able to do together with the members of the committee. great significance this , the ation will address fact that g.p.s., global positioning system has been identified for nearly 20 years as the single point with serious implications for our nati

handouts -- mr. garamendi: how much? mr. tonko: $131 billion. mr. garamendi:? a queer? mr. tonko: yes. contrasted with $161 billion cut from medicare. mr. tonko: you have to provide tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and mindless handouts to oil companies sitting on historic record profits, this year alone, we are at about $36 million in profits. if we have done this mindlessly for a century's worth, why would we continue that and put at risk a program that will be celebrating its 45th anniversary in a few days? why would we do that when the quality of life for the many, many, the masses of medicare eligibility, are putting -- being put at risk for the far fewer who will get the millionaire, billionaire tax cuts and oil handouts? mr. garamendi: it's about choices. it's about where do you stand? do you stand with the seniors and medicare and the benefits they need to survive? or do you stand with the big oil companies? look at the way the votes come down on the house floor. over the last five months, we've seen vote after vote after vote where the democrats have sugg

mr. garamendi: i thank you, mr. cicilline, and thank you for bringing to our attention some key elements here. the deficit issue which we will discuss a little longer today. also the issue of really growing american jobs, growing wages, growing the future, and creating a better future for american workers. i know that's been your passion, your work. we'll go through all those things in the days ahead. this bill may well become law but i surely would like to see what the president is going to do with this. i suspect the pass-through business in which he has 500 pass-through corporations, he's not an active investor, he'll make out very, very well. and the working men and women, the middle class, they're going to lose. this is the distribution tables from the joint committee on taxation, december 18, 2017. income category, distribution of individual income tax side of the proposal. 2019 small $127 million reduction for everybody making less than $10,000. in 2021, they're actually paying higher taxes. so at the very, v

thank you again, representative garamendi, for highlighting this issue. mr. garamendi: mr. lue, if you'll -- you said -- mr. lieu, if you'll -- you said you were on the oversight committee, you had the hearing last week and began the process of developing an understanding of what happened and who was responsibility or those people that were responsibility -- responsible or those people that were responsible. critically important. you also said you're on the budget committee. if i might just lobby you for a moment. mr. lieu: absolutely. mr. garamendi: you're going to be taking up the budget i think tomorrow actually. mr. lieu: we have various markups coming up. mr. garamendi: so the budget's going to be coming up. that's the allocation of the $4 trillion that the federal government will spend, we'll be spending it on education, we'll be spending it on roads, on the military and the like. let me just toss you some numbers for your consideration. these are adjusted 2015 dollars. so we're keeping equal value dollars. in 2007 the safe drinking water or the state revolving fund f

garamendi, is recognized. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the good lady from los angeles, ms. hahn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. hahn: thank you, mr. gar omblend, thank you for yielding -- mr. garamendi, thank you for yielding. today i'd like to discuss the importance of an amendment that i offered to this bill but withdrew it because of jurisdictional concerns. an exchange for dropping this amendment, the language was supposed to be included in the manager's amendment but unfortunately the suspension calendar precluded this from happening. it's my hope that with the help of the chairman, this issue will be taken up during the conference with the senate. under current law, port authorities are required to develop port security plans which are then submitted to the u.s. coast guard for review. however, ports are not required to address cybersecurity in these plans. and without a requirement, many of our ports have not addressed this issue, creating

garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the earlier discussion about one of america's most longstanding and

mr. garamendi: mr. scott, thank you so very much. you bring to this discussion a very important perspective as the ranking member of the labor, education committee. you have that perspective of understanding the effect of this legislation on the working men and women and families of the united states. i was just look at some of the early dements -- comments that have come out about the bill, which is less than 24 hours old now. families u.s.a. said the g.o.p. health care proposal would be laughable, if its consequences weren't so devastating. this bill will strip coverage from millions of people and drive up consumer cost. the catholic health association of the united states said, this proposal would take many backward steps in the continual effort to improve our health care system. it goes on and on. as more and more people come to understand what the issues that you were discussing are, i think they're going to find that, no, we'll take the affordable care act as it presently exists and we'll make some modifications to it to improv

mr. garamendi: mr. kildee, thank you very, very. -- very, very much. i'm afraid i won't be smart enough. i wonder if we should ask we are smart enough. are we smart enough? 435 of us. facing a myriad of questions around this world. some of them in our own hometowns. are we smart enough? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. does the gentleman from alifornia have a motion? mr. garamendi: i move to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. i'm sorry, the question is on the motion to adjourn. the ayes have it, the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow for morning hour debate. both chambers in the first

mr. payne: thank you, mr. garamendi. and let me once again thank you for you stepping out and giving members, such as myself, the opportunity to express our outrage of what is going on in this great nation of ours. you have given me several opportunities to speak on issues pertaining to this of try that are at the core decisions and issues that we need to address. and your passion tonight is warranted. t me say, never in my life did i think that i would be on the floor of the united states house of representatives calling for the president of the united states to stop tearing children away from their parents. yet here i am. perhaps it's fitting that today is juneteenth, a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the united states. juneteenth is also a stark reminder that our country has a dark history of ripping children away from their parents. african-americans know all too well that laws and policies can be twisted to evil ends. we know all too well the pain of having our children torn away from us and our familie

mr. garamendi: probably. let's start with the new nuclear arms race that we are now engaged in with russia and china . well over a trillion and-a-half dollars over the next 15 years or so that we will spend on building new new their weapons and delivery systems for each one of those bombs. a very dangerous world in the decades ahead. host: carl, independent, good morning. congressman, i am a retired military i travel all around the world. i see global warming is an issue. road --hey have a soap a silk road. you go down to africa. you don't have a lot of vegetation in those areas. what is happened in the last 40 cuts, a lot of countries the timber and trees so we've got to what vegetation back on the earth so it can absorb the heat from killing everybody. mr. garamendi: thank you for your service in the military and in those particular wars. you correctly observed that we , expansionification of deserts around the world and the abuse of the environment in many countries. you are seeing this in africa. the dese

mr. garamendi: yes. ms. watson: too many people think that we're going to change the way health is delivered. and i say to people when i have town halls, how many of you have insurance? and the hands go up. how many of you like your insurance? and the hands come down. i said, well, keep your hand up if you like your insurance. if you like it, keep it. mr. garamendi: exactly. ms. watson: if you don't like it and it's not meeting the needs of your -- yourself and your loved ones, then you can go and shop around and find an insurance that is affordable. but you know what makes me just delighted tonight? and that is we have prevention written into this law. isn't it wonderful if you could go and check so you don't have breast cancer? that's one of the penalties i guess for being a woman. but, you know, men can get breast cancer. and you were in the legislature in california when we discovered in 1980 that breast cancer research was done on men. and the group of us women got together and said, we're not going to

mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. tonko. the normal greeting on the floor is the the gentlewoman from ohio. but i have watched this representative work on the floor and on the committees and while she's extraordinarily polite, i'm not sure -- we'll just say determined, thank you for joining us representative sutton from ohio. mr. garamendi: thank you for leading us on the floor tonight to talk about such important things. you know, what we're doing to to help the american people in this time of challenge as we pull together and pull forward. and i guess i appreciate that flukes. i think that the point is -- that introduction. i think that the point is, we are willing to do to make things work for the people i'm so honored to represent in the 13th congressional district of ohio. mr. garamendi: is that the cleveland, ohio? ms. sutton: outside of clelved. so it is the scalt of the earth. mr. garamendi: there is a piece of information that i will carry, four counties. ms. sutton: you should visit. you should come out and see all

mr. garamendi: i thank you, mr. chairman. my colleague from california has it right. california's in a severe drought, and so are half a dozen other states. rizona, new mexico, texas, georgia, oregon, all of these states, including nevada, face a drought. this $11 million and the intent of this amendment is to signal to the department of agriculture, move some money out of your support systems, out of the salaries and the support for the farm service, move it over to the emergency conservation fund. $11 million isn't going to do it, but it's a good start and it's a signal we need to send. i know that in my own district we have over 500,000 acres of rice, normally. this year it will be 300,000 acres of rice planted. we have tens of thousands of acres of walnuts, almonds, many of those orchards are going to die unless there is an opportunity to provide the emergency conservation programs that will be needed. those are wells, those are pumps, those are other systems. so we ought to do this. i urge an aye vote on this amendment.

mr. garamendi: mr. higgins? mr. higgins: i was going to mention, tim was talking about infrastructure, the new american foundation has a study out called the way forward. they propose putting $1.2 billion onap and equipment is cheap. but they further explain it will create 25 million jobs over the next five years. five millionnempyment rate from its current rate to 6.4%. five million the second year reducing the unemployment rate further to 5.4%. these are proven growth vehicles and that's exactly what the economy does. it will also put people back to their considerable credit, have a program called helmets and hard hats, where they take veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan, expedite their apprenticeship training and uh put them to work making $60,000 or $70,000 a year. you want to say thank you for your service on behalf of a grateful nation, put them to work rebuilding this nation. we will spend, the federal government, transportation and infrastructure this year, $53 billion. it's a disgrace. we're a nati

mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman continues to reserve. chairman mckeon. mr. mckeon: mr. speaker, at this time i yield two minutes to my friend and colleague, the distinguished gentleman from south carolina, mr. sanford. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. sanford: mr. speaker, i think i was told i had three minutes. i may be mistaken in that. mr. mckeon: i yield the gentleman three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. sanford: with that in mind, i would say first off, indeed, mr. chairman, i thank you for your work and the leadership's work in indeed providing this time for this debate. as was just stated by my colleague from texas, i don't think that there's a more sacred vote out there for members of congress than on issues of war. i mean, in its balance hangs life and death. in its balance hangs all kinds of financial and life considerations. in its balance hangs how alli

mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, thank you for this opportunity to iscuss the subject of -- continue the discussion. my colleague from texas really left here a moment ago with a plea about bringing down the cost of health care. in america. actually, it was the cost of premiums in america. and that's a plea that i think all 435 of us would echo. it would certainly be our goal as representatives of the american people to find some way to accplish that. some way to bring down the cost of premiums i'd like just to make a point right at the outset, when discussing health care, there are really two connected but very separate parts to the health care system. one part is the delivery of medical services. these are the doctors, some of whom are in organizations of doctors of various specialties. some are in large practices such as the kaiser practice. some are in hospitals, disconnected from doctors. but there's a plethora of different ways in which medical services are delivered. that's the delivery of medical serv

mr. garamendi: excuse me. mr. kagen: yes. mr. garamendi: are you telling us that the banks own more homes than the individual families? mr. kagen: the bags own more homes today than -- the banks own more homes today than individual banks do. those would be banks who have created these derivatives to somehow gin up the mortgage market to $63 trillion when it was down to $13 trillion. the banks own more homeness that people do but people need to be in -- homes than people do but people need to be in their own homes at a price they can afford to pay. secondly, executives on wall street are having incomes that are 300 times that of the worker on the factory floor. 300 to one. 25, 30 years ago it was 20 to 25 to one. now it's 300 to one. so things have been tilted in wall street's favor. again, whose side are you on? wall street or main street? third, these numbers are pretty frightening. mr. garamendi: if the gentleman would yield. the wall street reform act goes to the heart of both of those issues. there was significant reform of t

mr. garamendi: i thank you for jing us this evening. this is area fundamental part of american life. and it e total g.d.p. is important in the terms of the ll hifere being of you are society. and did changes to the affordable care act that are being proposed will have a dramatic effect and massive shift of wealth from working men and women. we know that from the tax proposals that have been made in the analysis of the tax. from is a high probability that perhaps 11 million people will lose their coverage through the medicaid programs across the nation. and the feblingt on the providers will be profound. when we have something as important as this, it is wrong. it is wrong for the majority in this house to put thm legislation before the committees without a full hearing on what the effect will be be . tomorrow, wednesday, we will have the first markup and what i want and what you want is for the american public is to understand te and the implications and in terms of quality and access to health care. and with that, i'm ready to wrap. >>

i yield back to mr. garamendi. or mr. tonko. mr. tonko: representative garamendi, i like these lightning rounds. i think you're right on the absolute powerful course to make sure that tax policy speaks in defense of american workers, american families. absolutely essential. making certain that there is an agenda here to invest in education because we're training the work force of the future. but what we also need to do -- and i am convinced that we can do it smarter. if we don't do it cheaper we can still win if we do it smarter. i look at all of the opportunities we can do through energy retrofitting, that we can take manufacturing and upgrade it so that we're greating a state-of-the-art facility, an energy -- and energy costs are significant, in manufacturing costs. when i look at the potential of providing for that efficiency retrofitting, i saw it at niserta. i served as president as c.e.o. at the new york state energy facility. we came to congress and asked for help to make their efficiency as powerful as could be. we need to s

mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker. obviously it's a new year and we return to washington with an agenda that is completely full. in many, many ways, a tragic and extremely dangerous agenda ahead of us. last december, this house undertook the issue of how to deal with the issue of a president that was not paying attention to his oath of office. and passed an impeachment resolution. that issue is now over in the senate and in their hands. we could spend some time talking about that but then last friday another issue occurred. i'll spend more time talking about that. a little later. but what it came -- but what i came to the floor tonight for is to talk about what a democratic aucus, our leadership, and the 230-plus members of our caucus have been working on diligently over the last year. for the people. a series of legislative initiatives that address the fundamental concerns that america has, that americans talk about as we like to say, at their breakfast table. or dinner table. the concerns about their family's educati

mr. garamendi: thank you. i was thinking through that exim , the buzz inside the beltway helps the big companies general electric and boeing. it helps those companies, export airplanes and jet engines but it is the small companies that take advantage of the start-ups the growing companies that need that support. i had to ask my staff an intern to do research on the kinds of financing mechanism that china and japan and korea use to export their ships that they make the great shipbuilding industry is no longer in the united states. two countries are involved. the countries support those companies with programs that are exactly the same, a loan guarantee. and it works. mr. tonko: more aggressive than our own programs. why we would reduce the force that we provide to the exim bank. 0%, a great amount of the activity is with our small and medium-sized companies. 90%. so what gives. why are we not going forward with great energy and we can't miss a heartbeat. we need to re-authorize. we are hearing things about not

mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. payne. there are so many things we are going to talk about over the next several months. the president did a good thing by putting the fraurning program on the front burner. obviously, from what i said this last hour, mr. cicilline and mr. price. the proposal doesn't fly. it will not solve the problems in america that is good for the people, the working men and women in america. but we can work together on this. the program that our democrats have put out, a better deal for asm and we haven't talked about broadband and the availability of broadband in rural areas which i represent, but that's a problem in rural areas. but we have a common interest in a good solid infrastructure plan. unfortunately, we are looking at the deficit hawks returning. they disappeared last november and december when the tax bill went through and the president's budget contemplates a trillion dollar deficit each and every year for the next 10 years. so where's the money? a trillion dollars in the top 1% and corporat

under the speaker's announced poll, mr. garamendi is cognized mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker. my col owing, just finished a mental d resuetation of health and this has to do with als hismer's which the gentlemen spoke about it and he talked about brain health sm high role will be taking it to a little it in a slightly different direction and alzheimer's. ap i want to put this up to demonstrate the overall nature of this problem. look at the numbers and the numbers are staggering. the number of em. right now there are 5.5 million americans with alingshamers ear and we expect that to grow because the baby boomers are moving into their years and increasing numbers. f you look at this chath and a 2015, with spec 05 millions of americans with aleds i'mers, an issue but st for this nation. if you look at this, you can see the number of growth and you see the costs. these are constant dollars over the years. when we reach 2015, 10 ever not too many years from now, we are go to go sigh three-quarters of a trillion dollars with the medicaid budget. many, many people on this fl

garamendi. mr. garamendi: we're prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california, mr. hunter. mr. hunter: i reserve the balance of my time. mr. garamendi: if i might just close by a special thank you to the chairman and his staff, my staff, david, and to my own team on this. and also this really was a bipartisan bill and so chairman thune and ranking democrat on the committee, bill nelson, for their efforts in putting together this bill. with that, let's get this job done. i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi, yields back. the gentleman from california, mr. hunter. mr. hunter: thank you, mr. speaker. in closing, the coast guard in the future's going to fulfill a much greater role than it's filled since its inception. as you have weapons of mass destruction become ubiquitous throughout the world, the bad guys are going to use the same routes that they use to smuggle drugs and people to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into this country. it's my

mr. garamendi: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that my amendment, 040, be modified as placed before the desk. the chair: does the gentleman first offer the amendment? mr. garamendi: yes. the chair: the clerk will report the modification. the clerk: amendment number 5 printed in house report 113-455 offered by mr. garamendi of california. modification offered by mr. garamendi of california to amendment number 5, on page 5, line 14, replace afghan security forces with african nion standby force, a.s.f. the chair: are there objections to the modification? without objection. pursuant to house resolution 585, the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. chairman. for some time, like more than an hour today, this house debated and discussed the issue of boko haram and the terror that they are enacting throughout nigeria and the southern area of africa. this is not a new

mr. garamendi: mr. tonko, i knew i would enjoy listening to you. the passion, the knowledge, the intensity that you bring to this issue is critically important. you've worked on these issues for a long time. and we're going to -- i want to talk, just wrap up the unemployment insurance issue with going back to which are started here some time ago. again, in early december, a jobs fair in fairfield, california, nearly 1,000 people came to it, 50 employers. more than half of the people in this line are women. i could probably go down through this line, i remember a conversation with a couple of the women here, and they were on unemployment insurance. now, unemployment insurance actually started with the new deal. it was part of the effort to deal with poverty in america. and it was an insurance program, a program into which the employer and the employee pay for insurance for the employee, should there be a layoff. should there be unemployment. so that individual would be unemployed. it is not a welfare program. an insurance program. but if i were to g

mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment deals with the w-762 yield d-5 or nuclear warhead. in the ndaa there's the establishment of this new low-yield nuclear warhead. this amendment would fence 50% of the funding for the warhead until such time as the secretary of defense submits a report on the program's impact on the strategic stability and the options to reduce the risk of miscalculation. associated with the inability of the adversary to be able to distinguish between an ssbn missile carrying a single low-yield warhead, and a missile carrying several high-yield nuclear warheads, and to preserve the survivability of the second strike capability of the ssbn. it also strikes unnecessary provisions in the mark. people who have looked at these issues, for example, secretary -- former secretary of state, george schultz, and senator lieu, recently wrote, today, that justification for a new warhead fails on many levels. it is unlikely that there is such a thing as a limited nuclear war, preparing for one is folly

thank you, mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi: thank you so very, very much, really appreciate working with you tonight on this critical issue of the fundamental investment. let's just remember, this is not new. the army corps of engineers has been around since the very earliest days of our democracy. the army corps has been responsible for the waterways of america and the water resources reform and development act is going to be an opportunity for america to really move its infrastructure, particularly the trade, remember, just review, we're talking 13 million jobs immediately depend upon the water resource reform act. we're talking about 99% of our trade travels through our ports and waterways, whether it's on the mississippi, the sacramento, the san joaquin rivers or the great ports and the water -- and the coastal part of america. it's critically important. and as we do these things, we have the opportunity to reach back into the history of america and remember what the founding fathers talked about way back in geor

garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker. we just heard a very interesting one-hour on an issue that's important and i'd like to bring to this floor another issue that affects every american family. either directly or indirectly, but in a very profound and in most cases a very sad, very sad way. one in five american seniors are affected by this disease called alzheimer's. i know it's affected my family. my wife's mother at the age of 92 died of alzheimer's. she spent the last two years of her life living with my wife and i in our home where we were ble to provide care for her. i think that that is just one story among the millions of american families that are trying to find a way of dealing with this devastating disease. in her last years of her life, my mother-in-law always had what seemed to be a bright outlook. she was never a complainer and she always seemed to recognize her grandchildren. particularly the very young grandchildren. i'll never forget a day where our youngest grandchild or her youngest great-grandchild was

mr. garamendi: thank you so much. the president's words were very touching to me and i know they were to you because we were part of the peace corps, and we still are. not so much because of our role here in congress, but rather because once you're a peace corps volunteer, you never leave the service of peace. talk to me about where you served and the work that you did as a peace corps volunteer. mr. farr: john, i went into the peace corps after graduating from college in 1963. i knew i wanted to be called for that service. i'd done air force rotc in college and i'd worked overseas for a cousin who had a factory in argentina and was my cross-cultural experience and i realized once i was bitten by wanting to see other languages and cultures, when the peace corps was announced, that's what i'd do. i thought when i went in the peace corps and i left, i thought i'd leave and become a high school biology teacher. my background was science and i did urban community development. and we listened to -- to the needs of a very p