ms. jayapal: thank you. i yield to a member of the ppropriations committee and my cochair of the congressional progressive caucus, a real champion for communities across country, mr. pocan from the state of wisconsin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. pocan: thank you, mr. chair. want to thank my friend, ms. jayapal, for yielding me some time and i want to thank my riend from wisconsin for his supportive words, mr. grothman. here today to helen keller4, the center re-authorization act which i am glad to introduce my colleagues, representatives tom suozzi and tom cole. without their support and without the support of rosa pete king, and congressman bobby scott, this legislation wouldn't be on the floor today. helen keller national center for deafblind youths and adults to first authorized in 1967 assist the deafblind community in america. today, it's the only national program that provides information, referrals, support, and training xclusively to americans who have com

ms. jayapal: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to go back to the amendment and the question of gang databases and i wanted to highlight a report that was just released by the inspector general for the city of chicago. and in that report, they talk about how immigration officials, education agencies, and the f.b.i. access the database more than a million times over the last decade. and in the report, it noted the police in the last 20 years identified more than 134,200 people as gang members, but 15,000 of those entries did not list gang membership or explain why they were listed as gang members. nearly 1,000 people were listed with multiple genders. 80 people were entered as zero years -- 0 years old. 90 people had a birth date before 1901. and thousands were identified as gang members despite not being arrested or accused of a crime. and so i think that this amendment is problematic on so many levels and i want to take us back to the underlying bill and extreme risk protection order act. which would incentivize states and

ms. jayapal votes no. miss deming votes no. mr. corea votes no. miss scanlan votes no. . miss garcia votes no. mr. neguse votes no. missmcbath votes no. mr. stanton votes no. ms. dean votes no. ms. mcursel-powell votes no. miss escobar votes no. mr. collins -- [indiscernible] >> motion to adjourn. mr. collins votes aye. mr. sensenbrenner. mr. chavis. mr. gomert. mr. jordan votes yes. mr. buck. mr. radcliffe. ms. robie. mr. gates. mr. johnson of louisiana votes yes. mr. biggs votes aye. mr. mcclintock votes aye. ms. lesko. mr. rpsenthaler. mr. armstrong votes yes. mr. steubie. mr. gates, you are not recorded. mr. gates votes aye. clerk: mr. chairman, there are eight ayes and 20 nos. >> point of parliamentary inquiry. chairman nadler: who has a point of parliamentary inquiry. the gentleman will state his point of for the mentor inquiry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. migrate relates to the rule we change last week where we mentioned staff conducting questioning it has been expanded to include consultants today. we contemplated the distinction between independent contractors su

jayapal's question revealed amazon offers its open products on the platform. mr. sutton doesn't that create a conflict of interest? >> i thank you for the question. respectfully, we disagree weapon. we partner closely with our third party sellers. we rely on them to -- for broad selection and provides to our customers. and we've been very proud of our investments to help them grow to be a majority of the store and growing twice as fast. >> that's a different question. what i'm saying is you are selling your own products upon a platform you control and they compete with products in the marketplace from other sellers. right? >> thank you. i thank you for the question. that practice i think has been common in the retail industry for decades. most retailers offer their own products in store as well as third party products. >> but the difference is amazon is a trillion dollar company that runs an online platform with realtime data on millions of purchases and billions in commerce and can manipulate algorithms on the platform and that's not the same as the local retail

ms. jayapal votes no. miss deming votes no. mr. corea votes no. .iss scanlan votes no miss garcia votes no. . mr. neguse votes no. no. mcbath votes mr. stanton votes no. ms. dean votes no. mcursel-powell votes no. miss escobar votes no. -- [indiscernible] >> motion to adjourn. mr. collins votes aye. mr. sensenbrenner. mr. chavis. mr. gomert. mr. jordan votes yes. mr. buck. mr. radcliffe. ms. robie. mr. gates. mr. johnson of louisiana votes yes. mr. biggs votes aye. mr. mcclintock votes aye. ms. lesko. mr. rpsenthaler. mr. armstrong votes yes. bie.steu mr. gates, you are not recorded. mr. gates votes aye. clerk: mr. chairman, there are .ight ayes and 20 nos >> point of parliamentary inquiry. chairman nadler: who has a point of parliamentary inquiry. the gentleman will state his point of for the mentor inquiry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the rule wetes to change last week where we mentioned staff conducting it has been expanded to include consultants today. we contemplated the distinction between independent contractors such as a co

jayapal votes aye. votes aye. mrs. gambon votes aye. ms. garcia both aye. aye.mcbath both mr. stanton votes aye. miss dean votes aye. ms. powell votes aye. miss escobar votes aye. mr. collins votes no. mr. sensenbrenner. no.chavis votes mr. gohmert votes no. mr. jordan votes no. mr. buck votes no. miss robie votes no. mr. gates votes no. mr. johnson of louisiana votes no. no.biggs votes mr. mcclintock votes no. miss lesko votes no. votes no.thal both mr. armstrong votes no. votes no.e both chairman nadler: the clerk will report. clerk: mr. chairman, there are 23 ayes and 23 nos. chairman nadler: the amendment is reported favorably to the house. [applause] the bill will be reported as a single amendment in the nature of the institute. without objection, the state authorized to make the changes wednesday on the seas. >> and networks, live coverage --king the 50th anniversary the 17th anniversary of the september 11 terrorist attacks. there will be remarks from president trump, defense secretary mark esper and general joseph dunford. at 10:00 eastern, the house returns for work o