mr. sherman: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in strong support of this bill. which is really a combination of three bills. first, as to north korea, it embodies a bill passed on this floor last month, introduced by chairman royce, ranking member engel, mr. yoho and myself, from the asia subcommittee. we will expand our sanctions on north korea's precious metals, minerals, jet fuel, coal, and across the board, and especially banking sanctions, but keep in mind, malt matly we have got to force -- ultimately we have got to force china to decide whether they're going to support north korea or whether they're going to have access to american markets. we can't let them have both. as to iran, this bill designates the entire iran revolutionary guard corps as the cudes force has already been designated -- quds force has already been designated, as subject to terrorism sanctions, provides an arms embargo. and let us remember that the real face of this regime in tehran is not their foreign minister, but rather it is the hundreds of thousands who have died in syria as a r

now recognizing the gentleman from california, mr. sherman, for five minutes read -- there it. >> people saying we should be nice to witnesses, you quoted, it is important to reflect that no comment about being nice to either democratic or republican witnesses ever came from me. [laughter] now i want to go through a witnessf things for the to respond to the record. you talked about the importance of small banks and credit unions being able to make business loans to companies in our districts. that is not a reason for us to take the giant banks off the hook for prudential regulation. it is very near collapse. it nearly collapsed the economy. it is the reason for you to deal with the occ which is under your jurisdiction and have them when they audit banks and those banks have a prime plus for or prime plus five loan to a company that have ay, that they reserve of an extra 1% or 2% rather than 30% or 50%. secretary, could do more than any of us to get small business loans made by local banks. the debt clock has been behind you. you comme

sherman, for five minutes. >> i want to get one thing clear for the record. mr. chairman you began by quoting people saying we should be nice to witnesses and i think it is important the record reflect that no comment about being nice to democratic or republican witnesses every came from me. you talk about small companies being able to make business loans. that is not a reason for us to take the giant banks off the hook for regulation. it is there near collapse that nearly collapsed the economy. it is the reason for you to deal with the occ which is under your jurisdiction and have them when they audit banks and those banks have a prime plus four or prime plus five loan to a company that is just a little shaky that they have a reserve of just an extra 1-2 percent rather than 30-50%. you, mr. secretary, could do more than any of us to get small business loans made by local banks. the debt clock has been behind you. you commented on that. i would hope any tax reform would not increase the debt and we just voted in the house not to cut the cbo because they are the u

they recognize the gentleman from california, mr. sherman. >> you begin by holding and saying we should be nice to witnesses. no comment about being nice to either democratic or witnesses ever came for me. >> i want to go through a number of things to respond to for the record. we talk about small banks and credit unions being able to make business loans, that's not a reason to take the giant banks off the hook. they are near collapse. when they have a prime plus four or prime loan it's a little shaky. you could do more than any of us to get small business loans made by local banks. the debt clock has been behind you, we've commented on that. i would hope any tax return that came out of your department would not increase that that. they are the umpire here as far as what increases and decreases deficit. the debt limit is just over the horizon and i hope you would use your voice to remind us it's not enough to deal with the debt limit and overtime. the harm is to our economy now because have to invest in the risk. you probably didn't

i am honored, mr. speaker, to will be this amendment filed later today and there are two other members of congress that i am proud to have associated with me and this amendment. they are the honorable brad sherman and the honorable seth moulton. we're filing this amendment not because we believe that a president can self-pardon but because if some president attempted to do it, this amendment would be there for us to act expeditiously and prevent it. mr. speaker, this is the solution that i hope we never have to use. i pray that this amendment never has to be pushed through. but i am so proud to have it there in the event it is needed. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. paulsen, for five minutes. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, the fourth line in the warrior ethos reads i will never leave a fallen comrade. every soldier who passes through the army basic training knows this model and truly it is the spirit of our entire military.

so with that, mr. speaker, i yield one minute to mr. sherman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. sherman: vote against the rule, vote against the bill, the bill does contain one provision that i want to applaud the committee for including that is section 8109 none of the funds may be used in contravention of the war powers act. i first proposed this language in 2011. it failed at first, but now it's been included in every defense appropriations bill since f.y. 2012. it's necessary to enforce the war powers act because every attorney general since the 1970's has advised presidents that the war powers act isn't binding on the president and the president can send unlimited number of troops anywhere in the world without a declaration of war. a republican attorney general testified before the foreign affairs committee yesterday that by including this language in the appropriations bill, congress enforces the war powers act and its proper role in international affairs. i thank the committee for including this lan

mr. sherman: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in strong support of this bill. which is really a combination of three bills. fir, as to north korea, it embodies a bill passed on this floor last month, introduced by chairman royce, ranking member engel, mr. yoho and myself, from the asia subcommittee. we will expand our sanctions on north korea's precious metals, minerals, jet fuel, coal, and across the board and especially banking sanctions, but keep in mind, malt matly we have got to force -- ultimately we have got to force china to decide whether they're going to support north korea or whether they're going to have access to american markets. we can't let them have both. as to iran, this bill designates thentire iran revolutionary guard corps as the cudes force has already been designated -- quds force has already been designated, as subject to terrorism sanctions, provides an arms embargo. and let us remember that the real face of thisegime in tehran is not their foreign minister, but rather it is the hundreds of thousands who have died in syria as a sult of

mr. sherman: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in strong support of this bill. which is really a combination of three bills. first, as to north korea, it embodies a bill passed on this floor last month, introduced by chairman royce, ranking member engel, mr. yoho and myself, from the asia subcommittee. we will expand our sanctions on north korea's precious metals, minerals, jet fuel, coal, and across the board, and especially banking sanctions, but keep in mind, malt matly we have got to force -- ultimately we have got to force china to decide whether they're going to support north korea or whether they're going to have access to american markets. we can't let them have both. as to iran, this bill designates the entire iran revolutionary guard corps as the cudes force has already been designated -- quds force has already been designated, as subject to terrorism sanctions, provides an arms embargo. and let us remember that the real face of this regime in tehran is not their foreign minister, but rather it is the hundreds of thousands who have died in syria as a r

. >> mr. simcox. >> thank you. chairman poe, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. the views i express in this testimony are my own and do not represent the official position of the heritage foundation. my goal this afternoon is to highlight the severe threat that islamic terrorism poses to europe. there are several aspects of the threat, which i'll discuss today. the first is the scale. as we all know, recently there's been much discussion by governments about the threat posed. this refers to at least five to 6,000 european whose have fought alongside isis and other groups in syria and iraq and are returning to their home countries. most devastatingly, members of the cell that committed attacks in paris in november 2015 killing 130 and wounding 368, had travel today syria from europe, fought and trained with isis and returned to europe to carry out an attack. this cell contained isis member whose had entered europe from syria after mak

i yield first to our wonderful colleague, congressman brad sherman from california. mr. sherman: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i will speak for two minutes. i rise today to honor the life of my good friend of 30 years. a leader in the indian-american community who passed away on july 3 of this year at age 70 in los angeles surrounded by his steppeded family. he was born in india and emgrated to the united states in 1978, arisk in america with just the clothes on his back, he poured his energy into building a career into being a tax consultant. he gue his santa monica-based accounting practice to a thriving firm. he served as president of the hindu temple, one of the largest in the united states and invited me to speak there and be there on many occasions. as president of the temple, he was regularly invited to speak to political, cultural and religious groups across the world. natador founded a foundation, a pioneering think tank that empowered american-indian political activism. he received the ellis island medal of honor. he personally met with many u.s. presi

. >> mr. sherman arise in support of the amendment. when the supreme court misguidedly allowed the administration to go ahead with the flawed travel plan the administration took in their view of who counted as close relatives. graham princeton cap, needed to grandchildren, brother and sister-in-law's, uncles, and's, nieces and cousins. district court stated they should be counted as close relatives. the amendment would do just that and i urge my colleagues to support the amendment. >> horizon support of the amendment. since united loving family should always be a goal, one of the greatest treasures we have in life and something that unites all of humanity is our desire to be with her close family. freedom to visit these relatives is one that america cherishes. i'm sure each of us has at some point worked on a constituent case related to the goal of allowing a close family member of a constituent to immigrate to the united states. the strongly support the amendment to ensure that grandparents, in-laws and others can visit their close re

mr. keating has indicated, after 9/11, that is the only time when article five was triggered. so i would hope that we speak with one voice in regards to our president not sending conflicting messages out about nato and the in you it was newsrbing when i saw the reporting how drastically confidence in the united states president has eroded around the europe and ast in fractious transatlantic alliance allows more space for terrorists to act both in europe and here at home. terrorism in europe is a multi-faceted threat. while in some countries it has proven to be more nuanced and others. most recently, we have witnessed a barrage of coordinated in the other lone wolf attacks. europe, in central governing politicians point to welcoming refugee policies in other european countries as a leading contributor to terrorism in order to push their agenda of stronger border control. in fact, you have to go all the way to russia to find similar examples of terror in eastern europe. but in turkey, anoth