the governor of georgia and georgia and georgia's secretary of state let us down. they let us down. and by the way, the voting law they passed is far weaker than that of texas and other states. you hear that, mr. attorney general? they don't even have signature verification. could you imagine passing a voting law, but everyone things, they are passing this, no it's not. you notice they are the only state being sued by the federal government. do you know why? because it's an easy target. because the governor and the secretary of state won't defend like that guy will defend. so, i only speak the truth. so true. and the reason the attorney general of the united states is going after georgia is its so bad what they've done, and they will probably win, and that defense won't take place. they go out and they really work very hard on finding the right state to look at. now, stacey abrams and georgia got them to sign what's called a mandated consent decree, which was not approved by the legislator, therefore it's illegal, and makes a very easy for democrats to cheat and win elections. you d

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from georgia is recognized. mrs. greene: i ask for the recorded votes. the speaker pro tempore: yeas and yeas are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 further proceedings are postponed. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from district of columbia seek recognition? ms. norton: i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to the bill h.r. 2617. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will -- does the gentlewoman wish to call up the bill as amended. ms. norton: yes. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2617, a bill to amend section 15 of tiet 381 of united states code to amend how performance goals are achieved. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from district of columbia, ms. norton, and the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr0 minutes. ms. norton: i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to the bill h.r. 2617. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. norton: as amended. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative d

georgia is the number one forestry state in the nation and i'm proud of it but we have to address this and climate change but we have to address it with a policy that includes stable, reliable, affordable energy. i yield back. >> next up, representative kasten you are recognized for five minute. -- five minutes. >> if you can heat your home or drive your car without using fossil fuel, do it. but we need to invest capital to save money. it's a problem if you are in the business of extracting fossil fuel. we have to make sure those people are protected. ms. flowers, you mentioned energy efficiency. some people [indiscernible] a lot of utilities and states have tried to provide resources to pie the up -- to provide the upfront capital and it is not worked as hard as it should have to make sure we have access to more efficient homes. any suggestions on what we should do federally to accelerate the access to capital for people who might in the -- you might not be able to afford the initial investment? >> it's not my area of expertise but as a consumer who has talked with people who have had

the caller from georgia, the teacher from south carolina. there is no curriculum at any level of public schools that talks about teaching anything like critical race theory. it is a law school course, people. and most of the people calling in are not going to understand that there there is no curriculum. it is for law schools and it helps people look at the world and look at laws that have evolved in this country that came out of racism. so that scares me that you can give people information and they still do not get it. host: let's go to david, who is calling from denison, texas. good morning. caller: let's straighten out a couple of things. someone talked about british slavery in the 1700s. they abolished it in 1733, and that's misleading. they did not abolish it in america, where they had british people pay for it through bonds that were paid over hundreds of years. that made slaveholders extremely rich over the years. anyway -- the three fourths of a human being thing in the constitution was something pushed by the north to reduce the po

district of columbia have some form of shield law on the books including the state i represent which is georgia and i'm going to direct these questions to either miss burton or miss over lander. feel free to jump in. do these state laws. in their approach to providing protection from compelled disclosure and also into theextent that they do very , as this day by day approach adequately protected our journalists that have been engaged in first amendment activities? >> they do very asked the we previously mentioned. some states have a qualified privilege for everything you have to go through some sort of balancing test before you can get it. some states have an absolute privilege. most don't have an absolute privilege but they might protect that absolutely. there are variations but they do all provide some level, most of them provide some level of protection. the federal circuit have different standards and again you can completely depend on what circuit you're in. as to what its standard you have to put soap on them, the fact that there are varying standards creates great uncertainty on the part

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from georgia rise? >> as the member designated by mr. jones of new york, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. jones will vote yes on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. deutch of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. deutch will vote yea on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> as the member designated by mr. cuellar of texas, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. mr. way -- that mr. way yak of texas -- cuellar will vote on the motion to table.

the minute the democrats won their victory in georgia, what did they do? they canceled the schedule. now we found six months later all they have done is develop a crisis. the republican conference will have the answers and solutions and lay them out to the american public. as we move into this weekend, just six months of the biden administration, highest gas prices in seven years as many want to hit the road. inflation grew at the fastest rate since 2008. crime, last weekend, more than 70 shootings in chicago. just watch the weeks before man and woman pulled from their car in broad daylight and shot and killed on the streets of chicago. just a few weeks ago, we watched a young children on a sidewalk in new york being run down. we watch crime continue to spike as the democrats made that movement just a year ago about defunding the police. the democrats defunding the police isn't enough. we watched in appropriations just yesterday. the defunding of the border as well. from c.b.p. and i.c.e. and reducing what the biden administration wants. we watched the per

the gentleman from georgia, mr. loudermilk, is recognized for five minutes. mr. loudermilk: thank you, madam chair. madam secretary, good to see you again. congratulations on your role. as you know primary funding source for many housing authorities is this monthly draw dunn dn from h.u.d. -- drawdown from h.u.d. however guidance from the office of chief financial officer states h.u.d. auditors do not recognize interim directors, only permanent officials can obtain drawdowns. what that means is when housing authority has an interim director, transition period, it may not be able to access h.u.d. funds. interim directors were able to do this, to do drawdowns in the past. i'm not sure why the policy changed, but this is becoming a problem. and it is a problem with small cities, especially with small staffs. it recently happened in my district. the city of canton had an interim director and they were unable to draw down the money that they needed. they were able to come a one-time resolution with h.u.d., but there are thousands of state and local housing authorities

will there be any kind of real repercussion situations like in georgia or around the country? >> absolutely. that is a priority of the president and the secretary of state. they will have more of a policy announcement, i don't have one to preview for you. go ahead. reporter: [indiscernible] does the president believe that his strategy to counter the iran leadership in syria is working? with the second attack we had seen in the last week? >> he approved the strikes, one, with full legal authority, full u.s. legal authority and international authority. because in a way, that was proportionate and responded to the threats against our u.s. men and women serving and entities serving in his country -- in this country. we do not expect everything to arrive at a complete halt at the time, but he felt it was the >> on cyber, the president and president putin had a meeting about ransomware. >> i said the meetings are ongoing and there is another went next week. >> has there been one, a meeting between the 2 -- sec. psaki: i do not have an agenda for you. i'd have anything more than cybe

here in georgia, we have the first state that have legal hemp growing in south georgia. we are doing things commercially. the commercial aspect holds up when you have illegal marijuana because hemp does not have high thc content, it is less than 5%, but it gives you more from the plant. you can make clothes, oils, you can do industrial stuff for that, so it is a great way to get our economy -- i do support it. i feel sorry for the people who have to use dispensaries. they have to pay the government taxes, which they showed, but our government does not set it up to where they can take their money and bank it. they are just stacking their money up and cannot get any interest off it. r.j. reynolds in virginia just put $2 million into research and development in trying to get marijuana into tobacco. budweiser just dropped money into research and development to try to use cannabis in beer. corporations are doing it. i just think by me living in the bible belt in an evangelical state, we will not see it -- i hope we would. host: let's go to jessica, who is calling from arlingt

i'm happy to see hard working families across georgia and across the country see the benefit of this to help with the rising costs of raising our children. in my home state of georgia, little more than 1.2 million famiies will have relief for 2.5 million children across the state. and chairman powell, you stated that the widespread vaccinations along with unprecedented fiscal policy actions are providing strong support to the economic recovery and with the families beginning to receive their child tax credits today, how does the direct financial support to families help to sustain the ongoing economic recovery? >> of course, we try not to comment on the fiscal policy measures, and especially the one that you have mentioned, and generally from the policy, it did step in strongly and support people in their time of need, and the record will show that. >> thank you. i have a quick question about a housing bill that i am currently work on which i hope is a bipartisan bill, and one of the other challenges that i am working on is the widening racial wealth gap in our country, and a wealth

we actually had two programs, one based on quick county georgia and another in the city ofcolumbus georgia . what we do is we develop mentors and then we work with mentors. we have a platform on the website that people can go to and we work directly with employers and attempt to, it was actually a fantastic program to look at. it would be a great one sometime in the future to get individually or as a group that we could show you the platform but basically to help them find jobs. it has an array of things like it will tell them such things as what kind of skills they need, etc. to do it but basically that's what it is. we've only been doing it for about two years but we haven't had a whole lot of data yet on the success but we really encouraged about where we've gone so far. >> thank you. as this subcommittee moves forward in examining the snap program one of the areas we should review and address is providing opportunities for individuals to pursue independent meaningful employment and trainings. mister randolph in relation to your work you further expand on what this policy would look lik

in georgia, it was recounted three times. it's clear, for those who challenge the results and question the integrity of the election. no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny, such high standards. the big lie is just that, a big lie. [applause] the 2020 election -- it's not hyperbole -- is the most examined and the fullest expression of the will of the people in the history of this nation. this should be celebrated. an example of america at its best. but instead, we continue to see the example of human nature at its worst, something darker, more sinister. in america, if you lose, you accept the results, you follow the constitution, you try again. you don't call facts fake and then try to bring down the american experiment just because you are unhappy. that's not statemanship. [applause] that's not statemanship. that's selfishness. that's not democracy. it's denial of the right to vote. it's a process and subjugates the denial of full and free and fair election -- and fair elections, the most unamerican thing t

representative of maryland, utah, and georgia testified about the recommendations for ensuring free and fair elections. >> election officials have faced threats and harassment after they were unfairly blamed for election results in the 2020 election that certain politicians and voters did not li

it's in basically states like louisiana and south carolina and georgia and florida, the southern states. and if that were to happen, we would see children losing another year of school. i need not tell you what happens to an eighth and ninth grader if they are out of school for two years. we cannot have continued education for our young people, to deliver by them without broadband. broadband to me is to the south today what electricity was in the 20th century. >> thank you so much, congressman, especially those important topics on education and health. i want to turn it over to commissioner stark. millions of americans don't have access to broadband either because it is not available or can't afford it. this is the case for black residents in the rural south. the emergency broadband benefit was developed to help families struggling to afford internet service during the covid-19 endemic, but it is only temporary. can you share your perspectives what lawmakers must address to expand internet to low-income americans? >> thank you, first of all for allowing me to be here today and we're all

don't go to georgia. come to washington and not on any day but the day we are counting the electoral college votes, not at any time but one hour before then. he pointed to them the loaded pistol at the capitol and said you got to go and fight like hell or you are not going to have a country anymore. show strength. and now we are getting this outrageous orwellian revisionist history where donald trump is out there saying his most loyal followers came in literally, he said, hugging and kissing the capitol officers. now, come on. this is why we need a real commission to study the events of that horrific day and attack on america. study the causes of it and get to the bottom of it but my colleagues should stop with all of the evasions, the diversions, and the distractions. let's figure out what happened to us on that day. i yield back to you. chair maloney: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from north carolina, dr. foxx, is recognized for five minutes. ms. foxx: thank you, madam chairman. i thank our

out of georgia, moore says expanding voter access. caller: good morning, c-span. i am a 73-year-old african-american, and the voter id and voter restriction, i did two tours in vietnam, and i cannot vote until 1974, so voting restrictions have been around forever, and it is time for it to stop. america, we have the right to vote. america, we do not have to show you all of our ids, it is our constitutional right. it is our constitutional right, and it is our constitutional right to vote. have a good day. host: bob out of new york, good morning. caller: good morning. obviously, protecting the integrity of voting is supremely important. if you expand the access but don't protect the integrity, you are defeating the purpose. they are jumping up and down, this is the biggest turnout ever, they turned election date into election week, the turnout every year is dismal for a reason, no matter who gets voted in, they don't spend our money financially prudently. they don't do that job, and both parties are responsible for the way things are today. just getting people more c

georgia became the first to use smart cameras. combined with near historical low levels of public trust, the unfettered deployment of these strategies will strain the health of the body politic with our immediate and genuine safeguard stop technology has -- safeguard. technology has long outpaced her -- our efforts to govern it. congress needs a potential data framework with potential -- appropriate standards of oversight. he needs to show how data is stored and shared by federal, state and local entities . there should be clear policies and data retention and categorize biometric data, limit and operability to stymie mass surveillance. congress should impair that u.s. -- ensure that u.s. identity management systems are secure and reliable based on proper measures and standards. programmers should build in data privacy predictions in the design days, testing new methods of encryption or differential privacy. the debate over public safety and private trade-offs in our republic provide an opportunity this provides an opportunity for

farmers from indiana, new york, georgia and the u.s. virgin islands testified.

they brought a 90 page bill into the georgia senate. the vote was of the next morning, no one had time to read it. they did go over it some. the one aspect of this legislation is the allowance for the state legislatures to take over local voting boards. if they are thinking there is a problem, all they have to do is say there is fraud going on. they can take over those local boards and nullify the vote. i am surprised this does not get brought up more often. thank you, c-span. host: harry in georgia, there -- there. this is from michigan, republican line. caller: i wanted to comment when george terwilliger was on. my concern was the ability for nonpartisan inspections during the vote counting process. it seems there should be some standardized way so that at that point there would be no political denial of people to inspect the voting process. host: what do you think is the best body? if you want to make it nonpartisan, what is the best body to do that? caller: i think it should be prescribed ahead of time who the voter process witnesse

this is more funding for georgia. more funding for our families, to protect our children and to lift up our community. thank you. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from oklahoma seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the former flying agie and a sorty wally funk who was the oldest woman to travel to space. funk has led an amazing life from breaking down barriers to careers in aviation and now space travel. in my state of oklahoma oak, funk was the first female civilian flight instructor, first female afor investigator. her persistence is one of the many wusm qualities. when nasa began accepting women, she applied three times. and funk's courage, perseverance and leadership has impacted the science industry, especially for women. mr. speaker, i am truly to h

did that for amy coney barrett, we ought to do it for the lack and brown people that live in texas, georgia, florida, all the states that are trying to make it harder for our constituents to exercise their right to vote. we need to get this done today. time is of the essence, we cannot wait. states are going to start to ramp up these efforts. again, texas -- governor abbott has called the legislator back in session to work on these things. you will see the most racist redistricting that you have seen since the voting rights act outlawed things like at large districts. and we need something to help protect the brave men and women that you see standing behind me today that are risking so much for voting rights in this country. and before i turned it over to the congressman, i just want greg abbott and the republican leaders in texas, florida, georgia and anywhere else to know that we are not going to stop. we are always going to push back against these sort of bigoted, racist jim crow 2.0 style voting laws whenever you decide to bring them up. >> thank you all of you who have spoken. most of

georgia lawmakers added it to the state laws just this year. the utah conversation is like cities saying, hey, do we want one election or two? that is faster, cheaper, better. these are very conservative cities. the virginia republican party used ranked choice voting because they have a crowded field and they wanted to get a stronger nominee. this parliamentary guide to associations recommends ranked choice voting as alternatives if you cannot vote in person repeatedly. that is the first choice but if you cannot do that, use ranked choice voting and many associations use it to get representative winners. this is not an ideological issue. it is one that is about a practical way to make more votes count. host: virginia is calling from georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. this is my first time calling in an thank you c-span for what you do to give everyone a voice to speak their opinions on subjects and titles. i am more interested in the fair voting side of where possibly the voting can be a holiday where everyone can come and vote on tha

they bring the fighting over voting rights to georgia today. senator amy klobuchar, former presidential candidate and minnesota democrat, has muscled a panel into the spotlight. the committee will hold a field hearing in atlanta this morning as democrats turned their attention to voting restrictions in georgia and other gop led states to start the push for an elections overhaul. betty in blacksburg, south carolina, good morning. caller: i don't like nothing that he's doing. i think he's just the worst president we have ever had and i am 76 years old. everything he is changing. like, fox news, those people are truthful. they don't lie. i can look at them and tell that they don't lie. but anyhow, everything he is doing, you look at everything he is doing, everything he done when he come in office, everything that from -- everything that trump done. the country looked better then than it does now. i've never seen the likes of it in my life. host: caller? caller: everything the republicans wanted to get, they got. the democrats need to put a stipul

we will see what the impact is with the georgia case that the biden administration filed, where they make more progress of about discriminatory intent and the number of -- maybe greater than we have seen in arizona. they, the heels of an election that lawmakers who passed the bill were disappointed in. that may be the follow a case that tells us how far the arizona decision is going to go. that is the case. i just want to add -- >> it was interesting for me to look at the brnovich case involving donor disclosures, not only because you had the same split among the justices, but also because of the different way the court looked at state interests versus minority interests. you saw the donor disclosure case, the board took a broad reading -- the court broad reading and said, you have never based any investigation at all on these schedule b's that have been filed, you've got other ways we can investigate conflicts of interest or fraud in charities, and the burden of these donors -- a subset of donors -- people who contributed $5,000 or more to charity and that may can -- that may includ

here is kathy in georgia. those of us who follow mitigation protocols have to call -- continue wearing masks because of the unvaccinated and unmasked. isaac in connecticut. caller: i will not do the mask. i will not do the vaccine. i'm not participating in the pandemic. i feel it is all bs. any concept of a vaccine passport is unconstitutional. it is a vaccine contrition. it is self-incrimination. the absence of a vaccine would prove it would be unconstitutional under the fifth amendment. host: do you plan to travel on an airplane, bus, or railway? caller: those are private entities. i do understand that private businesses can -- they have limited ability to require certain behavior. all you have to do is try and apply other things. it would just sound ridiculous. host: usa today's editorial board said it is time for sticks. the authority over the federal aviation administration would require airlines to mandate their passengers show proof of a vaccination and under interstate commerce laws with railways. call

host: let's go to amy in georgia. go ahead. caller: good morning. first i would like to thank dr. schaffner for speaking so thoughtfully and clearly about this virus. i am unvaccinated. not on purpose. i had a reaction to my first pfizer shot, so i was unable to get the second shot. i would like to know -- i wear my mask and social distance -- i would like to know what you -- when you think it would be available for someone in my situation in the future, will we be able to mix vaccines or will they find out something different for someone like me? i would love to hear what you have to say about this. dr. schaffner: that's a very important question. the first thing i would say is, consult with your physician or maybe -- dr. schaffner: it is for all the rest of us to be vaccinated. we can surround you with a cocoon of protection that will make it very hard for the virus to find you. we all have a responsibility to ourselves, but i am very clear, we also have a responsibility to our brothers and sisters among us who cannot respond optimally to the vaccine. that responsibility means w

priorities encountering influence in the middle east and turkey is a staunch supporter of ukraine and georgia's territory integrity and vocally supports their assumptions to nato. in libya, turkey torrance the resident others supporting blood human facilitated political process including prospect of elections december 24 this year and we are not discussing how to reduce the present these mercenaries before the election. in syria, you've mentioned turkey's presence in the northwest, protects 4 million syrians from them discriminate targeting this, new attacks that would be both humanitarian catastrophe and likely launch a new wave of refugees into turkey and europe. we are grateful for turkey's ongoing efforts to support for feeling refugees inside making turkey the largest refugee hosting country in the world. most recently, turkey has expressed interest in maintaining a robust force at the airport as the u.s. and nato military nations in afghanistan come to an end. this contribution, as you all know is vital to ensuring we and our allies and partners can maintain a strong thematic presence aft

the gentleman from georgia is recognized. >> i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. butterfield: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. carson of indiana, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. carson will vote yes, he will -- excuse me, he will vote no on the motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress member napolitano, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will vote no o

. >> the gentle man from georgia is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you madam chair. madam secretary, it's great to see you again. congratulations on your role. primary funding source for many housing authorities is a monthly drawdown from hud. however guidance from the office of the financial states and hud auditors do not recognize and only permanent officials can obtain the drawdowns. what that means is when a housing authority has an interim director a transition period it may not be able to access. they were able to do this, to do drawdowns in the past. i'm not sure why the policy change but this is becoming a problem and it is a problem with small cities. it recently happened in my district that has an interim director and they were unable to draw down the money that they needed and they were able to come to a one time resolution with hud, but there are thousands of state and local housing authorities in the country that frequently have the directors leave their position in the interim directors appointed. understand the intent of the policies prevent fraud but

states recently like georgia, florida, arkansas, it would impose significant restrictions on voting. there is strong evidence it would have a racially discriminatory impact. the supreme court's decision is to make it much harder to be able to bring successful challenges. in our country, there are different narratives about voting. the republican narrative is that voting fraud is a significant problem in the government has to deal with it. you certainly find that in justice alito's majority opinion. the democratic narrative is that voter suppression is a major problem in that fraud is nonexistent or rare. six justices were appointed by republican presidents and accepted the republican narrative. the justices appointed by democratic presidents took the democratic narrative. >> and melissa, you have the unenviable task of adding new >> i will note that what burn of etched doesn't make clear is how the roberts court has been assertive in shaping the landscape for the law. in addition to the decision into rightly one, we have marion county from 2008 which made it harder to bring challenge

we will go to lynn in atlanta, georgia. sorry about that. (202) 748-8000 is the line to call. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8002 for independents and others. i just hung up on a bunch of you and i apologize. republicans warn of battle over debt ceiling. top senate republicans as the gop made line up against any effort to raise the government's borrowing limit this year adding to the uncertainty surrounding how congress will address the issue after the limit is reinstated next month. democratic plans to advance president biden's for trillion dollar agenda could cause republicans to oppose the debt limit increase. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell made these comments earlier. they write that congress suspended the debt limit for two years and 2019 as part of a broader agreement on overall spending levels brokered by then treasury secretary steven mnuchin and house speaker nancy pelosi. that suspension is set to expire july 31. the limit will be reinstated at roughly $28.5 trillio

in the criminal medical procedures performed on women without their consent at a detention center in georgia. i was relieved to hear earlier this year that that detention center would be closing. we heard similar complaint about the health and safety of detainees and other facilities managed by other companies. what would you consider with regard to contracting and the health and safety practices for our detainees? >> thank you. the health and safety of our facilities is paramount not only for those who are under our care, but also for our workforce. i understand the critical nature of it. i operate one of the largest jail systems. it comes with many challenges. i am attuned to those challenges and working with a team to work through those challenges. i also understand the complexity of working with a detailed oversight body when it comes to the review and inspections of our jail facilities. i understand that under ice, they operate directly five facilities, but there are other facilities where there are contracts in place. in total, ice operates four different sets of standards, so it is ve

johnson from georgia for five minutes. rep. johnson: thank you to the chairman for holding this meeting and thank you for the witnesses. $5.9 trillion is a significant sum of money. the sum total of relief and job retention measures in the cares act. congress acted decisively during a once in a century pandemic, but our work is far from done. we are obligated to ensure relief aid arrives to the folks who need it most, especially black americans, communities of color, and low income groups. already in poorer health due to being without health care coverage, communities of color were essential workers who disproportionally bore the brunt of sickness, hospitalization and death due to covid 19 and who were exposed throughout the pandemic while enabling us to work from home. they are the people who have too often been underserved and un-served the federal government. your office has found fema's management of disaster relief grants and funds to be inadequate. you reported last year that improving fema's management of these grants wo

host: let's go to conyers, georgia. caller: good morning. i appreciate you letting me get on. we continued to talk about uniting the country. you had a earlier that said black lives matter in antifa burned down the country last year. those are reasons why they shouldn't support the january 6 insurrection. clearly, that's a lie. there is not any pushback that black lives matter had anything to do with the sedition on january 6 or the nonsense that black lives matter is this left-wing crazy. there is not enough pushback on that. that's it. tell the truth. let's move forward. let's stop all this foolishness. host: palm beach florida, good morning. caller: i am calling regarding covid increases in numbers. no one has addressed illegal immigrants entering the country with no testing and no vaccination. there is one -- two sets of rules. i don't get it. somebody breaks our law and we expect them to follow our rules. apparently, that is not the case. host: that is barbara in florida. the wall street journal looks at activities in afghanistan after the announcement to pull troops out

this is a message from a viewer in georgia saying we started our own residential cleaning business in the atlanta metro area and are looking to hire. it's hard to find people who want to do the job. from north carolina, keith. you are next. good morning. caller: good morning. one of the things is the unemployment, this a lot of jobs that can be filled when those people meant more to stay at home than they do to go to work. the thing that's going to kill is now with the gas prices and all that going so high that once again, you will make more money to stay at home and drawl meant to go to work. host: what you think the second half of the years going to look like? caller: truthfully, i think the whole thing, as long as we keep making the decisions that our current leadership is making it's not good. you look at the, the state should open open -- should open up. they are recovering well. this ones that did not -- the ones that did not are not. i'm a teacher. up in face-to-face the whole thing. we shut down at beginning of the pandemic and went to virtual, but when the new school year sta

georgia. our complaint ledges that recently changes to georgia's election laws were enacted with a purpose of denying or abridging the right of black georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of section 2 of the voting rights act. several studies show that georgia experienced record voter turnout and participation rates in the 2020 election cycle. approximately 2/3 of eligible voters in the state cast a ballot in the november election, just over the national average. this is cause for celebration. but then in march of 2021, georgia's legislature passed s.v. 202. many of that law's provisions make it harder for people to vote. the complaint aledges that the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color. in a few moments, assistant attorney general clarke will talk in more detail about this case. the united states vs. georgia. i want to thank the staff of the civil rights division's voting section fo

it is noxious georgia where this is happening. legislation has been introduced this year in nearly every state to limit access to the ballot box. we do not have time to wait and see what might happen. in georgia come we conducted an election with an undemocratic sb 202 as the law of the land, the next election will be here before we know it. the time to act is now. to anyone who wonders what they would have done during the civil rights movement, now is your time to find out. you're either on the side of democracy or you are not. i look forward to continuing to work with members of this committee and all of those ready to protect our democracy. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentlelady yields back. >> i asked permission to assert a point of order. >> what is the gentleman's point of order? >> man nasty question for -- did congressman owens state for the balance of ms. williams testimony. >> is camera is on -- not on, he may have left. >> i would ask that the gentlemen suspend as a courtesy to the chair so we can discus

tech. -- to certify elections in georgia. in texas, volunteers can be harassed by so-called poll watchers. there is a smorgasbord of provisions in these bills with the intent of making it difficult for certain parts of the electorate to vote. some people don't want some people to vote. that's what this is about. we have been averting in georgia long before this. >> let me tell you this, texas has one of the highest voter turnout in the last election. and our republican appointed to carry estate said that those elections were safe, secure, and successful. so any type of effort -- let me tell you suppression is not always overt. it can be subtle, subtle in the form of empowering partisan poll watchers who get a warning for they can be removed. but the poll workers face immediate criminal sanctions. so we don't even have to say it. we can just tell you the provisions of the bills and you can know for yourself that they are not interested in fairness. they don't want the elections to be free. they want you to cut through a bunch

warnock will tell you, in georgia. that this is going on all over the country, to the point that we now have since the beginning of the year, the two laws to restrict voting that have been enacted in 14 states, with the texas senate passage of sb one yesterday, a total of 32 bills to roll back the right to vote have passed at least one chamber of the legislature. so when people ask us why we have put forward the for the people act, which is the first bill to be introduced in the senate, authored by senator markley and supported by the senate rules committee, why we lead with this bill. it's because we could see this coming. most political parties in the past, when they lose an election, what do they do? they think how can i change my policies, how can i change my candidate? what did they do? they said how can we stop people from voting who voted before. we all know the history of texas, which you are about to hear, but this was a state -- one of my best examples as they had one valid dropbox in tarrant county of -- a c

the doj is picking on georgia. they are not looking at what they do in new york or new jersey or delaware. we have more opportunities, more days of early voting than any of those states. >> there's a reality of this. before georgia passed anything, they bought the domain name jim crow 2.0. they were basing a lot of the stuff on what was originally introduced, which was unnecessary. the reality is that they would raise money off of this whatever was passed. they were going to say it's terrible and oppressive. they filed the motion to dismiss yesterday. the filing of the law, they filed the lawsuit three days after the act failed. this is about fundraising and politics. every side keeps escalating this and politicizing it. somebody has been saying, we have to stop weaponizing this. >> both sides are doing it. is it doing serious damage to americans confidence in their electoral system? >> it has damaged confidence. it goes back to bush v gore. it got ramped up in 2016 when president trump won. they said it was russia

then in march of 2021, georgia's legislature passed a law. many of that law's provisions make it harder for people to vote. the complaint alleges the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color. host: mr. george terwilliger, what do you think about the case dd -- the drg has to make? -- ddo g has to make? -- v doj -- the doj has to make? guest: that will be played out in court. the central premise of the department's case and what the attorney general stated is that the georgia legislature acted with a discriminatory intent. i think that is going to be very difficult to prove under the relevant jurisprudence. i think others have questioned, legitimately, and i think this will be an issue if what the georgia legislature did actually made it harder to vote. georgia has a very liberal, open voting process in terms of the number of days that voting by mail and other means is possible. and so forth. as the supreme court said in the arizona case, placing certain requirement

the big lies, the fake outrage, failed in georgia. the big lies and fake outrage failed here in the senate and they'll fail in texas. the big lies and fake outrage are totally failing to persuade the american people. americans want to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. americans know that having widespread and accessible voting along with voter i.d. isn't an attack on democracy. it's the definition of democracy. so, look, i understand the democrats may be growing nervous about the 2022 elections. i can see why. liberal policies are overspending, overborrowing, and hurting our economy. they're destabilizing the middle east, weakening our southern border, and increasing violent crime across our country. but, mr. president, the solution is not to keep lying to the american people about the health, the health of our democracy. the answer is not this desperate craving for an unprecedented partisan takeover so washington democrats can appoint themselves the board of elections for every country and state. the longer these fake hysterics

they are going to the state of georgia to make the point that this is a concerted effort from people to limit the right to vote but also a concerted effort in this place to protect the right to vote. i'll turn it over to the chief author of the for the people act and then we will hear from the rest of us, not all of us. >> president johnson declared that the right to vote is the most powerful instrument ever cleared or devised by man to break down injustice. and who would have imagined that here in the year 2021, we would be still in this fight to defend the right to vote. we thought that the voting rights act of 1965 had put this to rest. that all of america said that we understand the foundation, the pulsating heart of a democracy is the ability of people to vote in fair and free elections but today, republicans in texas are not standing, they are not standing for freedom and the right to vote. they are working to tear down that ability and here we are surrounded by texan freedom fighters, defenders of the constitution, believers in the foundation of our republic who are doing ever

regulations that left georgia with more flexible early voting and more flexible absentee voting then many in new york. they were insanely called jim crow two point now. what nonsense. -- jim crow 2.0, what nonsense. democrats are starting a moral panic that was complete and totally false. it was a shameless ever to manufacture an air of crisis that helped democrats ram their takeover goes through the congress. the senate rejected all of the bad ideas. the made up outrage had to be cranked up even higher. even higher. this week, state legislators from texas decided to grab some beer, hop on a private plane and flee the state in what they are pretending is some great moral crusade. in reality, they have just come to snap so please, bask in the limelight and tell senate democrats to take our elections. this outrage is completely phony. the texas legislature was going to consider bills that would expand the minimum hours of early voting. making them provide 12 hour days of early voting and making it even easier for voters to fix mistakes on mail-in ballots so their votes would actually c

we here in georgia have an outreach arm called team agriculture georgia that's specifically aimed to provide outreach to beginning and underserved producers in the state and convenes various arms of usda, from nrcs to rural development to f.f.a. to engage all of them collectively and provide direct outreach. i think some of the challenges with that are certainly funding. it's not just adding additional work to folks on the ground in a are already working really hard and really dedicating funding to, you know, ensure that outreach is effective. of course, this past year has been really difficult for the in-person engagement. those opportunities are really invaluable. mr. lawson: thank you. madam chair, before i yield back, i'll share the almanac with you because it might be before your time. [laughter] chair plaskett: i am not even going to respond to you. [laughter] thank you so much, mr. lawson. ms. cooper, may i ask, the program you talked about in georgia that assists underserved areas, is that an organization that was created by the state or by farmers themselves? and how is that

you saw what happened in georgia the other day, they found 35,000 votes, then they deleted, in georgia, over 100,000 votes they said because they were bad