biden: jerry, thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. mr. mayor, thank you for the passport into town. every time i come to the greater chicago area, -- i have done it a couple times. at any rate, every company means people like you. every single one. someone who knows what my dad taught me and a lot of people know me well including the government assistant i worked closely with for eight years. my dad used to have an expression. everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and a job is a helluva lot more than eight paycheck. it's about your put -- a paycheck. it's about your dignity. everything will be ok. that is the god's truth. ever since he lost, things went south in scranton, pennsylvania when i was a kid. my dad was a coal miner. i had a great grandfather who was a coal miner engineer. he was a salesperson. moved down to wilmington, delaware. steel town. right on the border of pennsylvania. it was always about the dignity of work and what you would do in here about this pandemic is protecting the dignity of your fellow americans. y

and jerry issueds the order, -- issued the order, disbanding the army. i didn't know it was going to happen. i know senior members of the joint chiefs of staff didn't know it. cia didn't know it. the suddenly the army is totally disbanded, and you have these hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of arms who are set free. and within a few weeks, they're lining up wanting their pensions, and we had to pay some of them in order to keep some peace. and then we started to rebuild an iraqi army, and it's taken some time. so i think it was a bad decision. if jerry bremer was here, he would tell you it was the right decision. but i think it was the wrong decision. and most importantly, it was not what we told the president we were going to do. host: given that the u.s. is now out of iraq, at least in terms of being a combat force, what ultimately is the -- what's the legacy within the military, and within policymaking community, as you understand it, what are we going to be like because of the iraq experience? gen. powell: let me s

as the member designated by by chairman jerry nadler. pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that chairman nadler will vote yes. as the member designated by congresswoman meng, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. meng will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: as the member designated by mr. luetkemeyer, i inform the house that mr. luetkemeyer will vote no. as the member designated by mr. graves of missouri, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. graves will vote nay on adoption of the rule, house resolution 716. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. kahele of hawaii, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. kahele will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. price of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes on house resolution 716. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek reco

our next witness is jerry hancock. he is a stormwater and floodplains coordinator for the city of ann arbor. he is appearing before the committee today on behalf of the state floodplain manager association. he has an established record of specialized experience over 30 years in environmental planning. his previous roles have included serving as the oakland county drain commissioner, land development coordinator, and natural resources and environmental planning coordinator. mr. hancock, welcome to the committee. marks. mr. hancock: good morning. thank you. thank you, chairman peters and ranking member portman, and members of the committee. jerry hancock, stormwater coordinator for the city of ann arbor, michigan. i hold the executive director of the michigan stormwater association. i'm honored to be testifying today on behalf of msf eight, and also the association floodplain managers. my written statement identifies over a dozen specific items that you can offer for your consideration. floods are worsening nationwide, i

but that's what jerry is supposed to do isn't it. mr. feigin: unlike the other evidence you cited, there was going to be no cross-examination here. the only people who might've known what happened were -- and possibly tamerlan and both of them were dead. this investigation it hit the end of the road. there was no way to figure out what happened in the district court recently determined that. we are here and abuse of discretion review and moreover i think this is subject to harmless error analysis and if you look at the details the jury heard and i'm happy to list them all. >> along the same lines, you say on page 39 of the brief but under the federal death penalty act the countervailing interests that would justify excluding evidence, you can do that if they outweigh the information's probative value. on the other hand if the countervailing interest substantially outweigh, do you really think that's a difference in practice? i thought we would air the other way on the federal death penalty act we want the countervailing evidence that wou

jerry parscale -- >> [applause] >> thank you very much. good evening. i want to thank john for those kind words and on behalf of my fellow trustees, thank all of you for being here. it's an honor to welcome you to the latest installment of the reagan foundation speaker series, a time for choosing. as most of us regulates no, it is a phrase made famous by president reagan's pivotal 1964 speech. as has been said at the start of each of these events, that speech referred to often as the speech set in motion a chain of events that would launch a political career, defined the conservative movement and reshape a party. today, the party once led by ronald reagan is facing its own time for choosing. what are its core philosophies? what should the party's and for? what domestic policy and foreign policy positions are absolutely essential? in may, june, july and september, guests at the reagan library heard from speaker paul ryan, vice president mike pence, secretary mike pompeo, and governor chris christie. they offer their own views and perspectives in answer t

and jerry done libby previous the senate judiciary committee with merrick garland. watch washington journal live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on wednesday morning on c-span or on c-span now. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> wednesday morning, merrick garland testified that an oversight hearing -- live coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three. download c-span's new mobile app and stay up-to-date with the day's biggest political events. we will hear your voices every day. c-span now has you covered. download the app for free today. >> how will redistricting affect upcoming u.s. house says on montana and pennsylvania. we will discuss this with political journalists. this is just over 20 minutes. >> well currently, there are about 334 million people living in the united

host: jerry in florida, line for republicans. caller: i don't know what i'm talking about but you mentioned earlier about the fdr programs. all those programs ended but this bill joe biden is promoting has programs in it that is going over the next 10 years so will they and after that? some of the programs are with us forever and they are not working or they get or money. is there accounted to latif for all of this? guest: a lot of the do deal programs ended in a number of them continue on so there is an big legacy. one of the worries about the current thing is that is $3.5 trillion but it starts scaling down around 2026. once you have a federal program in place and you fund things like prekindergarten schooling and things like that, you are setting up a group of people who want to continue doing that so it's hard to get rid of it. some of the money they say they will transfer the cost of the program to the state. then you have to worry about what's going on with state budgets as well so it's a complicated system stop i agree tha

jerry dunleavy? guest: the incident he is referring to that loudoun county a judge, i believe yesterday in juvenile court, did conclude that a teenage girl had been sexually assaulted by a teenage boy who had been wearing a skirt and the girl's restroom. that is what a judge concluded yesterday. that incident, the father showing up at the school board meeting and protesting, that incident was one of a number of incidents cited in the national school board association's letter calling on the justice department to take action. that letter has apologized for. host: melissa, bloomfield, iowa, independent. caller: thank you. speaking of the national school board association, i would like to hear what you have to say about biden offering the person in charge of the national school board association that sent that letter to the government a job in the government and i would like to let biden and everybody in the government know we american people run this country, he doesn't. thank you. host: go ahead. gues

guest: so, a couple points, jerry. in terms of the overall budget, the numbers we are talking about our 10 year numbers. what the president has made clear his along with spending increases or tax cuts for the middle and working classes, there are no tax cuts for the rich in this bill, we will offset those with increases in other places, including increases on the wealthy. people who make more than $400,000 a year. if you make more than $400,000 a year, it's possible your taxes will go up. if you make a lot of money and capital gains, which is you are invested in the stock market, you might see prices rise. taxes may go up on corporations, which saw taxes slashed by president trump. and in our view, some of those need to be rebalanced. if those move, as written, it will not add to the long-term debt of the u.s. on immigration, the numbers jerry said were wrong, we are not seeing 2 million people, in. t -- come in. there probably will not be an immigration portion of this bill. we do not have enough votes for immigration

and jerry issueds the order, -- issued the order, disbanding the army. i didn't know it was going to happen. i know senior members of the joint chiefs of staff didn't know it. cia didn't know it. the suddenly the army is totally disbanded, and you have these hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of arms who are set free. and within a few weeks, they're lining up wanting their pensions, and we had to pay some of them in order to keep some peace. and then we started to rebuild an iraqi army, and it's taken some time. so i think it was a bad decision. if jerry bremer was here, he would tell you it was the right decision. but i think it was the wrong decision. and most importantly, it was not what we told the president we were going to do. host: given that the u.s. is now out of iraq, at least in terms of being a combat force, what ultimately is the -- what's the legacy within the military, and within policymaking community, as you understand it, what are we going to be like because of the iraq experience? gen. powell: let me s

in part two jerry brown. even back in the 80's, he began the process of revolutionizing the judicial intel in california and by then i mean appointing women, people of color, folks who were gay. he really changed things. governors that came after him were more conservative and reverse it all. today, however we have a situation across the country where it is not unusual at all to see women and judges of color on the bench. can we do better? i think we can do a lot better. it is just not unusual. when i started, it was highly unusual. if you turn on your tv and you see these judge shows, it is not unusual to see women and judges of color everywhere. it is really becoming more commonplace for people of color, women to be on the bench. i believe we can do better. susan: what has increased diversity done to the system? ladoris: the whole premise is you believe you have a stake in the system if you see people who look like you. who navy have your background. i think that is sure of anything. any system at all. it i

host: jerry in new jersey. caller: my question, i have a question and then i have a statement. the question is how equipped are we to help taiwan, in other words, what would be our -- how could the ability to help them if china tries to take them over, how far would we go? but the comment that i have before i hang up is twofold. c-span i noticed put this man on to try to cover up for biden's statements trying to help him out because i see that biden has to kind of help him out in every situation because he misses steps. but the main comment i have is that now that china has equipment that we left in afghanistan, how prepared are they going to be to just overtake that we wouldn't have the ability to protect ourselves? i think china has something on biden that biden's working with china and it scares me to death. i think more has to be investigated with the that. there's something going on with china and biden. host: all right. jaken stokes. guest: in terms of what the united states would do in the context of contingency or conflict over taiwan, u.s. policy has for many decades b

guest: so, a couple points, jerry. in terms of the overall budget, the numbers we are talking about our 10 year numbers. what the president has made clear his along with spending increases or tax cuts for the middle and working classes, there are no tax cuts for the rich in this bill, we will offset those with increases in other places, including increases on the wealthy. people who make more than $400,000 a year. if you make more than $400,000 a year, it's possible your taxes will go up. if you make a lot of money and capital gains, which is you are invested in the stock market, you might see prices rise. taxes may go up on corporations, which saw taxes slashed by president trump. and in our view, some of those need to be rebalanced. if those move, as written, it will not add to the long-term debt of the u.s. on immigration, the numbers jerry said were wrong, we are not seeing 2 million people, in. t -- come in. there probably will not be an immigration portion of this bill. we do not have enough votes for immigration

another from representative jerry connolly dated january 29, 2018. and last one from the "baltimore sun" dated january 5, 2017 entitled jamie raskin not seeing challenge for trump. >> without objection. we have been told mr. keller has logged on and he is recognized for five minutes. mr. keller. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to all our witnesses for taking time to testify before the committee today. before addressing the subject you would like to urge the majority to use its oversight power to focus on the numerous crises be in rampant unnation, the crisis on the southern border, the irresponsible way the biden administration pulled out afghanistan. skyrocketing energy prices or staggering national debt to numb a few. the price of natural gas alone is at a 10-year high. this must be addressed before winter set in and americans have to make difficult financial decisions just to heat their homes. the integrity of our elections is directly linked to the integrity of our democratic system of government at the local, state or ted levels. while p

gravely unjust redistricting session where republicans engage in deliberate, shameless, extreme partisan jerry mandserring. texas gained two new house seats fueled by the growth in our lat -- latino nation. republicans chose not to add the districts and according to a lawsuit filed by the mexican american defense fund, drew maps that diluted the voting rights. this process was opaque. perhaps because texas republicans hired a political operative known to have republican members of congress sign nondisclosure agreements. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record an article from the texas tribune entitled texas appears to be paying a secretive republican political operative $120,000 annually to work behind the scenes on redistricting. >> without objection. >> thank you so much. my own district was impacted in a process i have described as being akin to looting. what steps is the justice department to ensure that redistricting plans do not violate the voting rights act and discriminate against racial, ethnic and minority language voters? >> we announced before redistricting plans began bec

i congratulate liberty university and president jerry privo on this milestone and wish the institution another 50 years of success in fulfilling its mission to develop cease centered men and women and instill in them the values, knowledge, and skills needed to impact the world. madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. bost, for five minutes. mr. bost: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. thank you, madam speaker. as ranking member of the house committee on veterans' affairs, one of my top priorities is protecting the constitutional rights of our veterans. today, i want to rise -- raise awareness of a policy that strips law-abiding veterans of their second amendment rights. specifically, the policy that kisser v.a. to report veterans who need help managing their v.a. benefits to the nix program. thereby making it illegal for them to possess firearms. to illustrate this practice, i would like to tell you a story about a hypothetical veteran nam

there have been a lot of stories about how he ivanka trump and jerry trump took advantage of this. some suggested this was a nefarious scheme by them to line their own pockets. i actually don't think that is true. i think a tax break past that was very favorable to real estate and not surprisingly, people around donald trump who are real estate investors took advantage of. host: we have president trump talking about it is february 1 2020 speech. listen. >> opportunity thousands are helping americans like army veteran tony rankin's from cincinnati, ohio. after struggling with drug addiction, tony lost his job, his house and his family. he was homeless. but then, tony found a construction company that invested an opportunity zones. he is now a top tradesman, drug-free, reunited with his family, and he is here tonight. tony, keep up the great work. guest: it is a great story, but it is not true. rankin did get hired by a construction company, but it was not connected to opportunity zones. that company has later gotten involved in opportunity zones. he more than blurred the line. the m

there have been stories about how ivanka trump and jerry to trump in their real estate interest -- jared trump in their real estate interest took advantage of this. there are some stories this was nefarious by them to align their own pockets. -- to line their own pockets. i don't think that's true. i think a tax break past that was favorable to real estate and people around a donald trump that were real estate investors, including jared kushner, took advantage of it. susan: we have president trump talking about it in his february 2020 state of the union. >> opportunity zones are helping americans like an army veteran from cincinnati, ohio. after struggling with drug addiction tony lost his job, house, and family. then, tony found a construction company that invests in opportunity zones. he is now a top tradesmen, drug-free, reunited with his family. he is here tonight. tony, keep up the great work, tony. [applause] david: it is a great story, but it's not true. tony rankin did get hired by a construction company. but it was not connected to opportunity zones. although that company has do

jerry, a democrat in tennessee, livingston, tennessee, hi, jerry. your next. -- you are next. caller: look at the numbers when biden was in office, 9%? now, what is it, 4.5%? i was at the lumber yard yesterday and building materials have come way down. we are on the road to recovery. look at the vaccines he's gone out since he took office. seniors are fixing to get a raise, you know? i think people are just down on america too much right now, especially the republicans. i think they really are and i don't know why. host: we will go to john in pennsylvania, a republican. what do you think? how do you think the president is handling the economy? caller: horrible. i am a small business owner. i could understand one gentleman that called up earlier who did not have a high school diploma who thought joe biden was doing a great job. a retired schoolteacher gave him a b? that is why our system is failing. you have schoolteachers that don't have enough education or intelligence to see this guy is ruining this country. the town hall -- talking about the restaurant, they paid the worker

jerry, a democrat in tennessee, livingston, tennessee, hi, jerry. your next. -- you are next. caller: look at the numbers when biden was in office, 9%? now, what is it, 4.5%? i was at the lumber yard yesterday and building materials have come way down. we are on the road to recovery. look at the vaccines he's gone out since he took office. seniors are fixing to get a raise, you know? i think people are just down on america too much right now, especially the republicans. i think they really are and i don't know why. host: we will go to john in pennsylvania, a republican. what do you think? how do you think the president is handling the economy? caller: horrible. i am a small business owner. i could understand one gentleman that called up earlier who did not have a high school diploma who thought joe biden was doing a great job. a retired schoolteacher gave him a b? that is why our system is failing. you have schoolteachers that don't have enough education or intelligence to see this guy is ruining this country. the town hall -- talking about the restaurant, they paid the worker

jerry, hello. jerry in kentucky, good morning. ok, we'll go to dennis in rapid city, south dakota. democrat's line. caller: thanks for taking my call. there was an article in "the rapid city journal" that we have 81 people from different countries and it is not just south dakota and georgia or florida, and we know we have got politicians in this state that have fast and around half $1 million that nobody can touch. thanks for taking my call. there are people here always asking for money and everything else, so it just upsets me that i see -- i am an army veteran, by the way, too, and it takes money away from our veterans and hospitals and everything. thanks for taking my call. i appreciate it. host: thank you. mr. miller, go ahead. guest: if i understood correctly, the caller was from south dakota? that was a centerpiece of one of our stories about south dakota specifically and the extent to which it has turned itself into basically a tax haven in the united states and has attracted billions of dollars over the past eight or nine years as a result, and people asked, well, what is w

this is a jerry who heard -- jury who heard evidence about the boat manifesto, the respondent wrote after he ran over tamerlan in which he justified his actions on the basis of jihad and showed how proud he was of them. this after he needn't worry about tamerlan at all. he thought he was fine. ms. >> -- >> there's really an interesting sort of evidentiary question here and i would like your explanation of the standard that implies. this evidence is inadmissible many times over in a regular trial where we have rules of evidence. but in the mitigation phase of the penalty on a capital case may be the rule is anything goes. and if that is the case, that's what i want to know. is it really anything goes? suppose we had in this case was quintuple hearsay about something that tamerlan supposedly did years ago in russia. one person in russia told another person in russia told another person in russia down the line that he did certain things. and that is admitted. then what can he do in response? can you then introduce evidence to show that actually didn't happen or can you introduce evidence to

. >> -- jerry pollock. >> that is not a valid point of order. the gentleman from louisiana, mr. higgins is now recognized for five minutes. >> my, my, my. good lord help us to be protected from this threat from within. american pate patriots are done with career politicians insanity. we are nauseated by the continuous attacks on working americans and american industry. this entire debacle of a hearing today has been reflective of the exact reasons why my leagues across the aisle will lose their majority status very soon. we have a smashed economy. we've witnessed a disgraceful retreat from taliban terrorists overseas, abandoning americans. we have a disintegrated southern border, we have unbelievable inflation, medical oppression. we have parents, american parents being threatened by our own doj by having the audacity to exercise their first amendment rights to assemble and address grievance. we have the companies brought before us today, american men and women for a public beating by the democrats on this committee. they have done incredible work to actually lower emissions. th

jerry at first base. greg paulman the crew chief tonight. raul ruiz. >> you'll see a lot of players from california in this game a lot of players from both sides from california. a lot of great athletes coming out of there along with a lot of politicians of course, because california has the most members of congress so they have more to pick from. >> pretty good crowd tonight. we've seen it over the years, filling in. the red on the first base side, the blue on the third base side. steube into the line, we're under way. 7:09, first pitch here at nationals park. in for a strike. >> good start for the florida lawmaker. >> the second offering to ruiz. steube into the wind-up. pitch high and outside. that's a ball. 1-1. >> i'm sure the last time that steube was on the mound there had to be a lot of nerves for him, bag freshman lawmaker and starting his first game for the republican team he looks pretty calm out there tonight >> the 1-1. catches the inside corner. oh, no, caught more than the inside corner. caught ruiz. >> he caught ruiz. >> he h

jerry is in broadway, virginia. caller: if it ain't broke don't fix it. at that is why this country is indeed terrible shape it is in now. this administration is trying to fix everything that is not broken and it results in tragedy after tragedy. they do not obey the the supreme court anyway. the supreme court ordered them to reinstate the mexico policy. have they done it? caller: first of all, it should be six years and you are gone. no lifetime appointments. clarence thomas doesn't do anything. six years, you're gone. also, you have to show your work report. i can't imagine anyone getting to sit there and do nothing. these are not respected, wonderful people like we used two think. they were -- to think they were. they have to be held accountable for the work they do. six years, you are out. when you get to be 80, think about the shortness of your mind. we all know about what happened with brett kavanaugh. mitch mcconnell needs to go. host: it sounds like you are talking about age limits for supreme court justices. caller: yeah. let's be real. no lifeti

congressman jerry nadler told us that they that if he became chair of the judiciary he would give us the real hearing and he delivered on his promise and 2020. we were there is speaker pelosi and congresswoman when the house of pass the time limit bill. >> that's long past as a subcommittee we had been. but your time has expired as a gentleman points out. could you wrap up? >> certainly i would just say as the grandmother of two biracial children who have two mothers, i want this country to reflect their lives. i do not want them to be ashamed of who they are pretty want their ability to be recognized to the constitution of united states to be true and i believe the only way that can happen is by instituting, enacting the era, thank you. >> thank you. misstatement you are not recognized for your testimony. >> chairwoman melania, ranking member, distinguished members of the committee on oversight and reform, i am honored to testify today against the proposed equal rights amendment to deny state constitution. i currently serve as a senior policy analyst with independent women's voice a

host: let's hear from jerry. go ahead. caller: i would just like to say global warming is something that the far left likes to blame everything on, from global warming to they like to blame inflation, the length of blame of innovation. i see the alaska pipeline and you can see the glaciers receding over two decades of time, but by the same token, 2000 years ago, there were 2000 feats of ice in the same place. the reality is that geologically, we go through warming and cooling cycles. the oil comes out of the ground, and it flows right by the arctic ocean, and then it is a hundred seven degrees when it comes out of the ground, even though you can see your breath in shady places when it is the middle of july. obviously, they have to have very hundreds of thousands of tropical conditions, and so, by the warming and drying cycle, the earth is going to warm and cool off at various times, and this is a climate change story. >> this is in the wall street journal. biking artifacts pinpoint europeans crossing. i knew look at wooden

host: jerry in new jersey. caller: my question, i have a question and then i have a statement. the question is how equipped are we to help taiwan, in other words, what would be our -- how could the ability to help them if china tries to take them over, how far would we go? but the comment that i have before i hang up is twofold. c-span i noticed put this man on to try to cover up for biden's statements trying to help him out because i see that biden has to kind of help him out in every situation because he misses steps. but the main comment i have is that now that china has equipment that we left in afghanistan, how prepared are they going to be to just overtake that we wouldn't have the ability to protect ourselves? i think china has something on biden that biden's working with china and it scares me to death. i think more has to be investigated with the that. there's something going on with china and biden. host: all right. jaken stokes. guest: in terms of what the united states would do in the context of contingency or conflict over taiwan, u.s. policy has for many decades b

host: to jerry, also on the republican line, this time in chicago. caller: thank you, c-span. i am totally with the previous caller. when trump was in, the economy was great. we were highest in energy, employment. the border was well taken care of. our taxes were lower. gas was much lower. biden is ruining this country. i cannot see why people cannot see that. china is communist. we have trouble on the ports, with the border. they want to start paying people $450,000 to be immigrants -- he is destroying everything. he does not even know where he is at or what day it is. he is not running this country good. he does not know anything about business. he has not done anything in 47 years he has been in politics. and i think he is doing a horrible job. host: a florida congressman, a war veteran, spoke on the house floor during the debate ahead of the bill passed to present gold medals to american servicemembers in afghanistan. this is the comments on the floor the house earlier this year. [video clip] >> the fact is, we could give everyone of them 1000 gold medals, and it would not

host: jerry in florida, line for republicans. caller: i don't know what i'm talking about but you mentioned earlier about the fdr programs. all those programs ended but this bill joe biden is promoting has programs in it that is going over the next 10 years so will they and after that? some of the programs are with us forever and they are not working or they get or money. is there accounted to latif for all of this? guest: a lot of the do deal programs ended in a number of them continue on so there is an big legacy. one of the worries about the current thing is that is $3.5 trillion but it starts scaling down around 2026. once you have a federal program in place and you fund things like prekindergarten schooling and things like that, you are setting up a group of people who want to continue doing that so it's hard to get rid of it. some of the money they say they will transfer the cost of the program to the state. then you have to worry about what's going on with state budgets as well so it's a complicated system stop i agree tha

host: jerry in new jersey. caller: my question, i have a question and then i have a statement. the question is how equipped are we to help taiwan, in other words, what would be our -- how could the ability to help them if china tries to take them over, how far would we go? but the comment that i have before i hang up is twofold. c-span i noticed put this man on to try to cover up for biden's statements trying to help him out because i see that biden has to kind of help him out in every situation because he misses steps. but the main comment i have is that now that china has equipment that we left in afghanistan, how prepared are they going to be to just overtake that we wouldn't have the ability to protect ourselves? i think china has something on biden that biden's working with china and it scares me to death. i think more has to be investigated with the that. there's something going on with china and biden. host: all right. jaken stokes. guest: in terms of what the united states would do in the context of contingency or conflict over taiwan, u.s. policy has for many decades b

another from representative jerry connolly dated january 29, 2018. and last one from the "baltimore sun" dated january 5, 2017 entitled jamie raskin not seeing challenge for trump. >> without objection. we have been told mr. keller has logged on and he is recognized for five minutes. mr. keller. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to all our witnesses for taking time to testify before the committee today. before addressing the subject you would like to urge the majority to use its oversight power to focus on the numerous crises be in rampant unnation, the crisis on the southern border, the irresponsible way the biden administration pulled out afghanistan. skyrocketing energy prices or staggering national debt to numb a few. the price of natural gas alone is at a 10-year high. this must be addressed before winter set in and americans have to make difficult financial decisions just to heat their homes. the integrity of our elections is directly linked to the integrity of our democratic system of government at the local, state or ted levels. while p

jerry sure -- derbyshire is well known in the field. the american college of gynecologists say that fetal pain does not occur until the third trimester, and they quoted that doctor. the other doctor they quoted was susan lee, a very biased paper by an abortion provider. nonetheless, the doctor is a pro-choice man but willing to follow the science where it goes, and he has become convinced with his research that there is compelling evidence that pain exists as early as 12 weeks. his previous statements, he said i was wrong. i wish we could all do that, that we could all re-examine our biases and look at the current evidence and decide in some ways we had been wrong. rep. gibbs: from another piece, i'm going to quote from it -- today during a fetal surgery, a specialist in fetal anesthesia is present to administer an anesthetic to the baby and a paralytic and an opioid. is that accurate? dr. skop: that is accurate, that is the standard of care for fetal surgery. rep. gibbs: why would you provide fetal anesthesia and a paralytic agent and