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Articles of impeachment, abuse of power, and obstruction of congress. Now more from the House Judiciary Committee hearing, starting with ken box from colorado. The gentleman is recognized. I heard my colleague from rhode island say this isnt about policy differences, this is about our obligation to protect and defend our constitution. It is about courage. It is about policy differences because you said nothing on your side, when president obama sent his surrogates out to lie about benghazi. You ...

Before the committee is the amendment of an issue the substantive. Mister chairman for what purpose to the gentleman strike . For purposes the gentleman seek recognition that we have had. I would like to start out by commanding the chairman for following the rules. I think that this markup has been a lot better than it couldve been and i think the chairman has been probably very even handed about that. That being said, let me say that the chairman and those on his side of the aisle are dead wron...

The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today and to the witnesses for joining us today as we examine the current state of the u. S. Russia relationship and the strategy to deal with the Russian Federation. Its timely to assess the relationship with russia and as weve recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the events that led to the collapse of the soviet union, the fall of the berlin wall, solidarity, selection, victory in poland and the baltic demonstrations among other...

For general debate expired. The bill shall be considered for amendment under the fiveminute rule and consider as an orange bill the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on Natural Resources printed in the bill. The Committee Amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read, no amendment to the Committee Amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order except those printed n part c of house report 116264, each such amendment be offered i...

Open pit mine. 90 of this region is already open to leasing. Oil and gas are not under attack in new mexico. This bill simply attempts to protect an area important for the tribal communities who have connections to this land that go back thousands of years, before this country even existed. We have to believe as a house that some places have value beyond what can be drilled from a hole in the ground. And believe it or not, some things in this world are more important than money. Is there nothing...

Against turkey. Now to live coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, rabbi evan hoffman, congress regation anshe sholom, new rochelle, new york. The chaplain o lord, grant them the wisdom to draft laws that best serve the interests of the American People. O lord, in a time of polarization an rank rouse dispute, we beseech thee to help our elected officials to maintain decorum, civility, commonality of pur...

Met thursday to consider legislation that would require people seeking asylum apply facilities outside the u. S. Before the Committee Voted along party lines to send the bill to the full Senate Several democratic members expressed opposition to the measure. This is one hour and 15 minutes. Good morning. Since becoming chairman in january ive been trying to find a solution to the problem that we all acknowledge which is a border out of control. Laws been abused in humanitarian crisis, National Se...

Precountry new narkal limitation for employmentbased immigrants to increase the per country numerical limitation for familysponsored immigrants, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from california,s. Colorado, mr. Buck, will each control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. Mrs. Love gren i ask unanimous consent that address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Lofgren i yield mysel...

Encourage members to come down and talk about their amendments it is an awkward situation that we have here and we are all aware of this that the senate rules state that amendments cannot come to the floor except by unanimous consent. Well that means if there is one person who objects to having an amendment come up in being considered, then all that person has to do is object and frankly, that happened last year. We had a couple of members that were holding out for an amendment, non germane amen...

[inaudible convens] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come back to order. The gentleman from montana. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us and i hope you didnt sever too much anxiety taking that Community Back to washington. A little bit of ptsd with the. One of the things i like to paraphrase is dwight eisenhower, listen from disinformation of information from of my colleagues on the other side. Dwight eisenhower said it looks easy when you live 1000 miles away from a cornfi...