Ms. Ten nee she spent the spent her the spe life walking through the village. The village of pulaski embraced and cared for her for nine years. She was often seen wearing a bright orange dog collar so hunters would know who she was. She had her own Facebook Page with over 4,000 likes. Sadly, bella hasnt been seen for several months and the consensus is that bella has passed on. Bella brought joy to this Beautiful Community in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains and the tughill plateau region. She was the village mascot and symbol of reciprocity of kindness. One compassionate resident reached out to an orphan bella when she needed help the most and she spent her life yielding back the warm spirit that marks the pulaski community. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition . Without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson i rise today to congratulate instructor at Central Pennsylvania Institute of science and technology for being named National TechnicalEducation Teacher of the year. T. P. I. s horticulture and landscaping instruct jor, joe luther, will be given the carl j. Schafer memorial award, presented annually to recognize clear Technical Education teachers for their outstanding service. Mr. Luther will accept the award this thursday in a ceremony in nashville, tennessee. The award is presented by the largest provider of industrybased credentials and partner industry certifications for career and Technical Education programs across the nation. It was named for dr. Carl j. Schafer, a longtime champion of c. T. E. Who gained recognition as a c. T. E. Educator and author. This is the second time an instructor at c. P. I. Has received the award. In 2015, dental assistant instructor mindy to bias was selected as the top c. T. E. Teacher in the nation. As cochair of the house career and Technical Education caucus im most proud of c. P. I. And mr. Luther for this outstanding recognition. Thank you, mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. We hear a lot of negative about the tax reform bill moving through. Mr. Lamalfa gladly, tonight, we have moved to Conference Committee to continue the process, continue the conversation. We can now take more and more opinions that people have on how to make the bill better, and its been Getting Better as we go. In my own district, the First District of california, when all is said and done, this will simplify the tax code for more and more tax filers. Already 70 of taxpayers do not use the method of trying to itemize every single item. Instead they use a standard deduction. That will double, saving time, saving tax preparation, saving summon money, netting them a more better tax situation for their families. So i see a direct guaranteed tax cut for most people in rural california, rural Rural America and those that are 100,000 income or less, thats the middle income were targeting, thats the middle income folks we need to help and thats what this bill will do as well as create more jobs by the job creators in this country. S that good step and a good direction for americas taxpayers. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore are there any further oneminute requests . Under the speakers announced policy of january 3, 2017, the gentleman from texas, mr. Gohmert is recognized as the designee until 10 00 p. M. From the majority leader. Appreciate my colleague pointing out, we have done something good here and when people talk about the tax bill that was passed, its not what its not everything everybody wanted, thats for sure. Its not everything republicans each wanted. But it is going to do good for most every american. It does i would love to have seen just across the board tax cut, i would like to have seen a tax cut that brought everybody to paying the same exact percentage, you make more you pay more, you make less you pay less. You know if those who believe in a tithe that kind of always worked well for the lord. Everybody pays the same percentage. Whether its the widows mite or hundreds of millions of dollars or the billions that Warren Buffett still refuses to have his company pay even though he says he would love to pay more taxes he ought to tell his so ers that in any event, there are people that were pay 10g that are not going to pay any taxes. I dont see how anybody across the aisle could keep saying its going to be worse for the poor. Because those that were paying 10 tax, theyre not going to pay any tax. Its good for them. Its great for them. I would love to see everybody have something that they pay in. Something. So that they have some investment in the income tax system. Seems to help focus peoples attention on government when they see how much theyre paying into the federal government and when its a real percentage. But the bill cuts completely any income tax for those that were paying 10 . , those who were paying 25 theyre being cut to 12 . Thats a tremendous tax advantage for them. And in fact, you see that all the way through the tax bill that was led, creation of which was led by kevin brady, change of ways and means chairman of ways and means, he did a great job bringing the different interests together to get a great bill. Tax,t the upper end, 39. 6 that was not changed. And i get the reason the committee decided they wanted to leave the 39. 6 for the wealthiest americans, leave that in place, because that way, the democrats could not come in, i know this was the thinking, if the if the only tax rate we dont lower is for the wealthiest americans, we leave that where it is, then they cant come in and say, were cutting taxes for the wealthiest americans and putting it on the back of the poorest americans. Well, theyve come in and said it anyway. Might as well have given everybody a fair tax break instead of leaving the wealthiest taxes right where they were, 39. 6 , because they still came in here and said it. Schumer still is saying it in the senate. But the truth is, when you look at the tax rates that people will pay and the exemptions being doubled, its going to be much better for most people. There were some things in the senate bill i liked. And i didnt realize but i heard from people back home that we do have some seniors who do pay so much in medical expense, take such a tremendous amount of the small income they have, that they do have enough to take deductions for their medical expenses and if theyre not allowed to take those medical xpenses as deductions, accountants tell me many of their clients will end up being bankrupt. So the senate left that provision in and im hopeful that will be in the final bill. We dont need to be hurting our seniors that are paying so much in medical expenses, even though they were assured obamacare would cure all ills when it came to health care. You like your insurance, you can keep it. Well, that turned out to be a lie. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Turned out to be a lie. You like your medicine you were taking, you could keep taking that medicine. Turned out to be a lie. And in fact, theres actually incentives in obamacare for the Insurance Companies not to bring in the best cancer treaters, the best heart facilities, because gee that means people with cancer, with heart problems, would sign up for those policies and they might have to pay too much. Deviously really inventive by the architect of obamacare to create a system that is going to be so bad its going to fail at some point and the hope was that when that day came, people would throw up their hands and say, this is awful. I never thought id say this but maybe we better off just letting the government take over every bit of health care. Well, government is already close to taking over all health care under obamacare. Peoplesenator obama told on video, id like to have its basically government running all phases of health care they give it a deceptive name, single payer. But we cant get there in one step. Itll take a couple of steps. Obamacare was step one and complete government takeover of Peoples Health care is step two and fortunately if we can add to the house bill what was added into the senate bill, a complete repeal of the individual mandate, then we will be on our way to bringing down premiums, to having People Choose the Health Care Policy they want, the Health Insurance policies they want. Ultimately we have got to encourage people to put their own money, not in the pocket of the government, not in the pocket of the Insurance Company but into their own Health Savings accounts and build that up. That is he the hope for the future for young people to have enough money in their account down the road that not only for the time they become senior citizens, not only will they not want government intrusion, they wont need it. D those that are chronically poor and ill, we have to return the requirements that were put in place that caused single moms to start making much more than they had when their income had been flat for 30 years when adjusted for inflation. I was surprised to see that on a graph up at harvard at a seminar up there, but sure enough, the facts spoke for themselves. So there are things we can do to help people return to work, to take care of themselves, make their own decisions and i think this tax bill will help do that especially if we put in the repeal of the individual mandate. Im surprised to hear that this tax bill will hurt the poor in america when the people paying 10 will not pay any tax. The people paying 25 will pay 12 tax, its hard to accept that they are going to be paying more tax to help the rich when the rich did not get a tax eduction from the 39. 6 . I do want to take up a critically important decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. There is an article from ian mason, President Trumps travel ban is once again to largely go back into effect after the Supreme Court of the united courts ayed two lower injunctions monday. The orders come in response by filings by the department of justice on friday asking the Supreme Court to stay the preliminary injunctions in the two main travel ban cases, hawaii versus trump in the ninth circuit and International RefugeeAssistance Project versus trump in the fourth circuit. These proceedings have been proceeding up and down the court system for months. And i do think in the Judiciary Committee it is time that we start bringing some of these renegade judges who were not content to wear black robes and be judges, but took on the role being legislators and elected skiffs. They took all three branches into themselves. Basically what power the president didnt have to fully invoke the travel ban, congress had given him any extra that he needed. He had full authority to do what he did. And anybody that could not see that people coming in from countries where are radical islam was destroying the countries and there were messages from the leaders of those radical islamic groups that we are getting our soldiers into these groups of refugees that are going in the western civilization so we can destroy them, i mean they werent even hiding what they were doing, although they didnt tell us what individuals were their soldiers. And as we had heard previously , wet vetting of individuals heard testimony in our committee that at least people coming from to be n they apply efugees, they had some background we could compare and contrast what they were saying about the reasons to come in. E had even fingerprints on i. E. D. s and criminal records from iraq. We had their government records from iraq. But as they came from syria, some other countries, when yemen was in chaos, we did not have the government records we didnt have fingerprints, we didnt have anything, so we were told with those charged with the obligation of vetting these individuals, well vet them, but weve got absolutely nothing to vet them with, so theyll end up coming in, because weve got nothing to say that what theyre saying is not true even when the radical islamists that want to kill americans and destroy their way of life. What President Trump did was exceedingly reasonable. Deputy attorney general, sali yates, step forward and say, im going to take on the role of president and justice and legislator and tell you im not going to defend this law because i have judged it it not to be up to my standards. Well, she was wrong. She was wrong then and shes wrong today as she talks about issues even after her judgment is shown to be so flawed as the Supreme Court has. And i know the travel ban was changed somewhat, but, still, from what the Supreme Court has indicated, the president had the power to do what he did to protect americans despite what justice sali yates said, without her black robe on, when she defied orders and defied the constitution and refused to carry out her duties. Thats a bit of good news but sarah carter has another great story today that she got hannity. Com. Und on. B. I. Supervisor booted from mueller probe, fluid mike flynn. The special agent under scrutiny after being removed from muellers special counsels bureausso oversaw the terviews of the agencys interviews. Lynn pled guilty to one count. F. B. I. Agent was one of two f. B. I. Agents who interviewed flynn, which took place on january 24 at the white house, said several sources. The other f. B. I. Special agent who interviewed flynn is described by sources as a field supervisor in the russian squad at the f. B. I. s Washington Field office according to an official with knowledge of the interview. The agent was removed from his role in the special counsels office after it was discovered he had made disparaging comments about President Trump in Text Messages between him and his alleged lover f. B. I. Attorney lisa paige according to the New York Times and washington post, which first reported the stories. The agent is also under investigation by the department of justice Inspector General for his role in Hillary Clintons email server and Ongoing Investigation into russias election meddling. On saturday, devin nunes, chided the Justice Department and f. B. I. For not disclosing why the agent had not been removed from the special counsel a few months ago. The former u. S. Intelligence official told this reporter quote, with the recent revelation that the agent was removed from the special counsel investigation, it seems likely that the accuracy and veer asity the 302 flynns interview should be reviewed and called into question. W the 302 is section 302 report summary by the f. B. I. Agent of what was said by the witness. So we have a biased witness at the f. B. I. Thats not recording what mike flynn said wordforword. He is writing down in his notes is biased, skewed opinion of what mike flynn said. We know its biased, its skewed. And since mike flynn worked faithfully for so many years and survived the purges over and over of commander in chief obama and very, very briefly worked would ld trump, it should hat mike flynn have had more credibility than that hated character donald trump so much. I have heard talk that mike flynn could have fought this, but he basically had been bankrupted by the department of justice and could not afford attorneys fees anymore, and as sometimes happens, they threatened to go after his son, on this one to plea count. Since apparently the biased, ejudiced partisan f. B. I. Agent, strosk, had Something Different in his note, his summary of what mike flynn said than what mike flynn said he said. So he pled. Out from under the terrible egal fees that this task force seems to have unlimited authority. Bysnt seem to be reigned in Rod Rosenstein appointed by mueller, of course not. Because rosenstein and mueller were involved in getting files aled, the facts of which should have prevented, what we understand should have prevented the sale of american uranium from ever going forward. So it only makes sense, gee, convince Jeff Sessions to recuse himself. He said he talked to the career guys, like rosenstein. Rosenstein could be considered a career guy, and then he appoints his buddy that helped him in the russia investigation over years which established that russia was trying to cornering the market, they were committing crimes to get american uranium and if that came out, then Hillary Clinton wouldnt be able to get her buddies to approve that sale so russia could end up with our uranium and if russia didnt end up with so much of our uranium, do you really think that 145 million from the stock holders that ended up with the money or the uranium and all the money that flowed with it, you really think they would have given that to the Clinton Foundation. They havent given a dime since. If they were all that charged up with all the good the Clinton Foundation was doing, doesnt it make sense they would have kept giving after Hillary Clinton was no longer the secretary of state and when there was still hope of her being president even though thats gone . Gee, wouldnt they still have contr