In some of these operations dont even pay 5 or 8 . Te geem from orgia se washington journal live at 8 30 a. M. Every day on cspan. Now back to the house floor. Re thelerk report tocmpan house resoluon 5esolion ing foonideration of thbi h. R. 6,to amend e gram leh brylor nalnitn s ovid f ano ove the alit proxy adsoryir for the ectionf vestorsn the u. S. Eco and in theublic interesosing accouabilityompetiveness inthe proxy aoryirm rmenteport tomny use sotion 6, provi focoiderat h. R. Io 1638, to require the secretary of the treasury to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the estimated total cost assets under direct or indirect control by Certain Senior iranian leaders and other figures and for other purposes. And providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 4324, to require the secretary of the treasury to make certifications with respect to United States and foreign Financial Institutions aircraft related transactions involving iran and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order. The motion to recommit on h. R. 3971, and passage of h. R. 3971, if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the request on agreeing to the motion to recommit on h. R. 3971. Offered by the gentlewoman from nevada, ms. Titus, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will redesignate the motion. The clerk motion to recommit on h. R. 3971 offered by ms. Titus of nevada. The speaker pro tempore the question is on agreeing to the motion to recommit. Motions members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ]. The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 190, the nays are 233. The motion is not adopted. The question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Ms. Waters i request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. Federal federal any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of epresentatives. ] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the nays are 294, the nays are 129. The bill is passed. And without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Members are advised to take their conversations off the house floor. The chair will entertain requests for oneminute speesms. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Permission to address the house for one minute. And the house is not in order. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Poe as isis loses ground in syria and iraq, we must remain vigilant. There is a growing terrorist threat in africa. E african continent suffered incidents of terroristrelated violence. Terrorism is a challenge to decent security. The threat has grown to directly impact u. S. Service members serving in africa. A navy seal was killed in an operation against sha bad, the first u. S. Member killed in black since the 1993 hawkdowned incident. An ambush left four u. S. Green beer as killed. The u. S. Conducted its first air strikes against isis in somalia. The writing is on the wall. The cancer is spreading and on its way to becoming a fullplone threat to african and american interests. Having been displaced by war in syria and iraq, isis is finding a new home to carry out its terror. And thats just the way it is. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. He house will come to order. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to recognize the farm bureaus of Monterey County and santa cruz county. This year those farm bureaus will mark 100 years of serving our agricultural communities along the Central Coast of california. We know that those in agriculture are consistently evolving as they constantly contend with mother nature, mandates, the everchanging market. Mr. Panetta the local farm bureaus leadership has been there to help our over 600 farmers stay competitive and keep our communities strong. The farm bureaus are an essential ingredient as to why our number one work is agriculture. I thank and recognize the santa for and monterey bureaus their past, present and future work for the farm communities. Thank you, mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Carter to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Carter mr. Speaker, i rise today to remember the life of former Georgia State representative john yates who passed away on december 11 at the age of 96. Representing griffin, georgia, just south of atlanta, he was first elected to the General Assembly in 1988 and over time became one of the most aspiring officials in the state. When he retired from government, representative yates was the only world war ii veteran serving in the georgia General Assembly. He was drafted into the army in 1942, and flew a piper cub airplane, a small plane with a top speed of less than 100 miles per hour. He flew 200 missions, adjusting artillery fire on the enemy, including at the battle at the bulge, earning six air medals and four battle stars. He went back to school to earn his College Degree and worked with ford motor company, eventually becoming a depot manager. Representative yates served the state of georgia with the most humble at feud and went to Great Lengths to help georgia veterans. Anyone who was lucky enough to know representative yates can learn from his attitude, knowledge and experience. Mr. Speaker, i had the honor and privilege of serving with representative yates. He was a great american, a true american hero, and a fine man. He will be missed. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, by now we have all seen the horrifying video of slave auctions in libya. Its outrageous. Migrants and refugees, most of them black africans, are being preyed upon, held in detention camps, and being bought and sold like property. Mr. Speaker, the United States cannot stand by as an idle spectator to the plague of slavery in libya. People are not property. Last week, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and i met with libyas ambassador. She agreed that the Libyan Government will conduct a transparent investigation, but they do not have the capacity to do so, and that does not absolve the United States of its responsibilities. We Must Immediately investigate allegations of slavery and forced labor in libya. We need to impose sanctions if libya fails to end slavery auctions and forced labor, and we must ensure u. S. Department of state and the u. S. Agency for International Development are adequately staffed to respond to the situation in libya. Mr. Speaker, congress should not should adopt the bipartisan House Resolution mber 644, which will do so and help us in all of these atters and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore are there any further requests . Under the speakers announced the of january 3, 2017, gentleman from florida, mr. Gaetz, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. Mr. Gaetz thank you, mr. Speaker. And i take the floor tonight with many of my colleagues to fight back against an attack on the rule of law and our democratic institutions. Right now the investigations into donald trump and the prior investigation into Hillary Clinton have been infected with the virus of severe bias. Hillary clinton went under investigation for the mishandling of classified information and also her dealings through the Clinton Foundation was essentially investigated by her own fan club. Meanwhile, Robert Mueller obtained his team by fishing in the never trump aquarium. Only through the antidote of transparency can we end this erosion of the rule of law and can we restore the American Peoples confidence in the institutions that we must trust to live in a civilized society. The people in this country have a right to know what has happened within the f. B. I. , the department of justice, and within Robert Muellers team as he probes the president and his transition. But there is so much in hearing after hearing that members of the Judiciary Committee and the Intelligence Committee and the Oversight Committee have been told, we dont have a right to know as the representatives of the people. Lets begin with the tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and former president bill clinton. We, as the American People, apparently dont have the right to know what was trulyly discussed and information and reports submitted to congress there is extensive redacted information where we dont get to see the substance of those communications between Loretta Lynch and former president bill clinton. Its deeply troubling. We also dont get to know what the informant would tell us who had information about russias attempts to impair the United States uranium assets through the nowinfamous uranium one deal. We know there was an informant. We know that informant wanted to come form and give information about bribery and kickbacks that undermined americas interests, but unfortunately people at the Justice Department that still remain in substantial positions of power went and sought a gag order so that the congress wouldnt learn what was happening and so the American People wouldnt learn what was happening. Then, we learned that an Inspector General who wanted to raise the flag of concern regarding the deeply troubling conduct of Hillary Clinton was essentially shut down. Mr. Mccullough has now given interviews upon his departure from the Intelligence Community indicating that he went to james clapper. He said that these mishappens, these potential violations of the law were serious and they put Americas National security in jeopardy. What he heard back from mr. Clapper was that these revolutions would create heartburn for the Clinton Campaign. It is ludicrous when weve got potential bribes and kickbacks, when we got the Clinton Foundation functioning as officially as a passthrough Money Laundering operation, that we wouldnt have all of the information that an Inspector General would now have. Mr. Mccullough has now said his family, his job, his agency, his mission was threatened by people in the deep state. That is not the america we need to live in. Transparency is the antidote to this type of corruption and this type of truly intolerable conduct. Heres what we do know. We do know that the Democratic National committee was off paying for a fallacious and false dossier from the Fusion Agency about donald trump. We dont know whether the f. B. I. Contributed funds toward that cause. Think about that for a moment. When we ask the f. B. I. Director, were taxpayer funds used to obtain a dossier to discredit the president both before and after his election, we were told we didnt have a right to know and that the taxpayers dont have the right to know if their money was used in this way. Its troubling. We also know that nelly orr, the wife of a Top Department of justice official, bruce orr, was actually getting paid by fusion g. P. S. , the company that ultimately produced this false dossier. If thats not a conflict of interest, if that doesnt impair the credibility of this investigation, i dont know what does. We also dont know whos in charge. We ask questions to the attorney general regarding the nature of his recusal. Can the attorney general appoint a Second Special counsel to evaluate the Clinton Foundation . We got contradictory answers. So as we prepare for the Deputy Attorney general, mr. Rosensteins testimony before the Judiciary Committee tomorrow, we dont know if mr. Rosenstein can appoint a certainly counsel or the attorney general. We do know the American People want it. Harvard released a poll saying 60 believe there should be a Second Special counsel to investigate the Clinton Foundation. So lets look at that bias as it is applied to mr. Mueller and his team. We have no idea how bob mueller picked the members of his team. I asked the f. B. I. Director christopher wray, did people get on the mueller team because they hate President Trump . Was there any vetting . Was there any review . Did we look at political contributions, political activity or activism from these folks . And the f. B. I. Director would not answer my question. And so here we are. Unclear as to whether or not the standard to investigate the president was a preexisting bias against him. Mr. Speaker, i dont believe that its a coincidence that the mueller team is populated by people who bring that bias with them and who seemingly have acted upon it. Mr. Weitzman, whos mueller number two, he attended Hillary Clintons Election Night party. Are we saying we couldnt find a number two in the Mueller Investigation that wasnt at Hillary Clintons Election Night party . For goodness sakes, we also know that mr. Weitzman sent emails to sally yates praising her for directly defying an order from the president of the United States. That should have disqualified mr. Weitzman, but we dont know if that was in fact the qualifying factor that led him to be on this team. Aaron zebly, hes also a member of the mueller team. He represented Justin Cooper who set up the Hillary Clinton email server. Could we not have found people from the mueller team that wasnt involved in setting up an email server for Hillary Clinton, for goodness sakes . He also used a hammer to smash blackberries, destroying evidence. Heck, he may be a witness and yet hes on the mueller team. Jeannie wray, very defended the Clinton Foundation against foia requests. In fact, half of the members of the mueller team have financially contributed to the complains of barack obama or Hillary Clinton or both, and none of them contributed to donald trump. I dont think its a coincidence and i think its ridiculous that the congress doesnt have any information about how these people were selected, how they were vetted, how they were approved. But its not just the mueller team. Its also the department of justice. Bruce orr, the head of counterintelligence, he meets with Christopher Steele who is the author of the dossier during the campaign, and then after the campaign, he meets with glenn simpson. All the while bruce orr, working at the department of justice, has a spouse getting paid by the very people developing these lies about the president to discredit him. It is smoking gun evidence of bias and conflict of interest. But its not just the mueller team and the department of justice. Its also the f. B. I. Andrew mccabe is the Cur