It is the republicans turn and mr. Mcclintock has tried to be recognized on a point of order. There is no point of order. Who seeks recognition . I seek recognition for a point of parliamentary inquiry. I would like the chairman to cite the house rule requiring members to wear masks in a house proceedings. If we had such a vote, i dont recall it. If we have such a vote, i will vote against it, but i will be happy to abide by it if the house so decides. Until then, i would like you to save me the rule. The chairs authority to enforce the preservation of authority and the quorum throughout pursuant to clause one of rule 11, the rules of the house by the rules of its committees and subcommittees. Committee chairs have long been responsible for the enforcement of general quorum. The quorum. I am enforcing general the quorum. M. That means the safety of the measures members of the committee. The gentleman is recognized. You choose to wear a mask, i do not. I ask you to respect my choice as i respect yours. It is not your choice. I do not yield my time. I consider masks much more effective at spreading panic and much less effective at stopping a virus for anyone who is under 50 and healthy is less severe than the flu. The chair has recommended mr. Chairman, the chair has recommended Wearing Masks when we are not speaking. But they are not necessary when we are speaking. Oddly, we are told by Health Experts that masks are most recommended while speaking. Which leads me to believe that there is more virtue signaling and virtue in all of this. The attending physician of the house has made the decision on what is safe. It is therefore the prerogative of the speaker and the committee decorum andenforce i am doing that. Members who do not wear masks will not be recognized. That is the least i can do. Who seeks recognition . Who seeks recognition . Ms. Escobar . Before i begin, i will why have to say how stunning it is that so many of our colleagues have such little regard for our safety and our health. And are willing to put their. Olleagues at such risk it is a stunning and unfortunate statement they are making. Thatt to tell my colleague i absolutely feel your pain. I am sympathetic to what you are going through as you have your community maligned. Immunities of like mind on the southern border have long been maligned by our republican colleagues and we have been on their target list for hyperbole. Here is that they have this desperate need for a bogeyman. Whether it is the southern border, seattle, there is always a community or people who they target in order to create fear. It is a way to divide us. Inis a way to incite fear fellow americans and a way to distract from the real challenges that we face. It is tragic. It is tragic that we have seen blood spilled. We have seen people shot. You seen suffocated by Law Enforcement officers who were supposed to protect their community. The majority of the people who are dying at the hands of Law Enforcement of black and Brown Brothers and sisters. That at a hearing intended to seek justice and reform, they turn it into an attempt to distract from the challenge at hand. More than eight hours into this hearing and we are still debating amendments that have nothing to do with george floyd step. George floyds death and the American Civil Rights movement that demands change from us. I want to Say Something to the public watching at home. Listen to their amendments. Listen to what they have chosen to debate. Listen to their effort to distract. Dont forget what they have chosen to focus on when you cried out for change. Yield to mylike to colleague the gentlelady from pennsylvania. Thank you to my colleague. It is dismaying. The willful ignorance as to the science in terms of the use of masks to protect yourself and others. We do have a right to not wear a mask. But you do not have a right to expose others. Why dont you do this by way of video . Just what my colleague argued, i was thinking the same thing. This is a stunningly inappropriate amendment. Number one, it is not your district. You do not know what is going on on the ground there and we have good testimony from the representative of that district your mr. Resenting what is going on. If the Minority Party is so concerned with the takeover of six walks for Peaceful Protesters in seattle, where were you, where are you now with int the president did Lafayette Square . Aided by the attorney general, using other members of his administration as props along with a borrowed bible to try to get an iconic photo op. Where were you with that illegal action on the behalf of our president , interrupting with , orce officers and military billets and two guests. Rubber bullets and tear gas. The right of people for people protest in peaceful protest in Lafayette Square. It reminds me of a bible verse. Matthew seven. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plight in your own night . Brother,ou say to your let me take the speck out of your eye when all the time there in your own . [indiscernible] the question occurs on the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, all opposed. The clerk will call the roll. [calling the roll] [voting] [voting] mr. Liu . Areew members there any new members [indiscernible] are 12 ayirman, there s and 23 nos. I have an amendment. The clerk will report the amendment. Amendmentnt to the we designate provisions accordingly. The gentleman is recognized. I have heard a lot of talk today about this bill is a reaction to George Floyds death. Ms. Escobar was just talking about how the amendments previously offered have nothing to do with George Floyds death and they should be ignored for that fact. In the bill before us today, there is a ban on no knock warrants in drug cases. It is my understanding that mr. For awas being arrested forgery situation, nothing to do with a drug case. It has absolutely nothing to do with the death of george floyd. This amendment would strike section 362 of the bill. Bit ofput out a Little Common sense. If you are a drug dealer and you have drugs and a Law Enforcement officer has gotten a will cause affidavit and goes before a judge. To execute a warrant on a drug dealer who has drugs, what do you think the drug dealer is going to do with those drugs if you are required to knock before the Law Enforcement officer enters . The drugs are going to be there because they will be flushed down the toilet. Florida,lleagues from this would be more poignant to you. This was may 3, 2019. I will ask for this to be put in the record. Florida drug bust nets enough fentanyl to kill 500,000 people. It six months of our investigation results in the seizure of three pounds of fentanyl. Arrest of 60nd an people. The attorney general said opioids are killing 17 People Per Day in florida. Died00 people could have for the amount of fentanyl that was seized. That amount was three pounds. Just a little tiny piece in your pinky can kill you. Three pounds equals 48 ounces. These are 30 ounces apiece. Fentanyl would kill 500,000 people. This could hold 60 ounces. This should kill more than 500,000 people. If you are the fentanyl dealer in florida and the Law Enforcement is required to knock on your door before the execute the warrant, what do you think is going to happen with these two filled with fennel they can kill over 500 thousand people . Is one to be dumped in the get inbefore they can there. And execute a warrant on people that are killing thousands and thousands of people in florida. Opiod overdoses in florida was 3727 dead. Died of was 4280 people overdoses from opioid and fentanyl related drug addictions and drug abuse. This officer was able to execute over werent and arrest 100 different people who are killing floridians everyday in our streets. Warrants inknock drug cases, the moment the Law Enforcement knocks on the door, the heroin dealers door, the amount of fentanyl is going to in the sink, the toilet and flushed. You are not going to be able to perpetuate an arrest. I would contend, i dont know what this has to do with the george floyd case if we are here to provide justice for him. I would contend that we take the ban on noknock warrant. Colleague on my side of the aisle that has a problem with a noknock warrant. Who is a former sheriff has a solution. So we dont have the wrong house, they have a policy in place that the drug officer and the undercover officer goes with the person executing the search warrant to ensure that they are hitting the white house. With that in the bill. Lets make sure that when the swat team which it typically knowses search warrant the undercover officers exactly which house it is. You can but that in the bill then still be taking people off the streets that could possibly kill 500,000 floridians. I am willing to work with you on that. But i am not willing to ban noknock warrant executions in the state of florida. With that, i yelled back. The gentlelady from florida is recognized. Thank you so much. From myiate the word colleague from florida and i applaud his father and years of work he did to keep our state safe. Numerous high risk operations and i know how extremely high risk and dangerous serving search warrant skimpy. Noknock warrant. Knows, high risk search warrants, no knock search warrants are the highest of risk. The deputies and officers who serve on our swat teams, they have a tremendous job to do. Our primary responsibility is to make sure that we not only keep our officers and our deputies safe, but that we protect the public. As a former police chief, i was always concerned every time my swat team went out to survey noknock warrant. We know that mistakes have been made and i heard your recommendation about sending a drug officer out. I appreciate that as well. Breonna taylor lost her life. I have witnessed people disposing of drugs and flushing them down the toilet when they knew the police had them surrounded. There are no amount of drugs , theree more important are no amount of drugs that we can confiscate that are more important than a humanlike. Human life. We have the opportunity to right the wrongs that are out there, to tighten up our policy and move forward with that are legislation that protects our officers and the public. Oppositioni stand in of the amendment that has been proposed. I also appreciate my colleague from florida. With that, i yelled back. The gentlelady yields back. The gentlelady from pennsylvania . I am opposed to this amendment, because it undermines the purpose of the bill. Not just the specific wrong that happened to george floyd. Our purpose is to dismantle policies that disproportionately endangered black americans. The time for studying the issue for noknock warrant is over. It we have all the evidence we need to understand that noknock warrants are inherently dangerous. This isnt about justice, it is about inhuman cost. It is about the human cost. The injusticere that happened to Breonna Taylor. She would have been 27 years old last week. She was a daughter, and emt, and at was shot eight times police as a sheila e. In her own bed and police broke down the door of her apartment to execute a noknock warrant. You want was not intended for Breonna Taylor or her boyfriend. It targeted another person who lived miles away and who had already and detained by the time the police entered her home. The officers executed the warrant and executed Breonna Taylor have yet to be charged and no officer has been fired. If anyone questions why we need to ban noknock warrants or reform the way policing is done in this country, look no further than that example. What happens to george floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many others is why Peaceful Protesters all over this country are chanting black lives matter and demanding action. It is because we see over and over again that our policing system acts as if black lives matter. We see this when for Police Officers responded to a call that a black man may have used a counterfeit 20 bill and that man george floyd was murdered. With seattle and police sponsored to a call for a woman needing Mental Health and she is murdered. We see it when eric garner was murdered. We see it when the Police Responded to a report that a man is sleeping in his car at a wendys and that man was murdered. We see that when Police Execute a botched no not drug warrant, toss a flash grenades into the home of a black woman getting dressed for work. Police have the wrong apartment again and that woman was murdered. In our justice system, we say that people are innocent until proven guilty. Under our current system, black americans are denied justice. In practice, our system has a presumption of guilt simply for being black. Think of Breonna Taylors case. She was not guilty of any crime. She was guilty of being black and asleep in her own bed in her own home. All lives cant matter until black lives matter. I oppose this amendment. We have to do better than this. I would yield to my colleague from california. Understand the concern here. As someone who has prosecuted cases with dangerous entries into homes and residents, i have two brothers who do that. I think about what you just described. I brought this up with my brothers a couple of weeks ago. They pointed out to me that routinely on drug cases, what they wanted to limit the contact that happens like with ms. Taylor is that you can detain and arrest a subject at a different location than simultaneously go into the house. That is a tactic that Law Enforcement uses all the time. There will be dangerous situations where you dont want to tip off the suspects. You have to go in with a noknock warrant. Situations, nonviolent nonsexual situations, why even increase the likelihood that you could unjustly take someones life if there are other tactics available that would address your concern that the person could destroy evidence . Why not contact them at a traffic stop, execute the warrant then sees the drugs without having to have a violent encounter . That is the spirit of this legislation. To limit what happened unjustly to ms. Taylor drug cases. The gentleman yields back. I rise in support of this amendment. I really appreciate the thoughtful comments. Unlike the qualified immunity doctrine and the part we were trying to make point we were trying to make earlier. These abuses that have been cited are terrible. We need to address that. You will not find anyone appear who disagrees with that. The point of this, you said a moment ago that we have the information we need it is time to ban the practice. That is not true. We have not had a hearing or thoughtful debate and discussion and rugged experts to testify. There has been no time to do it. This is a massive change in policing for the country where we have not done our diligence. There will be serious ramifications from talking this tossing this out. I have talked to lawenforcement officers. Last night, i spent a lot of time on the phone with clay higgins. He told me how many want to hear executed. Countless warrants. Warrant is designed to protect public safety. It is designed to protect the officers serving the warrant and the suspect. Why . Because the way they do these things, they are very rare. It is a High Standard in almost every jurisdiction to obtain one. Show that a person has a violent history or someone has made it past Statement Like i will not be taken alive. Or to have a record of weapons in the home. That is an inherently difficult situation for all of those involved. They time it when they know everyone will be asleep her head to. They will cuff them and take them out and do a concert of the premises do a call search of the present premises. They dont want to violate Fourth Amendment rights. It has worked effectively in the cases where it is executed. Will the gentleman yield . Know i will. Collectivelyer look into the specifics and finetune this so that it works for everyone. Law enforcement and anyone of any race. It takes time to do that. We all want to rush to get a solution. Everyone does. There is a republican bill the introduced tomorrow. We all want to find solutions. We have to come to the right solutions. We do not want to endanger Law Enforcement did what if it is your little brother or sister . We are concerned about their safety also. There is a reason we have allowed this. I think we open a pandoras box. Please dont call us obstructionist. Please dont say that we dont understand or empathize. It is quite the opposite. What we are saying is lets do with this committee is designed to do and go through this methodically so we can make changes that solve the problem and keep everybody safe. The tenor ofte your remarks. You just said that there is a bill coming forward, i take it is the scottdale. You said we will all become cosponsors. What are the provisions related to noknock warrant in that . What is interesting to me is you had no problem saying you would join it but there has not been a hearing with respect to it. That is exactly my point. The reason ive not support a no knock ban is because we have not studied it. We have not done our job there , to jeopardize drug conviction but the safety of the out tos we are sending serve the warrant. Just disingenuous and not fair to us. I have family members and Law Enforcement and i concerned about their safety. They are being hunted down like of the enemy of society and they protect society. They are the sheepdogs that keep us safe and to keep that in mind. Yes we want to protect my class. All lives including those who put this on the line to maintain the rule of law. I am side to get emotional. Texas . Gentlelady from i appreciate the gentlemans emotion. Had a moment of emotion and continue to be in. Continue to be in pain. I want to enforce the words of the chairman as it relates to of a19 and make mention person. Wear a mask and has indicated that he, his