We were telling, chastising other people. Secondly, i believe that currently, theres a system that exists that is on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, and that is that the appropriators, when they become aware of something that may be exactly what the gentleman and mr. Mcgovern was talking about, it would be a very difficult issue we should properly make sure that this country knew we were not going to find. Come back through the congress, too, and i think we do the right thing. The appropriators have another foreign account mrs. Granger has the ability to withhold match up and i think instead of an official Going Forward and holding these governments accountable on their own, i think it should come from the people who gave the money. Not the people that represent the money, so, i want to be a part of working with you. If you get to that point, also. Is there anything further from any member of this committee for this panel . Seeing done, i want to thank you all three of you. Thank you for your time today. See mr. Meadows, tell him we didnt get whatever he sent and were back to it. This now yeah. This now closes the hearing portion of hr 2029, the omnibus and tax expenders bill that has been before the committee this evening. The chair will be able to receive a motion from north carolina. The vice chairman committee. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I move the committee grant a rule providing consideration of the Senate Amendment to hr 2029 Veterans Affairs and related agencies appripriations act 2016. The rule makes an order of motion offered by the chair of the committee on appropriations designate the house concur with two house amendments. Amendment number one consisting of rules print. Committee print. 11439. Modified by the amendment, printed in the rules Committee Report and amendment number 2, consisting of the tect of rules committee print, 11440. The rule provides one hour of debate. Number one, equally divided control by the chair and ranking minority member by the committee. The rule provides one hour debate on amendment number 2, equally divided control with the chair and ranking minority member, the committee on ways and means. The motion and provides it the Senate Amendment and the motion shall be considered. The rule provides a question shall be divided between the two house amendments. No further division of the question is in order. The rule provides that either portion of the question may be subject to postponement as though underclause of rule 20 and should be considered in the order specified by the chair. It provides 5b shall not apply to the motion. Section four of the rule prov e provides that if only house amendment number two is adopted, the nature of the substitute to the Senate Amendment to hr 2029. Section 5 provided that the chair of the committee may insert the congressional record at any time during the remainder of the first session of the 114th congress. Such material as he may deem explanatory of the senate amend. Section six provides that on any Legislature Day of the first session of the 114th congress, the journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved and the chair may at any time, declare the house adjourned to meet at a date and time to be announced by the chair in declaring the adjournment. Section seven provides that on any Legislature Day of the second session of the 114th congress, before january 5, 2016, the speaker may dispension with organization allege is lative business and the chair may at any time declare the house adjourned. The day and time to be announced be the chair. Section 8 of the rule provides that the speak er may appoint members to perform the duties of chair for the duration of the period addressed. Section nine of the rule p provides that each day during the period aaddressed by sections 6 and 7 of the resolution shall shot constitute calendar days of the war powers resolution. Section ten provides that each day during the period addressed by section 6 and 7 of the resolution shall not constitute a day for the purpose of the clause 7 of rule 13. Section 11 of the rule provides that it shall be in order at any time during the legislatetive day for the speaker to entertain motion that the house has spend the rules or the speaker shall consult with the minority leerd or designate on the designation of any matter and consideration purr tuesday night to this section. Finally, section 12 requiring a twothirds vote to consider a rule on the same day as it is reported from the rules committee against any resolution. Thank you very much. Preeappreciate the motion. Were now, youve now heard the is there an amendment in discussion to that . Massachusetts. I move the committee make an order and give the necessary waivers for an amendment, the cybersecurity act of to 20 15. Thank you very much. Discussion. Vote now amendment, those in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Miss fox, no, mr. Cole, mr. Cole, no. Mr. Woodal, no. Mr. Burgess, no. Mr. Styvers, no. Mr. Collins, no. Mr. Burns. Burn, no. Mr. Newhouse. No. Mrs. Slaughter. Yes. Aye. Mr. Mcgovern, aye. Mr. Chairman. No. Motions not afwreeed to. Seeing the vote will now be on the motion for the north carolina. Those say aye, opposed, no. Ayes have it. The gentleman from oh. Do you seek a role call . Do you seek a role call . Yes, i do. Ayes have it. Clerk will report. Mrs. Foxx. Aye. Mr. Cole, aye. Woodall, aye. Mr. Burgess, aye. Mr. Burn. Aye. Mr. Newhouse. Aye. Miss slaughter, no. Mr. Mcgovern, no. Mr. Hastings, mr. Chairman, aye. Report the total. The motion is agreed to accordingly, i want to thank the committee, the white house, the house and the senate have spent a good bit of time to prepare what i believe is a process that we will end this big issue appropriately, so that we continue the funding of government so its done in a responsible way and i want to thank all the members for their time today. I want to thank the staff and well do a first chair. I want to thank cspan for being here tonight as i know your listeners are interested in whats going on. This ends the Committee Hearing. For all the member, we will have mr. Cole who will represent the committee tonight to file the rule and to represent us tomorrow, good luck, sir. Mr. Mcgovern will represent the democrats. I dont know, i assume well see each other again, but Merry Christmas each and every one of you. This ends the Committee Hearing for today. Sterpsterman. The House Rules Committee finishing up work on the 2016 federal spending bill. The house is expecked pechted s take up this as well as the bill containing tax breaks arvids and businesses tomorrow and the omnibus on friday. More on that now from a capitol hill reporter. The headline says it all. House to vote friday on spending bill. The author of that is scott long senior taf writer with the hill. How did it come together . Who are some of the key lead er involved in putting it together . On the house side, the new speaker, paul ryan, really delegated the responsibility to the lead proep rater, hal rogers of kentucky. He was negotiating with his democratic counterparts for weeks and weeks, really. Starting with leading these list bing sessions, trying to get buy in very early from the rank and file membership. And then about two weeks ago, when they had pored through a number of writers, thousands of writers and really whittled that list down, rogers and the democratic counterpart, kicked it up to the leadership level where it was expected that paul ryan and the other congressional leaders would really close the deal. It took a little bit longer than we expected, but it looks like they are going to get it down by friday. At the speakers News Conference following the gop conference meeting, you asked him the question, about what a successful vote looks like. It wont say what a successful republican vote looks like as members will vote how they want to vote, but how does this, what are you hearing about how the conference, the gop conference will vote and what are you likewise hearing about democrats . Well, we are hearing a little bit of opposition from nancy pelosi and some of the other democrats coming out of their meeting this morning. You know, they are concerned about one provision specifically, the provision that lifts the 40year ban on crude oil exports. Another provision that they had hoped would be in the package was a provision helping puerto rico as it deals with its debt crisis. So, we are hearing some grumblings, actually, from both sides, but it hasnt been as pronounced as perhaps previous and last minute spending packages. At least on the republican side, paul ryan has been reaching out to members starting really from the moment we took the speakers gavel, trying to get rank and file, holding these listening sessions. I asked him what a successful vote would like like. He wouldnt say specific numbers, but some lawmakers are saying that they could get over 100 votes for the omnibus bill, which would be better than some past bills. One lawmaker even predicted they get a majority of the majority, which would be roughly 124 votes. That would be a very strong vote for speaker ryan. Now, the house took a vote. Shortterm measure, so they could finish up this work on the socalled omnibus. Theyll vote on that on friday and thursday, theyre taking up this package of expiring tax cuts. Tax cuts. Tell us a bit more about whats in that bill. Well, speaker ryan actually points it to the tax extenders package as a big win for republicans. This would extend a number of tax breaks for businesses, corporations, individuals, even farmers. You know, in fact, make many of those tax breaks permanent. I think the total would be roughly 650 billion over ten years. Thats a significant amount of change. So, republicans are very happy about you know, about this package. In fact, most of them probably will support it in the house. Less so, less sport from democrats who have complained as recently as this morning that these tax breaks tend to favor corporations more than they favor working class families. Given paul ryan has used his interview yesterday and his thus Conference Today with reporters to talk about whats ahead in 2016 in returning to regular order, how important is a victory on this tax package and spending bill for whats ahead in 2016 . Yeah, i think paul ryan in fact many other leaders in the capitol see this as an opportunity to hit the reset button. Really, an appropriations process that would broken down in the past. If you remember, harry reid had begun filibustering republican bills that had been sent over from the house. Over concerns about levels. What ryan said today is he has been holding repeated talks with reed over these past few days, they are on the same page in a very general sense. They want to get back to regular order. I think with the twoyear budget deal in place that Speaker John Boehner sfruk with president obama and other negotiators. That really has allowed congress to pivot into 2016. Staff writer at the hill. Com and you can follow his reporting on twitter. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and give their attention. Monday on cspans landmark cases, well look at the case on one of the most devicive issues to come before the support. Abortion. It was decided in january 1973. It is a case that is controversial, that is constantly under skutny. And there is a question i suppose whether it ever will cease to be under scrutiny. Wanting to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, but unable to, Norma Mccorvey agreed to be the plaintiff in a 1970 case that challenged that law. Requesting she remain anonymous, the lawsuit listed her as jane roe and the defendant was henry wade. While she had the baby and put it up for adoption, her case made it to the Supreme Court. Jane doe had guarded the position seeking an abortion, but had been refused care because of a tex law. 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Under my leadership as secretary, we in fact began to consult social media for bechts and we will be doing more of this. Any reports of partial reports to the county tear are simply false. Five, since last year, we enhanced services. Six, we continue with information with state and local Law Enforcement around this country with regard to what we are seeing at the federal and international level. Director comey and i routinely do this and will be doing this later this week in a communication with Law Enforcement nationwide. We continue to share information with the private stakeholders such as business organizations, sports organizations, the ncaa, the nba, the nfl, for the same purpose, to share what it is we seek. Eight, as should be obvious to the public this Holiday Season in particular, there is a heightened security and Law Enforcement presence. At Public Events and Public Places across the country. 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