Journal comes your way tomorrow at 7 00. We take you to the house of representatives. [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 the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by guest chaplain pastor Mark Westerfield, Central Baptist Church, round rock, in round rock, texas. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, i am humbled to stand before you in these honored and distinguished men and women today. To stand in the gap and offer this prayer. Today we gratefully recognize the gift of life, liberty, and responsibility you have given us to lead this great country. On behalf of these men and women, i ask for wisdom, discernment, and unity as they carry the weight of caring for the close to 350 million citi
Could speak with her child and expect a response and issues encouraged to reach to her child in that chance child had a chance to go to kindergarten ready to learn. Thank you for calling me. [applause]. Robert dobby is an awardwinning actor, screenwriter and director who spoke earlier this year at the annual conservative Political Action conference in washington describing the origins of his relationship with President Trump and his support for the president s agenda. [applause]. Good evening. I have to tell you, i got the invitation to come here and from seatac and acu and i said i aint showing up. There Something Else i have to do and im thrilled to be here with all of you. I have to say how moved i am to see how many young people are engaged. [cheers and applause] you are the future of this country and you have to be engaged and yet understand how important this moment is because this nation belongs to you. I would ask a question, how many of you on the day doubletalk came down that
Mr. Kutcher it is an honor to be here. As a young man brought up in the Public School system, i pledged my allegiance to that flag every single day, and the honor, maybe one of the greatest honors of my life today, is to be here and leverage the work that i have done as testimony that may in some way benefit this nation that i love. I would like to start by saying thank you to chairman corker for your leadership in this endeavor and to senator cardin. Your leadership has been extraordinary. I would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee that has supported this effort. This is a bipartisan effort, and in a country that is riddled with bipartisan separation on so many things, slavery seems to come up as one of these issues that we can all agree upon. I applaud you for your agreement, and i believe in you and your leadership and your ability to take us out of it. I am here today to defend the right to pursue happiness. It is a simple notion. The right to pursue happiness is be
Committee will come to order. Mr. Debty attorney general, welcome to the commerce justice and science appropriations subcommittee which we will be hearing in department of justice fiscal year 2018 budget request. Im pleased to welcome you here to your first hearing before this subcommittee and im grateful that you and attorney general sessions have brought new desperately needed leadership to the doj. Youre input is helpful and necessary as we review the present Spending Priorities in order to ensure the countrys National Security and Law Enforcement needs are funded appropriately and sufficiently. This is a challenge in budget climates as you know. As Violent Crime has risen, the president proposes to decrease funding to the department of justice by 637 million in 18 for a new total of 28. 3 billion. Since the start of the new administration and during the early days of your tenure as the Deputy Attorney general im pleased that the department is refocusing on these core mission of enf
General rob rosenstein, there he is on the screen, testifying about the Justice Departments budget request for fiscal year 2018. Much of the questioning has been on the investigation into russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether President Trump has been an impediment in that investigation. E join it in progress. Mr. Rosenstein i think o. M. B. Would be the right agency to answer that question. Mr. Senator lankford i hope to work on that. Rather than go back to treasury, as we solve that issue, that budget gimmick goes away. Ill follow up on a question for the record to private prisons that i know youre trying to reengage and well follow up. Thank you. Chairman shelby senator coons. Senator coons thank you, mr. Chairman. Deputy attorney general rosenstein thank you for being ere. You are here because attorney general sessions abruptly canceled his commitment to appear before this committee it is the attorney generals job to be here today. The fact he has again chosen to skip t