Contributing to this nation. I ask my colleagues to consider h. R. 592 and how we can make it better. So that it can go forward and help the places of worship, i thank you and i yield back my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. I wish to yield four minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Smith. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Smith i thank the gentleman for yielding, i thank the gentlelady for her strong and passionate remarks, i want to thank congresswoman meng for her support of this bill. Let me say a couple of points to my colleagues, i will be submitting for the record a fine seasonal sis for tissue analysis for the beckett fund for religious liberty, a law firm that has done yomans work on this yoemans work on this, they have written a statement to us members of congress by its leaders, it points out, not only does the establishment clause not support femas not giving aid too religious organizations. Eric rus
Enemies in an unprecedented way tonight. The president today truly is unprecedented what he did to former cia director john brennan. According to brennan after he revoked the clearance, he didnt inform him. He let him find out through television. I was called by a friend and associa associate when Sarah Huckabee sanders was giving that statement so i had no knowledge of it beforehand, no one contacted me. I have not heard anything from any Government Official since then or before then. Okay. So not only did no one from the Trump Administration, from the white house, tell the former head of the cia that the president of the United States had in an unprecedented manner stripped him of his security clearance. The cia itself was caught off guard, they didnt know this was going to happen. Were reporting no one consulted the Top National Security adviser to the president , dan coats. Thats an incredible thing to think about. On what grounds does the white house say the unprecedented decision