The committee will come to order. The Permanent Select Committee on intelligence is pleased to be out in public for a rare appearance. To our guests in the audience, welcome, we appreciate you being here. Please be advised that proper decorum must be observed at all times and disruptions in todays proceedings will not be tolerated. As a reminder to our members, we are here and will remain in open session. This markup will address only unclassified matters. Mr. Nunes pursuant to Committee Rule 6c the chair announce he is may postpone further proceedings today on any question of approving any measure on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The item for conversation for consideration today is the fisa reauthorization act of 2017. Clerk will designate the bill. The clerk h. R. 2478, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1974 to extend title 7 of such act and for other purposes. Mr.
Now, the House Intelligence Committee considers legislation to reauthorize section 702 of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. That allows the Intelligence Community to Access Communications of nonu. S. Persons, outside the u. S. His is one hour and 15 minutes. And this is one hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Nunes the committee will come to order. The Permanent Select Committee on intelligence is pleased to be out in public for a rare appearance. To our guests in the audience, welcome, we appreciate you being here. Please be advised that proper decorum must be observed at all times and disruptions in todays proceedings will not be tolerated. As a reminder to our members, we are here and will remain in open session. This markup will address only unclassified matters. Pursuant to Committee Rule 6c the chair announce he is may postpone further proceedings today on any question of approving any measure on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. Without objection the chair is
Opposed an amendment that failed which would have removed that language. The committee will come to order. The committee on foreign intelligence is pleased to be out in public for a rare appearance. Proper decorum must be observed at all times and disruptions in todays proceedings will not be tolerated. As a reminder to members, we are here and will remain in open session. This markup will address only nclassified matters. The chair announces he may postpone any measure on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Item for consideration today is h. R. 4478, the fisa reauthorization of 2017. The clerk will designate the bill. Caller h. R. 447 the clerk h. R. 4478, to improve foreign intelligence collection and safeguard accountability and oversight of acquisition of foreign intelligence to extend title 7 of such act and for ther purposes. Mr. Nunes i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered as read and open for amendment at an
A defense spending bill to provide 659 billion to the pentagon for the current fiscal year, 2018. Votes later this afternoon. Now live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. As you make available to your people the grace and knowledge to meet the needs of the day, we pray that your spirit will be upon the members of this peoples house, giving them the richness of your wisdom. Bless the members of the Majority Party as they prepare and gather these next days. May they, with those who accompany them, travel safely and meet in peace. Bless also the Minority Party as they prepare for their own gathering. May these days b
I want you to know im pleased to report today, rules committee favorably reported out this bill and we will be talking about the substance of that today. I reserve my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentlelady from new york is ecognized. Ms. Slaughter thank you, mr. Speaker. I wasnt quite ready but i thank my friend for yielding me the customary 30 minutes and yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Slaughter im sorry i cant support this continuing resolution today. The great government of the United States of america thats been called the last, best hope of man cannot be funded in traunches of maybe two weeks to three weeks. This is the fifth continuing resolution that we have done since the 30th of september. Thats an atrossfi. I dont think of any, any legislative body anywhere, totally unable to do its job. And as sorry as i am to say it, because of my Great Respect and affection for my fellow membe