former congressman from texas. congressman, thank you for sticking with us. >> thank you. >> secretary of state mike pompeo appears to my eye right now to be popping like a skillet full of popcorn with the lid off. he keeps changing his schedule. he keeps pinging different places around the world that he didn't say he was going to go to. keeps canceling other meetings. he just canceled a meeting with germany. canceled a meeting with greenland. went to -- unexpectedly and crashed someone else's meeting in brussels. he is planning on meeting with vladimir putin tomorrow. i wonder if somebody with experience on the armed services committee, somebody who serves in congress, if you feel like there are reasons for people to be worried right now about what's going on with national security adviser john bolton and mike pompeo, with them appearing to be beating the drums for war with iran, with what appears to be something frenetic going on with the secretary of state's schedule, the president hosting authoritarian leader v

sir ress and the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, each will control 20 minutes, the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. sires: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 2002. the taiwan assurance act of 2019. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sires: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sires: i rise in strong support of h.r. 2002, the taiwan assurance act of 2019. last month, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the taiwan relations act. so it is fitting that we are standing here today to bring two important measures to the floor including this one to affirm the congressional support for taiwan. taiwan serves as a steadfast and significant partner to the united states, not just in the independento-pacific but all around the world. it makes substantial contributions to the international community by tackling global chall

texas that i represent. god, family, country important to us whether you call yourself a democrat or republican ultimately, we in texas and southwest texas hold those values dear. we dealt with the pillars of thi issues, that is public safety education, property taxes health and human services, you know, those are the things we dealt with primarily as we went through our 17 counties and visited with folks from all spectrums from the big cities to the smallest towns out in the west on the border town. those are the issues that got us -- >> laura: senator, democrat are they going to flip the state? >> pete: no, ma'am, i don't think so. what you are hearing mostly is from a very vocal group, but a silent majority spoke in my race and they are going to speak again in 2020. and this state is no longer going to be a straight ticket voting state. it is a check the box in 2020. >> laura: thank god. >> pete: so no one can predict they will take it.o it is not, no one can say, but what i can say, we will work hard. we

i know the state of texas does. if we defeat this rule and defeat this bill we'll allow those best ideas to come out, not ideas about how to keep people down but ideas about how to lift families up. we've come together on those issues before, madam speaker. we can do it again. i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. shalala: thank you. i appreciate the comments of the gentleman from georgia. i enjoyed the opportunity of working with him on the rules committee. we are not -- we are not objecting to what was done in 1996. we are saying to the states that they must cover pre-existing conditions as part of a waiver and they cannot undermine those conditions by imposing annual limits or charging more. the problem with the guidance is that -- is it gives states the opportunity to propose cheap plans that in essence undermine pre-existing conditions. i reserve my time. i'm ready to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: thank you, madam

can texas wait two more years? >> one of the things i said in the very beginning is, the time is now. we can't wait because we have a list of names of women that have lost their lives behind this. >> sreenivasan: the study of climate change is no longer limited to laboratories andnt scts. citizen scientists are helping with research, including a look back through centuries-old ship's log books. rachel becker, environment reporter for cal matters and formerly a reporter for the verge, joined me recently via skype from sacramento for more on what these handwritten histors are telling us. >> it's pretty big. so far, about 200 log books have been tracribed so far. >> sreenivasan: and these are people who were actually tasked with keeping track of the weather on a daily basis. these ships, there'd be somebody waterd to go test t temperature, the air temperature or the barometric pressure, and write it all down. >> mm-hmm. so, thes from all sorts of different ships. there were merchant ships traveling from the u.k. and s

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from texas, mr. wright, is recognized. mr. wright: i rise today in support of the global electoral exchange act offered by mr. castro. authoritarian regimes are a threat to international security and economic progress all around the world. countries like china, russia, orth korea, iran and venezuela present major rod blocks to peace and prosperity. if there is nothing dictators that fear more is free markets and freep people. tyrants use repressive tactics to crack down on public protests. the world is a safer more prosperous place when individuals are governed as citizens and not subjects. promoting democracy abroad has been a bipartisan cause. the united states must maintain its leadership in keeping the flame of freedom burning. this legislation gives us another opportunity to be that leader. the global electoral exchange act would fa sill till tate monitors, poll workers and civil society leaders who participate in elections. by promoting best practices and empowering foreign societies to conduct

real thing in texas. he turned a lot of people out to vote who would not have voted. he also turned lot of people who might not have voted for democrats to vote for democrats. >> that helped not only him but this whole slate of candidates. >> beto also crushed fund-raising records, bringing in almost $80 million without pac money. thanks to his constant posts on facebook, beto mania didn't just sweep the state but the entire country. >> he would do things like go to a what-a-burger and skate in the parking lot. he would do his laundry on facebook live, and people would watch. people would watch him do laundry. in a time where there's so much, he penetrated. in connecticut and oregon, people had beto for senate signs. >> he did all that without pollsters or speechwriters. it was just beto being beto. >> he's very charismatic. a very compelling speaker. he's shown he's a fantastic fund-raiser. especially from small donors. and i think people like him. >> he's our best bet to beat trump because he can bring

. >> ainsley, good morning for texas. ainsley: good morning, i love texas. jeff, tell us about this bill? what did it say and why was it blocked in the house. >> ainsley again, good morning. thanks for having me on this morning. i'm happy to be with you and your viewers. look, this chick-fil-a bill this piece of legislation is about the fundamental pillars upon which our nation and the state of texas were founded. this is about our freedom of religion, our freedom of worship. this is about our first amendment rights secured by god and secured by the constitution. the chick-fil-a bill here in texas under the leadership of our governor greg abbott, attorney general paxton and my friends senator brian hughes and representative crouse meant to push back against the city of san antonio, city council which pushed a resolution in city council chambers a few weeks ago that would have banned chick-fil-a from having an 125e789 at the san antonio airport merely because chick-fil-a has in the past supported organizations like

we're watching strong thunderstorms in areas of north texas. this is round one. we'll have two rounds of strong storms today they'll hit the same spots we're worried about flash flooding, too. 19 million people at risk. it's been two years since we've had a high risk of severe weather issued it's been awhile this area of pink is at greatest risk and it includes areas along the texas/oklahoma border. the storm should be forming on the texas side and heading into oklahoma and eventually over toward oklahoma city and if that's not bad enough, the threat of the about 7 million people under a high risk of flash flooding in areas of southern kansas and oklahoma we have two big threats today because of the thunderstorms tornados and life threatening flash flooding. >> bill, thank you for the heads up >>> president trump is firing back at the first republican to break ranks in the wake of the russia investigation michigan congressman justin amash accused the president of impeachable conduct after reading the full mueller report. craig boswell is joining us from d.c. with

the texas purge. governor conley said it's the next best thing to a poll tax -- he actually called it that, purging the list. found its said they was intentional to dilute the votes. wallace county just did a whole series of those. they said it was about voter fraud. the courts found otherwise. texas senate bill 14 is the voter id case. did with this was put in what was happening. of course you have the great recession of 2008. upset everyone. obama, who is elected president as a minority candidate for the you have huged turnout and registration of african-americans and minorities for the first time, and you also become widespread that certain states like texas and the whole united states is going to become a majority minority state, and i think it's this sort of crisis that leads to the voter id law that fits this whole pattern. so that's how i show senate that people could understand what was going on at the time. things in texas, for example, you could have a gun vote, butand you can you cannot hav

by the way, welcome to texas. welcome to the border and all those people in the background trying to come in. and so let's look at taxes. in el paso we are apprehending el paso 930 people a day. we will approach 1 million people apprehended this year plus on the border from california to brownsville, texas. i was talking to law enforcement one out of every three or four. >> laura: 6,000 they think in this sector alone have been got a ways. and probably more than 6,000. so the real number is much bigger than 1 million coming in. >> dan: that is why i said to you we have close to 10% of the population here illegally. there was a poll recently 152 million people in the world want to come to america and 40 million central america. they are coming. last month, laura, del rio of the sector 12 years ago this time worked in the border patrol in the bushes at night, and at that time, mostly single males crossing. last month, we had 30,000 single males caught but 63,000 families. that is what is happening. and has a reset o

texas will be at risk. it's very much life or death issue if she can talk to chickenhawk so she can talk to musicals and she contracted the flu if she contracted months those are all life threatening disease the surgery on her . right after she was born giuliana had a heart transplant. and since then she's been on medication it's left her immunocompromised. that means she can't receive live virus vaccine is like m.m.r. or rotavirus. she looks like she's a normal child but she's not we already had 2 hospital stays this year and it's just barely able and one of them is from a vaccine preventable disease that she's not able to be vaccinated against most. she voted i have no idea i have no idea we were i mean she could have gotten it from the grocery store or she could have gotten it from a part i mean i try to keep her away from certain things but i can't she can't live in a bubble not why we live close to our hospitals i had to rush her down to the hospital a week ago a week ago today i was in my car driving

hace 31 aÑos naciÓ en hidalgo, texas un niÑo en presencia de una partera. segÚn el gobierno, las declaraciones certificadas no son suficientes. mar esqueda ha tenido que enfrentar una verdadera pesadilla legal. este hispano arriesgÓ su vida en dos guerras por estados unidos. tne derecho a un pasaporte estadounidense. reportera: Éste hombre civil marina de los estados unidos en irÁn y afganistán, luego formÓ parte de la guardia nacional. dice que le quitaron el pasaporte estadounidense porque no le creen que naciÓ en estados unidos demanda contra el departamento de justicia ante una corte federal de minnesota. >> este es mi paÍs, al que yo amo con todo mi corazÓn. que me digan que ya no pertenezco aquÍ, ese es un insulto para mÍ. reportera: segÚn eso, naciÓ en hidalgo, texas en 1988, una partera y un policÍa fueron testigos de su nacimiento. durante su servicio en la marina le dieron una autorizaciÓn militar de seguridad de nivel secreto. segÚn la demanda, sÓlo se le otorga a los ciudadanos y requiere de una extensa retenciÓn de antecedente

en mcallen, texas, pedro rojas, univisiÓn. ilia: mientras el gobierno intenta de todo para cerrarle el paso a la inmigraciÓn ilegal, algunos indocumentados se las ingenio para cruzar la frontera. con una escalera de soga, por ejemplo. como le tentaron cinco personas para atravesar una valla metÁlica hacia texas. poco despuÉs de su intento, terminaron arrestados. jorge: agentes migratorios mexicanos arrestaron a 100 emigrantes que trasladaban encima del tren de carga conocido como "la bestia". el operativo tuvo lugar en el sureÑo estado de oaxaca . los migrantes fueron trasladados a un centro de detenciÓn, desde donde posiblemente sean deportados a sus paÍses de origen. ilia. hacemos una pausa. al regresar, investigan misteriosas marcas de mordidas en los cuerpos de dos niÑas de dos guarderÍas de arizona. jorge: se presentan en cortes de miami, florida, demandas por bienes confiscados por el gobierno cubano hace mÁs de 60 aÑos. ilia: y una lata de salud tiene que ver con los quÍmicos de los papeles que entregan al az

you can see it's in texas and oklahoma right now. again, we've never had anything this high here issued in our area. when you see this high risk, it means that they are expecting eathe national wer service and forecasters are expecting wispread severe weather. we're talking about long track in texas and oklahoma. we've had one co.firmed tornad they're using language such as particularly dangerous situation. here in our area when we declare weather alert day, that means the storm prediction center has issued just a slight risk for severe weather. we had a slight risk over the weekend. we did have some really strong storms with heavy rainfall and gusty winds, but that teat is so much higher, much more significant. we're talking about the potential for ef-5 deadly tornadoes in parts of texas and oklahoma as well as humongous h sizeil and strong damaging winds. a really serious situation this afternoon and evening in texas and the national weather service only using language this strong, this severe describing e potential for this tornad

and we saw it in texas. over the last two years, we campaigned in every single one of the 254 counties in texas. it didn't matter how big or how blue. we did not take you for granted. we showed up to listen to you just like we are doing here today to find out what was on your mind and incorporate your story into our campaign. it didn't matter how red or rural, we showed up. we did not write you off, or presume anything about you. we went not to the reddest county in the state of texas, but the reddest county in the united states of america. voted for donald trump 96% in the 2016 election, but they are every bit as deserving of being listened to, of being fought for, served as anyone else in our state regardless of their affiliation or geography. we showed up there as well. and sue, i thought you would like this story. we were in archer county, archer city. you all will know it from lonesome dove and the last picture show. we are going into the cafe to hold a town hall meeting just like this, only smaller. ab

for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, it is an honor to recognize frederick william rusterberger of brownsville, texas. he served the majority of his professional career as the original founding c.e.o. and president of international bank of commerce in brownsville until his retirement in october 27, 2016. in the early 1970's a, he served his country as an officer in the united states army. after receiving the army commendation medal and honorable discharge, he returned to his hometown and helped develop the area's future. he began his 40-year banking career at bank of the southwest. shortly thereafter he opened the first international bank of commerce bank facility in comman ron county in 1984. a champion of education -- mman ron county -- cameron county in 1983. a champion of education, he and his family established

what drives texas? if you're going to manufacture in this country, the cost of steel is about the same in south korea as it is in m idland texas. what america does better than anybody is innovation and our energy costs are now low. we can compete with any country in the world. and lastly, morally i never want , to see our country held hostage by a foreign country over energy needs, not when we have it here. i don't want to see our kids deployed. if you want to deal with iran or russia, there's only two ways. you can deal with them militarily or you can deal with them economically. and the u.s. is in a position now to sub plant every drop of iranian crude. that is unthinkable ten years ago. think about texas. the presidential election is coming up. there was no path for president and donald trump to win except through texas. no path. and texas took some hits last election. and many of us have been in the republican party a long time. so you go back ten years ago and remember what it was with a democratic

johnson of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 377, the gentlewoman from texas, ms. johnson, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas. ms. johnson: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today to support this amendment. the amendment requires navigators to receive training on how to assist consumers with medicaid and chip enrollment. this amendment has also been scored by the congressional -- congressional budget office to have no effect on direct spending or revenue. the health insurance navigators program was created by the affordable care act to assist individuals with selecting and enrolling in health insurance coverage plans. they were intended to carry out public education activities, provide information to perspective enroll e.s.a. about insurance options, -- enrollees about insurance options, and assistance, and other state or health care programs. fundamentally, their responsibility was to help people make the best health care decisions for them and their families. unfortunately this essential program has

the gentleman from texas. mr. mccaul: let me first say, i like everyone in this chamber supports human rights and climate justice, but this amendment does nothing to reduce our emissions. we should debate bipartisan issues and advancing technologies and promoting innovation. and with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. -- in the opinion f the chair, the ayes have it. -- pursuant to clause 6 of rule 16, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 3 printed in house report 116-42. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota seek recognition? ms. omar: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 3 printed in house report 116-42 offered by ms. omar of minnesota. the chair:

and so we went right away to texas to start unraveling eve's story. >> center, texas. it is kind of in the middle of nowhere. it's ten miles from the louisiana border. it is very much friday night lights. it is the most friendly town with the best people. david, hi! >> how are you? it's so good to see you. >> what are you doing in center? >> i'm just back home. >> in the little neighborhood we were in, everyone took care of everyone's children. for many years we didn't even lock doors. you couldn't find a better place to raise your children. i brought 'em home from the hospital to this house. >> there was a ton of woods back there, and we would build forts. we weren't allowed to be home unless it was almost dark. get outside and play. >> so what kind of child was eve? >> if you ask my mom, i was swinging from the chandeliers. >> she was just swinging from the ceilings. little fireball. energetic we did dance and ballet and softball. she d eedi could with a happy gene, she was born with it, because she was just always happy and optimistic about everything. >> so many me

b >> yes, this is the border fence and del rio, texas. the real sector has 4 miles of fencing and two in del rio. >> laura: wait a minute commit 4 miles and the sector is in 209 miles? >> 209 miles of border in the real sector and approximately 4 miles have fencing. 2 here and 2 passed texas. >> laura: shocking and embarrassing that we have such little fencing for this huge area. you see it in the air and of course on the boat. it makes it a lot easier for illegal immigrants most importantly cartel mongering the bad guys trying to make it across to penetrate into the country. it also kind of sense a stark message to the americans in the del rio section itself. and washington leaders don't get or they don't care about it. so how do we fix this problem?ds 20 mi vice president national border patrol council, john aniston and border patrol agent right here in del rio, texasro john, this is your sector.l you have 2 miles of fencing behind us here. family unit apprehension, way way up there, 636%. for this fiscal year alone. >> john: that is ri

tomorrow it's east texas, oklahoma and arkansas. and, john, i think early next week could be stronger still, north texas, oklahoma and kansas will really be where the bull's- eye is focused. everybody has to be on alert in that portion of the country. let's go back to you. >> dickerson: thank you, lonnie. we're learning new details tonight about the crash of an f- 16 fighter jet in riverside, california. a dashcam captured the moment the plane, armed with live munitions, fell from the sky yesterday, smashing through the roof of a warehouse. jamie yuccas is there. >> reporter: nearly a mile-long perimeter around the crash site remained off limits to the public 24 hours after a fighter jet plummeted through the roof of this warehouse near the march air reserve base. >> that's a military airplane in our building. >> reporter: business owner frank sandoval and his eight workers were inside the building when the f-16 crashed. >> we heard a loud boom, the windows blew open, the doors blew open, ceiling fixtures falling down. literally, we

favorite places in austin texas. schoolbook is one of its largest cities more than 41000 people live here 1st we'll take a short stroll through the city to the markets where one of the most beautiful squares in the various. services. on top of the historic town hall you can see st rishis the patron saint of cool book. the people here call the saint up there god was the man because the length of a thick innocent should be the same as the famous who was god forced but if i take a look at it i don't see any similarities to you. we continue on to even book for a long time cool book was one of the capitals of the duchy of sex a cool book and cool to the city was a meeting place of the european aristocracy the british royal family also has its roots here. if you don't book tell us was the city residents of the us and on top of this hill you'll find there castle fortress one of the largest and best preserved fortifications in germany. co book fortress its majestically almost 200 metres above the town defensive walls cannons

rain across north texas. and dry across south texas. that's not going to last long. another wave coming through tapping the gulf of mexico with warm moisture. heavy rain there and during the day sunday, a severe weather across georgia and the carolinas and here in the northeast a wet mother's day. tom? >> rob, we will stay tracking that weather through 9 weekend. thank you. >>> another major story tonight. overseas,ed deadly mission to save hostages in west africa. an american across the prison tors, two french soldiers killed in the rescue operation. here is ian pannell. >> reporter: 20 french commandos overnight in a daring rescue operation freeing an american hostage and three others, including these french tourists who went missing last week with their guide in pendjari national park in the african country of benin. the guide later found dead. american intelligence helped locate the french tourists, and only when they were rescued was it discovered the two other hostages were with them. an american and a korean woman, kidnapped separately almost a month ago. the

in texas. it will have a voter suppression effect throughout the state of texas. i tell you, democrats, it won't matter who we nominate if we do not fix voter suppression in states that matter. it has been rampant in this year. >> my hero was burr, my zero is barr. nothing new with him, but the scariest development in all of the lawlessness that happened with in-house attorney general. guys, nicole, rick, don, appreciate you guys coming out. it means a lot for you guys to be here. fun stuff. up next, my take on the message the democrats need to win in 2020. don't go anywhere. ♪

this is the texas state capitol the seat of all our government and texas it's as big as a country you've got to have this kind of room more than $3000000.00 visitors a year come just to check the place out. austin is the home of the creative class of texas and nothing shows that offer better than the hope outdoor gallery this place is different every single day for my music i draw inspiration from all over the city and nothing does that for me like the whole bat or gallery some of the best in the world paint here and then it merely gets covered up with graffiti. for the end of our day together in austin i thought we'd come some place you can only see here this is the congress street bridge the home of the mexican free tell that in just a minute 1500000 of them are going to sweep across the town. well this is my day in austin i hope you had a great time and i hope you come down soon. my last stop in the oval franklin is by a lawyer. the city's best known for one person. the composer moved here in $872.00 and built a man she built up on feet for himself and his family today it's a museum a

green of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 389, the gentleman from texas, mr. green, and a member owe pieced -- opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. green: thank you, madam chair. i am honored to present amendment number 17, which deals with consumer choice. it deals with whether consumers will be forced into arbitration or whether they will have the choice of having arbitration or litigation and with litigation the consumer can have the choice of having the case presented as one person or as a part of a group. this amendment is one that the dodd-frank wall street reform act called to our attention by way of a study that was required. after performing the study, the cfpb issued a final rule to regulate the use of mandatory arbitration clauses. and in so doing, it was something that we believe would have been beneficial to consumers. yet before the rule could take effect, it was rescinded by congress in november of 2017. my amendment o

liliana: la mayorÍa de centroamericanos que llegan al valle del rÍo grande, en texas, donde de acuerdo eso trÍas estÁn a 200 por ciento de su capacidad, dicen que llegan de manera ilegal cada dÍa 4500 inmigrantes. >> hay mucha gente. habÍa lleno allÍ. >> tuvieron donde dormir con la niÑa? >> de comer no. no nos dieron nada. >> dentro de este plan se examina el estado de salud de los reciÉn llegados. no se acepta de niÑos no acompaÑados. y la niÑa que se determine que no viajar con sus padres podrÁn ser separados de los adultos que los acompaÑan. activistas manifiestan que el que hace todos los esfuerzos para ayudar a estos inmigrantes que reciÉn estÁn llegando a esta Área del paÍs a un les hace falta mucha ayuda. sobre todo para satisfacer las necesidades de los mÁs pequeÑos. >> porque no nos estÁn patrocinando. simplemente estamos como una agencia no lucrativa. y las donaciones que nos llegan es lo que estamos utilizando. >> se espere que cada semana lleguen tres viajes. arantxa: tras una fuerte reacciÓn de demócratas y republicanos, el presidente trump le asegur�

texas will be at risk. it's very much life or death as soon as she contract a chickenhawk so she can talk to musicals and she contracted the flu if she contracted months those are all life threatening diseases surgery. right after she was born giuliana had a heart transplant. and since then she's been on medication it's left her immunocompromised. that means she can't receive live virus vaccine is like in the market for rotavirus. she looks like she's a normal child but she's not we already had 2 hospital stays this year and it's just barely able and one of them is from a vaccine preventable disease that she's not able to be vaccinated against most brutal violence. she voted for have no idea i have no idea we were i mean she could have gotten it from the grocery store or she could have gotten it from a part i mean i try to keep her away from certain things but i can't she can't live in a bubble not why we live close to our hospitals i had to rush her down to the hospital a week ago a week ago today i was in

texas will be at risk. it's very much life or death issue if she can truck to chicken pox if she contract to measles and she contracted the flu if she contracted months those are all life threatening disease the surgery. right after she was born giuliana had a heart transplant. and since then she's been on medication it's left her immunocompromised. that means she can't receive live virus vaccines like him or her rotavirus. she looks like she's a normal child but she's not we already had 2 hospital stays this year and it's just barely able and one of them is from a vaccine preventable disease that she's not able to be vaccinated against most brutal violence. she heard of i have no idea i have no idea we were i mean she could have gotten it from the grocery store or she could have gotten it from a part i mean i try to keep her away from certain things but i can't she can't live in a bubble not why we live close to our hospitals i had to rush her down to the hospital a week ago a week ago today i was in my ca

flooding from texas to the northeast. rainfall rates up to three inches. nuooding is going to conti into the weekend. >> already, al, thank you. now to the danger at the top of the world. the 6th anniversary of the first r time mt. everest was eve summited and pressure is hiilding on nepal to impose restrictions on rs after the 11 deaths on the peak this season. richard epgle is there for us. >> the nepalese government is imposing new regulations with health checks and qualifications for climbers who want to test themselves against everest.re including thamericans. mountaineers blame overcrowding and inexperience and greed. in kathmandu, ben jones has been leading expeditions for a long time. >> they need to take responsibility for the climbers they are bringing making sure they are properly vet and have enough experience. >> the sherp said the climbers lost respect for the mountain. >> a lot of climbers who just want to check the box so they can say they have been to ore top of the. >> 381 permits were granted this said year for those trying to reach the

two minutes to the gentleman from texas, van taylor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. taylor: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 2480, the stronger child abuse prevention and treatment act, which includes my provision, asking for a study of forced child marriages in the united states. it is shocking to think that the justice center estimates between 2000 and 2015, more than 207,000 children were married in this country. in texas alone, 40,000 minors were married between 2000 and 2014. i hope we can all agree that marriage should be between consenting individuals, that children should not be married without their consent. i was proud to end forced child marriages in texas, and i know states, red and blue, have addressed this problem and solved it. but we need to work harder here in the united states congress. i'm grateful to my colleague from washington to accept this amendment, to work on studying forced child marriage in the 43 states that have not adjusted

so ryan is starting out in irving, texas. he was a businessman. he went to texas a&m. he started a great big company that really makes sense. he is the first engineer in the history of the railroad commission. he has an idea about efficiency, about ratio, he understands mathematical terms. and inflection points. that can bring to bear texas and its assets and resources to where they will be utilized properly for the benefit of the people of the state of texas. please help me welcome our railroad commissioner. [applause] mr. sitton: i have to brag on pete. i did not remind pete what my wife's name was. he just walked up and said, is jennifer here? and i said no. but he said, you are an aggie right? he just remembered that. it's interesting how those moments stick in your mind when with someone like pete did, he honored me, thank that.or can you think of a time in your life when something happened that changed the way you thought. changed your perspective. changed how you think things should be done. the biggest time in recent history i can remember is november 6 of last

i love texas. when i grew up in a very poor neighborhood, or family. my dad was a construction worker with a second grade education. my mom had a six grade education and we grow up in a home that my dad developed with my uncle , i have brothers, seven brothers and sisters, we had no running water, we didn't have a telephone until june in high school. so it was, we didn't realize we were poor and there's people in this room who come from similar backgrounds and then i graduated from high school with my parents, but that was a great compliment . their older son graduated from high school, i was not encouraged to go to college. i enjoyed the air force and admitted for kids, they ended up going into the military was represented freedom, layout reedit so i got station at econ alaska, first duty station and i'm into graduate and interest in me and they said you're a blanket, you want to think about going to college. and they help me get an employment with the air force academy. from there i really wanted to be a pilot, that was my dream area but my eyes betr

a tornado was spotted this evening in the texas panhandle. this is near spearman, texas. there is no word of serious damage. tornado watches stretch from southern texas into oklahoma and kansas. there is also a good chance of hail and severe thunderstorms in the region. today marks one year since former attorney general jeff sessions announced the trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy in which migrant families were separated at the border. that policy was struck down. and a federal judge last month ordered all families reunited by october. tonight in our continuing series "separated and counting," manuel bojorquez has the reunion of a father and daughter who were apart for 326 days. >> reporter: what comes after four? >> five. >> reporter: seven-year-old angie is learning to count in english. nine? >> ten. >> reporter: ten, there you go. that's also the number of months she's been separated from her father, adolino. they arrived at a border crossing in mcallen, texas, last year, seeking asylum from threats of violence in honduras. angie was taken from h

texas has i think some of the lowest vaccination rates there are some cases the music is in texas but it's not really there are not connecting the dots and to full blown outbreaks what's happening is it's only a matter of time the situation we have in texas is 3 daughter we have the texas department of health we have 60000. kids not getting their vaccines the state of texas and those are the ones we know about these are highly vulnerable communities now and we should be very recently said to be. at the game in just a moment. if that happens children like 4 year old giuliana crepes who lives outside of houston. risk. it's very much life or death issue if she contract did chicken pox if she contract of measles and she contracted the flu and if she contracted months those are all life threatening disease the surgery. right after she was born giuliana had a heart transplant. and since then she's been on medication deflector immunocompromised. that means she can't receive live virus fact seems like in the more rotavirus. she looks like she's a normal child but she's not we already had 2 ho

go west texas. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. peters, for five minutes. thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to recognize the late colonel robert "bob" dingman, a decorated veteran and community leader who dedicated his life to service. his commitment began when he was just a teenager. he was living with his family in hawaii and serving in the reserve officer training corps when the japanese attacked pearl harbor. bob helped to get the women and children to safety before joining the defense of the base. the events of that day led bob to a life of military service. he graduated from west point in 1945 and went on to serve in world war ii, the korean war, and vietnam war. during his decades of service, bob earned a silver star, soldier's medal, bronze star, and purple heart. after retiring from the army, bob earned multiple masters degrees and worked as a college professor at san diego miramar college teaching math, histories and political science. h

the storm is expected to drop several inches of rain here in texas. and with many rivers and lakes, like this one behind me, already saturated, people downstream are bracing for possible flooding. rina. >> ninan: omar, thank you. more than 28 million people are in the path of severe weather tonight. meteorologist jeff berardelli joins us now tracking these storms. >> good evening, rina, and good evening, everybody. so we have two separate systems, one of them tonight and tomorrow, and then another stronger system as we move into monday and again on tuesday. so this is the area outlined in orange where we have the worst threat tonight, places like little rock, all the way down to tyler and brian, texas. on a scale of 1-5, it's about a 3, so right in the middle of the road there. mainly hail and wind, possibility of islealated tornadoes. kind of a similar story tomorrow but it's a little more disbursed across the ohio valley into the great lakes and sneft. again, wind and hail the main threat. but as we turn our attention to monday, the main threats are

the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. brady: thank you. for nearly two years, republicans have been advocating for policies that help our families and main street businesses to save more and earlier for the future. following the historic rewrite of our tax code, republicans knew that tax cuts and jobs act was only step one. we knew we'd change the trajectory of our economy with our reforms. today in america, we're growing 50% faster than the obama administration projected. wages are surging for blue-collar workers and low-income workers for the first time in a decade. in our job market -- and our job market continues to be the envy of the world. these are all encouraging signs, and rrps are committed to -- republicans are committed to building on this success for years to come, which is why last year we set out to change the culture in washington, here we only do tax reform once in a genera