[applause] where one new jersey, north, central, and south. an extended family striving for success. i pledged not to be the governor for all 9 million who call our great state home. with the goal of doing only what is best for our shared future. we shall take our cue from one of my heroes, the late states woman, barbara jordan. she said the imperative is to define what is right and do it. [applause] in a matter of weeks i will go before the legislature to present our first budget and to put these ideals into greater specificity. we have a budget that is belts fiscally and morally. will be bold but responsible and realistic. doing so will send a lot of clear message that our days and muddling through from crisis to crisis are over. we will charge forward with bold ideas and with recognition that while we cannot change everything overnight, we also cannot create a stronger tomorrow unless we start making smart investments today. [applause] the good news, is that we don't need to wait until the budget is presented. to my partners in the legislat

jersey four of the five lowest schools in new jersey. we worked with the school and effectuated an agreed-upon partnership. new cked a dynamic superintendent. we began a school-by-school evaluation with the goal of education in every classroom. we closed schools that didn't work. new charter ee chools, three new renaissance schools. and significantly cut back a wasteful office staff. been sults have astonishing. five years. rates years, graduation have gone from 49% to 70%. [applause] the dropout rates from dropped from 21% to 12%. warms s is the one that my heart the most -- the dropout rate for african-american in camden has been cut in half. [applause] to those that believe that throwing public money at ducation is what will fix it, camden is the proof -- we don't need to change the funding. e need to change the approach to educating students. people that run the state need to get that through their head camden is the proof of it. [applause] of course, there's still more to but a good public education is very possible for most camden

the gentlelady from new jersey -- new york reserves her time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield a minute to the gentleman from michigan, mr. walberg. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. walberg: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in full support of this funding extension which includes a vital long-term re-authorization of the state children's health insurance program, or chip. this bill provides the longest extension in history of the chip program and provides security for millions of kids and pregnant mothers. it's important to remember the house has already acted responsibly three times to extend chip. in november, this chamber passed the championing health kids act on a bipartisan vote. the bill not only would have extended chip for five years, but it also addressed other important public health programs like federally qualified health centers. regretfully, partisanship, political gamesmanship left that bill to languish in th

frelinghuysen of new jersey. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 696, the motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on appropriations. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen and the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. lowey, each will control 30 minutes this echair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. free like his -- mr. frelinghuysen: i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise to present the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 195rk the extension of continuing appropriations act of 2018. this critical legislation extends government funding through february 16. our current funding expires tomorrow night. if congress does not pass this bill, and the president does not sign it into law before then, the government will shut down. it is our congressional duty to prevent that from happening and to ensure the american people have access to government programs and services they depend on. the

the gentleman from new jersey reserves. members once again are reminded to please address their comments to the chair. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from minnesota, the ranking member of the interior subcommittee of appropriations, ms. mccollum. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from minnesota is recognized for two minutes. ms. mccollum: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this legislation, which ignores the urgent need of the american people. the federal government's fiscal year started october 1 of last year. but instead of fulfilling a responsibility to fund our government in a too manyly manner, -- in a timely manner, president trump and the republicans spent months working to pass their tax scam. now, because they didn't do their jobs, mr. speaker, republicans are asking us to vote to kick the can down the road again. this is no way to run a government. the american people deserve immediate action on critical issues

it goes from new jersey to penn station in new york. that is a valid point. we can fully expect this year members are present in urban districts calling for more money for transit projects. host: florida. daniel is on our line for democrats. yes, pertaining to so-called stimulus for infrastructure i cannot go back -- i can't help but go back to talk about the $800 billion plus, the $1 trillion obama confiscated from the american taxpayer. there was no accounting for a dime of it. as much as i love donald trump, i anticipate the same kind of -- host: we got you, caller. are there parallels to be made with this white house and what we saw under president obama and stimulus spending. guest: not necessarily. the stimulus -- some of that money was made available to states so states could apply, seek those funds. also, part of the whole incentive there, under obama, the u.s. dot created the tiger grants. these were funds that were part of the stimulus package, and they were for shovel-ready projects. while they were readily available for states, there was an applic

the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from maryland, the democratic whip, mr. hoyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman -- i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. speaker, we are now four months into the fiscal year, and this is our fourth continuing resolution. the gentleman says now is the time to work things out. every democrat voted to extend the fiscal year by 90 days. nothing was worked out. why? because you spent all your time on a tax bill, giving resources -- 83% of the resources to the richest people in america. republicans control all the levers of the legislative process -- the house, the senate, the white house. they have the votes on their own to keep the government open or choose to shut it down as they did by policy some years ago for 16 days. we don't want to shut down the government. keeping the gover

merkin tile located in new jersey -- america tile located in new jersey, which will retain duty relief on high tenacity rayon yarn, an input material used for naval defense systems. unfortunately this specialty yarn has not been produced domestically in 20 years. but that means removing the tariff here would help, not hurt, u.s. industry. new jersey has a robust presence of chemical companies. it is our largest industry, employing directly or indirectly over 100,000 jobs. and several those firms will receive tariff relief from numerous imported chemicals that i dare not try to pronounce. all of these folks who like their anti-pass tarks their italian subs and pizza with some extra heat were pleased to njoy tariff relief on little pep -- pep sinny. the n.t. sbmplet also intended to carefully prevent domestic companies -- companies from being harmed. under the current process, the international trade commission and the department of commerce analyzed whether products are currently or could be imminently produced in the united states. if such production or potential for production was fou

new york, philadelphia, rochester and other towns in new jersey. after civil rights 65, you had watts that occured. there were other issues and complex cities. the framework for dealing with legal segregation are different from what we have today and the problems surfaced immediately in the 1960's. that is the start with that. howard: give us some specific. the like of of -- accountability and bureaucracy? is there anything you look back on? certainly some people were helped, whether he was pittsburgh or any other place. theill always come back to building block of society and this predates education which is the family, community and religis organization -- what ies waht concentrate on the book is how to move a mass of black america into the economic mainstream. who have black elites excelled in every aspect of american life. room in thea has white psyche for a black elites. theuld like to talk about private sector because there needs to be a major movement in terms of the private sector as well as the income and asset gap of the middle class. how

>> i agree with the gentleman from new jersey. the chip to fund program, which is why we voted to extend it for six years a couple days ago. they voted against it. i agree that the states are beginning to run out of money and we need to come up with a resolution soon. this looks more like a way to atone for a bad vote that was made a couple days ago on the part of people on the floor today. fund theo go back and government. i care about the veterans that would have been covered by the continued resolution. i care about the military and military families affected by the cr. instead of doing these sorts of measures that give some level of cover or comfort for those who voted against these same things a couple days ago, let's get back on funding the government, opening it back up and making the right decision come resulting our differences, but not through half measures. i object. senator from ohio. >> i've heard my colleagues talk fort chip and take credit it. i am glad that they are in -- now actually for it. i have worked on chip

remains an jersey epicenter, the boston, new york, new jersey corridor, still a hotbed of innovation. good place to be, the weather is beautiful except for the six months of the year e discussed earlier, january, february, july, august, september, but, no, it's a very it's got this tremendous culture of innovation. s you know, sometimes the culture matters and in bell labs the culture is still a huge scientists to come and innovate. appeal is the the culture we've created here and it's part and parcel of being at this site in new jersey, this site of great innovation. bell 're president of labs, you're also the chief nokia, gy officer for but you have to justify your in nses to mba's back helsinki. if you start describing this, to want to going money-ize it? about, how dothink we survive when many other ndustrial labs like ours suffered. xerox, hp labs was a big deal. large and is now smaller. we've survived at roughly the same size. i think the argument i make is every year we deliver tremendous value. creatingr value that's billions of revenue, i mentioned capacity, times more if yo

sires of new jersey. he's the ranking member of the subcommittee on the western hemisphere. i want to thank him for bringing this issue forward in a timely -- on a timely manner, and over the past two decades, we have made unprecedented progress in addressing some of the most difficult global health challenges of our time. when you think about it, global rates of child mortality have dropped by 53%. the prevalence of tuberculosis has been cut, in fact, by half. malaria deaths are now down 47%. five countries in sub-saharan africa once ravaged by hiv-aids are on the verge of controlling their epidemics. the eradication of polio is within reach. the only place it still exists is on the pakistani-afghani border where the taliban control that region and as you know, the taliban resists vaccination. they in fact assassinate health workers who vaccinate. that's the only reason we have not been able to eradicate this last spot where polio continues to create -- create damage to young lives. yet, despite these su

the senator from new jersey is recognized. mr. menendez: mr. president, here we are on a sunday evening with the government technically already shut down a year basically after president trump said when we need is a good shutdown. i didn't say that. my colleagues, the democratic caucus, didn't say that. president trump said that, what we need is a good shutdown. so a year later, i would just simply say that republicans who control the house of representatives, the united states senate listened to president trump and they gave him a shutdown because of their unwillingness to compromise. now, there's no such thing as a good shutdown. i think we universally recognize that. now, i know my colleague who just spoke before me suggested that it's not the president who appropriates. that's true. he's very right. but what is true is that it's the president that's got to sign something, and when he doesn't tell you what he's for, it's very difficult to figure out what you're going to send him that he'll sign. that's why i heard the majority leader in some

chris christie leaves office after new jersey 8 years. this is courtesy of new jersey television station nj-tv. it's about 90 minutes. [applause]

entire the family at their new jersey cottage. grant, when he arrived from his world tour, was in need of some income. which was a head scratcher for most people because he was a general and people wonder why he didn't have a kind.n of some he had given up his pension to take the presidency. presidency,f his there was no pension at that time. so he was making his own way in the world. he had spent a lot of money on the world tour. his son, ulysses junior, buck, having been born in the buckeye state, got involved in wall street investment. he got his father involved. they formed a firm, an investment firm, with a man ward.ferdinand they named the firm grant & ward. investments went well for a while. money was coming in for the firm. everything started to collapse in the final year of grant's life. he ended up having a slip and fall on an icy sidewalk in new york city. that had him bedridden for a couple of weeks. the spring of the officerived at of grant and ward and learned of crisis.financial fromd to get a loan vanderbilt for $1

orblingly from new jersey, mr. kazarowski graduated from seaton hall law school before being hired as the assistant prosecutor for union county, new jersey. as assistant prosecutor, he tried his first murder trial at the age of 25. after a number of years with the prosecutor's office in new jersey, he moved with his family to georgia's first congressional district, specifically to skitaway island. here he continued his dedication to public service by serving on chat am county board of elections. he's survived by his wife, carol, of 30 years, along with a number of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. mr. kazarowski will be missed. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. yoder: mr. speaker, i rise today to celebrate the 150th a

after college, he fell in love with a girl from new jersey. a rhodelate to him, as island girl who fell in love with a government michigan, we hit it off right away. when he started his company, he convinced lisa to move to rhode island. he couldn't imagine chasing his dream anywhere else. alan got started in the basement, balancing a kid on one knee and his laptop on the other, while lisa supported their family teaching italian. but when his game math bingo hit store,one in the app they knew it was time to get out of the basement. abcya started hiring programmers, designers, and project managers from all around rhode island. when i met alan, it was clear to me that he loved rhode island, but he didn't shy away from telling me some of the things that frustrated him. our maze of regulations drove him crazy, and it was sometimes too hard to find people with the the right skills. it seemed to him that the state was putting up barriers instead of clearing the way for him to grow. that kind of thing drives me crazy, too. i asked alan to keep believ

vela: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. payne. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. payne: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i represent newark, new jersey, home of the port of newark and liberty national airport. port newark is the busiest container port on the east coast, handling over 700,000 cargo containers annually. in 2015, over 37 million passengers traveled through newark liberty international airport include manage traveling into the united states from abroad. as a member of congress representing the largest port on the eastern seaboard and one of the busiest international airports in the country, it is important to me that the federal government do everything in its power to push -- to protect our borders, to prevent dangerous cargo and dangerous people from coming into our country. d.h.s. overseas personnel enhancement act of 2017 would do just that by directing the department to develop and execute an overseas personnel assessment and enhancement plan. as we speak, nearly

tony, pleasantville, new jersey, democrat line. your thoughts on the debate and what the president had to say last night? caller: good morning, john. first, a quick response to that lady from texas, blaming everything on the democrats? the last time i checked, the president was in the white house and the republicans were in control of the house and the senate. that should take care of that. now they know how we felt the way republicans treated obama for eight years. now they want to kumbaya. of to get back to the state the union address, it sounded like a campaign rally speech to me. i agree with the caller before the lady from texas, but he is supposed to be a businessman and know how to make all these deals, and he has had more bankruptcies than the law allows. that is supposed to be a long order president -- he thinks he is above the law. that is why he is trying to stop the russia investigation. that is all i have this morning. henderson,t, kentucky, independent. good morning. caller: good morning, thank you for my call. dust b

the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone. mr. pallone: please join me with the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and stice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain 10 requests for one minute requests. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, we must reopen the government. i find it troubling that a majority of the senate democrats have chosen to jeopardize our military readiness and shut down government operations and eliminate health care coverage for low-income children while setting a deadline to address the daca issue. i know we must achieve comprehensive immigration reform which includes providing certainty on the status on children. but a government shutdown is not the way to ach

for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, you're recognized for one minute. mr. payne: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor jordan thomas, a senior at princeton university and a graduate of university high school in newark, new jersey, for being selected as the 2018 rhodes scholar, one of only 32 this they i -- in the country. this young man who grad in my district is the first newark public school student in over a decade to receive this prestigious honor. in addition to getting straight a's since his freshman year at princeton, jordan is writing a thesis on school-based support services that newark public schools offer pregnant and parenting teens. and the next year he will be taking his talents abroad to study social policy at oxford college in england. jordan plans to return to his home of newark as a public servant. he told a newspaper, newark built me. newark shaped me. as a life-long resident of newark myself, i know that feeling. mr. speaker, i ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating jordan tho

it goes from new jersey to penn station in new york. that is a valid point. we can fully expect this year members are present in urban districts calling for more money for transit projects. host: florida. daniel is on our line for democrats. yes, pertaining to so-called stimulus for infrastructure i cannot go back -- i can't help but go back to talk about the $800 billion plus, the $1 trillion obama confiscated from the american taxpayer. there was no accounting for a dime of it. as much as i love donald trump, i anticipate the same kind of -- host: we got you, caller. are there parallels to be made with this white house and what we saw under president obama and stimulus spending. guest: not necessarily. the stimulus -- some of that money was made available to states so states could apply, seek those funds. also, part of the whole incentive there, under obama, the u.s. dot created the tiger grants. these were funds that were part of the stimulus package, and they were for shovel-ready projects. while they were readily available for states, there was an applic

. >> i'm from new jersey a social service organization. i wonder how you propose we are going to pay for the increase in psychiatrists and social workers and all of the additional services that are needed when medicaid is being cut, insurance reimbursement is lacking to say the least and most people are not even covered. >> well, what i would say is that those negotiations go on between the congress and the president. we don't know what that is going to look like. but i would advocate for putting the resources we need into insurance resources that will provide care and treatment for behavioral health and i don't mean just medical treatment but the psychosocial services. and i will keep saying that as long as i have the ability to do that from this position. so, i hope that that's going to be addressed. when i was going through the process of confirmation i was able to meet with lots of senators. i can tell you that they said they are very committed to this and very interested in this in a way that i have never heard of in my time as an adu

the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone. mr. pallone: please join me with the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and stice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain 10 requests for one minute requests. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, we must reopen the government. i find it troubling that a majority of the senate democrats have chosen to jeopardize our military readiness and shut down government operations and eliminate health care coverage for low-income children while setting a deadline to address the daca issue. i know we must achieve comprehensive immigration reform which includes providing certainty on the status on children. but a government shutdown is not the way to ach

in new jersey and new york it may be hurricane sandy. it may be hurricane harvey in texas. it may be hurricanes and floods in the virgin islands, puerto rico, florida. no matter where you live, you are subject to be visited by some catastrophic event. and it becomes the responsibility of the congress to respond on the half of the -- on behalf of the american people. this continuing resolution refuses to give the aid and comfort needed to the people of the virgin islands, puerto rico, texas, other states, and now california, with its fires. we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, for punishing the american people, who are suffering through no fault of their own. so, we are going to vote no on this resolution, because we feel that it fails to adequately and properly respond to the needs of the american people. and with that i will yield to the gentleman from new york. mr. jeffries. rep. jeffreys: thank you, leader cliburn. thank you chairman richmond for your tremendous leadership, and all the members of the congressional black caucus. since day one of the trump presidency, all

. >> chair lady from new york. >> i am pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman of new jersey. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i respect my colleagues from oregon, but you have done nothing over the last year but sabotage the affordable care act. sabotage health care in this country. the fact of the matter is the only reason you are willing to bring up the chip bill as part of the cr is that you put in the tax plan to eliminate the mandate for help insurance, which means 13 million people are not going to have health insurance in this country over the next few years, and the money that to help -- and the money to help subsidize their premium, does not have to be paid. all of a sudden, you say, ok, we will put a six year check the lumbar floor. it was not only from the but says ifund, somebody did not pay their health insurance within 30 days, they were going to lose their health insurance. they said another 500,000 people would lose her health insurance. everything that this majority has done since day one of this session

diana in's hear from woodbridge, new jersey. the government shutdown. what do you think? caller: i believe this is all donald trump's fault. i'm a democrat and i did not vote for trump. i hear some of the republicans talking all morning on this channel. i turned it on to watch the women's march, by the way. i would really like to see the women's march rather than talking about the shutdown. however, donald trump has lied. i believe that mitch mcconnell is just as much to blame. i think you should get everyone together, get something on the floor and vote for it and put it in front of the president and let the president assad. if he vetoes it, they can override his veto. but i think this is republicans fault. they are in charge of the entire government right now. from is a liar, he lied to the democrats and to the american people. and now the american people are suffering and they have no one to blame but the people who are in power, and that's republicans and donald trump. host: thank you. from diana and all of their viewers interested in washington, the house and senate

they packed up and moved up to the new jersey cottage in the summer to figure out what they were going to do for the future to rebuild their lives financially. approached by century financially because of magazine at this time, a think magazine company, to -- a big magazine company, to write some articles. grant had been pestered to author for many years, but always resisted. he did not think he would be much of an author. he was a very modest man. but most of all, he knew she did knew he did not need the money. they offered him $500 per article to pay the basic bills. grant started writing articles about the civil war in the summer of 1884. that is when his writing career began. that was a way to bring in some money. there was going to have to be a larger work of literature to be able to bring his family out of the debt they were in. grant started his writing career kind of shaky. his first article was seen as more of a dry, military report. the editor even went so far to remark that essentially it may be the second disaster of shilohte -- disaster of . it was a very poorly written ar

host: thanks for your call from new jersey. in baldwin place, new york, david is a recent immigrant, less than five years in the country. where did you come from? caller: i am here more than five years. , fromrom iran, ironically which i ran in 1979. ever since then, my wife and i have three degrees, including two doctoral degrees -- degrees. have immensely contributed toward the advancement of this great nation, and we are .hankful for all of that u.s. born children, each have their own degrees. this is what the true academy of animate -- a pity me -- epitome of an american life is. i hope we do not regress back to some of the government attitude in european countries with respect to immigrants. over the paste year or two that we are regressing, and we always knew a major portion of the american populace seemed to resent the idea of immigrants having arrived generations after them. one thing we were really caught off guard is that now, such sentiment on the part of jane doe and joe schmoe will now be really driven to the white

for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman s recognized for one minute. mr. payne: mr. speaker, congress must stop deferring the american dream for bright young people. simply because they were brought here as children. daca recipients represent the best of our nation. these are young people who are in school. got their education or served in ur armed forces. these are people who never committed a felony offense or significant misdemeanor. these are people who pose no threat to public safety. these are people who just want to live the american dream and each day that passes without congress voting on the dream act, darkens their futures. mr. speaker, if it's numbers that my colleagues want, i got them. deporting daca recipients would cost $400 billion. deporting the 5,300 eligible eople in my district alone would cost $140 million. aren't we supposed spob growing the economy, not shrinking it and i yield back? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek re

i'm proud to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith, who is the chairman of the foreign affairs subcommittee on africa, global health, global human rights, and international operations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. smith: i rise today in strong support of h.res. 676, in solidarity with the people of iran who courageously took to the streets in the recent weeks to protest their country's barbaric dictatorship. i want to thank my good friends ed royce and eliot engel in bringing this resolution to the floor and chairwoman emeritus for her work towards the years about iran and trying to get a policy to help them and end their terrorism. mr. speaker, over the past several weeks tens of thousands of iranians participated in nationwide protests to condemn the corruption, repression and brutality that together represent the unique legacy of iran's nearly 40-year-old theocracy. the regime responded with characteristic coercion, intimidating activists and their families and deploying government

teaching in ars new jersey state prison. i am familiar with the popular -- the population. one thing to stress me with the opioid crisis is because it is hitting largely the middle class and upper-middle-class bank, we rule out immediately incarcerated and for them. when i was teaching in the 1980's in 1990's in the prison, we had poor young men made me -- mainly who were addicted and given large prison sentences, and very understaffed numbers of teachers and programs so when they left, they could not have a decent life. revisit theird to sentences and we might want to think of expunging some of them. i do not think it is just, let's look at the opioid crisis. these folks lives were drastically changed for the worse through their addition problems. no one is talking about assisting them as they come out of prison and try to build their lives from the outside. i think it is being dealt with as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue. i think that is an appropriate response. but theot undo the past aboutentencing act passed 10 years ago and significantly re

host: in new jersey, charles on the independent line. caller: good morning. i appreciate your show very much. soquestion is why are we worried about the kids that are already here illegally and so less worried about more people coming through the border illegally and what we are going to have to do in the future if we don't do something to protect the borders right now? so, where should we go? , more emphasis on the wall going up and more border security, and less emphasis on the undocumented children that are here illegally right now. , the darlene superville white house, do they see the wall the same as during the campaign? guest 1: during the campaign, they made it sound like a contiguous 2000-mile wall along the mexican border. lately, he has said he never meant it to be a contiguous wall. naturale lots of barriers along the border and you don't need a concrete wall. he has talked about see-through elements, where you can see through the other side who is trying to come over or toss drugs over. there are a half-dozen or so prototypes that are up down at t

i am andy from new jersey city located in jersey city, new jersey. my question is: the republican going through a massive people of upheaval sense the last election whether it be john mccain to repeal and sexual obamacare or the allegations and many long-time republicans dom coming out and do not support trump or will not work with them. where do you see the republican for the next few years. do you think the republican party has lost the position in the united states because of all that has been going on? i don't think it lost the position. it certainly has not helped itself. is going to find real problems going into campaigns this year. the other thing to und erred stand about the dynamics base of the party and the elected leadership. i get this a lot. leadersn't republican came and others, not mccain, of,nnell and others, sort you know, really put their foot homebecause they go back the district and the states and seeing the president sitting at 90-plus%. do the math. all right. the guy is popular in the backyard. that is unfortunate. that's the w

leaders in some states, connecticut, new york, new jersey, are talking about ways to limit the impact of the salt scaleback, such as letting people pay their property taxes in a way that would then be charitably deductible. is the administration going to try to halt any of those efforts and how are you responding to that? mr. mnuchin: let me just say again, from the treasury standpoint and i.r.s., i don't want to speculate on what people will do. but i think it's one of the more ridiculous comments, to think that you can take a real estate tax that you're required to make and dress that up as a charitable contribution. i hope that the states are more focused on cutting their budgets and giving tax cuts to their people in their states than they are on trying to evade the law. reporter: thank you very much, mr. secretary. we talk about the tax being letter, 90% of taxpayers benefiting from it, yet we have seen that under those circumstances, we will eliminate a lot, which so many small businesses, and people depend on. is there really a major cut in deductions and how do you expect that

jersey, this infrastructure, i wonder if the president -- [laughter] in principle supports the 50/50 split and if not, what has changed from the bipartisan delegation last year. as we get further into the year and further into conversations on infrastructure, we will roll out details on what we want to do, what we want to accomplish, and what the plan is to do that. you say shorter list on the demands on immigration, i wonder -- as part of the special. >> it is possible it comes up. the primary focus today is on the budget. we would like a clean budget bill. it is not what our focus is going into the meeting. our priorities are -- what we they include -- and a migration. >> he said the last time the president spoke to steve bannon was the early part of september. before or the special election in alabama? ms. sanders: i would have to look at the exact date. >> rather lengthy, he dictated and wrote in his own hands. ms. sanders: i think the president''s words are very clear and there is not much to add beyond that. >> it was reported he was furious. depiction?accurate ms. sanders: whe

let's go to david in middletown, new jersey. good morning. c-span the best channel on television. good morning, steve. host: good morning, david. it is good to hear from you after 30 days. caller: i have been calling in but i haven't been able to get through. what the gentleman just said, his name is steve? host: no. joe mccutchen. caller: he is absolutely right. you are a great human being and you exemplify the american spirit. sayi would like to concerning the election this coming november i think it's time we need a new party. the democrats and the republicans -- regardless of what the names are they have three priorities. do everything possible to get reelected, do everything possible for the party, do everything possible for the special interests. what we need is a third-party and a third-party should be called the first words of the preamble to the constitution. we the people. they represent the people. not themselves and everything like that. we the people. so i would hope that this coming november the new party would come. we the people with a new reign 2018.led of -- it s

diana is calling from livingston, new jersey on our democratic line. caller: i am calling primarily my alarm that the russian , andng is still going on there was an article by the associated press yesterday that it is facing spear phishing attempts in the u.s. senate. i am very worried about the lack of attention to securing our election system, the infrastructure. there was another article in the observer that they were attempting to get into vr systems, which takes care of the voter rolls in each county. i feel that our election system is still vulnerable to hacking from foreign countries, primarily russia, and the gop who is in power refuses to do anything about securing our elections. we have to wonder why. host: what would you like to see them do? caller: first of all, come out and make the president acknowledged that it was not a hoax, because as of three days ago he is still telling the foxican people, primarily news viewers and one america ,ews viewers, that it is a hoax and that this is a big conspiracy by obama and clinton and the fbi to get

host: dan, fort lee, new jersey. that evening. caller: i have been watching ever since you are on the air. i miss brian lamb. host: he is still here. every sunday night at 8:00 eastern time. caller: there is an author who books, onehe has to deceptionher side of or co- he has kind of disappeared but he used to have a museum in arizona but anyway, he has the whole story on who lied to get us into a wreck bank and -- into a rack and how they got benghazi in 1986 in someone. i want to talk about chuck schumer in the israeli lobby tonight. immigrationng about tonight. if you remember when ronald reagan was president, he had an amnesty. there was about from cuba, castor dumped all the criminals out. dumped all the criminals out. millions of people came in that.lly after i remember come i graduated from high school in 1970 and we read aboutcarlet pimpernel" this guy that helped aristocrats escape from france and i remember being impressed. how hard it was to get across the border from france to england and how tight their borders were.

i'm from new jersey city university. my question to you is, what can us college students do to help reconstruct our future democracy? nick: get involved. you have got to get involved. i feel sometimes like your generation is amazing regarding identity politics. on climate change, you see the wealth divide is something that has got to be solved in your lifetimes, too. this political hardware stuff is kind of geeky. it oftentimes does not touch people the way identity politics does. you have a gay friend or a transgender friend. there is an ethereal quality about it that makes it harder to engage your friends in. but again, you have got to kind of go there. it is something you just have to get engaged in. clamor. if people see the millennial generation is clamoring to fix the broken political system, and tothen they will respond that. you are the new wave of the electoral system coming to washington. they are desperate to know what can turn you on and off. if they see what will turn you on is fixing broken politics, they w