that he has for this committee. is it doable? >> the transportation committee has shown that it can get a lot done. it is becoming increasingly partisan as revenue has become more of a problem. teetering onbeen the brink of insolvency for years now. it has been hard to get the political wheel to raise new revenue. that is the biggest sticking point. other than that, transportation infrastructure is one of the places in congress where democrats and republicans worked together. >> it is fascinating to me that the congressman said the a $.25nt would support increase in the gas tax. i would be curious what senate republican reactions were. that he said he was pretty much alone in supporting that among republicans. it also speaks to the new dynamics that we have and how like ase and senate is three-way negotiation. he knows that filling potholes is not something private industry can make money off of. i'm curious whether a gas tax proposal goes anywhere. some viewers will remember george bush one got in a lot of trouble for raising th

he served for 36 years on armed services committee where he served as both committee chair and ranking member and for 36 years on the governmental affairs committee and now own as homeland security where he chaired or ranking member of several oversight committees including some 15 years on the permanent subcommittee on investigations. in these roles he led investigations into everything from the social security disability program, to defense procurement, to lobbying disclosure, irs seizure policy, enron, money laundering, tax evasion and the 2008 financial crisis. he operated throughout that period with a commitment to bipartisanship and the facts. the result of which has meant the vast majority of his findings, recommendations and investigative reports were supported by members from both sides of the aisle. senator levin retired from the senate in 2015. he now lives in detroit, where he heads the levin center, teaches at wayne law, and serves as senior council at honigman law firm. we're grateful he could be here today to present this award. senator levin. [applaus [applause] >> than

we will briefly introduce senator 1136 years on the armed services committee serving as committee chair and ranking member for 36 years on the governmental affairs committee now known as homeland security of governmental affairs where he chaired or part of several oversight subcommittees including the's permanent subcommittee on investigations and in these roles he led investigations into everything from social security disability to defense procurement to lobbying and ron and money laundering and that operating with a commitment to bipartisanship and the fax and the vast majority of the findings and recommendations and those investigative reports were supported by members from both sides of the aisle. retired from the senate in 2015 and now lives in detroit where he had the 11 center serving as senior counsel at the heitman law firm and we are happy to be here today to give this award. [applause] . >> thank you for the introduction and thank you to all those organizations you have done a terrific job it comes at a truly critical time so your timing could not be better also my thanks to

for 36 levin served years on the armed services committee where he served as committee chair and ranking member. and for 36 years on the governmental affairs committee now known as homeland security and governmental affairs where he chaired or was ranking member of several oversight subcommittees including many years on the permanent of investigations. he led everything from the social security disability program to defense procurement to lobbying disclosure, irs seizure policy, and run, money laundering, tax evasion and the 2008 financial crisis. he operated with a commitment to bipartisanship and the facts. the result of which has meant the vast majority of his findings, recommendations, and investigative reports were supported by members of both sides of the aisle. senator levin retired from the summit in 2015. he now lives in detroit where he heads the leaven center, teaches at wayne ball and serves as senior counsel to a law firm. we are grateful he can be here today to present the award. today to give t [applause] senator 11: thank you so much, bob and for the work that you do at t

comes from this committee, goes to the full board, then if there's other committee persons who are, or people not on the committee that have not opined, and you know, i've seen it happen both ways. it will come to the full board, discuss it, but most likely if we do our work correctly, limited amount of discussion at the full board, and this is just sticking with the integrity of the process. so, that's why i would like to continue to do the work here in committee so we can continue to work on it. supervisor stefani. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. i, so -- we were in committee last week, and we continued it this time. i'm, you know, i found director rafael's remarks persuasive and i believe the legislation is well intentioned and we have been doing some work on it. wondering what you would think about taking it, or sending it to the full board without recommendation. so we have two weeks to work on it then and at least get it out of committee, and work on it at that time. >> i don't understand the urgency to move something out of committee. the purpose of committee is work on it. s

he served for 36 years on the armed services committee, where he served as both committee chair and ranking member. and for 36 years on the governmental affairs committee, now known as how many days, where he chaired or was ranking member of several oversighing subcommittees, including 15 years on the perm subcommittee on investigations. in these roles he led investigations into everything from the social security disability program to defense procurement, to lobbying disclosure,ism r.s. seizure policy, enron, monday laundering, tax evasion and the 2018 financial crisis. he operated throughout that person with a commitment to bipartisanship and the facts. it meant the vast majority of his findings, recommendations and reports were supported by members from both sides of the aisle. senator levin retired from the senate in 2015. he now lives in detroit, teaches at wayne law and serves as senior counsel at the law firm. we are grateful he would be presented here today. senator levin. applause. lause] . >> thank you for the introduction >> thank you for your work at the lawson and the levin cen

the oversight and government reform committee, which oftentimes select committees are formed from, the members of that committee will be doing questioning interrogation of actual officials of administration and the operations that go there from there. >> pedro: do issuing supeenas become part of that? >> stacey: yes it does unless they give the information up. there has been in the past information that we have requested that administrations have readily supplied that information, thousands of documents, millions of documents as it comes to the staff of the oversight and government reform committee. the subpoenas are requested when there is retsuspects or a push-back from the administration to be propriety. to share with the rightful body to oversee them, that being the legislative body what's going on within the executive branch. >> pedro: you may know the name kurt bardella. he was a member of the senior advisers for oversight and government reform committee, he was a democrat or republican -- became a democrat. he has an op-ed, he says does anyone talking about a flurry of investiga

mr gove was speaking to the commons environment committee we re to the commons environment committee were a labour member raised rates of food poisoning in the us. i've seen figures from a number of organisations that said... juan figallo scene is one in 66 people a year, another is one in 70, they succumbed to food poisoning, in the states it is one in six. why is that when there's not a no problem with food production? —— there's no problem —— one figure i've seen. 0ne problem —— one figure i've seen. one reason why you have washing in chlorine or other chemicals is that there was a risk as a result of having chickens in essence kept in circumstances where their welfare was compromised and they were kept in circumstances where the amount of space that each individual bird had was less than we would allow in the united kingdom. that increased the risk of infection, and that increased risk of infection was dealt with with chlorine washing so it started as an element welfare issue but it has human health implications —— animal welfare. chlorine washing resolves the que

if you want to come up to committee on the 26th, you should make it committee then and continue it. >> actually thought i did that motion. i would like to make a motion to adopt the amendments today and again, this is one of the challenges of the brown act is that land use committee members cannot discuss these policies prior to the committee hearing. is great to hear from my colleagues about what they would like to say. i went make the motion to adopt the amendments as i articulated. >> thank you. can we do that without objection >> can you restate the amendments, please? >> the amendment is to eliminate the minimum parking requirements citywide. >> that is the amendments? >> that is the amendment. the reason why i will not read all of it into the record is because we had to rework huge swaths of the planning code to eliminate the minimum parking requirements throughout the planning code. but what the amendment does will illuminate minimum parking requirements. if you would like a member -- >> that's fine. oh, gosh. supervisor tang. >> i'm sorry. we are confirming when the thanksgivi

the energy and commerce committee has jurisdiction over drinking water. frank and i have been talking about doing a joint bill because you cannot isolate those two things. one goes out in the wastewater is potential contaminants for the drinking water. we are talking about a major initiative that would come from both committees. we are in the early stages. it is easier for me to point to the funding for harbors or airports or roads, bridges, highways and transit, we have to get creative on funding sources for that. >> obviously there is more to talk to you about and will be doing that when you take over as a transportation infrastructure committee chair. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> i will begin with you. has for thisat he committee, is it doable? committeensportation has shown a can get a lot done. asis becoming partisan revenue has become more of a problem as kelly mentioned. teetering foreen years now. it is been hard to get the political wheel to raise new revenue. a note that is one of the priorities of the incoming ranking member. s

tax writing committee. and he's going to have a lot of power. >> he keeps getting re-elected from the state of massachusetts. >> access to the president's tax returns. let's put up that graphic again because i want to bring people's attention to a few of the other chairmen. so obviously this is just -- we're just projecting. we don't know this is what's going to happen. but in all likelihood nancy pelosi will be speaker. jerrold nadler, very, very feisty democrat from manhattan, will be the chairman of the house judiciary committee. we assume. congressman elijah cummings, who's been the ranking democrat on the house oversight and government reform committee, he's been through republicans controlling that committee, darrell issa's tenure, trey gowdy's tenure, the benghazi -- >> so contentious. >> the benghazi investigation and all the like. now finally he will be able to be the chairman of that committee. and look right next to richie neal at the bottom right. adam schiff. zplun like richard neal he is on tv

this was legislation that passed the ju ware committee on the 26th. it's rare there's such bipartisan legislation in the u judiciary committee, yet it passed. in the intervening time, we have sent 49 nominations district and circuit court judges to the senate floor for a vote and 50 are received a vote. there was one in cue. so it's not that everything from the judiciary committee has been lying here waiting for action. these have been good votes. we've needed to move these ju judges through, but this is priority now. given in april for not bringing it to a floor vote. clearly it's not the case now. attorney general has been fired. and the authority and oversight from rod rosenstein. who has expressed hostility to the mueller investigation. so senator. >> thank you, senator flake. i appreciate the ongoing working partnership on the judiciary committee and on foreign relations. we just called for a unanimous consent vote and the majority leader came out and objected. i appreciate there are many colleagues mostly in the other part who said there's nothi

committee, the oversight committee, there are a number of committees, depending on how we do go down that path, financial services committee, did i say intelligence? 0, homeland security committee, because of course, we are ashamed as a nation bya course, we are ashamed as a nation by a policy that takes babies out of the arms of their mothers, that builds tents and all the rest to house people that... 0k, we have been listening to nancy pelosi, who is almost certain to become the new speaker of the house of representatives on the democratic party. it has been a fascinating couple of hours, firstly, donald trump laid out his thoughts on the results, now we have had nancy pelosi speaking, and jockeying has begun for the position here. she recognises this as a new era and president trump has to deal with a democratic controlled house of representatives. things will change in washington, will there be cooperation between the two? or will there be confrontation and conflict? from what we have heard so far, confrontation does not look far away. that is it from me in washington, dc. stay w

committee, the oversight committee, the -- a number of committees depending on how we go down the path, financial services committee, did i say intelligence? ohmland security committee. because -- homeland security committee. because of course we are shamed as a nation by a policy that takes babies out of the arms of their mothers, that builds tents and all the rest to house people that they're separating families. we want to look into that. we hope we can do so by simply having oversight. if in fact it requires a subpoena, i hope not, but so be it. >> a followup on that. do you think it was a mistake for the democrats to stay silent on the heated rhetoric from the president, and some republican senators, the republicans kept the control of the senate and some of them ran on this anti-immigrant rhetoric. are you in hindsight maybe thinking that that was a mistake for democrats to stay silent? ms. pelosi: i urged our colleagues not to take the bait on what the president was putting out there. it's a dangerous issue on the campaign trail because of the misrepresentations that are put out

anything else from either of the committees? >> i joined judge ericsson and great thanks to everyone who testified here. >>> join american history tv for live coverage of the international conference on world war ii from the national world war ii museum in new orleans. starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern discussing d-day, the war with japan and world war ii unheralding commanders and lessons learned from the war. watch the international conference live saturday starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> now from the justice department inspector general michael horowitz spoke about his role at a summit on federal government oversight here in washington. the project on government hosted this event. it's about an hour. >> so, just in case you don't know it's hard to believe if you're in the oversight community. as well as inspector general of the department of justice. we have some things to talk about. >> all quiet. >> nothing going on. so, the first thing i wanted to talk to you about

it's not that everything from the judiciary committee has been waiting here for action. we've done a lot. these have been good votes. we've needed to move these judges through. but -- this is priority now. the justification given in april for not bringing it to a floor vote was that nobody was being fired, nothing to see here. special counsel mueller was not in any danger that clearly is not the case now. the attorney general has been fired. and the authority and the oversight for the investigation was taken away from rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and given to someone who has not been senate-confirmed, who has expressed open hostility to the mueller investigation. senator thune? senator thune: thank you, senator flake. i appreciate the ongoing working partnership i enjoy on the judiciary committee and public relations. we just called for a unanimous consent vote, the majority leader came out an objected. i appreciate that there are many colleagues, mostly in the other party who said there's nothing to worry about here, that there's no reason to be concerne

so the committee made their inquiries. one hour later... my office have been in touch with the inspectorate office and have been told that the home office does indeed have the information and has been given the information about each of these cases, including the one involving the seven mothers and children and in fact the inspectorate is also happy to provide this information to the minister and to senior officials again if they have somehow lost this information. so, to be honest, minister, you didn't need telepathy, all you needed was a telephone in order to ring up and find this information. i would be pleased to receive it. might you not have wanted to make that call yourself, rather than leaving it for us to do in this public way? i think that is a conversation i need to have with my officials. but that wasn't the whole story. yvette cooper later tweeted to say that the independent inspector for customs, borders & immigration had contacted the home affairs committee with further information, information that supported the evidence tha

and these two committees. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. rohrabacher: and mr. speaker, let me, again, express my deep appreciation for the leadership on the other side of the aisle but especially now we will be losing our chairman for the great job that he's done as chairman of the science committee. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. veasey: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. veasey: i rise today to support senate bill 1768, to re-authorizing the national earthquake hazards reduction program. i want to thank senators feinstein and murkowski for developing this good legislation. i also want to -- i'd also like to thank my colleagues, representative rohrabacher and jayapaul for introducing -- jayapal for introducing this and working to arrive at the consensus legislation we are consideri

i'm a member of your committee, sir. i know that you would want any judge from your great state that you would want to at least the courtesy of having a meeting, sir, i offer you right now, this nominee, to sit with them in my office to have the courtesy conversation and menendez, i would like to speak to my colleague, and i imagine that he would want that courtesy that any senator that's a member of your committee would want, we've never denied a meeting with this person. as a duly elected senator from new jersey for a nominee that has served in my city that i was a mayor of is a matter of grace as i'm asking you to extend to me the opportunity to have this hearing and to have a more substantive conversation with this nominee. i will meet with him now in my office. >> no, i won't. and by the way, just -- if you want to keep this session going, remember what you're putting these families and these nominees at stake if you want to delay this hearing. they spent a lot of money and a lot of time to get here and sometimes we

it passed out of my committee unanimously. paul ryan killed it through the rules committee. i think most americans say, i am paying the tax and they are stealing the money? it makes republicans uncomfortable. that should be easy. number two, our airports are gated out, it leads to higher ticket prices, people sitting on the tarmac waiting to get a gate. it leads to longer time in the airport because we haven't reconfigured security needs. we need to allow airports to increase the facility charge, a program i was the democratic author of many years ago. we haven't allowed an increase in over 20 years, so that is part two and part three is the big one. surface transportation. that is outside my jurisdiction in terms of funding. i have been meeting with richie neal, the incoming chair of ways and means. he is supportive of the need of a revenue source. probably doing bonding with some kind of dedicated revenue, but a large number. my hope is we will do a short-term within six months infrastructure package out of the house. that is not just my jurisdiction. for my jurisdiction,

defazio has committee, is it doable? >> the transportation committee it can get a lot done, that it does -- it's increasingly partisan as revenues have become more of a problem. kelly was mentioning, the fund has been teetering on the brink of insolvency for years now and to get theard political will to raise sustainable new revenues to shore it up. but i know that's one of the top priorities of both peter defazio ranking member, sam graves, on the republican side. stickinghe biggest point. other than that, really transportation infrastructure is of the few places in congress where democrats and republicans really do work well.er pretty >> really fascinating to me that thatessman defazio said president donald trump would support a 25 cent increase in tax.as i'd be really curious to hear what senate republicans' were.ons also, very interesting to me that he said to us that, you pretty much alone in supporting that among republicans. but, you know, it also kind of speaks to the new kind of themic that we have in white hous

committee. all 64 of their requests were denied by the republican majority. trump's cabinet secretaries revoking security clearances, using private e-mail for white house business, the president gutting plans for a new fbi building potentially to benefit his own hotel. all these scandals that made headlines this year but sparked no official investigation in the republican controlled house. that would change if democrats win the house on tuesday night. but if democrats do win on tuesday night, trump's single biggest worry would probably be this man. congressman adam schiff who would be expected to take over the intelligence committee, which is a position of serious authority. that congressman who could soon be chairman, adam schiff, joins us next. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps you. with drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? vo: costs are rising.e squeeze. it's

understanding that, if that is a consideration, all i ask the committee is to support it out of committee without recommendations so that we can have an up or down vote at the board of supervisors. if we don't have six members of the board ready to support this amendment to, it will not move forward to. or may be moved forward at a later time in the year. but out of respect for our offices, i do ask for an up and down vote for this program. a couple of things that i will mention, because i don't think i need to belabour the point, there is so much so -- his on the other aspects of this program that we did not covered. we did not cover undocumented students and three city today. that is because undocumented students are considered no different than for international students and they pay, i forget what the directors with the dollar amount is, to pay $200 a unit to attend. we have not figured out a solution yet for undocumented students that are san francisco residents. i hope, as his program continues to move forward that we figure out a way to include undocumented students and how to incl

understanding that, if that is a consideration, all i ask the committee is to support it out of committee without recommendations so that we can have an up or down vote at the board of supervisors. if we don't have six members of the board ready to support this amendment to, it will not move forward to. or may be moved forward at a later time in the year. but out of respect for our offices, i do ask for an up and down vote for this program. a couple of things that i will mention, because i don't think i need to belabour the point, there is so much so -- his on the other aspects of this program that we did not covered. we did not cover undocumented students and three city today. that is because undocumented students are considered no different than for international students and they pay, i forget what the directors with the dollar amount is, to pay $200 a unit to attend. we hno out a solution yet for undocumented students that are san francisco residents. i hope, as his program continues to move forward that we figure out a way to include undocumented students and how to include them with

the oversight and government reform committee, which is often times where the select committees are formed from the willrs of that committee, be doing questioning, interrogation of actual officials of the administration and the operations that go from there. host: does issuing subpoenas become part of that? guest: it does, unless they give , you know?tion up in the past, there is information we have requested that administrations have readily supplied. thousands of documents, millions of documents that have come to the staff of the oversight and government reform. subpoenas are issued when there is reticence or push back against being transparent, sharing with the rightful body that oversees them, the legislative body. host: you might know the name kirk gardella -- senior advisor oversight committee, a republican who became a democrat . he had an idea about subpoenas and the trump administration. anyone talking about a flurry of investigations and subpoenas is falling into a darrell issa trap of taking a smart, strategic step back -- instead of doing so. ultimately, the results will speak

committees, i'm a big believer in the committee system. our committees will make their recommendations to the caucus. you can be sure when we go down these paths we will know what we are doing and we will do it right. >> there is going to be an historic number of women. how are they going to take the institution when you and your team's day at the top. how will they have room to advance? they have to decide they want to run. many people like making their mark in their committee and that is a decision they have to make. , nowpeople have said to me that we have more women coming in will we have more emphasis on childcare? we have a big emphasis on that. we need to make it stronger in the majority. in our across the board caucus. i don't want women only. women's rolent to in the workplace. i want women to not just be talking about those issue. we view every issue as a women's issue. country security of our , national security, issues that relate to energy. they are women's issues. dot i have always tried to with everyone is, if they are inter

any amendment you make today will trigger a continuance in this committee to another committee hearing. you could make an amendment extending the set aside to the 2040-41 fiscal year. the -- the other proposal you have to add in an additional review in 2030, we haven't yet drafted. we could draft it for the next committee hearing, but with charter amendments, we want you to be voting on something that's written in front of you because they're so difficult to change, so i wouldn't want to come up with that on the fly. >> supervisor yee: that would be my -- i would love to see a 20-year period and have a ten-year evaluation, but that's going to cause a delay in passing this out of committee. i don't know if supervisor kim, if you would have any objections to that? >> supervisor kim: no. so i am making two amendments to the charter today, so i'm expecting a special committee meeting on monday. if the committee so chooses to make that amendment, we can make that. just so you know on page 5, lines 3 and 4, the charter amendment already requires that in fiscal year 2027-28, the controller sh

in committee after committee from ways and means to tax writing committee to, of course, the oversight committee, elijah cummings is going to be in charge of that. the president's nemesis on the democratic side, maxine waters, is going to be in charge of the financial services committee. and of course the intel committee and judiciary. it goes on and on and on and on. and so that is something that the president knew right away, knew leading into election day was going to be a total pivot for him, a total change from how he was dealing with congress before. never mind the inability to get even basic parts of his agenda passed through the house, even as a selling point to their constituents, it's not going to happen now. >> when i had congressman jerrold nadler, democrat from new york, on my sunday show, on "state of the union," he said -- and in all likelihood he'll be the chairman of the house judiciary committee. he said they're going to call matt whitaker, the acting attorney general, before his committee and demand that he testify about all sorts of things about whether or not his a

i shall have voted on them in committee. i shall have shaped them in committee. but when these bills, essentially have become my bills on the house floor, everyone can vote on them, except for congresswoman holmes norton and something wrong with that, national action network. in the district of columbia, we are asking to become the 51st state of the united states of america. [applause] congresswoman norton: we think we have more than earned it. if you don't take away anything else from the nation's capital, please remember this, as you go back home. the people who live in your nation's capital are number one per capita in taxes paid to support the united states of america. talking about earning statehood. the last time the democrats were in power, i used my background as a constitutional lawyer to point out something that any of you could have told them. since i vote in committee, i should be able to vote in the committee of the whole, which meets on the house floor. the committee of the whole was not created by the constitution. it's created by the congress of t

here, the undersecretary responsible, the oversight committee, and authorizing committee, the contractor who is doing the work, is to come up with specific deliverables so that every person in attendance and watching and the press who are write being this leave with a very crystal clear -- writting about this leave with a very crystal clear understanding of when this will be fixed, how it will be fixed, and the neck i had -- mechanisms how we can hold each other accountable. in the rorpg i read in the "the washington post," the spokesman for the v.a. blames the v.a. committee. says that we have not funded the v.a.'s i.t. needs. if that's the case, i'm happy and hopefully can work with the chairman and the chairman of the full committee to introduce something on an emergency basis to get the funding necessary. but my understanding is that we had authorized and appropriated what the v.a. had asked for so far. there's more we can do on our side, in other words, i'm all. in i want to know exactly what that is right now. i have weeks left in my term in my service on this committee. i want to

committee, the wellight committee, the -- a number of committees depending on how we go down that path. agile services committee -- natural services committee. did i say intelligence? homeland security committee. of course we are shamed as a nation by a policy that takes babies out of the arms of their mothers, that builds tents and all the rest. we want to look into that. we hope we can do that with simply having oversight. if in fact it requires a subpoena, i hope not, but so be it. reporter: in hindsight, do you think it was a mistake for democrats to stay silent on all of the heated rhetoric from the president and some republican senators? i mean, the republicans kept control of the senate and some of them ran on this anti-immigrant rhetoric. are you in hindsight thinking that was a mistake for democrats to stay summit? -- stay silent? rep. pelosi: no. i urged our colleagues not to take the bait and with the president was putting out. very dangerous issue because of misrepresentation put out there. fight by win a fighting that same fight. you win by sticking with the program for th

committee. i like him a lot, he is a great friend, but i don't like this bill and i don't respect this process. we are here today with the majority's last-ditch effort to ram through another partisan tax bill combf the end of this congress. and like so many of the republican tax bills that came before it, this legislation hasn't been considered by the relevant committee. there was no hearing. there was no markup, regular order was thrown to the wind. and republicans didn't even consult with us you democrats on this legislation. this 300-page bill was drafted in the dark of night behind some closed door in a back room. the majority has abandoned any semblance of responsible governing. they are discussing how this is a commonsense plan as a result of negotiation. are they discussing the same bill? this one was introduced late monday night. democrats learned about it after it was released to the press. to claim otherwise is revisionist history. this legislation goes beyond a tax extenders' deal. th

so to see bipartisan bill of compromise, brought to committee to be voted out of committee see bill languish without a vote to get more than 60 votes to provide a reasonable check and balance so now the urgency in this moment but the senator has already gone over the firing of jeff sessions that was said to be fired by a president who literally said i would not have hired you if i didn't thank you would recuse yourself and to talk about this investigation and to call it a witchhunt and compromise himself the idea that it continues under his leadership that is why the bill is necessary. more thanre that we are a nation that is or has been or will be under attack. all intelligence agencies have come to the conclusion they are under attack. we need to understand what is happening and how to prevent that from happening again and hold people accountable. investigation has led to numerous indictments and should be able to run its course without interference so i conclude to say not a congressman or senator or mayor or governor or president of the unitedr, states no one in the country is above the

and to debate the resolution in the foreign relations committee. the chairman of that committee, my friend and colleague from tennessee, senator corker requested this with the commitment to bring forth legislation to actually appropriately deal with many of the issues relative to yemen, saudi arabia and ourselves. since then the committee has held a hearing on this issue and introduced a separate bipartisan bill to address it. but no further action has been taken. and so, today, eight months later, the bloodshed continues, still embedded by the united states. even amidst further revelations of the saudi depravity. it u is long past overdue congrs removed that u.s. forces from yemen as recent circumstances only confirm. today we had the chance to remedy the course of action, and to do what the constitution and justice demand. the situation in jenin is dire. the war has killed tens of

. >> good afternoon, everyone, the committee will come to order. i'm going to apologize in advance for the link for my remarks. i think they are important, so let's begin. first again, thanks for everybody being here, and everybody participating in the hearing. the subcommittee on economic opportunity, where we will continue the oversight, the implementation of the post-9/11 g.i. bill of 2017 and associated payment processing delays. as i said in the two previous hearings, the subcommittee is held on this topic, it is critical we work to ensure that this bill is implement it so that veterans receive their due benefits they deserve and in a timely and consistent manner. after all, if all we do is pass or reform bills, they are a memo that they actually implement them effectively. what did you agree? so, our hearing that we had on july, sometime in july, we implored the va officials who were here to remedy whatever problems existed. and we were promised that they would be addressed in a matter of weeks, days, if not weeks. we were also sure that dela

financial services committee, intelligence, homeland security committee. of course we are shamed as a , nation by a policy that takes babies out of the arms of their mothers, that builds tents and all the rest. we want to look into that. we would hope we could do so by simply having oversight. if it requires a subpoena, i hope not, but so be it. thinkhindsight's, do you it was a mistake to stay silent on the rhetoric from the president and some republican senators? the senators kept control of the senate and some ran on this anti-immigrant rhetoric. are you in hindsight thinking that was a mistake? rep. pelosi: no, i do not. i urged our colleagues not to take the bait and with the president was putting out. very dangerous issue because of misrepresentation put out there. you don't win a fight by fighting the same fight. you win by sticking with the program for the people. lower health care costs, bigger paychecks, cleaner government. that produced a victory for us in spite of the gerrymandering the republicans have done could i have no regrets. >> they are

when i chaired the house insurance committee and the state of florida. we also learned we cannot solely rely on fema and i agree with you on your forelegs of dust will the state of florida we have the hurricane catastrophe financed partly by the premiums and also by the reinsurance instrument. it's t provide the funds and to rebuild and pay the claims necessary. they had stored relief items, water, food, generators so they could logistically distribute them in a very quick and fashionable way to get people back in. they lost more than their homes and lifestyle as well as their jobs. what i'm getting at is we as a congress should face reality that year we are going to have natural disasters and we do not put it as a line item in the budget. we don't appropriate and we have to go through a process where it took six s. for the relief to hit mhave my state of florida wh was way too late. we should have the foresight and be able to see some of that ri risk. we have the disaster risk transfer act that would w allow the. the. the reinsurance markets have adequa

it's paramount for this committee. another critical finding about the nds and the commission is the need for strong international alliances and the importance of a whole of government approach. in fact, the national defense strategy puts a premium on bolstering foreign alliances. i'm concerned the president continues to make statements and pursue actions that have undercut america's leadership position in the world. the aforementioned issues are important. i want to highlight two issues. the first, the status of the military relations. and the second is the deficiency of the department's analytical capabilities. priority to secretary mattis' nomination, this committee held a hearing on civilian control of the armed forces. civilian control of the military is enshrined in the constitution and dates back to general george washington and the revolutionary war. this principle is distinguished our nation for many other countries around the world and helped ensure that our democracy remains in the hands of the people. the co

both the code of conduct committee and the judicial conduct and disability committee have responded to the careful recommendations provided by the working group. some of the proposed amendments are new. some expand or clarify the rules already in place. today, we seek your views on the proposed changes. i'm pleased to introduce the members of the conduct and disability members who are present. judge barker, judge dubina, judge flum, judge hogan, judge brattel, and judge gritsner. thank you very much. >> the first panel for this morning is chief judge lawrence o'neil, who is the chief judge of the eastern district of california. welcome, judge. and i'll just note for your edification that we have you down, quo with, quote, no time , but on the calendar for 30 minutes. you're free to expend that time, if you will. >> okay, thank you. first of all, let me thank all of you for two things. one, for putting yourselves out not just professionally, but personally. every one of us who has ever dealt with a matter of this sensitivity and import knows full well that what you will do is going to b

yes, these are details which the select committee will not confirm at the moment. i think theyjust will not confirm at the moment. i think they just want to be headline that the documents had been seized and particularly because it is a shot across the bow is for facebook. they wanted it to be seen in the new york times and washington post or whatever mark zuckerberg reads! and they very likely will be in the background of course is that this committee, this enquiry, originally set up to look into fake news, has been trying to get answers from facebook ever since the cambridge analytical scandal exploded and politically to try to get mark zuckerberg to testify in parliament and he has repeatedly refused —— cambridge analytica. this is the committee using what limited powers they have, even if they are ancient, to of get the attention of silicon valley. thank you. the headlines on bbc news. theresa may urges parliament and the public to back her brexit deal after its endorsement at today's eu summit. jean—claude juncker, president of the european commission, w

i call the administration again to have a cogent strategy with the international committee to call all parties to the negotiating table that the risk of starvation and they receive a humanitarian support ready to be delivered also workingee with senators young and collins as well as my colleagues to introduce legislation referencing the accountability yemen act of 2018. i hope the committee would consider thisoped legislation in the aftermath of the saudi governments murder of us resident khashoggi and watching the trump administration has performed to avoid real consequences this legislation is needed now more than ever without a real diplomatic or political strategy there is no end to this conflict or to the violence know and tohe suffering. is time to bring this resolution to the floor for full consideration of the senate over the last month i have seen nothing to convince me the limited military support of the saudi coalition continue to serve our national security interest nor did they reflect america's enduring values and commitment to freedom of human rights in absence of americ