go surprise bill them. so there is already a little bit of money changing hands to allow this today. so that's sort of the theory behind why this has been a problem and why this happens. i think it's worth turning to the data to see why that does happen. begin that they do have this lucrative out of network billing option it's no surprise that these types of specialists really lean into that leverage and bill really high amounts. so this table here, right, you see that the exact type of physicians we are talking about, your anesthesiologists, emergency docs, radiologists are billing. anesthesiologists are billing 5.5 times the medicare rate on average, the 80% percentile. that means only 20% of anesthesiologists bill above that amount and 80% of anesthesiologists bill less than that. so that means that 20% of anesthesiologists have billed charges at 11 times medicare or higher. that is a very -- that's a pretty jarring amount. you can see right down below, you know, take every other specialist, they are alm

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chairman the 600 bills. the hierarchy for the 600 bills, i want to be clear just because our firm tracks something doesn't mean the city has a position on it. we want to be aware and not lose site of it. when the slc takes a position that is prioritized because there is a official position on it. that is the way things shake out during the course of the year. >> a few more questions. we received the memo or i received the memo i think this morning or yesterday the slc adopted a position on it looks like 20 billings. these would be priority bills. >> they would. >> that sounds good. when was the slc created? >> 3 section five point three, five point one how old is that john. >> that pre-dates us representing the city. it was in existence when we came on board. obviously i defer to the city attorney. >> that is something we can change if we want and we can count our own noses. >> slc plays an important role to bring together the mayor's office and key departments to i'd fithe priority bills and what our positi

i'm sandra smith. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. stone learning about his trial date from the same judge who added 3 1/2 years to paul manafort's prison sentence right at this hour yesterday giving trump's former campaign chair a total of 7 1/2 years behind bars. >> sandra: catherine herridge is live at u.s. district court in washington this morning for us. good morning. >> well, sandra, good morning. in the last 15 minutes roger stone has left the district court here in washington the judge in this case has set a trial date for november 5th with a pre-trial conference marked on the calendar now for september. stone was asked to sign an order today which lays out the condition of his release. that also has to do with the existing gag order that was not expanded today. right now under the gag order roger stone is free to fundraise. he is free to profess his innocence but restricted from discussing the case with any of the evidence. the reason that matters is the question today is whether judge jackson would even jail stone because th

>> more than curious, bill. unlike -- i feel sometimes like when we make that distinction between counter intelligence and criminal investigations people's eyes glaze over. a criminal investigation, which is done to try to develop a case that you are going to prosecute in court to vindicate the rule of law in judicial proceedings is the kind of thing we don't want political interference in. counter intelligence, this is what we're talking about the trump/russia investigation is a counter intelligence investigation. those are done for the president. the only reason that you do counter intelligence investigations is so the f.b.i. as our domestic security service to support the president's constitutional duty to protect the united states from foreign threats. that's why you do counter intelligence. the president's investigation. >> bill: two days later we haven't heard from him. i anticipate we will. the president earlier today. here is the tweet. the mainstream media is under fire being skornd all over the world a

bill: ok. fascinating. it's especially fascinating to think about it in light of what we're dealing with in contemporary politics right now. the notion that government will take care of us is probably less manifest right now than maybe ever before -- i think, but you're the historian. meg: i think that that's true. and so one of the reasons that i set out to write this book is i wanted to see when that changed, when and how that sort of changed. and it looked to me like a crucial moment came with the energy crisis. of course, the stories of sort of the disillusionment with washington started before. so we have vietnam, of course, we have watergate. but i see those events as playing out differently than the energy crisis. so -- bill: go ahead, i'm sorry. meg: sorry. bill: i didn't mean to interrupt you. meg: so the argument, essentially, is that if vietnam and watergate taught americans that they could not trust their political leaders, then the energy crisis demonstrated that washington didn't

prohibiting balanced billing. we totally agree that it should not be the consumer's burden to have to figure out, this is a right i have i should exercise it. when any of us looks at the bills that we get, given especially the higher deductible health plans and inclusive provider organizations , etc., it's hard enough to figure out what your appropriate cost sharing is let alone whether something is actually a surprise bill. it is not okay to ask consumers to have to figure that out. and in our bill, just as others have indicated, we are focusing on the situations where consumers don't have a choice. emergency services and then services provided by out-of- network providers and in network facilities as well as our legislation lists the type of provider that this would apply to. radiologists, surgeons, er docs, anesthesiologist, labs, and over and over again the issue we have tried to stress is trying to come up with a balance between provider and insurers interest in all of this. and that is the hardest needle to

as a result of this bill -- as a result this bill passed unanimously out of the financial services committee last congress. this bill is about the oversight authority of congress and the other constituents we represent. it remains vitally important that we and our senate friends hear from knowledgeable regulatory officials at these agencies. particularly when these regulations have a large effect on capital money markets. otherwise our constituents will become even more distrustful of government, transparency is key. in fact, it is one of the largest responsibilities of the members of congress. this promote this is response kt -- responsibility and deserves to be passed. i thank the chairwoman and the ranking member for supporting this by i hope my colleagues will follow this example and vote in favor. i yield back the balance of my time, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yeels. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. luetkemeyer: we are done with speakers, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentlewoman from califo

question is an urgency bill. so i'll start with the two bills that we're recommending on in your original package. ab1142, and this bill establishes a state-funded grant program for programs that will reduce mileage and collect data on those projects to inform future state planning. and the bill requires that regional transportation plans, such as in san francisco and the bay area -- it requires that they include measures of barriers to higher use of existing transit systems, including things like lack of parking. we feel it is an important part of this conversation to include as well as lack of parking, the barrier of lack of safe bike access, and lack of transit supportive land usage, as barriers to the use of transit. we are recommending a support, if amended position, on this bill. the second bill was ab1286, which would require that shared mobility companies, such as scooter share companies and bike share companies, it requires that they enter into agreements with local jurisdictions before they distribute t

the rights to information bill has taken long because there has not been. political will from the government has been lacking and then number two what happened was that m. people people in government who are of the view that government should have a peace of mind to be the administration and government and then as a model five issue can be anything like a right to information. governance process or those who are also of the school of thought so it has mainly been the lack of political will and commitment by successive governments in ensuring that this bill is passed into law that has been the most things that we have no overcome this barrier all right standard i get in one district just this in some of the reaction that's come through to this this is abraham al-hassan a political correspondent for g h one. in fact information in the past. has been treated privilege. days the media on one hand. who have the information i'm talking about on the other hand. information is the press personal property and making a difficult for us so what the passage of the r.c.

[bill laughs] bill: i just thought it was time. for me, it was a situation where you just wanted to be able to relax a little. aside from the unproductive trades in the last few years, i would check germany and japan twice a night, usually at 12:30 a.m., sometimes at 3:30 a.m. and then up again at 5:30. it was like a drug, sort of like an endorphin after you work out. that when you come in and you are doing well, you feel great. the problem being that when you don't do well, you feel depressed. but that is the part of any portfolio manager's job. it just got to be a relatively heavy weight upon my shoulders at 74. erik: i'm sure you remember the conversation we had here in newport beach almost four years ago. after what i might describe as a bruising battle with pimco, i asked you why you had not retired then, instead of starting a second act at janus. i don't know if you remember what you told me then, but you said you needed to prove something to yourself. that "i still got it." what changed your mind? bill: well, it is four year

this bill was rushed. this bill does not live up to the promises that the democratic majority said they were going to do when they ran the house and how open, how bipartisan, and how transparent they were supposed to be. h.r. 1 means this is the democrat majority's priority. this bill was introduced on january 3 and had a press conference introducing this bill many different outside special interest groups were noted for helping craft this piece of legislation. it's 571 pages. it's turned into 622 pages. has turned into 72 amendments that were ruled in order. now, let's take a step back. 10 committees of this house, 10 committees had jurisdiction within this bill. one committee, the smallest committee in the house of representatives, the house administration committee, is the only one to mark this bill up. that is not regular order. that is not an open process, and frankly, it's a process that american people should demand be much, much different. we, republicans, were not consulted during the drafting of

-- aclu who is opposing this bill and scoring against this bill. it's not ready for primetime. it's ready to go back to actually have hearings and actually do markups and actually work with this bill. i appreciate the gentleman, especially, from south carolina's intent. no one fights stronger for his constituency than the gentleman from south carolina. this is just not the right piece of legislation at the right time for the reasons that i spoke of that have nothing to do with the intent. it has everything to do with words on paper. and remember, madam chair, that's what we vote on, not aspirational ideas. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i now yield seven minutes to the distinguished democratic whip, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. clyburn. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. clyburn: thank you, madam speaker. i thank my friend for yielding me the time. and i request permission to revise and extend. the chair: without objection. mr.

i hope they will. >> bill: bill bennett. thank you for being with us today. >> sandra: breaking news out of the paul manafort sentencing hearing happening now. the judge will give paul manafort credit for accepting responsibility for his actions. he still may get a 10 year maximum sentence. unclear if there will be a concurrent or consecutive sentencing. we're waiting on those details as we learn more. griff jenkins is live for us in washington >> good morning. this is very fluid. you're right. we're getting a little bit of guidance from inside the courtroom. discussion over whether manafort was the leader of a conspire that would add more time to the sentence or whether or not he accepted responsibility for his crimes mainly making false statements, which could mean less time we're told that jackson has accepted his plea that he takes responsibility. we're not sure exactly what that means. now, initially jackson was reminding the court the most he can get today is 10 years and that the reason for that is that manafort, who

bill. be opposing the i think it represents one of the biggest divides between what the majority is saying the bill does and what the actually does -- what the bill actually does, that i have seen during my time congress. when the bill was introduced, speaker pelosi said quote "restoring people's faith in government is really our agenda with this bill." sadly i don't think that is the case. the agenda with this well is not to restore faith in government but to preserve the house of representatives, to expand it and ensure it is entrenched here for years to come. in each area the bill touches, the majority is attempting to change the rules of our them.ons to benefit it is an attempt to rewrite their voting laws, election laws and campaign finance laws to fulfill one goal, to ensure the democratic party takes a keeps power. this bill a compression that by taking over powers normally -- this bill accomplishes that by taking over powers normally reserved for the state. i will tell you that as a

a bill for the balance of the costs, thus the term balanced billing. so in a lot of situations, let's see, in a lot of situations throughout the state of california, patients are not affected by this due to regulations around how insurance is governed and regulated, but there is a portion of individuals who, because of the plan that they have, they are exposed to this practice and the financial impacts of the practice to go along with their insurance. so i'll say kind of right up front before we get into the conversation about what we're doing in response to this and where we think that we can improve, that on february 1, and dr. colfax mentioned this in his director's report, but on february 1, the department, working closely with mayor breed's office and supervisor peskin issued a statement that we are temporary halting the practice of balanced billing and taking a 90-day window to review our policies and practices and come to the health commission with recommendations where we think we can improve and also bring the mayor's office and the board of s

this bill -- expanding this bill is personal for me. i was the first woman to chair the equal employment opportunity commission and enforced the equal pay act, expanded it during my term at the commission. i am, therefore, very grateful to my good friend, rosa delauro, great champion of equal pay, for including my pay quity for all act in the bill. mr. speaker, many employers may not recognize that they are discriminating against women because they may not intentionally do so. but setting wages based on salary history is routinely done in the workplace, perhaps even by some in the congress. it reinforces the wage gap and maybe the most important reason for the persistence of the wage gap that we've been unable to unlock, what it means is that historically disadvantaged groups, women and minorities and particular start their careers often with unfair and artificially low wages compared o their male -- white male counterparts. this then gets reflected, this discrimination and compounded throughout their careers so they never catch up with

what bill asked. he overpay for the contract extension of. microsoft basic they made so much money from that apple contract that they devoted the excess money the money they never expected to get to creating an international business we always talk about companies plane cats it's a chess game well everybody else was playing chess bill was playing three dimensional chess he already had his move on another board already calculated from three moves on the previous board so if you look at the fact that microsoft more than half of microsoft's business is now outside of america that wouldn't have happened without apple were. the. gates increasing success job's becomes even more of a megalomaniac the world now revolves around him he creates his own personality cult the machine is his and it literally recognizes him as its father. and a great. list in the show it is written. that i introduced a man who didn't like. speed. oh i think if you talk to a lot of people on the mac team they will tell you. it was the

that's in that bill. one thing i was interested to discover is it would no longer allow corporations or unions to donate money to inaugural committees. those are the committees that raise a whole bunch of money to basically celebrate an incoming president right on his or her inauguration. so that would be a big change. it would also roll down the donation limits for those inaugural committees. to $50,000, so you could no longer see a company give $1 million to an inaugural committee. >> the rules committee is allowing amendments to be 72 debated on the bill. what are some of the contentious ones? roilme that were going to the congress were not included. one that would have rolled back the johnson amendment. which has been widely controversial. republicans tried to roll back the johnson amendment in their tax overhaul in 2017. the johnson amendment basically prohibits churches and charities from doing express political endorsements and things like that. it's something that house republicans have really had

erik: is this really it for bill gross? bill: depends on your definition of it, i guess. it is it from the standpoint of managing institutional money. i have a large amount of family office funds, quote unquote. i have foundation friends of my own, lots to do in terms of investing. terms of earnings fees, managing institutions, yeah. erik: you really are calling it quits after almost 50 years of professional and testing for others. bill: well, yes. and the question might be why? that's what you are implying. erik: we can get to that answer as slowly as you like. bill: i just thought it was time. for me, it was a situation where you just wanted to be able to relax a little. aside from the unproductive trades in the last few years, i would check germany and japan twice a night, usually at 12:30 a.m., sometimes at 3:30 a.m.. at 5:30.n up again it was like a drug, sort of like an endorphin after you work out. in and youou come are doing well, you feel great. the problem being that when you don't do well, you feel depressed. but that is the part of any portfolio manager's job.

bill? >> bill: peter doocy live in des moines. thank you, peter. >> sandra: meanwhile the president has just left the white house. is he on his way down to alabama where a tornado swept through and devastated communities there. on his way out the door. he stopped and talked to reporters. so far we know he is talking about the economy and the stock market. and the trade deal with china and more. once we get that we will turn that around for you and play that for you. the president on his way to alabama. we'll be right back. the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. (straining) i'll take that. (cheers) 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. in two great flavors. when it comes to so,type 2 diabetes,.. are you thinking about your heart? well, i'm managing my a1c, so i should be all set. right. actually, you're still at risk for a fatal heart attack or stroke. even if i'm taking heart medicine, like statins or blood thinners? yep! that's why i asked my doctor w

statehood bill. today passage of h.r. 1 will set a historic milestone marking the first vote for the necessity for d.c. statehood in the 218 years the district has been the capital of the nation. thank you for yielding. the chair: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from illinois. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chair. it's with great pleasure i get a chance to introduce my good friend who i've known for a very long time from illinois, mr. bost. and i'd like to yield two minutes to him and i'd like to ask him to throw his papers in the air and hit them when he's done with his speech too. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for two minutes. mr. bost: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i think the papers will remain n the table. mr. speaker, speaker pelosi says she wants to get money out of politics. she says she wants free speech. but this sham puts more money into politics, it doesn't offer free speech, it offers forced speech. in fact

, you know, vote against a bill. but in terms of the order of the house, it's a procedural vote. i suggest a no vote. should there be some discussion of any what have we do here, we now have established a modernization, select committee on modernization, of congress, and, happily, the minority leader has appointed people to it. we're still waiting for his appointments to the climate -- the select committee on climate. ok? thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. >> kevin mccarthy held his weekly briefing today and spoke about president trump's meeting this week with north korean leader kim jong un and yesterday's testimony from president trump's former personal attorney, michael cohen. this is 15 minutes.

bill set up his killing. after all that, bill changed his whole outlook on life. he went from being a huge investment banker and became indirectly a human rights activist. many have heard of the magnitsky act. bill browder is the architect and driving force behind that, him, along with senator john mccain and senator carden. that's the largest and most significant sanctions that have been put on russia since the fall of the soviet union and would you all please join me in welcoming bill browder. [applause] >> so, bill, it's wonderful to have you and great to see a full packed house. a lot of people who are already know you and have your book and have followed you for many years. it's wonderful to have you here in person. we have a lot to get into, what's happening more recently but you also have a fascinating background on both sides of your family, really. in particular, maybe you could talk about your grandfather, someone who was head of the communist party in the united states, ran twice against f.d.r.. ho

this bill, expanding this bill, is personal for me. i was the first woman to chair the equal employment opportunity commission and enforce the equal pay act, expanded it during my term at the commission. i'm very grateful for -- to my , ad friend rosa delauro champion free will pay for including my pay equity for all act in the bill. mr. speaker, many employers may not recognize that they are discriminating against women because they may not intentionally do so. but setting wages based on salary history is routinely done in the workplace, perhaps even by some in the congress. andeinforces the wage gap, may be the most important reason for the persistence of the wage gap that we have been unable to unlock. what it means is that historically disadvantaged minorities andnd their careersrt often with unfair and artificially low wages compared to their male -- white male counterparts. getsdiscrimination reflected and compounded throughout their careers so they never catch up with their male counterparts. ought to be based on an applicant's

this bill yesterday was not our bill. this bill was announcing the continuation of the hearings that we're having on the climate crisis. whether we're dealing with it in terms of a public health issue, a national security issue, an economic issue to create jobs for a moral issue to preserve the planet. to the president you're walking away from paris, what do you have to offer? from our standpoint we've only just begun. yes ma'am. >> do you feel that the committee should still be going ahead on the issue of collusion or given the discretion, should the focus be moved to obstruction of justice? >> how can i say this more clearly? show us the report. show us the report. it's interesting to see in one of the -- as we frequently reference one of the hill rags that mueller has said and i don't know if it's true, that the grand juries are still continuing their work. but it's serious to us to have this discussion. we have to see the facts. we have to see what the report is. and we do not need an attorney general whose job interv

this is a two-page bill. a two-page bill. it has all the clarity in the world. be any excusest on the part of any member of congress, because this has full clarity. it was tested in the courts and won each time. bill is ourhis declaration of independence of the big boys, and that is what it is, and i look forward to its passage. yes. and i would also like to acknowledge that the outstanding commissioner from the fcc is here, and we are so proud of her service in her fight at the fcc. [applause] rep. pelosi: thank you very much to all of our participants here. at one stage or another, they will be weighing in. we would like to remind the chairman of the fcc to hear the voices of the 24 million people more than he hears the voice of his former employer. with that, we thank all of you for coming. we thank all the participants for saving the internet. i too had a visit from sir tim yesterday, 30 years after he invented the world wide web. how are we doing? in the first few decades, it was free and open. now, we have to make sure it fromnues to be, not only this, but

this is not a partisan bill for sure. it's a good government bill. i urge all members to support this bill. and i reserve the balance of p my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from north carolina, mr. meadows, is recognized. mr. meadows: thank you, madam speaker. rise in support of h.r. 1582 electronic message preservation act. the american people have the right to know what's going on in their government. preservation of federal records is an essential to that right. the federal government must preserve federal records regardless of the form or technology used to create those records in order to remain accountable to the american people. over the last two decades, technology has advanced. electronic communication has permeated all parts of the federal government, the act requires the federal government to preserve those electronic records in electronic format. for decades many federal agencies have used what we call the print-to-file method of electronic record preservation. that's right. federal employees were ac

we had 7 amendments on this bill. -- 72 aleds on this bill. the proportion -- amendments on this bill. the proportion of amendments the gentleman is concerned about, want to make sure we have substantive amendments considered from both sides of the aisle. that was done here. the gentleman thinks it's not enough. as i said it was it -- as he opposed to zero, a substantial increase. i yield back. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman for yielding back. i'd like to point out of those 72 amendments that you identified that were made in order, only nine were republican amendments. so when we talk about a fair and open process, the government shut down has nothing to do with the fact that you-all committed to having a more open process and it's not, in fact. it's the reverse of what we saw last congress. if you look at the entire last congress, the entire two-year period, there were more democrat amendments made in order under a republican congress than there were republican amendments made in order. in fact, if you look at the numbers for the entire t

that's why this bill is a bad bill. i appreciate the amendment that my colleague is offering, but by no means is h.r. 1 going to ensure that we have the protection to ensure that every eligible american voter has their vote counted and protected and with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. green: i yield such time as he gentlelady from california may consume to her. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. lofgren: thank you, mr. green. this is a splendid amendment. it will do a lot to allow young people to channel their excitement and to understand that they are important and they are going to be participating as voters when they turn 18. it works well with the amendment -- will be offered by mr. that will be oured later that offers preregistration for 6 and 17-year-olds so when they turn 18 they'll automatly be registered to vote. i know there's some concern on both sides of the aisle about the idea of a 16-year-old change in the v

he takes bill to the u.s. capitol, the white house and supreme court and finishes the day at the lincoln memorial. [music] [music] i am a senior and bellevue high. there is my first day back at school after a visit with uncle jim in washington, d.c. he is a congressman from our district. sure was popular that day, especially since there was a test coming up in civics class. you would of thought i was running in session. the way they asked so many questions. the gang could not wait to get on the trip. they wanted to know where i had been in washington, what did i see, what did i hear? so, i told them just what happened when mr. miller goes to washington. here is the story that i told to them. uncle jim met me at union station when i got off the train. when i told him my civics class wanted me to make a report he walked my legs off. we started off right at the plaza in front ever the station. the first thing he showed mow from the station was capitol hill. federal agencies are scattered all over the united state

this bill's not going to pass. the amendment likely is going to get ruled and likely going to get ruled by the chairman to be a part of this bill. the bill's not going to become law. it's going to go die in the senate. but i would urge you to work with the f.e.c., talk with them and the reason why, why it's bipartisan. we don't want our ethics committee here in the house to have a partisan edge. we don't want our franking commission to have a partisan edge. why in the world do we want the f.e.c. to have a partisan edge? so with that, mr. chairman, i'll reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from illinois reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. phillips: i thank you. i appreciate your comments, my colleague from illinois. however, to say that this weaponizes the f.e.c., i do take exception to. because indeed it's just the opposite. it empowers the f.e.c. to actually do its job, which is to look out for voters. that is quite simple and apparent to me. with,

opposedusly, you're to the bill and the green new deal. why is the green new deal senate a vote in the when h.r.1 is not? >> because i get to decide what we vote on. [inaudible question] took a constitutional amendment to lower the 18.ng age to largelytitution -- howo the states you vote. wouldn't it take a constitutional amendment did -- this is the kind of thing that states decide. prior to the constitutional amendment, lowering to voting age to 18, there were two states in america that had a voting age lower than 21, kentucky was one of them at 18, georgia was the other at 19 so i think the feeling it took a constitutional amendment to set that kind standard. i'll take one more. >> i wanted to ask congressman scalise a question. >> many of the democrats ran onipped seats this bill and they're celebrating the fact that it's on the floor. how do you respond? mcconnellator said he would like to run against them in 2020. in 2018 and won. >> there are some democrats who ran on a proposal to taxes and they're proposing many things and they ou

this bill expands upon that. but let me, at the outset, remind those who would talk about what the constitution says, to read a portion of the constitution. let me say, before i do that, throughout my lifetime -- early in my lifetime i heard a lot about states' rights. people talk about the right to vote. i was in alabama this past weekend, and we commemorated the march over the edmund pet us bridge with our colleague ohn lewis. bridge with ttus our colleague john lewis. he was almost killed. why? because he was marching from selma to montgomery to register to vote. i remember as a child, not child -- i was a young man -- watching lester maddux on saying nobody was ing to integrate his premises. i heard a lot about states' rights through the years. now, what part of yesterday's floor debate. we'll leave now. the house is returning to resume considerations of the remaining 50 amendments to h.r. 1. that should get under way shortly. also we're expecting them to likely take up a resolution condemning anti-semiti

torres: how would this bill fix the problem in georgia? voters shutting down or relocating at the very last minute, polling locations? ms. lofgren: it provides for a requirement on where polls should be. as well as for notification. but the real answer is ample early voting and no excuse vote by mail. is hat even if a poll inconvenient, you're going to have opportunities to vote for at least 15 days prior to the election. no excuse vote by mail. so that -- a lot of people on election day, if they're working until 9:00 and the polls close at 8:00, you're not going to get there in time. but if you can have your vote by mail prior to that, you solve the problem. mrs. torres: thank you. i'll yield back. mr. woodall: thank you, mr. chairman. does me good to see you sitting in the chairman's chair. >> feels good. i was thinking about a coup here. [laughter] mr. woodall: you have my support. to make that happen. i had anticipated enjoying this hearing, when it came around. didn't know it was going to come quite this quickly. the two of you are in

this bill -- expanding this bill is personal for me. i was the first woman to chair the equal employment opportunity commission and enforced the equal pay act, expanded it during my term at the commission. i am, therefore, very grateful to my good friend, rosa delauro, great champion of equal pay, for including my pay quity for all act in the bill. mr. speaker, many employers may not recognize that they are discriminating against women because they may not intentionally do so. but setting wages based on salary history is routinely done in the workplace, perhaps even by some in the congress. it reinforces the wage gap and maybe the most important reason for the persistence of the wage gap that we've been unable to unlock, what it means is that historically disadvantaged groups, women and minorities and particular start their careers often with unfair and artificially low wages compared o their male -- white male counterparts. this then gets reflected, this discrimination and compounded throughout their careers so they never catch up with

we are going to get a bill out of the house, a strong bill that protects the three bright lines that everyone agrees on, democrats and republicans, house and senate, no blocking, no throttling, no paid prioritization. we are also going to make sure there is a cop on the beat. to fcc has the expertise be the cop on the beat. there are things we don't know about. technology changes, there are new ways to game the system, and the fcc has to have the flexibility to address anything unjust or unreasonable and be able to act on that. so we also put that cop on the beat. when it comes to the senate, i have been here long time, the senate never just takes a house built as he is. i am sure they will add their touches. this is an issue that cuts across party lines. over 80% of republicans, democrats and independents support this and want to see this past rate i believe we can get it done. peter: chairman doyle, will your bill include title ii? entirety,: not in its there will be parts of title ii and it. two previous fcc commissioner's commissioners- attempted to adopt title i eerie both of th

the right to information bill has taken long because there has not being. political will from the government has been lacking and then number two what happened was that m. people people in government who are of the view that government should have a peace of mind to do between the administration and government and then as a mother of five that shouldn't be anything like a right to information which would we be step in the governance process might be those who are also of the school of thought so it has mainly been the lack of political will and commitment by subsets of governments in ensuring that this bill is passed into law that has been the most thing but we've got that we have no overcome this barrier all right stay on the line get in i want us to just listen some of the reaction that's come through to this this is abraham al has signed a political correspondent for g h one t.v. in fact information in the past. has been treated as a privilege but so days the media on one hand the people who have the information i'm talking about on the other hand. infor

what you all have done in this farm bill in previous farm bills i think has been a great safety net with crop insurance primarily that enable our farmers to be better risk managers. certainly, one indication of that is relatively firm land values have kept the levels relatively low by historical standards and certainly low interest rates over the last couple of years have helped, as well. so, we are projecting usda and our economists are projecting a net farm in cobo so do several .6 billion, that's an increase from last year not including the -- facilitation program. as you know, it's never over until the crops are in the bins and the check is in the bank. so, many things can happen as we saw on 17 and 18 regarding disasters. the current state of the rule economy as you indicated, leaves many producers vulnerable to market disruptions, including illegal retaliatory tariffs and disasters. overall, i think the farm bill fulfills the primary goal helping farmers, ranchers manage risk and continue to produce food, fiber, fuel, and good years as well is bad, as well as taking care of our con

instead of 230 members supporting a bill. which is all we pass bills on in the house of representatives last couple weeks.nd it used to be in america that you would get republicans and democrats support of a bill. people who are like minded andhe want to help solve a problem. nobody wants to solve problems in america anymore. that's the problem. >> tucker: maybe you should write bills that aren't riddled with total fringe positions that only crazy people support. really. >> maybe should say you know what or maybe people on the other side would say take that out of the bill and i will support it and then we have a good conversation about how we bring a healthcare to all americans. >> tucker: obviously if you like this you are not interested in it..d does.s >> tucker: these are talking points. anyone who writes a piece of garbage like this is not interested in solving problems. i think we can both agree on that. >> no. >> chris hahn thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: leaked phone call shows how google, the most power

this bill is not that. this is the bill that affects many more parcels. probably the 30,000 that the ahpb originally affected. i'd like this understand. we did this for aphb. number of parcels. how many are built before 1979? really understand and we parsed it up with aphb and we have a lot of this somewhere. we could continue the analysis i think we might need with what we did over here. but what mayor breed supports on record is not what we're reviewing here today. i really want the board -- i would like for us, through the chair, the president, who is not here, but the officers to be able to identify things we like about the bill, and things we're concerned about, as well as sb4 and i understand chair peskin has expressed a desire to hold a public hearing and take a vote at the board of supervisors. i would hope that we could send recommendations to the board on what we like and what we think should be changed on this. i think the carpet bombing of bills we've seen since the governors legislation in 2016 is actually creating a mess. honestly, there is

that's in that bill. one thing i was interested to discover is it would no longer allow rations for unions to to inaugural committees. those are the committees that raise a whole bunch of money to basically celebrate or, you know, an incoming president right on his or her inauguration. so that would be a big change. it would also roll down the donation limits for those inaugural committees. you could no longer see a -- >> the rule committee is allowing amendments to be debated on the bill. >> some of the ones that are going to royalty congress were not included. one that would have rolled back the johnson amendment. republicans tried to roll back the johnson amendment in their tax overhaul in 2017. the johnson amendment basically prohibits churches and charities from doing like express political endorsements and things like that. it's something that house republicans have really had their eyes on for decades, but certainly, years to roll that back so that, you know, a pastor, for example, could expressly

we'll take you through it as we go. >> sandra: good morning, bill. >> bill: horrifying news overnight. i'm sandra smith. one man has been arrested and charged with murder. two other armed suspects being held in custody after this time after a gunmen opened fire inside two mosques and posted a video of the massacre. >> the main entrance of the building, and then everybody just run toward the back doors to save themselves. >> when the firing stopped i looked and there was one guy came in with a gun. he came on this side, driving next to the mosque house and he just take the gun and -- >> sandra: jonathan hunt live in our west coast bureau. tell us how this attack played out. >> good morning, sandra. it's the massacre that has left new zealand and the world stunned. authorities in new zealand calling it a terrorist attack by people with extremist views and the prime minister describing the events of friday as one of new zealand's darkest days. it was aimed deliberately as muslims. a gunman live streaming the attack via a camera mounted on his head. we won't show any of that video for obv

i'm sandra smith. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. live to the hill. senator lindsey graham is about to hold a news conference after the mueller report found no collusion with russia and the a.g. and his team found it was not enough evidence to make the case against the president for obstruction of justice. andy mccarthy last hour on "america's newsroom." >> there was never a collusion case here. the only way they could have suggested that there was one was by continuely moving the goalpost away from what the original rationale for the investigation was, russia's hacking of the democratic email accounts. there was never anything that suggested that there was trump campaign involvement. and what i wonder is how long mueller has known that there was no collusion. >> sandra: we have live team fox coverage for you on the fallout with john roberts at the white house. first to doug mcelway at the justice department this morning. doug. >> good morning. sandra. there is an old expression about prosecutorial overreach in the united states of america. it is that

bill. >> bill: thank you, matt finn on the streets of chicago today. thank you. >> sandra: in the wake of charges being dropped against jussie smollett new calls for the fed to investigate the role of prosecutors in this case. martha maccallum will join us live next. plus this. >> paid for by the clinton campaign. took the document, dressed it up. took it to the secret court to get the warrant to spy on the trump campaign is how this whole crazy thing started and those people who did that are the ones we need to investigate and hold accountable. >> bill: jim jordan demanding answers, as bill barr lays out a timetable for the release of the report. rick scott weighs in on that and his thoughts on the new white house push to dismantle obamacare. about 50% of people with evesevere asthma k? have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. fasenra is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. fasenra is not a rescue med

bill.the base >> it is a very big legislative package. to 622 pages at last count. when it comes to the component,nance some of the signature pieces that are in the, there is a matching system so government money could be used to fund the election. that manymething democrats and liberal organizations really, really like about this bill, and it's also been a main line of attack of people like mcconnelltch and other opponents of this measure. but what that would do is it would incentivize people to give small dollar contributions. were to give -- the government would come in with a six to one match. a small punch to the small dollar donations, anything under be subject to the six to one match. that's a big deal. campaign in the campaign finance overhaul portion of this bill would federal election commission. it's been widely viewed as sort of a broken and agency.ional it only has right now four commissioners out of six and take action, they need of moving to take an enforcement action so they