mr. defazio: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on s.j. res. 54. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. defazio: all right. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. defazio: now, the president has declared a national emergency so that he can divert funds from the pentagon and other agencies to deal with the national emergency on the border. the largest diversion of funds is going into a wall. now, the president says the emergency is mostly about smuggling of drugs. interesting. as we know from testimony when carlos guzman was tried and convicted in new york, big drug lord from mexico, his hinch people and others testified the cartels don't use people with backpacks through remote areas of the desert. that's too inefficient for a multibillion-dollar business. what they do is they send trucks, which they modif

mr. defazio: how may miles is that for $18? not 10 miles. 10 miles. mr. defazio: the question i have , and i turned to mr. brower because in his testimony he talks about hot lanes will not provide enough congestion relief . pricing. talking about a mile.king $1.70 /milee seeing almost $5 in d.c. what kind of public acceptance think that will have and how i do have to price it to get your targets? >> chairman defazio as we have done an initial analysis, we are to point of hyper congestion on the portland system. we have 70 vehicles at rush hour that the system is actually -- we have so many vehicles that the system is breaking down and the throughput collapses. our consultant told us that if we move a relatively small number of vehicles off the system at rush hour, it will flow better. and we could see our throughput increase greatly. we see that effect in places today where throughput is better before rush hour than at rush hour. mr. defazio: do you think there are a lot of people optionally jumping into the curves and backup traffic. they are not doing t

mr. defazio: thank you, mr. sanchez. dr. wadia? >> ranking member jordan, ranking raskin, number's and tears of the committee and members of the committee. i'm a law professor at penn state law and universe he parked testifying in my individual capacity -- penn state law and university park. my practice focused on immigration law which i worked in for 20 years. i published two books with nyu press. my first book, the beyond aportation, binds nearly decade of research on the history of prosecutorial discretion and deferred action in emanation cases. anned,ond book, band -- b examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first 18 months of the trump administration. deferred action enjoys a long history in both democratic and republican administrations. first called non-parity status, deferred action operated informally for most of the 20 century. in the early 1970's, as part of his effort to support his --ents, john lennon and oak attorney reviewed 1800 deferred action cases, many involving medical and humanitarian facto

mr. defazio: i ask unanimous rep cohen of ove tennessee or h.r. 2222. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. the hat purpose does gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? to ask unanimous consent address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i want to take moment to honor a distinguished member of our district. has had a priscilla 50-year career at the jersey city free public library. successes for many during her time there. she created the library's first learning center, and with the late -- with the infancy.being in its she established the jersey city library foundation to raise desperately needed the to improve and expand library when necessary. that still venture exists today. project - she was dirtor when they built the 1962.new library since a gorgeous new facility with community and children's areas opened in 2004. fundraising of the efforts for the library

mr. defazio. >> thanks, madam chair. in response to the ranking members,, the federal trust fund monies are never spent and never have been spent on other than transportation purposes, so the diversion is not a problem. if you are concerned we should increase federal revenues, that states would then choose to divert more of their funds to non-transportation purposes, we can certainly build in a maintenance of effort provision and also in terms of optional tolling things, we shouldn't allow any diversion of funds. flexibility being granted, beyond uses to benefit those users. i think there are ways to deal with that, but the bottom line is, we need more investment. now, dr. lomax, i know tti. i appreciate your work. i quote it, use it, in trying to justify some people around here to move off of zero on funding, but i am a little disturbed about all the obsession and talk about congestion pricing and all that. i think since you are in texas, haven't we seen a little bit of fatigue in texas? didn't they pass a moratorium th

. >> i am pleased to recognize the ranking member, mr. defazio. he has an opening statement. rep. defazio: thank you. this is our second safety hearing of the year leading to reauthorization. the first hearing we heard testimony about highway fatalities, a hundred people die every day in motor vehicle accidents per that is a life every 15 minutes. 37,133 in 2017. we need to look at ways to reduce those fatalities. obviously we are doing better on the transportation of our precious kids on school buses. but it is not perfect. we will hear conflicting testimony today. and i would hope that members of the panel might depart from their prepared remarks and respond to someone who goes earlier. for example, mr. benish from the and sta will come out strongly against any federal mandate for seatbelts on school buses. the ntsb will talk about what they see and have felt for a long time for lap and shoulder. we will hear from chief fulton about how new jersey is doing what others say is not possible because of seat configuration, size of children, et cetera. that will be an interesting cont

. >> i am pleased to recognize the ranking member, mr. defazio. thank you. this is our second safety hearing of the year leading to reauthorization. the first hearing we heard testimony about highway fatalities, hundred people die every day in motor vehicle accidents per that is a life every 15 minutes. 2017. in we need to look at ways to reduce those totality's. fatalities. obviously we are doing better on the transportation of our precious kids on school buses. but it is not perfect. we will hear conflicting testimony today. and i will hope that members of the panel might depart from their prepared remarks and some of those earlier. for example mr. benish from the and sta will come out strongly mandateinst any federal forced seatbelts on school buses. the ntsb will talk about what they see and if felt for a long time and for lap and shoulder. we will hear from chief fulton about how new jersey is doing what others say is not possible because of seek restoration -- seat configuration, size of children, et cetera. that will be an interesting contrast. i thin

will now recognize mr. defazio for five minutes. >> thank you madam chair. we keep referring to the income which is actually mandated by the lease and all you're talking about is the mandated red payment and there is a provision of the proposed lease and percentage rent difference where i would question gsa and their judgment and how they calculate this. but we are supposed to receive a additional amount of money if the property is profitable. >> according to these only released monthly statements that were leaked intentionally put out by spirited employees, in -- 2017. mr. matthews, last year all you are quoting to us is rent payment. what was the additional amount paid to the tsa under the terms of the leaves on their profits of the trump hotel. gsa simple question, just giving a number. >> just to correct something the profit sharing is not based on profit, it is based on gross revenue. >> okay. >> gross revenues are reported ... >> what was the amount? you have not provided us that number what additional payments were made to the government lastly under

. >> i am pleased to recognize the ranking member, mr. defazio. >> thank you. this is our second safety hearing of the year leading to reauthorization. the first hearing we heard testimony about highway fatalities, hundred people die every day in motor vehicle accidents per that is a life -- accidents. that is a life every 15 minutes. 37,133 in 2017. we need to look at ways to reduce those fatalities. obviously we are doing better on the transportation of our precious kids on school buses. but it is not perfect. we will hear conflicting testimony today. and i will hope that members of the panel might depart from their prepared remarks and responded to some of those earlier. mr. benish from the and sta will ntsa will come out strongly against any federal mandate forced seatbelts on school buses. the ntsb will talk about what they see and if felt for a long time and for lap and shoulder. we will hear from chief fulton about how new jersey is doing what others say is not possible because of seat configuration, size of children, et cetera. that will be an interesti

for being here and i yield back. >> thank you for your remarks mr. davis. now it is your turn chairman of our committee mr. de blasio. >> thank you chair and you both made points that are -- congress needs to pay attention to. the annual vases is four times our federal investment service transportation. and let's think about that, route wasting four times as much money after year and a half here we are paralyzed to figure out how we are going to pay for this an hour ever going to pay for this. we don't teams to suggest that the gas and fuel tank since 1993 -- i propose something that is just embarrassing if we can't do it and will do some bonding. to limit the increase to half a gallon a year i keep saying that as the election of when you drove to work today, you drove by the gas station and i went up or down a nickel and no one is going to notice that but people around the country are willing to pay to get out of the congress that hasn't gotten the message. white house has gotten the message they love and it's a big infrastructure and we were down t