yeah, i'd like to call you tony, but i think mr. boone. >> tony's fine. mr. boone is my dad. >> any way, good comments by fellow commissioners, but my concern is these wildfires, and particularly, like the fire up in the north bay, which is not just vegetation burning. >> correct. >> which you understand and everybody involved in firefighting understands what you're dealing with. >> right. >> as far as chemicals and stu stuff. but what happened in the north bay is every imaginable type of carcinogenic burning in houses and structures and businesses that really exposed -- exposed a lot of firefighters to unusual chemicals that they're not normally expected to have on a wildfire. they're trained to -- like, we only have 10% of the department -- less than that -- trained. i would hope that that number would increase because with the amount of wild fires, particularly down in southern california now. i don't know how many the chief has decided to send down there, but i know we've sent some. are those repeat performers who might have been just last month up in the

welcome again, mr. boone. >> thank you, ma'am. >> you began your presentation by going into what it is that you're doing for the department. i know you've been on the job for six months, but can you refresh our memories regarding where you came from? i know you came from the department of health, but what your responsibilities were previously. >> yes, i can do that. i came to -- i'm still technically with the department of public health. i just moved from an industrial hygienist position to this position. the first six months of the year, i was at laguna honda hospital whereas an industrial hygienist, same thing, provide industrial hygiene, ergonomic evaluations. i'm an asbestos contractor supervisor so i did a lot of asbestos stuff. i did -- helped laguna honda with the hospital incident command system. i'm ics 300, 400 trained. >> i'm sorry. what is ics? >> incident command system, so i'm -- i'm emergency response trained. my background -- a lot of my background is in emergency response and hazardous materi

. >> welcome, mr. boone. >> thank you. >> good morning, everyone. good morning commissioners, chief. thank you for having me this morning. first, let me say it's an honor and a privilege to be part of the department and provide an overview of environmental health and safety for the department. i think the over arching philosophy that i bring to the department is to use all my skills and resources and knowledge to make an inherently dangerous job safer, if that makes any sense. i was talking with chief hayes-white yesterday about firefighters are not at a fire scene at all days, all times, but safety is a 24/7 job, so paying attention to things in the fire house and even off-the-job safety is critical to maintaining a healthy firefighting force, so it is my over that the overarching philosophy is that the culture of safety is infused in the members of the department as well as the civilian employees of the department. as far as duties go, you probably surmise my duties as an environmental health and safety professional, and the anticipation, recognit

. >> a boone mr.iddle class, receiving 61 billion dollars of those tax cut in 2019, about 23% of all of the cuts going to the individuals in middle class. joining me now matt schlapp, chairman of conservative american union, great to see you. >> great to be with you. lou: let's start with, how would you have ever fancied that everything, i mean everything would be breaking president trump's direction as we wine down this year -- wind down this year? whether the special counsel, that is breaking his way because the collusion is between obama and clinton, and their acolytes, and even russia, it appears. whether it is the economy, in which he is looking at most remarkable performance of any president in american history in his first year in office, whether it is foreign policy. his decisions his policies his doctrines are being demonstrated to have won the support of our allies and high regard of our allies in nearly every corner of the year. >> yeah, and i just came back from japan, we had our first jap

. >> for months the white house has pitched tax cuts as a boon for the middle class. with the bill now passed, mr. trump admitted corporations are the big winners. >> the plan also lowers the tax on the american business. that's probably the biggest factor in this plan. >> the bill also doubles the standard deduction for families and cuts the individual rates for the highest earners from 39.6% to 37%. senate minority leader chuck schumer said republicans failed the muddle class. >> there are only two places where america's popping champagne, the white house and the corporate board rooms. >> this is a big win for the white house, but in the very near future, the president will need democrats, not one of whom voted for this legislation if he hoped to gain votes on the business and corporate tax cuts are permanent and, anthony, some employees are already seeing benefits either in terms of year-end bonuses or promised higher wages. >> yes, they are, major. some large u.s. companies are promising their employees bonuses after president trump signs the tax law. at&t will give $1,000 to each employee an

mr. ross $2,000 for family that makes 73 grand is a lot of money, and the fact that you're doubling the standard deduction is a boon to everybody but particularly those at the lower end that pay taxes. the fact that you're doubling dg the child tax credit, boon to everybody with children. the fact you moved the refundable portion up to 14 didn'ts for people not paying any taxes at all, income taxes. i think is a huge thing. two questions. first question is, my friends on the other side made the point this open the door to cutting entitlemented. it does open the door to entitlement reform. a big difference between reforming and reducing them. i think in some casesty upper end, having the same social security and medicare plan for wayne buffett and donald trump that you have for ma and pa kettle on the farm living on social security, we out to be looking at that there savings to be had. and i'm not talking about cutting but you may have to look at raising the cap. in the tax system, how much of the taxes are income taxes both corporate and personal, the total amount of revenue the government makes, versus payroll tax

. >> reporter: for months, the white house has pitched tax cuts as a boon for the middle class. with the bill now passed, mr. trump admitted corporations are the big winners. >> our plan also lowers the tax on american business. that's probably the biggest factor in this plan. >> reporter: the bill also doubles the standard deduction for individuals and families and cuts the individual tax rate for the highest earners from 39.6% to 37%. senate minority leader chuck schumer said republicans failed the middle class. >> there are only two places where america's popping champagne. the white house and the corporate board rooms. >> reporter: this is a big victory for the white house. but the president will need democrats, not one of whom voted for the tax reform bill. fails to achieve future victories on infrastructure, insurance, immigration or raising military spending. now, the individual tax rate cuts this bill are set to expire in 2025 but the business and corporate tax cuts are permanent. and some employees are already benefiting either through year-end bonuses or higher wages. >> yes, they are, major, than

mr. speaker, job creators and investors know that tax -- that tax cuts -- that the tax cuts and jobs act will create lasting economic growth and a booning economy for everyone. i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill and deliver tax relief to the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, the chairman of the democratic caucus and a good friend and former member of the committee, mr. crowley. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. crowley: my colleagues, the republican bill is unaffordable. with a $2.3 trillion price tag. it's inequitable, costing working families more while cutting taxes by $200,000 for the top .1%. it's a scam and the american people know it. is this bill about helping people who are living paycheck to paycheck? hell no. is this bill going to bring back jobs and lift up the middle class? hell no. is this bill going to make life better for cops, firefighters, nurses, truck drivers, students, veterans, teachers and shif

mr. speaker, job creators and investors know that tax -- that tax cuts -- that the tax cuts and jobs act will create lasting economic growth and a booning economy for everyone. i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill and deliver tax relief to the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, the chairman of the democratic caucus and a good friend and former member of the committee, mr. crowley. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. crowley: my colleagues, the republican bill is unaffordable. with a $2.3 trillion price tag. it's inequitable, costing working families more while cutting taxes by $200,000 for the top .1%. it's a scam and the american people know it. is this bill about helping people who are living paycheck to paycheck? hell no. is this bill going to bring back jobs and lift up the middle class? hell no. is this bill going to make life better for cops, firefighters, nurses, truck drivers, students, veterans, teachers and shif

mr. trump has also insisted that these cuts won't personally be good for him. however, independent analogies of top income earns could actually be a big boon mitch mcconnell said republicans will be able to sell skeptical amic start to see extra money in their pockets. >> my view of this if we can't sell this to the american people, we ought go into another line of work. >> reporter: once the president signs this bill into law, the changes will take effect in january. and in february folks should start to see those changes to their withholding when they get their weekly paychecks. norah? >> congress now has to work to keep the government open by friday. what are the chances of a holiday shutdown? >> well, normally leaders figure out a way behind the scenes to work this out and they certainly don't have any appetite for a shutdown this time around, but there are also a number of contentious issues that have been wrapped up in this must have year end spending bill. democrats want to see protections added for young people who were brought to this country illegally. they're also pushing for reinstating those subsidies that are mandated under o

boon to economic growth. and certainly not that this would -- these kind of tax cuts are going to pay for themselves. >> thank you. mr. lewis has a scheduling conflict, so we're going to go to him and then come back after he yields some time to mr. levin. >> thank you, mr. neil. mr. neil, i want to yield to ter terri sewell, back from the front line of alabama. [ applause ] so my question is to our economist. i know that you, mr. fuhrman, have had the opportunity to advise both presidents. if you were looking to provide economic growth, what would you be advising this administration to be doing? at the end of the day, we know that we've gotten out of our worst recession since the great depression, and we are on the rise. unemployment hasn't been as low as it's been in decades. and so what would you advise this administration to be doing? because i agree with you, mr. fuhrman. not only is it the chances of economic growth paying for itself, through this tax cut, not only is it as impossible as 60 degrees in boston, it's almost as impossible as a democrat winning the senate seat in alabama. but things do happen. so i w