have the authority to abolish the cystic departure and go back to preet next generation? what they have that authority to do that? >> the f.a.a. would have that authority to revert back to a prior procedure. >> okay. and what do you think, and i know it is hard for you. >> sorry to interrupt. under the context of what they are meant -- what their mandate is under modernizing of the air traffic control system, but they did that in phoenix where they did go back to a priest nexgen operation. so i believe they would have that authority. >> and the airport shut down in phoenix when they went back to that. >> no. it is still operating. >> to things keep going on and business continue? >> yes. >> i just want to make sure. not to disguise this but i just want to understand that it is possible to make that adjustment >> i believe so. >> okay good. from your professional opinion in terms of the flight ceiling, i know there is a request from folks and we had a conversation at the roundtable about a 10,00. i know one individual commenter said no ceiling would be -- is there an appro

he's been living with cystic fibrosis his entire life but recently had a lung transplant. because of an infection, his body rejected those lungs and doctors told him he has weeks to live. >> that is until death will we part. but that is soon. >> they decided to quickly get married. it took friends and family to pull off this wedding in a short time. >> life is so precious. >> she is my family. my family, my friend, my soul mate. >> you can see how choked up she is. they met at a friend's funeral that passed because of this same condition. it turns out that lauren also has cystic fibrosis and her future is also uncertain. she understands. you can see her ceremony is at the hospital. friends came celebrate. they had the dress and tuxedo. this is a tough moment. you want to be happy but you wish this forever after could belonger. >> it doesn't matter for them because they get to be in love and a part of each other's life even after he is gone. >> you know that feeling when you can't get a song out of your head? ♪ >> in this truly original, incredible video, the second he jump

it would approve of gene editing to defeat incurable diseases that children inherit such as cystic cystic fibrosis around two thirds would also give their backing to engineering that would prevent non-fatal conditions like blindness however most americans oppose genetic modification to choose eye color height and intelligence levels. or the poll in america comes a month after groundbreaking claims from china the technique while still extremely controversial was used on twins lulu and nona in an attempt to make them resistant to hiv infection. and last but it just. this sort of read was that. through. the end to you fact people. a few days later before returning. to. the czech hold the surgery when. the result. was. as you handed ethical concerns over embryo gene editing in china has seen the scientists put under guard he remains in a university guesthouse in the city of shen journ and has defended his actions but some scientists say it's a step too far. what i heard that there were born children from it i thought oh my gosh i'm just trying to herd american microbiologist brian hanley thin

that senator feinstein make this a priority and put pressure on the cystic departure and how the next generation system negatively has been impacting san francisco. >> thank you. >> is david lott here? i reached out to the district director. it was a very short notice. we have doing what we can. we now have the former district director as a chief of staff of mayor breathed. he was very much engaged with responding with the let -- to the letter and rating with the letter of the senator and now we will have jim lazarus, the former -- the deputy vice chair of the chamber who will be the district director for senator feinstein. he was made aware of this. we appreciate you coming out and saying a few words. >> thank you for the invitation and holding this hearing. unfortunately, the district director could not make it but i'm here instead. again, we share the concerns of many of the residents of san francisco and we understand that this has a huge impact on the community. we are here to listen and we have also submitted a letter to f.a.a. on january 29th 2018 this year and we are continuin

he's been living with cystic fibrosis his entire life but recently had a lung transplant.ause of an infection, his body rejected those lungs and doctors told him he has weeks to live. >> that is until death will we part. but that is soon. >> they decided to quickly get married. it took friends and family to pull off this wedding in a short time. >> life is so precious. >> she is my family. my family, my friend, my soul mate. >> you can see how choked up she is

my office wrote a letter to you and congresswoman pelosi and asked them to consider the cystic departure, the cross and particularly the crossover and rethinking the nexgen process. there is only one community director that was able to challenge environmental impacts of this during the comment period and that was phoenix. they were able to stop the implementation of nexgen. we missed our opportunity in the bay area. it was done in such a way that people did not really realize what was happening at the time. but phoenix is a good model. i wanted to say on the record, if she could continue to make this a priority. it is a big priority for the residents of san francisco and our commission and our board see eye to eye on this. there is something different, and you mentioned in the letter you wrote, the f.a.a. reauthorization that has not happened in a very long time. as i said, the abundance of riches in the leadership. and congress in both houses would be something very beneficial. we want to put that on the record that it is a priority for the citizens of san francisco that senator feinste

citizens of age would approve of gene editing to defeat incurable diseases the children inherit so to cystic fibrosis around two thirds would also give their backing to engineering prevent non-fatal conditions like blindness however most americans oppose genetic modification to choose things like eye color height and intelligence levels. in the u.s. poll comes a month after groundbreaking claims from china the technique with extremely controversial was used on twins lou and nona in an attempt to make them resistant to hiv infection. when little and large was just a single. this soldiery was that. through each edge of the enter so you fact people. a few days later before returning. to greece. we checked how old that you saw to be when the whole genome sequence did result in. this surgery. and i think all concerns over embryo gene editing in china has seen that scientists put on the guard he remains in a university guesthouse in the city of shenzhen and has defended his actions but some scientists say it's a step too far when i heard that there were born children from it i thought oh my gosh i

surveyed would approve of gene editing to defeating curable diseases the children inherit such as cystic fibrosis around two thirds would also give their backing to engineering that would prevent non-fatal conditions like blindness however most americans oppose genetic modifications to choose things like i color height and intelligence levels of the u.s. pole comes a month after groundbreaking claim from china the technique while still extremely controversial was used on twins lulu and nona in an attempt to make them resistant to hiv infection. when lulu and lars was just a single. this soldiery was the door we threw each edge of the enter its effect people. a few days later before returning little in the long arm to greece. which checked how will that use surgery when the whole genome sequence is the result is that. this surgery was c. as you handed ethical concerns over embryo keynoting in china has seen the scientist put under god he remained a university guest house in the city of shenzhen and has defended his actions but some scientists say his work is going to step too far. what i

surveyed would approve of gene editing to defeat incurable diseases that children inherit such as cystic fibrosis around two thirds would also give that back into engineering that would prevent fatal conditions like blindness however most americans oppose genetic modification to choose things like height and intelligence levels. of the u.s. poll comes a month off the ground breaking claim from china the technique while still extremely controversial was used on twins. in an attempt to make them resistance to hiv infection. when lulu and lars was just a single. this solitary room was that. through each edge of the enter so you fact people a few days later before returning who were on the lawn or the grease one which checked how well the surgery when the whole genome sequence is the result it is that this surgery was safe as you handed ethical concerns over embryo gene editing in china scene that scientists put under guard he remained remained in a university guest house in the city of shands and and has defended his actions but some scientists say that it's a step too far. what i heard tha

i've got cystic fibrosis, and then i was put on a waiting list for a heart and double lung transplantt also i needed to have blood transfusions to make that happen as well. we were waiting for the call and you don't know if that call is going to come. we didn't think she would make it. well, it's the gift of life. it is. it's the gift of life, blood or organs, it is the gift of life. on his first donation, izzy. it's like a little pinch. it doesn't hurt at all. it's like an injection, basically. there's obviously a need for people of black and ethnic groups to give blood, there's a shortage. i thought why not come down on christmas and give blood. fewer than 1% of londoners give blood, and there's a push to encourage more black and ethnic minority donors, particularly to help sickle cell patients, like six—year—old angel. injune she turned blue and was struggling to breathe. she was rushed to hospital. she had to have an emergency blood transfusion, which basically saved her life. if it wasn't for the kindness of an unknown blood donor she wouldn't be alive today. and for all of those

george cystic licensing an unusual new it's a consumer old paintings. new roman. thirty minutes double. i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but they stand up and with the talent to do the job and they think into jamma culture shock you need to take this drama down to you because it's all about who they know i'm right so join me i mean the gem of a beat up post a continent is reinventing itself as a cover because tech scene discovers it's true potential inventors entrepreneurs and high tech professionals talk about their visions successes the day to day business the difference. it's. history in everyone stops when. he sees the. digital realm for god starts december twelfth on d w. this is due to. go on the streets of the french capital as the full weekend of yellow vest protest broke the country least one hundred thirty five people have been injured and more than seventeen hundred protesters d.t. also coming up. the new leader of germany strongest political party gets to walk on pushing comes down from the role.

a lot of people are being stuck by a parole cystic or probation system where not even committing crimesack in pris. i spent time with with men that had 28 months in prison for bail and $100 kept them in prison and tax payers have to pay money to keep this guy in triz. things libe that never made sense to me. i've been on probation since i was 19 years old. growing up in the system, i always thought this was normal and i didn't value myself the way i value myself now. >> you say it's all about subjugation and i'm not understanding where's the evidence for that. >> my vision of it is i see that some of these statutes and laws are basisically targeted towards a certain group of people where we're trapped inside of a system where it's extremely hard to get o out. >> are you able to square that with the fact that your judge is african american. >> i didn't blame it on caucasian, african american. it's a mindset of self hate. i don't think it's a thing off a certain color. but it's designed to keep myself and the killture i come from and and born in these condizes and got caught up in the sam

welcome back turning to turkey the latest official economic figures show growth slowing the turkish the cystic index reports that in the third quarter of this year turkish growth was measured at one point six percent that figure came in below expectations in a reuters survey of two points or two percent and was far it was a real sharp listen to this fall they were at in the second quarter five point three percent huge drop analysts that i n g bank reported that after seasonal adjustment the latest figures actually show a contraction of one point one percent compared to q three of the previous year and warned a downward trend is likely to continue the risk of recession in turkey's near future now appears quite strong. and jumping from the western edge of asia to the east japan's economy is also contract into daniel weihs rate of two point five percent in the third quarter that figure is the worst for japan's economy in four years the number was also worse than an initial estimate of one point two percent contraction and private analysts expectations of one point nine percent figure overall g.d.

i am the cystic project manager and business case manager for the office of small business. am here to present an update on the acceptable business entrance program. i will go over a snapshot of compliance and outreach. osb's involvement and the small business support services that we offer. i manage the efforts at our office through the direction of the director. all right. the accessible business entrance program, which is very timely, because supervisor tang authored it, it went into effect may 22 nd, 2016, the ordinance number 51-16, requires property owners of buildings that have places of public accommodation to make all primary entrances accessible to people with disabilities. the program applies to places of public accommodation per title iii of the americans americans with disabilities act or the a.d.a. this includes restaurants, bars, retail stores, laundromats, pretty much any business that welcomes bit workers into the public into their place of business is considered a place of public accommodation. the program only applies to the primary entrance. on the slide

prescription for serious medical conditions like diabetes, heart conditions, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis and so on. program we can negotiate for lower drug prices. in the medicaid program, we can negotiate for lower drug prices. why can the government not negotiate for lower prices in the medicare? >> a provision was included in the creation of medicare part d, a so-called noninterference clause that prohibits medicare from negotiating part d drug prices. rrepresentative: what is your sense of the public policy rationale? >> there is no public policy rationale. it is purely a gift and a giveaway to big pharma. justify the government granting monopolies to big pharma corporations, and imposing upon itself an obligation to buy products from those monopolists, and forgetting itself from negotiating the price with the monopolists whose monopoly was granted by the government in the first place. raskin: what fiscal impact on this restriction to pursue a market principle and negotiate lower drug prices? overpay, bothy the government and individual seniors, as well as seniors who go wit

drugs for serious medical conditions like diabetes and heart conditions and multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis and so on. in the va program, we can negotiate for lower drug prices. in the medicaid. practice, as you observed we can negotiate for lower drug prices. why can the government not negotiate for lower drug prices in the medicare program? >> a provision was included in the creation of medicare part d, the so-called non-interference clause, that prohibits medicare from negotiating part d drug prices. >> okay. what is your sense of the public policy rationale for that? >> there is no public policy rationale. it is just purely a gift, a giveaway to big pharma. as i mentioned, you cannot rationally justify the government granting monopolies to big pharma corporations then imposing upon itself an obligation to buy products from those money on lists and forb forbidding itself from negotiating price with the same money on lists whose monopoly was granted by the government in the first place. >> what's the fiscal impact on this restriction of the ability of the government to pursue a m

ivanka trump specifically helping in with cystic fibrosis children's charities, habitat for humanity.f they are not allowed -- they can't right now, obviously, they have other jobs and other requirements but if they're forbidden from being able to help a lot of these charities, i think those charities could suffer because we're politicizing even the future ability of someone like ivanka trump to help raise money to help children's charities. >> i think taking money and giving it cowhat you say you're going to give it to, if that's what we're talking about here, is not politicizing. >> we're talking about in the future, though, and also let's remember the majority of this money comes from donald trump and the trump organization, so it was their money. they did raise some money in other areas. i think, again, $8.5 million or $8.25 million of mr. trump's money, $9 million in total donations since it was first founded but if we're going to talk about prohibiting people who could reach out and help raise money for causes that many people support because of partisan affiliation, that, i thi

and a dad from jackson county recounted how his daughter with cystic fibrosis had to move away. he told the audience it's been devastating for us as a family. we wish our daughter could live with us. then went on to say when you can't breathe, nothing else matters. you want to talk about life, safety, health issues in america, we should have done better with the senate, but we're doing ok with this bill. i intend to support it. thank you for bringing it to us. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore, who has been one of the leaders of this congress fighting on behalf of the most vulnerable in our country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from wisconsin is recognized for two minutes. ms. moore: mr. speaker, i'd like to thank the gentleman from massachusetts for yielding. i'd like to commend my colleagues of the farm bill conference committee in both the house and senate, for strengthening the supplemental nutrition assistance program and rejecting harmfu