horn: thank you, mr. chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise today to address the critical need to support both our law enforcement and individuals in our communities who are experiencing mental health crisis. across this country, one in every 10 calls for police response involves a person experiencing mental health crisis. one in four people killed by police are suffering from a mental illness. one in three people transported to hospital emergency rooms for psychiatric reasons are taken by the police. simply put, our police officers are on the front lines in our nation where far too few people have access to the mental health care they need and deserve. but far too few have the training and the skills they need to understand, identify, and de-escalate these situations. we need to provide our officers with the skills and understanding of mental illness and how to appropriately respond to ensure the safety of both the officer and the individual. the right training makes everyone safer. we must equ

mr. cunningham of south carolina. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 445, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. kung ham, and a member opposed -- cunningham, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina. mr. cunningham: thank you, mr. chair. i want to recognize the great work of chairwoman mccollum in finding ways to increase funding for the land and water conservation fund. the chairwoman and the members of the committee have shown a strong commitment to this important program. and i applaud their efforts. one of the first things that congress did was pass into law the bipartisan lands package which permanently authorized the land and water conservation fund. this demonstrate what had we can achieve when we work together. -- what we can achieve when we work together, on behalf of our constituents. it not only promotes access to our public lands but helps ensure all americans can utilize these publicly owned resources. it is important that we build off that bi

the chair: the gentleman from georgia. mr. bishop: madam chair, i'd like at this time to yield one minute to the gentlelady from alabama, ms. sewell. ms. sewell: thank you, mr. chair. i'd like to thank so much the subcommittee chairperson, mr. bishop, for allowing me this time. part of my amendment is in the en bloc and it deals with wastewater treatment. no person in america living in this country should be allowed to -- not have adequate plumbing. this is why i've introduced an amendment asking the usda to pry or oties our ongoing efforts to address failing septic systems in rural communities. approximately 20% of americans are responsible for the installation and maintenance of their own sewage disposal systems, which isn't provided by their municipalities or their county government. at least 200,000 families live in homes that have a lack of sewage system altogether. we offer little assistance to people who live in unincorporated areas to have basic water and sewer. rural communities across this country struggle with this i

pingree: mr. chair, i ask unanimous consent to claim the time in opposition although i do not oppose the amendment. the chair: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. pingree: thank you, mr. chair. i yield a minute to the gentleman from washington state, mr. schrader. the chair: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. schrader: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd just like to echo mr. newhouse's comments at large. the job corps civilian conservation centers are critical aspect of rural america's ability to fight fires, do good work in rural america. i want to applaud secretary perdue for reversing his decision. it's one thing to be here in washington, d.c. and think you're counting, you know, the taxpayers' money very carefully and doing the right thing. it's another thing to be out in the real world and live the life that we have out there in timber country and knowing what valuable lessons they provide these at-risk youth that would have no other options going forward. at this point, fight

mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having under consideration h.r. 2740 directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 2740 and has come to no resolution thereon. pursuant to house resolution 436 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for urther consideration of h.r. 2740. will the gentleman from california, mr. cox, kindly ake the chair. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of the bill h.r. 2740 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the departments of labor, health and human services and education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. the chair: w

mr. scalise of louisiana. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 445, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. mr. scalise: i bring a bipartisan agreement that is co-sponsored by congressman cedric richmond and congressman garrett graves and what this amendment is designed to do is highlight the fact that as we are embarking upon another mission, now to mars, an ambitious mission to get men back into space, ultimately to go become to the moon that we also want to make sure that as we are investing billions of dollars in this incredible equipment and incredible technology that america has been so ingenuetive in design, that we also make sure we're maintaining those facilities that are key components to building a lot of that technology and billing these massive rockets like the s.l.s. for o'rhine. -- for orion. i'm proud we have the michaud assembly in new orleans, in congressman richmond's district, has been key to

mr. woodall of georgia. the chair: the gentleman from dwea, mr. woodall, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: thank you, mr. chairman. if you had granted me more than five minutes i would have spent much more of that time talking about huh good it is seeing you there in the chair. i serve on the transportation committee, mr. chairman. and the -- my amendment proposes to strike jurisdiction that belongs to the transportation committee from the appropriations bill. as you know, clause 2 of the house rules prohibits legislating on an appropriations bill but the house rules committee waived those rules when this bill came to the floor so the only alternative i have is to come and try to strike that provision. the truth is that we have not had a single hearing on this provision in the transportation committee, mr. chairman. we have not had a single witness testify before the transportation committee. we have had bills sitting in the transportation committee that purport to dea

i strongly encourage, mr. chair, my colleagues, to join me in supporting the amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. roy: i thank the speaker. i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey will e postponed. it's now in order to consider amendment number 17 printed in art b of house report 116-109. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. davis: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 17 printed in part b of house report 116-109 offered by mr. danny k. davis of illinois. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 431, the gentleman

mr. calvert. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. calvert: can i ask the chair how many tiche -- how much time is remaining. the chair: the gentleman has two minutes remaining. mr. calvert: section 702 thordsed the intelligence community to target the communications of non-u.s. persons located outside the united states for foreign intelligence purposes. this fisa section 702 program is an important tool for the intelligence community to gather foreign intelligence information to protect the homeland against international terrorism, hostile actions, cyber actors and other threats to the national security. importantly, it's focused on foreigners located abroad. it does not allow the intelligence community to poe focus on citizens. while the amendment may be real intentioned, i fear it will upset the delicate balance reflected in current working of this provision. the recent comprehensive review and bipartisan re-authorization of section 702 by congress would be -- would strongly suggest that additional changes to the program without a f

mr. burgess of texas. the chair: pursuant to house rose -- house resolution 436, the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: thank you. i'll yield myself such time as i may consume. this amendment would reduce appropriations in the energy and water development division by 5%. the programs in this division have wide bipartisan support. this includes federal spending on water infrastructure, basic science research, storm and flood damage reduction activities, and more. these critical programs are necessary for the safety and health of our citizens and the continued growth of the economy. however, this legislation's top-line spending is out of sync with the federal government's ongoing fiscal predicament. congress must balance these initiatives with fiscal realism. our national debt is over $22 trillion and climbing, and the majority's legislation is only adding to this debt. let's work to improve this legislatio

mr. cicilline of rhode island. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 431, the gentleman from rhode island, mr. cicilline, and a me observe -- and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from rhode island. mr. cicilline: mr. chairman, i yield myself as much time as i shall consume. mr. chairman, a recent study found that only about 36% of americans would be able to pass a multiple choice test with questions from the u.s. citizenship test on it. while another study found that only 26% of americans are able to name all three branches of government. these numbers are not only startling on their own but they also correspondent with historically low opinions of the federal government and record low voter turnout rates. currently only nine states in this country require students to complete one year of education in civics or government. while 10 states have no stisk -- civics education requirement at all. across the country school districts are expressing concern over the need for gre

mr. schiff of california. the chair: the gentleman from california and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. schiff: i rise today to offer an amendment in support of vaccines and the medical if he cantiveness. amendment would direct $5 million to promote vaccine usage. these funds would support the work of the national vaccine program within the office of infectious policy which provides a framework for pursuing the if he k of inif he can can shoes discxds difficultieses and this will develop new vaccines.nd support hey save three million lives worldwide. what were once referred to as the usual diseases of childhood re now considered vaccine hiff preventable diseases. these achievements have contributed to a false perception that disease threats are minimal and vaccines are no longer necessary. we have witnessed numerous outbreaks of measles, a disease that was once considered eradicated. and in fact the world health organization has identified

lee: thank you, mr. chair. i rise as the designee of the gentlewoman from texas and i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8 printed in part b of house report 116-126 offered by ms. lee of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 460, the gentlewoman from california, ms. lee, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. ms. lee: thank you, mr. chair. thank you for this opportunity to speak in support of the jackson lee amendment to rules committee print 116-20 which makes appropriations for fiscal year 2018, h.r. 3351, the financial services and general government appropriations act of 2020. i wish to commend chairwoman waters and ranking member mchenry for their work in shepherding this legislation to the floor. mr. chairman, the jackson lee amendment is simple, but provides an important and necessary protection for grieving parents. the jackson lee amendment ensures

to the chair. mr. harris: thank you. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. beyer: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. harris: thank you, madam chair. mr. cole supports the children. he actually supports funding these programs for the children past this month. something the majority doesn't. time after time after time the majority has refused the funding. madam chair, there is no need for this amendment because in one month we can't take care of any children because the majority has refused time after time after time to provide funding to take care of these children. and then, madam chair, the majority gets up, members of the majority get up and claim that hey're for the children. sure, we need reporting but before we need reporting we actually need funding. we should bring, instead of being here at 1:40 debating a two-line amendment that says just decrease and increase, we ought to be debating a supplemental bill of i yield time to the gentleman from texas -- bill. and i yield time to the gent

mr. cleaver of missouri. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 431, the gentleman from missouri and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. cleaver: i propose a funding increase of $6.5 million for the lee smith grants to be used for suicide awareness and prevention for mental health services administration and this includes training school personnel and high school students on the signs of suicide. suicide is the second leading cause of death in america for young people between the ages of 15-19. missouri surpasses that on almost every account from every age group and ethnicity. the high school principal of the year came to my office recently and his chief concern was our youth today are in distress, that suicide rates are rising and school personnel resources to help these vulnerable students. two years ago in his lee summit north high school which is located in my district, a hard byrking young women you died suicide in the school. she went into the girl's rest room and shot her self. my grandson was

mr. palmer: i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. lowey: mr. chair, i rise to claim time in opposition, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. mrs. lowey: our global partners are critical in combating climate change. the paris agreement is a sign of a global commitment from these countries to fight this scourge together. in addition, climate change is a serious national security threat, and we need to treat it as such by seeking allies, including multilateral institutions to address it with urgency and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from alabama. mr. palmer: i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from louisiana, the ranking member on the select committee on the climate crisis. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized. chairman. u, mr. mr. graves: mr. chairman, it's important to make sure we understand what we're talking about here. the paris accord was engaged in for the purpose of benefiting the global envi

the chair: the gentlewoman has -- mrs. lowey: mr. chair. the chair: -- the only time. mrs. lowey: i yield to a member of the state and foreign operations subcommittee, ms. lee. ms. lee: thank you, madam chair. thank you for your leadership and for yielding time. i rise in strong opposition to this amendment, which would strike the provision in the bill that inyou creases funding for international family planning and reproductive health programs. women around the world deserve access to the full range of reproductive health care and the fiscal year 2020 state and foreign operations bill will help to ensure that. .s. aid provides vitally needed funds to family centers. family planning programs have had important real-world effect on the health of women and families worldwide, resulting in fewer unintended births, abortions, and miscarriages. funding for international family planning programs have helped reduce maternal and infant deaths, a goal that has strong bipartisan support. now, madam chair, i have been around the world into africa and other countries and continents and

mr. visclosky. the chair: the gentleman from indiana is recognized. mr. viss claus i ask: i ask unanimous consent that my full remarks be entered into the record. the chair: without objection, so ordered. mr. miss claus can i: i would -- mr. visclosky: mr. calvert has made it easy to continue the collegiality, the transparency, and bipartisanship that is the hallmark of the defense subcommittee. he is a wonderful partner. i also do want to express my gratitude to chairwoman he lowey and ranking member grangerer and the other members of the subcommittee and full committee for their efforts. and i want to thank the staff. this legislation would not be possible without their outstanding effort. at this time i would like to highlight some of the elements of the legislation that deal with the well-being and morale of those in uniform. the bill provides a 3.1% pay raise for our women and men in uniform. this is the largest increase in basic pay since 2010. the report expresses, however, support for a 3.1% pay increase for d.o.d. civilian employees as well. we re

mr. quigley of illinois. the chair: can pursuant to house resolution 460, the gentleman from illinois, mr. quigley, and the gentleman from georgia, mr. graves, each control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. quigley: mr. chair, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. quigley: the amendments included in the en bloc were made in order by the rule. this package includes amendments that cover a broad range of issues across the financial services and general government bill. i support the amendment and urge its adoption. i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. graves: i rise in opposition to this amendment. this is another en bloc amendment. unlike the one we spoke on previously, this is purely a partisan amendment. really no reflection of bipartisan tone whatsoeve in fact, it's really nothing more than a partisan aa tack on the administration. -- attack on the administration. an attempt to make

mr. harris: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman has the only time. mr. harris: thank you, madam chair -- madam chair. there are a lot of issues we can discuss on the floor. this is one of them. clearly. but we should be discussing a much larger issue. the issue of border security and stopping the flow. 144 pounds of fentanyl seized. that could kill the entire population of the united states. that's the amount we seized. this is unbelievable, that congress can act to control the flow of drugs across our southern border because we're playing politics with our children's lives now. madam chair, we should bring the supplemental bill to the floor as soon as possible as the gentleman from south carolina suggested. we're ready to go all night. let's bring it to the floor. house leadership can bring it to the floor tonight. let's go ahead. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opi

to the chair. mr. harris: thank you. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. beyer: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. harris: thank you, madam chair. mr. cole supports the children. he actually supports funding these programs for the children past this month. something the majority doesn't. time after time after time the majority has refused the funding. madam chair, there is no need for this amendment because in one month we can't take care of any children because the majority has refused time after time after time to provide funding to take care of these children. and then, madam chair, the majority gets up, members of the majority get up and claim that hey're for the children. sure, we need reporting but before we need reporting we actually need funding. we should bring, instead of being here at 1:40 debating a two-line amendment that says just decrease and increase, we ought to be debating a supplemental bill of i yield time to the gentleman from texas -- bill. and i yield time to the gent

mr. chairman. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise to point out that d.o.d. has testified that they have excess facilities and needed way to deal with that excess. with that said the underlying ill does not include any funds for it. i appreciate the gentleman pointing out the economic impact and yield back. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from south arolina is recognized. mr. cunningham: i thank the gentleman from texas, mr. ratcliffe, for joining me. and i thank chairman mcgovern and my colleagues on the rules committee for allowing this important amendment to come to the floor for debate. i ask my colleagues vote in favor of this amendment and ensure that our military's limited resources are not wasted on another round of brac. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from south carolina. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is

. >> thank you, mr. chair. and thank you for keeping the hearing going. thank you, ambassador, for being here. i'll just start by echoing what you heard from other colleagues. i am encouraged with the usmca of the working groups that speaker pelosi set up in the house. we need to find ways to improve the impact that the agreement would have on american workers and businesses. so i am hopeful that the process operating in the house will help us get there. i want to turn to china as well. i visited china at the end of april as part of a codel with senator coons. while i was there, it seemed that both parties wanted to deal. soon after i returned, the talks broke down. senator hassan: it was good to see an announcement this morning that president trump and president xi will in fact meet at the g-20 in japan later this month. what i would like to make sure is that we can have at both a member level and a staff level a briefing after that happens. i very much appreciate you coming to my office while i first became a member of the finance committee, but it woul

>> chair fewer: mr. goebel, would it be okay if we continued this to the next meeting? okay. let's take public comment on item number seven. >> i want to talk about current events. i spoke up and demonstrated that 144 unit apartment building complex can be built in the embarcadero for $66 million, and a 66 unit apartment complex can be built for $57 million. i demonstrated that 9 times 3 is 27 and each of these building is 27 stories tall. you get more bang for your buck building a 27 story apartment complex side by side with each of these two buildings which is already being built in mountain view and san mateo. you take a chunk of about 1,900 homeless people off the street by using this technique. and by using that technique, the homeless rate would decrease, and if you apply it to each and every location you want to build a navigation center, you'd have a less amount of people on the streets. sf viewer, please. will you freeze my time? >> chair fewer: mr. wright, would you mind if we continued your pub

davis: mr. chair. ms. lofgren: mr. davis moves to strike the last word and is recognized for five minutes. mr. davis: i'd like to remind those in the audience and my colleagues, yes, this language was put into the underlying bill. we did not pass it unanimously. i was on the floor and did vote no, but because we had so many other roll call votes on h.r. 1, decided not to ask for a roll call on this. this is just a provision -- ms. lofgren: if the gentleman will yield? mr. davis: yes. ms. lofgren: it was adopted by voice vote. and ordinarily that's considered unanimous but i take the gentleman's point. and i yield back of the mr. davis: only because this is a provision that goes back to the top-down approach that i believe the majority is taking. you think about this. look, we all want to recycle more. we want to do what we can to elp the environment. it may be more convenient for them to use a printing office in another caribbean nation versus here. look, we all want to make sure -- or they wouldn't have recycled paper

the chair: the yeas are 404 and the nays are 22 and the amendment is adopted. for what purpose does distinguished majority leader. mr. hoyer: i move that the house do now rise. the chair: all those in favor. opposed. the motion is adopted 689 the committee rises. >> madam chair. the chair: the committee of the whole house having had under consideration directs me to report it has come to no resolution thereon. the chair: the committee reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 270 and has come to no resolution thereon. the chair lays before the house n enrolled bill. the clerk: a bill to amend title 38 to clarify presumptions to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the republican of ietnam and for other purposes. the chair: the chair will entertain requests for one minet speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and tend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: i rise today to recognize nationa

mr. kerner: yes, sir. chair cummings: the hearing is adjourned. mr. kerner: thank you. chair cummings: all right now. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [indistinct conversations] ♪ pelosi: the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been coverage from washington dc and around the country's a you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is that you buy your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. president trump delivered freedomat the annual conference in washington, d.c. he td

mr. cooper. >> i thank the chair for yielding. my colleagues who are not on the subcommittee know that we literally have hundreds of and hundreds of low-yield nuclear weapons. many hundreds of which are deployed. but it's all by the air force. if we don't do what's in the mark this will be the first time in history that our strategic assets, our nuclear submarines have been used tor tactical purposes. if we stop deployment now we won't have wasted any money. it's probably a good thing we have the new war head developed and in production. but it hasn't been deployed. the two primary ricks you face if you deploy these so-called low yelled weapons on submarines are one you fire the weapon the submarine is exposed. two there are a limited number of missile tubes to use one of these tubes for a low-yield weapon is something we have never done before. in all the decades we've had nuclear weapons. so why risk the most survivable, the most precious leg of our triad with in actually fairly new idea? you know, we have the weapon developed.

mr. harris: can i inquire how much time i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has two minutes remaining. mr. harris: thank you very much, madam chair. the bottom line is, there is scientific evidence about the danger of marijuana. it is largely unstudied and to anyone, madam chair who understands how research is conducted here, should realize that the roadblock is not in h.h.s. it's not in the jurisdiction of this bill. it's with the d.e.a. because this does nothing to remove the scheduling with regard to how the d.e.a. views marijuana. one of thekow again, world experts on addiction, it was brought up maybe we can treat addiction with marijuana. she said absolutely not, this drug causes addiction. marijuana is a gate way drug, it is dangerous. and this amendment does nothing to deal with the -- promote regular search because the problem is not in h.h.s. the problem is in d.e.a. ma tam chair, i've dealt with this, tried to deal with this problem, i co-sponsoord bill that promotes research by a more broad approach to involve all the federal agenci

yield back. >> thank you, mr. chair. i too serve on the judiciary committee and i guess it's not surprising i disagree with you, mr. raskin. this is really quite unprecedented. again, the speed that this is going for. if you compare it to eric holder, there was 464 days, you know, gone through from the first request until contempt of congress was voted on in committee. compare that to attorney general barr, 44 days. and then the days from the subpoena until the contempting -- contempt in committee for eric holder, 255 days with william barr, 19 days. and you know, from the staff, our staff on the judiciary committee had said that they were told that the department of justice tries to make a accommodations with chairman nadler and repeatedly offered different things with him. he has written a letter from my understanding along with other democrat chairmen saying we're not even going to read that mostly unredacted report except for grand jury information. forget it. even though we want to know the information, we're not go

the chair: the gentleman eserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. castro: i give two minutes to rosa delauro of connecticut. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. delauro: thank you. i want to thank the gentleman. i want to thank him for his commitment, his concern and his dedication. i rise in support of my colleague's amendment, the death of any child is devastating. the fact that children have died while in the custody of the federal government and we don't know the circumstances of why or sometimes even when they have died is almost beyond comprehension to me. we have an oversight role. it is our responsibility to make sure that children are safe and protected while they are in the custody of health and human ervices. if you take a look at the mission statement it says place the child in a safe environment and do it as expeditiously as ossible. it is our responsibility to assure h.h.s. is fully transparent and they are, quote, appropriately respond to the death of an unaccompanied alien child in the care and custody of o.r.r. what my coll

mr. chair, would you like me to call the labor contracts all together? >> chair heinicke: i would like this say that and i would like to welcome director heminger on the board. it's a pleasure to have you on board, your experience, knowledge and commitment and your willingness to do this after you're already ill lueseous career. i look forward to serving with you. >> i will be calling items 6 through 13. this is adopting and implementing the decision and award of the arbitration board, or adopting and implementing successor m.o.u. with service employees international union local 1021, t.w., 250-a for automotive works, one with the international association of machinists, one with transport union local 200, one with the international brotherhood of electrical workers and one with the municipal executive associations, all setting wages, benefits and working conditions for represented employees fort term july 2019 to july 2020. >> chair heinicke: 2022? through 2022? >> yes, through 2022. >> chair heinicke: i asked they all be called together because i get th

the gentleman from maryland is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chair. mr. biggs and other colleagues chide us for having law witnesses instead of fact witnesses today, which is absolutely astounding given that they understand that the administration has blocked all of the fact witnesses from coming and have even invented a completely fanciful new doctrine of absolute immunity of executive branch employees to testify before our committee. but they would work with us to get these fact witnesses and have them actually testify, then we would not have to simply rely on the reading of the mueller report. but let's talk about the reading of the mueller report quickly before my questions. our colleagues return today with the absurd and discredited mantra of no collusion and no obstruction. the ranking member just, i think he missed the point about no collusion. if you read the report. just page 2 in the report, you don't have to read the whole thing, you will see special counsel mueller says we don't address the question of collusion, which is not a criminal legal

mr. thin. >> the chair now recognizes mr. shank is for 5 minutes gets up >> thank you some historical, remembering as a committee, i think we went to the digital transition and when away from analog and i think we lost some distance. because the digital plus, just kind of information for some of my colleagues who were here during those battles. so some of the rural areas, you know had trouble getting their signal that used to be able to. clearly we have a difference of opinion on the reauthorization is dollars and the question is is it just a binary choice? so let me ask this question senator smith, good to see you again. happy happy to have you here. can you briefly describe in more detail how you envision a negotiation process between webcasters and satellite operators for local programming? if stelar expert. >> probably not unlike what occurs now through over-the-top offering. there are market solutions to fix this but as long as the incentive is given to not bring local into local, they have no incentive to talk was. >> m

mr. campbell, could we have confirmation? >> yes. we agree with the recommendation. >> chair fewer: mr. controller, could you take note of the department's recommendation to accept the b.l.a.s report. -- oh, supervisor stefani, would you like me to rescind that? >> supervisor stefani: no. >> chair fewer: okay. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair fewer. i think these are drastic, 1.5 millionless than last year for continuing projects last year. i understand there are some projects that will be delayed. i just wanted to get that on the record because i didn't any anything last week and also point out that the fine arts museums receive $10 per visitor in subsidies from the city which is less than others, but i also wanted to get that on the record. i am in agreement. [please stand by]

mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. sherman, or five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. foster, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to recognize gun violence awareness month and call upon the senate to protect the lives of innocent americans by passing commonsense gun reform measures that have already passed the house. this past february in my district in aurora, illinois, five innocent people were killed and six police officers injured when a person who shouldn't legally have had a gun opened fire in a workplace. trying to kill as many people as he could. earlier this month, we witnessed another horrific shooting in virginia beach, where 12 more innocent lives were taken. these tragedies have become too common in america. the victims are our family members, our friends and our neighbors. the house has already passed legislation that would in fact cure a fraction of this epidemic of gun violence, but the senate refuses to act. commonsense gun reform is supported by an overwh

>> yeah. >> chair fewer: thank you very much, mr. hui. okay. mr. controller, please note it is the intention of this committee to accept the agreement between the b.l.a. and this department. okay. let's have adult probation up. could we have a b.l.a. report, please. >> chair fewer, members of the committee, as you may have noticed, we passed out a revised report on adult probation, and i will be reading from that. so the department's proposed budget for fiscal year 2019-20 is $1,900,346 or 4.7% more than the original fiscal 18-19 budg budget. this is $1,255,899 or 3% more than the mayor's proposed budget of $42,304,366. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $476,900. of those, $375,000 are ongoing savings, and 109,900 are one-time savings. department's -- sorry. our recommended reductions to the proposed fiscal year 20-21 budget total $318,600. of the $318,600 in recommended reductions, $346,000 are ongoing savings, and we have an addition of $28,200 in one-time funds. these reductions would still allow an increase of $937,299 or 2

cloud: thank you, mr. chair. you mentioned that you refer to normal federal employee hours for a federal worker, 9:00 to 6:00, 8:00 to 5:00, give or take? mr. kerner: i think congressman massie asked me about those hours. as i tried to explain, they don't really impact on this violation. mr. cloud: would you say counselor, as counselor to the president, ms. conway's duties, quote, continue outside the normal duty hours and away from the normal duty post? mr. kerner: yes. mr. cloud: would you list any cost associated with the alleged political activity by ms. conway that were paid for out of the u.s. treasury? mr. kerner: would i list them? mr. cloud: yes. mr. kerner: i'm not sure what list means. is she paid by those? is that what you mean? mr. cloud: are there any -- the alleged political activity, can you trace it back to any funds paid out of the u.s. treasury? for each act? mr. kerner: no. mr. cloud: do you have a list of that? mr. kerner: no. that provision only goes to the on duty rule. mr. cloud: is she pai

. >> chair fewer: mr. clerk, can you please read item number 6. >> chair fewer: and miss rugals, we have you back. >> yes. so michelle rugals from the d.p.h. office. so this is a contract that we've had for many years. it's a contract providing behavioral health services to extend the contract. we -- as you will notice, there are a lot of different programs that they do that are special which fell under groupings of different solicitations. the behavioral health section essentially has completed an enormous round of solicitations, some of which are joint with other city departments, such as the intensive services and early childhood mental health. so they provide a range of services with a strong focus on services to youth, but also adult outpatient. the services are listed on, well, table 1 on page 14 gives you all the r.f.p.s, but it gives you all of the services, i'm going to invite allison who is the program services manager to come up, because i imagine you'll have service questions, and she can speak

mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from kansas, mr. marshall, for ive minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. norman, for five minutes. mr. norman: thank you, mr. speaker. today, i'd like to recognize one of the most accomplished constituents in the fifth district in south carolina. janey who lived in fort mill and encompasses what it means to serve and honor one's country. in 1975 after the united states congress authorized the entrance of women into our first rate military service academies, janey soon applied, then under the united states naval academy, in annapolis, maryland. out of 81 women who entered the academy in 1976, she was the first and only black woman to graduate from her class and the first-ever black woman to graduate from the united states naval academy as a whole. after her departure from the academy after the rank of ensign and bachelor of science in engineering, she was trained as a supply officer, became a supervisor at the former naval training center in orlando, florida. she preceded

my understanding is that we have full agreement with the department on our recommendations. >> chair fewer: mr. rohrer, what do you say? >> trent rohrer, we are in full agreement. >> chair fewer: mr. controller, can you please note it is the intention of this committee to accept the agreements between the b.l.a. and this department. thank you very much. and i believe our sheriff is ready to come back. sheriff hennesey, and we wouldn't mind mr. hollings. >> crispin hollings. i'm glad to report we have agreed to cuts of $250,000 reduction to the budget. >> i am proud to report that we are in agreement to the $250,000 cut to the service line. >> chair fewer: thank you. are we still in agreement with the positions, now? >> i believe this replaces the positions. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you for taking a second look at that. i greatly appreciate it. so mr. controller, can you please note it is the intention of this committee to accept the recommendations set forth in the agreements set forth between the b.l.a. and also this department. >> we will, madam clerk, and we understand this to be $250,00

. >> thank you, mr. chair this is a committee, commission so many things, thank you for your leadership after in the human rights commission as well as the role of the china commission. thank you cochairman rubio for extruded leadership as well and smith who worked with for decades on this issue. thank you, mr. chairman for leadership on the foreign affairs committee and to all you thank you for being here this morning and makes up the remarks and generous introduction you gave me on behalf of the colleagues, anything you said i did in a bipartisan way. including the banner on tenement square and a bipartisan where in all the legislation to protect the chinese student of issues of trade in human rights in china in a bipartisan way. also along the way. i want to acknowledge while we were in tijuan tiananmen squares actually in tenement square at the time of the massacre, thank you for the beautiful testimony in the photos that you have of that occasion which was an assault on humanity in my view. i think you'll

you, mr. chair. the amendment says it will strike the words committee staff and insert committee staff holding a valid election certificate to the united states house of representatives. yes, it made me laugh when i too.ght about it because all members, all members of congress can ask whatever questions they want. we are ready agreed to a motion by the chairman to extend the amount of time for another hour. that sayis no rules that attorneys for the democratic staff can't stand right behind a member of congress and hand them the exact question they want to ask. so i see no reason for a staff member to be able to be requested to ask questions of the witness when the members of congress can do so. we already passed a motion that said we would are our to do so. if the committee staff member holds a certificate of election for the united states house of representatives, then they can ask questions. otherwise, they should not. regimentnadler: the insist on his point of order? >> mr. chairman, the house ru