mr. kennedy of massachusetts. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 491, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. kennedy, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. kennedy: thank you, madam chair. i want to begin by thanking the chairman of the committee and his staff for their dedication to getting this amendment here today, their long and strong defense of our system, our electoral system from foreign interference. madam chair, a few weeks ago special counsel robert mueller stood before the american people and issued a stern warning and an ominous challenge. what he referred to as the central allegation of his two-year-long investigation, he told us that there were, quote, multiple systemic efforts to interfere in our election. that allegation deserves the attention of every american. end quote. our democracy was attacked. our government undermined. our election system, weakened. we were manipulated. a foreign adversary exposed many of our wor

mrs. kennedy and her two children, john and carolyn. >> i was seated right behind mrs. kennedy.nd she turned to me and said, can you take care of john? so i took him back to a little room off the side. while we were there, they had him practice his salute. >> as the coffin passed by, jackie leaned down and said, now say good-bye to your father. and john delivered what would be the world's most famous salute. >> good-bye, daddy, he said. president kennedy's son saying farewell to the father whom he loved and knew for such a short time. >> i think that america's heart was broken by john's salute. >> that is the moment when john kennedy became, you know, who he was. >> it was john-john's 3rd birthday. >> jackie, she went to pierre salinger and said, pierre, i have nothing in life to do now, except to make sure that my children are okay. i want them to get past this terrible tragedy and not be tied forever to the memory of their father's death. i have to help them survive. >> win the election in november and we'll have a new country, a new state of california and we'll make a new da

mr. kennedy of massachusetts. the chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote in this series. the unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 prisonned in house report 116-154 by the gentleman from ohio, mr. chabot, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in part b of house report 116. the chair: those in support of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote, the yeas

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mr. kennedy for his patience today and at our last meeting. with that, i'm going to turn the gavel over to vice chair mandelman. i will say for the record, we did receive one comment by e-mail from a member of the public, aaron goodman, which has been forwarded to every member of the commission. >> good morning, commissioners. sean kennedy with the s.f. m.t.a., and the m.t.a. is starting our two-year budget cycle discussion. and a big piece of that is the equity strategy. the equity strategy really helps identify and prioritize service improvements. and, as you know, the service section of our budget is really the biggest chunk of it. so i wanted to take this time, this opportunity, to brief you on the equity strategy, where we stand right now, and do a limit little look forward, as well as some changes to the 2025 treasure island line. there is a vision, obviously, for transit in this city, and it is moving forward at a relatively rapid pace. earlier this body was talking about some improvement projects that are moving forward, like advanced

mr. kennedy, is recognized for three minutes. mr. kennedy: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the chairwoman for her extraordinary leadership on this issue for years. for the effort that she led on getting this past congress several years ago and her entire staff, staff from both sides of the aisle when this bill was initially passed. i also want to thank congresswoman stevens for her incredible enthusiasm and dedication to workers across michigan, across her district, but for never losing sight of what manufacturing means for this country. what this country was built on and the men and women that make it all possible. mr. speaker, a few years ago when i introduced the revitalize american innovation act, it was guided by one thing, the people in my district. they were workers from fall river to taunton to milford to newton who biltmore than products on factory floors. they built entire companies. they built communities. and they built families. those same workers have made this legislation a national manufacturing networks successful over the past five years. b

mr. kennedy. are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item? >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is mary claire, and i'm with the south market community action network. a huge component is affordability. in light of last week's fare increase, i'm here to raise concerns of people who are negatively impacted by the yearly fare increases. they say they have done an analysis to see if the fare increases will unfairly impact parts of the population, and their findings have found it will not impact those of low income, but we have conducted our own tests, and our findings showed of 400 surveyed, 82% of participants expressed being negatively impacted by fare increases, and switching to alternative modes of transit over muni. so clearly there is a disconnect in how we are conducting our analysis. we have great free and slow income programs that cover 90,000 people out of the 725,000 people who are reliant on muni every day. but they only cover youth, seniors, people with disabilities, and those who live 200% below the federal poverty line. we've

mr. kennedy. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kennedy: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the chairwoman for her passionate work on this issue. the president's transgender military ban doesn't just ignore science, expert testimony, military experience and the advice of all five military chiefs of staff, it ignores the men and women who are willing to die in defense of our freedom. so i ask my colleagues one simple question. are you willing to look into the eyes of a trans service member and tell them that they are not qualified to serve in our nation's armed forces simply because of who they are? that our country won't allow them their most basic freedom, while expecting them to die for our own. if our nation's fundamental promise -- it's our nation's fundamental promise that we are all created -- if our nation's fundamental promise that all are created equal doesn't you a ply to all, then what are we asking them to defend anyway? i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from texas i

mr. kennedy, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. today, much of our country's attention is focused on the hearing happening across the street from where we stand. for weeks, pundits have been speculating. what else would the special counsel reveal? where is that smoking gun or the vital moment? these questions are understandable, but they also obscure a powerful tool already at this body's disposal. as we consider whether or not to hold the president accountable. what we already know. and for that, we turn to the special counsel's report. volume 1 details a, quote, sweeping and systematic, unquote, attack by the russian government on our democracy, an attack that our president still refuses to acknowledge. olume 2 describes 11 different occasions, 11, the actions of the president may have obstructed justice. legal framework is pretty straightforward. in criminal cases, an individual must meet the so-called elements of an offense. essentially, a checklist of actions which, if each is proven, means that a crime was committed. what fol

mr. kennedy for five minutes. >> thank you, my friend. mr.irman, i'd like to ask unanimous consent that this article, with comments from mr. rob about the grid, be submitted to the record. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. >>> mr. chairman, i'd also like to expand on the theme of this keeping the lights on to include grid reliability. last congress, as you well know, our committee held a number of hearings on this -- on the grid and reliability and resiliencre but it's not just the energy and commerce committee concerned about the grid and its reliability. we had a report produced by the national energy technology laboratory that said that without the use of coal the eastern united states would have suffered widespread blackouts during the 2018 bomb cycle. think about that. iso new england said that in their report, said that the most significant challenge that they face is fuel security. and that coal and nuclear power plants are needed to maintain reliability. and lastly, secretary perry said, in 2017, that the resiliency of t

this is kennedy launch control. mr. cronkite: we will be hearing a great deal from jack king as the morning goes on. you've got a good view there 60 fixed cameras around the launch site by which the national space people in launch control monitor every one of the functions, the critical functions of the launch. with me here at our cbs news space center at merritt island, overlooking the launch site out there, is one of the most distinguished of the science fiction writers, people who have predicted long before scientists were ready to put down the final plan, just how we would go to the moon. this is arthur c. clarke who, among his other distinguished bits of science fiction includes the great movie which recently came out. incidentally, arthur, i just read that they showed it with great success in moscow last plauditsa film got there, as it has everywhere around the world. you first wrote of going to the moon back in 1930's. at a time when nobody dreamed we -- it would come this soon. did you? mr. clark: no, i didn't i

mrs. willie b. kennedy, the works, services at bayview hunter's point, your family, her husband and then alyse, mother vincent, carrying on as they have served and serving in the way that you do with excellent concern for not just bayview hunter's point but watching out for the whole city. i just appreciate that and then miss lashawn coming here transplanted from the south and just stepping off, running, going into communities and teaching us how to pull together our community. i just appreciate you all in partnership. i appreciate what cack is doing and the fact that your support to them helps to do even more and better. so thank you so much. >> we need the support and we want information and we want to know about how the developers are doing. compliance issues, anything. we can't be all places at all times. we look to the community to speak to us and i think we each can say we have an open-door policy, but definitely, we want this to be a successful contract. so i need a motion. >> i move that we approve

kennedy. [applause] mr. khan: it is that fast. i have seen throughout my travels to your districts, to many states, to many places how encouraged, how enthusiastic this nation is to get rid of this unconstitutional, illegal rhetoric, un-american practice. last election, 2018 election, you saw record number of people showed up to vote. and look at the result, look at the result. this is what is going to happen in 2019. [applause] mr. khan: i come from charlottesville, virginia. we are going to elect. theeed only one vote in virginia assembly. we are going to the virginia assembly majority. we are going to elect in 2020, we are going to repeat 2018, we are going to elect a majority in our senate and throw the demagogue out of the white house. [applause] mr. khan: but it will require all of us to contribute to each and every campaign. i know among us, i have met several of the local candidates. you are the hope. you are the organizers at the grassroots level. that is how we are going to build, and that is how we are going to win. and

. >> senator kennedy. >> mr. marcus, i'm going to move kind of fast here today. i apologize in advance if i interrupt you. we only have five minutes. i want to first agree with one of the comments that senator toomey made. we need to encourage innovation. but i want to explore today the underpinnings of libra. can we agree that a banker should be trustworthy? >> yes, senator. >> can we agree that a banker should be honest? >> yes, senator. >> can we agree that a banker should respect a customer's privacy? >> senator, yes, of course, but we are not going to engage in banking services. >> can we agree -- >> if that's what you're asking. >> can we agree that facebook knew in the spring of 2016 that russia was attempting through facebook to disrupt the u.s. presidential election? >> senator, with regards to those events, we definitely moved too slow and we've -- >> isn't it true that your general counsel and your chief security officer knew in the spring of 2016, isn't it true that mr. zuckerberg and your cfo, ms. sandberg, i believe, knew in december of 2016? isn't

so with that, senator kennedy. >> mr. marcus, i want to follow up on senator cotton's concerns, and i think the basis for his concern is we can agree on this, i think, that facebook is not really a company anymore, it's a country. i mean, you've got 2.2 billion people that use it. i don't see anything in your -- in the documents that i've seen that would prevent the members of calibra once libra is prevalent throughout the world saying, you know, we don't -- we don't believe in abortion rights and we have the transaction data of all these people, so we're just going to say if you believe in abortion rights you can't use libra, or vice versa. and you could make that assessment on the basis of any person's position on socioeconomic issues. i think you need to address that. let me ask you a question about, again, there is a big issue on trust here. in may of -- a couple years ago, i think it was 2016, there was an article appeared that quoted news curators at facebook, they were in charge of the trending news section. do you

mr. speaker. le 50 years ago this week a group of astronauts launched from kennedy space center embarking on a journey of discovery into unchartered territory. mr. waltz: july 20, 1969, neil armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind on the surface of the moon. armstrong and fellow astronaut buzz aldrin spent 2 1/2 hours collecting samples and taking photographs. critically and importantly they left behind an american flag and some of the most famous footprints in history, sealing america's place as the leader of the space renaissance and the international space race. our journey to outer space was born out of a desire to discover, but that wasn't the only reason we went to the moon. we also went to the moon to compete with russia. specifically regarding protecting our nation's security. that competition still exists today. but it is even more serious now because of our economic and our military dependency on space, and because in addition to russia, we now have china explicitly stating its intent to surpass america as the leader in space. russia and china have made it clear

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kennedy. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you mr. chairman. chairman, what is the economic impact in your judgment of illegal immigration on america's economy? chair powell: i would have to answer it in generalities. people who come in legally or illegally add to our workforce and contribute to gdp, certainly. that is part of it. cannot growth, you really boil growth down into labor force and productivity increases. immigration, total immigration has contributed more than half of the growth to our workforce in the last few years. >> what about illegal immigration? chair powell: there has been a lot of research on that and it has not reached a clear conclusion. there is research that finds no visible impact and there is research that finds it has a modest impact. >> you think illegal immigration is a good thing? chair powell: it is not at all in our say-so. oris like trade or guns other things we do not take part in. >> in part it is. let me explain my perspective. we welcome about one million of our world's neighbors to become american citizen

mr. speaker. le 50 years ago this week a group of astronauts launched from kennedy space center embarking on a journey of discovery into unchartered territory. mr. waltz: july 20, 1969, neil armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind on the surface of the moon. armstrong and fellow astronaut buzz aldrin spent 2 1/2 hours collecting samples and taking photographs. critically and importantly they left behind an american flag and some of the most famous footprints in history, sealing america's place as the leader of the space renaissance and the international space race. our journey to outer space was born out of a desire to discover, but that wasn't the only reason we went to the moon. we also went to the moon to compete with russia. specifically regarding protecting our nation's security. that competition still exists today. but it is even more serious now because of our economic and our military dependency on space, and because in addition to russia, we now have china explicitly stating its intent to surpass america as the leader in space. russia and china have made it clear

kennedy? >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, what is the economic impact in your judgment of illegal immigration on america's economy? >> i would have to answer it in generalities i haven't tried to quantify that, but people who come in legally or illegally, they add to our workforce and they contribute to gdp, certainly so, that's part of it. i think part of growth, you can really boil growth down into labor force growth and productivity increases and immigration, total immigration has contributed more than half of the growth to our workforce in the last few years, so it's important. >> what about illegal immigration? does it have an impact on wages? >> there's been a lot of research on that and it has really not reached a clear conclusion there's research that finds no visible impact and there's research that finds that it has a modest impact. >> would you think illegal immigration is a good thing? >> you know, it's really not at all in our say so. it's like trade or guns or other things that we don't really take par

if you go to c-span3 right now, you can see resident kennedy's speech "on the moonshot" as part of a variety of for [applause] >> mr. vice president, governor, congressman thomas, congressman , scientists,ebb guests and ladies and gentlemen. i appreciate your president having made me a visiting honorary visiting professor, and i assure you my first lecture will be very brief. i am delighted to be here, and i am particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. we meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress. in a state noted for strength. and we stand in need of all three. but we meet in an hour of change and challenge, and in a decade of hope and fear. in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nation's own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than 3 times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the fast stretches of the unknown, and the

we -- president kennedy had already appointed mr. webb and gave him the objective, and we are on our way today to realizing the objective. gives, have other object -- other objectives. all 3 billion people in the world cannot understand why we cannot -- why we have to go on fighting and dying, why we cannot get along with each other. it may be that under the leadership of the cream of our young manhood and the president of the united states, and the leaders of the space field that we can bring about a joint effort. encouraged8, i president eisenhower to say let n united space program. we have not gotten other nations to agree with president -- with other nations to agree, but president nixon will be engaged shortly with more discussions. and more may come out of this than we know now. caner: that is something we rest our hopes and, even as we rest our hopes on the men on apollo 11. former pres. johnson: as we walked away i thought of three things that i felt deeply, concern for the men and their awe for what iat had just seen as they

president kennedy had already appointed mr. webb. he gave him the objective and we are on our way today toward realizing that objective. we can bring about a joint effort. president urged eisenhower. we have been unable to get other nations to agree. the administration shortly will be engaged in discussion with other leaders. it may be that more will come out of this than we now know. hopes in that our even as we rest are hopes in the three men on apollo 11. >> as i walked out this morning, i felt three things, concern for their safety, great awe at what i had seen when the took off, and great pride. the ability to set aside partisanship and differences, leaders.g amongst it has been held to a minimum. i know these great managers of , they can get together for a job like this. there is so much to do, hunger in the world, sickness, poverty. we must apply some of this great talent and get it done. >> thank you very much, mr. president. nightg forward to sunday it -- night. ourre in the midst of continuous programming. night, we will sh

mrs. mellon had a plan for president kennedy. he just wanted to gardens to be a functional but beautiful place with seasonal blooms year round. he was really calling the shots in a way the garden was designed. however, as in an government institution, there was always problems and she was great at solutions, but there was a lot of diplomacy and the gardens. misses kennedy really supported misses mellon in all of her endeavors. she had to write a couple letters through this time and one of them said -- it scolded someone who violated what they were doing. she said they know where every blade of grass is in the garden so do not touch it. she had full confidence in misses mellon and wanted her plan to be in place. thomas: how would you speak, meryl, in terms of understanding my grandmother's relationship with jackie and how that impacted her ability to design the garden itself? did you come across anything in your studies of what influenced her to pick certain things for the garden. meryl: i think i can probably talk better about th

kennedy. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you president reed. >> i understand 25% of your beneficiaries are supposed to be small businesses, is that right. >> that's the target in the last reauthorization charter. >> what's the smallest business exim has ever helped? >> i met a pet food company that was pretty small. >> how small? >> i believe it had less than 15 employees. >> do you help them? >> we -- before my time we've been providing them financing. i know there's a lot of small businesses and i want to help every single one export directly or through the supply chain. >> okay. >> do you have a formal definition at exim of small business. >> we follow sba's definition. >> i want to talk to you a second about l & g. as you know the president wants us to become independent, energy independent. he's correct, of course. we're doing that through the shale resolution which produces a lot of natural gas. we can't use all the natural gas so we liquefy it and sell it to our plants across the world. mr. ng are very

mr. edmonds: it reminds me of the ted sorensen story about when john kennedy was at the said ich benn, and , which translated to, i am a jelly doughnut. [laughter] mr. mcconnell: i remember he said, if there is a magazine called the new yorker, and i said to you right now, i am a new yorker, you would understand that i am not saying i am a weekly magazine. you could tell it still him. he was annoyed. [laughter] we have a lot of competing voices in the white house. so how did you navigate, particularly in things like the state of the union and different agendas that may be might try to creep into a speech. what are the back room dynamics? mr. edmonds: it is different in every administration. president clinton was especially , you know, he liked to gather thoughts and ideas from everybody from his college roommate to first lady, to everybody. and they also had outside advisors, pollsters, cabinet secretaries, especially during state of the union time, the speechwriter would get a call from the secretary of education and say, you have to put my program in the state of the union. i became like

senator kennedy. >> mr. director, you talked earlier about there being no daylight between the communist party and china and the government and china, and the business community. does that include chinese students in foreign countries? >> it certainly includes some chinese students, not all by any stretch of the imagination but some.>> i need your help in understanding how we are making the distinction, we know, we have a lot of foreign students. that come to our fine universities and are fine universities love them because they pay full freight. they pay full tuition, in fact some of our universities are addicted financially. when a foreign student, let's just take for example, say china. comes to mit let's say. and works in a lab there. on new technology that is being developed. are we relying on the universities to determine whether the students are stealing intellectual property? >> well, i would say the university certainly plays an important role, there may be situations where we through our investigat

mr. chairman. >> senator scott. >> thank you for being here. as you know, kennedy space center and nasa's efforts are very important to florida and the florida economy. when the obama administration shut down manned flight, we lost about 7000 jobs, which impacted our economy, but talent around the space coast which impacted future nasa missions. through what the private sector that and as a governor, we spent $230 million on the space. now it is thriving again. a lot of it is because of good decisions made as well as these private companies pouring in an unbelievable amount of money. we all know the importance of what you are doing. how difficult is it to come up with the numbers it takes so that -- when you come here to ask for resources -- how do you do it? >> it is exceptionally difficult. and first of all, what kennedy has done is amazing. becoming a multiuser spaceport where you have private sector companies launching rockets side-by-side with nasa and air force and everybody else, commercial, government, and one other thing, the director down there has done a

kennedy? >> thank you mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, what is economic impact in your judgment of illegal immigration on america's economy? >> i would have to answer that in generalities. i haven't quite a quantify that. but, people who come in legally or illegally, they add to our workforce and they contribute to gdp, certainly. so, that is part of it. i think that part of growth, you really boiled down into laborforce growth and productivity increases. and, immigration, total immigration has contributed more than half of the growth our workforce in the last few years. it's important. >> what about illegal immigration? does it have an impact on wages? >> there has been a lot of research on that and it has really not reached a clear conclusion. there is research that finds no visible impact. there is research that finds a modest impact. >> do you think illegal immigration is a good thing? >> you know, it is really not in our, it is really not at all in our say-so. it's like trader guns or some other things that we don't really

kennedy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, what is the economic impact, in your judgment, of illegal immigration on america's economy? >> i would have to answer it in generalalties, i haven't tried to quantify that. people who come in legally or illegally they add to our work force and contribute to gdp certainly, so that's part of it. i think that part of growth, you really boil growth down into labor force growth and product increases. immigration, total immigration has contributed more than half of the growth to our work force in the last few years so it's important. >> what about illegal immigration? does it have an impact on wages? >> you know, the -- there's been a lot of research on that has really not reached a clear conclusion. the research finds no visible impact and there's research that finds a modest impact. >> would you say illegal immigration is a good thing? >> i, you know, it's really not in our-- it's really not at all in our say-so. it's like trade or guns or some other things we don't take part in

kennedy: it is not my place. mr. zuckerberg is an adult. he knows what he said. him. up here you learn quickly you have to watch what people do, not what they say. david: a good role in life in general. that is senator john kennedy of louisiana joining us. let's go to viviana hurtado for the bloomberg business flash. viviana: a disappointing quarter for dominoes. the pizza chains revenue missed estimates. still, earnings were better than expected. domino shares were lower in premarket trading. the billionaire founder of l brands says he wishes he had never crossed paths with jeffrey epstein. he says he was never aware of any illegal activity. yearsr and epstein had a long business relationship. alphabet unveiling and app to provide air traffic control for drones. it was approved demand -- it was approved for unmanned aircraft. .'m viviana hurtado that is your bloomberg business flash. warnscoming up, jpmorgan its lending will fall in the second half. taylor riggs is watching the highlights and that is coming up next. if you're jumping in your car, tune in to bloo

mrs. armstrong. > have all your prayers been answered? >> yes. to say to the president of the united states, president ixon, ohnson, president kennedy, too all of nasa contractors who have helped to make this successful, to the stronaut crew, to the men, the three men, who made this historic flight, and to all the from the world, we thank everything, your your thoughts, for everything. ask me how i s to flight, i ibe this an only say that it was absolutely out of this world. proud of my dad. think what he's done -- [inaudible] >> can you tell us now what your for nd took to the moon you? can you tell what they left on the moon? >> can you tell us what the said in his telephone call to you? --he told me that [inaudible] to re you looking forward the ceremonies -- >> i think it will be very outstanding for us. >> do you want them to keep on flight?another moon what he does.e armstrong, have you received any mail? that?ou tell us about >> we've had thousands of from all over the worl [laughter] -- [inaudible] repeat that, please? has it soaked in, are you still numb? >> i'm still numb. >> mommy. armstrong, i would like this --ave [inaudible] >> we also

mr. vice president, a major milestone in the artemis program today. he came down to the kennedyof the lunar lantern as the orion capsule has been completed. when would be ready to fly? >> they tell me there will be a test flight later this year. maybe early next year. but i know every american is excited about the fact that under president trump's leadership, we renewed our commitment to lead in human space exploration once again. and before the next year is out, you will see american astronauts going into space on american rockets from american soil which is something we have not seen since the shuttle program was grounded. the better part of 10 years ago. this is a president who truly believes that what we are celebrating today, what happened 50 years ago, with the apollo 11 landing on the moon, first man on the moon, all the accomplishments, it should not only be an inspiration to the nation but it should inspire this generation of americans to renew our commitment to lead in space exploration. that's exactly what we are doing and by certifying the orion capsule today, that i