mr. scott: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. scott: mr. president, the past 18 months have been trying for our nation. thankfully the vaccine has brought normalcy back to life for many americans. in record time thanks to the hard work of the trump administration and scientists across our country, we developed a safe and effective vaccine to protect americans against covid-19. these vaccines show us what can happen through cooperation, ingenuity, and hard work. and i'm grateful for all those who helped us get here. i got the vaccine and would encourage everyone to talk to their doctor and consider doing the same. that's what we all should do. give americans all the information and data so they have everything they need to make a good decision for their family. that's exactly what i did when i was governor of florida in the face of life threatening hurricanes, i made sure florida families were well informed. i went out and made sure everyone knew what exactly to expect and how dangerous the storm could be. but i didn't issue mandates because

defazio, mr. scott, mr. pallone, mr. neal, and, yes, many, many republicans who have also talked about making it in america. we have been united in promoting this agenda for 10 years. now we have the chance to affect a large portion of it. trump, mr. trump talked about it, he just didn't do it. this legislation, of course, is just one half of the larger effort as i said by president biden and democrats to achieve that objective of helping our people make it in america. the other piece is the build back better act. that legislation, which is progressing steadily towards consideration on the floor, would enact the remairnd of president biden and democrats' domestic agenda, including major efforts to address the climate crisis and reforms that will help millions of american families achieve economic security. we talk about being prolife. profamily. that is profamily. childcare is profamily. earned income tax credit is pro-family. expanding medicaid is pro-family. so much. if we are pro-family, we need to support those items

wexton. >> aye. >> mr. scott? >> aye. >> ms. jackson lee. >> aye. >> mr. cooper? >> cooper votes aye. >> mr. -- >> aye. >> mr. peters? mr. molson? >> aye. >> mr. molten votes aye. ms. japol. >> aye. >> mr. smith? >> no. >> mr. smith votes no. mr. kelly? >> mr. kelly votes no. >> mr. kelly votes no. mr. mcclintock. >> no. >> mr. mcclinton votes no. mr. grothman. >> no. >> mr. smucker? >> no. >> mr. jacobs? >> no. >> mr. burgess? >> no. >> mr. burgess votes no. mr. carter? >> no. >> mr. carter votes no. mr. cline? >> cline votes no. >> mr. cline votes no. mrs. boebert. >> heck no. >> mr. donald? >> no. >> mr. fentra. >> no. >> mr. goode votes no. >> mr. henson of iowa votes no. >> mr. obernothy? >> no. >> mrs. miller? >> no. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, mr. boyle? >> boyle votes aye. >> mr. boyle votes aye. mr. peters? >> peters votes no. >> mr. peters votes no. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> mr. chairman votes aye. >> are there any members who wish to record their vote who have not voted or change their vote? if not, the clerk will report the vote. >> mr. chairman,

>> so, congressman, i respectfully disagree with mr. scott, of course. and let me pull if i can the data from august which i think will shed light -- >> sir, that's not the question. the question is how many -- how many immigrants have we apprehended this year. not august. this year. >> i believe thus far this fiscal year, congressman, it is approximately 1.2 or 1.5 million. but i think the data that i would cite from august reflects the enforcement measures that we are taking, our use of our title 42 authority, which is not an immigration enforcement authority but is a public health authority which belies some of these statements that you just made. and also our use of title 8 authority, which is indeed an immigration enforcement measure. i think the data from august would suggest the full someness of our enforce measures -- >> sir with all due respect i only have five minutes. i'm not worried about august. i understand you all have put a focus on it because you have found out the american public really doesn't like what you are doing. so let me keep go

with mr. scott, all the pros. yes, i'll start with the 2nd question, young signals from north korea. you know, when he's upset machine, he said he's demonstrate that they would like to see reconciliation with south korea. we have always welcome to direct dialogue between the 2 countries as well. i do show the previous use administration control you wanted to this and i shoot to orchestrate the process and that's not always favorite. it's such direct dollars. i hope that the new administration would be prepared for these constructive steps to linear promoted contest, direct contacts between north and south korea, post q post you like us. any go launches, you manage to do not help with us. but the stimulus near me, interestingly, south korea did not dramatize the situation. and this is the right way forward to be good once we start union at condemning them the same public that sir, people in my teachers come up reduces incentives for a professional diplomatic dialogue. we can only reach a final agreement order throu

some while yet, but i think it is clear that both want to move forward will be trailing prime and mr. scott morrison says he's tried to arrange a phone call with a manual con, but it's been on successful, so fall. speaking in washington, dc on wednesday. morrison said he'd be patient and rebuilding kinds with france. the french government has recalled it's ambassador in australia for consultations. the un security council met with the secretary and targeted us on wednesday to discuss i've got missed on he says, all 5 permanent members wants stability and peace. they're. the taliban is appointed a new invoice to the us and requested that he be allowed to speak at the general assembly. christian salumi has more from the united nations seeing intense diplomacy at the united nations on the situation in afghanistan. many meetings taking place, including one between foreign ministers of the permanent 5 members of the security council, and the secretary general of the un, antonio gutierrez, the united kingdom chair, that meeting the new foreign minister list trust said going into it. that her goal

mr. scott? >> no. >> jackson lee? >> no. >> mr. cooper? >> no. >> mr. peter? >> mr. moulton? >> no. >> mr. smith? >> yes. >> mr. kelly? >> yes. >> mr. mcclintock? >> yes. >> mr. willsmith? >> yes. >> mr. smucker? >> yes. >> mr. jacobs? >> yes. >> mr. burgess? >> yes. >> mr. carter? >> yes. >> mr. klein? >> yes. >> miss boebert? >> yes. >> mr. donald? >> yes. >> mr. finch? >> yes. >> mr. good? >> yes. >> ms. henson? >> yes. >> ms. miller? >> yes. >> mr. peter? mr. peter? mr. chairman? >> you are on mute. >> chairman votes no. >> is there anyone who is wishing to change other vote? >> can you hear me? >> peter votes no. >> are there any other members wishing to vote or change other vote? >> on that boat, yes is 16, no is 21. >> the emotion is not agree to -- motion is not agree to. i want to start by thanking the members of this committee, we have worked together on this legislation. we want to thank the 13 committees of restrictions who collectively spent more than 165 hours working out this package and debating more than 850 amendments. it in flex the -- it reflects the urgen

mr. spirtzel. >> thank you for your time. i am scott spirtzel. i'm up for reappointment for the assessment appeals board number one. i have been a member for the past 12 years. i'm a certified fraud examiner. i believe with my c.p.a. background, it is different than many of the other members of this board and provides some unique experience. and i look forward to, hopefully, serving for another three years. with that, i'm available for questions. >> chair: thank you. any questions? i don't see anybody on the roster. why don't we move on to john calper. if i pronounced that correctly? >> actually. no. can you hear me? >> yes, sir. >> it is pronounced "kiper." i'm a commercial real estate licenser. i'm a certified general in the state of california. and i have quite a lot of experience with appraising property in san francisco. and i'm doing three san francisco appraisals right now. so i think i probably bring a pretty fair amount of knowledge to the assessment appeals board. and with that... >> chair: thank you for that. i appreciate your words an

mr. scott: madam president, currently america's debt is barreling towards $30 trillion. $30 trillion is hard to imagine. so think about it this way. that's more than $233,000 in debt for every american family. on july 31, the suspension on the federal debt limit expired, and now democrats in congress who continue to pursue a purely partisan reckless tax and spending spree are pushing this as a decision point with only two options. vote to suspend the debt limit or increase it. with no reforms to control excess federal spending. they want us to write the government a blank check to spend more money that we don't have. republicans have been clear. we will not do it. now, my democrat colleagues will say that the debt ceiling shouldn't be a partisan issue, and i completely agree. but we've seen from the democrats this year has been purely partisan, even by washington's broken standards. first, they passed a nearly $2 trillion so-called covid bill that spent less than 10% of its funding on actually

>> so, congressman, i respectfully disagree with mr. scott, of course. and let me pull if i can the data from august which i think will shed light -- >> sir, that's not the question. the question is how many -- how many immigrants have we apprehended this year. not august. this year. >> i believe thus far this fiscal year, congressman, it is approximately 1.2 or 1.5 million. but i think the data that i would cite from august reflects the enforcement measures that we are taking, our use of our title 42 authority, which is not an immigration enforcement authority but is a public health authority which belies some of these statements that you just made. and also our use of title 8 authority, which is indeed an immigration enforcement measure. i think the data from august would suggest the full someness of our enforce measures -- >> sir with all due respect i only have five minutes. i'm not worried about august. i understand you all have put a focus on it because you have found out the american public really doesn't like what you are doing. so let me keep go

mr. wilson will be up next followed by golden and scott, mr. wilson. >> thank you kim and john and ranking member for your leadership. we are all inspired by the witnesses today their commitment and service on behalf of the american families defending american families. it will be bipartisan working together in every way we can. along with that i'm really grateful i represent fort jackson, south carolina brigadier general and his team have been masterful in adapting and overcoming the challenges of the wuhan virus. 50% the armies do warmers i commend the army on one 100% capacity of its training capabilities despite the pandemic. my concern is the impact on readiness and this is for general martin above the tactical level. the pandemic caused the cancellation of numerous partner exercises 2021, and the allied's spirit. the fy 22 budget general request provides funding to reschedule the training events and to regain the wreck readiness. >> congressman thank you for the question. it's very unfortunate with coveted and the impacts on our ability t

. >> mr. scott is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman and gentlemen i need your help fairly immediately on two issues. one of which can't be discussed in this setting but the other one can. there are 145 afghan air force personnel in -- it is now september 29th. we need to get them out of that country. people who trained and fought with us and did everything we asked of them and we have got no assistance at all from the state department. to move them. i'm asking all three of you for your help in addressing the issue. secretary austin, we need the help. >> acknowledged, sir. and we will get with state right away to see if we can move this forward. i share your concerns. >> thank you. i want to mention this and where the frustration of every member of the committee comes in. that we had people in uzbekistan, the state department ignored them as well and said they would get to them when they got to them. we have a lady in another country that is 9 months pregnant and one of our pilots and we need help removing them. we need to make

mr. scott: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. ott: madam president, currently america's debt is barreling towards $30 trillion. $30 trillion is hard to imagine. so think about it this way. that's more than $233,000 in debt for every american family. on july 31, the suspension on the federal debt limit expired, and now democrats in congress who continue to pursue a purely partisan reckless tax and spending spree are pushing this as a decision point with only two options. vote to suspend the debt limit or increase it. with no reforms to control excess federal spending. they want us to write the government a blank check to spend more money that we don't have. republicans have been clear. we will not do it. now, my democrat colleagues will say that the debt ceiling shouldn't be a partisan issue, and i completely agree. but we've seen from the democrats this year has been purely partisan, even by washington's broken standards. first, they passed a nearly $2 trillion so-called covid bill that spent less than 10% of its funding on actual

elizabeth: there are 308,000 gotaways, what mr. scott is saying by august this fiscal year.eople who say this is to infoil hat hysterical talk, 19 terrorists, only 19 terrorists did 9/11. they overstayed their visas. multiple terror attacks around the world committed by one person. is shouldn't we be on a forward footing here? >> absolutely. human sector they have people from 97 different countries apprehended there. they have 20 people from ohio profile countries, iran, iraq, afghanistan, bahrain, qatar, those countries. that should be alarming. like you said, it didn't take a lot of people to orange county straight 9/11. every day we run the run into list of people of bad intentions who don't love america like we do into this country. elizabeth: to your point about white house misdirection, we keep hearing it, right? mayorkas says the border horse incident was not a problem. now he tells msnbc he was horrified. they are saying the border is not open. migrant crossings are at 21-year high. saying no crisis. 15,000 people are sitting under the bridge in unsane terri conditio

defazio, mr. scott, mr. pallone, mr. neal, and, yes, many, many republicans who have also talked about making it in america. we have been united in promoting this agenda for 10 years. now we have the chance to affect a large portion of it. trump, mr. trump talked about it, he just didn't do it. this legislation, of course, is just one half of the larger effort as i said by president biden and democrats to achieve that objective of helping our people make it in america. the other piece is the build back better act. that legislation, which is progressing steadily towards consideration on the floor, would enact the remairnd of president biden and democrats' domestic agenda, including major efforts to address the climate crisis and reforms that will help millions of american families achieve economic security. we talk about being prolife. profamily. that is profamily. childcare is profamily. earned income tax credit is pro-family. expanding medicaid is pro-family. so much. if we are pro-family, we need to support those items

>> commissioner ransom-scott: thank you, mr. chair. kim, thank you so very much for just slowly going through so i could follow and the comprehensive presentation just wonderful. my heart kind of leaps whenever i see, you know, just that increase in commissioner bycer was the one along with us for more affordable and just i'm appreciating our team. i'm appreciating you and thank you, kim, because you go through with not just a reading, but a knowledge in it. it felt like you cared about what you're doing and that means a lot, kim. it means a lot, thank you. >> chair bustos: thank you. >> commissioner bycer: thank you, mr. chair. kim, thank you for that great presentation. definitely provided, i think, a very clear delineation between the various proposals we've seen. and i'm glad to see many more affordable units and a higher percentage of affordable. i guess a couple of questions. did century urban make any statements regarding the financial feasibility of 45%? >> yes. century urban's finding was that a development program at up to 45

mr. highflier scott rothstein did not use investor money to file lawsuits. gold. >> in the end, it would be the largest ponzi scheme in florida history. >> how big did it get? >> ballpark, a billion billion and a half dollars. >> and then, halloween eve, 2009. more than a year had passed since melissa's murder. and tony villegas still waiting in jail, awaiting trial. and, another twist to the story. >> scott rothstein has disappeared. >> unlike, melissa scott was not a murder victim, but he was a fugitive. a burning he made off figure on the run. >> he had left the country in a private jet for morocco, with $60 million in cash and his collections of watches and jewelry, fleeing after learning on happy investors had gone to the fbi. >> one month later, he was back in florida, but not under arrest. what no one knew was that scott had cut a deal with the fbi to act as an informant. >> this is scott rothstein november 16th, monday, 1:43 pm. >> he wore a wire and helped convict 26 people involved in his ponzi scheme. and despite his cooperation, in 2010, he was s

cry, mr. scott often, what if this happened to your family? i trust that all of you will do it is necessary today to fix this broken system that has impacted mothers like me, so severely. thank you. >>. >> think four year very, very strong statements and we will strengthen protection for american families. mr. christa more theme, you're now recognized for one minute. >> thank you chairman maloney thank you for holding this meeting. this is an investigation we started with chairman cummings, i know he would be proud of the work we are doing today. we have investigated a number of companies that make products for babies, companies that are household names like johnson, johnson gerber, now fisher price. each time we expected this companies to take greater precautions given their intended users. each time we have expected companies to change or remove products when their dangers became apparent. each time we have been gravely disappointed. for sure price put the rock'n play sleeper on the, market ignoring safety concerns prior to its launch. when

>> i would respectfully disagree with mr. scott of course. let me if i can pull the data from august, which i think would show -- >> the question is how many immigrants have we apprehended this year, not august, but this year. >> i believe thus far this school year, congressman, it is approximately 1.21.5 million, but i think the data that i would cite from august reflects the measures that we are taking and our use of the authority which isn't an immigration enforcement authority but a public health authority with some of the statements just made. it is indeed an immigration enforcement measure. i think that it would suggest the wholesomeness of the enforcement measures which are not as i mentioned -- >> i've only got five minutes and have a couple of questions to ask. i understand that in august you put a focus on it. 1.5 million people that we have apprehended how many people have been returned and how many have been dispersed? >> i'm pleased to provide you with specific data subsequent to this hearing and your prior statement was enacted,

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that following my remarks senator lankford and senator scott of south carolina be recognized to speak and to complete their remarks prior to the vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, the debate on president biden's massive plan to expand social programs has focused primarily on its enormous costs. remarkably little attention has been paid to the content testify those -- content of those policy changes. yet the expensive entitlement programs the administration is proposing would have profound implications for people's lives and for the values that are among the pillars of our society. for they would break the connection between work and a brighter future. mr. president, from antiquity to our time, great thinkers have observed that work is about more than just putting food on the table, important though that is. it has a profound value that enables people to build lives of self-reliance and meaning. as dr. martin luther king jr. once said, no work is insignificant. all lab

mr. president? >> yes. >> this is randy scott. i have a question of carrie. what -- do we have a sense of what percentage of our population gets flu shots annually? >> boy, we do. i don't have that number offhand. i just need to collect it between our work site locations and various health plans. it is data we do request. so we can take a look at that and report it out for 2020 and, again, 2021 once we have that. >> commissioner scott: that, i think, would be informative. as we all know, we're sitting at about 50% with covid vaccinations, fully vaccinated nationwide are a little bit more than that, 53, 54%. and a number of folks have said, well, with flu shots, it's less than 50% of the people get flu shots annually. and i find that to be a little strange, because the employers i work with, i know they were onsite clinics and so forth like you're doing and that seems to me that would drive the percentages up. i was wondering if we were tracking that. i look forward to hearing from you, carrie. thank you so much for all you're doing. >> thank you. >> president

mr. scott is also the chair of the house agricultural committee is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chair lady, i appreciate that. secretary fudge, i am so proud of you. you and i have served together in the house for many years and you are doing a wonderful job. now i want to pick this up in a way to deal with issues. i want to get to the rental one because that's raised some issues as well but i think it is very important because we've got the nation, while i am on that, chair lady waters, you are absolutely right, it's very important, this was her first chance to come before this committee and she has this opportunity on her own and i respect you and thank you for doing that. i want to set the record straight. first of all, the infrastructure proposal included a 213 million-dollar investment to create and retrofit over 2 million affordable housing units that were badly and still badly needed but, in the bipartisan infrastructure agreement, that provision did not make the cut so

scott? >> thank you, mr. chair. i have no questions, but only to thank elizabeth for this updated report and your presentation, and i, too, i'm just pleased that the partnership is there, and it represents the people of san francisco, and i'm just grateful for where it is at this point. >> thank you, commissioner scott. i just want to echo the fact that this is a wonderful thing that's happened. you know, this is part of restoreative justice for the community. the only thing i would want people to remember is early in development, i talked about the wow factor, and those who were around a long time, may have remembered me talking about that, as we looked at the renderings, i see them to be very plain and gray and dark colors, so just because it's an affordable unit does not mean it can't look fantastic. i want people to look at this building and say wow, especially the people who are going to be living in it. so as we put together schematic designs and looking at the materials and the colors, i'm going to be persona

scott. >> thank you, mr. president. you sit on the campaign for your going to restore the moral standing of the u.s., that you're going to meet at the end trump's assault on the dignity of immigrant communities. then we saw at the border this week haven't you failed in that promise? this is happening under your watch. do you take responsibility for the chaos unfolding? >> of course i take responsibility i was president but that was horrible what you saw. to see people treated like, people being strapped. it's outrageous. i promise you those people will pay. they will be, investigation underway now and there will be consequences. there will be consequences. it's an embarrassment. it's beyond an embarrassment. it's dangerous, it's wrong, it sends the wrong message around the world. it sends the wrong message at home. it's simply not who we are. thank you. >> mr. president thank you. you came in office on a message of competent and unity. we witness what happened to country the last several months. we see in the chaotic tr

here is an exchange with the congressman scott mary. >> mr.nk and assuming it's not classified, can you tell us where you are today? >> yes, i'm at the state department. >> you couldn't bother to come down here and see congress, that's great. >> excuse me, sir, my understanding that house is not in session. >> i'm right here, secretary. we are here. >> shannon: kevin, did they reach conclusions on that? >> there are a couple of ways to look at that. yes, he was at the state department but this was a head back-to-back capitol hill meetings. so they are arguing, look, he needed to be there, simple, safer, smarter but look. the bottom line is this he was g itself took place. as you saw there a number of ranking members were actually on the ground, however, chairman means that this was a hybrid hearing which means some chose to be there and others chose not to be there. here is what the critics will argue: this will establish a trend. others especially in this administration and future administrations to use events like covid or other events to si

mr. willard scott.ibutes from the anchors who knew him for a long, long time back here on "today. >> about 40 years. >>> coming up on the third hour, the boss himself, rick ross, will join us live. wait until you hear how rick ross starts his day. it will probably surprise you. >> it's a rosy outlook >> interesting >>> check of the weather, al. >> starting with today, we have severe weather across the great lakes. downpours in the south, where they don't need the rain record highs out west. for tomorrow, that severe weather makes its way into the northeast. heavy rain through the florida peninsula into the southeast more record highs out west with rock >>> good morning. here's a look at your daytime highs. inland heat takes over, especially for hot interior valleys. triple digits temperatures in antioch and livermore. we are in a spare the air alert. expect dry conditions with breezy winds this afternoon. a closer look at the day. north to south bay, expecting moderate conditions. santa clara valley, ov

>> commissioner ransom-scott: thank you, mr. chair.ng through so i could follow and the comprehensive presentation just wonderful. my heart kind of leaps whenever i see, you know, just that increase in commissioner bycer was the one along with us for more affordable and just i'm appreciating our team. i'm appreciating you and thank you, kim, because you go through with not just a reading, but a knowledge in it. it felt like you cared about what you're doing and that means a lot, kim. it means a lot, thank you. >> chair bustos: thank you. >> commissioner bycer: thank you, mr. chair. kim, thank you for that great presentation. definitely provided, i think, a very clear delineation between the various proposals we've seen. and i'm glad to see many more affordable units and a higher percentage of affordable. i guess a couple of questions. did century urban make any statements regarding the financial feasibility of 45%? >> yes. century urban's finding was that a development program at up to 45% is financially viable. and certainly, we can l

mr. scott is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and gentlemen, i need your help fairly immediately on two issues, one of which can't be discussed in this setting but the other one can. and there are 145 afghan air force personnel in tajikistan. they flew 16 aircraft into that country on august the 13th. it's now september the 29th. we need to get them out of tajikistan. these are people who trained with us. they fought with us. they did everything that we asked of them. and we have got no assistance at all from the state department to move them. and i'm asking all three of you for your help in addressing the issue. secretary austin, we need the help. >> acknowledged, sir, and we will get with state right away to see if we can move this forward. i share your concern, sir. >> thank you. i do want to mention this, and i think this is where the frustration of every member of the committee comes in, that we had people in uzbekistan, the state department ignored them as well and said they would get to them when they got to them. but we h

get in after it kind of rallies back together we have the two great scotts, scott fullman and scott shellady, mr. shellady what were you doing this morning or let me back it up. was this another flash dip and that's it? >> well, not so fast. i would say i was watching the banks. i just happened to have them up, because the last six or seven days going into the fed, i wanted to get a nice history built up in my brain about the story of the stocks that says as they go into the meeting to see what they do and then that's what i was watching happen unfold in front of me all day yesterday and they sold off some of them harder than others obviously. they bounce back a lot like the market has today but not a lot so i am not willing to plow back in or at least suggest people plow back in. i'm more in bob doll's camp let's wait and see maybe we need to be a little bit more picky because this market sometimes, well not sometimes, as of late, if you make a mistake and it punishes you, it's very difficult to get that money back as quickly as you lost it, so i say i watch those stocks sell-off, some more tha

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator duckworth. senator scott, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general milley, why would you as sitting chairman of the joint chief of staff, talk to a reporter writing a book about a prior administration? why would that be part of your job description? >> as senator blackburn said earlier, i deal with the media routinely, two, three, four times a week and media, whether books, tv news, reporters, it is very important to make sure senior officials talk to media in various forms to explain what we're doing. >> that is -- you're talking about what happened in the past. >> sure -- >> why would you do that? what is upside to the american public of you talking to sensitive information, you have a full-time job and you go talk about the prior administration, i don't get it, it doesn't make sense to me. if the media asks you about right now, i get it, prior administration, why would you do that? >> it is important to make sure the american people are transparent with what our government does, nothing more complicated than that. >> you discussed sensitiv

. >> yo, this is your boy francis scott key, jr., mr. glare and this is the breakdown of the "star spangled banner." let's go. yo, before these young artists was making street anthems, there was me. i made the o.g. anthem, the national anthem. some songs are about falling in love, right, and some about hitting the dance floor. this song right here, this song, this is about me being surprised about seeing a flare. i knew it was going to be a hit but a national anthem? that's dope. i'm chilling off the coast in my boat because the british army captured me and forced me to quarantine. but anyway, i'm watching the british. they land the lammer down on my boys the americans, dumping on them with the canons, dumping on them with the muskets, bop, bop, bop, bop! i'm thinking, yo, this is a rap. we getting washed, yo! about to be over for the americans. about to be eatings tea and crumpets and beans for breakfast and shit. the next morning, though? oh, shit... ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hail ♪ talking ab

thank you scott for being here, thank you to all of our witnesses for being here. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> we will next hear from our panel. thank you, mr. kelly. your words are on target. thank you to our distinguished witnesses for taking the time to appear before us today to discuss this very important issue. i will introduce our five witnesses and then turn to each of them for their testimony. without objection, all members' opening statements will be made part of the record. our first witness, dr. marshal anthony. he is a senior analyst at the center for american progress where he focuses on higher education policy. our next witness is dr. susan wheeler-johnston. she is the president and chief executive officer of the national association of college and university business offerings. our third witness is dr. steven rose, my friend from patterson, new jersey. he is the president of the pass aic county community college on which i served many moons kg which is located in my congressional district. four fourth witness is dr. susan ganerski of the university of

>> commissioner ransom-scott: thank you, mr. chair.t slowly going through so i could follow and the comprehensive presentation just wonderful. my heart kind of leaps whenever i see, you know, just that increase in commissioner bycer was the one along with us for more affordable and just i'm appreciating our team. i'm appreciating you and thank you, kim, because you go through with not just a reading, but a knowledge in it. it felt like you cared about what you're doing and that means a lot, kim. it means a lot, thank you. >> chair bustos: thank you. >> commissioner bycer: thank you, mr. chair. kim, thank you for that great presentation. definitely provided, i think, a very clear delineation between the various proposals we've seen. and i'm glad to see many more affordable units and a higher percentage of affordable. i guess a couple of questions. did century urban make any statements regarding the financial feasibility of 45%? >> yes. century urban's finding was that a development program at up to 45% is financially viable. and certain

scott: thank you, mr. chairman. you all have difficult challenges. life is getting more difficult and not less difficult. democrats control the white house, the senate, and the house. they have the roads to raise the debt ceiling. they also have the votes to fundamentally weaken the greatest economic engine in world history. what they do not have the votes to do is to force republicans to be complicit with their reckless spending spree killing the goose that lays the golden exit is not bad for the goose. it is bad for everyone who depends on the eggs. there is nothing compassionate about spending money we do not have on new benefits we cannot afford, all of the while discouraging work and increasing the likelihood of future default when you get be born americans receive a bill for benefits should not experience and are no longer available. it is also important to note that our labor force participation rate is down, not up, even with the new programs and the payouts i heard this morning during the hearing that somehow is supposedly increasing our lab

mr. mayo's assessment i do, scott. we always enjoy him when he comes on even without props. this is a sector that's up 47% and of course, it screened higher in the first two months of the year, scott and sort of like the material stocks is that infrastructure bill dragged on they bled off the banks did, those infrastructure stocks like cliffs, like rio tinto and so forth bled off, but the banks came back with a vengeance and like i say, that's why they are the second best performing group right now. 47% is nothing to sneeze at. i think it goes higher still, scott, but not because we jump over 2%, but because we just hold on to these higher rates here and because the consumer then decides that in a stable economy which we are getting towards, that they can go out and make, you know, get those loans for whatever purposes, buy a new car, work on the house, whatever it is and the consumer loan portfolios at some of these banks is going to make them more attractive and then commercial, as well >> it's -- to add to that, from a bottom-up perspective, every large bank that we talke

senator scott: thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, member. thank you to both witnesses for being here this morning. good morning. i know you all have difficult challenges we face as a nation. looks like they are getting more difficult not less. democrats control the white house, the senate, the house. they have the votes to raise the debt ceiling. unfortunately, they also have the votes to fundamentally weaken the greatest economic engine in world history. what they do not have the vote to do is force republicans to be complicit with their reckless spending spree. killing the goose that lays the golden eggs isn't just bad for the goose, it's bad for everyone who depends on the eggs as well. there is nothing compassionate about spending money we don't have on new benefits we can't afford all the while discouraging work and increasing the likelihood of a future default when the yet to be born american receives the bill for benefits she didn't experience and are no longer available. it's also important to note labor force participation rate is d

scott? >> thank you, mr. president. you said on the campaign trail that you were going to restore the moral standing of the u.s. that you were going to immediately end trump's assault on the dignity of the immigrant communities. given what we saw at the border this week, have you failed in that promise? and this is happening under your watch. do you take your responsibility for the chaos that's unfolding? >> of course i take responsibility. i'm president. but it was horrible what you saw, to see people treated like they did, horses nearly running them over and people being strapped. it's outrageous. i promise you, those people will pay. they will be -- there is an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. there will be consequences. it's an embarrassment. it's beyond an embarrassment. it's dangerous, it's wrong. it sends the wrong message around the world. it sends the wrong message at home. it's simply not who we are. thank you. peter alexander? >> mr. president, thank you. you came into office on a me

mr. bryant is that? do you want any change? scott morrison and said, we are very happy. we don't want any change. even if they had asked for nuclear. so mary's, we do produce new summaries. we could have sold them, but they wanted the bid for classical summaries. and more on the 30th of august, there was a meeting called 2 plus 2 between the ministers of defense and the ministers. the file affairs of a stranger and from and again, the bench people are that. are you happy with the conflict? they said, yes, we're very happy. nothing, not one information. of course, it is not the way you treat allies, but i think that the french reaction recording our ambassador is a little bit shy. lease. you don't you, you have any hungry, but you don't, you should not show it. you should keep your temper and draw the conclusions quite sure how we appreciate having you and i'll just say don't giving us your thoughts. thank you very much. indeed sir. you're welcome. china state back newspaper. global times is described estrella as a pawn of the u. s. and gullible, for buying into us cold war strategy. the chinese p

let's go to scott horsley. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you talked a little bit about inflation expectations, and there does seem to be something of a divide between market expectations and the views of professional economists which are pretty much in line with the fomc members and lay people's expectations at least as reflected in the recent new york fed survey. how much weight do you put on lay people's expectations, and what do you think accounts for that divide? >> so within -- let's just take the household surveys generally. the new york fed survey, let me talk about that specifically, and this is from the new york fed, it's only an 8-year-old survey, and it does, it does seem as though they're looking three years out, and it seems like there's a high correlation between three-year and one-year. for the most part, surveys are showing that households expect higher inflation in the near term but not in the longer term. and that's also what expectations are showing. so there are many, many different inflation measures, of course, and tha