mr. perry: thank you, mr. chairman. yield. mr. engel: thank you, mr. perry. words.ciate those kind houlahan. ms. houlahan: thank you, mr. chairman. i very much appreciate you all i are testifying today, and will, i think, start my first question with dr. o'neil. been trying through my the foreign rs on affairs committee to focus on women, women in security, in particular, and this report we talking about today notes that the international drug been courts have not updated for more than three decades and they need to be modernized. 2014 report from the organization of american states, nowhere in existing international agreements mandates or commitments made to nderstanding global crisis of controlled substances through the gender lens. so i'm wondering if you can talk a little bit, any of you all, i guess starting with dr. o'neil, bout how you would recommend our government seek to understand and address the role women in the role of the illicit drug trade? and how can we use these women gender-focused lens or issues or initiatives to help reduce the supply of

mr. perry: thanks for taking the time to discuss this for allowing me. and i didn't want you to carry the freight. we didn't get to say everything over the proceedings and it frussthates that our colleagues will say america assassinated general soleimani. you can put a general's rank on a puppy dog or a rabbit or you name it or a car or a truck, this guy is a terrorist, no matter what he is wearing. he is a terrorist from a terrorist state. that is who he is. response i will for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of americans and maiming of thousands of americans and when they say this president is starting a war, my goodness, where have you been since 19 . you know when iran punched america in the face. it hasn't stopped. after 40 years of appeasement d you are a great student of history and the results of appeasement leading up to world ar ii was the untold death and miserable deaths of people because of appeasement and tried it with iran. irpe is playing long ball. people are saying th

>> mr. perry, that's a really tough question, as you know. i mean, just getting to the accountability on this case, and that's why i mentioned accountability in my previous comment, a lot of this can be denied. the actual scientific evidence, you know, wasn't necessarily shared immediately with us. we have people in the country that have been provided the samples so we're able to get in there and do the assessment. as mr. lasseter said a lot of this is on agreements about information sharing so we rapidly come together as allies to be able to put the blame where it's necessary. but it's a very hard problem. we've given that we haven't spent enough time and effort in this country on bioatry buks bugs. we -- >> watching what happened to skripal and now navalny and others, quite honestly, you know, we tend to think that that happens over there, so to speak. but the uk is obviously a close friend and an ally. and i find that exceptionally concerning. and i understand. i just -- i'm sure you're thinkin

mr. perry. mr. perry: thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. barsa. appreciate you being here. you said earlier this year that the usaid should not be doing and does not do works untethered from national security. is that right? mr. barsa: yes. mr. perry: is it your assessment that the state and foreign appropriations bill under consideration pursues agenda items that engaged in works untethered from national security policy? mr. barsa: i have not seen the details of the legislation but it is my belief with the members -- we are all in agreement that usaid is the method of smart power or soft power. since our inception, usaid has played a role in national security apparatus and we are proud to do so. mr. perry: anything in particular that you would like to elaborate on based on your experience you have seen in the past that you would prefer not to, for us not to continue to engage on or expectations you have in the conversations you have had about what we will be forced to engaged in based on

thing controversial moving forward. >> i see my time is up and let me recognize the ranking member mr. perry. >> thanks again mr. chairman and to our panel thank you. mr. oxford just mentioned some of the nonstate actors that i talked about in some of the nonstate in state actors so as you know in 2018 russia, russian agency agencies the soviet developed nova check novichok in the united kingdom and early this year was used against again opposition figure alexei navalny. i wonder it's hard to prove, right? we are pretty sure but it's hard to prove kind of like the coronavirus. and the wuhan institute of her all at it. we have some pretty strong opinions about it but it's hard to prove. how can we are how can the international community enforce accountability for state actors who do such things? >> mr.. that's a really tough question as you know what we are just getting to the accountability and that's why i mention accountability my previous comment. a lot of this can be denied. the actual scientific evidence wasn't necessarily shared immediately with us. people would have been provided some

perry: mr. do >> we have worked very closely with international partners against his particular threat. we also have programmatic elements working in key states o address this specific set of nonstate threats. we have integrated our concerns of wmd into broader international diplomatic discussions about counterterrorism. we do strengthen international chemical and biological precursors. in general, i believe the evidence is that much of these andrts uses chemicals precursors that are procured within state. most of it appears homegrown. >> my time has expired. i yield. thank you, mr. chairman. can you hear me ok? chairman bera: yes, we can. >> very good. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank our witnesses further testimony on the important work that you are doing in this area on behalf of the country. i want to go back in my opening statement, i talked about the concerns i had about the significant cut to the reduction program. theared to the 2020 levels, cooperative threat reduction program w

mr. perry: i thank the witnesses. having a spent a year in uniform there, i agree with your assessment broadly speaking. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield. chair engel: mr. connolly. mr. connolly: thank you, mr. chairman. let me join with my colleagues in wishing you the very best. thank you for your long service to the congress and certainly to our committee. you have set a standard of decency and civility that i wish governed all committees in congress. abide r. mccaul helped by that spirit and i appreciate both of you doing that. thank you. wish you-all the best as you branch out on new endeavors. and i know you can look back in your career here in congress with great pride. and you should. chair engel: thank you, mr. connolly. mr. connolly: mr. bugajski, i was really struck by your observation that term in the balkans, particularly in serbia, the russians are going to continue to be influential, but the longer term influence to watch is that of china. and i look at history, that's an extraordinary thing to say. who

i recognize for five minutes mr. perry. mr. perry: thank you, mr. chairman. it's been a privilege to serve with you. my question will be for mr. o'toole. i'm going to provide some context so if you can get unmuted while i do that we'll be ready to go. your testimony supported by amtrak's audited financial reports directly contradicts what many see as a carefully manicured narrative spun by amtrak's leadership that the railroad was nearly profitable, i put that in quotes, in 2019 and would have been profitable in 2020 but for the pandemic. now in september, newly appointed amtrak c.e.o. and president william flynn testified before this very subcommittee projecting what many say is a false narrative that profitability was within amtrak's grasp prior to the pandemic. when i confronted him with the concerns similar to those you raised about amtrak's unusual accounting practices, excluding depreciation from expenses, and including state subsidies as revenues, he dismissed the concerns. according to mr. flynn, excluding depreciation from the total is merely a resul

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in another mr. perry is getting into the ranking member's right now thank you for all for hosting the timely joint hearing on the bio security. a recognize ranking members as well as my colleagues. this is a topic which as we have seen, duration security. i'm very pleased thater were holding this very important joint hearing. biological techniques such as gene sequencing and editing and synthetic biology. weet changing in the scope and scale of the biological threat parted and it could lead to an increased and biological weapons. adding to the challenge, biological threats are easy to create an ultimately with mass destruction and used in concert with biological weapons. enabling a bad actor to create major damage on a military power. in the republic of george's health ministry suffered a cyber attack from abroad on the database the stars medical documents and national covid-19 pandemic. we know that russian hackers are targeted organizations and it involved in covid-19's research and vaccine development

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mr. perry: i certainly thank the chairman. mr. chairman, i rise to offer my heartfelt congratulations to the camp hill lions girls soccer team for their victory at the piaa class a state soccer championship and for their excellence throughout heir undefeated 2019 season. led by coach jared, who to no one's surprise, was just named the pennsylvania soccer coach's association girls class a coach of the year. the lions dominated the season achieving a stunning overall record of 25 wins, zero ties and zero losses. this is the lions' second appearance at the state championship in the last three years. they took an early lead in their contest against shady side academy and held it throughout the game. aggressive and selfless offense, vigilant defense, and stellar goal keeping earned the lions a 2-0 victory. and their first state championship trophy in school history. these amazing athletes are the epitome of remarkable dedication and discipline, outstanding skill, exceptional sportsmanship, and an unyielding team spirit. their dedicatio

mr. perry: i urge adoption of these amendments and i yield the balance. ro tempore: the gentleman yields. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. lowey: i yield to -- graing grairng i yield -- ms. granger: i yield to the gentleman mr. smith. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentlewoman from new york reserve? mrs. lowey: i do. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas yields. mr. smith: thank you. i have an amendment en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas yields? ms. granger: i yield for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentleman. mr. smith: madam speaker, on the last day of the obama-biden administration, fish and wildlife issued a director's order, setting in place an almost total ban on lead ammunition and tackle on federal lands. while fish and wildlife claim the role was based on science, we know clearly it was not. the decision by the obama-biden administration was made solely to limit access to public land of and fishermen. as soon as i was made aware of this midnight

mr. perry you are now recognized for five minutes. >> yes chairman foster, ranking member loudermilk and members of the task force, thank you for inviting me to testify today on this extremely important issue affecting millions of people across the country. the covid-19 pandemic will continue to take significant more lives than the proximity hundred 30,000 it has already claimed if the united states government does not invest in tools that are proven to combat the spread of the virus. including strategies that aim to dismantle structural racism. according to an analysis published july 5th by the new york times, latino or black or hispanic and black residences in the u.s. are three times as likely to become infected as their white neighbors. higher covid-19 mortality rates among black and brown communities reflect the historic devaluation and disenfranchisement of their lives, properties and communities. structural racism is the pre-existing condition that must be accounted for in our battle wit

>> mr. perry that's a really tough question as you know and getting to the accountability on this case and that's why i mention accountability my previous comments. a lot ofme this can be denied ad the actual scientific evidence wasn't necessarily shared immediately with us. we have people in this country that have provided some of the sample so we are able to get in there and do some of the assessments that is mr. lasseter said a lot of it is about information sharing and coming together as allies to put the blame where it's necessary but it's a very hard problem given that we haven't enough time and effort in this country. we spent years on nuclear attribution but wewe haven't any time on bioattribution. .. an ally. i find that exceptionally concerning. >> i'm sure you're thinking about it i just don't get any interest in or had something to do to add their. >> so i would just say that the further the chemical weapons of the use and seemingly acceptability across the world has to be confronted.

parnas says, that mr. perry phoned mr. giuliani, contacted mr. giuliani, and said that he had been in touch with the ukrainian president, that he had conveyed the message, and that, in fact, the ukrainian government had agreed to make that announcement. now, secretary of energy rick perry has denied playing any role in this scheme, but he did crash out of the trump cabinet just as this scandal started to come to the surface. it was october 16th when "the wall street journal" reported that, in fact, secretary perry did call rudy giuliani to talk about ukraine. he did so at the direction of president trump. the following day, october 17th, rick perry tendered his resignation to the president as energy secretary. the day after that, october 18th, secretary perry announced that he would not comply with a subpoena in the impeachment investigation. whether he would comply now with a subpoena to testify to the senate trial of the president, that remains to be seen. we'll be right back with more. >> i know that there was another conversation that perry c

parnas says that mr. perry phoned mr. guiliani, contacted mr. guiliani and said he had been in touch with the ukrainian president. >> that he had conditiveyed the message and, in fact, the ukrainian government had agreed to make that announcement. secretary of energy rick perry denied playing any role in this scheme. but he did crash out of the cabinet just as the scandal surfaced. it was october 16th when the "wall street journal" reported that, in fact, secretary perry did call rudy guiliani to talk about ukraine. he did so at the direction of president trump. the following day, october 17th, rick perry tendered his resignation to the president as energy secretary. the day after that october 18th, secretary perry announced that he would not comply with a subpoena in the impeachment investigation. whether he would comply now with a subpoena to testify to the senate trial of the president, that remains to be seen. we'll be right back with more. >> i know that there was another conversation that perry called after the inauguration telling him that

mr. president. >> including secretary of housing and urban development, ben carson. >> our president, donald j. trump, he makes promises and he keeps them. >> and secretary of energy, former governor rick perry. >> mr. president, i know there

mr. perry: i thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, chairman, for the time. an efficient and effective infrastructure system is vital to our nation's economic well-being. vital to every citizen. they realize t that's why they are willing to pay for it as long as we do the responsible thing here. for years, mr. speaker, federal policies have diverted funding away from the core projects and created a system that incentivizes waste. as a result you can figure it out, our infrastructure's crumbling. the need for reform is acknowledged across the aisle, across the spectrum, both sides know there is an opportunity right here, especially with this president. unfortunately, the majority has now squandered that opportunity for bipartisan reform. instead they propose h.r. 2 which is a leftist wish list that doubles down on the policies that brought our infrastructure to its current deteriorated state n fact, the majority of the -- the $1.5 trillion in spending under this bill, 1,400 pages unrelate to the repair and build out of our nation's infrastructure. 2/3 of this

farm when mr perry. good to cook and i think that later. but idea we're talking about a humble practice here one of the long term effects of f.j. and what have you had to contend with psychologically if jim is not something that ends with the day you have got something that follows you for a lifetime 2 hours after the cut you start she varying you start feeling fever your body temperatures rise so you can contract infections those are the short times after you are no much you are even the mrs coming out is easier challenge another thing is that when you are mad that day and you go through a process called if you believe it's another reopening then when you are you want to give back and in our community we give but as long as we can so that means after every but you have to be kept for you to pass the child yes all right we're also hearing from all these women who have undergone if g.m. that it does cause complications that is harmful so do you want another one of your daughters to go through that i am as i am. the mallow i'm about when i'm

from the brink of disaster ok the executive director of the armenian national committee of america mr perrywe appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight thank you. thank you. what do a teenage boy convicted of blasphemy in one area and the head of poland's auschwitz memorial what do they have in common suddenly a lot more than either would have ever imagined peter 70 is the head of poland's auschwitz memorial now he has written to nigeria's president offering to serve part of a prison sentence that was handed to omar furtak a 13 year old boy for blasphemy he's also requested a pardon for the boy a shari'a court in nigeria's northern kanu state sentence the boy to 10 years in prison for making blasphemous statements during an argument if a pardon is not possible since he says that he and 119 other volunteers would each sit one month in prison to spare the boy from any time behind bars now here's part of the letter that's been written regardless of what he said he cannot be treated as fully aware and responsible given his age he should not be subjected to the loss of the entirety

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the executive director of the armenian national committee of america mr perry we appreciate your timeand your valuable insights tonight thank you. thank you. what do a teenage boy convicted of blasphemy in nigeria and the head of poland's auschwitz memorial what do they have in common suddenly a lot more than either would have ever imagined peter simmons is the head of poland's auschwitz memorial now he has written to nigeria's president offering to serve part of a prison sentence that was handed to omar furtak a 13 year old boy for blasphemy he's also requested a pardon for the boy a shari'a court in nigeria's northern kanu state sentenced the boy to 10 years in prison for making blasphemous statements during an argument if a pardon is not possible since he says that he and $119.00 other volunteers would each sit one month in prison to spare the boy from any time behind bars now here's part of the letter that's been written regardless of what he said he cannot be treated as fully aware and responsible given his age he should not be subjected to the loss of the entirety of his youth b

from the brink of disaster ok the executive director of the armenian national committee of america mr perrywe appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight thank you. thank you. what do a teenage boy convicted of blasphemy in nigeria and the head of poland's auschwitz memorial what do they have in common suddenly a lot more than either would have ever imagined peter sivits is the head of poland's auschwitz memorial now he has written to nigeria's president offering to serve part of a prison sentence that was handed to omar furtak a 13 year old boy for blasphemy he's also requested a pardon for the boy a shari'a court in nigeria's northern kanu state sentence the boy to 10 years in prison for making blasphemous statements during an argument if a pardon is not possible since he says that he and $119.00 other volunteers would each sit one month in prison to spare the boy from any time behind bars now here's part of the letter that's been written regardless of what he said he cannot be treated as fully aware and responsible given his age he should not be subjected to the loss of the e

and trigger another election the motion was supported by his main coalition partner on the defense mr perry can't relationship between the 2 leaders has deteriorated during the coronavirus pandemic the proposal will now be discussed by another committee and could force the country into its final national election in less than 2 years. in dramatic terms like this we don't need to go to elections the people of israel want unity not ballots they want to vaccine is not campaign ads one of the things we learned about corona is that the virus doesn't differentiate between religious and secular right wingers and left wingers jews and arabs the only way we can defeat corona is by doing it together we need to put politics aside there will be enough time for politics we must work together for the benefit of the israeli citizens. we all know the truth you know the truth if there is no trial there would be a budget if there was no trial there would be a functioning government there would be unity. saving lebanon from economic ruin is the focus of an international donor conference being led by french pr

mr. perry: this resolution is not serious. if my colleagues on the other side want to limit the president's ability to defend the united states, they ought to take the vote and limit him and stand for that vote. if you are not familiar with terrorist soleimani, let me acquaint you his reign of terror started with 241 marines in beirut, lebanon, he and his organization continued onto the khobart towers and thousands maimed. people from an individual service member from pennsylvania incinerated, incinerated in the vehicle he was in. thank you, terrorist soleimani. the president does not desire war with iran nor about anyone else. but iran has been fighting us since 1979. i have a news flash for everybody, they have been at war with everybody since they punched us in the face since 1979. the policy of the apiecement has been getting americans killed since 1979. 542, 542. that's the number of zone ttacks under the obama, like yemen, somalia and pakistan and not the theater of war for the united states. not a peep from the other si

perry. here's what he had to say. >> mr. giuliani told secretary perry what you need to convey to the ukrainian government, they need to announce an investigation into joe biden. >> absolutely. i know there was another conversation that perry called after the inauguration telling him he spoke to zelensky and he'll do it. >> secretary perry spoke to rudy giuliani only once adding at no point, before during or after that phone call did the words biden or burisma ever come up. that was from a previous spokesperson who made that the remarks. how does this fit into the broader puzzle of what we don't know? >> wouldn't it be great if secretary perry said the same things under oath and then we'd know all of the things that mr. parnas has said. it's easy to verify if they'd come and testify, but for me a couple of things that were important about filling in some details about the story. number one, he explains why yovanovitch was involved. mr. lutsenko said we fire yovanovitch in exchange for investigating the bidens and then that's

speaker, i now yield to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry. mr. chairman, i thank you, and i thank the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson. i, too, rise to honor the life and the accomplishments of congressman mike fitzpatrick. he was a great and trusted colleague, more importantly he was a good friend. he was my friend. he didn't seek the spotlight. he just sought to do the right thing. he was all about representing his district. and representing his district put him at odds oftentimes with popular sentiment around here, but mike wasn't bothered by any of that. he was true to his convictions. he was true to his family. and he was true to his friends. guise like mike fitzpatrick who come here, serve, stay focused on what's important, and stay true are hard to find and even harder to replace. we wish god's blessing on mike fitzpatrick and his entire family. we pray the lord will fill the entolerable emptiness of his passing -- intolerable emptiness of his passing. i would like to say we miss, you mike fitzpatrick, godspeed. i yield. mr. thomp

mr. perry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. sopko, for your candor. it seems to me that your job here from -- from the perspective of some of my colleagues is to make sure you do a good job at bashing or affirming that president trump is pathetic and doesn't have a strategy. and this is all his fault. and i actually applaud your efforts to kind of stay out of the fray in that regard. i don't think any of us are perfect. i think the president does want to get out of afghanistan. and it's -- it's hard to determine what the facts are. the -- the -- "the post's" article kind of laid out the fact that we don't know the information. and you have reaffirmed that. classifications, even in the president's own defense when he wanted to declassify information that would buttress his own innocence on claims against him, can't seem to get that done. this town -- this town has a way of sequestering the information most important to it and most damning to it and the people in it. that having been said, i'd like to get to some of the information you highlighted chall

i now yield two minutes to my from pennsylvania, mr. perry. mr. perry: i thank the gentleman the time.na for mr. speaker, i'm still sickened that all of i saw, people who showed up to work, attempted excuse for car for n their honoring their pledge to preserve and protect the safety of the citizens that they serve. the past month, law enforcement officers have attacks, been shot at, bottles thrown at, fireworks, lasers, tles, powerful attempted to blind them. this year, as my friend from said, 43 law enforcement officers have been killed. early twice the rate of last year. and what's coming from the other side of the chamber here? it. silence. when elected leaders refuse to tand with our law enforcement officers and continue to bend to the whims of violent mobs, we civilization. society.ur civil now, you think when you watch tv, maybe you'd see it on the news. it's happening far away. of miles away across our country. right in pennsylvania, where i live, south central on monday, , just unfortunately, violent riots the heelse streets on f death of r

he opened his 330 acre studio in atlanta. >> we'll talk to mr. perry: media titan tyler perry is one of hollywood's most prolific power players his iconic madea characters are beloved and most successful in movie history. >> that's the bottom half. every time it hears music, it drops. >> reporter: the writer, actor, director, producer, and author is a bona fide studio mogul. >> welcome >> thanks for having us. >> how much have you seen? >> i have to show you. come on. >> reporter: we set off on a golf cart across his sprawling studio, which he calls a toy store for his creative projects. that includes 18 feature films and 7 television shows your vision for this, when did it start how was it born? >> the last studio i bought, it was five minutes from here, 30 acres. i thought i'd never outgrow it i was in it for two years and we're falling all over each other. i have to find another space i took a ride and i was open to the vision of it i saw all that it can be >> reporter: ft. macpherson is a former army base that was founded by the confederate army. t

bail, and they have the competence to do it with giving judges the discretion to take people like mr. perrykeep him behind bars so that he can get out the very next day and laugh at us and commit more crime. that's the difference between responsibility and what we have here in new york state. >> i would disagree with that judge still has ability to put people in jail. it is not taking that away. it is saving the taxpayers of new york -- a lot of money because of this. we need to give this time and not wreck into something. >> how much time then is appropriate in your mind? >> we need time to let it go through at least give it six months see how it work out. it was very successful in brooklyn new york. their crime is down it lowest it has ever been in murders and they implemented this. the prosecutors did not -- >> attorney himself saying that this is something that has to be changed. brooklyn was doing it on their own they still had had had the ability to the serious violent criminals. they have the abilitied to that now. >> we don't have ability as long as to means false narrative that is

mr. tyler perry. tyler perry. thank you, tyler. are encouraged by our presence here today and i know that in the not too distant future, they will express their love and gratitude in a more formal manner. let us now take in notes from the life of our brother rayshard brooks. let us hear from the ministry of music and then we will come again and open the book and offer words of this ♪ ♪ it's just me and you ♪ i feel so lost ♪ because i don't know what to do ♪ ♪ now if i choose ♪ the wrong thing to do ♪ i'm so afraid ♪ afraid of disappointing you ♪ oh please talk to you ♪ and your guidance ♪ ♪ and especially today ♪ when my life is so crowded s♪ ♪ my hopes and dreams ♪ i'm fading fast ♪ i'm all burned out ♪ i don't think my friends think of that ♪ ♪ i'm crying out ♪ crying out to you ♪ oh ♪ i know that you're the only one ♪ ♪ who is able to to be true ♪ though i know i need often you ♪ ♪ and asking for your guidance < musical notes> ♪ especially today ♪ when my world seems so crowded, lord god ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ that's why i open up < musica

mr. perry's amendment to strike the emergency spending in the energy and water bill. if there is a demonstrated need for spending above and beyond the bipartisan caps, it should only occur as a result of bipartisan discussions on that issue, not as a partisan title to an annual appropriations bill. even with all the additional spending, the bill shortchanges funding for the nuclear weapons program by almost $2 billion. currently much of our nuclear weapons complex infrastructure is old, outdated, and some of it is literally falling apart. we must uphold our nation's strong nuclear deterrence posture, to do that we must adequately fund the activities necessary to maintain a safe, reliable, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile. the bill includes numerous policy riders and authorizing provisions, most of which we know will be unacceptable to the administration and need to be addressed before a final bill is enacted. i believe one of the riders is intended to reaffirm current law with respect to the authority of the secretary of energy and i strongly support that inten

burgess: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry, a valuable member of the house committee on form affairs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. perry: i thank the gentleman. this resolution is an insincere -- is insincere and unserious. it's insincere because, we don't like the president and he took action and we can't stand it. it's unserious because if they wanted to limit the action of our country to defend our country, it wouldn't be a nonbinding resolution. for people in america who say we don't know the soleimani guy, how come we don't know that? that's a great question. how come they don't know. let me bro deuce you to him. he got busy with his work as a terrorist in beirut, killing 241 marines. hundreds of ers, american personnel killed, maimed, walking around the united states, walking around the halls of these congress, that's soleimani you don't know him because this body, the executive branch, republicans and democrats, have sent their young men and women to war without dealing with this killer. thi

and then i have a question for mr. perry. >> let me thank you first senator because thank you it's a crucial issue, every time i open the washington post, or last time the economist, i've seen insert from china daily, i feel we are definitely taken advantage of. because the times are even economist, cannot do that general. >> so that is one of my elements and one of senator van hollen spills on the media side, saying we can't do that in china, but you do that in china you have a, vote you have a chinese journalist taking a mic in your face, can our journalist stick mics in sheeting pinks face? >> so sometimes if you cause one door are prone it will look to find another. if you use these patents, and discovery up associated with patents,. do >> you think it's opened up to broadbased discovery, even though there is no way to that we can do this with china. >> i've only interviewed a few technology companies, but a lot would agree with you that it is very damaging. >> i would ask the other witnesses if you have a few on, that i

director of the hinckley institute of politics at the university of uds, former chief of staff, mr. perry, good to see you. you hear the governor say it is past time to stop debating this. why is this such a debate in the country, it is just a fact, it is largely, largely blue versus red argument, why? >> you're absolutely right. because the rhetoric out of washington, d.c. has forced people to plant a political flag around certain issues, masks are one of those. utah is very much like what happened in other parts of the country, it became a symbol, are you republican or democrat. depends whether you're willing to wear a mask or not. that issue raging in utah and other places and you heard our governor. for him, he said that debate is over. he decided to take the politics out of that. for the last couple of days, last week, a lot less out of washington, d.c. to reinforce that issue. the less it is a political issue, more about a public health issue, better for all of us. that's where the governor got it. he got there quickly. he has been pretty stern and upset about it. >> you say coming

smith, and she said mr. perry been extremely pro-active and everybody was quarantined and they're calling it camp quarantine. they are making sure they are socially distant and keeping each other accountable. he's having people tested frequently and it seems to be working so far. so people like the rock are taking a page out of tyler perry book and doing something very similar, keeping that quarantine bubble where you have as few people as needed for the production and you make sure that people adhere to very, very strict guidelines. tyler perry is feeding people, they're doing yoga, virtually they're having virtual church. so he's trying to replication that people on the outside world have been told that we must do to keep safe while working. >> you mentioned netflix, let me mention disney plus and instead of sending the live action mulan to theaters where the top five movies over the weekend made less than a million dollars because of theater closures, they're going to send it to disney plus. controversial decis

thank you. >> clerk: thank you, mr. perry.project sponnor, are yo sponsoru prepared to make a presentation? >> i am. >> clerk: it looks like your slides are up. so you have five minutes. >> perfect, thank you. i'm going to go quickly here. on the call with me is the project sponsor, and the brothers in the khan development and the construction company. and on the call is the project counsel. and also the principal in charge of the project, and good afternoon, commissioners. i am steven iaola and i'm the project architect. next slide, please. so i'm not going to hit every bullet that i have on every page but i'll try to do what i can in the five minutes available. so one thing to note is that we're using a five bay rhythm on this project for a five unit design module. that references the existing five bay module of the existing building. these are intended to be middle-class modest starter unit apartments. as mentioned there's 69 of them. and all of the units in the building are one, and two and three bedrooms. so we have a tot

mr. perry: mr. speaker, the coronavirus emanated from china is here. we can't stop that. we can't go back. but i am distressed by the hobson's choice that we have. it is ravaging our communities. it is ravaging our health care system. it is ravaging our economy. and we should be solely focused on healing our communities and saving small businesses, the big businesses and commit that makes america great. so as we discuss this and also discuss a fourth, yet another package, no more hobson's choice. no more billion dollar bailouts for things that are unrelated. no more policies that are long-standing for short standing issue that needs our critical attention. mr. speaker, whatever we do, let's do no harm. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yield. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm proud to yield one minute to my fellow texan, dr. burgess. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. burgess: i thank the