appropriations spending debate continues. >> the focus is really on the house and senate appropriations committees. appropriations chairman richard shelby, the house appropriations chairman, they will be key. the house and senate here has to negotiate on spending bills that will provide updated funding levels for the federal government, so there needs to be some kind of compromise there. they have to meet and get on the same page. that being said, they historically have worked well together, so they will be key players to watch. in addition to that, another key player for next week would be senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. how exactly is the senate going to proceed? will they start to take bills up on the floor or just head into informal consultation with the house? certainly the majority leader will be making decisions on that. financial emma covers issues for the politico. politico.com is where you can read her reporting and follow her on twitter. >> the house returns tuesday at noon for general speeches and legislative work begins at 2:00 p.m. you can watch live on c-span. the senate con

now on the appropriations committee. the business of the american people and the responsibilities of congress do not pause while the house perhaps to formally begin an impeachment inquiry. today, for example, the senate must pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open through the end of november and give appropriators time to complete the 12 appropriation bills. i expect the continuing resolution will pass this morning and head to the president's desk. that's the easy part. the hard part is getting the bipartisan appropriations process back on track here in the senate. senate republicans unilaterally departed from our bipartisan negotiations earlier this month by proposing to divert as much as $12 billion from military construction and health programs to the president's border wall. obviously that was a nonstarter with democrats and the republican leader and the leaders of the appropriations committee on the republican side had to know that. and, as yesterday's vote for the national emergency declaration sho

the appropriations and spending debate continues. >> the focus is on the house and senate appropriations committees . senate appropriations chairman richard shelby, house appropriations chairwoman nita lowey, they are going to be key. the house and senate have to negotiate on spending bills that fundingvide updated levels for the federal government, so there needs to be some kind of compromise that. they have to meet and get on the same page. that said, they historically have worked really well together, so they will be key players to watch. in addition to that, another key player to watch for next week would be senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. how exactly is the senate going to proceed on the spending bills that it is moving. will they start to take bills up formalfloor or head into conference negotiations at the house? kind of unclear the moment, but certainly, the majority leader will be making decisions on that. >> caitlin emma covers appropriations and budget issues for political. politico.com is where you can read her reporting. thanks so much. quickly house returns tuesday at noon for

and the joint select committee on budget and appropriations process reform on which i served, along with my colleague rob woodall was established, and the committee was charged with making recommendations for the budget process. the act of establishing such a committee is acknowledgment the process isn't working the way it should. article 1 section 9 of the constitution says no money should be drawn from the treasure, but by law. this power of the purse is a part of the constitution and constitutionally mandated check on executive power. and when congress fails to pass on time, it cedes power to the executive branch. congress has passed resolutions since 1998. last year, passed 5 cr's and this year congress passed three. that's a lot of time spent dealing with funding decisions, but think of all the time congress would have to focus on other legislative duties if appropriations bills were passed on time. making decisions how to allocate funding for federal programs is tough work, but it's congress's job. the american people deserve a fully funding government and funding the government is

the senate appropriations committee and that passing a spending bill for the pentagon and energy and water programs just yesterday. forwardbills are moving and the senate could take them up on the floor. >> you write about aid to ukraine, your article saying trump administration backs off on the ukraine military aid. what happened? caitlin: this has been very controversial as an issue in recent weeks. the trump administration has looked at foreign aid as a whole with a lot of scripting two. if u.s. the administration why, they say we want to ensure that the money is spent wisely overseas and other countries are paying their fair share. the story last month but when we received a tip the trump administration have frozen funds,0 million pot of these are a bipartisan pot of money. it clearly brought up a lot of it sparked an intense amount of bipartisan backlash. republican senators like senator lindsey graham, one of the president's top allies, warned that you should not be doing this. we found out the office of management and budget has listed -- lifted their hold on that fund. thatac

i have a lot of seniority on the appropriations committee.i'm moving up on the defense appropriations committee and we have been able to do a lot back home. i want to forgo what i can do for people back home, still in position to help even if this doesn't work out. i'm in a good spot. >> you challenged speaker pelosi. what is your relationship like with her? >> good. i conducted myself in a professional manner. i like her a lot. i have enormous respect for her. i think she is the best politician in the democratic party and that bore itself out in the last few days with kind of waiting on the impeachment peace. i have been for impeachment for a month or two, can't remember how long. she waited and waited and kept thing trump is going to impeach himself and wouldn't you know it, she was right and so her instincts in the legislative process are second to none. >> would you if you stay in the house like to be speaker someday? >> i don't think so. i was really frustrated when donald trump won because i felt the democratic party is not connecting t

seen a process that works the way it's supposed to where they are there on time and the committee on appropriation process which i served along my colleague who was established by the bipartisan act of 2018 and was charged with making recommendations to significantly reform the budget process. a very active establishing committee was that the process wasn't working at all to be. local one such a nine says that no money shall be gone from the treasury and the appropriations made by law and the color of the purse within the constitutional powers. it's a constitutionally mandated shut down an executive power. when congress fails to pass it builds on time. it seized power to the executive branch. they passed 117 resolutions since the beginning of the fiscal year in 1998 and last year congress passed nine see ours and this year the pass three but. that's a lot of time spent whiting decisions but see how they would have to focus on other legislative duties and a bills or passed on time and how to allocate several programs is tough but it still does its job. the people deserve a functioning government an

is only right and appropriate under the statute that this information be shared with the appropriate committeesof the united states senate and the aa the whistleblowers claim meas to be released in the appropriate congressional approe congressional committees and evaluated according to the law. not this president, no president can solicit a foreign country to further his own campaign. that is unacceptable under the constitution of the united states which i would remind my colleagues that we have sworn to uphold and defend. mr. president, i would yield the floor.

i got a lot of seniority on the appropriations committee.i moving up on the defensive appropriations committee and we've been able to do a lot back home. i want to forgo what i can do for the people back home, so i'm in a position to help even if this doesn't work out. yes i'm in a good spot there. >> you challenge speaker pelosi, what is your relationship like with her ? >> good. i think i conducted myself in a really professional manner. i like her a lot. i've got enormous respect for her. i think she is probably the best politician in the democratic party quite frankly i think that baird is about. in the last few days with kind of waiting on the impeachment piece and i have been for impeachment for a month or two. remember how long but she waited and waited and she kept staying, trump is going to impeach himself. and when to note, she was right. so her instincts and the legislative his process are really second to none. >> would you, like to be speaker sunday? >> i don't think so. it's never really been my ambition. i was really frustrate

all 12 bills out of the appropriations committee. the senate did not do squat until september and that has been our biggest problem. in the time that is remaining, hopefully, they will get all their stuff done and they are able to get to a place where we can get this done. i am looking forward to a time when we get back to the way it is supposed to work. that is the process, where everyone can put amendments up. we did that in the house this time. having these short-term is noting resolutions good for this country. it is not a democratic or republican issue. it is showing what is wrong with how washington operates. rep. nadler: less than 10 minutes -- >> less than 10 newsmakers wit.akers >> we have seen a shift in the ideology of the democratic party and some of the most excited democratic voters -- you and i have spoken about how the american people maybe are even open to progressive ideas and people in washington realize. medicare for all, free college and higher education, is this a test case? are we proving the case by giving tho

but that is what republicans on the appropriations committee proposed.t the senate wisely rejected that idea. there when he publicly leader is staying we are hurting the military. gimme a break. we are defending the military. how much does the majority leader think the american public will solo. they're taking money out of the military but in the wall. and when he says, that we are hurting the military. zero no, leader mcconnell you know hurting the military and we defended them. because we want the money to go to the military. not to the wall. and by the way, in that regard, leader mcconnell did not stick with the agreement. the agreement was not only on this but the bipartisan agreement on where the money on the defense side and the non-defense side would be distributed. instead of consulting democrats, they tried to jam something down arthur's spring taking money out of defense, out of headstart and other programs in the health and human services budget andl. putt into the wall. will that wasn't going to stand. and it i will not stand. leader mcconnell, i hope you've learned her less

the chairman of the house appropriations committee that was involved in budgeting was albert thomas and in his district is a place t called houston. so they got that at the lion's share of all fairness, they tried to spread out the goodies over the country in different states they got different parts of the program. of of course it was the spacecraft center. >> host: in california is in there at the jet propulsion lab and a couple of other places? >> guest: cleveland ohio has several places and langley virginia that was the origin of the first headquarters. >> host: and you could pretty clearly draw a political map to those locations is that fair to say?oule >> guest: to a certain extent, yes you are right. the reason houston was chosen, one of the reasons because i always wondered also why as soon as the spacecraft cleared everything shift over to houston, why don't they did it all in cape canaveral but one reason was that there might be signals mixed up from all the other programs and communications. >> host: thanks for holding. you are on with jim donovan. >> guest: >> caller: my que

guest: yes, we have an appropriation committee, we have a budget committee, house intel will take a lead. all of this other work in terms of making sure we reduce health care costs for american people, we increase wages and put people into good jobs, that will continue. host: about five minutes before the house comes in. new mexico, a democrat, good morning. caller: thank you c-span, i love your coverage. i appreciate you guys for doing this and it is nice to talk to someone within the reins of our congress. i think you are playing into trump's hands because attention is attention and when he gets attention he thrives on it, whether good or bad. we need to do something about the infrastructure of our country. our roads have potholes and our bridges are crumbling. we are in new mexico and we are going to get the last dollar and that is how it is. trump is going to win if they keep fighting each other the way they are. all of the democrats raising their hand saying they will give illegal immigrants free health care but we have to pay for our own health care, that is playing into trump's ha

with multiple committees going on or appropriations committee,, a budget committee and with committees focusing on their missions. right now house intel will take the lead on the green issue but all this other work in terms of making sure that we reduce healthcare costs or the american people, that we increase wages, put them into good jobs, that will all continue. >> host: five minutes before the house comes in. until then your phone call for congressman ted lieu of california. robert is in new mexico, a democrat. good morning. >> caller: thank you c-span. i love your coverage. i appreciate you guys for doing this. it's nice to talk to someone within the range of our congress. it's good to see you. i just think you're playing into trump's hands. anybody is playing into trump's hands because attention his attention, and when he gets attention he thrives on it whether it's good or bad. all that needs to stop and when you do something about the infrastructure of our country. all our roads of potholes, all our bridges or crumbly. we're going to get the last dollar, that's just how it is.

the chairman of the house appropriations committee that was involved in budgeting for nasa was albert thomas and in his district was a place called houston. so they got the lion share. all fairness, they tried to spread out the goodies all over the country in different states got different parts of the program. but of course the choice was nasa. the man's spacecraft center. >> host: here in california, isn't the lab and a couple other places? >> guest: exactly. cleveland, ohio, and of course langley, virginia was the origin of nasa's first headquarters. >> host: you to pretty clearly draw a political example to those locations? [laughter] >> host: is not fair to say? >> guest: to a fair extent yeah, you're right. the extensible reason that houston was chosen was one of the reasons was -- i always wondered also, why, as soon as the spacecraft clears entry everything shifts over to houston, why don't they just do it all in cape canaveral, one reason was there might be signals mixed up from all the other programs in communications. >> host: fill in indianapolis, thanks for holding. you a

first of all, it will forward that whistleblower report to the appropriate committees on capitol hill. it would let the whistleblower committees.se also call on complying with hose committees' subpoenas, preserving documents related to that report, and the investigation and it would call administration to cease discrediting of the whistleblower. again, that resolution will come vote today when the house comes in at noon eastern. he senate passed a similar resolution yesterday by unanimous consent. again, the transcript of that conversation between resident trump and president zelensky of ukraine has been released. we have posted it on our website. here's just part of it. the president, president trump saying, i would like you to do us a favor. has h, because our country been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out with this whole situation with ukraine. they say crowd strike. guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server. they seau crane has it. there are a lot of things that went on. the whole situation. i think you're surrounded yourself

>>allowed start to the assembly appropriations committee hearing opponents of sb to 76 screamed whilewmakers sorted through hundreds of bills that committee ultimately passed the measure that gives the state department of health the power to determine who is exempt from childhood vaccines opponents say vaccines should be a medical choice between patients and doctors. >>as we to 76 is one of hundreds of bills lawmakers quickly sorted through friday, killing or passing hundreds of bills within just a matter of hours in what's called the suspense today. >>bill out of the suspense file ab 5 clearing the senate appropriations committee the measure would redefine gig economy workers as employees instead of independent contractors, its passage comes a day after uber lyft and doordash threatened to spends million on a 2020 ballot measure to let voters decide that it's also kind of ironic that these companies are paying up $90 million they say just to ensure that they don't have to pay their workers a minimum wage, the controversial proposals now have 2 weeks to pass through this legislative s

i cannot imagine how a republican in the appropriations committee of the house of the senate would not see this as striking at the heart of congressional power. >> alexi, you have reporting on this very topic. what are -- and i'm just going to guess it's democrats because republicans have to this point in the trump presidency marched in lockstep with this president no matter what he's doing. what is the plan to either reverse these decisions or draw attention to their foolishness? >> so that's right. today i obtained a document that was compiled by the dnc's research team that sort of outlines all of the times president trump said as he was campaigning for president back in 2016 that mexico would pay for the wall and how it was going to be paid for by mexico and no one else, and we didn't have to worry about anything. this document shows in great detail not just the things he said but where he said it in the crucial battleground areas. i have been told from various democrats i have spoken with that are sort of familiar with the plan that the national party and other democratic groups a

general debate has been provided, controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. mr. speaker, before i begin my formal remarks, let me take this moment also to recognize the leadership of the ranking member on the rules committee, mr. cole. he's not only a friend, but he's fair and he's a fair and evenhanded appropriator that can work with both sides. and i know if the gentleman could control this entire process, we would not be having continuing resolutions, we would be actually voting to -- for funding for the entire year. as my colleagues know, funding for the federal government runs out on september 30. and that is less than two weeks from now. and i had hoped that we would have finished all of our work by now. certainly the house has done its lion's share of work. but instead of prioritizing that, president trump has been obsessed withdrawing on weather maps and twitter fights and cozying up to dictators and the republican senate is completely dysfunctional. it seems like we have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than seeing them pass a bill. th

the chairman of the house appropriations committee was involved in budgeting for nasa and his district was a place called houston. so they got the lions share but in all fairness they tried to spread out cities all over the country in different states got different parts of the program and the choice was nasa, the manned spacecraft center. >> host: and here at california, the jet propulsion laboratory and other places. >> guest: cleveland, ohio in several places and langley in virginia was the origin of nasa's first headquarters. >> host: you can clearly draw a political map to those locations. is that fair to say? >> guest: to a certain extent, yes. the ostensible reason houston was chosen, one of the reasons i always wondered, as soon as the spacecraft clears the gantry everything shifts over to houston, why don't they do it all at cape canaveral? one reason was there might be signals mixed up from all the other programs in communications. >> host: bill in indianapolis, thanks for holding, you're on with james donovan. >> caller: my question is, what the viability is in going to mars

it would require the complaint to be reported to the appropriate committees and the whistleblower to be given protection. on c-span two, the senate votes on a resolution of disapproval against the president's emergency declaration for boardwalk funding. on c-span three, our live coverage from the united nations general assembly continues with a speech from the president of iran. at 10:00, the house judiciary committee looks at military and and theirpe weapons use in recent mass shootings in el paso and dayton. coming up, virginia congressman ben klein on speaker pelosi's announcement that the house will begin a former impeachment -- a formal

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so earlier today democrats on our appropriations committee and i support offed an amendment to -- supported an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would prevent the president from undermining congress' authority. and i was very disappointed to vote against that bill because our colleagues on the other side of the aisle would not join us to pass that necessary amendment and stand up against this outrages plunder. -- outrageous plunder. mr. president, this executive overreach is deeply disturbing and is particularly relevant to my home state of washington, one of the states most impacted by the pentagon's reckless decision this week. where we learned that efforts to update the pier and maintenance facility at naval base kitsap, a project essential to ensuring the safety and readiness of our military's nuclear submarines, are now deferred indefinitely because the nearly $89 million that congress appropriated specifically for that priority is now being moved to build trump's wall. as a reminder, mr. president, this is a wall that the majority of the american people did not ask for

again, i want to thank the chairwoman of the appropriations committee. it was under her leadership we got to 50 million for the purpose of the cdc. thank you mr. chairman. >> mr. clay, you're are recognized for four minutes. >> thank you. let me start by saying that since april of this year, i represent st. louis, missouri. we are quickly becoming known as the murder capital of america. since april, on more than a dozen teenagers between the ages of two and 17 have been killed by gun violence. let me start with the colonel. i heard you mention, and it made sense for hr eight to pass the senate, and gets to the president's desk. as well as the charlotte -- i mean the charlotte loophole. let me ask you. would it be helpful if local governments could determine --ir own firearms the regulations? instead of being dictated by the state as their respective states. right now, 43 states limit local government from passing more stringent firearms regulations then what is allowed by the state. can i hear your opinion on that? do you think local government would be

appoint this is an authorization that the level of spending will actually be determined by the appropriations committee, not ours. but i would like unanimous consent to put a news release into the record from e.p.a. aking the point from administrator wheeler that as this report details the dera program is an innovative way to improve air quality and providing children with safer and reliable transportation to and from school says administrator wheeler. 10 million older diesel engines are operating throughout our transportation system. dera has led to cleaner air tonsing emissions, 472,000 smog-foaming night trouse ,700 tons of high ,889,tons of nd 5 dioxide. it take the older vehicles off the road. industry supports this and better for our communities, which is why our committee under both republican and democratic chairmen and administrations have supported this letting the proitors deciding the level of funding it actually prescribes and urge my colleagues to support this and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the ge

aid to ukraine be given to the appropriate senate committee. he made the announcement this morning.ct >> we continue to read reports containing additional information about the nature of president trumps phone calls with ukrainian president.he and his ministrations conduct weeks or months before the communications. we know someone inside the intelligence community found the presidents conduct alarming enough to warrant an official is a blower complaint. rme complaint was so alarming that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by president trump said that it was credible and urgent and a complaint that, by law, must be submitted to congress but this is not a discretionary moment. the law says this must be transmitted to congress. well, we still have not received whistleblower complaint in congress has been advised in writing by the inspector general of the intelligence community that the trump administration is preventing us from getting this report. later today i will request a unanimous consent of the senate to pass a re

. >> going to the house appropriations committee, i didn't have that much interaction with their own delegation. our legislation was going to happen and then to express my concern with them and happy after it passed to talk about the granted application opportunities but i didn't have a lot of direct interaction with them. >> and senator wyden at that time the other was the ranking member on the transportation committee in the house. i was talking to them all the time. they were good listeners and they understood the problems oregon had and they listen to us and did everything they could. >> this question is about higher education you have both mentioned case law but also tough on higher ed. but this question is that we know educations always one of the first items cut in the state budget. because they can just increase tuition but you talk about this process and will that always be the case quick. >> that is that easy if and the questioner is correct because there is another revenue source and the decline on higher education spending is quite significant we did not reduce spending i

2012, the program received an appropriation of $169 this past year, fiscal year 2019, the appropriation committee provided more than $1.3 billion. in just seven years the appropriation for the program has grown by more than 670%, so there has certainly been a focus on it here. in 2012, the department of health and human services office of refugee resettlement had over 13,000 referred to them by the department of homeland security and in the current year, they have had over 60,000 referred to them for care. by the end of the fiscal year, they will likely have cared for over 70,000 more than any prior year. again in just seven years an increase of 370%, pretty staggering. both the democratic and republican president requested supplemental appropriations in the bill to support unanticipated rivals of teenagers in the southern order. hhs routinely cares for tens of thousands of children and traveled thousands of miles most coming from el salvador, guatemala and el salvador. this is a crisis and one that needs a comprehensive bipartisan solution. federafederal law requires the department of homeland s

complaint against president trumps interaction with the ukraine president be given to appropriate senate committees. here's a look at what they had to say. b >> we continue to read reports

was vice chair and she had time are pretty with a couple of colleagues before the house appropriations committees what they began to work on this before the new administration came in and iconic other sound support was coming with the give and take members of the house because every subcommittee chairmen was determined to get something within his nurse jurisdiction of the package so i realized early on that this was going to be more constrained and companies would prefer and i realized that there is a school of thought that the earlier package that and mental in our solar going over three had too much discretion. some call it governor slush funds although they never told me i had a one. but i think it was an overreaction because i think education for example which is the second biggest piece of the package or informal we're facing a demographic crisis. the number of kids of our public school has declined by 1% prayer figures of the last 20 it is going to continue for 20 more. we don't need more teachers we don't need as many as we have. we need fewer schools and they're going through a consolidat

hardly a banner day for bipartisanship on capitol hill, the senate appropriations committee began workits first funding bill of the fall over the pentagon. negotiations hitting impasse almost immediately as democrats real against the decision to move an additional $3.6 billion for military construction to build the border wall. republicans accuse their colleagues of violating the spirit of the current two year budget deal. donald trump feels it is his biggest asset but some pundits are saying not so fast. is campaigning on the trump economy enough to win in 2020? we would hear from miss nevada next to was also running for congress. and need cash? you should know about the newday va home loan for veterans it lets you borrow up to 100 percent of your home's value. the newday va loan lets you refinance your mortgages, consolidate your credit card debt, put cash in the bank, and lower your payments over $600 a month. call today. and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. >> will have the number one economy anywhere in the world. and every time i meet a foreign leader, almo

figure that was deemed acceptable by the leadership of the authorizing committee and the appropriating committee on the republican side. the rhetoric was totally partisan. we have now made a deal and we are not going to save defense because we did 5 billion more. the figure last year of course the summer around 700. a little over. so i will tell my friend, we believeis on our side of the aie that the opposition to the defense bill was totally partisan. no attempt at bipartisanship. and yes, you at some success in getting bipartisan bills through. why likes because we were prepared to vote in a bipartisan way. that's the difference. we were prepared to vote in a bipartisan way. we were prepared to accept you were the majority. mr. speaker, we understand when you're in the minority you work to get the best objective you think is possible, and we did that, and the gentleman, mr. speaker, says they got bipartisan bills done because democrat voted for them, including myself. but i know the number was an acceptable number and it was a number suggested by the joint chiefs of staff. yet, we heard rhetor

as the chair on the appropriations committee, and fy 2019, we are able to get funding for 1144 new tsaarsenal. in response to the question earlier, it sounds as though you know able to hire that many within the fiscal year. is that correct. >> correct >> through all of your different recruitment mechanisms. >> yes we go through a process as you know throughout the year, that assesses when we need to have certain number of physicians out to match peak volume and peak season. we closely track the amounts of passengers projected not only at large, not only an airport but down to an additional individual terminal. we ensure that we have enough staff. across the board if you look at the average we are at about 17 percent on turnover. it's relatively commensurate we put what the department of labor says is consistent for federal agencies hiring at this loophole. we want to look at to bring it down. some of what we are doing in this method is aimed at ensuring we are addressing some of the areas that people find hardest about this job. part of it is okay and the pay system part of it is also

congress, the armed services kpees the appropriations committees and the oversight committees have numerouss over the pentagon. there are nominations pending for two of the key services in the pentagon, obviously key personnel jobs to fill that the senate has to review and confirm and of course there are the annual authorizations and appropriations bills. congress has a lot of levers here and i expect they'll get to the bottom of this. >> jeremy, let me also ask you about a story that's being advanced interestingly on the editorial page of the washington post. this strange story was broken by politico and interesting reporting and interesting concern about it in congress ever since that trump is insisting on holding up a bunch of military aid to ukraine that's supposed to bolster ukraine's ability to stand up for itself against russia. "the washington post" is reporting tonight that they believe this military aid is being held up basically to try to force ukraine to cook up some sort of negative story about joe biden that they can use in a presidential election campaign against joe biden. i

these allocations passed the appropriations committee unanimously 31-0. but this year the republican majority, without consulting democrats, proposed taking away $12 billion from urgent domestic priorities and from urgent military priorities and wasting it -- wasting it -- on president trump's ineffective and expensive border wall. this is the very wall that president trump promised over and over again that mexico would pay for when he ran for office and garnered support for it from his constituency. no republican, certainly not the republican leader who knows this place well, could seriously believe that democrats would agree to that. $12 billion from the wall stolen from health care programs to fight opioid addiction and encourage cancer research, stolen from military families? no republican could expect democrats to support that, nor should they. it's terrible policy. this morning in the appropriations markup, every single republican on the committee, including leader mcconnell, voted to move forward on this idea. republican enforce who opposed the pre

staffing issues, as the chair of the appropriation committee. and fy 2019, we really to get funding for 1144 new tsa personnel. in response to the question, earlier, it sounds as though you were able to hire that many within that fiscal year? is that correct? >> correct. >> throw the different recruitment mechanisms. >> yes, we go through a process. as you know, throughout the year that assesses when we need to have certain positions out to match peak volume, peak season, at any airport. we closely track the amount of passengers projected, not only at large and the airport down to an individual terminal to ensure their hiring well enough advanced to have the step >> what kind of turnover do you have? so, across the board, if you look at the average we're at about 70% which is relatively commensurate with what the department of labor says is consistent for federal agencies hiring at this level. we still want to look to bring that down. some of what we are doing in this method is aimed at ensuring we are addressing some of the areas people find ha

let me ask you this on the staffing issue as the chair of the appropriations committee and fy-2019 we were able to get funding for 1,144 new tsa personnel. in response to the questions earlier, it sounds like you were able to hire that many within that fiscal year. is that correct? >> correct. >> through all of the different recruitment mechanisms? >> yes. we go through a process, as you know, throughout the year that assesses when we need to have certain number of positions out to match the peak volume and season at any given airport. we closely track the amount of passengers projected and not only writ large but at an airport, but down to the individual terminal to ensure that we are hiring well enough in advance to have that done. >> what kind of turn over do you? >> across the board, if you are looking at the average of about 17% which is relatively commensurate with what the department of labor says is consistent for federal agencies hiring at this level. we still want to look to bring that down. some of what we are doing in this method is aimed at ensuring that we are addressing