senator carper: thank you. i think i speak not just for senator capito but for all of our colleagues on this committee. it's really been a privilege for us at this point in the time in our nation's history to have a chance coming out of the worst pandemic in 100 years, one of the worst recessions since the great depression, to have the opportunity to work on a set of issues that really will help get this economy moving. make us more productive and enable us to help all of the families who need hope and need some help. i love to go to schools. i know you've been to a ton of schools. we all have, have assemblies with kids. they ask what we do, not uncommon for, especially when i'm in elementary schools, with an assembly of kids, they'll say, what do you do? i'll say, i'm a united states senator. and they'll say, what do you do? we help make the rules for the country. what else do do? one of the things we really try to help people. as a native west virginian and someone who has lived most of his life in delaware,

delaware senator carper chaired the hearing. senator carper: i'm happy to join senator capito and our colleagues and welcome everyone to our hearing this morning. especially want to -- and let the secretary know how much -- how grateful we are that you worked us in your schedule. i know you have a lot of demands on your time. really pleased you could be with us this morning to hear from you and from us as well. grateful trying to do your job on the heels of an infrastructure package that's monumental. trying to raise a young family. you're a busy man. so welcome. now to the topic of today's hearing. that's the implementation of the infrastructure investment and jobs act. also known as the bipartisan infrastructure law. this law represents the single largest investment in our nation's history with respect to our roads and bridges. i think since the construction of the interstate highway system. almost 3/4 of a century ago. this is an historic win for the american people in red states and blue states and throughout the united stat

as chairman carper point out we put that in law. the balance between maintaining our infrastructure and increasing capacity is one in which we have an interest at the national level to make sure it is attended to and that we have oversight as to have transportation programs of this country are balancing those two very important issues. that's our responsibility. as we negotiated this bill, many of us had very strong priorities in regards to transportation safety, in regards to equity, in regards to maintenance and regards to resiliency, in regards to climate change, and we were able to work out the implementing legislation so that we could get unanimity in our committee, but to advance those priorities. so yes, mr. secretary, we want to maintain flexibility but we also want to advance national priorities. and to think the way that you have explained your letter, i agree with completely. so we have 90% of the funds go by formula programs. we've talked about that. some of the formula programs deal directly with safety, some deal drug

[applause]e] last year, like chris coons and tom carper and my distinguished congresswoman, we come from the land of corporate america. corporations more than any other state combined and i still one. even they understand you should pay just a fair share. last year 55 of the fortune 500 companies earned $40 billion in profit and paid zero in federal taxes. it's not fair. that's why i proposed a 50% minimum tax rate for corporations. [applause]e] that's why in the other meetings they were able to put together i was able to be somewhat helpful

and it just so happens that carper is already up 40% on the january investment.have been going after congress for the app.ance of insider trading since the start of this show. you know, we targeted pelosi and her perfect timing, that golden touch she has. and this situation is no different it doesn't matter what party you belong, to the role of the people's house is to protect us not members of congress. we reached out to each member's office for comment. and one got back to us. senator carper's office telling us hin his investments are handled by independent financial advisers. independent. wow. so maybe the senator's financial adviser knew there was going to be a war in ukraine, too. smart guy. but it's a sad reality. what's happening in our nation's capital. and there is a lot more where this all came from and we are going to be reporting on this suspicious congressional stock trading in the run-up to the ukraine war next week, too. so, ride with prime time. congress wasn't warning us about high gas prices and fertilizer and food shortages in january. what was

thank you for that question, chair carper. so, i think a lot of what is built into the program is the ability for the agency to monitor the costs. we do -- of our neighboring states in comparison to the state of oregon, we do routinely track fuel, retail and wholesale prices of fuels that are delivered in california, in washington, and in idaho. and you know, for the past years that we have been operating the program in oregon we have not seen a significant increase in comparison to those states. and you know, those are states that also don't necessarily -- in the state of idaho don't have any additional fuel standards. we do keep track of those prices. and we are legislatively required to -- you know, to have cost containment mechanisms in the program to be able to monitor those fuel prices. so, i mean, i think it is a combination the monitoring and the cost containment mechanisms that have not caused these large volatilities in the fuel prices in oregon. >> thanks a lot. it was my understanding that oregon tracks consumer fu

senator carper. and for our guests, you should know that this is a particularly hectic day in the senate, so members will be coming in and out. senator carper? senator cassidy is here. senator cassidy, a very valued member with his expertise in health care as a physician. senator cassidy. >> thank you very much for that. by the way, i thought i had 15 or 20 more minutes to listen and everybody else is out. so anyway, thanks for going there. dr. hoover, i used to work with school-based clinics to do hepatitis b immunizations. very aware of how well they can function bringing care. now, first, i think we have to acknowledge if the child is not in school it's difficult for the child to be evaluated. but that said -- but now kids are back in school so there's some progress there. let me ask, and you may have covered this while i was in another committee hearing meeting, my understanding is the schools and the school systems would benefit would cms give updated guidance as to the possibility of providing

general, great to see you. >> thank you, senator carper. and i'm so glad that you're taking this on with senator cassidy. both of you have a long tradition of working in a bipartisan way, and this issue is so crucial. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, dr. murthy, and thanks to the chair for addressing this subject. this subject is increasingly on the minds of administrators and teachers, parents and students across the country, very real when you talk to school administrators just to uptick, the statistics don't lie. clearly these mental health issues are having a tremendous impact on young people to the point they are in many cases taking extreme measures. and we hate to see what's happening to our youth across america. i want to ask one question. this is a controversial subject and i know it. we know a lot more about this an we did in 2020 in march and yet communication is still confusing in some cases and consistent, but i think it undermines america's confidence in public health officials. hhs has pushed a toddler mask mandate incl

. >> and sarah mcbride and the great friend who is basically familyly and director of tom carper's office help my son be elected as attorney general. coming out of the state of the union we are in the strongest position we have been in in months we have a record to be proud of andt the agenda that addresses the biggest concerns from here in america for people's lives and message that resonates and now what we have to do is sell it with confidence and clarity and conviction and repetition. putin was counting on a divided nato and quite frankly a divided america but he got none of that now facing a more united energized than he ever imagined. [applause] he has failed to divide democrats and republicans but we need to be honest with the american people freedom has its cost here at home as well. people are already feeling that price at the pump and the american people know how important it is and they know that painful as the price is today the cost will be higher if we do not act now to deal with this tyrant. so let me be clear on the facts. we are increasing oil production with a record pro

that could create an incentive to act. >> senator carper, you are recognized for your questions. >> i want to thank our witnesses. mr. chairman, and to our witnesses. i am thinking of 10 years ago when another senator, tom and i were privileged to lead this committee. we focused a lot of time and attention on making sure a different administration was able to nominate people to certain leadership positions, especially in homeland security. this is really important stuff and i am grateful we are doing it and i am grateful for our leaders. i have three questions. one, it would be, with the senate confirmed leadership with federal agencies. [indiscernible] thirdly, lessons learned from previous administrations use, or acting officials. the first question goes on the need for senate confirmed leadership. this is a question for all of our witnesses. i am alluding to the time when the senator klobuchar and had a number of meanings that reminds me of what we have talked about today. we invited witnesses from the homeland security to talk about -- rather than discussing the high number of vac

thank you senator carper. senator hawley. >> thank you. professor o'donnell if i could begin with you, i know this is your field and i'm interested in getting your perspective on some of this, particularly some of your historical perspectives. let me just begin with something i think you mentioned in your testimony and that is that in some problems the vacancies begins with executive branch. president trump, for instance, if i've got my numbers right. didn't nominate for 36% posts. president obama similarly did not nominate a single individual for 25% for the similar time frame. that's a pretty big number. what should we infer from there? >> i think you could-- thank you for that question. i think you could infer several things. first, that there are a lot of positions to fill and some positions take priority and others do not. and so, in the-- you have fixed resources, fixed time, some positions just don't take high priority. second, i think you can take that, there's not a lot of pressure to fill those positions. right, so to indicate, s

you senator carper. senator halle, you're recognized for questions. >> thank you [inaudible] thank you to all the witnesses here. great is eu. professor o'connell, if i could just begin with you, and i know this is your field, and i'm interested in getting your perspective on some of this, particularly some of your historical perspective. that we just beginning with something you mentioned in your testimony and that is that in some says the problem of vacancies begins with the executive branch. president trump, for instance, if i've got my numbers right, he didn't nominate illegal individual for 36% of posts. i mean, that's a lot, that's a big number. president obama, similarly, did not nominate a single individual for over 25% of posts during a similar timeframe. that's also a pretty big number. what do you think we should infer from that? >> i think you could, thank you senator for the question. i think you can for several things. first that there are a lot of positions to fill and some positions take

last year my chris jones and tom carper and my distinguished congresswoman. we come from the land, corporate america, or more corporations, incorporated, american and every other state in america. combine. i still won 36 years in a row. the point is, even they understand should pay just a fair share. last year, 55 of the fortune $500.00 companies earned $40000000000.00 in profit and paid 0 in federal taxes. hello. it's not fair. that's why i propose the 50 percent minimum tax rate for corporations region and that's why in the g 7 o the meetings overseas were able to put together, i was able to be somewhat helpful. a $130.00 countries degree on a global minimum tax rate. so companies can't get out of paying their taxes at home by shipping jobs in factories overseas and raise billions of dollars. that's why i propose close loopholes for the very wealthy. you don't pay out of pay a lower tax rate in a teacher and a firefighter. so that's my plan, but we have to go more detail later. i'm going to grow, we will grow the economy, lower the cost of families. so what

last year my chris jones and tom carper and my distinguished congresswoman. we come from the land corporate america for more corporations, incorporated, american and every other state and america combined. i still won 36 years in a row. the point is even they understand that should pay just a fair share. last year, 55 of the fortune $500.00 companies earned $40000000000.00 in profit and paid 0 in federal taxes. hello. it's not fair. that's why i propose to 50 percent, minimum tax rate for corporations. we got that's why. in the g 7 other meetings overseas were able to put together, i was able to be somewhat helpful. a $130.00 countries degree on a global minimum tax rate. so companies can't get out of paying their taxes at home by shipping jobs in factories overseas and raised billions of dollars. that's why i propose close the loopholes for the very wealthy. you don't pay out of pay a lower tax rate in a teacher and a firefighter. so that's my plan, but we have to go more detail later. i'm going to grow, we will grow the economy, lower the cost of families.

i think senator carper is available online and we want to give a special shout out to senator carper because he is making a personal commitment to stand up for kids as they kind of wind their way through the mental health system. >> thank you for joining us and for your service and thank you for joining us today for your testimony. i want to thank you for the opportunity and delighted to have my friend and colleague senator cassidy. the pediatric mental health crisis challenge for those in the room working with others that share this mission like you, doctor murthy, we believe we can forge the way [inaudible] the goal of the council was to focus [inaudible] shows the low cost and high benefit and my simple question is how can congress work to build on these services. >> senator, it's good to see you and thank you for the question about prevention. i'm grateful for it because i think historically as a health system, we focused the lion's share of our attention and energy on treatment and not so much on prevention and we are seeing the consequences of that with mental health. about 75%

thank you very much. >> thank you, senator carper. senator lankford? >> let me get the human side of this as well. because the more you pull on people to say you've got to give us every scrap of every piece, the more you incentivize people to work off the record because they want to have private conversations. these are human beings as well. regardless of the administration's perspective every administration is looking for a way we can actually just talk to each other without having to have everything that we have get pulled into this record. whether it was hillary clinton and her private server, whether it's others trying to pull in and be able to say i have to find some way to have off the record conversations for things or whether it was gmail with multiple administrations or now messaging apps to make messages disappear. my question to you is a larger, broader question. how do we process through a private conversation, that is a purely private conversation, between two peers or two individuals or even the president and his staff that's a private co

last year my chris jones and tom carper and my distinguished congresswoman. we come from the land of corporate america or more corporations, incorporated, american and every other state and america combine. i still won 36 years in a row. the point is, even they understand should pay just a fair share. last year, 55 of the fortune $500.00 companies earned $40000000000.00 in profit and paid 0 in federal taxes. hello. it's not fair. that's why i propose the 50 percent minimum tax rate for corporations region and that's why in the g 7 other meetings overseas were able to put together, i was able to be somewhat helpful. a $130.00 countries degree on a global minimum tax rate. so companies can't get out of paying their taxes at home by shipping jobs in factories overseas and raise billions of dollars. that's why i propose close loopholes for the very wealthy. you don't pay out of pay a lower tax rate than a teacher and a firefighter. so that's my plan, but we have to go more detail later. i'm going to grow, we will grow the economy, lower the cost of families. so w

carper: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. carper: mr. president, i rise today to mark a moment in history for a neighboring state, to celebrate a navy vessel named after delaware. i'll be joined by the first lady in what will feel like half -- and what will feel like half of delaware at the port to commemorate a nuclear-class submarine, the u.s.s. delaware. while the vessel was first commissioned under water and under way on mission at sea due to the covid restrictions on april 4, 2020, a first in navy history -- a first in navy history. this weekend we'll give the u.s.s. delaware and its crew a fitting celebration above the surface of the water. it's been a long time coming, a long time coming for the u.s.s. delaware. so many people across delaware and in the navy have worked hard for not just weeks, not just months, but years to make this weekend a reality for our state and the crew. i'd be remiss not to mention my wingman in the senate, senator chris coons, and our wingwoman in the house of representatives lisa rochester, as well as o

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carper: thanks, madam president. i stand in solidarity with my friend from kansas. i want to say to senator moran thank you for your great leadership and allowing me to be your wing man as we do our best not just to save the postal service, but to make sure that they are robust and germane to the future and integral to the future of our country as they have been for the last 200-plus years. when the folks in delaware gather, we have about 25 men who gathered in a place called dover, delaware, on december 7, 1787, and we voted after negotiating for three days, debating for three days, a draft constitution. we adopted it unanimously and sent it off to the other 12 colonies. one element in the constitution that was sent to us from philadelphia by our founding fathers was the creation of a postal service. a postal service. it's been mentioned before that the first postmaster general was ben franklin, of all people. and what the founding fathers had in mind was a way to bind us together as a country. to bind us together as a country. the idea of being able to communicate

carper: mr. president? the presiding officer: is there an objection? mr. carper: mr. president, reserving the right to object -- the presiding officer: the senior senator from delaware. mr. carper: thank you, mr. president. our colleague from missouri was not on the floor when i spoke earlier. i want him to have the opportunity to hear some of the concerns thatty and a lot of other people -- that i and a lot of other people in chamber and the country have with the request he is making. so i reserve the right to object. let me make a minute or two to state why that is. today the american people -- the american people face two threats. one is the threat pose by vladimir putin. the other is the threat of climate change to all of us. we just received from the national oceanio graphiccic administration an update about what it is going to lack like in this country -- to look like in this country in the years to come. the sea level rise will increase. what we'll see in the years to come is more of the same and only fastest. if you add up the g.d.p. of every coastal county fr

chris and tom carper. and my distinguished congresswoman. we come from the land of corporate america or corporations incorporated american and every other state in america combined. i still won. 36 years in a row. the point is even they understand should pay just a fair share last year, 55 of the fortune 500 companies. earned 40 billion dollars in profit and paid 0 in federal it's not fair. >> that's why i proposed a 15% minimum tax rate for corporations. that's why and the g 7 other meetings overseas were able to put together. i was able to be somewhat helpful. 130 countries degree on a global minimum tax rate. so companies can get out of paying their taxes at home by shipping jobs in factories overseas and raising billions of dollars. that's why proposed closing loopholes for the very wealthy who don't pay paying a lower tax rate than a teacher in a firefighter. so that's my plan. but we have to go more detail later. i'm going to grow. we will grow the economy, lower the cost to families. so what are we waiting for? let's get this done. we

delaware senator carper chaired the hearing.

[applause]e] last year, like chris coons and tom carper and my distinguished congresswoman, we come from the land of corporate america. corporations more than any other state combined and i still one. even they understand you should pay just a fair share. last year 55 of the fortune 500 companies earned $40 billion in profit and paid zero in federal taxes. it's not fair. that's why i proposed a 50% minimum tax rate for corporations. [applause]e] that's why in the other meetings they were able to put together i was able to be somewhat helpful 130 countries of the global minimum tax rate. by shipping jobs in factories overseas and raise billions of dollars. that's why i proposed closing loopholes for the wealthy who don't pay a lower tax rate than a teacher and firefighter so that's my plan but we have more details later. we will grow the economy, lower the cost of families. so, what are we waiting for. let's get this done. we all know we've got to make changes. [applause] and while you are at it, confirm my nominee for the federal reserve. [applause] this plays a critical role in fighting

[applause] last year, mike chris spoons and tom carper and my distinguished congresswoman, we come from the land of corporate america. i still won 36 years in a row. even they understand you should pay a fair share. last year, 55 of the fortune 500 companies earned $40 billion in profit and paid zero in federal taxes. now look, it is not fair. that is why i proposed a 15% minimum tax rate for corporations. [applause] that is why in the g7 and other meetings overseas, i was able to be somewhat helpful. 130 countries agreed on a global minimum tax rate so companies cannot get out of paying taxes at home by shipping jobs in factories overseas. it will raise billions of dollars. that is why i propose closing loopholes for the very wealthy so they don't pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or firefighter. i will grow the economy and lower the cost for families. what are we waiting for? let's get this done. we all know we have got to make changes. [applause] while you are at it, confirm my nominee for the federal reserve. it plays a critical role in fighting inflation. my plan not only lower c

you know, look it, senator carper out of delaware, he bought stocks in mosaic that supplies phosphatella rugs phosphate and potash oh, by the way, mosaic stock has gone up 40% in the last three weeks. at a certain point, jesse we would go to jail or get significant fines for insider trading. at some point we have to actually demand of our elected officials and quite frankly anybody involved in government, you have to put any investment into a blind trust. your members can't have insider information. you can't have insider information. but we are basically -- we are asking the fox who is guarding the hen house to actually behave themselves and i don't see it happening any time soon. >> they just say these advisers they are independent, ned, they rs just these independent financial advisers. they never talk to each other they are just i understand. all right, we're requesting to continue to cover who is making money off this war in congress for the rest of the week. thank you so much for your insight. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: coming up, an update on jussie smollett's prison situation

delaware senator tom carper chaired the hearing.indistinct chatter] >> it does seem clear that they like the control part and this is a dry run for ensuring that they can control everybody in hong kong all the time, covid or no covid. >> there is a strong surveillance aspect to it. we have got a couple of good questions. great to see you again, mark. >> hi, pete. >> aside from civil liberties and security what is happening to the rule of law regarding business? good question. follows up by saying, will there be legal advantage being based in hong kong versus shanghai portions and -- or shenzen? >> great question. i feel like that is not fully answered. there is clear there are hand-picked judges overseeing the national security law cases and they are engaged in using the kind of veneer of rule of law to reach predetermined political ends. is that going to affect commercial law? don't know. it is too early to say. there are people who are worried, right? but i don't think we can point -- i don't know of any hard evidence that says ju

on jfk drive again in san francisco's golden gate park because they're going to probably make it carper car-free for good. a 3 mile stretch of the road between lincoln way and keys are drive has been off limits to a motorized vehicles since the early days, the pandemic and, you know, they did that back then to create social distancing and make everybody. i just have an easier time walking and biking like these kids, the sfmta in the city's parks department got mostly positive feedback when they asked about the street closure about 10,000 people over 8 months said yeah, keep it closed forever. the san francisco board of supervisors is expected to vote on the plan as soon as next month. uc berkeley trying to figure out how we're going to pull these kids here. we don't have any dorms. alternative enrollment arrangements is with the trying for some incoming students because they are about housing. and that's because of a lawsuit. let me explain. the university is asking some incoming freshman to opt for virtual enrollment for the fall and transfer students to postpone enrollment until next

senator carper, you are recognized. >> thinks mr. chairman.to thankef the witnesses for taking time to be with us today and share your thoughts. thinking back when tom coburn and i were privileged to lead this committee and we focused a lot of time and attention. grateful we are doing it and grateful tono the witnesses. the need for the senate confirmed leadership and another way to be a role in grafting with the use of officialsci and delegations. the first question for all the witnesses that remind me of what we are talkingio about today. rather the high number of vacancies we know how important it was to be able to get the team in place and given the opportunity to put their teams together. we a have a similar situation today in federal agencies and how it impacts the results for everyday americans. a question for all three of you maybe take aim minute to discuss the leadership and long-standing vacancies. as you indicate there are detrimental consequences into very briefly, there are two sets of them. first are performance related and give

it incorporates recommendations from my bipartisan supports with senator peters and senator carper and will adopt a risk-based approach to cybersecurity budgeting, position the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, cisa, we talked about earlier. there needs had to be accountability, that's missing now. we need to have agencies identify americans whose personally identifiable information is compromised during a breach. if you have personal information that's been breached because a government system has not been properly protected, you ought to be told about that so you can particular your own steps to protect yourself -- so you can take your own steps to protect yourself. ensure that federal agencies and contractors also contact when they suffer a breach. and finally, update the requirements for congressional notification when an agency suffers a major cyber incident. we have an oversight responsibility here. we need to know if there's been a major cyberattack. finally, this legislation includes a third part which is called the fed ramp authorization act. this is the one th

delaware senator carper chaired the hearing.

. >> thank you, senator carper. carver. i have one last question. this last one is for ms. of inspector general report came out last week and found they identified open source threat information in advance of the january 6th attacks on the capital but didn't issue any intelligence products until january 8th. at the office found this was both because of inexperienced collectors who received inadequate training and didn't consider the guidelines for the reporting information and because they were hesitant to report threats after mistakes. the report also found one product that was submitted to forreview wasn't distributed unl after the attacks and the counterterrorism center indicated that there may be violence on january 6th but did not share that information outside. further the field operations division considered issuing intelligence products but decided not to. what have they done since january 6th to fix these mistakes? >> thank you, mr. chairman. the report highlights the complexities and sensitivity that the office of the intelligence analysis works through every day