now, does it empower the committee chairs and the committee leaders? yes.ut the rank and file, i mean, what they have to do is be willing to sit through that and stay longer. senator leven was famous for his very long hearings. his record was 11 hours. we started at 9:00 in the morning and we finished at, you know, 11:00 at night. because he wanted to get every member as much time as they wanted to ask whatever questions they wanted. now, that's not easy. it's, it can be very difficult, with your schedules and all of the other demands on you. but that's one answer, is to have a cogent hearing, and in 45 minutes i've actually never seen that long before, i've seen 15 minutes, 20 minutes per side, but i thought it worked hard. >> stronger committee chairs equals stronger article one. >> yes, and stronger committees, too, which i think is important. the committees have lost a lot of power. and having better hearings makes the committee stronger. >> the rest of us see that with clarity, mr. kosar. >> oh, yes, i think the model which we have evolved towards is l

it seems to me that really disadvantages those committees like the education committee which have you offsets and accurately benefits committees like ways and means of senate finance where the money really is in terms of the savings so, by bottom line is we think there are positive parts of this bill, and after some significant change, i really do hope it can pass, because i think as bill hogan just said, the fact that it is bipartisan is really i think, an achievement, and i hope it continues with those changes. one last thing. i want to make a personal note if you'll forgive me, but there's not a week that goes by that i don't want to call our former colleagues at lawrence and on the phone and ask him a question about budget process. and worked on the hill for many, years with the committee for many years and i think this program and the efforts today we're doing is an important weight on his legacy will. >> thank you very much. so, the three of you have talked about this as the white house bill so, last year the senate budget committee approved this budget process reform bill spons

and committees, also.again, it's very hard to be accused if you are, you know, hiring a new limo driver because you're putting staff on. if you are talking these in committee and hitting the notes of oversight, oversight, oversight. i think you will be largely insulated from the sort of backlash you might face. >> i'd like to agree with that, on the committees, virtually every committee is required, by law, to do oversight within the jurisdiction they have been given. and people want their government to work better. they worry about waste, fraud, and abuse. you cannot get your government to work better unless you have good overnight. you can't do good oversight unless there is more staff and more resources to focus on the executive branch and all the things that are going on there. and the other real problems that are facing us. the other thing i'll say is that if you want to do the stuff in a bipartisan way, bipartisan investigations take longer. they are harder. because you -- you challenge each other. y

the speaker does not serve on the rules committee or chair the rules committee.usan: this description of how he wanted power sounds counterintuitive to someone called uncle joe. do you know how we got the nickname? professor green: i don't. i don't actually. susan: it was someone who was affable rather than someone cutting off people at the knees. to achieve legislative means. professor green: he was not disliked. slikableot a thidi person. what was the problem from members was his use of power. particularly, the insurgents. the democrats were not happy either, but most members of his party were perfectly happy with him and his use of power. susan: the time in which he was served was also the time of theodore roosevelt. you know about their relationship? professor green: there was certainly conflict between the roosevelt was advocating for two. more progressive legislation than joe cannon wanted. there were times when roosevelt would be writing letters to joe cannon saying, could you please let this bill come to the floor? there was no sense that the speaker shou

first i'd go to the intel committee. we have a chairman on the intel committee that read a transcript that was not true to the american public. we have a chairman of the intel committee who came before the american public and said he had a great fear that the administration was going to withhold the whistleblower from giving information. we learned later that the this -- that this same chairman met with the whistleblower and the only transcript with held if the basement of those interviewers was that one about the inspector general. all he needs to do is bring the committee to vote to release that transcript. i wonder what that transcript would read? could it possibly state out that member who is the chame of the intel committee could be a fact witness? could it come forth that he met with this individual before, the only person in congress who would know who the whistleblower is? could we he have just taken america through a second nightmare when we could have been focusing on so many other items? i think that's the big

two committee chairs, different treatment. sec. mnunchin: we responded to you, and as i explained the house disclosure of tax returns is subject to protections, which on the advice of counsel, we documented we have significant concerns. that is very different from what i believe is a request on a bipartisan basis, we have responded to thousands of requests to the committees from both republicans and democrats on an equal basis. as we said, treasury does not process -- sen. wyden: your stonewalling -- you are stonewalling about stonewalling. sec. mnunchin: that's really not fair at all. sen. wyden: two committee chairs, one gets no response. republican gets a quick response. sec. mnunchin: that's just not fair mr. wyden, we have responded. sen. wyden: it is a fact. sec. mnunchin: we responded to your requests another, we are following the law of 6103. sen. wyden: i gave you a specific example that shows a double standard. sec. mnunchin: one has to do with sars that's under a different section which we have responded to your request

they can decide who is on what committee to some degree and who chairs committees.hey can reward who are loyal and punish those who are disloyal and shape the legislative agenda. susan: how about their ability to raise money? professor green: that is one of the things speakers are expected to do. it is not a formal job. you will not find it in the rules of the house of representatives but they are , expected to do it. it is one of the things speakers have to do. they need to go out and raise money. they need to do fundraisers. they go to member districts when they are running for reelection or election. there are doing a lot of the campaign work to help members of their party. susan: in recent years there have been some organizational changes so the congress under various speakers. when is the end of earmarks. explain what earmarks are and did that change the power of the speaker's office? professor green: earmarks are basically putting special targeted funding into a larger spending bill. you might have a bill for transportation that allocates billions of dollars f

the select committee has reported three sets of recommendations 45 recommendations out of committee. the committee reports containing these recommendations were reported to the house today pursuant to section 201-f-2 of house resolution 6 and will be made publicly available. our first set of recommendations were reported favorably by the select committee and focused on improving transparency in congress. transparency increases accountability and ultimately improves the way congress serves the american people. while a lot of legislative information is public, it is not made available in a format that is not easy to access, review or digest. these recommendations encourage the continuous posting of new legislative and bill status and committee votes and program authorizations and lobbying disclosures and the people pay for the data so they should be able to access information about what members of congress do here, whether following a bill through the process or seeing how we vote or tracking what bills members sponsor or co-sponsor. this is wholly consistent with congress working bett

this is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. he's a democrat, it's his job as an elected representative in the country and the position he holds to get this kind of briefing, and help protect the american electoral system. that seems to not be donald trump's top priority here. he wanted to keep quiet, a potential political argument against him. >> he's clearly the president furious that this briefing even occurred. >> he doesn't want to brief democrats about it, first of all, second of all, he doesn't believe it. it's the same old thing that he said aftered 2016 election that it might in his own mind. he believes that any notion that russia would be helping him, delegitimizes him and could delegitimize his future election. he doesn't want to be talking about it, investigating it, this is not breaking news in a way, because, of course, it's completely in character for donald trump. and as david was saying, the last thing he wants to do is tell adam schiff, who deserves to know, who should be briefed he doesn't want schiff to weap

according to "the washington post" one member of the committee violated the committee's secrecy rules and told donald trump about the briefing. "the washington post" says trump learned about pearson's remarks from representative devin nunes, the committee's ranking republican and a staunch trump ally, said one person familiar with the matter. trump's suspicions of the intelligence committee have often been fueled by nunes who was was the president in california on wednesday when he announced on twitter that grenell would become the acting director officials said. a spokesman for nunes did not respond to requests for comment. and now the acting director of national intelligence, richard grenell, will probably or surely be operating under a direct order from the president not to reveal to the house and senate intelligence committees as is required by law what vladimir putin is doing to help donald trump get re-elected. that is what the american presidency has become tonight. that is where this country is tonight. donald trump is operating in the white house in conjunction with vladimir

this is a programming allocation committee report from the metropolitan transportation association committee. we asked for $400 million to proceed with the d.t.x. we got and received zero. i presume this will be approved. the question is, why? it says here two large projects, the d.t.x. and dumbarton real corridor weren't approved and the projects were not named in the framework as earlier projects were in their developing stage. why are we in the development stage? we are in the development stage because of this nonsense coming off of the metropolitan transportation -- that san francisco transportation committee of this loan. we are not -- we have not been able to finish the engineering, in my opinion, to complete this job to apply for these funds, to move this thing along. here is a calendar for this year we have wasted it. we have 50,000 writers who want to get to downtown san francisco with the d.t.x. i believe it's time to stop fooling around. i think we should go out and see if we can't get commercial funding to finish this. we will no longer be paying leasing commissions because the s

you said the committee on committees. the first meeting is february 8, 9 a.m. county supervisor board room, that is the second floor of the warren county. 8 a.m., 9 a.m.. from there, they will explain everything. but it's going to be about setting up the actual county convention. so the platform committee is the committee that looks at all the things that people have said. this is what i think democrats stands for and things like statehood, women's rights, women's reproductive rights, things like that. but we want to make this a plank in our party. this is something we stand behind, and then everybody -- we get all these ideas together, like i think we need to do this and then you guys organize it and say at the convention and goes to a vote and people like me, no, that is a little extreme i don't want to do that, it gets radicalized. but it's organizing that and brainstorming and idea you want to have, so it's really to influence the direction of the party saying what we believe in. [inaudible conversations] march 21 is the actual county convention. they will

i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin. i am joined by vice chair safai see and dean preston. our clerk is erica major. do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items today will be on the february 4 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> could you please call the first item. >> item 1. ordinance amending the planning code to allow authorization of a limited restaurant use in the jackson square special use district that does not comply with the current requirements of a limited restaurant use if a building permit application furthering the establishment of such use was filed by january 19, 2018. >> this is a piece of legislation trailing that adopted a year ago that we introduced at the request of the jackson square association. for those who do not know it, jackson square historic district is the city's first historic district, geographically small but rich in history, and over the years through fine tuning of the ground flo

so we have two house committees and this committee in agreement. we have the ways and means committee headed in the same direction. we have the president's support, which is the question i'm coming to. so when you have this committee 20-3 with the chairman and senator murray, when you have chairman pallone and ranking member walden, when you have bobby scott and virginia foxx, all agreeing with the president's support and you have the ways and means committee headed in the same direction, it seems to me that's a good candidate for action to lower health care costs, especially since ending surprised billing, the other 40 provisions or so that would encourage competition, transparency, and lower drug costs and save enough money to fully fund community health centers for five years, that could all be done by the end of may when the community health center funding expires. so my question for you, is this high on the president's priority list, and will you continue to work with this committee and the three house committees to get a result on ending surp

we've reached out to the committee and its staff. and again, we go through a notice and comment period with the public. >> second point, i'm pleased to see that the president's budget calls for making the tax cuts and reforms benefiting individuals and small business permanent. this includes the doubling of the child tax credit to $2,000, nearly double standard deduction. and lower overall individual taxes. it also includes a 20% qualified business income deduction which greatly benefits small passthrough businesses. so mr. secretary, in treasury's estimation, have these tax measures been important factors in the high levels of consumer confidence and small business optimism reported since the enactment of the tax reform, and also would you expect making these tax provisions permanent to have additional positive effects on consumers, small businesses, and the economy generally? >> yes, we would, mr. chairman. >> okay. yesterday the house ways and means committee argued that cbo's recent adjustments in the corporate tax receipts is ev

on committees is basically the overall committee to set up the whole convention. from there, it breaks down into somebody is going to work on securing the building, somebody is going to work on, i don't know, all the different things. it breaks down into a bunch of different committees. the overarching structure then breaks down. i want slotted into come to work on this, i want to work on that -- you get slotted, i want to work on this, i want to work on that. >> thanks for running the show. you did a great job. appreciate that. >> thank you. i am losing people rapidly. i still have anybody left to vote, last few orders of business is essential committee representatives. scott and i are currently on central committee. we would be happy to remain. is there anybody else who would like to be on central committee? any other nominees for central committee? no. all in favor of retaining scott and i in the central committee, say "i." >> i! >> do you have any problems, issues, feel like you have been mistreated? if everybody is in favor of ratifying this caucus, please sa

, and chairman of the bank committee, both members of this committee, and we are hoping they will move it towards a mark, i should be smart enough to take your earlier statement the support this effort, but if you would like to make any final comments on this notion of moving this legislation through the banking committee, we have worked closely with the administration on that. >> let me clarify. i very much support your efforts on that. >> i will take, that mister chairman, as a time to yield back my 28 seconds, but you might want to ask a question or something. mister chair, thank you. >> thank, you senator warner be responsible approach. senator casey? >> so, chairman thank you very much. mister secretary, good to be with you. i wanted to focus on one topic, middle-class, and take you back to a meeting that you are present that but i'm sure you may not remember because you had a lot of these. we had a meeting in october of 2017. it was a member of the finance committee, both parties, not everyone but most of the committee, the president was there. you are. their administration offic

held by the sin aging committee, this is two hours. -- senate aging committee. >> the committee will come to order. good morning. today, the special committee on aging is releasing its updated 2020 fraud book. it lists the top ten scams that have been reported to our committee over the past year. the good news is that the notorious irs impersonation scam, which had been the top scam reported to the committee for five consecutive years, has fallen off dramatically.p it used to be number one, now it's number seven. still a problem, but public awareness has certainly helped to decrease the prevalence of that scam. unfortunately, the social security impersonation scam, the topic of this morning's hearing, has risen to take its place. reports of the ssa scam barely registered as recently as 2017, but then it began to take off, cracking the top ten scans reported to our committee's fraud hotline in 2018 and becoming the number one reported scam last year as shown on the chart displayed on the monitors. this scam has resulted in $38 million in reported loss to americans in 2019 alone. i sus

they served on these committees. people with no political participatory background, suddenly were the face of the revolution. and at some point, there was no turning back. this was a new political world that they had created. no one set out for that goal, but they woke up one morning and realized that the political landscape was deeply and permanently transformed. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> don't brush the podium. - - rush the podium. [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on booktv, discussions on race, gender and class. today, at 6:30 p.m. eastern, author charles murray talks about his book, human diversity. >> for almost a century, social scientists have been in a group of orthodoxy that is scared stiff of biology. at the moment, it takes the form of three widely and loudly proclaimed truths. gender is a social construct. race is a social construct. class is a function of privilege. >> then at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words", espn.com senior writer howard bryant on sports an

be electing one committee of the committee and two one member of the committee on the committees andtwo alternates. also, polk county central committee will have two committee members and up to four alternates. the central committee meets the fourth monday of every month and the next meeting is february 24 come i think that is what i read. of course, i did not write it down. so, as soon as we get the counts completed, then we will figure out how many delegates you can collect. elect.can hey, whether your groups are viable or not, i need all of the cards with your first choice on it if you want to stick with your first choice. withaybe you realigned your second choice. all of those cards have to be accounted for. what are we doing here? >> [indiscernible] >> ok, thank you. this is yang. >> huh? you better hang onto the precinct captain. >> thank you for all of your work, i appreciated. -- i appreciate it. [applause] >> they don't want to realign, they don't want to support anybody else. >> what about you? >> i am not supporting anyone else. >> can you tell me your name and what you do

member of the house financial services committee which is chaired by maxine waters. what do you have to say about all this? what's it like? how does that committee work when the chair wants to unseat the president of the united states? >> yeah. it gets awkward, quite honestly, when she's saying that this is what her constituents elected her to do, the work they elected her to do, i actually believe she acts sometimes like impeachment is the work that she believes is first and foremost importance rather than the work of the financial services committee, because you see this time and time and time again, where whether it's her or al green, who happens to be on the committee or even speaker pelosi, who are talking about hey, if we didn't get him this time, we will come back again for another bite at that apple. that is just so unproductive it's not even funny. stuart: well said, sir. now, you were on air force one with the president when he flew

and other committees. the co-moderators of the first one in the visitor center where every member of congress was invited. i was at the last one and i was at the situation room at the white house before the break. you know, i think you all have been very forthcoming with the facts. for whatever reason, we have not had a hearing here, maybe wanting to wait until this one, i think it is important that we hear from you and the team that you are leading. i think it is important to recognize the work on reauthorizing the all hazards preparedness act in the last congress. we had big fights about that. thank goodness it is in place because it is designed to do exactly what we are encountering today. a lead person in the administration that is you, designated by the president and a team ready to go. i have been to enough of those briefings that i so members kind of yawning and those closed door briefings. hearing it for the third time. gone a week and a lot has changed. we know what is happening in china is probab

it was a member of the finance committee, both parties, not everyone, but most of the committee, the president was there. the administration officials were there talking about the tax bill. at that time, the tax bill had not passed. it was in the drafting stages. i raised a question with the president about the focus of the tax bill with regard to the middle class, and he expressed a very positive aspiration to have the tax bill be a benefit to the middle class. as a matter of fact, i remember him returning to, you are trying to buy a first name, instead of secretary of the treasury but he said, i'm gonna make sure we focus in the middle class. we know what happened after that. the bill passed and we are told, these are just two examples apart of middle class, we are told by your committee on taxation any left of the 27 jean tax bill and take one segment of the middle class which in this case is 15 million households all making under $100,000, that's the category of people, that those 50 million households, all making under $100,000 a year, would see a tax increase or decrease, one w

intelligence committee findings? >> look, again, i don't want to get into private conversations and a presidential daily brief but i don't think admiral maguire was necessarily informed of what would happen at that hearing and house either. again, there'sng nothing he has given, no information and will acquire gave us, gina haspell's gave us, ambassador grenell, new acting dni, that comports with what was leaked out of that house intel committee so i have not seen it in the leaders of the intelligence committee that i've spoken with have not seen it and it comports with what was leaked out. i don't know if that is what the leakers told the house committee and those were -- >> your reaction. >> couple of things. number one, we know from the intelligence committee and even just from the mueller report hearings that russia has a sad and is already working to intervene in the election again. it is not a surprise to get intelligence that they are doing output that has been flagged for some time but number two, the fact th

with regard to the advisory committee on in head up a disorders due the authorization, that committee has halted activities. i'm happy to look into the question of its work as we work with congress around reauthorization of course of the neonatal screening act. >> because you do have that authority to continue that committee. and you mentioned another issue that i am concerned about that in your 21 21 budget you propoo eliminate the hrsa and provide grants that provide grants to educators and parents help states expand the newborn screening programs. without this funding how will this dates fill these new activities and improve follow-up care for infants diagnosed with our edible disorders annual operating update come to similar information from the federal clearinghouse of newborn screening information? those are questions that i would like some answers to but you did mention you also rolled the newborn screening into the maternal child health block grant, is that what you just dated? >> so no, i was emphasizing we have within the maternal mortality block grant that does provide addi

committee on the committee member. and our central committee members.oes anybody want to do any of that? i am working on getting my delegates. >> i need them on this. good. i bet you get elected. >> [indiscernible] >> o god. yes? >> that can work. i got both. >> ok. you would know that, when into? -- that, wouldn't you? >> i was super aggravated last time. it was a chaotic nightmare. however, i did enjoy the [indiscernible] persuading. i think that is kind of the energy. >> it did seem a little more chaotic, but in an energizing way. that's what i was saying. that's it. ultimately [indiscernible] >> what? >> and you don't have to be on any committee. >> i guess we have all the stuff we need for this caucus. it's officially over. you got two of them? >> that is how a caucus works. this is in west des moines, iowa , valley high school. withifferent precincts upwards of 500 at each precinct. one in the auditorium and the other in a cafeteria, which is where we were this evening. we will continue to watch inside the cafeteria as they gather up and prepared

our committee has a hotline. and as i said at the very beginning, this social security scam is now the number one reported scam to our hotline. and we're going to continue our educational efforts, our legislative efforts, and our attempts to encourage further law enforcement. just one time point on law enforcement. a lot of times, as we've learned, these gateway communication companies are very small, they're easy to put together, and they're hard to locate. but another problem is the scam may actually originate overseas. in fact, india has been a source of call centers for these scams. and thus we have to have federal law enforcement involved in order to close down those overseas call centers. that is really important as well. but together, we are determined to continue to work with all of you to fight these ruthless criminals who are targeting our nation's seniors, and often those who are most vulnerable, who are living on their social security checks, who have very little by way of savings. senator casey, do y

on this committee. ver the years, the size of the federal government has ballooned. while it excels in some ways, our nation safe, oftentimes it does not serve the well.an people my constituents' ervice office busy back in the district. i know how important it is to run effective and efficient operations. your don't serve customers well, you won't stay in business. the federal government is largely unaccountable, the only people ho suffer from government inefficiency, are the very eople it is intended to serve, american people. far too long, we have let the branch seize authority and unelected bureaucrats. i'm proud to serve on the study committee's government efficiency, reform task y and force, whose goal is to develop eforms to improve the federal government in order to better serve american families. my service here in congress, i served as the fix theco-chair for the debt committee, which was a effort, bipartisan ways that we tify can balance our budget. in the gear t here task force highlights str

i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin joined by committee member supervisor dean preston to mylerk is ms. erica major, ms. major, could you please make any announcements? >> yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. could you please call items 1 through 3 together. >> item number 1 is a resoln

this angered republicans on the committee, who pushed back. when the president learned, he was very upset and berated mcguire, who until today was the head of the odni overseeing the intelligence office. and they had never personally gotten along. there's speculation this is why the president moved in the last two or three days to replace mcguire with a loyalist. the president's argument was adam schiff would use this information against him in some way. that was basically his main complaint. they argue d the same thing tha they can point to a lot of areas where they suggest the president has been aggressive against russia. we also have seen a lot of commentary from the president in public where he sounded appeasing to russia or negated the intelligence community's findings that russia interfered in the last one. the president see this is as an ast ruerisk on his own election but it tellhouse about how the president is viewing intelligence and how it is being presented and handled in the context of the the reelection campaign. >> it looks like

let's go to -- i'm sorry. >> committee reports? >> roll call, is it? >> committee reports, mr. president? >> yes, committee reports. >> items 47 and 48 were considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on monday, february $3 and were forwarded as committee reports. it's to amend land disposition and acquisition agreement with 2000 marin property, for the transfer of property on bryant street. in exchange for real property at 2000 marin street and to adopt the appropriate findings. >> president yee: colleagues, same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. item 48, please. >> item 48 was with a new title. resolution to declare the intent of board of supervisors to order the vacation of the sidewalk portion of streets on the south side of mission street at the intersection of mission and freemont and on the east side at the same intersection to allow a structural up grade of the millennium tower and setting a hearing date for the board of supervisors to convene as a committee of the whole on march

it is inappropriate for this committee to attempt to influence ongoing litigation. today's hearing is not the role of this committee, and i look forward to the opportunity to perform the oversight duties that the american people elected us to do in order to keep us safe. dr. longo, is it true that in the early 2000s you testified under oath that talc containing asbestos was an urban legend? >> yes, ma'am, i did. >> what has changed since then? >> what has changed since then is that we've been using a much more sensitive method and that was at the time that we did not receive or have the opportunity to look at thousands and thousands of johnson & johnson confidential documents showing that their own testing of their own products and their own minds had regulated asbestos in it, and we were not using the most sensitive techniques. and since that time, in three years, we have analyzed over 109 johnson & johnson bottles and found 65% of them positive for regulated asbestos using heavy liquid sensitive, heavy liquid density separation. and many other cosmetics talc compa

congresswoman, you are the top democrat on the house intelligence committee.erstand the president's concern, regardless of what the truth is of what the members of the house intelligence committee were told, can you understand the president's concern that this information was brought -- of all committees, to house intelligence run by the k with the leaks areadam schiff terrible, yes i can underst lon. devin nunes is a very partisan ranking member. >> chris: should point out he was the former republican chairman for the house control. >> that's correct. back in the day when i was ranking member and pete, who i gather may be a candidate for the new dni and i would support that. i think he is -- >> chris: all right, let's move on. >> i support that. on the story, yes it's appalling that it leaked. however, the underlying information is important to grasp. bob mueller's report said that the russians are already meddling in the 2020 election and whether or not they're taking sides, they are showing chaos and as reported by david singer in "the new york times" today

dingell, also a member of our committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. dingell: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you to my chairman for all the hard work he's been doing. i rise in strong support of h.r. 826, and in opposition to the trump administration's recent proposed cuts to medicaid. medicaid provides important, life-saving care for our nation's children, seniors and disabled. including in my home state of michigan. that is why political leaders under the leadership of governor rick snyder, a republican, worked across the aisle to expand medicaid in michigan in 2014. this expansion, healthy michigan, currently covers over 650,000 michiganders, providing them access to both quality, affordable health care, and protection from crippling medical bills. it is also -- it has also supported rural hospitals, both in michigan and across the country. without healthy michigan, hospitals across the state that serve some of our most vulnerable residents would face closures and terribl

that's the intel committee. going to call the people who are involved in investigating the counterintelligence investigation. twenty-one people involved that i've named, or to find out what did mccain and comey no, when do they know the dossier was on reliable but the department of justice withdrawn saying they were illegal? in january 2017, the primary russian sub source told for members of the department of justice and fbi that the dossier was a bunch of bartok and hearsay about revival. on to find out when do they understand it was not reliable? >> you are saying if they knew the dossier wasn't reliable, why did they use it to take a warrant out? four of them, four times. a term campaign member, carter page. >> i also want to know july 26, they tried to get a warrant and it was turned down. it was mccain who said the fbi washington office go to new york, they got something in the new york that might help you with the russian dossier. who told mccabe the document was in new york? he thought it would help him w

we will continue to work with this committee, every committee member, every staff here to collectively talk, have meaningful discussions on where we think and how we can improve conditions. >> but you have had such a grave situation in the tucson sector that a federal judge enjoined you from those conditions, and those conditions included leaving people for more than 48 hours without beds, showers, adequate food, water or medical assessments. are there other facilities in which the conditions are the same and are you immediately going to address ensuring that those conditions don't exist in any cvp detention center. >> we have to abide by the court order, and i respectfully disagree with the court's decision that these are unconstitutional and grave conditions. >> leaving people, you think it's okay to leave people without food, water, medical assessment, beds, showers, for 48 hours or more? >> i think it depends on the circumstances, the totality of the circumstances and it depend on the capacity that we have, but we are making efforts to improve that across the board. >> i'm sorry. i

subcommittee for this committee. this committee and o.n.i. conducted extensive oversight cybersecurity at hhs including through technical audits conducted by gao of cybersecurity controls at hhs operational divisions. that sounds technical. last congress, the subcommittee on oversight investigations held a closed hearing in part because hhs failed to properly identify and address certain vulnerabilities. we received preliminary results from the most recent audit of another hhs agency, though i can't go into details in this setting. so my question is, does hhs have a point person who coordinates corrective actions on cybersecurity among all hhs agencies, and if so, we direct that person to continue to work with the committee on improving enterprise cybersecurity at hhs and ensuring that mitigations applied in one setting are consequently applied to all hhs? sec. azar: yes, we do. our chief information officer jose arieta works directly with me absolutely is in charge of those issues. if i could go back to your previous question, i misheard on

, committee of social security. thank you for inviting me here today to talk about the scam crisis. everyone here has probably received one of these scam calls , and too many people have been victimized and lost money. it is a national problem. at first, we were not doing enough to combat the scams, that . that was shortsighted. the magnitude of this problem caught us off guard. america trusts our agency and our employees, and we can allow 't allow swindlers to erode that trust. in my first office visit, employees told me how these scams harm americans and our service. we have received more and more reports from people who have been tricked by or are worried about these calls. americans want our help on this crisis, and we also need to do critical, social security work , like processing benefit applications and making sure we pay people the right amount. within a few months of getting here, i made fighting the scams and helping our frontline offices a top priority. with inspector general ennis' help, we start fixing

chairman, first of all, welcome to the committee. i would like to go back a little bit we had the opportunity to have the chairman in front of us yesterday and i would like to remind my colleague what the chairman, front of mine, said about groupthink. chairman powell agreed to pay the groupthink is unhealthy and i'm strongly inclined to think that you need to hear all sides of the case and to that end, doctor waller, doctor shelton, i think both of you that would provide fresh perspectives and that is healthy. i did have the opportunity to delve into separate items and i will begin with doctor waller and i would like to talk about from the st. louis fed and could you talk about the differences between with regard to the aggie economy versus what we find and allow which is been significant in terms of its growth and yet the aggie economy has been proven slow and perhaps in a large part because we been on the tip of the spear for the trade negotiations going on. could you share about what you've seen in your previous work? >> thank yo