the ethics committee is the only evenly divided committee and the house. we are a consensus-based committee. do the hard work of many members and professional staff of the ethics committee we have brought forward this report today by a unanimous vote in the committee regarding our fellow house member representative david schweikert of arizona. the ethics committee has been entrusted to fulfill the constitutional obligation and responsibility for admonish to members and staff when appropriate. this is not a duty that we take lightly. far from it. but it is essential if to maintain the public's trust of our chamber. i want to thank the four members have served on the investigative subcommittee. this was no easy burden on the investigative subcommittee led by congressman dean phillips and mr. bill flores and the chairman and ranking member of the panel. they were joined by congressman jamie raskin and congressman john katco. collectively investigative subcommittee met 22 times during this 116th congress in four times in the previous congress for they reviewed

of the select committee. and for the great work done on this bill. the modernization initiatives will go a long way. i want -- thank you and congressman graves. you have done a great job in putting together a comprehensive list. this $2 million is a down payment, but i think the american people want this institution to be modernized, and function in an efficient way, and you have given us numerous recommendations we will build on. representative: i want to mr. cole myself with and missed wasserman schultz on their comments about reservation at the library of congress. preserving original documents is very important. we need to do everything we can. i agree with their comments. anyway i could be of help with that. the conversations are ongoing and we welcome input. it is not that we are not going to be preserving the original documents. for clarification's sake, we are not going to get them digitized and check the originals. how they get done is the ongoing conversation. i know a lot of it is just a study bein

i want to thank the committee. that is not an -- the rules committee, that is not an easy job in the best of times. 750 amendments were submitted to be added. the rules committee had to process all of those amendments to produce the rule we just approved today. i think their staff for doing that incredible work and i want to pause one moment to thank the staff for the work they did in light of covid-19. we know things cannot be run the way they normally are, we have to make adjustments and the staff in particular had to make those adjustments just getting the committee hearing room set up so we could accommodate a socially distant our cup, it took an enormous amount of time and technological know-how and the staff did a great job to get us to this point. i am saying it is no accident we are here, a lot of work got us to this moment to have an excellent product. we cannot forget the central premise behind this product, to support our national security policy and make sure the men and women who serve in our military,

chairs -- committees to issue subpoenas and those committees have in general delegated that authority to its chairs, the modern congress, there clearly is authorization committee chairs to issue the subpoenas and as i said, if there's any doubt at all about that, the full house ratified these very specific subpoenas. >> before or after -- army before or after they were issued and challenged. >> this is after they were issued and challenged, the issue is authorized by house rules which this court has said it will not examine and then the full house because there were arguments made in the full house said we authorized these exact subpoenas, we ratify the issuance of the subpoenas, it is extremely clearly worded, page 241 a of the petition appendix. >> thank you. >> justice alito. >> i was somewhat baffled by your answer to justice ginsburg about the use of congressional subpoenas for purposes of harassing the president, your final answer was the courts can't take care of that but that's the issue here, whether something should be done to prevent the use of the subpoenas for the harassm

i was not on this committee. so of course my immediate advice was gone, you have such great relationship with kay granger on state and foreign ops and nothing ever seems to come out of labor h anyway. we've got about four or five years without producing a bill. why do to stay with the working part of that will actually produce something? i guess indirectly i sort of led to your rise, madam chair, by talking the full committee chairmen of doing it but it's been what full partnership between you two and a thinkable side of the aisle. our sentiments are the same. they are the same about the staff. i just want to associate myself with your remarks, all of you on both sides of the aisle of staff have worked actually for nearld under the most difficult circumstances that any committee has faced in modern congress. with a bill that by its nature tends to create some controversy, and by its size and complexity i think the only thing close to rivaling it is the defense department. i would still argue this bill is more com

the way the watergate committee was set up, it was the committee in the senate that was looking into watergate. montana knewd of you could not have fragments here and there. he put all the authority in the senate watergate committee. he made senator urban the chair and made senator baker the co-chair. that is one of the marvelous things about watergate. the two of them worked together. in the beginning, they said we are going to make this thing work. we will not disagree about things in public. they did not. no hearing since watergate has ever succeeded like watergate did because you did not have to two compatible people that reached across and try to make one another work. that is the primary difference today and the years of watergate. they worked together. you don't find that now. i can hardly name you anything of major importance where the parties work together. >> can we talk about how it came about you subpoenaing the present. when was it first decided to deliver it to president nixon and how did you choose to deliver it? >> well, the senator met in his office in private with t

of the committee. of you know, this will be is last ndaa since he's retiring from congress, and i ust want to command his -- commend his great work and great leadership. i want to emphasize the point i made in many, many times. the committee should be an example of congress. happen by accident. it happens by leadership. hen mr. thornberry became chairman of the committee and i mac anking member, understood the priority of getting the bill done and working in a bipartisan way to do that. because of that leadership, that been set for the committee and we've been able to continue to accomplish that. thank the rules committee. that is not an easy job in the best of times. know, these are not the best of times. to amendments were submitted be added to this bill this year. the rules committee had to sift through and process all of those amendments to produce before you the rule that we all just approved today. doing their staff for that incredible work and do want to pause just one moment to the staff they d

and it is because of what this committee has done. to make sure we have research on convalescent plasma which is so by people andused ventilators, the use of remdesivir accelerated through public-private partnership and funded the route will decrease the fertility rate when given earlier, before people are ventilator. dexamethasone, a drug i would routinely use in the operating room, pennies a dose, decreases the death rate by 1/3 in patients on ventilators. that's astounding. we have vip analogs -- there are new therapies out there that will make it much less deadly than we first thought. that being said, we have 130 thousand deaths. that's a significant number of people, and our mission should be to make sure that this rate goes as close to zero as it can, and it is because of the work of this committee. but i do believe that our considering a bill today that is far from bipartisan misses a tremendous opportunity. -- i urge you, look at the approval rating of congress this year. we started in the 20's. when we agreed in a bipartisan

i was the chairman of the committee at the time. do you believe that any of the cia former enhanced interrogation techniques are consistent with the detainee treatment act? >> i reviewed the executive summary that was released while the chairman. it was a very detailed and thorough report and from where i saisit it is a want of congressional oversight. senator today it's clear the defense authorization act of 2016 those in the field manual or illegal and i support that fully in this conference i would ensure that it's complied with. >> good. you've done your homework. let me ask about the detainee treatment act which is a set of conditions and take the best can be used. i have reviewed it, senator, yes. >> that is the standard that is used is my understanding so as the chief legal counsel for most importantly intelligence offices i'm very interested in your position would be. torture is wrong and i would confirm and make sure that it's complied with. i've read of the executive summary of the report of the committee put together when

i now yield to the full committee ranking member. ranking member granger for her remarks. >> chairman serrano thank you for presenting the fiscal year 2021 signs appropriation bill today. we miss seeing you in person, but glad to see where you are. before we begin i want to recognize you, mr. chairman, since sadly this is your last subcommittee markup you'll chair during your time on the appropriations committee you've been a chair of the financial services and this subcommittee and your willingness to listen to the concerns of members of both parties from all parts of the country, as well as your great personality will be missed. i also want to thank the ranking member for his leadership on this committee and this bill, he worked hard and represents his district and the state well and they know that and i also want to thank him for his leadership on the space issues that are so important to our future and what we're doing. from an issue that strengthened u.s. competitiveness to efforts to combat criminal threats and protect children

, the new committee will reservejudgement the committee, the new committee will reserve judgement asld have done this in respect of previous democratic processes . in respect of previous democratic processes. and we must not let what has happened recently, deflect attention from the retrospective work which does need to be done to investigate previous attempts. coming back to kevin ‘s comments about the delay in publication and public —— speculation as to why that was, the previous chair said he thought the british public should have been able to see the report before the election. and i agree. the public was allowed to go into that election without knowing that the government had not sought to investigate whether hostile states had been interfering in uk democratic processes. and ifind that shocking. kevin. thank you. the average is and that there was interference, the average is that no one would want to know if there was a difference. —— the outrage. that, ithink, come through very loud and clear in the report. what we do know about russian influence in the uk is that it's the new

diversity among committee interns.rd new addition from our friend in wisconsin, with regard to the library of congress, encourages library digitizing a portion of its rare books and special collections, especially with a focus on magic harry houdini election. pushing also a magician in your chairman, you learn a lot about the members of congress. good to know the only magician is rogers in wisconsin, it's also congressman okay. insurers will be awarding contracts to an outside organization to recommend future collections preservation strategies for several members moving on in their remarks. minority has no issues with these additions and i urge support of the amendment. >> those in favor. >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to have worked with german ryan and the rest of our colleagues to address the noncontroversial and bipartisan to this bill and report and therefore i support the amendment. you have one. >> i have no closing remarks. i know a lot of us want to get on planes and go home. >> all those in favor

but rather to prevesent the fac to the committee and the committee would form their own conclusions.n laugh thinking about it, but we had these little note cards and we were supposed to put one fact on a note card. so, for example, i remember we were working on this. and doerr said go right back to the beginning. who is richard nixon? how did he get where he is? so a fact would be richard mill house nixon was born on date of birth in wittier, california. and he would say, no, those are two pieces of information. you have one card for the year he was born and one card for where he was born. because apparently, in john's practice, he would use these cards to find patterns. and if he didn't have enough of the >cdofacts, he couldn't dedu the patterns. so we learned, i mean, that's why we had these little cards. and they attempted, as i recall, some method in the library ñ >> organize and sort them, but, you know, really, computers were not in common use. and i think john preferred his system anyway. so we spent a lot of time doing these cards. and looking for anything that could be a pie

and a joint committee of congress on the library. i hope we can come together on these issues as the process moves forward. in closing, i want to thank the subcommittee members for their work on this bill and thank the staff, michelle, and my staff as well as the majority staff. i thank, you mister chairman. i yield back. >> thank, you ranking member granger. is there any further discussion, or does any member wish to offer an amendment to the measure before us? big >>? >> (inaudible) >> thank you, sir. all those in favor, say i. those opposed, say nay. the is have it. -- please ensure that the materials before you are returned the subcommittee staff before you leave the room. i would also like to thank the committee staff matt and our team on our side, the team on your side. this has been a less than stellar environment to try to piece these bills together. we want to say thank you to everyone for your hard work, and i know it is not over. i would like to thank you and the committee stands adjourned. and 1960, four african american

of the select committee.nd for the great work done on this bill. the modernization initiatives will go a long way. i want -- thank you and congressman graves. you have done a great job in putting together a comprehensive list. this $2 million is a down payment, but i think the american people want this institution to be modernized, and function in an efficient way, and you have given us numerous recommendations we will build on. representative: i want to mr. cole myself with and missed wasserman schultz on their comments about reservation at the library of congress. preserving original documents is very important. we need to do everything we can. i agree with their comments. anyway i could be of help with that. the conversations are ongoing and we welcome input. it is not that we are not going to be preserving the original documents. for clarification's sake, we are not going to get them digitized and check the originals. how they get done is the ongoing conversation. i know a lot of it is just a study being

, by the intelligence committee? mr. strawbridge: well, taking the relevance question first, yes, even if you accept that there is some legitimate legislation that could be had that reached the president, because what we are seeking is presidential finances, when you look at -- justice sotomayor: pardon, sir. not presidential finances, we are asking for his personal tax returns before he became president. those are very different things. and we are not asking him to produce it. and some of the subpoenas that congress, through history, as far back as 1792, have asked for personal papers of the president while being president. this is before he was president. i don't understand. it is -- and they are not his papers, in the sense of he's not in possession of them. these are subpoenas to private entities. mr. strawbridge: ok, so there are a number of issues there. with respect to the custodian issue, this court, even going back to eastland, has recognize d the ability of a person whose records are in the hands of a third

labour's echoing the committee's call to investigate now what went before. and paints a very bad picture of a government that was far too slow to wake up to the threat posed by russia towards our democracy, far too slow to take the action is required. good morning everybody. as cabinet met in person, spaced out today in the gilded caverns of the foreign office, it was clear the government wants to move on, with little desire to dwell on this awkward subject. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. today's report by the commons intelligence and security committee described russian influence in the uk as ‘the new normal‘ and said successive governments had welcomed rich oligarchs with open arms without asking too many questions about the source of their wealth. our security correspondent gordon corera has more details. today‘s report says the uk is not one of russia‘s top intelligence targets but questions whether the country is equipped to respond. the report details russia‘s aggressive use of spying, especially in cyberspace, stealing information and govern

of this committee. ask for your support of this bill. i yield back. >> i would like to recognize the subcommittee member. >> thank you, chairman ryan, for including several initiatives in the bill that are important to me and my republican colleagues. the recommendations in 2021 legislative bill provides $4.9 billion excluding senate items which historically are left of senate to determine. this is $207 million above fiscal year 2020 n $297 million below the budget requests. as most of congress the house and the nation had to rapidly adjust to the way it does business due to covid-19. due to the collaboration of leadership committees and the operation around the capital we have had to become more flexible and reliant on technology. this bill offers support that will allow the house to maximize its effectiveness for the use of technology while maintaining decorum, increasing transparency -- excuse me. allowing the chamber to function in new and uncertain circumstances. this bill supports accessibility fo

the committee will mr. leadership, but you are leaving behind a legislative legacy that will continue to strengthen american leadership abroad. and to my friend, martha roby, it has been great knowing you. i will greatly miss you also and that alabama twang. thank you for being such a great part of this committee. i yelled back. -- yield back. chair lowey: if there are no more members who would like to be recognized, the bill is open for amendment. seeing as there are no amendments, i recognize ms. lee for a motion. rep. lee: i move that the bill be favorably reported to the full committee. chair lowey: the question is on agreeing to the motion. all those in favor say aye. >> aye. chair lowey: although supposed say no. the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. if there is no further business, i ask unanimous consent that staff be allowed to make technical and conforming changes to the bill and report. thank you all. one final note -- please leave and report on the table for subcom

john was on the ways and means committee -- whip. john was on the ways and means committee. it sounded good to me. ohn was always allowing people to radiate in his smile and in his light. he could never talk about voting rights. if i were within an earshot he would say, and terry sewell represents alabama -- terri sewell represents alabama, where's terri? and we'd laugh. those mosts were so precious to me. those are the moments i cherish. when i would call him the boy from troy and he would call me the girl from selma. i would say, but, john, we have so much more to do. but he would remind me, remind me that the better days of our nation were ahead of it. i don't know how i will continue to fight for the right to vote and restore the voting rights act that he shed a little blood on a bridge in my hometown for. but i know that i'm not alone. sowed n has sewed -- seeds of hope and inspiration into many of us. we're all disciples of john and we all owe it to him to pick up that mantle. and continue the march. the march to a more perfect union. can't you hear him? just close you

committee and faa's own findings. beyond certification the faa is tackling safety issues not only the united states but internationally as well. we are prepared to take the lead in the new phase of worldwide safety. we presented a working paper last year on pilot training and automation dependency. this material was recently added into a proposal in the formation of personnel training and licensing panel. our action plan focuses on scenarios for aviation safety including safety management systems, data and innovation and we aligned our budget request to support this activity. we are asking to recruit additional specialized employees such as human factors expert in software engineers and invest additional money to bolster improvements to successful information sharing programs. i have said many times that safety is a journey, not a destination. we must never allow ourselves to become complacent. always we must keep in mind passengers and their loved ones for whom we work. that concludes the statement. >> thank you very

i also want to thank the full committee chairman for steady the membersand all of this committee from both sides of the aisle who contributed ideas to shape this bill. finally i want to recognize our excellent professional staff, our majority clerk joe carlisle. he also benefits from a great team. we are also lucky to have our minority clerk and his colleague. i want to thank sean maxwell from my personal staff. workl appreciate the hard these people have done these past months under very unusual conditions. this year's bill represents a renewed commitment to improve affordableduce more housing, upgrade our aging transportation infrastructure, and bolster our nation's resiliency to a changing climate. at the same time as covid continues to sweep the country, we ensure vulnerable populations , veterans, domestic violence survivors, the elderly, the disabled, vulnerable communities remain at the forefront of our efforts area -- efforts. discretionarydes funding, an increase of $1.6 billion, and 16.7 billion dollars above the president's budget request. we are grateful for receiving a he

a bipartisan committee. as you heard, there were nearly 390 amendments filed, 390 amendments filed on this bill. 22 republican amendments are going to be accepted or voted on. 22. and most of them are going to fail. they are designed to fail. 148 democrat amendments are being accepted and going to be allowed to move forward. 148-22. mr. speaker, each one of us represents somewhere around 750,000 people. why should only certain people be able to be represented? then because of this crazy process we have here, we are going to take all of those amendments and combine them into seven votes and put in one poison pill and the whole thing dice dies. this is not how you build legislation. we have a republican president and republican senate. we should be working on this together because everyone supports infrastructure. now on climate. let's talk about climate, because the united states has reduced emissions more than the next 12 countries combined. the united states has. and as my friend from illinois noticed, we a

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works tirelessly on this committee. i appreciate the words this morning about what this committee means to him. are well chosen and he has lived up to them. nobody understands better. the power of the purse. the key article one power of the constitution. nobody is more vigilant about many ways, large and small that the power may be challenged or eroded. i think him for his words of workingnd even more for on this subcommittee to be effective. to be bipartisan, to operate in a way that preserves the power of the purse. it really is key to our institutional future. nobody has been more attentive to that. there is one provision in this bill that i want to express my appreciation for. mba -- ndaa had the world grant program. i championed it as part of a wider bipartisan effort. d.o.b. touthorize award three-year competitive grants to department of defense education activity schools and to local agencies that host a junior rotc program. these grants could be used for the establishment and expansion of language programs in el

this committee and work in a professional with this committee and staff the special and engage as appropriate and other staff stakeholders. i would do my best to, render complete and i would do my thorough and accurate best to render legal advice complete no matter how, thorough, novel the accurate and context. >> legal thank you for that advice. mister chairman, i yield. . >> vice chairman. >> >> the thank, thank you mister you mister chairman. chairman. let me let me again say i've really enjoyed my begin by saying i have really opportunity to meet with enjoyed my both of you opportunity to meet with both gentlemen before this of you gentlemen hearing. before this hearing, and i would echo what senator look burr said that you both you both bring i bring very think very strong strong qualifications qualifications, but you'd be but you'd be taking on these taking on these jobs shops an in an extraordinary difficult extraordinarily difficult time times when i personally fear, that when i personally the fear that the icy is under law i.c. is under constant assault constant assault. a couple of

i served on a loan committee. crow: you advised whom to give loans -- your banks would make decisions on where to spend money and give loans to, correct? sec. mnuchin: customers applied for loans and the banks made credit decisions. [no audio] chairwoman velazquez: mr. crow, we cannot hear you. rep. crow: requirements as to whether or not an employee of the bank, a family member or you or one of your employees or close business relationship was one of the recipients of that money. there are disclosure requirements, correct, in the financial industry? sec. mnuchin: there are disclosure requirements and also requirements by the fdic. rep. crow: what are the purpose of those disclosure requirements? sec. mnuchin: the real focus is a conflict of interest. to the extent there is a conflict of interest, in many cases, it has to go to the board of directors to be approved. it is more focused on conflict of interest than disclosure. rep. crow: you need to have the disclosure in order to do that analysis, correct? sec. mnu

we're also in discussions with a judiciary committee and u.s. citizenship and immigration services, on that agency's impending funding shortfall. i will note the administration has not formally requested supplementary funding for uscis. i do not understand why, but we do not wish to see a funding shortfall cripple this agency. we will continue our work in a bipartisan way to ensure the furlough notices the agency recently sent out never go into effect and assure that uscis continues its important mission. today's bill does not address this issue because it will not be enacted in time to help. instead, i will work to address any shortfall in the next covid related supplemental bill with measures to help avoid this kind of situation in the future. it increasingly looks like a supplemental will move through coping congress later this month. members before you are the draft bill and the committee report. we have done our best to address as many of your concerns and priorities as well as those of the full committee and house members more broadly. it

miss you in committee, but our friendship carries on. i also want to say a thank you to ranking member cole for his friendship, for his collaborative, gracious collaborative spirit in which we work together on the labor-hhs bill. which we have for the last several years in producing a bill. and while we have differences of opinion on issues, there is no difference of opinion on the shared values that we have. in providing opportunity and creating opportunity for the people of this country. so i thank you very, very much. for 2021 the labor-hhs bill includes $196.5 billion in overall funding. it's an increase of $2.4 billion above the 2020 enacted level. $20.8 billion above the president's 20-21 budget request. the bill supports some of our nation's most critical programs from early head start, social security, c.d.c., n.i.h. they touch individuals and families throughout their lives. and have to create -- help to create that opportunity to allow america to realize its values and promise. the labor-h committee also continues to be essenti

democrats and republicans on the committee both agreed on this.hy in the world would the fcc push forward on this before we get this problem fixed? that is basically what we said to the chairman, that we really need to get this done right, and it seems to me we would be throwing $20 million out the window if we did this without the updated maps. chris: another major initiative is closing the homework gap, something you have been working on even before coronavirus came. is there more energy and congress to move the legislation, given the pandemic? representative doyle: i hope so. and any legislation that moves out of the house will include this. this is very important to house democrats. and i believe there are many republicans that also support closing the homework gap. we can agree on a lot of things in congress, democrats and republicans, until it gets to how we pay for it. that is world the talks seem to always break down. we have a much more aggressive figure, $9 billion out of $100 billion into closing the homework gap. we think it is very im

committees on energy and commerce, all competing for spots.re is also a limited amount theime left as we move into recess, leadership 20 to get certain legislation to the floor, so those will take precedence, depending on the committee or subcommittee, so it has made the normal operations of the committee more difficult. all learning this andnology, zoom, webex other media to conduct our hearings, and have been able to do it without many glitches. chris: do you see the potential for digital hearings moving forward? representative doyle: i am old school. i like that we are in the hearing room with colleagues. it is especially difficult during markups or contentious hearings to make sure we want to be recognized or whether there it giveste going on, us what i think is a healthy it is on zoom with a bunch of frames and you are not sure who is talking. and givenits purpose, the situation right now, it is critical we are able to continue to conduct our business. my staff works remotely from their homes in pittsburgh, and in washington, and we are a

i do not see any reason why this committee or any committee of congress would need human tissue samples from a deceased eight-year-old boy. i'm concerned the majority has been requesting and sharing with witnesses these autopsy specimens to place blame on the men and women of border patrol. if that is true, it is deplorable. the ig found no misconduct or nonfeasance in any of the actions of dhs or its employees surrounding these deaths. i understand that answer does not provide political satisfaction, but those are the facts. if the majority requested and shared human tissue samples of a deceased child to advance a political narrative, it would mark an appalling new low for this committee, i hope this is not the case. we have to remember that for months congress refused to address the border crisis that precipitated these deaths. record numbers of families and children crossed our borders last year. groups of hundreds to thousands of migrants came across at once. migrants traveled over 2000 miles at the whims of the cartels and human smugglers to get to our border. many told of abuse, a

attorney general william barr appears before the house judiciary committee general oversight committee on the justice department on tuesday, july 28 we watch live coverage, got it at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. watch any time on c-span.org or listen on the go with the c-span radio app. >> next, house homeland security hearing on the health and safety of migrant children in federal custody and the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two detained children in december of last year. the witnesses include two medical experts, the homeland security department's inspector general and an official from the government accountability office. chairman thompson: the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on children in cbp custody, examining death, medical care procedures and improper spending. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. the committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. the terrible deaths of young children in the custody of customs and border protection, cbp's failure to

>> guest: for the life it may come as long as i've been on the committee, and i've been on the committeefor quite some time, we've had this discussion. it's just mind-boggling that, given the technology and the abilities we have today that we can't get accurate mapping so that we are making sure as we spend these precious dollars that just are not growing on trees, that we are getting deployment where we need the employment. quite frankly, a lot of the carriers have, for whatever reasons, you know, they claim they have service where they don't have service, and we all know how that has been going on for years. the last hearing, the last time we talked about this in the legislation, there was almost unanimous bipartisan consensus that this is a completely broken system and it needs to be fixed. so democrats and republicans on the committee both agree on this. why in the world would be fcc push forward on this before we get this problem fixed? that's basically what we said to the chairman, that we really need to get this done right, seems to me we would just be throwing $20 million out the

he's a member of the intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee.in the room today. congressman swalwell, so it's not secret testimony. you can discuss it publicly. the cameras just weren't allowed in there today, is that correct? >> that was the request of mr. berman, but we will release the testimony very soon. >> okay. what do we need to know about this testimony? >> well, lawrence, mr. berman's testimony proved once again that the attorney general did not put america's interest first, didn't put your interest first, but the president's interest first, and that he went to mr. berman, repeatedly tried to pressure him, tried to bribe him, threatened him that if he did not move out of the way, he was going to be fired. his career would be damaged, and someone new would come in. and, lawrence, i think what's important for your viewers to understand, why does the president and his attorney general care about this office? well, no office is investigating the president more. they're looking at the president's friends, his lawyer, his campaign, his inaug

a filibuster. >> the committee? >> in the committee. can you >> can just do that? >> with the cooperation of eastland, i don't know how. >> he's referring to rule of the judiciary committee that allows any member of the committee to delay the vote by one week. and if you are dealing with a president who is running out of time in office, this repeated delays of one week are going to cause a significant problems. the pornography argument resonates with the public. before this confirmation is the first supreme court confirmation in american history that all of us would be at least somewhat familiar with. that is that the public is engaged with the confirmation. they are reaching out to members of the senate. and the letters that senators are getting, in the pre-internet age, you contact the senator's office by typing out a letter and writing to him, the letters they are getting our overwhelmingly opposed. so these are a couple of photos of letters sent to quentin, a democratic senator from north dakota. he was one of four desist wrong defenders in the senate. these ar

committee today. i urge and noble on this amendment. i thank you and i yield back. >> are there any other members wishing to be heard on the amendment? if there is no further debate, a member from north carolina is recognize on the amendment for one minute to close. >> madam chair, the main argument against this amendment teens to be that i am somehow engaging in partisan rhetoric. i don't think i'm a member known for his partisan rhetoric, but that charge does lead me to ask the question, is there nothing, is a nothing worth raising your voice about? this administration's immigration policy. and also what about finding this as meta-partisanship? these policies have not been republican policies until this president came along. i don't ever remember anyone defending today are really not very, to hear the fence of this virtual shutting off of our country to refugees. the seekers of asylum, to these indiscriminate enforcement raids, to this cruel remain in mexico policy. i don't hear defenses of that. an

barr: five. >> we will stand in recess for five minutes. >> the committee is in recess. >> the committee is in session. >> thank you. you just told us that nothing was ever elevated.

her tremendous leadership and stewardship of this committee as well as the full committee's ranking members. thank you to our staff bring their expertise and commitment to her service members and veterans is evident everything tonight. sarah young, jenny, nicole, and others. my personal staff and others. this is a good bill that will help our service members and veterans regards all members. i would now like to recognize subcommittee ranking members, judge carter. thank you manager. thank you for recognizing me. ringing the military construction and veteran affairs bill to the committee. i wanted thank you for the work in preparing bill. i would think my good friend and colleague, the chairwoman for the friendship and in working this way through and a very cordial manner. absolute think the chairwoman, the rivers and guidance to support us in this challenging situation. overall i strongly support this project. it was funny for many of the services and priorities as well as finding to allow the services to complete many projects that are already have arrived. also want to highlight for my co

when i testified he for the committee as a member of the committee, i said that small businesses were mad as hell. i was mad as hell. i'm sorry to report to you, madam chair, that they still are mad as hell because the ppp program originally was a disaster. you did great work, madam chair, in carving out those $60 billion so that the money will go to cdfi, , credit unions and local banks who have a long-standing relationship with small businesses. but we saw how the traditional banks favor their prestige customers, and some of them had to shamefully return the money back. so this $60 billion that you are allotted was very helpful. however, it's not enough and, of course, now we see at this credit score business is being introduced. if you have a+ credit, if you can meet payroll, if you have liquidity and you have access capital, the bank comes to you. you don't need to go to the bank. you go to the bank when your credit is hurting, when you are striving, when you're hurting to make payroll, squeezing by, when you have no money to expand and you have very little collateral. that's when

>> guest: for the life of me, as long as i have been on the committee and i found committee for quite some time. we have had this discussion. it is mind-boggling that, you know, given the technology and the ability that we have two dates that we can have accurate mapping so that we are making sure that we spend these precious dollars that just aren't growing on trees that we are getting to the point where we need employment and, you know quite frankly, a lot of the carriers have for whatever reasons, you know, they claim they have service where they don't have service. we all know how that has been going on for years but the last hearing on the last time we talked about this in the legislation it was almost unanimous bipartisan that this is a completely broken system and needs to be fixed. since democrats and republicans on the committee both agree about this why in the world because the fcc want to push forward this before we get this problem fixed? that's basically what we have said to the chairman that we really need to get this done right it seems to me like were throwing 20 milli

i'm sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and appropriations committee. our clerk is assisted today. i would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting. madame clerk, any announcements? >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors and committee room, however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. this precaution was taken pursuant to the