comstock: ok. i'll yield to mr. lipinski for five minutes. mr. lipinski: before i get in the meat of things, there are things i want to get out there. first of all, i say i started a few years ago and you are the first congressional transit caucus about how important it is that we support public transit across the country, not just my hometown of chicago but i'm also a metro rider when i'm out here. so first thing i wanted to mention is i will have a question for the record about wmata's recent cancellation about the electronic payment program which is designed to make the customer experience better and reportedly would have saved wmata up to $60 million a year. so i know there is much invested in this and we certainly see challenges to the current fair collection system. i will be asking a question for the record on that and what has happened with that. i want to move on. i will ask a quick question. ms. flowers, a recent assault on a d.c. bus driver became deadly when the bus was hijacked and hor

comstock: ok. i'll yield to mr. lipinski for five minutes. mr. lipinski: before i get in the meat of things, there are things i want to get out there. first of all, i say i started a few years ago and you are the first congressional transit caucus about how important it is that we support public transit across the country, not just my hometown of chicago but i'm also a metro rider when i'm out here. so first thing i wanted to mention is i will have a question for the record about wmata's recent cancellation about the electronic payment program which is designed to make the customer experience better and reportedly would have saved wmata up to $60 million a year. so i know there is much invested in this and we certainly see challenges to the current fair collection system. i will be asking a question for the record on that and what has happened with that. i want to move on. i will ask a quick question. ms. flowers, a recent assault on a d.c. bus driver became deadly when the bus was hijacked and hor

comstock, i want to ask one more question. you say there is no surveillance for under high school ages. do you think this is something that should be instituted so that people like you can get that data to see exactly what is going on? >> yes, i would love to give it to you and can give you the name of ten other researchers. >> who should set it up? >> my work hasn't been federal funded. the ncaa funds their own system. i think it should be a federal effort but i don't care if it is joint but somehow someone has to do it. >> thank you very much. thank you for coming. >> just to remind member, votes are called and we will continue to roll through. dr. burgess you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman. i thank the panel for being here. coach stevens, your testimony was revelation and it seemed so obvious when i read through it and once you understand this is a repeatative injury. that must have been a hard decision to make -- repetitive -- when i was growing up it was practice, practice, practice. >> when i ann

comstock, for making youth sports safer. i want to thank everybody who is here today to help us figure this out. around i also really want to say, we want to see sports succeed. i can't let this hearing go by without congrat hailing the world champion denver broncos for example, which i have season tickets. and i also want to say, as i've said before, one of my great sadnesses i was unable to persuade either of my daughters to play ice hockey and they took up dance instead but the point is, all, every child in this country should be safe. we love sports. we want to see sports succeed but that means that we have to do our utmost to improve player safety and guarranty that participation in sports doesn't mean that you have long-term health consequences. so i know, mr. chairman, you intend to have more hearings. i think this is the perfect place to start. i want to thank you again and yield back. >> thank you, go steelers. we are -- [laughter]. >> that's fine. >> sorry penguins in the playoffs. wish them the best and all athlet

comstock, i want to ask one more question.ou say there is no surveillance for under high school ages. do you think this is something that should be instituted so that people like you can get that data to see exactly what is going on? >> yes, i would love to give it to you and can give you the name of 10 other researchers. >> who should set it up? >> my work hasn't been federal funded. the ncaa funds their own system. i think it should be a federal effort but i don't care if it is joint but somehow someone has to do it. >> thank you very much. thank you for coming. >> just to remind member, votes are called and we will continue to roll through. dr. burgess you are recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you, chairman. i thank the panel for being here. coach stevens, your testimony was revelation and it seemed so obvious when i read through it and once you understand this is a repeatative injury. that must have been a hard decision to make, repetitive, when i was growing up it was practice, practice, practice. >> when i announced thi

my first response is to agree with don comstock, we have the database in college and high school. establishing a database for sports injuries imperative. >> you have a comment on that? >> i would echo doctor gregory's statements that we need to have a database of injuries occurring in youth sports so we can make these decisions. we don't want to wait for the future but we need to gather this information. >> i agree. we are trying to do our best to fund research, we need greater resources to drive the research into the youth play area. >> is there a way to help coaches and teams keep track of their own database? coaches keep track of their own data to see what happens with their own coaching style. have you ever done that? >> doctor comstock probably has a word here but the challenge is the quality of the data that is collected. unless it is collected well and consistently which coaches generally don't want to do, we are concerned about having flawed data. >> any comment on that? >> we are concerned about the quality of the data and that is directly correlated to who is reporting t

comstock: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, ask human rights and religious freedom advocates to remain their most steadfast friend who served on capitol hill over the years and representative frank wolf, my predecessor, is always on the short list, as are my colleagues here today. so i am honored today to stand in support of a bill i proudly co-sponsored, the frank r. wolf international religious freedom act of 2015, named after the distinguished gentleman who served in this seat, the 10th district of virginia, and as co-chair of the international rights caucus and a man whose deep faith and religious freedom was why he was known here, around the country and around the world as the conscience of the congress. he wrote a book about -- a powerful book, a prisoner of conscious, and how his many trips over the years and how he fought for religious freedom and i hope he doesn't mind i recommend his book to our members year. he leads the 21st century to create a world where religious freedom is recognized by nations across t

comstock: i recognize chairman shuster for five minutes. mr.huster: i thank the witnesses to testify before this important issue. i think congressman delaney's question was spot on. i think that one of the things he said is absolutely paramount in all this, if you want to attract the dollars to a corporation, an organization of any kind you have to first demonstrate that you deploy those dollars efficiently to get things done, and i think that's something that before this committee or this congress says we'll give more money to metro, we got to see it demonstrated and i don't think it's been done over the last several years or couple decades that they have deployed those dollars in the most efficient way. and i think that requires a cultural change at the agency which i think the new c.e.o., mr. wiedefeld, set the standard. he said some tough things he needed to and needs to take tough actions. my question to managing the employees -- and i think if you're going to shake up a culture at an organization -- and i spent 20 years of my life in busi

another district might be virginia's 10th district, where barbara comstock has given money that donalde to her a couple years ago back. those are the kinds of places we will be watching carefully. >> dave wasserman, jennifer jacobs, you guys make our friday. please come back again soon and have a good weekend. we will have the second king of our show tonight, residential grade guru josh king will the candidates this cycle. ♪ >> we are closing our really big shoe with a really big guest. josh king is a former director of production for presidential events for bill clinton and his white house, also the author of the fabulous new book, "guide to white house stagecraft, campaign spectacle, and political suicide." .hank you for joining us we will look at events from this campaign and ask you to break with hillaryarting clinton, an event in the fillmore in philadelphia from april 20, 2016. tell us what you see here. shot, and is a wide establishing shot. it is taken from a scissor live somewhere back by the press riser. secretary clinton is right here in the middle. there's a bowl effect for

i'm going to yelled the rest of him time to congresswoman comstock. >> thank you, chairman. of all, last friday when metro's general manager paul wiedefeld is with us today terminated 20 managers, seven of whom were considered senior. i think we all hope this is just the beginning of a new error of accountability at met trop. and i know our washington delegation all voiced support for you in this action. as well as a number of your recent actions. we need to find new ways to run this rail. i join congressman delaney on changing the board structure on that front. we're pleased to see more board members are more focused on being experienced board members. on cost issues, according to fta and d.o.t. data, metro's rail costs run 120% to 150% higher than comparable transit systems. that is why i appreciate that mr. wiedefeld said at a recent event he offended with me that he's not asking for more money but is very much focused on addressing these issues and how we can restructure metro and address the issues and find way to do bet per. i'm concerned that there's a clause in the c

another district might be virginia's tenth district where barbara comstock has given money that donalduple of years ago back. those are the kinds of places we'll be watching carefully. >> david wasserman, jennifer jacobs, you guys make our friday. come back soon and have a good weekend. coming up, we'll have the second king of our show tonight. presidential optics guru josh king will grade the candidates this cycle. we'll be right back with that after this. i couldn't sleep... so i couldn't get up in time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12-hour strength of aleve... for pain relief that can last into the morning. and now... i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day. real is touching a ray. amazing is moving like one. real is making new friends. amazing is getting this close. real is an animal rescue. amazing is over twenty

money for their relevant elected officer and so when i tried to do is put forth and representative comstock has been supportive of this, put forth a framework for the jurisdictions will be required as part of their appointment process to certify that the members that they are appointing our experts in either finance, management, transit or in safety. i think this will put people with more qualifications and more experience around the table at metro and i think it will encourage maybe longer term thinking because my sense is these people will probably have more experience and board governance matters and they won't think about their own unique interests in the particular jurisdiction they represent but spend more time thinking about the good of the whole enterprise which is what a real fiduciary should do so i think to talk about specific things we can do to change the culture, in addition to getting more funding, in addition to supporting new management changes, i think there are important things we can do around governance and i applaud secretary fox who is actually taking a step in this d

in the 2014 mid term elections, a republican barbara comstock won the congressional district by 17 points. now she's torn saying i can't support hillary clinton and i won't be, but donald trump needs to earn the votes of me and many others. these swing voters here will be key to the fall election. clinton is still trying to build excitement around her history making candidacy to be the first woman president, particularly wooing women, an effort mocked by "saturday night live." >> president barbie, the first barbie commander in chief. >> oh, neat. >> don't you want to play with her? >> jeff zeleny joins us. what is the campaign saying about why hillary clinton isn't responding directly to trump's allegations? >> reporter: quite simply, the campaign believes voters don't want to hear about it any more, that women voters didn't like it then, wouldn't like it now. they want to hear what she would do for them. we saw her talking child care, health care, education, other things. trying to take the high road for now. they believe it will work in the long term. they believe they have a significan

district that voted for president obama in 2012 and then voted for republican congressman, barbara comstock in 2014. this is one of the places up for grabs. secretary clinton still very much mired in that primary battle. tomorrow, she heads to kentucky and that's one of the states voting next week. >> stand by one second. on the left side of the screen we are looking at hillary clinton starting that event kristen was just talking about. katy, a new role for chris christie, the man in 2014 helped several gubernatorial candidates take or retake what were traditionally blue states, people may not remember he did that. is that what trump is hoping for with this new role for christie? >> it's partially that and partially to build new relationships in washington. right now, donald trump does not have the best relationship in washington as well documented by paul ryan not coming out and endorsing him. chris christie and jeff sessions working behind the scenes to build relationships and make sure when donald trump officially gets the nomination and as he goes through this general election he gets a

two years after that, loudon county help to elect barbara comstock to congress. here's the thing. this super suburb is trending democratic in two big ways. the population has doubled since the year 2000. in more densely populated areas tend to vote democratic. also the demographics have chang changed dramatically. the hispanic population has doubled. and all of that adds up to why hillary clinton was campaigning there today. >>> coming up, we'll talk about democrats' efforts to capitalize on republicans' divisions. you live life your way. we can help you retire your way, too. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase. so you can. >>> breaking news that we're following right now. this is northern murray county in oklahoma. a powerful tornado moving just west of interstate 35, south of norman. let's listen in our affiliate there, kfor. >> just crossing old mill road. that's our only way to get to i-35, we'll have to make an alternate route. >> it's now 1 1/2 miles west of i-35, heading to red line center line for joy, 4:30, in ten minutes from right now, it's headin

comstock mentioned the option of contracting out is something she would encourage. that our, you know, agencies that do contract out to try to ensure they effectively use our funds. >> thank you. i have some more questions but i will turn to ms. norton for her opening questions. >> ms. flowers, i want to thank you all at the fta for the financial discipline you are importing in the metro. quite as it is kept, metro, or wmata's financial record keeping mirrors, or has mirrored the much more widely understood and known issues of safety particularly financially accountable, a system that was in disarray. that directly effects safety because most of the money wmata is getting is for safety. if you look behind the criticism wmata has received we are told 783 million dollars in federal transit funding for wmata is going unspent. everyone assumes that wmata is sitting on money and that wmata is really ineffective by not spending money it already has so how could it want more money. but if you look behind the numbers, you find, ms. flowers, 390 million is obligated for safe

i am yield to congress woman comstock. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i offer extended consent to offer my opening statement into the record. but first of all, last friday, when paul weidefeld terminated 20 managers, seven of whom were considered senior. i think we hope this is the beginning of a new era of accountability and transparency at metro and i know our delegation voice support for you in these actions. we need to find new ways to run the rail. i can pleased to be board members are focused on having transportation and management experience. on cost issues, metro's cost run 120 percent to 150 percent higher than compareable transit systems. that is why i appreciate mr. weidefelt said he is not asking for more money but is focused on addressing issues on restructuring metro and addressing the labor issues and how we can find ways to do better. it is said, quote, authorities must not sustain employees and does this prohibit the realization of the savings of the contract work and having the best people. i have talked with the new general manager an

that voted for barack obama in 2012, but then elected a republican congressman in 2014, barbara comstocks is the type of county and the kind of state that the clinton campaign will be targeting as they roll out their general election strategy. now, we've been talking about the fact that secretary clinton is still fighting her primary battle even as she pivots to the general and that will be on display tomorrow as she heads to kentucky. >> and that's the juggling act for her, keeping respectful of bernie sanders' presence still in the race. meanwhile on the other side the juggling act for donald trump is this paul ryan debacle as some have called it the way he's handled that and the debacle part could apply to either one of those people mentioned. when you look at donald trump saying that he responded in this way over the weekend because he heard there would be a $90 million ad buy against him by hillary clinton supporters there, some have processed it as a fear reaction from donald trump. also a way to deflect again from his own problems within his party and some of these accusations of

governor, senators or house down to mayoral races did better, you look at cory gardner, barbara comstocka, gray gathered in texas, made going to places that haven't been heard in the past, we did much better, no question we need to do that. and towards the general election, away from primary voters, and the republican party wants to grow and take over what we haven't been in in the past and talk about solutions that unite us all as americans. martha: the window gets smaller. thank you very much. bill: u.s. navy seal killed by isis in iraq, more on his extraordinary life, what the pentagon is saying about his death, the disturbing state of isis. martha: disturbing details of the man who admitted to contaminating food at supermarkets with mouse poison. >> we have to ask ourselves does this happen anywhere else? >> what if he has been doing it for weeks or months or years and suddenly someone saw him? makes you think about everything you buy. on baked-on? it's never gonna work. dish issues? cascade platinum... powers... through... your toughest stuck-on food. so let your dishwasher be the d

i look for trickery for discussion and i'm going to yield the rest of my time to congresswoman comstock >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask unanimous consent to offer an extensive opening statement for the record but first of all -- >> without objection. >> when the general manager paul wiedefeld terminated 20 managers, seven of whom were considered senior. i think we all hope this is just the beginning of a new era of accountability and transparency at metro, and in our washington delegation all support for you in this action. we need to find new ways to run israel. [inaudible] -- and legislation of the front and places the new board members are more focused on being experience board members and transportation management experts. on cost issues, according to fta and dod data, metros will cause run 120% to one to 50% higher than comparable transit system. that is why i appreciate mr. wiedefeld said at a recent that he attended with me that he is not asking for more money at this time but is very much focused on addressing these issues and how we can restructure metro and that we can addre

. >> you heard barbara comstock saying donald trump needs to earn her vote. another a republican.ns out there who are not yet ready to endorse you or work for you, show us the goods, if you will? >> yeah, where's the beef. absolutely. i think that donald trump is not a guy who has a deep history with republican politics. we have a hard time understanding what he stands for, where he stands on positions and issues. it is a changing evolution that happens with him constantly. then we have these character issues, tactics issues, decorum issues. so i think that everybody will have to earn votes. i find it bother some, might have worked, might work with a small minority of republicans who voted in the primary, we are an entirely different ball game, and it is a heck of a thing for a guy who's had the personal life of donald trump to make these charges and not to be making them against bill clinton, that would be different. he is making them against the wife, the spouse. i find that very hard to swallow. >> a lot of us remember when bill clinton left office, that final year in office, h

comstock. it seems to expand the skill bridge diop training program by directing unit commanders to encourage participation by departing service members. it also directs the d.o.d. to form a comprehensive study so that they can evaluate and improve the program as needed. the skill bridge initiative helps returning veterans by providing them with job training and apprenticeship programs in areas that span every sector of the work force. this program has already trained around 4,500 service members, and the 18 skill bridge programs claim to have an employment success rate of 100%. encouraging participation will help more of our veterans find employment when they re-enter civilian life. sling we need to do all we can to promote. i thank chairman thornberry and ranking member smith for supporting this amendment in this block. i urge my colleagues to support the block and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. m