i also want to thank cortney from my office, the community counsel housing organizations. i'm not going to say too much more because i'm sure we are going to get into this a bit. but i want to add some specifics on what we are doing here. and i do have some amendments which i can put forward after the public comment. this is a fee that is meant to be updated periodically but hardly matched inflation since the 1990s. new office developments are paying per square foot a rate set a decade ago from outdated housing and construction costs. community members have been asking for this update to the fee for years. and it has been anticipated for years. after nearly 25 years this summer they released an updated jobs housing nexus that analyzed the impact of new office development on housing demand. the total demand per square foot of office by looking at the density of employees in a new office space new worker incomes and what it costs to build affordable housing. it quantifies the needs of new low and middle-income workers. it shows for new office development to meet the demands

again, consensus view for the time being, we have market watcher cortney dominguez with us, bill mcgurn let me get your take on that sort of consensus view that even if the house were to pursue what do you think? >> it makes sense that that's the general consensus view. this in the senate has been basically unwilling to go against the president no matter what he does since he came into office. i thought that what happened with syria and the turks and the kurds showed a little bit of fraying in the woodwork there, lindsey graham -- neil: the g-7 hosting thing. >> that was like 20 minutes in trump time, right? that was a three-day -- neil: he changed his plans. >> he did change his plan, though i'm not fully convinced he was committed to that. i think there is going to be a lot of distraction lobbed at the wall to see what is going to stick as this impeachment hearing continues on. he needed mick mulvaney to have something to go out and say. obviously mulvaney kind of went a little too far. it was not his finest. but you see little cracks, mitt romney, rob portman, ted cruz has said he wa