cut 7% of federal disaster spending.he amount saved certainly would not outweigh benefit those declarations provide to helping our smaller, remote communities beyond respond to and recover from disasters. to understand why disaster costs are going up we need to look at the big disasters since that is where over 90% of the money goes. since we started looking into this issue we have also found the role of the federal government in covering disaster losses has increased. as we can see here, federal disaster spending as a share of total disaster losses has grown from 23% during hurricane hugo in 1989 to 80% during hurricane sandy in 2012. in recent years significant disaster aid has been provided outside of fema's disaster assistance programs. these charts show how disaster aid programs outside fema have grown. in fact, for hurricane sandy, there was less fema assistance than from either the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. we found that these additional disaster aid programs

federal funds rate is still near its effective lower bound. if inflation were to remain persistently low or the labor market were to weaken, the committee would have only limited room to reduce the target range for the federal funds rate. however, if the economy were to overheat and inflation seemed likely to move significantly or persistently above 2%, the fomc could readily increased the target range of the federal funds rate. the fomc continues to anticipate the economic conditions will improve further and that the economy will evolve in a manner that will war it only gradual increases in the federal funds rate. in addition, the committee expects the federal funds rate will likely remain for some time below the levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run because headwinds, which include restraints on u.s. economic activity from economic and financial developments abroad, subdued household formation, and meeker product to meaker productivity growth, means the economy to meet its potential is low by historical standards. if these he

federal funds rate is still near its effective lower bound. if inflation were to remain persistently low or the labor market were to weaken, the committee would have only limited room to reduce the target range of the federal funds rate. if the economy were to overheat and inflation seems likely to move significantly or persistently above 2%, the fomc could readily increase the target range for the federal funds rate. the fomc continues to anticipate that economic conditions will improve further and that the economy will evolve in a manner that will warrant gradual increases in the federal funds rate. in addition, the committee expects that the federal funds rate is likely to remain for some time below the levels that are expected to prevail in the ,onger run because headwinds which include restraints on u.s. economic activity from economic and financial developments abroad, subdued household formation, and meager productivity growth, mean that the interest rate needed to keep the economy operating near its potential is low by historical stand

i agree that politics have no place at the federal reserve. while the line between politics and policy can be quite fine, it should nonetheless be clear and on ambiguous. the feds should act, i believe in a manner consistent with the statutory mandate in the interest of the stability of the u.s. economy. whether or not such policies align with the goals of congress or the administration. our central-bank is independent and should remain so. the desire to preserve the fed's independence should not preclude consideration or additional measures to increase the transparency of the board's actions. the cover so argue that better disclosure monetary policy strategy could bolster independence. it earlier this year prominent group of economists, including three nobel prize winners agreed in a statement that and i will call, publicly reporting the strategy helps prevent policymakers from bending under pressure and sacrificing independence. the fed continues to resist calls from congress even though it claims to use such rules regularly. it is public co

is the federal funds rate which is still not near the lower effective pounds. if inflation were to remain persistently low or the labor market were to weekend, the committee would only have limited room to reduce the target range for the federal funds rate. however if the economy were to overheat and inflation seems likely to move significantly or persistently above 2%, it could readily increase the target range for the funds rate. they continue to anticipate the economic conditions will improve further and that the economy will evolve in a manner that will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate. in addition the committee expects that the federal funds rate is likely to remain, for some time, below the levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run because u.s. activity from economic and financial developments abroad for household formation and meager productivity growth mean thatthe interest rate needed to keep the economy operating near its potential is low by historical standards. if these headwinds slowly fade over time as the commi

federal funds is still near its effective lower bound. if inflation were to remain persistently low or the labor market were to weaken, the committee would have only limited room to reduce the target range for the federal funds rate. however, if the economy were to overheat and inflation seemed likely to move significantly or persistently above 2%, the fomc could readily increase the target range for the federal funds rate. the fomc continues to anticipate that economic conditions will improve further and that the economy will evolve in a manner that will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate. in addition, the committee expects that the federal funds rate is likely to remain for some time below the levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run because headwinds, which include restraint on u.s. economy activity from economic and financial developments abroad, subdued household formation, and meager productivity growth mean that the interest rate needed to keep the economy operating near its potential is low by hi

federal legislation, because it was federal, was national in scope. it extended beyond the south to the north and to the west. of 1866 andghts act other legislation, reconstruction amendments, reached into entirely different unfamiliar regional and racial contexts. an african-american man could be protected from chinese testimony in california. the 13th amendment have major consequences for territorial new mexico. federal officials launched a series of criminal prosecutions against the spanish-speaking former mexican citizens of new mexico who held indians captives in slavery. in oregon, state legislatures rejected the 15th amendment prohibiting the states from discriminating against voters on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude. legislators feared the new amendments would make voters of chinese alongside african-americans -- neither of those states would ratify the 14th them -- 14th and 15th amendments. recast theislation boundaries of freedom and citizenship in the same time these policies were remaking the south. once it becomes clear t

the federal level. so i try to bring a health perspective to that and i try to bring an environmental justice perspective into interagency activities dealing with climate change, because climate change didn't always think of health first. it's gotten its profile raised quite a bit in the last several years as people begin to acknowledge that yes, there are health effects from climate change, and they've been happening for awhile. and they're happening to very specific groups of people. climate change happens locally. what we experience here in the mid-atlantic is not at all what people are experiencing in the southwest. for example one instance where climate change is affecting people here in the mid-atlantic differently than -- >> ok well say in the hampton roads area in virginia, where they are very much concerned with sea level rise. there are a number -- of course it's a vibrant community there. there's a lot of military installations there. and it's very important for that area to be -- to be prese

i agree that politics have no place at the federal reserve. while the line between politics and policy can be quite fine, it should nonetheless be clear and on ambiguous. the feds should act, i believe in a manner consistent with the statutory mandate in the interest of the stability of the u.s. economy. whether or not such policies align with the goals of congress or the administration. our central-bank is independent and should remain so. the desire to preserve the fed's independence should not preclude consideration or additional measures to increase the transparency of the board's actions. the cover so argue that better disclosure monetary policy strategy could bolster independence. it earlier this year prominent group of economists, including three nobel prize winners agreed in a statement that and i will call, publicly reporting the strategy helps prevent policymakers from bending under pressure and sacrificing independence. the fed continues to resist calls from congress even though it claims to use such rules regularly. it is public co

you are duplicating purchases in the federal government. of the 24 major federal agencies, as you just heard, only two have implemented policies of comprehensive and clear management of software licenses. it's like this. anybody in the private sector knows that when you go to buy a suit of software from a -- suite of software from a major vendor, they sell it in blocks of a price point. you might buy 25 copies of a particular brand of software even though your office only needs 19 copies. well, that means you have six extra licenses left over. the federal government buys software the same way, and what we found is they're not doing a good enough job of keeping track of the unused licenses. this bill codifies current administration efforts to do things like that to save the federal taxpayers their tax dollars. right now none of the 24 agencies have fully implemented all of these industry best practices recommended by the g.a.o., and that ends now with this legislation. the making electronic government accountable -- the making electronic gov

it was in favor of federal itch. that was it. federalism. that was it. yeah, that's how he was ideological. but you'll notice it's a strange kind of ideological commitment. it's commitment to a division of power between the federal and the state government. well, you can call that ideological, but it isn't ideological with respect to the outcomes of particular cases. chief justice rehnquist voted for angel raich and dion man szob's claim to be -- manson's claim you should his principal commitment to federalism. not because he supported the use of medical marijuana as a policy result, but because he was committed to federalism. that's what this terrible, ideological guy, and ever since then it's only gotten worse, because more of these ideological judges have gotten on the bench arguing for things like federalism or, in the recent case of the obama executive action orders, separation of powers. or the delegation of powers. we can't have that. that's too ideological. well, one of the antidotes to this, i think, is the thesis of my book. an antidote to this

regulation, the federal judge in the federal court must find that the opposition on the litigants have a substantial likelihood of prevailing on the merits. i think this decision indicates that on judge hannon, the fifth circuit, and even the supreme court believes that it is likely that judge hannon would be upheld in his decision. but what is clear, as highlighted by the egregious, unethical conduct conduct of the lawyers of the united states department of justice, where i served for almost 15 years and we worked our hearts out to always be faithful and operate with integrity before the federal judges and always, since we were representatives of the united states of america to make sure that every representation that we made to the court wasig accurate, of a hive standard and most united states attorneys and justice lawyer should know that and adhere to that at the highest level. the p other lawyers frequently don't, private attorneys don't, but, but the federal attorneys, representing the people of the united states of america have that high duty. well what happens, judge hannon fou

>> i think in a federation the russian federation is obviously part of the system and in terms of dope org supporting doping then you don't have any other chance because of the credibility of the whole federation is failing. what can you do? you cannot trust the athletes. it is not the fault of the atathletes but the federation. what you can do is not guarantee a level playing field for the olympicscs. so i think thehe only real possible decision was to say we have to suspend a russian federationon which means we hav also to exclude russian athletes from the olympics. >> the international olympic committee itself is not always the most upstanding organization around. how fair is it that it now turns on russia after having awarded russia the winter olympics in 2014 which now appear to have also been a scene of massive doping on russia's part? to what extent is the ioc here omehow indirectly complicit? >> well, that is a difficult question for which you would have to have more knowledge than i think any of us here has. the ioc is known to be corrupt. actually in its very highest excellen

we can't go back to the days when the federal government dictated national education policy. it didn't work then and won't work now. if the department refuses to follow the intent of the law, you prevent state leaders like dr. pruitt from doing what's right for sthar districts. you deny superintendents like dr. schuller of illinois the ability to manage schools in a way that meets the needs of local communities and make it harder for teachers like cassie harrelson to serve the best interests of the students in their classrooms. later, we will hear from these individuals because they represent the people we want to empower. che child deserves an excellent education and the only way to achieve that goal is to restore state and local control. that's what the every student succeeds acts is intended to do. we will use every tool at our disposal to make sure the letter and intent of the law are followed. il recognize bobby could the scott for his opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman for calling this hearing to discuss implementation of the law we work theed to enact last yea

week and we will hear from federal chair yellen today speak in philadelphia.tures higher by 17 points in s&p futures with the .5 gain. we saw him for the s&p in nearly a quarter-century. nicole: stocks in japan edged lower after the meet with u.s. jobs report that one third of 1% of the shanghai composite index down one 10th of 1%. lauren: oil prices moving higher right now. nicole: tropical storm colin bears down on florida. the latest storm track. lauren: the golden state warriors humiliated the cleveland cavaliers and novak djokovic was the french open becoming the first man since 1969 to win four straight grand slam titles. nicole: good morning everybody. it's 5:31 a.m. in new york. good luck and many "fbn:am" kenmare first circuit today's markets, latest breaking news and what to expect the day ahead. lauren: breaking news this morning. a trained indulgent killing three people and injuring 40 others. officials say a passenger train crashed into the back of a freight train at high speed. the two trains ran the same track. the cause is the crash under inves

. >> the federal open market committee maintains the federal funds rate at one quarter to one half percent. it should support further progress toward our statutory objectives of maximum employment and price stability. based on the economic outlook the committee continues to anticipate the gradual increases in the federal funds rate over time are likely to be consistent with achieving and maintaining our objectives. however, recent economic indicators have been mimixed, suggesting that our cautious approach to adjusting monetary policy remains appropriate. as always our policy is not on a preset course, and if the economic outlook shifts, the appropriate path of policy will shift correspondingly. i will come back to policy decision, but first i will review recent economic developments in the outlook. economic growth was relatively weak late last year and early this year. some of the factors waiting on growth were expected. for example, exports have bee soft. reflecting subdued foreign demand andhe under appreciation of the dollar. also, act nudity i the energy sector has been hard hit by th

this federal agency receives $900 million. and it's an agency that has not been authorized by congress since 2000. there is a better way. there's a rule of the house of representatives that says we are not supposed to appropriate money to unauthorized agencies. now, authorization is not just some superficial process we go there is a better way. through. it gives congress and the congress is the representative of the people of the country, an opportunity to provide real oversight to what agencies are doing and not doing. so if we provide that sort of oversight if we give the authorization process exactly the sort of attention it should get, then we can start reining in agencies doing things that they shouldn't be doing and making sure that agencies that have appropriate jurisdiction, that they do their jobs and do it right. if we do that in the case of the national marine fisheries service, then we'll be able to restore an industry on the gulf coast, an industry of charter boats and and people that supply things to people that

well, it increased our federal prison population by 800 percent since 1980 alone. the laws ended up increasing the cost -- the costs in our federal prison system from $970 million annually in 1980 to $6.7 billion in 2013, close to 600% increase in the use of taxpayer dollars. according to pew, the federal prison system uses one in four dollars spent by the department of justice for criminal justice incarceration. this is unacceptable. in fact in my first meeting with then attorney general eric holder in his office after i was elected senator, he shared with me how the bureau of prisons' budget had become so bloated, that it had limited resources that he -- that he had limited resources to put towards other department of justice programs, programs like hiring f.b.i. officers and support for programs that we actually know will make our communities safer. what's more, these laws did not work. they didn't target who they were supposed to target. mandatory minimum sentences weren't responsible for reducing crime. the work of law enforcement and the utilization of data-d

of the federal government has is scale.any of the products you are talking about -- projects you are talking about are huge. that takes a different mindset. to try to realized savings in one calendar year and use that in the same calendar year is hard to do. cio's have that the that capability, freedom, and flexibility is important. i think part of the plan is to within the federal government placed in the omb. i think that is a plausible step. scottrrent one, tony , he has great experience in the private sector, knows what it is like to defend networks, and he has been able to leverage that experience in the government. having someone like that who is focused specifically on security is a good idea. ciso congressman heard, stands for? rep. hurd: chief information security officer. host: you have heard the current one say that the current situation with cyber security is a bigger problem than y2k. do you agree? rep. hurd: absolutely. here's the reality. the number of hackers coming after us are increasing, and the level of

the federal government has almost 11,000 data systems. facebook, one that the biggest companies in the world has for. there is no reason that the federal government should have 11,000 and you can rely savings. through this fitara scorecard we have realized that four agencies have consumed $4 billion of data by moving into the clouds so with the scores were trying to shine a light on some of the key elements that we can improve the efficiencies and the security of the federal government infrastructure. >> host: before you go any further fitara is an acronym for federal information technology acquisition reform act and cio is an acronym for chief information officer. tim starks. >> guest: the scores you talk about if i recall correctly the last scorecard shows a number of agencies moving up that you think they are moving up fast enough and showing the progress you would like to see? i believe six agencies are the ones that moved up and that's a good trend. the reality is the environment in which these chief information officer cios are oper

it's almost impossible to fire a federal employee. i don't know if you'd agree with that, but it's very, very difficult, isn't it, director jarvis? >> yes, sir, i would agree with that very much so. i've done it a few times in my -- >> but it's very, very difficult. i chaired civil service for four years. i found it almost impossible. that's part of the problem we face. civil service was set up as a protection against political manipulation or misuse of authority over legitimate working civil servants. and it's gone far beyond that in providing cover for people who don't do a good job, and it puts barriers in the way. you could probably go through these cases and cite all the compliance that you had to do the due diligence by title 5, by other regulations, by other laws that constrain you from taking immediate action. is that correct? >> yes, sir, that is correct. >> it's hard. sometimes we can't get agency directors to come forward. but do you have any suggestions for anything that might speed up or improve the process to get rid of

the federal government has almost 11,000 data centers. facebook, one of biggest companies in the world, has four. there's no reason that the federal government should have 11,000. again, we realized that four agencies have realized $2 billion worth of savings over the last two years by moving into the cloud. so these scores were designed to shine a light on some of these problems, on some key elements that if we get right, we can improve the efficiencies and the security of the federal government's digital infrastructure. >> host: before we go any farther, fitara, cio is an acronym for chief information officer. >> guest: yeah. say that three times fast. [laughter] >> host: tim starks. >> so the scores you talk about, if i recall correctly, a number of agencies moved up. do you think they're moving up fast enough? showing the progress you'd like to see? >> guest: and i believe six agencies are the ones that moved up. that's a good trend. i'd like to see it faster. the reality is the environments in which these chief information officers,

[applause] now, if all federal judge, judge answer s bound to not to these remarks. trump will not defend himself, exactly what you would expect from a thin-skinned racist bully. [applause] now, the judge can't respond, but we can. we can tell his story. he was born in indiana. not mexico to immigrant parent who is worked hard their entire lives and who were handed nothing. he went to indiana university for undergrad. then he went there for lawsuit. and for 13 years, he worked as federal prosecutor in southern california fighting the mexican drug cartels. is a leader of that region's narcotics enforcement division. he collaborated with top mexican officials to disrupt the culture of corruption between the mexican government and the most powerful and deadly cocaine drug smugglers in america. and the effort was pretty impressive. on both sides of the border, money lauppeder, assassins were arrested and prosecuted. but that came at great cost. witnesses were killed. mexican officials were murdered. the judge himself was the target of an assassination plot d he spent the

an objective federal study that's done every year or periodically evaluates the morale of the federal officers in the united states. they have found on, i think again this year, that the morale of the homeland security agency is the lowest of any federal agency. why is this? because they have been ordered not to do their duty. they put their lives on the line. border patrol agents do, in dangerous circumstances, and they arrest people and bring them in. and what happens? they're not deported. they're released on bail or some sort of promise to appear, and they go into the country as they planned to do all along. this is extremely discouraging for our officers and agents, and it's wrong and it should not happen. and it is a cause of the increasing number of illegal immigrants we have in the nation today. in fact, colleagues, a few years ago the immigration and customs enforcement officers association, a part of homeland security, filed a lawsuit against secretary janet napolitano and john morton, one of their supervisors, and said you are ordering to violate our oath to enforce the law

the federal government has an important role to play. to thank the department of education under the leadership of them acting secretary king for moving soak fleet to provide feedback, and necessary clarity to community members through the proposed regulations. i also want to commend the secretary for their transparency and continued collaboration with the members of this committee throughout the process. the department has demonstrated commitment to fulfilling its regulatory responsibilities is critical to helping state and school districts move over. ism this point, there considerable agreement. some stakeholder groups originally urged that there be no regulatory framework, those same groups in combination with others on the negotiated rulemaking panel reached an agreement on the proposed assessment regulatory text. i want to thank members of that panel, for working and making compromises to reach consensus on proposed regulations to some of the most contentious issues in the entire law. serves as as powerful affirmation of the need fo

these, the federal grades are tied to bonuses.ederal taxpayer money goes toward government bonuses. what do you think, mark? >> obviously there's big flaws in the study. the methodology needs to be re-examined, but we need to consider that government is inherently inefficient. not made to make a profit. it takes on what the private sector won't do. police. fire. road building. things that the private sector finds no profit in, so it's unfair to judge it by private sector standards. we're always bashing on government and how bad it is, but it's inefficient by its very nature. >> but like, here's the thing. the va, the irs, all these scandals and federal government, what do you think? >> i think you're looking at the wrong things. i think the government has been very efficient under obama. just look at how well it's ca carried out his orders. they've totally dropped border security. they've erased the name of possible terrorists from the database. the irs was very successful going after conservatives. >> jump in i disagree because t

that's what federalism is. if you look at what happens when federal policies are passed, the states have been able to block many of the things we care about. medicare expansion. 19 states have left 10 million people uninsured. anti-union policies are making it tougher for working families to share in economic recovery. austerity measures are letting vital -- we heard about flint earlier. that's the kind of thing that leaving the state out causes. and in orlando, if gun policies were would have been stronger there that, could have been prevented. so if you ignore the states, you're also ignoring the human consequences that neglect causes. so i would strongly encourage the party and this committee state policies and focus on states into the platform. >> thank you very much. thank you for your presentation. we appreciate you. >> thank you. >> all right. we're going to hear now from christian clark. the lawyers promoting fair housing, community development, equal opportunity and voting rights. miss clark focused on

federal funds rate is still near its effective lower bound.ation were to remain persistently low, or the labor market were to weaken, the committee would have only limited room to reduce the target range for the federal funds rate. however, if the economy were to overheat and inflation seemed likely to move significantly or persistently above 2%, the fomc could readily increase the target range for the federal funds rate. the fomc continues to anticipate that economic conditions will improve further and that the economy will evolve in a manner that will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate. in addition, the committee expects that the federal funds rate is likely to remain for some time below the levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run because headwinds, which include restraints on u.s. economic activity from economic and financial developments abroad, subdued household formation and meager productivity growth mean that the interest rate needed to keep the economy operating near its potential is low by historic

license to a number of the federal armed forces. that's the statute. the second statute, we are transferring one quarter of a million soldiers to ride -- rhode island. rhode island thinks the first statute is unconstitutional and it also thinks the second statute for some technical reason is wrong. we are only talking about standing in that circumstance does rhode island have a standing? i'm trying to say there is a law which you say is that. i'm imagining it's there. says texas you have to give a driver's license to certain people and then there is the second that says we are sending you a million of those people. all i want to know is can texas under those circumstances, your argument is you don't know if that is true here or not but i have prophesies is there standing? texas would say it's a lot unconstitutional for some reason and it's wrong because it technically failed for some reason do they have standing? >> i have to caveat my answer here because i think if the second law is an immigration law that says we are going to make

and legislative intent. >> federal history -- >> in the new law, it is quite clear at the notion federal dollars will be supplemental. >> the only requirement is we have to be agnostic to a school status. >> supplements rather than plans, local and state. >> defining what supplement means and the methodology, fair and equitable and taking schoolwide test and applying it to all of s and s and the only requirement is districts method for allocating state and local funds be agnostic as the school title i status. agreed? >> not if they are supplanting. there are two things, the question of the district methodology which is up to the district, there is the question whether or not the federal dollars are being used in a way that is supplemental. that is the plain language. >> you may be using some comparability attempts backdoor to sns. >> it is focused on services, not supplanted, focusing on allocation of funds. >> i don't think so. the crs document on that, explains your supplement proposal is really a backdoor proposal to amend statute comparability and they walk through legislate delibera

the federal court, litigation of the federal courts, is not deal-making by another means. surely the framers of our constitution did not envision a presidential candidate of one of the major political parties personally attacking a sitting federal judge. as the nominee or the presumptive nominee of a major party. attacking a federal judge because that judge ruled against the candidate in his private capacity as a citizen in a civil case. for a candidate to call a judge a hater, a total disgrace, to quote him. because he allowed people claiming to have been victimized by the candidate in his capacity as a private businessman to proceed. and because the judge dares to unseal some documents, which it is in his power to do, detailing their victimization -- i don't think the framers envisioned a presidential candidate accusing a judge of being incapable of reaching a fair decision because of his ethnic descent. because he was hispanic, or anything else. because he was from tennessee or because he was from delaware, because he was or she was anything identifiable as distinct fro

she served in the federal government under six presidents from fdr to nixon and nine labor secretaries starting with francis perkins. she received every award the labor department offered and by 1963 promoted to associate solicitor, the labor department's nonpolitical legal position. in short, before there was a notorious rbg as justice ginsburg has been called there was margolin. after retiring, margolin faded from the public record. it's not hard to understand why she deserves to be rescued from obscurity but i would like to explain how i came to the task. in the fall of 1974 i was a freshman at college in baltimore far from my home in new orleans. my high school guidance counsel had written magnoli, the letter of introduction shown here. through college law school and into my legal career i got to know bessie margolin, the first female lawyer i had ever met and we were connect bid common child experiences, bessie and i were wards from the same jewish welfare agency which educated us at its newman school a half century apart. bessie personified excellence in the law and in public ser

and candidates have criticized federal judges, members of the senate have criticized federal judges. the legal commentary is saying this is unusual because it's a person who is not just criticizing a judge's approach to the law, he's saying he's doing bad things to me in a lawsuit in which donald trump has a personal and financial stake. that's the difference. >> do the criticisms that he's making publicly get undermined by the fact that he hasn't asked for a recusal? >> well, there is -- to be clear about this, there is a way to get rid of a judge if you think the judge is biased or has a conflict, or there's the appearance of a conflict. you file a motion to recuse and the judge takes it under advisement. there's been no such motion. i checked the docket today. there's been no recusal motion filed. i would say, recusal motions seldom succeed because they tend to be rather frivolous. that's the experience of the federal courts, but that's the way you get a judge off a case. and by the way, trump was criticizing this judge as early as february in a program called "meet the press." >>

the federal courts after the date it was enacted. this assessment is paid after a defendant pays all over fines and orders of restitution. second, requires the department of health and human services to transfer $5 million into the fund. t received the $5 million in december. as of may the fund has received over $100,000 from assessments n criminal defendants. the remaining amounts d.o.j. office for victims of crime is funding fiscal year 2016 to improve outcomes for child and victims of trafficking. adds pate ronizes and sols sits. taken several steps to advise prosecutors about this change. the day after it became law d.o.j. sent written guidance with all the changes contained. is followed with training on child exploitation in june of 2015 and in april of 2016 both of which were attend bid over 1300 investigators agents and prosecutors across the country. both before and after, d.o.j. has procuted dts who pay for or attempt to pay for sex with children. for example, in florida prosecutors charged jonathan taylor for obtaining, pat

imagine a federal statute. every state must give a driver's license to a member of the federal armed forces. that's a statute. second statute -- we are transferring one quarter of a million soldiers to rhode island. now, rhode island thinks the first statute is unconstitutional, and it also thinks that the second statute, for some technical reason, is unlawful. we're only talking about standing. in that circumstance, does rhode island have standing? see, totally analogous. i'm trying to say there is a law, which you say is vague. i'm imagining it's there. it says, texas, you have to give a driver's license to certain people. and then there's a second law which says, we are sending you a million of those people. now, all i want to know is, can texas, under those circumstances, your argument is we don't know if that's true here or not but under the ones i hypothesize, is there standing, in your opinion? texas would say the first law is wrong, unconstitutional for some reason. the second is wrong because it techni

federal regulators today removed its designation that general electric's financing arm was a simically financial important financial institution. that's a label that comes with stribter regulation and with a cost. shares up about 2% on the why losing the title is so important to the lik. >> ge asked and regulators listened. >> we didn't expect to be dedesignated this quickly. >> three months after the conglomerate requested its finance arm be removed, regulators concurred. this will save ge hundreds of millions in costs, free up capital and give the firm greater financial flexibility. here's dean dray. >> the three areas for redeploying the additional capital, buybacks and you'll see some dividend growth and then m and a. it's just really going to be the best use of capital, highest returns at that time. >> once the source of over half of the company's profits, ge capital nearly brought the conglomerate to its knees during the financial crisis. post crisis, regulators put ge capital and three other firms under the federal reserve's watch, maintaining they were so big, the could would c

and federal agency reported taking actions to implement 18. law enforcement officials and prosecutors identified several challenges with investigating and prosecuting human trafficking including a lack of victim cooperation, limited availability of services and difficulties identifying human trafficking. obtaining a victim's cooperation is important because the victim is generally the primary source of evidence and is also the primary witness. yet cooperation is difficult as victims may be unable or unwilling to testify or talk to law enforcement for fear of retaliation by the trafficker. victim assistance programs like mental health and substance abuse services may help improve victim cooperation, yet the availability of these services is limited. additionally, identifying and distinguishing human trafficking from other vitamins like prostitution can be challenging. agencies have sought to address these challenges through public awareness campaigning, grant programs, and the training of judges, prosecutors, and investigators. for fiscal years

professional diversity is missing from the federal bench and justice suffers for it.ven disqualifying judges based on their professional background isn't enough for donald trump. trump tells everyone who will listen that he is a great businessman, but let's be honest, he's just a guy who inherited a fortune and kept it rolling along by cheating people. [ cheers and applause ] you know, when that's your business model, sooner or later you'll run into legal trouble. donald trump has run into a lot of legal trouble. oh, yes, trump university, which his own former employees refer to as one big fraudulent scheme. now, many of trump universities victims ended up deep in debt. sometimes tens of thousands of dollars in debt and no way to pay it off. trump's employee playbook said look for people with financial problems because they make good targets. he even encouraged his sales force to go after elderly people who are trying to create a little financial security because trump figured they were vulnerable. i taught law for more than 30 years. you can ask any lawyer in america

here you have a federal judge that was a career federal prosecutor, prosecuting some of the most notorious drug cartels. and then to have name-calling. it's just silly. i mean, here we are in 2016. i thought name-calling was way behind us. but apparently not. >> you yourself have practiced in the federal courts. and just independent of your relationship with judge curiel, have you ever seen anything quite like this, just in terms of a litigant in an active litigation spending so much time publicly trashing the judge overseeing their case? >> in all the years that i've practiced law in federal courts, i have not seen this. >> is there any way for -- is there any recourse that the judge has? do you think he's essentially trying to get him to recuse himself by insulting him enough? >> you know -- first off, i'm not a judge, so i don't know what, if any, avenues are available to a judge. but regardless, it's not going to have any impact on judge curiel. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, he's going to follow the rule of law. i mean, if you talk to lawyers in the community, criminal defense

such transfers do not produce new resources for the federal government as a whole.t had nothing to do with the highway trust fund. that was a quote from the gao in 2002 on page 16 of their report. i wanted to clarify that. i was hoping to cover two other issues. and riskce sheet situation and whether the fed has become a gzip. and monetary policy versus the regulatory accountability, senator dodd when this was initially going through was talking about breaking out. but on page six of your testimony, i have to ask. "maintaining our sizable holdings of longer-term security should help maintain accommodated fiscal financial conditions and should reduce the risk that we might have to lower the federal funds rate to the effective lower bound in the event of future large adverse shock." theerday you said you have ability to go to negative rates. i'm assuming that's what you were talking about in your sentence. >> no. i said that we are not looking -- >> i know that. but in your written testimony, is that we were referring to? i don't know where else we go other than into

one third of the 12 regional federal reserves presidents a trustees at goldman sacks. you said 55% are white males. does your response indicate you believe the leadership at the federal bank is fulfilling its mandate to represent the public given the economic interest of the diverse nation? >> let me start by saying i believe diversity is important in all parts of the federal reserve. i want to distinguish two different things. if we were at full strength, 19 members of the fomc, that is 12 presidents and now with five board members, there is supposed to be seven. and then a completely separate category of leadership is the directors of the federal reserve banks. nine of each bank. and then branch porboards that e their own directors. i believe we made substantial progress. i believe the figure you cited, the 45%, refers to those directors. at this point, we have 24% of those directors are minorities and an additional 30% are women and in total, women and min minorities come to the number you cycled. among the reserve bank presidents we are looking at 12 presidents and

you were the only presidential candidate who tried to talk about the federal reserve and how the federal reserve is hurting the average american, blue-collar worker, and that monetary policy as it is now is helping the top 20% of americans and hurting the low end. could you please explain to the people have federal reserve policy is hurting the american people and why it is necessary to rain the fed in? -- other thanaid that, i have not heard anyone talk about monetary policy and how it is hurting the american people. i should note that monetary policy is a topic of senate banking committee happen today. janet yellen will testify and we will go there right after our program today. go ahead. guest: this brings up the subject of the previous discussion with your guest a few minutes ago, because income inequality was the subject of your program and i listened to most of that and never once today mention monetary policy. whether you are dealing with inequality or education or whatever. distortion of money is done by central bank because they get to print the money five -- for political reaso

so, what did all of that kind of big federal policy transformational federal policy, what did it result in -- this is the part where i give numbers -- from the farm level, through the food chain, usda, since 2009, has invested over a billion dollars in 40,000 firms, many farmers but also small businesses, that are part of the local regional food system. things like high tunnel. kind of a maybe for some, seems like a particular thing. high tunnels are these plastic kind of hoop buildings that go over a plot of land that do critical things, of stepping the growing season for farmers so they can actually participate in the economically viable way in local regional food systems and can grow things that so many more people are hoping and demanding that they grow. today there's over 160,000 farmers selling into local and regional markets. we know that in this -- the market in the local and regional food scene is $12 billion in 2014. up from $5 billion in 2008, and many industry experts are projecting that market to grow to 20 billion in the next few years. so, some major moves and just in the

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federal level wic and snap at the federal level but also i think more prominently at the state level and healthy finance food initiatives and local zoning ordinances and store initiatives. i want to flag one very interesting tribal initiative which is closely related to the panel that we just had. so this is the healthy dine act of 2014. it didn't come up in the panel we just had. i'm curious, have folks heard of this piece of legislation? okay. well, good, i'm glad i'm going to get to talk about it. the healthy dine act of 2014 known as the navajo nation health food tax. according to service, one in three navajo suffer from diabetes and an estimated ten grocery stores serve the entire 27,000 mile reservation. in about 2010, community activists and public health experts who were living on the reservation decided they really wanted to take a bold step to change the food environment. and after three years of controversy in 2014, president navajo nation ben shelley was president at the time, passed this health dine act of 2014. the law leveed a 2% sales tax on food and beverages and eff

this is an hour. >> good afternoon, the federal open market committee maintains the federal funds rate at one quarter to one half percent. this accommodative policy should support further progress towards our statutory objectives of employment and stability. based on the economic outlook the committee continues to anticipate the gradual increases in the federal funds rate over time. they're likely to be consistent with achieving and maintaining our objectives. however, recent economic indicators have been mixed, suggesting that our cautious approach to adjusting monetary policy remains appropriate. as always, our policy is not on a preset course and if the economic outlook shifts, the appropriate that the policy will shift correspondingly. i will come back to the policy decision, but first, i will review recent economic developments and the outlook. economic growth was relatively weak late last year and early this year. some of the factors weighing on growth were expected. example, exports have been soft, reflecting subdued foreign demand. also, activity in the energy sector has obviou