the times that federal agencies have taken over. there is of course another way to restore vigorous federalism, and that is to persuade the supreme court to abandon its 1937 interpretation of the spending clause. as i noted earlier, the court has placed a single limit on congress' ability to transfer money to the states for purposes that are the exclusive business. namely, that states may not be coerced into accepting the funds and their accompanying baggage. 80 years of experience has demonstrated that what is perceived as free money from washington is virtually impossible to resist, whatever the conditions attached to it. and for politically significant reasons. if the state does not participate in a program, its share of the money, money derived from it in whole or in part from its own taxpayers, will go elsewhere. i say this despite the fact that 23 states declined to participate in obamacare's expansion of medicaid coverage. their refusal to do so, however, was an exception that proves the rule. having experienced a huge collat

it is a federal responsibility, and given that the federal government has no acted in a manner that we can deal with or assess in any recognizable way, you know, it has really fallen to states and then down to localities as well, both in terms of funding, in terms of policy decisions. and, you know, we would really like to see some unity and some uniformity, at least on the federal level, directing us on how to proceed in these areas. >> chairman truex, talk a little bit about the impact of the counties. you mentioned earlier the workforce, but there's also a resource issue here as well. susan talked about it as well. i mean the counties are the provider of first services to every resident in that county. some of those services are federally mandated. some come from the state. some are just the locality wants to provide that. talk about the resource issues of not having clarity from the federal government. how does that impact you all? >> well, you know, when you look at the health department, for example, which is actually a state agent but funded partially through local government. a

in 1934 the code consisted of a single volume of federal statute. the work product of the congress first 137 years. just 36 years later when i was elected to the senate, it had grown to 11 volumes. the current edition now continues 34. third was just the tip of the iceberg because they are supplemented by an ever expanding number of small regulations that have the force of law and now feel an additional 242 volumes. both federal law and regulations for each into every corner of our lives and those affected by them must turn to the representatives in washington for help with matters that were once handled at the state or the municipal levels. the legislative and constitutional pitchers have converted congress from an institution that could think the problems through to responsible conclusions and to those that largely substitute political rhetoric for the reflection and to compound injury to congress now finds it so hard to focus on the messy details of the new legislation that abdicates the constitutional responsibilities by delegating essentially l

we have never asked for federalization, we have asked for federal control of the further actions that must be taken. we feel there must be 2 million gallons still going out towards kodiak. we must try to do something about that. beyond that, i don't know if you know the extent to which secretary cheney has already involved, he has 100 labor officers up working, not officers, naval personnel. they have 22 skimmers up there. three force of the navy's fleet that is up there now. we've had a tremendous increase in the last few days, we are pleased to see this increased effort. we still have a request that there be an emergency declared, but the department of justice has reservations about that. we are pursuing that. we still have a question, the overall question of who is going to be in control of the review of these plants. i'm discussing that with mr. riley and i believe it will be worked out. from yesterday today, france between night and day as far as the federal presence in regard to dealing with this massive, continuing disaster. the earthquake lasted four minutes. this will last ye

in federal court. but it took some time for the current players to get over the fear that was said and it took some time for them to understand that u.s. soccer will not give you what you want just because you asked nicely just because you continue conversations with them they're not going to give you what they want i played on the u.s. soccer federation for close to two decades and we've been through five different c.p.u. negotiations and they never let us go see it with us they told us how much money they were going to get us and that was the end of it so i found that in order to get the rights that are our lawful rights you can't ask nicely you have to fight you've got to take it. yet there are no knights people our will not give up power if you have to keep it and so i'm really proud that the team finally came around and they did it at a point in time where i think it's very important that this right before the summer and they're going to get a lot of media attention behind it but keep in mind this

prior to her appointment as chair she served on the federal reserve board. it's sometimes referred to as the second most important government in the federal government. she became the first wronl to serve as the chair of the federal reserve. in her time as chair, dr. yellin has demonstrated what her predecessor at the fed dr. ben bernanke described as a lifelong commitment to using what she's learned as an economist, to improve the lives of average people. as chair, she focused on how the feds work shaped the job market and addressed inflation, striving to improve conditions for american families, who had been deeply impacted by the great recession working to build an economy that could benefit all members of our society. prior to her time as chair, dr. yellin served as president and cheech executive officer of the federal reserve bank of san francisco, where she played an important role in identifying the key factors that would shape the coming financial crisis. particularly in the housing market. she's served as chair of the counsel of economic advisers th

these are the three main branches of our federal government., bill, let's go take a look at one of them. bill: well, we went to take a look at each of the three branches to see how it works. our first stop was the capital building. that is where the legislative branch or congress meets. uncle jim was anxious to tell me firsthand just what congress does. after all, he is a congressman. he explained it to me this way. uncle jim: the capital is part heart of our system of representative government, bill. the members of congress who meet there make our laws, but they can only act according to powers granted by the constitution. the entire country is divided into congressional districts of about 300,000 people each. members of the house are elected for short-term, two years, and since they have to come up for reelection so often, they must constantly be responsive to the wishes of voters. it is here also delegates from territories also sit as nonvoting members. the house only does have the job of making the laws. the other half is done by the senate

withxt, a conversation former federal reserve chair, janet yellen. she spoke at georgetown university about monetary policy. this is one hour and 50 minutes. here. it is really a delight. my pleasure to welcome you to this year's tennis family lecture. >> good evening. college class of 1960 and member of the library board established the lecture fund in 2010 in honor of the library's 40th anniversary. since its inception the tennis annual program has featured outstanding speakers including dennis lockhart, ray lahood, in georgetown so professor george who is here with us this evening. along with his very significant other. [laughter] we are ever grateful to peter and for the generous gift. it has allowed us to bring such exceptional speakers to campus. including tonight sure dinner program. please join me in acknowledging and thanking peter for his generosity. [applause] it is my honor to welcome the president who will introduce tonight speaker. [applause] thank you very much. thank you for your leadership over library and for your many efforts to br

list federal employees. this is not intended to mean that fema should preclude federal employees from participation. since passage, fema has issued mixed guidance on several occasions on whether federal employees can serve, and this has created confusion and frustration for our dedicated search and rescue volunteers. my legislation is a commonsense solution to resolve this problem, by simply clarifying that federal employees can serve on these vital task forces. congress must resolve this issue swiftly so our dedicated volunteers can respond at full strength when the next disaster strikes. so once again, i want to thank my colleagues who have spoken in support of this, for those who have co-sponsored it, and i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 639, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from missouri yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from north carolina reserves the balance of his time. mr. meadows: mr. speaker, i'm prepared to close. i just want to thank the gentlew

he championed ideas such as diminished federal spending in a sharp reduction of the number of federal rules his mother cried when goldwater lost with that deepest influence on the thinking and then said i saw how the free market economics prevented the maximum good for the maximum number. also the author of the theme that formed a young representative hensarling hensarling never defined the term for his fellow lawmakers but and then to translate marketplace extractions with those issues. and then to take those ideas about the economy to the u.s. house and hensarling advocated for federal government that was smaller and less intrusive and less costly not even the 2008 bankruptcy would lead hensarling to change his mind about government spending. october 2008 voting against the tarp bill refusing the urgings of president bush and leaders from both parties. 2009 he adopted the tea party anti- tarp views the tarp program of cash injections amounted to the opposite of the dynamic of entrepreneurial capitalism. the obama administration and congressional democrats used tarp funds to advance

there was some federal role here, the federal government had some role but i would view it as a kick starter that helped augment the work they were doing and once mitchell sold that technology it proliferated throughout the industry. >> no question small entrepreneurs like any big accomplishment in this country took a lot of risk and make sure it is in the energy position we are in today. the energy challenges in the future will be met in the same way. by american technology innovation and entrepreneurship. that is outworked and what the energy future is based on in the future. >> you can see this, for decades, the countries that are part of a pr, it was an area that is not attractive anymore, and take deepwater offshore projects into countries that were less stable and less hospitable. they needed big projects that could move the needle and they need big projects because the scale is so big. where are they? back in the permian basin. very little geologic risk and that permian was developed with independents who proved the resource base and they came back so another example of how it

you have an undercount it may affect the amount of federal dollars. if you go to george washington university's website they have a complete report looking at data from the 2010 census, and also what amount of federal dollars per program goes state-by-state. that information based on the 2010 census. , youct, there is a link can find out the exact amount of federal dollars that came to your state on data built on the 2010 census. it is that data that caused responses from federal officials in two states. quoting the state of the milwaukee mayor tom barrett the stories emphasized the need to come people of color, low income communities, households, the request comes five years after wisconsin lost the sixth most money her person. undercounting of the 2010 census of according to a report from george washington university will stop looking at idaho, the idaho state journal, a story that looks at the data from george washington university. idaho received $2.4 billion annually from 16 federal programs that use the census to determine funding. not a lineare

occasionally needing federal support. that is what the legislation that created the rubric that we operate under two disaster responses and emergency management conditions created. what with more frequent and more intense disasters, fema's resources become stretched. by focusing on the truly catastrophic events, as the way we describe it, is moving towards a federally supported state managed and locally executed program. for most disaster networks, and most disasters, when you're talking about dollars, about 80% of the major disasters that fema response to cost $41 million or less. to put that in context, in puerto rico, we are currently spending $50 million a week. many disasters that you see are catastrophic, you see those in the news. but there are many you don't hear about that are being effectively managed and a state and local level, often with federal support. but that financial support is really what the state and local governments need. they don't need fema to come in and take over the response. 2017 seemed to st

with regard to the loan servicers and state involvement, federal student aid is a federal program and to involve every single state in a separate oversight capacity-- >> so, again. >> pre empties-- ments preemption does exist, so question about it. when congress acts like arissa, we preempted state regulation of insurance back in the 1970's by an act much congress. in terms of student loan servicing enforcement, congress has never preempted that away from attorney generals who are just simply doing-- enforcing in many instances their own state consumer protection laws. so, you know, again, that decision that you made was again, without giving the courtesy of a notice and had to be sort of found out indirectly, again, it's not certainly with i mprematur of congress. and law enforcement protecting student borroughs. in appropriation of congress we directed the department to respond to all requests from the law enforcement agencies within ten days of received and publicly on the website the detailed list of requests made to the department. to date we've seen nothing from the department.

remote federal regulations and constituents anger about federal bailouts and an overriding interest in maintaining both hands on a wildly economic and social ladder. during 2016 and a presidential election hensarling of -- relied on sharp wit. in a march american banking association leaders held a summit in washington d.c.. the dodd-frank act hensarling told audience members should be called the obama financial control law. whatever name the legislation imposed incomprehensible complexity and more government control. working families hensarling warned his listeners have seen their pay checks ranked by more than $1600. hensarling is saying fully adept at linking obscure bank regulations to the growing perception among voters at the federal government awarded favors to the undeserving and failed to help decent americans like them. at that talk hensarling brought a special message to smaller banks. i will not rest until dodd-frank is rep buy its roots and tossed on the junk heap of history. hensarling assured audience members good listeners always attuned to use would have heard and read

this is a federal law. you indicated in your comments when the ranking member was questioning you about this, and i'm infering here that you didn't think it was the best thing to decide what professions people go into. with all dew respect, i don't read the statute that is giving you that -- if you want to change the statute you should get a member to introduce something to eliminate it. how have you expended this $2.3 million. given that only 1% of people who apply for this qualify. i'll say this with the context because my interest is personal. my district office has had multiple people told by the service provider that they qualify. they made a decision for 10 years they would go into public service and the law is what it is and now they are being told they don't qualify. you can imagine if you're living paycheck to paycheck and you made this decision, that would be difficult. if we're going to change the law, we should do it constitutionally as prescribed. sec. devos: first let me say i acknowledge it i

what happened in charlottesville was not reflected in federal state -- a crime statistics. of the glaring omissions occurred in the 2017 data as well including the community movement shot to death because of perceived national origin at a bar and the fatal motivated stepping of men on a train in portland, oregon. aside from these omissions, concern about underreporting, the significant hate crime statistics for 2017. according to federal data, reporting anti-arab hate crime incidents increased 100% in 2000 something while anti-muslim hate crime remained above historical average. beyond arab americans and american muslims the increased threat of a crime was reflected almost across the board. of the 34 reported categories that we track, increase was reported all but 5 in 2017. anti-black a crime accounted for half of all crimes motivated by race or ethnicity which increased 18% while reported hate crime incidents targeted native americans, hispanic and latino community and racial groups increased over 20%. motivated by religion, crimes increased 23% in 2017, anti-jewish hate

this is a federal law. you indicated in yourcomments when the ranking member was questioning you that , and i'm inferring here, that you didn't think it was the best thing to decide what professions people go into. with all due respect, i don't read the statute as giving you that subjectivity.it's a statute, if you want to change the statute you should get a member to introduce something that limits it so the course first question is how have you extended this $3.2 million and how do you plan to expend it? paid it to you to help with the outreach. given that one percent qualify, say this is in the context of my interest is personal because my district has had multiple people who were told by the service provider that they qualified and they made a decision for 10 years in public service, law is what it is and now they're being told they don't qualify. you can imagine ifyour living paycheck to paycheck , that that would be difficult so to change the law we should do it constitutionally as prescribed. the que

of the federation since twenty six team the world's biggest sports federation by membership but brando had been facing growing criticism over payments that he received from a federation subsidiary as well as over critical decisions that he has made weeding the governing body of german football. prime heart grindle was forced to go on the defensive more and more in recent times germany's twenty eighteen world cup last year one such example but some of the criticism hit much closer to home the final straw allegations last week grindle failed to declare income of seventy eight thousand euros for being chairman of the federation subsidiary media company. questions eva green goals leadership style never went away especially his handling of the measure of the fat when the now retired international met into pits when doors turkish president. that save a shattered the build up to the world cup and those judgments came under the spotlight grindle was accused of scapegoating the player for germany's failure. i night last month's grindle who is also a fee for vice president d w interview refusing

it was federal revenue sharing. i think it was introduced to the nation in like 19 -- i want to say nixon signed it into law. chi be wrong. but around 1971, '72, that federal revenue sharing, and i think was born out of a need in new york, with a big budget deficit, that we were going to take federal money and share it with other political subdivisions beneath the federal government, state and local. and then i remember, because i was a city council member, in the early 1980s, when federal revenue sharing ended. and much like the balling of a calf at weening, there were mayors and others associated with local government that screamed to high heaven that this was going to be terribly damaging to the balance sheets of a lot of our cities and towns. and it seems like they survived. we did. but we became dependent on something, and it was part of our regular revenue stream, and so therefore, we just assumed it was always going to be there. $22 trillion in debt is a lot of money. do you not agree? >> i totally agree. >>

: any thoughts, jh guest: it is important to think of the federal, state, local, and even at the federal level we have different taxes with the federal income tax, which is what today is all about, corporate income tax, payroll tax, and different parts of that system are in terms of how progressive they are in their incidents or not and i think one of the reasons i am not a fan of the 2017 law is because it is one of the most progressive parts of our taxes to him, the corporate income tax, they decided that need to be cut. payroll taxes cut and did not do anything for state and local but that is outside federal jurisdiction. if you look at the overall portfolio of taxes in the market families this loss that we would reduce the ones that are paid disproportionately by the richest households and leaving most of the rest of the taxes to relatively unchanged. that is a big problem for me and a big burden for me as other parts of the tax system. said twice as many companies pay zero tax under the donald trump tax plans and the tax cuts and jobs that lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to

according to the federal reserve bank of st. louis, the economic return on college is unequal across the population and diminishing across successive generations of college graduates. doctor, what can we do to restore the return on investment to higher education and make the prospect of college less risky? >> so there is evidence in higher education. of course, there is dispersion of what those returns are across different classes of students, particularly with respect to their family's wealth. i think the most important thing to consider in maintaining the value that we have seen historically on higher education is ensuring that prices don't continue to creep up at the rate they have been growing. i believe that the most important tool we have for doing that is empowering consumers with information so that they can make informed choices about where to spend. to the extent i understand where spending is worth it and where it isn't, they can put pressure on the institutions themselves to keep price in line with value. >> thank yo

federal, state, local coordination is super important. but congress bears a lot of responsibility, too. for making that coordination possible. we started it by talking about the political delays in this latest disaster supplemental. which are really problematic. for many, many years, in the usda, the forest service had to borrow money from the prevention budget in order to fight these increasingly severe fires and to help states like washington fight increasingly severe fires. we weren't making the investments that hillary is talking about and congress needed to act to make the wildfire funding fix to stop that kind of constant borrowing against the future. earlier this year, in the government shutdown, one of the consequences of that shutdown was that the forest service couldn't start the wildfire training that they do every year in the winter and to trevor's point, it's important to do it earlier and earlier in the year because the fire season isn't really a season anymore. it's more a constant state of being, especially in the west. so

prosecute this guy for a federal hate crime. we are hoping that they do that. yes, he pled guilty to get out of the death penalty, but they still haven't acknowledged it as a hate crime. this young lady lost her life. and she lost her life really for me. she didn't think that was one of the things she was standing up for. standing up to make sure that i got equal treatment and was looked at equally as she did. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, alfred. up next we have minor barry with the arab-american institute. maya: good afternoon. thank you, nokia, and thank you, kristin, for your incredible testimony during that hearing. my name is maya very, i am the director of the arab-american institute which was established for the civic engagement and political empowerment of three point evan million arabs in this country. 3.7 million arabs in this country. our system works our democracy , works when people are able to engage with the political process. regrettably at that time, our participation in the process was not particularly w

this is a federal law. you indicated in your comments, when the ranking member was questioning you about this, and i am inferring here that you did not think it was the best thing to decide what professions people go into. with all due respect, i do not read the statutes that is giving you the subjectivity. it is the statute, if you want to change the statute, you should get a member to introduce something that eliminates a. the first question is, how have you expended this $2.3 million, and how do you plan to expand it, because congress gave it to you to help with the outreach, given that only 1% of people who apply for this qualified and i'll say this in the context of my interest is personal, because our district office in northern california has had multiple people who were told by the service provider, that they qualified they made a decision for 10 years. now, they are being told that they don't qualify. you could imagine if you are living paycheck to paycheck, and you may this career choice, i would

that simply means any federal employee. including the president.hite house chief of staff or the treasury secretary or the irs commissioner who tries to defeat the application of tax law has committed a crime and shall be fired. it doesn't say may be fired. it says shall be dismissed from office. it is a very clear and simple law that controls the behavior of all federal employees when they deal with anything involving tax law. this law is now intersecting with section 6103 of the tax koid which we've already discussed on this program. that is the law that requires the irs commissioner to hand over any tax returns demanded by the chairman of the house wanz means committee or the chairman of the senate finance committee, chairman richard neal of the ways and means committee demanded trump's tax returns under 6103. that leaves absolutely no choice on the part of the irs commissioner other than to hand over those tax returns. earlier this week, when testifying to the house appropriations subcommittee, secretary mnuchin said this about chairman neal's

vi,e also have title federally funded agencies, recipients of federal funds like police departments and sheriff's offices have to meet certain requirements in order to receive those funds and are obligated to not discriminate in how they use those funds. if this just apartment were serious about using every tool in its arsenal to confront hate, we would see them strip away federal funding from those agencies that have tolerated, turned a blind eye, or failed to smokeout white nationalists and white supremacist in their ranks. i would encourage congress to the extent that they bring the justice department in for an oversight hearing to talk and explore how they are using or are not using title vi to encourage reform among those federal funded law enforcement agencies across the country. lines of law enforcement training, one of the things that we have seen, are some problematic trainers go to train law enforcement on islam and things like that. can you speak a little bit to?the effect that that >> can have on communities it is a pretty significant problem. a massived undertaking under th

we will be relying on state, local and federal partners who have those resources. i think it speaks to a higher challenge of trying to stay in our lanes, right, and make sure we are maximizing efficiencies across these different levels. we are all not trying to invent the same things, right. we have invested heavily in a common operating picture so we can track all of our resources. we are sharing that with our nonprofit partners so catholic charities, feeding america, salvation army, we don't want them to have to invest in the same thing we did. we want them to be able to serve the communities more so we are trying to share as much as we can across. i think that same value should be in all new technology, in all tools, where if something works, let's leverage it for the entire sector and let them invest in other pieces they're good at or have more expertise in. >> any other questions? >> good morning. great panel. i'm john byrd with miller wenhold. we run the 3d elevation program coalition. i wanted to really target hillary and daniel. nationwide elevation data co

federally funded agencies, recipients of funds in our federal funds they have to meet certain requirements and they're obligated to not discriminate. if this justice department was very serious about using every stool, we would see them strip away federal funding from the agencies that have tolerated, turned a blind eye, or failed to smoke out those in their ranks. i encourage congress to bring the justice department in for a oversight hearing to explore how or how they are not using it for title six. >> along the lines of law enforcement trainings, one of the things that we have seen come up is problematic trainers. they believe they're experts on it, can you speak to the effect they can have on communities? >>. >> it is a significant problem. it required a massive under taking under the obama administration that went through and examined their own training materials. they have thousands of types, we were pleased but we had a very real concern of improving what or fixing what was in the the field. how do they go through and pull material. that is entirely important. and then we have today

s participation in the national vetting center with other federal entities. and that helps the f.b.i. look closely at individuals who may be coming to the united states. so we have that vetting money in the f.b.i. we also have $4 million in the office of justice programs on grants that go towards looking at extremism and domestic terrorism. chairman serrano: a few weeks ago the a.t.f. director told us that the department's fiscal year 2020 budget would result in a.t.f. being forced to let go more than 300 staff due to increasing investigateor cause. as we seek to address rising gun violence in this nation, how can can the department justify a he proposal that would result in fewer resources dedicated to that goal? attorney general barr: let me just say first that i'm a huge fan of a.t.f. i think they are an outstanding agency and i would -- any money spent on a.t.f. is well worth it. one of the common themes i hear from u.s. attorneys is how valuable the a.t.f. agents are and their technology is just outstanding in helping to deal with gun violence and violen

economy have been slowing in part because of the federal reserve.een slowing, autos have been slowing, another interest rate sensitive sector of the economy, so we're not surprised by that. consumer spending has looked like it's fallen off somewhat at the end of the year. is that just a blip? now, for me, the best forecast in consumer spending, for me, should be wage growth. we are seeing wage growth slowly pick up, especially for lower income workers. those are families that tend to spend the money, because they need to spend it, on their -- to buy food and clothing for their families. so those are some of the things that i'm paying a lot of attention to. maria: so the president has nominated steve moore to the federal reserve board, and steve moore has called on the fed to cut rates immediately. what do you say to that? >> well, i think we don't want to be overreacting to short-term data. we know the gdp data, wage growth data, spending data, it's volatile, so we shouldn't be chasing the data. we need to actually see what's real versus noise, and

who does the federal government through its resources against terminal from the country. when i was secretary we began the process of instituting priorities in terms of immigration enforcement that we would focus on those committed serious crimes, known gang members, security threats knows we captured right at the border and moved a lot of i.c.e. agents to be right down at the border that they could do deportations immediately when someone was in the country. conversely we ended the process of doing workplace -- and started daca for childhood arrivals, a program for young people brought over in this country at the age of six or younger that grew up in the united states and go to our schools and attend our universities and some have started their own businesses and have started with your and they often don't even know the language of their country of origin. well, these are the lowest of low risks from an enforcement perspective. using the prosecutorial discretion that any agency has we said look, these some people will come forward and pay a fee and they will be entitled

host: in federal taxes?r: yep, in federal taxes, because i couldn't take the $18,000 or $19,000 off, because he exemptions were gone. i had to take the standard, which is $6,000 less than i would have had on there. host: ok. guest: this is something we were talking about at the opening of the program. to her point, i don't know her exact circumstance, but it's very likely that she had withholding that allowed her to keep more money in they are paycheck throughout the year, and that left her short. while she's doing a return now, what she sees is the standard sbucks has been increased, but she's lost the deduction she could have had before. and so she owes money now at the end of the year, but when she looks at the entire year of her tax liability, she's probably saved less f. you're still listening, what i would suggest you do is change your withholding for this year if you don't want to owe this time next year and have more money withheld. host: sheer judy, sun city, florida. caller: good morning. thank you

conspiring against the us and being a russian agent has been sentenced to eighteen months jail by federal court she will serve half that time having already been in detention for more than nine months her lawyers won't appeal the sentence but have strongly condemned the verdict warning it sets a worrying precedent for both foreigners in the u.s. and americans abroad we'll keep you updated with all the waves on that story after this short break. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid. to stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and the right answers . question. also the government just creates the platform against this dialogue because their platform does not allow any compromise in their platform talks about serving crimes how serbia should play war iterations. being in all its official states cos it was simply things that everything is already over when they wake up from their illusions that they will have to face it several reality or. even. jus

ranked dead last among all fellow agencies for public services annual best places to work in the federal government survey. this is unacceptable. senior d.h.s. leadership, most especially the secretary of homeland security need to prioritize improving morale within the d.h.s. work force. in the obama administration, then d.h.s. secretary johnson began to address this operational imperative to a range of programs under the unity of ethics umbrellas. unfortunately, the current administration abandoned those efforts. i have long been committed to improving conditions for the d.h.s. work force. o that end i re-introduce h.r. 1433, t.h.s. morale act, a bill that passed the house unanimously and received tremendous support from the labor organizations representing the d.h.s. labor force. the d.h.s. morale act requires d.h.s. to develop and implement policies related to leadership development, employee engagement, career progress gregs and employee recommendations. this congress, two new provisions were added to the bill. the first directs the d.h.s. chief human capital officer to analyze gover

a second federal judge has blocked a new rule that would have stripped federal funding known as title for planned parenthood and other clinics that refer patients for abortions. the judge's ruling halts the so-called gag rule, which was announced by president trump in february and was scheduled to go into effect on may 3. washington state federal judge stanley fashion ruled against the changes to title x funding thursday, saying they would require clinics "to face a hobson's choice that harms patients as well as the providers." this came two days after an oregon judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop the gag order from going into effect, calling the rule a "ham-fisted approach to public health policy." oregegon federal judge michael mcshane said of his ruling -- "at the heart of these rules is an arrogant assumption that the government is better suited to direct women's health care than their providers." title x covers non-abortion services like e std prevention, cancer screenings and contraception, and provides over $280 million in funding for 4 million mostly low-income women

. >> i think it has pretty clearly gone beyond that in construing the scope of federal power, and has done that by i think distorting the original meaning of the necessary and proper clause which gives congress the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution its enumerated powers. it has moved all our politics to the federal level with one-size-fits-all legislative solutions because the federal government has pretty much unlimited power today. >> so how can citizens hold the government accountable for abuses of power and undermining the interests of the people? >> try to convey and fight for as people start thinking of purpose driven decisions instead of partisan driven decisions. the local level you can get in our face and express your view, and you will be heard. so, there is much more access, which means there is much more accountability. >> taking leadership and introducing reforms that can catch fire and catalyze federal reform. we see it the only way through now is doing this at the state and local level. >> the public can't really stay

i know we are going to talk about federal public land. i wanted to say at the outset that public land owned by states and localities, city parks in this area, it's rock creek park and for those who enjoy that space, it's so much of the shoreline of the potomac river. there's a reason that it looks the way that it does because it is a public land done by us. we've got about 600+ million acres of federal public land, nearly 1/3 of our territory here. often it's for multiple uses by a lot of different federal agencies the. bureau of land management, national parks, national forest service, fish and wildlife service. certainly a lot of activity and engagement between public and stakeholders, agencies with the federal government. but, your question about why are they mostly--? it's interesting to think about how public lands came to be. you have to go back to the founding of the us and even to 1781 when you think about the original colony. some of them claim to use title to or health claims to territory west of their colonial boundaries. we ha

russian national media buton is sentenced to eighteen months jailed by a us federal court for failing to register as a foreign agent. but i don't think he's in jail folders of politics for that anyone who thinks that someone who wasn't russian would be in the situation is full of journalists who lead sons a different formation on arms sales and the yemeni war are forbidden for questioning by french intelligence. project alpha truly app a combination britain and germany hailed trying to balance on road trading network initiative that says the countries take part in a major economic forum on beijing's plans. coming to life from the russian capital you're watching our national welcome to the program. and we go straight to our breaking news story a russian citizen media blitz in that conspiring against the u.s. and being a russian agent has been sentenced to eighteen months jailed by a federal court which in a lawyer spoke to the media after the sentencing. clearly ripe for reform. odd situation where maria could not have been prosecuted under civil farrah which is the one that everyone k

i think it's critical the federal level. i think there could be value with a national pilot program. but the federal level, eliminating the prohibition on tolling is really important, so states can experiment. here, thenleman here, here, and here. >> perfect timing. it seems to me that it's time for a fully implement a national are you see to come together. --ruc come together. you mention political and personal buy-in, as well as manufacture and technology by in. when you see this coming together, does this give us a timeline for all of this? are a lot of human nature challenges that have to come together -- >> it's interesting, and we did not touch on this. every year we go forward we will be closer to autonomous vehicles. that's an interesting dynamic and they will be more sophisticated. we are more skeptical than others in terms of timing, it will take longer before you have a full av where you could be and go homea party, safely in a snowstorm. of moving parts. anything you have to build you have to build a national pay

dollars or federal programs. time can be an issue for nonprofits working on those. for us, were we don't depend on appropriations for our work. our work is done by donations from the american public. confusion --or of layer of confusions. to make sure we are all facing the same goal because our volunteers are there because the people are serving without opinions on political affiliation. anyway we can streamline that is better for the people who need it. compounding the heightened politics is that these events are happening more frequently. congressional research found that 2018 was a record year for disasters costing in the billions of dollars. daniel, i would love to hear from you about how your agency is evolving in terms of being able to respond to more frequent disasters that are costing this much money. something we realized after the 2017 hurricanes -- it wasn't just hurricanes. it was wildfires and flooding -- fema needs to focus on the catastrophic events. most of the disasters in this country can be han