i am a federal employee.ave been with the international -- internal revenue service for 27 years. i'm not a resident of san francisco, but i do commute back and forth every day. i was one of those that was in a hardship, who was unable to come to work. my son also goes to school in oakland, so i had to homeschool him during that time. i'm glad you guys are looking for a solution for if it is possible. i heard our government -- i heard our president say that we could go to our grocery stores and get help, perhaps it there could be subsidies to try their -- to try there if it happens again. maybe there is some type of coupon or something they can provide. i don't know, but i hate to see if it happens again. we are really stressed. we are really stressing if it really -- if it happens again with no structure in place. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is cheryl, and i am also a federal worker in the oakland i.r.s., and we also have offices in san francisco and san mateo as well, so

so if i am a federal worker and i get on, and i have a munimobile card, the clicker card, and my federal.d., why can't i just come on for a free, of these are really short term, hopefully for maybe a month, or a month and a bit for them to hammer it out at the federal level. why can't we just say, as in some of the cities that supervisor haney mentioned, we just just say happy heart you have a federal card, you can write for free is worked out. ♪ i think, as mentioned difference between our agency and agencies like caltrain, we have already, as an agency dedicated more than $20 million in our budget a teachers providing free service to the most needy, and also, as a mentioned, i understand this is one specific situation, where there are a number of people large business closes down, the loss of people that are laid off all at once, and hopefully in a temporary situation, again, we are just looking at -- >> excuse me, i get that, but these are federal workers, most of them have been going to work. if i work at google and they lay me off, i probably have enough money anyway to coast a bit,

in both of these neighboring federal jurisdictions where he was charged with federal crimes. and the reason there is so much anticipation about this particular sentencing document we're going to get on manafort by tonight's deadline is that for everything we have been through with manafort thus far, right, with the charges in d.c. and the charges in virginia and him initially mounting a joint defense with rick gates and then rick gates peeling off and pleading guilty and becoming a cooperator and manafort standing firm and saying he wasn't going to plead guilty and he wasn't going to cooperate and then manafort got convicted of a bunch of felonies and then he did decide to plead guilty and he did say he would cooperate and his prosecution deal fell apart. i mean, there was the witness tampering allegations. the revocation of his jail and baili bail and jailing him. his former employee who prosecutors and the fbi say is linked to russian intelligence activity now. i mean, for all of the drama around the prosecution of trump campaign chairman paul manafort, what we are expectin

on federal spending. if i am going to give you a grant to help with your law enforcement, and i make a is a condition on that grant that you help the federal government with their law enforcement in return, under the doctrine unconditional spending as long as the condition is unambiguous , it is related to the spending program, and it has been further into the general welfare and the amount of money at stake is not so large as to be coercive; that is going to pass. a condition by the federal spending if it were made by congress of that sort would easily pass the test. heck, the test was created in a case called south dakota versus oil where they said that your drinking age as 21 and you lose highway funds. this court thought that was close enough related. if i am giving you local law enforcement funds and i tell you your law enforcement they have to know and five are law enforcement before they release somebody from jail, i think that will pass the relatedness test. this is at least true when it gets to t

supreme court and federal judges. i'm not sure it's deserved and perhaps my opinion in that case proves it shouldn't be deserved. where's the next one? >> my name is matt. just in final season taking a -- >> what are you doing here? do your parents know you're here. >> taking a short break. i go to a conversation about courts. >> you're right. this is going to help you. >> you mentioned path a one of the reasons that we should veer off of path a is because as the supreme court weighs into more controversial issues such as same-sex marriage or abortion rights or something else, that people are becoming disillusioned with the court. they're viewing it more as a partisan part of government and that you could have red robes and blue robes. my concern with state courts is where justice -- judges and state judges are elected where it's overtly partisan where you have primaries. if we put a lot of emphasis on the state courts, wouldn't that just eventually be the same, you know, concern about it being too partisan. and more

you've been given your sentence by a federal judge. if prosecutors are interested in what you may have to say, and if you can offer prosecutors substantial assistance toward the investigation or prosecution of another person, even after you have been sentenced, prosecutors can go back to the judge and sentenced you and ask that judge after the fact to please revise your sentence to make it more lean gennient, to t the fact you offered helpful cooperation even if you did it after you got sentence that and pro vivision in federal law, i' not sure if that's poet vmotivi michael cohen but "the new york times" reports that he is since his sentence, he is meeting with federal prosecutors now and he's reportedly giving them at least interesting, if not valuable information. "the new york times" reports tonight that mr. cohen apparently opened up some new spe spe information with prosecutors and sdny that brought the felony charges against him who thereafter told the judge hearing his case he was not being that corporative. quoting from "the t

not a lot of options in the federal criminal code for really addressing the conduct. there was no blueprint for what to do when people take over a wildlife refuge. clone could reasonably cone that part of the reason that these folks were there was tois keepand wildlife employees from doing their jobs. that it simply was not normal to have thousands of roun ammunition on a wildlife refuge in a workspace. >> narrator: the prosecution entered over 1,000 exhibits into evidence, from wiretaps, electronic surveillance, and informants. their case seemed overwhelming.i was unlike any case i've ever covered. >> many of you have asked us for, what is our name? >> you had an armed occupation of federal property that was broadcast.d it was documen the defendant's own facebook pages. >> it is a time to stand up and come to harney county. >> a lot of people thought this s going to be a slam dunk conviction. >> narrator: ammon's attorney, marcus mumford, came up with a strategy to turn the conspiracy case on its head >> all the way down. >> narrator: while theie prosecution to focus

the federal income tax. therefore the logic was puerto rico should not receive the same amount of medicaid funding. as puerto rico pages and the demographics are striking, soon be one of the oldest parts of the united states, it is impossible in my view for puerto rico not to receive comparable medicaid. simply impossible. that has been tapered over for the past 10 years with temporary appropriations but it structurally needs to be changed. a alluded to the earned income tax credits and one of the striking things about the u.s. tax code is that most people earning what the median income in puerto rico is get money back through the federal income taxes of. they do not pay into it. because puerto rico is not part of the federal income tax system, puerto ricans who are in below $35,000 -- who are in below the $5,000 are getting a raw deal. below $35,000a are getting a raw deal. i think that is ultimately untenable. because as a puerto rican, an american citizen, you can move to florida and receive the earned in

but i think that federal help. i think stopping the role backs that are occurring right now at the federal level. particularly when it comes to the clean power plan, and automobile emissions, we don't need to go backward in that area. and we need to encourage innovation and technology to help move us forward. >> thank you. >> let me now turn to mr. mcclintock for any questions he might have for the governor. >> by the way, it's okay. you can take your extra 2.1 minutes out of my time. >> i intended to, sir. >> thank you mr. chairman. i noticed they both linked climate change with the catastrophic fires we've had in the west. my district is just southeast of paradise, california. it encompasses the sierra nevada from lake tahoe passed yosemite valley. intoe is coy ya and kings canyon parks. last year -- sequoia and kings canyon parks. >> last year, eight times the average annual loss of 250,000- acres that we experienced during the last half of the 19th century. but if you go back farther, into the precolumbian peri

the first federal federal aid program started in 1916. for states to have to find their 50-50 matching shares. to do that, the western states, the idea of taxing gasoline was the primary pay for. we are approaching the 100 anniversary of the state gas tax. it was enacted fairbury 25th, 1919. a lowell graham and william dennis were the legislatures that propose that. three other states followed suit in the next three months. new mexico, colorado and oregon. i will show the graphic that we had to put together showing just how fast the concept of taxing gasoline to pay for a road program advanced among the 48 states. you can see, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and finally illinois and new york in 1929. it spread like wildfire. you really see a fundamentally new system of taxation for a concept adopted that quickly by that many states. in 10 years all 48 states had adopted gasoline taxes to pay for the cost of road development. user paid user benefit. the federal government on the other hand was slow to adopt the user pay concept. after

threatening d assaulting a federal officer. he was sentenced to 68 years in prison. >> i can't tell you that. >> i can't tell you that. >> if we don't stand now, we will never get our lands back. >> narrator: the footage is also part of the case agait the bundy family. >> is this an interview and a documentary, or is this anog inteion? that was basically our question. >> narrator: as the bundys awaited trial, once again protesters gathered, this time, outside the gates of the private prison in nevada where they were being held. >> truth is out and now we knowo let thtical prisoners go! >> today, it's the bundys; tomorrowt's you. >> today, it's the bundys; tomorrow, it's you.in (che >> narrator: the bundys had galvanized the so-called "patriot movement", and channeled anti-governmt sentiment that continues. >> just as you granted a big miracle for us in portland. we know that you have miracles for us here. amen. >> amen. >> now if convicted, the bundys faced decades behind bars. >> yeah, my dad's 70 years old. it's a death sente

h.r. 995 will shine a light on the federal settlements agreement. this bill will require the establishment of electronic and public available databases for agencies and the settlement of agreements. i would urge all of my colleagues to support this particular bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the question is -- the gentlewoman from california. ms. hill: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. mr. meadows: i yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman, the sponsor of this particular piece of legislation, the gentleman from alabama, mr. palmer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. palmer: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to join my colleague from north carolina in congratulating the gentlelady on passing her first billism now know what that broad smile was about when the yays were announced. the federal government's duty to serve the public interest relies on transparency and accountab

fourth, the federal government should incorporate climate risk and resilience and future role federal spending and planning decisions to ensure that taxpayer dollars are used wisely. our own boston harbor islands managed a partnership between state and federal government and a nonprofit. we are already threatened by rising sea levels and storm surges. governors around the country are serving, seeing and responding to the effect of climate change in our states and communities. it is not a challenge anyone of us can solve alone. we need collective action from federal, state, and local governments, working together with the private sector to effectively reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the changes that are already in motion. i want to thank the committee for the invitation to speak, and i want to thank my colleague, governor cooper, for joining me today. we submitted written testimony that goes into more detail in my written remarks, and i look over to working together on this challenge and to answer any questions from the committee. >> thank you very much, rick. i myself

then they take the federal gas tax or federal amount and send that to the irs. we were having a meeting with some congressional staff. i suggested, let's make it one system. the state will give the feds how much money -- i was immediately shot down on that idea. we will have -- we will have to have two systems. to keep it manageable, i think we're going to have to rely a lot on the private sector for the services and hardware. >> yeah. i think we have to be very careful moving in this direction. lou described the system for fuel tax collection well. there are about 300 companies that pay the fuel tax. you all pay it indirectly. that tax is passed down through the system. you pay at the pump. in terms of who is paying the state or federal tax collecting agency, it's about 300 entities. we go from 300 to 280 million. that's a huge change. we have had -- the best proxy for how the collection system will work is probably the easy pass, the toll tag system, which has been in place i think since about the late 1980s. we are still having issues. toll systems are still

their shutdown, and all they had to do was show their federal i.d.s. in san mateo, they've offered free rides on citizens provide the necessary safety net and support to the individuals who either live or work here to be supported by our city and county. i want to thank the representatives of the federal workers who are here today who you'll hear from in public comment, and we have some particular things that we are alrea a low-income payment plan that has a $5 enrollment fee. customers can have their late fees waived, up to 18 months to pay, and there's no limits on the amounts that can be enrolled in these programs. currently, since july 1, we have about 1900 people enrolled in these programs. our community service program for payment in lieu of parking tickets, actually, we're not aware of any other city in the state and possibly the country that provides this kind of opportunity where customers can perform various community service at nonprofits across the city, and we offer a $15-an-hour credit, equivalent to minimum wage. a new effort recently un

and we are not reimbursed by the federal government. i ask that congress fund this mandate and ensure that reimbursement funds account for payments to fas citizens. medicaid. the guam medicaid program operates differently than it does in the states because guam's medicaid operates essentially as a block grant with an annual ceiling. we would often exhaust our federal funds allocations. we want to be treated fairly, as with the states. and we want to be evaluated and calculated in a per capita income basis. the guam world war ii loyalty recognition act. this committee's work has been tremendous, and i thank you for your work. the guam world war loyalty recognition act authorizes section 30 funds to be set aside for war claims compensation. however, the department of treasury is now claiming that they are unable to issue final award payments based on their interpretation that the act does not contain appropriations language. with this inaction, the federal government is not just withholding payments of war claims. they are withholding par

congress created a limited federal law in 1958 that expanded federal student loans to all students in the higher education act of 1965. by then, about 10% of americans had a college degree. in 1972 came the pell grants that were created to help students from lower income families go to college. this aid has helped to make a college degree widely affordable for students to attend 6000 institutions that are among the best in the world. last year, 60% of our country's 20 million college students received federal aid. $28 billion in grants that they don't have to pay back and $90 billion in new loans that they do. today, about 35% of americans have a bachelors degree. that is just a federal government's generosity, supplemented by state government. 80% of college students attend public institutions that receive $87 billion from the states each year. tennessee became the first state in the country to make two years of college free for everyone, an effort led by our governor then. now we have 16 states with similar programs. there is a vast system of loans that want to help students get a c

we are regulated at the federal level and regulated by the fda at the federal level as well. we accept that but in order for us to function and introduce our and keep our innovation pipeline alive we need those services to be available. unfortunately the only aspect of the ttp that was operating is that they were taking and cashing our checks. as far as certainty goes by having the government running by enabling the ttb to allow us to perform our basic function it would provide a better level of certainty. >> sure and i would say obviously we want your businesses to expand and for you to be successful but we also want other enterprises to be created and people have ideas right now they are thinking about and it is important for the government to have consistent policies so they can go to the community banks and others to get the loans needed in order to be able to show them the case that this is what they are going to spend and these are going to be the costs and down the road this is how they are going to pay it back and to expand their businesses and be successful. with tha

privacy legislation can create real, meaningful federal standards that are enforceable at the federal level and potentially by state attorneys general with consequences for violators would be a valid will -- would be a valuable thing for us. host: you talk about a federal standard. states are taking this on on their own, aren't they? in theioner slaughter: absence of federal leadership, it makes a lot of sense for states to fill that vacuum. it is a good incentive for the federal government to come together. i am sympathetic to the arguments that a patchwork of different laws for data is really challenging from compliance perspective because data does not stay within any geographic state. it all travels nationally and internationally. i think that is a fair concern. unless the federal government comes in with something that is real, meaningful, strong, and provides serious protection, then the states absolutely should continue to fill that void. host: commission will slaughter, is google being treated fairly in europe? commissioner slaughter: i want to be very careful with respect to

because of the help of the federal government. it is like they have directed this gigantic beautiful vault of money. and then put a glass 12 inch thick glass in front of it. they have created all types of obstacles. one of the things i have been commenting on his while there is a disaster response from fema that is rapid, the actual disaster recovery process, there is no emergency process that is activated or implemented by the federal government to make those funds available, urgent. i will give you an example. puerto rico is rebuilding their grade. we rebuild ours. if we have to go through the federal procedures, the money we are going through and the other funds we are using now to rebuild our grid we still would not have had a full structure yet. this is going to be a five-year and tenure process. referencing katrina. we don't have that luxury of time. june starts the hurricane season again. our schools are still in temporary units. we have finally been seeing some road repairs and our stoplights are going back up. our hotels

i appreciate your insight on the difference between federal contractors and federal employees. i had that situation in my district and i said the same thing. there are other folks out there that are affected by this, the conversation is not happening with them. can you elaborate how a partial lapse in appropriations impacts and affects cra s contractors differently? >> the first point i'll make is the wreck natiorecognition. the fact we're not being recognized at the table a lot of our employees feel not valued. as i hear other speakers here testifying about not having gas money, my head goes towards these government contractors, which leads to a whole different discussion on how contracts are being bid and won on low-cost technically acceptables. whoever bid this contract didn't put that in there to save money. but the public doesn't know they're government contractors. it's another discussion. i think the other thing is the indirect costs associated with this. many of my customers are uneducated in how government contracting is bid. they think when i pay somebody $50,000 i sh

augmentation of the investment from the federal government. what are governors asking for? they're asking for flexibility. that is obviously key. they are asking for the administration to continue to provide three mining of approval processes so they can move quicker and frankly, put in infrastructure that is cheaper and does not take years of bureaucratic delays. most importantly, the state and local government are asking for partnership with the federal government in which there is an augmentation of the necessary and best in infrastructure across the country because there is no question. we all know it in this room and we feel very strongly that a lot has to be done in this nation on infrastructure. we need to improve it. we need to maintain it. we need to do it for the health and safety of our citizens and also very critically important, the modernization of our transportation network is so critical for our economic development and that is always the number one issue. the jobs the governors focus a lot on. we have to move forward and inves

yesterday, a federal judge agreed with those victims.outhern florida ruled that the current secretary of labor alex acosta in fact broke the law when he negotiated that sweet deal for this serial sex offender and then agreed to keep it secret from epstein's victims. that's astonishing after 11 years. 11 years this has been pending. astonishing turn in this astonishing and incredible case. but now here is the thing and this is something where i actually have no idea how this is going to turn out. despite this ruling from this judge against acosta and prosecutors, the judge yesterday did not issue a remedy. he said he has found that the prosecutors broke the law but says that now both sides can take 15 days to decide how they wish to proceed figuring out what the remedy ought to be in this case. meanwhile, of course, as we wait out those 15 days, 14 days to see what could be the remedy here, so far alex acosta is still serving as the u.s. secretary of labor. the white house asked repeatedly about this matter said finally today they are quo

these are federal campaigns. so i want to ask you, do you think that we should rethink how we are doing all of this? >> yes, ma'am. thank you for the question. so during the 2018 cycle and even to today, we have worked with the major parties. rnc, we've conducted training. dnc we have a great relationship with the cio. we continue to work with the other committees. so it is in our area of engagement. i take your point, though, that we need to expand and deepen and broaden that engagement. we continue to think about the various offerings we have whether it's capabilities, technical support, information sharing, training. it is definitely within our -- it is an area of priority engagement going forward. >> i'm glad to hear you say that. i want to ask your opinion about whether you think using te inin information sharing model that you use for working with sectors like the energy and final fields, do you think that would be of help here? >> in terms of political infrastructure and political campaigns? >> yeah. >> i

>> yes, and as explained to us, they are different, that federal tax crimes, federal financial crimes are different than the state crimes that would be outlined in the state law violations that have been outlined. it's not as if he's been tried once and then will be tried again on the same crimes. the prosecutor's position is that these are different charges, these were state crimes, and that if they move forward, they would be looking to hold him accountable for those. >> we may not know the answer to this, but i'll ask. do we have any sense if there's a trigger for why this may have started or when it started, or if this is just cy vance, the manhattan d.a., reading the headlines like everybody else? >> our best understanding is that he had started looking into this and then he deferred to the special counsel and that investigation into manafort, and once that seemed to be wrapping up, that office re-started its work. so the manhattan d.a. showed deference to bob mueller, but now they are moving forward with taking a look at what state crimes may have been violated. >> all right. jo

and federal investment wasn't in books. in fact, he went so far as when i got out of committee unanimously to the surprise of the chairman, a proposal to spend the harbor maintenance tax on harbor maintenance? now, that's a radical idea in washington, d.c. this tax was created during the reagan era with the agreement of the shippers. the idea that we would be putting that money into our ports so we could be competitive in international commerce. and i twice got that out of committee and twice paul ryan had it taken out of the bill before it went to the floor by the rules committee. so, you know, at least now we're past having a speaker who does not believe in federal investment and infrastructure. the unmet needs are huge. looking at about a $2 trillion shortfall from existing revenue sources for infrastructure writ large. the biggest single-ticket item is service transportation, roads, bridges, highways, transit. transit has a $106 billion backlog. people have schedules, have to get to work, have to pick up their kid or wh

that because it's not the federal government paying them. it's the american taxpayers paying money out of their taxes, out of their paycheck, that goes to the federal government, that the federal government thinks they know better how to spend that money than they do. so why should the federal government pay to give them additional leave when they can only -- leave that can only be used for this purpose? madam speaker, there are just three provisions outlined in this almost 600-page bill, and i'd venture most people will not read this when it comes up for a vote. while i could further elaborate, i let -- i will let my colleagues share their thoughts with you. with that, i yield to my colleague, mr. biggs from arizona. mr. biggs: madam speaker, i thank my colleague for leelanding this -- for leading this special order. and i want to speak to two specific aspects of this. first of all, i rise in opposition here to h.r. 1, the sweeping unconstitutional attack on electoral system that it represents. it would federalize our electoral system and u

it's not all federal government. it's state, local. and we believe we can encourage more private sector investments. but the argument and i think what our previous panel talked about is this facetious argument that folks will lose their jobs from doing the right thing, the american business committee has said, we'll stand up to those leaders. the chamber of congress will go to any district in america where a member of congress is primaried or somebody is running against him to support more investment and infrastructure. so we're really ready to put our money where our mouth is. we have a coalition of business and labor, the american returns stabilization mobility doing a grassroots campaign. that story at lake charles, that's all over the country. so we believe that now is the time to take some of the success stories around the country, bring them here to washington, and on a bipartisan basis, get it done. all those state efforts, those are all led by businesses. they're all part of those efforts along with a lot of the equipment folks

state government, federal, -- federal experience, local experience, highways, transit, advocacy groups, and researchers and policymakers as well. here is a number of just the logos of some of the 100 different companies that came in front of this committee and offered a testimony and an opinion as to what they thought the future of the interstate should involve. you will notice some very tried and true names on their, you will notice new ones as well. i'm sure there are a couple of logos that you do not even recognize on their as well. but the interstate system, pretty much planned in the 30s, authorized in the 40s, struggled to get funding in the 50s, built mostly in the 60s through the 80s. one misnomer that happens across the country, and i bumped into it all the time in my prior job is this interstate system is owned by the state. it was built cooperatively between the state and the federal government. it was national in scope, it had a great vision from a national level, but it was implemented state-by-state. so when we talk about the ability to do things consistently and while ev

the federal government at all, even though these are federal campaigns. so i want to ask you, do you think that we should rethink how we are doing all of this? >> yes, ma'am. thank you for the question. during the 2018 cycle, and even to today, we have worked with the major parties. rnc, we have conducted training, dnc we have a very good relationship with the cio, we continue to work with the other committees so it is in our area of engagement. i take your point, though, that we need to expand and deepen and broaden that engagement. we continue to think about the various offerings we have, whether it's capabilities, technical support, information sharing, training. those are all the areas that we are continuing to push out. i would encourage each of you as you are coming up on another cycle, please work with us, your own campaigns. we have capabilities that we can offer and it is definitely within -- it is an area of priority engagement for us going forward. >> i'm glad to har year you say that. i want to ask your opinion about whether you think using th

the federal government spends more than it collects. in fiscal year 2018 the federal government collected more than 3 3/10 trillion dollars in revenue, but it spent more than 4 1/10 million meaning the government overspent by $779 billion. beginning in 2022, the federal government is projected to begin running deficits of more than $1 trillion each year . >> total overspending for the next 10 years will reach more than 11 6/10 trillion dollars under this forecast, which assumes no other changes to tax and spending laws, currently on the books for that's the way it has to be done. it's an unlikely outcome but one that cbo is required to project. >> as cbo's report shows, spending over the next 10 years will grow from 4 4/10 trillion in 20 $19-$7 trillion in 2029. what is causing the spike and spending? three quarters of the 2 6/10 trillion's growth is attributed to social security. medicare. >> interest payments, just those three things, social security, medicare and interest payments. while interest costs are tied to debt accumulation a

yes, we have national and federal labs. we have incredible academic institutions, we have incredible facilities, incredible capabilities. but when you put that in the context of our freedom of inquiry and our system of government in america, it makes us absolutely unique in the world. so within that context, instead of thinking sort of about the next budget cycle or next major election or maybe the next decadal survey, we think longer term. with a much longer term planning horizon. so what i have come to the conclusion about, in thinking about all this, and what i want to propose today is that america is truly now entering a second bold era in the endless frontier of science and technology. this second bold era is one in which we need to take an enterprise-wide view, understand and leverage, that's an important point, the powerful and mutually beneficial role to be played by the four sectors i have been talking about and create new strategies for partnering and leveraging those assets across the entire enterprise. we have t

for years federal agencies such as u.s. departments of agriculture, the centers for disease control and prevention, have encouraged breastfeeding. the benefits are so great that the affordable care act amended federal law to require employers to provide a guess ig nated nonbathroom space for returning employees to pump breast filling for their newborns. ensuring that new mothers would be able to continue the sensual practice even after returning to work. my bill would extend this requirement to include not only employees but visitors and guests to federal facilities across the nation. actually, federal facilities visited by millions of americans nd others should lead the way. my bill does not require the expenditure of federal funds or require space to be mandated. it would simply allow visitors to federal buildings to make use of spaces that are already available to federal employees or to access similar spaces within those buildings. in washington, d.c. alone -- in washington, d.c., alone, there are millions of tourists w

in federal court in washington, d.c.ge amy berman jackson told roger stone that if he says anything, anything about the federal case now being prosecuted by special prosecutor robert mueller with roger stone as the defendant, then judge jackson will revoke his bail and put him in jail awaiting trial. roger stone was dragged into court today after he posted a photo on instagram showing a rifle crosshairs next to a picture of judge jackson. last month we saw roger stone making a richard nixon-style victory sign and holding a press conference after a court appearance. today roger stone left the courthouse without saying a word. there he is leaving today. we will no longer -- he will no longer be able to attack robert mueller. he will no longer be able to attack judge jackson. he will no longer be able to say anything about his case unless he wants to go to jail. roger stone's gag order came after an extraordinary afternoon in which he tried to explain himself under oath and was chastised by the judge and for the first time

>> we have tens of thousands of federal workers and federal contract employees in the state of maryland. but i should stress that you've got workers like lila johnson throughout the country. 80% of the federal employees work outside sort of the larger washington medtrow area and that holds true for federal contract workers. these are people who work for small businesses in many cases or other businesses that contract with the federal government to provide support services. so these are often thankless tasks but important tasks to the basic functioning of government. >> why invite a federal worker or contractor to the state of the union when it is the president's night to address the country? are you trying to tweak the president? >> i'm trying to get the president to support the legislation that we proposed that would provide back pay for people like lila johnson. this is an invitation to the president to join us in supporting this bill. i have written to o.m.b., office of management and budget, asking the trump administration use their existing contracting authority to accomplish the s

he has pleaded and sentenced for in federal court in the southern district with the approval of federal who have talked to other people around said crime in which he is individual one who michael cohen said directed the crime. that in and of itself is an indictable crime if the man didn't happen to be sitting in the white house. >> and that's why i say he's not going to be sitting there forever. impeachment is a political issue. but at some point he's no longer going to be a president and they're going to be waiting for him. >> and there's a question of statute of limitations. it is possible that if -- you said -- the president runs for reelection to essentially stay out of criminal exposure. to say if he's elected, his force field extends for another four years and maybe he can get away with it. >> nobody needs to win this election more than donald trump. >> thank you so much for joining us. >>> dwm [ meowing ] mittens! make it rain. [ cheering ] [ singing opera ] change the music. ♪ when i move, you move beep. beep. use the rocket. [ sputtering ] if only everything in life listened to

more and more of the federal budget. and that's why i like to point out that federal spending and interest payments are going to be about 3% of gdp. that's going to be higher than all defense spending. it's also higher than all discretionary nondefense spending. interest payments are going to be a bigger part of the budget. second, federal bar reduces the capital stock. we get slower productivity and lower wages for growth. the third is, lawmakers have limited flexibility in bad times. if you look at that visual summary that we gave out, this nice graph on the very first graph on it that has the debt. the historical deficits level year by year and you can see recessions here. 1980 you see the deficit go up, 1990, 2001, 2008. right now we have a really high deficit at 4.4%. if we run into another business cycle, it's really going to go up from that. it's going to limgt policy makers ability to deal with another recession. the likelihood of a financial crisis would increase and by that really we mean interest rates spriekd

what is the one thing the federal government can do to make your life easier when it comes to federalnfrastructure, and then do you think we're going oh gget it done this year? i know. i want to hear positive. please. jen, start us off. >> i'm going to have a different answer than i typically would, actually. i'm going to go to environmental and third-party proposals. not something i go to. >> right. >> one of the things we're seeing with the places that have had challenges that that the challenges have been rooted in the delays that have occurred during the environmental process, including conflicts associated with third party approvals. when you do a major transportation project, as you know well, and many in the room know, it requires and the coercion and approval and consent from a number number of third parties. so the federal government and the administration is looking how do we streamline this process so we can move projects forward. not just important for p3s, but he want to continue to deliver proof points so it can continue to play an active role. these kinds of things in t

this is no time to reduce federal funding for research. and we hope that he will also be able -- [applause] with his winning manner to be able to communicate clearly ancon vincingly the evidence that we need to pay attention to the workplace in which science is done. to stamp out bias and harassment and this requires not just words from the top. so we are honored that dr. droegemeier would choose the -- for his first public significant public outing to talk about his ideas, the administration's ideas, and your ideas for science and technology policy in the united states. dr. droegemeier. [applause] dr. droegemeier: thank you so much. good afternoon, everyone. how is everyone doing? fantastic. thank you, dr. holt, congressman, chairman, for your kind words in your introduction and for your support of science. your leadership in congress and of the aaas have been extraordinary. i want to have you all join me in thanking rush holt for his wonderful work and the work he has done and continues to do. thank you, rush. [applause] i want to thank

congress created a limited federal law in 1958 that expanded federal student loans to all students in the higher education act of 1965. by then, about 10% of americans had a college degree. in 1972 came the pell grants that were created to help students from lower income families go to college. this has helped to make a college degree why the affordable for students to attend 6000 institutions that are among the best in the world. country's 60% of our 20 million college students received federal aid. $28 million in grants that they don't have to pay back and $90 billion in new loans that they do. today, about 35% of americans have a bachelors degree. that is just a federal government's generosity, supplemented by state government. 80% of college students attend public institutions today that receive $87 billion from the states each year. became the first state in the country to make two years of college free for everyone, and effort led by our governor then. now we have 16 states with similar programs. loansis a vast system of that want to help students get a college education. paying