in federal elections. nobody has been able to explain how if you're having an election in your state, you have both federal, state, and local elections all on the same ballot, but only on the federal elections can those felons who who were convicted of voter fraud be eligible to vote. how does the state conduct a fair election? those are some of the bad provisions of this bill, and it continues to get worse as they bring scores of amendments. nobody knows what the final bill will look like, but we are you know how bad it will be to undermine the votes of so many millions of people and what it would do for billions of -- to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars into accounts. this is bad legislation for people who want the ability to speak freely and vote fairly in elections. now, i would like to bring up the majority leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell. while, i have been involved in the debates we have had over campaign finance reform, to refresh some of the newcomers' memory. i was on the campaign-financ

if you have been reporting he asked for federalization, he is not asking for federalization. what is your position on liability? returningiable for the environment to near pristine condition and will exxon be asked to foot part of the bill for the federal effort? >> oh yes. exxon has already been spending millions of dollars a day. we're talking about additional support from exxon. has beenator reilly discussing with them the efforts that need to be made to restore the environment. they had acknowledged liability and are working with us in putting funds available to restore, recover and repair and all of that is going on a concerted basis with the coast guard. >> when you were here last week, mr. riley said he mentioned to exxon that they should take on the added responsibility of cleaning up the beaches and doing the extra work to get it to a more natural state. as i recall, the response to you was that it was an interesting idea. suggested that you are referring to is that they consider establishing a fund for alaskan conversation -- conservation that would go well beyond t

that's not a federal crime. and so on its face, this is not an instance in which manafort is being charged again for a crime which he's already been convicted. this is a whole new crime under state law that wasn't available to federal prosecutors had they wanted to pursue it, because that crime is only a new york crime. so, again, i think there are questions here that we can start to answer tonight about how these prosecutors, these state prosecutors try to navigate this prosecution so as to avoid double jeopardy concerns, trying to avoid some state judge throwing out this indictment by saying manafort has already been convicted of these crimes in a different court, in federal court. but honestly, the facts laid out in this 16-count, 11-page indictment today against manafort in new york, it didn't give us any new alleged facts about manafort. i mean, they're charging him in new york based on the same evidence that was brought to bear against him in his federal cases. and remember, in his federal cases, paul mana

that's not a federal crime. and so on its face, this is not an instance in which manafort is being charged again for a crime which he's already been convicted. this is a whole new crime under state law that wasn't available to federal prosecutors had they wanted to pursue it, because that crime is only a new york crime. so, again, i think there are questions here that we can start to answer tonight about how these prosecutors, these state prosecutors try to navigate this prosecution so as to avoid double jeopardy concerns, trying to avoid some state judge throwing out this indictment by saying manafort has already been convicted of these crimes in a different court, in federal court. but honestly, the facts laid out in this 16-count, 11-page indictment today against manafort in new york, it didn't give us any new alleged facts about manafort. i mean, they're charging him in new york based on the same evidence that was brought to bear against him in his federal cases. and remember, in his federal cases, paul mana

it has been my experience when the federal partner has outlined a new approach to federal regulations we believe it will be an improvement from previous actions however -- discount actions by the states and the unique necessary role they play in environmental protection. it has been my experience that the federal regulatory pendulum can swing wildly from administration to administration while the state pendulum moves less radically. although states don't agree on every issue the -- has been historically been accessible, accountable, environmental and public health protection. lastly the right of states desired -- must be applied judiciously with great responsibility and caution. estate quest to improve in- state environmental challenges should not negatively impact jurisdictions outside its borders. negative regulatory impacts can include additional costs to an adjoining state with no perceived or actual benefit. we have experienced issues such as energy production and how an adjoining state attempted to direct development and industry standards in north dakota. this concludes my test

he did not ask for federalization. his letter was was great in that -- was inaccurate in that request. if you have been reporting he asked for federalization. he has not been asking for federalization. >> what is your position on liability? is xl liable for returning the environment in your pristine condition and will exxon be asked to foot the bill for the federal efforts? >> yes, they have already been spending millions of dollars a day. we are talking about additional support from exxon, and mr. riley has been discussing the efforts that need to be done to restore the environment. number one, they are liable. they acknowledged liability and they are working to put funds available to restore, recover and repair. and all of that is going on on a concerted basis with the coast guard. >> when you were here last week, mr. riley mentioned to exxon that they should take on the responsibility of cleaning the beaches and doing extra work to get to a more natural state, and as i recall the response was, that is an interesting

it is a federal responsibility. given that the federal government has not 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 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, talk a little bit about the impact of the counties. you mentioned earlier the work force but there's also a resource issue here as well. susan talked about it as well. 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 states. some are just the locality wanting to provide that. talk about the resource issues of not having clarity from the federal government, how does that impact you all? >> when you look at the health department, for example, which is actually a state agency, but funded part

it is a federal responsibility. even that the federal government thatot acted in a manner we can deal with or process in any recognizable way, it has fallen to states and then down to localities, in terms of funding and policy decisions. unity andike to see uniformity on the federal level directing us on how to proceed in these areas. >> talk about the impact of the counties. there is also a resource issue here. the provider of first services to every resident in that county. some services are federally just it andsome are localities wanting to provide that. talk about the resource issues of not having clarity from the federal government. how does that impact you all? bill: looking at the health department, which is state but funded partially through local government -- they don't ask about status. is summit he has a need, they have an income issue or whatever, they come in and seek services that are provided to a local government. in our county, we do not have a county hospital. in the neighboring county to the nor

this approach to cooperative federalism is no.and we will completely ignore the 14 states that have done this for a long time. this isn't right and it will come home to roost because you can stop science you can stop fax of the biological and geological rules that we know so this will show the true north was not federalism but whatever the fossil fuel industry told it to do in my experience that has been the true north. those that are down - - downwind states when there is a power plant the epa walks away there are coastal states not just me but moody say it will have municipal debt will be rated based on sealevel risk on communities. freddie mac has coastal property values crash as a result of the 2008 mortgage meltdown. freddie mac is not the sierra club. they are all about homes and mortgages and they are worried about it. first street went all the way up the coast and research shows that coastal property values in areas are subject to flooding are starting to peel off so as they crash that is what that looks like and that is w

government going to give lots of money and the federal government gives lots of money the federal government always gives lots of control. place wherea the federal government is arguing in this bill, we need to have lots of got to, but you've come up, state and local governments with lots of money to do whatever it is think is the best thing to do in your jurisdiction so we want to talk about that a little bit today. house rules committee would have some jurisdiction elections and looking at results of house -- and rodney davis is the top republican on that committee. just to be clear, this got h.r.1 to the floor today was nowhere and openpartisan and transparent process. the democrats when they took the majority said they wanted to be more bipartisan, they wanted more openness and they wanted to order.k to regular 10 committees have this bill.n over the smallest committee in the house of houseentatives, the administration committee marked this bill up. we were promised by the during that markup that the other committees would be able to mark up their portion of the bill and this bill is bei

two federal districts upheld our federal authority. the bottom line, if this moves forward, we will see tons of excess pollution, we will see the slowdown in vehicle -- we will see air risk. we will see smog in all of our cities. it's exceptionally concerning. senator carper: to mr. glatt and ms. keogh, do you support the trump administration's administrations restrictions on the 13 states that have different emission standards, do you -- do you support taking away from the states the ability to act in regards to their vehicle emission issues? senator glatt: senator, i am a very strong supporter of states' rights. and being able to address those issues within their state boundaries. where i start to get a little shaky on that is when a state imposing under the umbrella of saying it's our right to control pollution in our state starts impacting other states. nd we had that case on extranalities. senator cardin: it's when california has acted and other states have acted, do you support their ability to do that? senator glatt: i support t

so seeing federal indian policy is pointed out, similarly the emancipatory towns and you can use federal powers to deliver for themselves and free from what federal officials are sure is degrading and exploited later by what citizens. the new reservations, there's an 1864 act that reaffirms for reservations and creates new reservations that kind of recommenced to existing ones and then expansion of the 1870 executive order in california. user samples are federal power no doubt about it but i think there's a good example of what gregory johns and kate ms. are called the stockade state and the american was where the state is nearly powerless in the countryside. which is not how we usually see the federal government when it comes to india policy, i don't mean to say that powerless when it comes to indian people is pretty powerless when it comes to in franchise men society. trespassing is rampant on all of these reservations. the indian office actually renting to reservations from private citizens, so reading natalie run from the federal government but also the value of india labor who were

there's no parole in federal prison. the sentence will come out to be somewhere 6 1/2 total sentence if he gets the time off for good behavior. that's why i say he turns 70 april 1st. he could be out of prison by the time he's 76. >> now, pete williams showing us he's good at the math as well as everything else. pete, thank you very much. contributor glen kirchner was in the courtroom to watch all of this and is now with ken delaney outside. can you describe paul manafort? we've seen him in various ways, we've seen the artwork by our great artist, of him in a wheelchair. i think he's suffering from gout, among other things. that's one of the arguments the defense made. he's been in recent instances in court in prison garb, no longer has the hair coloring he long want to be seen before he was incarcerated. how did he look today? >> he didn't look bad. he looked perhaps more robust than we have seen him in the past in these court proceedings. andrea, one of the nice things about what judge jackson just did, she took down e

federal sourcers for the city, we receive about $1.3 billion in the city's budget related from federal sources that includes entitlement programs as well as medicaid, s.n.a.p., food stamp program and foster care services. funding to the city includes grants that we received from the federal government. we received significant funding through transportation grants as well as housing grants, hud homeless grants. we received $40 million through the department of homelessness and supportive housing. also, not necessarily in the budgets itself but supporting san francisco residents that comes through the federal government to support individuals in their section 8 housing. i'll be happy to answer any questions. you know that was high-level. if you like anything else, i'm happy to hear them now or talk to you offline. ly pas -- pass for the discussif the six-month report. >> twice a year, we'll bring to you quarterly report known as the circumstance 6 month reporth report. these reports look at the year that we're in today. the report we put out four week ago reduces our overall forecast def

we cannot wait for the state or federal government to act. we need a jurisdictional fix in which 228 out of 229 tribes are without territorial jurisdiction and regular and consistent justice and funding in alaska through the indian tribal support act. bipartisan group of co-sponsors in the senate has introduced an act which includes several provisions aimed at improving the response of cases of missing and murdered women. however, it is how it is written now would exclude after of the tribes' needs. provides effort for appropriate services to indigenous women. survivors including to the provision of victim services, rape crisis and transitional housing when women do not have it, they are placed at risk. bill house needs a similar. program of research and regarding the disappearance and murders of native women, we need a baseline study for alaska as statistics prove it is different than in the lower 48. support tribal amendments to h.r. 1585, vital re-authorization including a pilot project where alaskan tribes can exercise criminal jurisdicti

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this is about federal elections. the constitution says the congress has the ability to promulgate laws about federal elections. and the reason why we're looking at it is there have been states who have gone -- they are grandfathered in the bill. the problematic states are those states that are trying to suppress the vote. trying to keep people from voting. we need to do something about hat. while we're here i do want to say something about not your comments about the prior comments from the ranking member about the cost of the bill. we have a score from c.b.o., almost all the money that c.b.o. has scored goes to grants to the states to upgrade their computer systems. $1.5 billion from 2019 to 2024. $750 for other computer assistance. and the other big amount is for making polling places accessible to disabled voters. it's not about the other provisions in the bill. i would also like to note, i put this into the record yesterday, the joint committee on taxation has estimated that the fine and forfeiture fund that will

through the bureau of printing and engraving and the federal mint, the federal government makes all ofthe coins and all of the currency that all of us use in our everyday business. of course, congress can not just print new money every it has to pay the expenses of the government. they give them the power to raise what it needs by levying and collecting taxes, duties, impulse and excises. you must of heard your father speak of the income tax. these are duties levied on things such as movie admissions, gasoline, luxuries such as jewelry, furs, silverware and other things. another way congress raises money to run the government is from taxes on goods imported from other countries. these are called tariffs, congress regulates commerce among the states, goods moving across state boundaries are not taxed but it is regulated by congress through the interstate commerce commission. congress and only congress has the power to declare war. even though the president may call for a declaration of war. and, when the united states is involved in international agreement the senate is all important. f

it can only be regulated on the federal level. the fcc can only send the regulatory policy for the country. seeking to supplant that decision that the state law would be preempted. the particular's matter, the particulars matter, but we believe there should be not a patchwork. we see a similar dynamic with respect to privacy. certain states are passing privacy laws, california for example, past of privacy law which is fairly strong. we're seeing the same companies neutralitynet regulations on the state level coming to washington saying, we need a federal privacy law to preempt the states that may deregulate in this area. under the well established precedent of goose versus gander -- [laughter] patchworktates to regulate on the federal level. host: what does the fcc have to do with huawei? i have only ever read that. to give a prize for reading to somebody and i had read harry potter, but never out loud. i said to the whole school my favorite character was "her- me-own," instead of hermione. [laughter] talk about how there is a lac

a federal court -- after -- federal court after federal efforts to stop people from voting. so i will fight until my death to make sure that every citizen, whether they be republican, democrat, independent, green party, or whatever, has a right to vote. the american people gave this congress a mandate to restore our democracy and whether he clean it up. and with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois is now recognized. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. it gives me great pleasure to yield got minutes -- two minutes to my friend, the gentleman -- the gentleman from florida, mr. posey. the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. posey: thank you, mr. chairman. i thank the gentleman for yielding, the opportunity to speak about house bill 1. you've heard a call for welfare politicians act. you've heard a call for democratic politician protection act. and you've heard it called a very partisan proposal to hijack elections. i think it may be all those things. historically elections are based on th

federal reserve stopping thinking federal balance sheet in october. they will come down by $135 billion between now and october. it does not include though mortgage-backed securities which is capped at $20 billion. after october, those will be reinvested then in the treasury. overall economic growth slowed to a solid rate in q4, according to the federal reserve, job gains have been solid they're saying, not growing. seeing indicators that a slowing household and business investment spending in the first quarter of this year. the fed says again they will be patient with further rate hikes coming in overall inflation has declined because of energy prices the fed says. we saw fomc members on the dot plot, famous dot plot come down, looking for zero rate hikes. no more rate hikes this year, forecasted for the fed. they're leaving federal funds rate unchanged. charles? charles: edward lawrence, thank you very much. a couple bombshells in there, folks. here to help us break it all down, former federal reserve advisor, danielle dimartino booth, lindsey piegz

the federal registry also provides the building blocks of the code of federal regulations, which makes it easier for the public to find out the federal regulations by compiling them all in one place. in 1994, the government publishing office began publishing the federal register online. when i got here i actually got a paper copy of these federal registries and i didn't know what to do with it. they were reams and reams. the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is right. this is a good government, hopefully efficient way that gives the federal registry the ability to save the american taxpayer money. that online registry now includes navigational aids and links to rerelated contact, it's fully searchable and downloadable. congress has previously taken steps to make the federal registry more efficient. in 2017 congress passed the federal registry printing savings act. that law saved taxpayers dollars by actually requiring the g.p.o. to only provide printed copies to members office that subscribe or request a copy of a specific issue. h.r. 1654 makes -- continues in this spirit of t

and weaker consumer safeguards than federal student loans do. i.s.a.'s in particular are not transparent. and because students have very different earning trajectories sometimes because of labor market discrimination, i.s.a.'s have the potential to have higher costs for students and even exclude some students from some types of programs or colleges. mr. takano: my time has expired. i yield back. chairman scott: thank you. the gentleman from kansas, mr. watkins. mr. watkins: thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here. i represent eastern kansas. it's agrarian and lots of poverty issues there. i know personally what it's like to try and deal with mounting school debt. it seems to me the solution was a pro-economic growth policy characterized by low taxes and low regulation that allows the economy to thrive and does it work. well, pro-growth has led to record unemployment, we're enjoying over seven million job openings. the labor department when reporting on hiring competition says that there's an increase in average hourly pay by 3.4% from last yea

today in federal court in virginia, the u.s. attorney himself, the top of that prosecutor's office and u.s. attorney himself personally turned up in court for a sealed hearing today that appears to be about some sort of legal case potentially involving wikileaks and/or julian assange. you might remember back in november right after the election, there was a little flurry of news stories about what seemed to be a weird even slightly surreal error in a federal court filing. one of the federal prosecutors who works in the u.s. attorney's office in e.d.v.a. inexplicably in the middle of a filing and a totally unrelated case somehow randomly popped in this language in a whole different case that referenced julian assange. it was very weird. this was this unexpected insert in a random case which said that julian assange from wikileaks had been charged in an american federal indictment and that fact needed to remain under seal until after julian asasange had been arrested and everyone was like this case isn't about that and julian assa

that used to be widely accepted and is still against federal law. encouraging the registration of persons not eligible to vote dilutes the voting power of american citizens. i hope my colleagues here tonight will make this amendment in order and allow the house to consider this simple improvement to hr 1. the third amendment is number 125, dealing with the office of government ethics, which of course is an education agency. oge is responsible for ensuring compliance with ethics requirement such as financial disclosures and conflict of interest rules. yet hr 1 wants to turn oge into an investigative office by granting the director the authority to subpoena information and records. my amendment would remove the granting of subpoena authority to the oge director. oge already has the power to request needed information from federal agencies and agencies are required to comply with these requests under the ethics and government act. the office of government ethics does not require subpoena authority. furthermore, during the trump administration, oge has

republicans say it imposes federal control over local elections. you can see live coverage of that debate on c-span and then on wednesday or thursday the chamber likely to debate a resolution condemning anti-semitism. the senate continues work on nominations with votes expected before friday. next week senators will likely vote on termination of trump's determination to about more borders. the resolution passed the house last week and expected to have enough republican senators for it to pass and move on to president trump. c spab be 2 live come of that date of birth. debate. >> wednesday at 10:00 eastern homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen testifies before the house homeland security committee about border security. at 2:30, the senate armed services committee looks at prevention and response to sexual assault in the military. with mark green, usaid administrator and elliott abrams state department representative for venezuela and at 1:30 supreme court associate justice samuel alito and elena kagan appear before the subcommittee on the su

that does not exist in the federal system. but there is something called good time where defendants can earn up to 54 days per year to provide an incentive for them to behave themselves while they're in prison. so if you do the math, roughly four years, 54 days per year, remove from that, it adds up to, what, 216 days. about seven months. so seven months off of the 47, is 40. you mentioned the nine months for credit -- time served off of the 40 gets him to 31 months. i think that's the actually time he will serve starting today. >> provided he gets all the good time to which he is potentially entitled. >> that's a good point. if he doesn't behave himself, he wouldn't. judge jackson has the ability to impose up to ten years and could make every bit of that consecutive so he could see an additional ten years added on to that. >> well, when judge jackson makes that decision next week, obviously that's going to be fascinating to watch. she's a different judge. different jurisdictions. looking at a totally different set of felonies

from the federal government i'm here to help, so the federal government came into help education and now we are much worse off. madam secretary, i want to thank you and thinking outside the box and how to reverse some of that and i do think some of the principles you have elucidated in the budget get to that. i do want to commend you actually because i've gone and spoken to teachers and parents in my district who worried a lot about the impact policies of the previous ministration. worried a lot about that effect on school discipline and were very grateful that this administration took a new look at those policies. i would like you to expand a little bit, because i do think that one thing the federal government can do is expand the ability of states to be forward thinking and how they provide alternative education for parents and students who choose not to be in a conventional public school, and explain the new approach you are going to take to encourage states to have these foundations that fund alternative, alternatives for parents. >> thanks congressman for those comments and the

this is the first step in the federal budget process. this submission provides the administration an opportunity to cast a vision for the future and provide important programmatic information to congress and the american people. i call it a list of pretty good suggestions, or at least suggestions. budgets reflect spending and priors. it will allow us to see how the president's priorities aline with those of congress. at every hearing in this committee i shine a spotlight on the country's fiscal challenges. it's no surprise that the government spend more than it takes in and will soon produce annual deficits of $1 trillion. that's a figure that's too lrge to truly comp he rend -- comprehend. deficits lead to rising debt. according to the congressional budget office, debt held by the public is expected to reach $16.6 trillion late they are year or 78% of the gross domestic product. by 2029 this debt is projected to grow to $27.8 trillion or 93% of g.d.p. considering the 50-year average s 42% of g.d.p., we're clearly headed in an ominous di

as well as the european part of the russian federation. we are very much concerned that after the decision of the united states to withdraw from inf, missiles could be deployed on the territory of european allies. and you'll see that it's my military officers who have prepared this map. you will see how many territories could be covered by american missiles. it's very burning issue. not technical issue, because we can't return back to the situation of the 1987, before -- when we signed the inf treaty. i just would like to draw your attention to this situation. and potential situation. we will be forced, we will be forced to deploy our missiles, and here you will see that the whole territory over european countries will be covered. so i just would like to say you that when we are talking about tactical nuclear weapons as well as inf capabilities, we are talking about the security of european countries as well as russia, inf is not dealing with the security of the united states, because such systems cannot reach a territory of the united sta

a massive federal power grab. last time i checked, voting happens at the state level and are the right and responsibility of the state and local governments. they say this only affects federal elections, but does anyone really believe the states will have two separate systems? i am in full support in increasing voter registration participation in our election process, unfortunately this legislation goes far beyond increasing voter participation and instead is a misguided attempt to rid our nation's electoral systems for the benefit of the democrat party by telling americans once again that the federal government and washington bureaucrats know best. i urge my colleagues to oppose this liberty and freedom limiting legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from georgia reserves his balance of the time. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. lofgren: mr. chairman, i am pleased to yield one minute to a valued member of

he pled guilty to these charges in federal court. he also admitted that he was guilty of the counts that hung where the jury didn't reach a verdict. plf manafort has admitted the underlying facts. he will be relatively easily convictable. >> you're saying one of the star witnesses against paul manafort in the new york case is paul manafort? >> clearly. >> what could he get? >> the maximum is 8 to 25. the minimum is 1 to 3 years. >> based on your knowledge, what would be a reasonable outcome in new york? >> the new york didn't have sentencing guidelines. the judge has complete diskreegs -- diskreegs. it's worth the two, three, four years range on the low end. >> how does cy vance go about this? bob mueller has a different reputation. x he is first person as a prosecutor outside of the federal system to take up charges against a prominent trump aide. does he know he started what might be the biggest case of his career? >> ithe's a very smart and carel prosecutor. i don't know he would agree it's the most important of his career. i thin

that does not exist in the federal system. but there is something called good time where defendants can earn up to 54 days per year to provide an incentive for them to behave themselves while in prison. if you do the math, four years, 54 days per year removed from that, that adds up to 216 days, about seven months. so seven months off of the 47 is at 45. you mentioned the nine months for time served off of the 40 gets him to 31 months and so i think that's the actual time he will serve startsinged ing toda >> provided he gets the time. >> if he doesn't behave himself, he wouldn't and judge jackson has the ability to impose up to ten years and could make every bit of that consecutive. so he could see an additional ten years added on to that. >> when judge jackson makes that decision, that will be fascinating to watch. she's looking at a totally different set of felony knies a there is a big difference of the circumstances with guilty plea and botched cooperation deal and she's the judge that revoked his bail in the first place

to the federal work study program. you have done that again this year to better target the funding to low income recipients. i wonder if you could comment on why do we need, why is the federal work study program need these reforms? how does it assist low income students better and any other reforms in your budget to ensure that funds are best targeted to students who need the funds most? >> thank you congressman. yes, we believe the federal work study program needs reform because the way the formula works today, very often those funds go to the most elite institutions, not the ones that are really severing the students with the most need. so that is issue number one. secondly, work study as it is carried out today often involves students working in the college bookstore or in the cafeteria, on campus programs. we have proposed to expand those options to allow students to potentially work with in an internship type apprenticeship type opportunity with employers for whom they might ultimately move into a career with. we

irma: i'd -- ed: i do not see the federal government going back to the day s of the federal government going back to high-speed rail. what has happened in california has cautioned members of congress to do that. that being said, we at the chamber are anxious to look to see what will happen with texas central. some of these private lines done, that could encourage investment and get that effort moving. do if you look at what we with the recovery act, we will see what we can do. for the chamber's proposal, because the money being paid by highway users should only go to bridges and transit. we would be open to discussion on some type of dedicated tax, but not highway related. we believe if you use the source of -- the surface system, the revenue should stay there. effort -- i only did not see any effort to expand that. we will depend on general fund money? ed: in the short term, yes. jim: we are seeing more and more givinggetting out for -- out for inner-city rail. not just california, there are state-supported routes carrying 50% of amtrak's ridership. while the federal government is not

this is literally the federal government tracking a 15-year-old's period because of what the federal government plans to do about it. let's look at one entry and detail here. one at random. just so you can see the kind of data they were collecting. this is a case from march of last year, march of 2018. a 14-year-old girl being held in a shelter in illinois. she's believed to be about one month pregnant from nonconsensual sex. 14-year-old girl. as you can see in the notes column, it says assaulted by unknown assailant in coo, which we believes country of origin here. so this is the federal government with your tax dollars keeping an individualized record of pregnant teenage girls' menstrual cycles, whether they've had a positive pregnancy test, what the government knows about how they believe the girls got pregnant, how they believe this individual girl got pregnant and whether this girl has requested an abortion and then the last column, the last column supports what the federal government is doing about it. and this record was being kept for the express purpose of subverting any of

with what they have already done, also, maintaining good communication moving forward to make sure federal dollars hopefully that we are able to secure will get where they need to go. host: adrian smith, third district of nebraska, republican from that state, thank you lookg in the midwest. dusty johnson, republican of south dakota. good morning. guest: good morning. host: could you scope out the damage where you live? guest: i represent the entire state of south dakota. we have had a bit of snow in recent weeks. quite a bit of rain that melted it quickly. it flowed into tributaries, eventually into the missouri. there's been a lot of flooding like the big sioux river. to give you a sense, normally you might have 20,000 cubic feet of water coming through the dam. that is a lot. a cubic foot of water is a basketball amount of water. instead of 20,000 cubic feet a second, we are looking at 100,000 cubic feet per second. when we shove that water back down the missouri, that hurts nebraska, and a current state of emergency but we have had plenty of flooding up here as well. host: what is the s

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 and convincingly 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 aaas 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 ] >> thank you so much. good afternoon, everyone. how's everyone doing? fantastic. thank you, dr. holt, congressman, chairman, for your kind words, your introduction, and your support of science. your leadership has really been extraordinary, and i want to have you all join me in thanking rush holt for his wonderful work and for the work he has done and continues to do. thank you, rush. [ applause ] i want to thank all of you for com