people say i want that federal tax credit.obably does have any support in the house and cato and of the groups who think the federal government should be involved in these things have come out against it. that includes me. >> host: lawrence was in st. paul, minnesota, independent comic good morning and thanks for the opportunity. i'm going to comment, hang up, and look forward to your responses. rather than talk about funding i want to talk about costs, talking from the perspective of someone who has the indecision has worked these issues for decades now. we have a problem with an increase in single-parent child homes, and the costs associated with taking care of kids in the schools is really taking away from parents who are doing the right thing. .. we have to get her arms around how we will get parents involved in. his responsibility to others to pay the price. >> there's no question that the parent is a key driver of outcomes for kids. and i think their larger social issue and turned up the kids and better situations and fa

for large complex infrastructure projects, among other things, one federal decision requires federal agencies to develop formal processes as you know for developing a schedule, for elevating disputes and then also for working together to complete reviews and authorizations within two years. i mean, that's the whole goal of this one federal decision. many of these elements are already the law, but some key aspects like the two year goal are still missing. could you in your view talk a little about this and the state departments of transportation benefit from adding the missing elements of one federal statute. what else would you recommend? >> thank you, mr. chairman, utah and ashtow applauds the trump administration's goal here of trying to get and make this process more efficient and effective. any time we can make this process easier and faster, we're going to improve the investment of public dollars. i believe you know we have to look at the two-year goal kind of in the same light that i look at my goal in utah of zero fatalities. it's a bold goal. but there is a lot of underlying

and he said something about federal land.nd i said well, it's very important that we understand that certain land is used for multiple use and certain land is used for our parks. we follow whatever law you want, but different uses for different purposes, and he said to me, well, there aren't that many people out there. [ laughter ] and i was sort of offended by that. so he didn't vote for me. but, but that is the truth. it is very easy to be 2500 miles away and make a decision about a piece of land that you know nothing about. and i think it is very useful, growing up in rifle, living through the boom and bust, living through the ultimate revitalization, i think that adds a lot to ensuring that decisions are sound. i am relook to initiate radical new programs without a really good sense that i understand the pathway and the consequences of that to the existing community. that is important to me. >> got it. >> another question that i'm seeing coming up pretty repeatedly in his audience solicitations is they are curious about h

and state lands federal force. lance after dean environmental legislations -- equality. everything else -- has less than a big or feed of the turbulence. the reason why this is so important to us is there another federal programs that off the federal for sense that there are run by agriculture, we got to 25% of the receipts from the sale of the timber awful slant and they were 24 of the 36 counties that were heavily reliance upon that money and the other big agency is a bright adjustment rowlands that are fraught i give the railroads -- it was a land scam the government said the land back week at 75% of a cut off of those lands for these counties where those trees are located. the dilemma forces with that than 1 million board feet of tampa. these counties who have for a year relied upon their payments from the federal government behind financial strait today still. there are 12 counties are still heavily reliant on that. it was a cultural problem for them because they had gotten so used. the government gave us 5 mi

the federal reserve sets it 20 basis point under the top range of the federal funds rate. they will continue the overnight repo operations to stablize the federal funds rate. they set the rate on the overnight repos five points under the bottom, 1.7% to keep it within the federal funds rate range. the federal repo options are below median rate at 1.7. rate cut, 25 basis points 1.75 to 2%. three dissents. the last time that happened in 2016, december of 2016. charles? charles: edward real quick they raised gdp to 2%. reporter: yes. charles: from where? >> 2.1%. a small incremental increase. interesting we had dissent in different directions. it shows a very divided fed. last time they had different directions in dissents december 2014 one going one way, one going the other which is what we saw in the statement. charles: we should have been embracing that. wall street hitting on that. edward appreciate it. to break down the statement, former dal asfed advisor danielle dimartino booth, john lonski, paul schatz and cio of the bahnsen group, david bahnsen joins us as well. dani

women frequently end up in federal prison due to federal drug conspiracy laws. too often, federal drug conspiracy laws disproportionately punish those who unknowingly find themselves caught in the net of drug-related activity, even in peripheral role. involved are minimally in drug dealing but have partners or family members involved in the drug trade can be required to serve long senses as a result of -- long sentences as a result of conspiracy. some of these relationships are coercive and leave way -- and leave women with few other options. to the burden of women behind bars is the majority of women in the prison are mothers. since 1991, the number of children with a mother in prison has grown 131%. the majority of these women are custodial parent and primary financial providers. mothers behind bars are five times more likely than men to report that their children are in foster care. the existence of parental relationships and be endangered when a parent is incarcerated. incarcerated parents who have not abused or neglected their children are far likelier to l

>> all federal guidance is welcome.and we look forward to being part of this regulation continuing to he volume of. >> not only is the guidance very helpful to maps credit union as we serve this industry, but it's vital. it provides the compliance framework and it's frankly the rule book that we abide by in order to do this safely and effectively and transparently. >> ms. sherwood? >> i agree. in addition, i think it's critical the banking regulators clearly come out with the guidance that we're to follow as organizations so that we have clear expectations of how to operate. >> all right. thank you. senator brown? >> thanks, mr. chairman. mr. lord, from my opening statement, you can quite suggest that i'm in this whole debate i'm most interested in the workers that work for you and others, union and nonunion companies. you have union and nonunion workers. a couple questions. i want to -- when you first started your business to operate in all cash without a bank account. . what safety risk dz this pose to your workers? >

this is our relationship with the federal government. biggest concern is that government makes promises. after 2019, was 90%. those 80% in every governor knows from experience the government is given, they can take it away and a lot of people say why what i want to do this? we are going to roll our budgets up and hold the bag. we will be the ones who have to hold this no matter what the government says. morgan wasn't one of the states. the medicaid program could fund it but look at it from our position, it's good today, as a consequence for your goodness and we will have to pay for it. we do many times. >> over several years, we were able to wean ourselves off it. over the course of two or three years. you're right, the state has to pick up the slack. i thought it worked well and that there was such an unexpected collapse over revenue structure, the infusion was necessary and unwelcome at that particular time. there were two types of funding that the support was in medicaid and discussion that you discussed. the grants that were competit

, federal, federal. where there is a murder using a vehicle or a gun or an edged weapon, states will prosecute that. >> there's no scenario involved in active violence that is going to violate general purpose state laws. in our most recent tragedy here in el paso, there are capital murder charges have been filed by the district attorney in el paso. it doesn't matter that we can't file a domestic terrorism charge in order to seek the death penalty. it might matter further reasons. >> going back to previous cases of mass violence in the united states, there has been talk after almost everyone about what needs to be done, but not much has happened because of that. lisa, you wrote that regarding domestic terrorism, it's time to turn from talk to action and confront this threat. what specifically do you have in mind? what should be done to fill the gaps that bobby mentioned or addressed other elements of domestic terrorism? lisa: thank you for mentioning piece.ace -- that that piece that we wrote was really a

furthermore, women frequently end up in federal prison due to federal drug conspiracy laws. too often federal drug conspiracy laws disproportionately punish those who unwittingly and unknowingly find themselves caught in the net for drug-related activity. even in a peripheral role. women are -- women who are minimally involved in drug dealing but left with partnersr family members involved in the drug trade can be required to serve long senses as a result of conspiracy. some of these relationships are abusive or coercive and leave women foldable and with few options. women of color often find themselves subjected to prosecution based on the relationship and dissociation rather than their own personal contact. adding to the burden of women behind bars is the majority of women in prison are mothers. since 1991 the number of children with a mother in prison has grown 131%. the majority%. the majority of these women are both custodial parents and primary financial providers. further, mothers behind bars are five times more likely than men to report that the children are in foste

will come from the federal level.epartment of homeland security has done a huge amount of work to secure elections and help states become more aware of their vulnerabilities and to assess them. that is a great role and i hope that continues. host: going back to the state level, if you could pick one or two states that are exemplary and the things that they are doing, and a couple that need improvement, where would you point? guest: across the country, states are really focusing on this process. i do not know if there are one or two better ones. you have the state level and the local level administrator who actually has to be on the ground on election day. the states are taking this seriously. the states that had legacy missy -- machines that date back to 2000 are finding ways to pay for them, states like ohio are doing a great job being proactive. they spent $100 million to improve their voting system. with that said, other states are being a little bit slower to react. i think that is leaving them a little more vulne

contrast this with a 0.2% cost of collecting federal fuel taxes, of the $37 billion in federal fuel tax revenue in 2017, just $75 million went to collection. compare this with the pennsylvania turnpike, which in 2016 spent more than 212 million to collect just over $1 billion. clearly the waste that goes into collecting a toll is simply unacceptable when our more efficient alternatives are available. our user fees should be allocated to build roads and bridges, not to pay excessive tollroad administrative fees, especially at a time when the american society of engineers gives our roads a d grade and there were bridges a grade of c+. another significant problem is diversion of traffic to alternate routes. these routes are likely to be less safe and not as well constructed as a poll highway. it is often claimed that one advantage of polls is a true user fee. motorists pay to use the facility and the tolls cover the cost. in practice this is not always the reality. in most cases, federal law allows states to shift excess tolling revenue to any title 43 eligible purpose, which results in to

and that's what the federal government and federalism is about. you help us when we really need it. >> before we get to the questions, i wanted to just quickly ask you -- by the time you guys were leaving office, you know, the recession technically had ended. the state revenues are not recovered. that took many more years. although vermont was closer to being there than oregon was, but the stimulus money was drying out or had completely dried out. how was that transition -- how did you prepare? you knew it was happening. what were some of the key things that you did to wean yourselves off? >> that's the budgeting challenge that ted alluded to earlier. everybody wants more at a time when resources are temporary enhanced but not overrule long term. so my pitch to the legislature was we've got to recognize that this federal largess is ending over the next couple of years. we had projections on how much it was going to be. but that's when the -- they decided to overspend and couldn't restrain themselves. the state paid for that and facing consistent s

you mentioned federal, federal, federal. where there is a murder using a vehicle or a gun or an edged weapon, states will prosecute that. >> there's no scenario involved in active violence that is going to violate general purpose state laws. in our most recent tragedy here in el paso, there are capital murder charges have been filed by the d.a. doesn't matter that we can't file a domestic terrorism charge in order to seek the death penalty. >> going back to previous cases of mass violence in the united states, there has been talk about what needs to be done and not much has happened because of that. lisa, you wrote that regarding domestic terrorism, it's time to turn from talk to action and confront this threat. what specifically do you have in mind? what should be done to fill some of these gaps that bobby mentioned or other elements of domestic terrorism. . ken who had my role and that piece you wrote was really about calling on all of us, political leaders, citizens, to put aside political and part aside the partisanship

lawful with the federal policies.the 1970 controlled substances act does is it really pushes the framework. the framework of drug control flew a federal policy. we have what we know of in the u.s. context as drug scheduling on a five-schedule scale based on potential for abuse and medical utility. and what we need to to know and see as far as scheduling is concern. schedule i substance is deemed as having a high potential for abuse, and a low potential for medical utility. right. those two factors combined make it to where classification of a substance as a schedule one drug makes it very difficult to access at all through a legal channel, right? and as we move down the scheduling scale those factors just are adjusted, right. schedule ii substance has a lower likelihood for abuse. and has some medical utility until you get down to schedule 5 substances that we should be able to access with limited government regulation and interference. the other important thing that the controlled sins swnss act down ises casey the d

contrast this with the .2% cost of collecting federal fuel the 37-- taxes of billion in federal fuel tax revenue collected in 2017 just 75 million went to collection. compare this with the pennsylvania turnpike which in 2016 spent more than 212 million to collect just over one billion. clearly the ways to go into collecting a toll is unacceptable when far more honest -- efficient alternatives are available. allocatedee should be not to pay administrative fees when the american society of civil engineers gives our roads a degrade and our bridges a grade of c plus. another significant problem is a version of traffic to alternate routes. his routes are likely to be less safe and not as well constructed as the toll highway. it is often claimed that one advantage of tolls is that it is a true user fee. motorists paid to use the facility and the tolls cover the cost. in practice, this is not always the reality. in most cases federal law allows states to ship excess revenue to any eligible purpose. this results in toll payers bankrolling projects that they may not benefit from. in addition,

unlike fire alarms, federal law doesn't currently required federally assisted housing properties to have carbon monoxide detectors. h.r. 1690 would address that by requiring the properties in section 8 public housing and section 202 for elderly folks and section 811 for disabled people have at least one carbon monoxide detector per floor installed. this bill builds on the proactive work of h.u.d. second ben carson in april secretary carson issued a notice to all properties in the programs encouraging them to do just that and followed up a release of $5 million in 23u7bding for the installation of these detectors in public housing. i commend secretary carson for taking that action and issuing that guidance. i also want to thank representative garcia for this legislation. i want to thank senator scott for his work on similar legislation in the united states senate. this is a bill that will save lives and will help make us all safer. i want to commend representative garcia for his great work on this. i would urge its adoption and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: th

from that c layer we summarize that data up to the federal dashboard so that the federal leadership gets a summarized view of what the federal landscape looks like in terms of assets, vulnerabilities, configuration, posture, ultimately users as we bring that data on. so this is the cdm architecture. i'll talk more about our direction here on that shortly. coming back to this slide, one thing we've been really focused on this year, heading into '20 and beyond is operationalizing cdm. to this point we've been working to get the capabilities, the processes out to the agencies so they get the better view of their networks, the better understanding of who their users are. now that we're getting that data, we want them to be able to utilize that data and to utilize it to help understand their risk and better manage their risk, better understand their security posture. so the first thing here i want to point out is with the dashboard architecture, we have over 50 agencies connecting up through the federal dashboard. now to be open and transparent, one of the key things we've been working on in

are they no longer federally recognized? >> that organization you've described has never been a federally recognized tribe. i think it's important for folks in the country to know that there's three federallyn, recognized tribes. the cherokee nation. the easternch band of cherokee indians and the united catua band. there's a lot of organizations that claim cherokee ancestry but those are the three federally recognized tribes. >> tamara in south dakota. good morning. thanks for calling. you're on with our guests. >> good morning. yes, i'd just like to send a warm thank you and good morning to both of the representatives. like to thank them forre standing up and running for their position and representing us as tribal people. i have a question for you. do you think o that most of the tribes could form a unity with each other, kind of an agreement amongst all of our 556 federally recognized tribes that it would: make a difference for where we need to be in congress. >> i know we've both been involved with the national congress

court and federal crime. through that checklist and explain what is aggravating about the case and mitigating and how they affected her chink -- thinking, she could be exposed to a reversal so it is almost a given the judge will go through that checklist in order to influence her sentence from the likelihood of an appeal. >> shepard: here's what's happening right now. the judge said huffman has the smallest bribe, she did not involve the child, she did not repeat the crime, she knew what she did was wrong and trying to be a good mother does not excuse any of this. in addition, we have this, this is from another reporter in the courtroom, trying to be a good mother doesn't excuse, said the judge. so the judge is going through a list of what sounds to be like classic aggravating, mitigating and it sounds boiler plate. >> sometimes you go through the list and literally check it off out loud, number one, number two, number three. sometimes you do it in a colloquial way. >> shepard: the sentence is in. felicity hu

can i come to dc often and me with federal officials out in the field. so far we've done is we work outside of the congress and outside the federal agencies and we will have c some inside the congress so hearing her give that explanation to your s.question i think would show to the country anyone watchingng le him is suited to be delicate for the cherokee nation. >> host: democrat line we hear from janie in oklahoma. >> caller: hello. yes, i just have a question but my family was a member of the western ban of cherokee's arkansas, missouri, are they no longer federally recognized? >> guest: that organization you described has never been a federally organized tribe. i think it's important for folks in the country to know there are three federally organized tribes, cherokee nation, eastern ban of cherokee indians and the united to a ban and there's a lot of different organizations that claim jerky ancestry but those are the three federally recognized tribes. >> host: south dakota, good morning, thank you for calling your on with our guest good morning. yes

that is federally licensed dealers. for those just selling on the internet or at a gun show or something like that and are not federally licensed, there is no screening. there is the loophole. if i am a felon, i will not trying to go to walmart, i can just go to a gun show or online and buy a gun. that is the loophole that hra would close. everybody has to go through this screening process. what we saw in odessa a few weeks ago was a suspect who had failed a federally licensed background check in 2014 in texas, but for this particular shooting was able to buy one from a private seller and of course he killed seven people. the democrats will highlight that tragedy. you mentioned walmart, a story last week you had on the hill, walmart's decision on guns and ammo in certain places. does that have a nice way and how legislators might make their decisions? guest: certainly, or at least that is the hope of gun reform supporters. they believe corporate america getting behind these things will change the dialogue. even if it do

the primary caretaker policies should be adopted within the federal system so that federal judges are required to make the same considerations at sensing. so i look for to today's important test testament of wod girls pathways into prison, but harsh conditions we must survive, and the steps that are necessary for safe and successful return to the community. but i implore the members of this committee and all public officials to prioritize policy changes that will reduce the number of women and girls ever going into a correctional facility. >> thank you. >> because those of the changes that will make us safer. >> ms. kajstura. >> thank you chairwoman bass and ranking member ratcliffe -- >> is your microphone on? >> it says talk. thank you chairwoman bass, ranking member ratcliffe members for finding opportunity to share some data on women's incarceration, not on because this is an issue that's been overlooked for far too long but also because women's expenses in the criminal justice system serve to highlight the faults of the entire system. the u.s. incarcerates women fis rate in the w

federal government's information technology. this is a practical update to an important program that no one should oppose. so i would urge my colleagues to support h.r. 1420 and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. rush: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois yields back the balance of his time. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 1420, as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative -- mr. rush: mr. speaker. on that i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman request the yeas and nays? mr. rush: yes, i do. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficie

not totter, these tend involve increasing federal highway spending, rather modernizing federal law to permit greater flexibility at the state and local level is the best way to address peak hour traffic congestion that plagues many american metropolitan areas. anobel laureate economist and seminal 1963 paper said of the status quote of urban transportation management that in "no other major area our pricing practices so irrational, so out of date, and so conducive to waste," unquote scarce roadway space was inefficiently allocated by nonmarket means, so that the practical result of unpriced urban roads was a degradation of the network. with traffic flows increasingly unstable, travel times would lengthen, and travel time productively would worsen. in attempting to address this due to a lack of pricing, policy makers would then make decisions to inefficiently expand physical roadway capacity, generally at great expense to society. this vicious cycle within repeat itself. to effectively address peak hour traffic congestion, he proposed an electronic variable pricing scheme to promote st

federal courts have been bass tons of due process and the protections included in the federal provisions protect respondents' due process rights. the duration of an order issued to the proceeding contemplated in this bill during which annuity tral judge is limited to 14 days. during which the court will determine after a hearing including participation by the respondent if a long-term order is appropriate. taken together, the provisions n h.r. 1236 have the federal provisions incorporated from an. 3076 provided means that individual exhibits dangerous behavior can be prevented. according to one study, 50% exhibited some warning signs. the combiped bill before us authorizes an individual who has serious concern that someone they know poses an extreme risk to take the action needed to save hives and prevent suicides. 17 states and district of columbia have passed these laws which have proven to be effective. in california, one study found that extreme risk protection orders were where there was concern of a mass casualty event. after connecticut enacted this law, the state experienced a 14

federal agency. each federal agency may have a handful to dozens of offices or creator. and then within each one of those creators, they may have had dozens of collections or series of records. so, for example, the immigration naturalization service, now called the u.s. citizenship and immigration service. so the old i.n.s. they would have had offices at every port of entry, along the border, the coast, airports and even in places like bakersfield. all of a sudden -- odd, right, bakersfield? it happens. so if you think of it. that agency at a certain time couch had hundreds of offices. and all those little offices are creating records and within nose records they create different little records. for example, chinese exclusion case files or alien case files or alien registration case files so a series of records can be comprised of as little as one page or item to tens of thousands of cubic feet of material. we have some records series that are a very small box and we have one series of court records

in our one of the fathers of the basic law and the federal republic's 1st chancellor. this bust a work of sculpture who battles from pilgrim display some of adenauer was biggest influences and life. goes begin. this dance here beneath his right it with cologne cathedral because i know was mayor of cologne until 953. when the nazis came to power he not only had to resign but he also faced persecution. that's what the balland habits represent a period of persecution. you wouldn't. see the rhine river. valley go behind it some hills. they stand for this didn't get to go to each. other now it was very much a rhineland. it's really important especially nowadays with all the talk about europe is the goal with the woman on its back. she's hard to see her arms and head down. yeah bit hard to read no no i'm actually yes that is that's you wrote her on the back of the greek mythology. no it was an early champion of a united europe. along with the french president child to go. they were both through all the old and had both been through 2 world wars by the. by the way they came t

into the federal target range. we made an adjustment on the reserve balances setting it at 20 basis points. and in related action we adjusted the rate on the overnight repurchase facility. we will continue to monitor market developments and conduct operations as necessary to foster trading at rates within the target range. consistent with our decision earlier this year to continue to implement policy policy, we will over time provide reserves so at frequent observations are not. we are committed to stable prices and the committee contemplates the target range and will continue to monitor the incoming information and will act as appropriate to expand the and inflation near its 2% objective. i will be happy to take your questions. reporter: associated press. mr. chairman, when you cut rates n july, you characterized as a mid-cycle adjustment, is that still your view of what is happening? mr. powell: as you can see from the policy statement, we see a favorable economic outlook and strong labor market and 2% objective.

it is not an official finding of the federal reserve board or the federal reserve system. it is just -- by the way, they put it out for public review, you can see their metrics, see all of it, review. you can see the work is exposed to critique. so it's a great tradition that we have. this went after measuring trade policy uncertainty through a couple channels including concerning tariffs and the threat of more tariffs. it looked deeply at the data to try to assess the effects on output. while us would say directly answering your question, there's uncertainty around these affects. it's to try to isolate things is challenging. but we do the best we can. so this this pace piece of research found significant effects. that's frankly consistent with a numb of other resource projects. it's consistent in the beige book. we feel trade uncertainty is having ab affect. hard to quantify presicily though. >> i was struck by the anchored median federal funds through 2020. and that in comparison to the fact you have three groups of opinions around where the rate is is heading. is it fai

so from now on faith-based hbcu will have equal access to federal support.applause] when i came into office i directed the entire federal government to support historically black colleges and universities today 32 federal departments and agencies have released a priority to help institutions receive resources and support that you deserve. for just a few examples nasa is expanding outreach to hbcu students who want to become scientists, engineers, and even astronauts. i don't want to be an astronaut does anybody want to be an astronaut out there? i don't want to i don't see that many hands there's one great person over there. that's great. but what we have done there is terrific if you want to be an astronaut and the other wonderful things it is now possible. department of labor and education are working with t2 - - hbcu to increase apprenticeship opportunities and to prioritize hbcu in the plan to give more students access to state-of-the-art training with high demand fields such as science, technology, engineering and math and we want to help each student t

the federal republic of germany all of west germany was established in 1949. months here. looking back on 70 years of german history and here we see kind of had no assigning the basic law. when the loss of germany was still in ruins but i know i wanted to emphasize the importance of this historic moment. so he used the very grand gilded silverware from cologne town hall in. the start of. the establishment of west and east germany in 1949 sealed the division of the country. became the provisional capital of west germany and the seat of its parliament. its fast freely elected members sat on these chairs. and you all know this tells us something about the 1st west german parliament. we got some of the original seats and created this display also the podium and lectern from which are no and others address the assembly element. we have some speeches about nuclear weapons which was a major issue back then and. i look at some and also lighthearted and even rowdy ones which show how parliamentarians sometimes let rip. important moments from east german history are also on display

what can congress and the federal government do? you can make sure there are basic standards in place. make sure that they naturally have enough to do the work. are they don't, kids sitting in the aisles on top of each other, putting them in enormous danger. if there is a crash on a windy, wine the road, you need to make sure that anyone on a bus route has a real maintenance program in place where kids are not being taken to school with broken mirrors, breaks that have not been expected, or worse. you need to make sure that the companies have real driver in place so the driver with the cdl knows the basics of what to do and what not to do when there are 50 screaming children in the back of the bus. you need to make sure that drivers get a decent wage and real benefits so that good, safe drivers want to do this job, and once they are here, they stay here. the people we asked to drive our children to school are some of the lowest paid professionals. they usually do not get to work 40 hours in a week. you only get paid for nine months

even though a federal statute clearly states that all federal agencies are required to do so. as a result, the gunman was able to unlawfully purchase four firearms, three of which he used to carry out this despicable act. in the wake of any tragedy like this, you can't help but ask what if. in this instance it was our sad duty to ask those questions but we knew the answer. if his criminal record had been uploaded into the f.b.i. background check system, the shooter would have been prevented from purchasing these firearms he used in the attack. it was the worst kind of system failure. and i searched my conscience. i searched the record to try to figure out exactly what we might be able to do toll prevent acts like this from occurring in the future. ten days after the shooting, i introduced a bill called the fix nics act. now, it's a little bit confusing. nics is the national instant criminal background check system, but it was clear that we needed to fix the national instant criminal background check system. hence the name fix nics which is now law. but that law broadened the b

even though federal statute clearly states all federal agencies areeqre required to do so. as a result the gunmen could unlawfully purchase for firearms, three of which he leused to carry out this despicable act. in the wake of any tragedy you cannot help but ask what if and in this instance it was our duty to ask those questions. but we knew the answer. the criminal record was uploaded into the background check system the shooter would have been prevented from purchasing these firearms used in the attack. i have searched my conscience and the record to figure out exactly what we might be able to do to prevent acts like this fromm occurring in the future. ten days after the shootin shooting, introduced a bill call the fix next act. it is a little confusing the national background check system it is clear we don't want to fix it but then that would prevent at a time where division and partisanship are much harder to work together actually we could overcome that divide and provision but i am convinced it will not save it would be two years since those shootings in sutherland

los establishing a federal extreme risk law. the family and friends of those considering suicide could be educated on the effective, lifesaving resources. however, if we are to require our federal system to implement extreme risk reduction orders and place the onus on them to enforce these, we must ensure that the federal court system has the resources to do so. the judicial conference currently believes district court systems are understaffed, burdening judges and impeding their ability to justice in their own courtrooms. in fact, a 2019, the judicial conference recommended that the northern district of georgia hire at least one additional permanent judge to alleviate the judges.n current additionally, the workload of magistrate judges has increased since 2014, with an 8% increase of total matters disposed off these judges. in fact, the last government shutdown severely restricted federal court operations allowing, president trump to not only hold federal employees hostage, but our judicial system as well. had the president not

courts, federal appeals court rulings of intentional race dissemination and voting?> the case in guam that i talked testified about, you can literally have on the voter registration form a love ancestry test, it's on the folder. you have to save your parents are. and it says you have to have the right line before you can vote. and the court in the ninth circuit ruled this is intentional discrimination . we often hear, and i understand that circuit courts prompt district courts but we oftenhear about the surgical precision quote . we hear that over and over on a but the reality that really bears reading is the lower court ruling which i understand was reversed , but it was a rare , many hundred page factual finding that there was not intentional discrimination. it is not often an appeals court reverses factual findings but they did in that case . >> has never been easier to voting this country, in other words it seems we've made a lot of progress on access to voting. i wonder if you elaborate on that. >> i think there's awareness among elected officials at the state l

the projections show a very divided federal reserve. seven fomc members forecast a third cut this year. that is one more from where we are now. that would bring the rate down to 1.63% or the average rate. five members see no need for any cuts at all. they didn't even want the one today. if everybody had a vote. not all the members vote it would have been five dissents from today if they voted that way and five more forecast just the one cut this year. put it all together and do all the imagine. the median is at -- this is it in terms of cuts that's the median of the funds rate forecast for the federal reserve. that said, the plurality does see one more cut coming which is seven, does it include the chairman we don't know. that's going to be important now, the fed also lowered the interest on excess reserves, and another administrative rate in order to atept to get ahold of the fed funds rate, which as we've been reporting has been trading outside of the funds rate target. let me go through quickly now, the assessment of the economy, and

today in federal court, federal prosecutors allege that abdul majeed marouf ahmed alani had tied to isis saying, again, according to federal prosecutors, that he downloaded isis video on his phone and sent it to other individuals. also we know coming out of court that prosecutors said that alani had traveled to iraq this year and that he sent some $700 in payment to someone in iraq around july of this year. this was all in the context of the bond here. prosecutors making an argument about what bond the judge should grant, and in the end, after all of this, the judge said his bond was denied, but really striking information coming out here that, you know, originally this mechanic told investigators, look, this was all about a labor dispute. i was upset about it. i -- i tampered with the plane because i wanted to get overtime. essentially thought by doing that the plane would need to come back, which it did, and he as a mechanic would have to then fix it and he would get overtime. but now these prosecutors are kind of inserting other information here suggesting that he has ties to isis, bu

. >> now, a look now at the federal role in improving school bus safety. the house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee on highways and transit heard from brenda sue fulton, among others. >> today is a timely hearing with children out of school. to see what needs to be done to keep them safe. i'm interested in keeping them safe not only as a get on and off school buses but in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. it is true that school buses have a relatively safe safety record. it is also true that children are injured every day or every year in bus related crashes. more than, i believe, and most accidents, we owe it to our children, to these students to examine why these fatalities occur and what can be done to prevent them. there are school buses in my own district. most take other modes of transportation, including walking, biking or riding in a car, going on public transportation. children are often at greater risk outside the school bus than inside it. 264ave figures showing students who died in school transportation relate

federal law, if a state wants to ask for a federal emergency declaration, that request has to be made to the federal government by the top elected official in the state. the request specifically has to come from the governor of the state, by law. in the state of north carolina, the governor is a democrat, roy cooper. and his party affiliation is something that should not matter at all when there is a hurricane looming off the coast of his state. but it was democratic governor roy cooper on monday who made the formal request to the federal government to declare a emergency in north carolina ahead of this oncoming storm. it had to be him who made the request. that's the law. the governor is the only public official who can make that request. but the white house, the president himself even decided to lie about that. stating instead that the federal government was making this declaration of an emergency in north carolina at theequest of, not the democratic governor there, but instead at the request of one of the state's republican u.s. senators who happens to be up for reelection next yea

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