federal financial regulators, including the federal reserve, the federal deposit incorporation and the comptroller of the currency increased the threshold from $250,000 to $5,000 -- excuse me -- $500,000. unfortunately, the small business administration's threshold for the real estate heavy 504 c.d.c. loan program is set in statute at $250,000. the conflicting numbers produce confusion for and burdens on small business owners and organizations that strive to assist them. h.r. 6348, the small business access to capital and efficiency act, as known as the small business ace act, modernizes and benchmarking the s.b.a.'s 504 c.d.c. threshold value with the value set by the federal financial regulators. this commonsense legislation will prevent future threshold changes from hampering small businesses that utilize the s.b.a.'s many lending products. i want to thank mr. curtis of utah for leading the efforts of this bill as well as ranking member velazquez and mr. evans. his broad bipartisan support, i you urge yes on h.r. 6348 and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: th

they said their federal response . put a contract with the former permanent minister and what they said. they have to work together to deliver results pray that as a result we are seeing in british columbia. we've got all levels of government working together to effectively build the right kind of support of housing, to depopulate the shelter and give municipalities the capacity they require when natural disasters are in canada or circumstances outside canada create surge and demand for emergency housing. we've got to get away from having emergency housing at 100% in this country. it is not effective or humane or cost-effective way to deal with issues. the province of quibec has been very focused long before there was a border issue. the homeless count in montrial -- in montreal and quebec are significantly lower than in other cities. why? because a provincial government has made it a priority to hold emergency housing in reserve instead of using as full-time capacity. and that surge capacity now with federal resources

you were talking about federal funding, there are billions of dollars for federal funding used for that. they go to state and locals before the disaster to help them plan and prepare. after the disaster, more that money is spent. we have been encouraging the federal government to emphasize making sure the money after the disaster goes to rebuild infrastructure not the way it was before, but in a way that is going to be resilient to the risks we know will happen. host: we are in the florida keys where hurricane irma made landfall. go ahead. caller: you talk about funding for evacuation. i am in a wheelchair. hurricane shelter for my county, they were totally unprepared for the amount of people. one restroom for men and one for women for 130 people. then we were transferred to -- shelter. they were still unprepared for us. then you speak of the amount of hurricanes, what about andrew and the 1935 labor day hurricane? what is the amount? how many servicemen were down here in the keys in 1975? they were being evacuated by the flagler railroad and were caught in the hurricane. guest: thank y

at the federal level, we need the federal protection there as well. our recommendations have been asking to be more specific and stringent on improving the demonstrations, to give more information on the sources and uses of the money states are using to find their share of the program that they are not shifting costs, so the federal government needs to be vigilant. while it is very appropriate, i agree states need flexibility, and has to also protect the federal fist. in the past, there have been approvals given to the states that have not protected the federal government interest, and that is what is driving the cost miss sharon and i have had conversations about this. she agrees, and hopefully they will move in that direction. you can give flexibility and accountability, but you also need to protect the federal government interest. >> just during this hearing great here, i have already got three, four, five other ideas for more hearings to start drilling down. i've got a lot of questions, let's first start talking a little bit about what you are tal

parts of the federal budget, too. but this is about 30% that goes through the annual appropriations process that congress gets to control on an annual basis. if they don't pass all of those bills to fund the government agencies by the end of the fiscal year, which happens to be september 30th, sunday in this case, then those agencies are not funded. they can't function because there's no authority for them to spend, so the employees would have to stay home, and whatever services those employees would be providing wouldn't happen. so every year we seem to have this cliffhanger where congress waits until the last minute like kids doing their homework, and so we don't have funding for the full government approved yet. three bills actually have passed, so those agencies wouldn't shut down. but the rest of the government, including a very big bill that's up for a vote today, still has yet to be passed. and that big bill, assuming that it passes the defense and labor, health and human services have combined two big bills, i

i think there's a role for the federal government in looking at federal payers, how do federal payersage pre- authorizations? billing requirements. and there's much more of a role from health insurance plans, in taking ownership of this issue and taking steps to streamline these requirements to make it easier. >> thank you for sharing your story. i think it's really important to recognize the impact on patients and i know as we've been talking about this, that's where we need to start. thinking about the burden on families, and caregivers, i think getting to a truly interoperable system where those medical records are able to be accessed, at any point in time in any place, and being able to do so in an electronic fashion and tap into them, senator isaacson touched on some of the interoperability challenges. health plans are committed to being part of the solution but we can only be one part because it has to work between plans, has to work between providers and also has to work between federal government. so aligning a lot of those standards and making it simpler, more automated in re

the federal level, we nee the federal protection there as well.t the federal level, we ne the federal protection there as well.t the federal level, we ne the federal protection there as well. the federal level, we nee the federal protection there as well. to get money states are using to fund their share of the program that they're not shifting costs. the federal government needs to be individual levigilant. it's very appropriate. it has to protect the federal fists. in the past there's been approvals given to the state that hadn't protected the federal government interest. that's what's driving the cost. >> thank you. just during this hearing here i've got about four or five other ideas for hearings. i got a lot of questions. let's talk about what you were talking about. read a really interesting article. 20% of the working age adult males are permanently out of work force. more than half are on some kind of pain medication, often times using medicaid. we issued a report based on that. just in three days when i asked my staff to take a look at the diversion, the use of medicaid card

federal government, we're large. we need to do what large businesses do which is provide that a paid family leave. so i am committed, and that's why i have the support of narf, because they know i will have their back, and i will stand the up to anyone who is trying to take those pay raises away. i have, i've done the it, and i will continue to do it, and i have sponsored the legislation for the pay increase that my colleagues have -- and that's bipartisan here in this area, and it always has been. [applause] >> moderator: very good, thank you. senator wexton, the same question, please. wexton: president trump's announcement that he will freeze federal workers' pay and fail to give them raises that were scheduled is just another attack on federal workers. [applause] he's attacked their work -- their righteds, he's made it easier for them to be reassign ised, to change their schedules and held back their grievance procedures. now, my opponent is saying that she is a friend of the federal workers, but what she's not te

would you agree the ftc is the appropriate federal agency to enforce any future federal privacy standards, again yes or no? >> yes. >> yes, senator. >> yes, senator. >> yes. >> i think they have a rule. i think effective enforcement is important. but i think there may be options on additional enforcement mechanisms so i guess that is a qualified yes. >> thank you. >> yes. >> mr. enright i have a question and i ran out of time but i'll be back talking to you i hope in -- if we have an additional round on data portability in your testimony. thank you very much. >> thank you, senator moran. senator schatz. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you all for being here. we're here at least partly because a lot of you are worried very much about just gdpr and the california law so let's lay that out and you want something that you can work with so you don't have to navigate 50 different statutory frameworks. i understand that. and i think there is an opportunity to do something meaningful, but as mr. trouble said, we should make sure that we do something meaningful and i understand that from the stan

so the federal -- so this new federal rule means that 60 days after it is published in the federal registerumers -- ensurers in those states will be able to offer these consecutive short-term plans held together with a renewal guarantee that protects the enrolly from being underwritten after enrollment because they got sick. in other states not so clear. well in some states they won't be able to do that. new jersey just bans short-term plans. but in some states it is a little less clear. arizona, for example, limits the length of short-term plans to 185 days and said they can't be renewed for longer than 180 days. so it would seem to limit short-term plans in arizona to just one -- to just one year. however, if you look at the statute that arizona uses to regulate health insurance you'll find the same feature we find in the federal statute which is arizona law defines health insurance coverage as a health care plan or arrangement that pays for or furnished medical or health services. and what that means is that the governor of arizona or the department of insurance or what have you, can do

that federal policy will have to be strong. that bill which i have introduced for years which is the consent act basically says people should have a right to acknowledge information is gathered but notice it could be reused for those purposes but they also have a right to say no. so will twitter support a federal privacy bill that requires companies in a clear and concise way what information is collected about them what is used in shared and retained? >> twitter already has those in place that is paramount for those we support those legislations. >> and with that transparency with consumers. >> yes. >> yes. >> of course requiring transparency is the first step but then we have to move on to say we don't want the information to be shared with anyone else. and what they are engaging in that relationship. and with that to have those consumers rights with the data to be sold with others. >> and we do not sell personal information and we reserve the right to share not so with consent. >>. >>. >> yes senator. >> yes. >> yes. >> havi

we are here to talk about a change, that the federal government has made in how it lends federal health insurance laws and regulations, this is a change that has not really received the attention that it deserves, because it really is a bit revolutionary. it is a huge victory for those who are fighting for better and more affordable, more secure, healthcare. it is a huge big three for those who want and have been trying to provide relief to consumers from obama care, and that is where it is really a more significant step, that anything at that congress and the government have done so far. it is a more significant step than congress's repeal of the individual mandate penalty for example, which lists at the end of 2019. and it is a change that could alter the political dynamics of this issue of healthcare reform in a way that leads to more innovations, that makes health insurance and healthcare, access to medical care better and more affordable, and more secure. so what i want to talk about, are really three things. first, how this change has basically made obama care optional. you can st

i want to thank the power companies and federal workers. we also have to thank some of the power companies, because they have been responsive. of despair, we see the true character of the american people. citizens all across our country rallied together to rescue the stranded, to protect the innocent, and to restore hope to who experienced tremendous and unbearable loss. i want to thank all of the people here today, a very special group of people, very talented. we love working with you. it is an honor to work with you. we have done a good -- a real job, and we have to continue to do this real job. another phase is coming in, and we will meet it like we did phase one. thank you to everybody very much. whatever we have to do at the federal level, we will be there 100%. secretary nielsen, please. >> i wanted to start by thank ing you for your leadership. [indiscernible] we greatly appreciate everyone's partnership. i would like to ask the administrator to give us a brief update on where we are. president, as you know, disaster response like t

this federal reserve, we could do a whole class on the federal reserve. in short, one of the country's wealthiest financiers in u.s. history, j.p. morgan, designed the federal reserve. it loans out the money at 1% or it is rest, that's where now, to lending banks, goldman sachs, jpmorgan, bank of america, and then they lend out at a higher rate of interest, making a profit from the difference, to ordinary people like you or to businesses. more often than not, they will use that money created and lend it to hedge funds, futures, derivatives. it is a very important institution. a cornerstone of the current day banking system, of the currency. if you look very closely at a one dollar bill, it doesn't say u.s. treasury note at the top. it says federal reserve note. same if you look any five dollar bill or $10 bill or $20 bill. look at that. there he is. andrew jackson himself. that's strange. what is he doing on that bill? call me crazy, but that almost looks intentional. am i right? almost like a gotcha, we win. like if you are a big game hunter and kill som

and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized tribes. the tribe as can of receiving federal recognition, services and benefits must submit to the secretary of interior a membership roll consisting of the name of each individual member of the tribe and must maintain such membership role -- roll. the act directs the secretary of interior to acquire for the benefit of the tribe a trust titled to 200 acres of land within the tribe's service area to be used for a tribal land base. i appreciate the work of chairman gray and the little shell people for continuing this fight for recognition. i urge adoption of the measure and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from massachusetts. ms. tsongas: thank you, mr. speaker. federal recognition of native american tribes is critical to protecting their tribal sovereignty and restoring the tribe's ability to control its land, its water and its resources, as well as the ability to govern and to protect the health, safety

attention is to be from the standpoint of the life safety mission so with that will invite inner federal partners. florence, excuse me. >> do you feel confident you are following the law as it relates -- >> we'll get to floyd -- florence, excuse me, we'll get to floors and will push forward and concentrate on the life safety issues, thank you. [inaudible] >> linda? all right. so in regards to florence, just because the wind speeds came down, the intensity of the storm came down to a category two, please do not let your guard down. the storm surge forecastle social with the storm has not changed. it has remained the same. here's why. as the system has been encroaching on the coast of the winfield is expanded. what you will see an matter of hours is these when bands are perceived the circulation going to start pushing water up against the coast but more importantly up the backbench inland areas. storm surge is not a problem just along the coastline. it's going to be a major problem way up into the streams and tributaries that come out of sound areas to push up into the sounds. this is a ve

for federal data? >> i want to distinguish between the national background investigation piece that jeff is talking about. >> why? >> the national defense authorization act a few years ago actually directed the transfer of 70% of that to the department of defense. >> so it's a statutory -- >> yes. but gsa -- department of defense is gsa's largest customer. so we do help them and partner with them on i.t. and cyber security. we partner with almost every agency in providing them assistance. >> you know, i think this is fascinating. i think this will be one of the introductory meetings. i just, again, do not want to be in that spot where i have to -- it just gets passed -- the responsibility gets passed along. you know, where i would be completely comfortable that you two are collaborating and there isn't going to be finger pointing, i don't know what that's going to look like in five years or eight years, so we have to design these systems not based on the personalities of the people in front of us but b

the federal marshal comes in and enforces their right to vote. this is a moment when the federal presence is really trying to create an understanding about who belongs there. up a few years and follow up on steve's earlier point. the federal government is making a lot of decisions about the west. 1861 when moment in the southern states secede from the federal -- from congress to form the confederacy. i wonder if you could address what that means for the west. there is a period of years where the south doesn't get to decide what goes on in the west. >> it transforms the nation very dramatically. the homestead act, the pacific railway act, which we should talk about more here in terms of what will road stew, the more lacked. but land-grant act for colleges. western states would not be what they are without the universities. those three, in the essence of southern opposition that has been thwarted, suddenly those i'll pass. they have an immense impact on what the west becomes. >> railroads is a good point. that is important both before and after. th

federalism. sometimes for good, sometimes for bad depending on your view. we have an index of cronyism to understand that particular problem with our body politics. in terms of ranking, drumroll please. in terms of fiscal policy you can see that florida does well. it's our number one state followed by new hampshire, tennessee, pennsylvania, north dakota, and new york, a state that in a tweet today said we were saying was it tyrannical hellhole is number 50. thank you paul. we appreciate that. always good press to hear from a nobel laureate. in terms of -- its kansas, nebraska, idaho, iowa and indiana. when you look at economic freedom which is fiscal and regulatory policy, you can see that florida is performing best across the board. in regulatory policy, florida is not as good as it is on fiscal policy. it's an area they can improve the most relative to other states. new york performs quite badly. in terms of personal freedom, things change. new york is not number 50, it is only number 40. you s

in terms of federal payers, i think they vary enormously. the medicare program probably involves less administrative costs for providers than the medicaid program does. the reason is that preauthorization requirements are minimal in the medicare, with the exception of medicare advantage. but the preauthorization is relatively small. by and large it eliminates some of those costs. medicaid is somewhat different. patients turn a lot from one plan to another and one system to another. that is difficult for a lot of providers, because it is not entirely clear who will be insuring the patient when the patient comes for services or even if that patient will be insured at all. it is something where it is havoc on providers, not just on lost revenue, it increased expense on having to monitor patients and collect from them. >> in your response, you referenced the coding and the severity levels and you discussed it. the severity neutral payment, where providers are paid more with some exceptions for more severe cases. what agreements between providers

we are beginning the process and ourr federal help county people. we would like to thank our local responders and all of the help they has given to deal with people there on the ground. we are starting to figure out how to get back. we will do it in a smart and strong way. i've been grateful for secretary admiral, theor the coast guard, for helping to rescue people. mr. president, brock long, eddie lewis.ie great emergency director in mike sprayberry. general of the national guard has been doing an excellent job. our jointx goes with military exercise, we are grateful to the members of the u.s. military who have stepped through this us process. inhave got a long road ahead the days, months, and even years sure we build back where we need to be in north carolina. you are here, and i am asking , everyr, for your help step of the way. federale of these agencies is going to help us cut red tape and make sure we can be smart about this rebuilding process. we still understand a lot of people have immediate needs that will be critically important over the

i want to think the para companies and all of the federal workers. i want to thank the power companies because they been very responsible. soon as that water goes down, for the most part, people have power. moments of despair, we witness the true character of the american people. citizens all across our country rallied together to rescue the stranded, to protect the innocent, and to restore hope to families who have experienced tremendous and unbearable loss. i want to think all of the people here today, a very special group of people, a group of people, and we love working with you. we've done a real job and we're going to canoe -- continue to do that real job. we're going to meet that save just like phase one. governor, i appreciate it. and to everybody, thank you very much. whatever we have to do with the federal level, we will be there 100%. start by i would thanking you for your leadership. [inaudible] through the private sector, [inaudible] andre all working together under your leadership, we greatly appreciate your leadership in partnership. i

>> the federal role is very important? as you have heard me say, nothing is more important than our stability of our capital markets. i think it is important to regulators that we are very vigilant. we do not take lightly ever putting the taxpayers on the line to support an institution. should we read that as no more? >> it is important for us to orderly of our financial system. it is something i do not take like the dust likely. the other thing i want to focus on is the way our financial system came together that those institutional leaders coming together to do things to support the market and that is what i want to see continue to happen here. can you just tell us how this happened and how did we get there? beyond housing correction, take us back. how did we get here? accesst of all, we have that has built up for a long period of time. number two, we have an archaic financial structure. it came in place after the depression. it really needs to be rebuilt. then there are certain things like fannie and freddie. , what we

we're going invite in our federal partners. florence. excuse me. >> reporter: you are following the statutes as it relates to the use -- >> we'll get to floyd -- florence. excuse me. we'll get to florence and we're going to push forward and concentrate on the life/safety issues. all right. so with regards to florence, just because the wind speeds came down, the intensity of the storm came down to a cat 2, don't let your guard down. the storm surge associated with the storm hasn't changed. it remains the same. here is why, the as the system is encroaching on the coast, the wind field expanded. what you'll see in the next coming hours the wind bands that far proceed the center of circulation will push water against the coast. more importantly, up the back bay and inland areas. storm surge is not a problem just along the coastline. it's going to be a major problem way up into the streams and tributaries that come out of sound areas that push up into the sounds like the west sides of the pamcoe sounds. this is a very dangerous storm. many of

are we likely to see federal involvement like we did with fannie, freddie. >> the federal role is also very important because as you've heard me say, nothing is more important than the stability of our capital so i think it's important to regulate remain very vigilant. we are very vigilant. we do not take, and i do not take lightly the taxpayer on the line to support an institution. >> can we read it as no more. >> don't read it as no more, read it as i think it's important for us to maintain the stability of our financial system, moral hazard is something i don't take lightly , the other thing i think i would like to focus you on is the way our financial system came together. leaders coming together to do things to support the markets and that's what i would like to see continue to happen. >> put aside for a second the specific demand, can you just tell us how this happened and how do we get there? beyond housing correction, take us back to him explain to the american people, how do we get here. >> i would say first of all we have access, excesses that have built up prolonged period o

you practice in federal court. i have too, you have, too.ew that the information presented to me had material holes in it, and they wasn't told the truth and i wasn't told all the information, and i put my name on a federal warrant, and i'd want to hold somebody in contempt and hold a hearing to find out what the hell took place. we'll be right back. ... th obesity lose weight and keep it off. contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain: your hunger center... i'm so hungry. (avo) and your reward system... ice cream. french fries. (avo) to help control cravings. one ingredient in contrave may increase suicidal thoughts or actions in some children, teens, and young adults in the first few months. serious side effects are mood changes like depression and mania, seizures, increased blood pressure or heart rate, liver damage, glaucoma, allergic reactions, and hypoglycemia. not for patients with uncontrolled blood pressure, seizure history, anorexia, bulimia, drug or alcohol withdrawal, on bupropion, opioids, maois, allergy to the ingre

the federal government when we got rid of federal deductibility in our tax bill this year.ook theid was we the state tax revenue we were going to get, that was more money they were going to have to pay in state tax, and we decided to give that back through an across-the-board income tax cut and we phase of -- the elimination of deductibility over the next few years. it we didn't do anything that jeopardizes federal matching funds. islands are onof the national stage. how is senator grassley doing in your opinion? guest: i think he's doing a fantastic job. i think we will see a new supreme court justice before the election this year. i thinks that's what his timeline is. it i think he is doing a i think he is doing a fantastic job. full disclosure, i worked on his reelection campaign. the governor is now an ambassador. it you stay in touch with him? not as much as i used to. my brother got to tour the embassy in shanghai. i think the governor is doing a great job. it's a big challenge he has in front of him. i know his personal relationship is apresident xi tremendous advant

i want to thank the power companies, and the federal workers. we also have to thank some of the power companies, because they have been very responsive. as soon as the water goes down, for the most part, people have power. in moments of despair, we witness the true character of the american people. so true. citizens all across our country rallied together to rescue the stranded, to protect the innocent, and restore hope to families who have experienced tremendous and unbearable loss. i want to thank all of the people here today. a very special group of people. very talented group of people. and we love working with you. it's an honor to work with you. we have done a real job and we have got to continue to do that real job, because another phase is coming in now and we will meet this phase like we met phase one. so governor, again, thank you very much. i appreciate it. and whatever we have to do what the federal level, we will be there. you know that 100%. and secretary nielsen -- >> i wanted to start by thanking you for your leadership. [indisce

manafort told a federal court judge. as part of his plea, he admitted two years of financial crimes to and his money from the irs promised to tell the government about his participation and knowledge of all criminal activity. we are going to get a report from a reporter who has been covering this. we are going to talk to kelly: from the washington examiner. let's go to kelly. kelly, good morning. can you hear me? guest: i can. host: what did paul manafort plea to yesterday? guest: he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the u.s., which is seems a little vague, and he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. he basically pleaded guilty to everything that he was accused of by the special counsel. he had seven charges against him in washington. he was charged with 18 things in the eastern district of virginia and alexander. the jury deadlocked on 10 of them. even though the only pleaded guilty to two things, he basically admitted to doing all of the other things, and he said he was going to cooperate with muel

the federal army occupied nashville in february 1862. it is the first confederate state capital to fall down and they basically extend their range from that point on. toy go south, eventually hold the campaign in 1863 and to chattanooga and into georgia. i looked at the garrisons. federal garrisons that had to spring up on the railroad to protect union supplies coming from louisville, kentucky to nashville and then beyond. you are in no man's land. these garrisons are a couple companies of men with a captain -- lieutenant colonel or a captain or a lieutenant colonel or you have the soldiers on the ground. the only people they can trust our african-americans for intelligent and support. the one argument is these commanders on the ground are basically foundries for the people there living with. we are not going to touch the railroads, don't attack our soldiers. if you do that, we will punish you. that is exactly what happened. there were people who shot into -- colonelernel marched his people into town and said if you do that again, i will

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second, every effort should be use human readable federal -- human readable paper ballots. all states should be using human readable paper ballots by 2020. states should mandate risk limiting audits. with current technology this requires the use of paper ballots. states and local jurisdictions should begin with programs and work towards full implementation. this should be implemented for all federal and state contests and local contest where feasible. risk limiting audits can determine whether a reported election outcome reflects a current -- a correct tabulation of the votes cast. internet or any network connected to the internet should not be used for the return of life ballots. internet voting should not be used in the future until or unless robust guarantees are developed and in place as no known technology guarantees the secrecy of a marked ballot that is transmitted over the internet. election administrators should routinely assist the integrity of voter registration databases and it integrity of databases connected to other -- andy integrity of databases connected to

our report recommends steps that the federal government -- including congress, federal agencies, the u.s. election assistance commission and state and local jurisdictions, universities and vendors of voting technology -- should take to improve the security of election infrastructure and to safeguard its integrity and credibility. the committee makes the following five key recommendations: and the numbering on these recommendations is as they appear in the full report where all 41 recommendations are numbered consecutively. first, elections should be conducted with human readable paper ballots. these may be marked by hand or machine using a ballot of marking device, and they may be counted by hand or machine. recounts should be conducted by human inspection of the human readable portion of the paper ballots. voting machines that do not provide the capacity for independent auditing, machines that do not produce a voter verifiable paper trail, should be removed from service as soon as possible. paper ballots are evidence that cannot be manipulated by faulty software or hardware, and the

under the federal actions campaign act. but the law contains other clauses that focus on what are not campaign expenditures when is called personal use and you can't convert your campaign funds to personal use. so what the court says and statute says very clearly and what the fec has said in its regulations is that something is not an expense that arises directly out of the campaign, for example, you rent office for campaign headquarters you hire campaign manager, you pay for tv ads, you print up buttons and bumper stickers those are all things you are doing because you're running for office. but the fact that something helps your campaign, doesn't make it a campaign expense. for example, i decide i would look better on the campaign trail if i had my teeth whitened, not a campaign expense. i want a new suit to look good at a debate, not a campaign expense. to take something that's more relevant to what we've seen going on recently, you know, i allude to the trump payments to some of these women who allege affairs and so on,

within our federal government there are 26 agencies awarding federal grants and all of them ontinue to rely on outdated, burdensome, dumont-based forms to collect and track grant dollars. society has moved into a new age of information and folknology and it's time that our government follow suit. adopting a government-wide open data structure for all the willmation grantees report alleviate compliance burden prorksvide instant insights for grant orr agencies and congress and provide easy act stose day tafment digitizing and therefore automating the reporting process would have a two-fold effect. first, it would allow greater scrutiny of how the money is being spent. second, it allows grantees to maximize every dollar they receive from the government to ensure it goes back into communities supporting local businesses, organizations, and education. in order to fix the way federal grants are reported, we must move from a document-centered reporting system to a data super highway. i urge my colleagues in the house and senate to support the great act and bring grant reporting into the 21st

these are areas in which federal court decisions and federal legislative efforts have reduced federalism. sometimes are good, sometimes for bad depending on your view. we also have an index of cronyism to kind of understand that particular problem with our body politic. in terms of the rankings, drumroll, please come in terms of fiscal policy you can see florida does really well. it's our number one state on fiscal policy followed by new hampshire, tennessee, pennsylvania, north dakota. in new york, state that paul krugman in a tweet today said that we were saying was a heretical hellhole, is number 50 -- tyrannical. thank you, paul. always good press to her from a nobel laureate. in regular policy chances that the number one state followed by nebraska, idaho, iowa and indiana and yet again new york performs really stellar there. and now when you look at economic freedom, which is both fiscal and regulatory policy, you can seek in that lord is performing best across-the-board although in regulatory policy lord is actually as good as it is on fiscal policy or on personal freedom for that

we are looking at f.t.a., federal transit authority -- federal transit authority funding for fixed guide way, possibly for core capacity, small starts or new starts. as i mentioned we're working closely with the f.t.a. and t.a. to help not just identify funds but to program them into the years that we need them. and then we'll be looking at other federal, state, local and regional funding sources, including regional measure three and additional possible funding from transit center. and i'll just -- i'll leave you with this slide of another perspective of how we envision market street, but i'm also available to answer any questions that you have. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, ms. olia. are there any questions? commissioner kim? >> supervisor kim: thank you for the update on market street. i know over the years, i have asked about the better vision and purpose of market street, particularly given the immense cost of the improvement plan at 600 million. and i think i still -- you know, i want to ask the same question i've asked before which is really what is the purpose and vision and ki

the federal reserve has indicated we could see as many as four interest rate hikes this year.ple are questioning that because you have unprecedented situation not only with the strengthening economy but with the fed trying to unravel this balance sheet of 4 1/2 trillion dollars. how worried are you that the fed will be able to manage this and do this without real disruption to markets? >> so the balance we're always debating, i'm always thinking about with my team at the fed is and at the dallas fed we're doing a lot of work on this, you don't want to be accommodative at a time when you're meeting your dual mandate, meaning you are at or past full employment and we're meeting our 2% inflation goal. that's a point at which you don't want to be overstimulating because what happens is other excesses build up, excess leverage and other issues that can be painful to deal with later. on the other hand, you don't want to raise rates so fast that you choke off or suffocate the expansion. so that's the balance. my own view, and where i come out in that debate is we ought to be moving t

coast guard and prepared to rapidly open federal channels, other navigation. and finally in flood response we are integrated state and local county governments to provide assistance and flood fighting both before the storm and after. thank you. >> thank you. next up are partners of the coast guard rear admiral. >> the safety of the people in hurricane florence path of the own coast guard men and women and the film is our top priority and were looking close concert with fema and other federal, state and local partners in preparing for this storm. in preparation for the storm we've taken the following actions. the ports of wilmington and morehead city north carolina as was the entrants to the chesapeake bay have been closed and in preparation also for the storm we pre-staged shallow water response boats as well as bring an additional search and rescue aircraft and air station savannah georgia and we moved aircraft out of the air station to be ready to come in behind the storm as it has it is safe to fly those missions. coast guard is pre-staging of the deployabl

i served as chief economist for the federal communications commission and i have written and researched how we allocate radio spectrum and the airwaves are going to wireless communication for about 30 years now. that's a great question. now much time do we have? we are getting something a lot more right than we used to. the basic framework of the system which comes from the 19th 27 radio act the brainchild of herbert hoover before he was president. he was secretary of commerce. he was the first regulator of radio. you wanted a lot more discretion through the government licensing prospect over what got out the radio world. wasn't that concerned about being a traffic cop which had already been solved more or less in a reasonable way but he wanted more discretion over who got the broadcast and what they said. interestingly enough the radio industry at the time they actually wanted a similar system and they wrote the basic language the public interest standard goes into the 1927 radio act. for decades lots of technology tries to get in the market it has a hard time. we went through a lot of

entities and our federal partners. we have a common asking picture which is the request we are getting are or believe we will be getting from other partners and we have a common tasking picture. so we understand what assets from what entity within the department are being september to support the response to the storm. we have had that in place. we have had made significant improvements based on those three storms that were overlapping, creating did he pletion of resources that was unprecedented. >> the close collaboration we have established between fema and the governors is allowing us to populate before the needs before the formal process has been completed. i think the relationship we have right now is as strong as it has been between the federal forces, local and state forces and fema and under administrator bureaucracies long. >> question about pre-positioning. believe before hurricane irma -- [indiscernible] >> as we look at this storm, do you foresee the guards that will be able to handle after the storm may no

federal soldiers, the marines, state and federal officers stormed thee city's police headquartersrsthisrmining them and takiking control.. state authorities made enough and on social media, saying no one was hurt and two commanding officers were arrested. entiresay the city's police force will be investigated to link the criminal groups. in a statement, state authority said the decision was due to the increased incidence of crime that is been registered and a lack of action by municipal police to deal with the criminal phenomenon. once a favorite vacation destination for the wealthy, acapulco has fallen on hard times. located in the barreiro s state, warring cartels have made it a dangerous place. the city has a homicide rate of 103 mururders for everyone at thousand people. stripping local police of the iner is a frequent practice mexico as s the government grapples with widespread crime and corruption. in the past four years, federal forces have done so in a dozen towns, but never in his largest city is acapulco. host: you are watching live from paris on france 24. don't cross us or t