guest: across the entire federal continuum, at openthebooks.com, we have given oversight to federal grantmaking. it is a tremendous amount of money. in rough numbers, the federal government doles out as many grants as the entire military defense budget spent, almost a 1:! basis. 1:1 basis. cornell university took nearly $1 million for a study on where it hurts the most to be stung by a bee. light nasa tech $1 million to repair the world's meeting after terrestrial is in -- extra terrestrial beings. -- boeing was the leader. of $1ot three quarters billion worth of grants out of federal agencies. those are subsidies. the process is supposed to be you apply for a grant -- and obviously, the big corporations have the human resources and the ability to navigate federal grantmaking and take a tremendous amount of dollars. 2017, $3992014 to .illion for funding in total from those, $3.2 billion. contracts made up the bulk of that. where can people go online to read this? guest: we have a report at openthebooks.com, right on the home pages. it is the first report up on the right side in the middle, unde

next, federal benefits. all the federal benefits will remain. that ignores the federal benefits that come with federal recognition and reservation. the indian business development program, financial assistance, and social service programs, mployment assistance for adult indians, contracts under the johnson-o'malley act, food nutritional programs, tribal transportation programs, the bureau of justice assistance tribal justice systems grant, treatment as a state under the clean water act and clean air act, domestic violence criminal jurisdiction, all of those contingent on this bill today. a dangerous precedent is going to be set. the dangerous precedent is going to set is that massachusetts residents legalized gambling. the tribe went through a compact with the state that was approved. they went through a referendum with the people of taunton that was aloved nearly 60-40. the townspeople in taunton want this bill. they want this development. it's $1 billion for a working class community. the folks that don't are, yes a few residents of that commu

while states only matched the rate of 24 federal and 24 local 76 federal. obama care provided some relief and an extra 7.3 billion and temporary medicaid funding and a permanent match to 45 federal/55 local. per the obama care money is no longer available after this year. and all the insular areas will refer to the grants. using 2018 data that means going from 20 million in federal funding to 12 million. from one to 18 million. for the marianas from 25 million to 7 million. the u.s. virgin islands from seven 20 million to 80 million and from puerto rico from 2.3 billion to just 200 and six 360 million. the path forward is unclear, certainly more money is needed in an equitable matching rate. but there is also the need for the insular areas to be able to deliver care because ultimately the goal is not just to have the same funding as the states. what we want is medical care for those who need it in the insular areas to be every bit as good as medical care in the states. so, i look forward to hearing from the witnesses for their advice and experience. lastly,

making sure that the federal government pays all these debts from the revolutionary war, if the federal capital is placed on the potomac river. that deal is struck in 1790. you have the residence act. it is agreed the federal capital will be somewhere between and the maryland confluence of the anacostia and pacific -- potomac rivers. george washington is allowed to choose the site. he chooses the present location. slavery, why the feeling that have an impact on the location? southerngrove: the interests who are angling for a potomac capital wants to make sure the capital is in the slave south. that slavery is protected in the national capital. they are particularly interested in that because the capital had been in philadelphia for a long time before the continental congress. philadelphia was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because there is a large quaker population that was against the institution. became what is known as washington dc. how did that work out for slave owners? were there obstacles i got in their way? -- that got in their way? prof. musgrove: they were able to w

federal reserve remaining patient on this the range of the federal funds rate is 2.25 to 2.50. the federal reserve is watching the global economy and financial developments as well as muted inflation as possible headwind. in the fed statement the fed said it could be patient with the muted inflation. the upgrade or federal reserve upbraids the assessment of the economy. the federal reserve characterized economic growth as solid, a change from march when it said economic growth had slowed. consumer, business spending slowed in the first quarter. inflation playing a big part of changes in the federal reserve statement. noting that it declined. board members acknowledged excluding foot and energy it is running below 2%. core pce we know is 1.6%. on the balance sheet side the federal reserve says it will begin shrinkage of the tapering. it will roll off instead of 50 billion a month, it will roll off $35 billion a month. that ends the roleoff in october. fed chairman jerome powell says the it will be around 3 1/2 trillion dollars. federal reserve lowered rate it pays for bank reser

i think it is one of the best places to work in the federal government. you get to work with critical infrastructure community and federal agencies and hunt for russian, chinese, north korean , iranian actors on a daily basis. rep. langevin: let me ask you, before my time runs out. you pledged to work with any jurisdiction that needs cybersecurity help on the elections. do you have the personnel to do that, as well as meet other demands of priority customers? dir. krebs: i think at the moment we are finding that the request for our support is escalating, particularly from the state and local community. elections have shown us that there is a huge unmet need out there. as i look to the out years, we are going to need to boost our capabilities, absolutely. rep. langevin: i hope you are asking for the right resources to do that. i know my time has expired. i yield back. >> the gentleman from texas is .ecognized for five minutes >> appreciate that. going back to the conversation before we started this hearing in terms of municipal subdivisions -- cities, util

at the end of the day it is federal tax dollars on the line. as the chair of our oversight management and accountability subcommittee i am also concerned about fema's ability to recruit and retrain and maintain --. as of january more than one third of positions within fema's office were vacant and the agency has lost contracting staff since 2017. this is not the direction we need to be headed. if anything fema needs more contracting officers not less. these should be permanent positions not the short term hires they are using as a stopgap. fema's workforce needs and to hire more contracting staff in particular. the agency's procurement office needs to be at full strength as we head into the 2019 hurricane season. thank you again, mr. chairman, for holding this hearing. i look forward to a fruitful discussion with all three of our witnesses here today. >> thank you, chairwoman. i now recognize the ranking member of the oversight and management accountability subcommittee, the gentleman from texas, mr. crenshaw, for an opening statement. >> thank

crucial requirements to serve on the federal reserve. so, in terms of background, there are quite a few phd economists who serve on the fomc but i don't regard that as an absolute requirement. individuals who had experience in financial markets or in business, but understand issues pertaining to financial markets have served and can serve very effectively on the fomc. independent nonpolitical analytic fact-based are critical. >> things for being here and for taking my question. i'm wondering if there are any aspects of the dodd flank-- dodd frank statute that you would highlight as ripe for tailoring a revision. for me personally i think it makes sense to incorporate initial margin calculating the supplementary leverage ratio. i don't know if there are things you are working on now that you would like to highlight here. >> the issue with that initial margin and supplementary leverage ratio-- >> you don't have to take that when initially. >> it's a pretty technical issue and one that does have significance for a number of financial instit

host: federal money hasn't reached disaster victims.uest: there are lots of different accounts the federal government uses to respond to natural disasters. ground ison the fema's disaster relief fund. they haven't spent all the money. that's a good thing. if fema's fund was in the low millions, we would have a serious problem on our hands. they need that money to quickly respond when a tornado touches down or a community floods. broadly considered a good thing. they have disaster aid loans they can get to help small businesses recover afterwards. communityd's development block grant program. there's funding through the department of agriculture to help farmers. if a tornado destroys your , this is important to the community. some programs have smaller balances than others. that is something congress debates through the appropriation process. host: what if the holdup was the president's insistence that not as much money be included in this for puerto rico? how much has puerto rico received since hurricane maria? how much money do they ge

this is bringing together 20 federal agencies and the largest companies. this is on how to best manage risk. >>> cisa also focuses on physical threats. family we were sad to learn about the shooting in california. virtual that's what far too often as this happens. earlier this month cisa updated and released to guide. before closing, research and development is critical for the mission. we are committed to effect coordination. we are working together on r&d for data analytics and will make investments. we are also looking at innovative approaches to securing some targets in crowded places attacks. in closing i would like to thank the committee for its support and our mission. we have helped to raise the awareness of cyber security. >>> thank you for your testimony. now mr. bryant will summarize his statement. >>> good afternoon. thank you for inviting me here today to testify on the president budget request for 2020 which includes a request of over $500 million for the science and technology director. the department's research and development activities su

to be clear, federal tsa screeners should not have been put in such as position as a federal shutdown of congress failed to fund the government however, airports who are concerned by workforce impacts stemming from washington they wish to consider participation in cpp. simply because it is not federal employees. i believe this is false and misleading narrative and it fails to take into account the s tpp airports use the same equipment and same grading procedures at federalized airport that overseen locally by tsa officials. i am hopeful that congress can work in a bipartisan manner to ensure the agency is adequately stocked. tsa should take into account the result of a recently completed blue ribbon commission panel on addressing workforce needs which cautioned against moving tsa personnel under title v. rather this report recommends tsa explore wholesale rethinking of its pay scale structure and move even further away from a title v model to exercise existing authority and improve screening pay performance and morale. recently over 100 tsa personnel mostly from the federal air marsha

the problem with the federal authority is that there has there been a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously typically federal officials or federal criminal authority is interested in you know white collar crime and terrorism and immigration and major drug trafficking rings so when they hear oh you need to go investigate a domestic violence offense there's a sense culturally in the in the department that that's not my job i have more more important things to do than worry about what's happened to one indian woman 4 and a half hour drive away. the wait for justice is something valley and knows too well. her older sister ariel went missing in the summer of 2017 she was 26. just a few months later her remains were found in the canyon below this bridge in arizona. this is where my sister was found. when i'm told where my mom was so when i just started putting flowers here to remember her and just to get a piece of where she was last found right where she lost her correctly yes. it's difficult to know that. this is no nuns the bri

and now on one of the fathers of the basic law and the federal republic's 1st chancellor. this past a work of sculpture of a battlefront pilgrim displaced some of adenauer its biggest influences in life. are those begin t. . shirts here beneath his right ear with cologne cathedral because there are no was mayor of cologne until 953. when the nazis came to power he not only had to resign he also faced persecution. that's what the bound hands represent a period of persecution. hender the other side. you wouldn't lower down. the rhine river. valley go behind it some hills. they stand for this didn't begin to reach and. are now it was very much a rhinelander. it's really important especially nowadays with all the talk about europe is the bull with the woman on its back. she's hard to see her arms and head are hanging down. ok yeah bit hard to read i don't know if she's like yes that is that's you wrote her on the back of the book as in greek mythology. you know it was an early champion of a united europe. along with the french president child to go mitch they were both rather

they have a responsibility to collaborate with the federal government, i think the federal governmentould decide to withdraw federal funding for infrastructure or justice programs, but let me say one thing. this airport was built ironically, by the federal government, it was transferred to the county under arrangement that said that the federal government could continue using the airport so they're not meeting their commitment under this agreement with the federal government. >> harris: if anybody has a doubt this president wouldn't rip away some funding at the federal level, take a look at california and the reported mismanagement of funds with that huge rail system and now they won't be getting those federal dollars. i know the issues are different, but his ability to do it is on display. >> but if you think about it, this is about individuals that have been ordered deported by a court. they are in a plane, the status -- >> harris: they have to go. >> they have to go. they don't have to participate in the law enforcement functions, it is just a matter of allowing air traffic operato

do you need a federal amendment? these suffragists wanted it because that is a powerful symbol and suggests something that can't be taken away. only one amendment was ever repealed which was prohibition. you needed in part because there are a bunch of southern states where women are convinced they will never when -- win through the state route. >> going through a federal amendment which both carry decides they were always trying since was introduced in 1878 they are trying for the federal amendment. kerry says let's do both and again this is the same strategy that will be used in marriage equality and in a lot of civil rights struggles that will follow in the 20th and 21st century. get states to accept this and that puts pressure on congress or on the courts. they have this twofold winning plan which is like a double track. we will get some states that will put pressure on congress. alice says just the federal amendment forget these states. we are just going to go there. you have these two strategies the past four or

federal reserve chair jerome news conference on the economy and monetary policy. he reviewed information from the most recent federal open market committee meeting. mr. powell said there would be no change to the federal interest rate and that the committee's goal is to maintain 2% inflation. >> good afternoon and welcome. at the fomc meeting that concluded today, we reviewed economic and financial developments in the united states and around the world and decided to leave our policy interest rate unchanged. my colleagues and i have one overarching goal -- to use our monetary policy tools to sustain the economic expansion with a strong job market is stable prices for the benefit of the american people. ata since our last meeting had been broadly in line with expectations. economic growth and job creation have both been a bit stronger than anticipated, while inflation has been somewhat weaker. overall, the economy continues on a healthy path, and the committee believes the current stance of policies appropriate. the committee also believes that solid underlying fun

a federal match to do so.the federal government having raised the user fees, without congress having done their part, states have done their part, because they are accountable to the people at the local level. host: how many states have done that on their own? guest: about three quarters. host: and then the other question was about how you split between federal and local and state. guest: typically there will be dated when i first came to the committee was headed by a republican and i saw the way they did it a percent paid for by the federal government from the user fee and 20% by the state. that was what made sense. nobody complained about it. host: my from miami, good morning. caller: good morning. so i just wanted to comment on, i am in ohio, and a lot of the roads are always going up with construction, and we definitely need more funding for the roads from the federal government, because it has been so much construction going on on the interstates, for years and years, i just think that the president needs

guest: across the entire federal continuum, at openthebooks.com, we have given oversight to federal grantmakingit is a tremendous amount of money. in rough numbers, the federal government doles out as many grants as the entire military defense budget spent, almost a 1:! basis. 1:1 basis. cornell university took nearly $1 million for a study on where it hurts the most to be stung by a bee. light nasa tech $1 million to repair the world's meeting after terrestrial is in -- extra terrestrial beings. -- boeing was the leader. of $1ot three quarters billion worth of grants out of federal agencies. those are subsidies. the process is supposed to be you apply for a grant -- and obviously, the big corporations have the human resources and the ability to navigate federal grantmaking and take a tremendous amount of dollars. 2017, $3992014 to .illion for funding in total from those, $3.2 billion. contracts made up the bulk of that. where can people go online to read this? guest: we have a report at openthebooks.com, right on the home pages. it is the first report up on the right side in the middle, under

on the nuisance claim, and i'm going to talk about the federal, in the federal case, one of the defenses has been that to the extent that there's any duty owed to the public by companies that sort of traffic in controlled substances, that duty has to be enforced by the department of justice because the federal law, the controlled substances act, imposes that duty on those companies and so it's the federal government, not the states and individuals and all the other plaintiffs that should be suing to enforce those claims. so this is the primary framework. >> great. thank you. marcia, you helped spearhead what's called the opioid settlement priorities, so this is going to the future. tell us where -- what you came up, you and other colleagues came up with about what the future should hold. >> sure. well, thank you. it's great to be here today. this is such an important topic. the opioid settlement priorities document is a series of recommendations that was put together by the addiction solutions campaign. the addiction solutions campaign is a consortium of the partnership for drug-free kid

is the federal reserve concerned about the inversion of the eff over the ioer? are you concerned about this inversion? richard: i wouldn't use the word concerned. what we understand is there are major changes in the u.s. financial system in the last decade. one of them that is very relevant to this particular topic, for a variety of sound reasons, banks hold more liquid assets than they did before the crisis. reserves are not a unique liquid asset. treasury bills are also a liquid asset. one of the things we have learned that the fed as we have operated our current ample reserve system is that the desire of banks in the u.s. to hold a large quantity of reserves for liquidity purposes is stronger than we would have thought a couple years ago. what that means is even though the size of the balance sheet is certainly large, much larger than before the crisis, we are at a point now where in the federal funds market, the market clearing funds are it, no longer always going to be equal to that level. a basis point or two above, something we watch. as i said, we have m

>> there is a due process provision in the federal government. so we have had those situations at the eac in the past. we had an employee who misused guttural funds and violated the law. we were told there was to process. >> what happened to that employee? >> that employee was retained and eventually retired in the agency. >> do not have such an employee now? >> i am not aware of an employee who is behaving that way, no. >> let me make sure i send it to you. those are accusations actually against mr. newby from his former employee. just a few months after you hired him so i will make sure you have that information. i think it is important to be upfront about what we are dealing with. the one thing i can not say enough is when we are using taxpayers dollars, we need to have the highest standards and i clearly don't think that is the case here. mr. hicks, can you give me any information as to what you have learned from the eac state funding plan that has been received? or the chair, either one. >> thank you for the question. i think that the things

reserve and federal reserve chairman jerome powell. want of the nature of those attacks, but if you are going to play that game, if you are going to get into battles like that with washington, washington is going to find ways to fight back. i think that's what they have done here with herman cain and steve moore. you want to attack us, then try to send up a nominee to the federal reserve board. neil: what if it was a vanilla nominee, would he or she still deal with the same issues? >> on that point, i think the president should quickly and immediately indeed appoint a heavyweight to the federal reserve board. he should appoint someone like shelton, a respected monetary economist who has written on this subject for "wall street journal." i think she agrees by and large with the president's position on these things. but he should not hesitate to go back and nominate someone -- neil: don't you worry that those who question the wisdom of, you know, pavlovian hikes in rates when the economy picks up, the president did have a point about tha

the problem with the federal authority is that there has there been a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously typically federal officials or federal criminal authority is interested in you know white collar crime and terrorism and immigration and major drug trafficking rings so when they hear oh you need to go investigate a domestic violence offense there's a sense culturally in the in the department that that's not my job i have more more important things to do than worry about what's happened to one indian woman four and a half hour drive away. the wait for justice is something valley and knows too well. her older sister ariel went missing in the summer of twenty seventeen she was twenty six. just a few months later her remains were found in the canyon below this bridge in arizona. this is where my sister was found. when i'm told where my mom was so when i just started putting flowers here to remember her and just to get a piece of where she was last found right where she lost her correctly yes. it's difficult to know that.

code, nor is it a term of art in the federal criminal law. to the contrary, even as defined in legal dictionaries, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as that crime is set forth in the general federal conspiracy statute. >> for that reason, this office focus in resolving the question of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy, not the common discussed term, collusion. the office considered in particular whether the context between trump campaign officials and russia linked individuals could trigger liability or the crime of conspiracy, either under statutes that have their own conspiracy language or under general conspiracy statute. the investigation did not establish that the context described in volume 1 amounted to an remit to commit any substantive violation of federal criminal law, including foreign influencing campaign finance law. the office therefore did not charge any individual associated with the trump campaign with conspiracy to commit a federal offense arising from russian contact the even under a specific statute

he asked me to serve on the federal reserve board. there are seven members of the board of governors on the federal reserve. when thete honored president asked me to do this. what happened was, i kind of was naive. i thought there would be a debate about my economic ideas and my philosophy. i worked with the president on the tax cut and his other initiatives. about my economic ideas. it was about this campaign. there were six or seven full-time investigators looking at every aspect of my life. i had probably written thousands of articles. i've been on shows like this. media appearances over 500 times. given hundreds of speeches. people would take out a sentence or something i had written. in some cases, 20 or 25 years ago, and built this case against me that i was sexist in this or that. some of the columns i had written were humorous. i'm not playing the victim here. i look back at some of the things i might have written 25 years ago, people know that i am irreverent and politically incorrect. some of the things i said were insulting

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

this was followed by the election of the federal president and a week later the election of the federal chancellor the young man from lloyd stuart watched it'll happen don't give a group region are there are seats outside the pedagogical academy so you could watch what was happening and hear what was going on through loudspeakers. fairlawn for him it because when it came to electing the chancellor both sides would neck and neck would now cd you take the prize. they come up with your version none of us knew so we were curious about the result. that and it worked. however the leader was wife it's been an odd now used his casting vote to clinch the election a week later he was sworn in as the 1st chancellor of west germany. but. we've all measurable in a. sure don his dog has given him. the following day the new chancellor made his way up to the hotel petersburg on the other side of the rhine this was the residence of the high commissioners the representatives of the western powers the new federal republic was far from sovereign it was still under supervision as was written in the occupati

house subpoenas and had too's federal judge actually quoting monday's federal judge twice in his opinionnk we're going to win all of these cases, lawrence, because congress has the power of fact finding. the supreme court has said that's a central function to the legislative branch we're allowed to assemble the facts that we need. as one judge put it, if we've got the power to impeach the president for high crimes and misdemeanors, certainly we have the power to investigate the power for high crimes and misdemeanors. that's how we would find you the out what he's up to. >> there are reports of discussions some reports of dissension within the democrats and the house of representatives about the question of impeachment. you've been reportedly favoring it in some of the leadership discussions against other members of the leadership who are as opposed to it. where do you think impeachment stands now in the house of representatives? >> let me just say that the reports of division in the democratic caucus are vastly exaggerated. i would never say i've never seen us more unified to stand stron

the problem with the federal authority is that there has there been a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously typically federal officials or federal criminal authority is interested in you know white collar crime and terrorism and immigration and major drug trafficking rings so when they hear oh you need to go investigate a domestic violence offense there's a sense culturally in the in the department that that's not my job i have more more important things to do than worry about what's happened to one indian woman 4 and a half hour drive away. the wait for justice is something valley and knows too well. her older sister ariel went missing in the summer of 2017 she was 26. just a few months later her remains were found in the canyon below this bridge in arizona. this is where my sister was found. when i'm told where my mom was so when i just started putting flowers here to remember her and just to get a piece of where she was last found right where she lost her correctly yes. it's difficult to know that. this is no nuns the bri

with regard to the loan servicers and state involvement, federal student aid is a federal program. and to involve every single state in a separate oversight capacity really preempts federal -- >> so preemption exists, there is no question about it. when congress acts like erisa -- we preempted it back in the 1970s by an act of congress. in terms of student loan servicing, congress has never preempted that away from attorney generals who are simply enforcing, in many instances, their own state consumer protection laws. again, that decision that you made -- again, without even giving the courtesy of a notice and it had to be sort of found out indirectly, again, is not for congress. in addition to ignoring law enforcement who has been doing a great job in terms of detecting student borrowers, we requested the department to give all requests of these borrowers and a detailed request made of the department. to date we've seen nothing from the department. this was congress directing your department to at least disclose those requests that you're refusing for people who are, again, just s

foundations, federalism. public participation, dissipation, political parties, interest groups, campaigns and elections, congress, president and courts. those are the big 10. alive discussion saturday with high school government teachers and you and daniel from lincolnshire illinois expect our session is about log rolling and it's significant . >> logrolling is one of the words that our students struggle with. it's a content and the idea is that if you're getting a big bill passed, a lot of times it helps to have would probe pro the best quid pro quo is sometimes called earmarks. if you add that earmark you get more supportive vote >> watch the cram for the exam on saturday at 9 am east on c- span. >> here's a look at featured programs this weekend on book tv. saturday at 6:50 pm, the latest book business . >> most of the money spent spent in looking at donald trump and what he's doing on trade, i disapprove and most american businesses disapprove and what he's doing in terms of verdict ability, most business

a federal match to do so. even without the federal government having raised the user fees, without congress having done their part, states have done their part, because they are accountable to the people at the local level. host: how many states have done that on their own? guest: about three quarters. host: and then the other question was about how you split between federal and local and state. guest: typically there will be dated when i first came to the committee was headed by a republican and i saw the way they did it a percent paid for by the federal government from the user fee and 20% by the state. that was what made sense. nobody complained about it. host: my from miami, good morning. caller: good morning. so i just wanted to comment on, i am in ohio, and a lot of the roads are always going up with construction, and we definitely need more funding for the roads from the federal government, because it has been so much construction going on on the interstates, for years and years, i just think that the p

government and the federal government won't fix it. the reardon valley line mirrors alliance -- has been working to get one seat ride. mr. malinowski: we must pass an infrastructure bill this year that will fund the gateway tunnel. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from missouri seek recognition? wowed, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. mrs. wagner: i rise to support the data commission data act which will make prescription drug prices more transparent and will bring generic drugs to the market faster. i also support the protecting consumer access to generic drugs act, which would prohibit drug companies from delaying the entry of generic drugs into the market. unfortunately, madam speaker, democrats have packaged these bills together with poison pills that will prevent states from offering lower health care plans. democrats want to increase obamacare enrollment regardless of cost, but obamacare is not affordable for many americans. the average monthly premium for a f

across the federal government, we have better i.t. capabilities governmentwide. we are on a path of standardization and leadership awareness that the cabinet level is increasing. by issuing guidance or directives to federal agencies, providing tools and services and implementing cybersecurity initiatives, we are protecting government and critical infrastructure networks from malicious actors. it has limited its results for cybersecurity. we've reduced the time agencies we're taking to patch criminal vulnerabilities from an average of 219 days in 2015 to an average of 20 days today. in many cases that is better than industry. but we can do better. yesterday i issued a directive requiring even shorter mitigation time frames for a broader category of vulnerabilities. in january we also issued an emergency directive from a global campaign tampering with the internet's phonebook. this budget will enable us to centralize dns resolution in the government. over the last two years, we have become close partners with the election community. our efforts to protect 2020 are

they will not get much more from the federal government. what do you see in terms of states taking on these responsibilities and waiting for the -- instead of waiting for the fed? john: we never waited. we do the proper amount of fundraising first. the federal government is an important partner there but it is the states that raise the money for transportation. it is 34 states who have raised theirs -- their gas taxes. we did a metric where among those 30, it had been a quarter-century since the last time they raised their gas tax prior. that is a heavy lift for them to vote on it. there are a handful of states out there debating about whether or not to do it again. that is a good example of where that has been the most active tax issue in state government in the last several years. transportation funding. half the states have electric vehicle fees to be prepared for the replacement loss of fuel tax revenues. on the expansion of the sales governments,state we don't move with mighty speed at the same time. we move incrementally, slowly but t

federal laws that were designed to allow the federal government to main -- newly made citizens from southern white violence. cruikshank is the most famous example where were hundred at a rally inled louisiana. nothing is done about it. finally, in williamsburg versus the courti in 1898, rules that it is not discriminatory to have blacks on federal court trials because, the court says, the blacks are not allowed to vote, not because they are black. because they are all in literate . of the keep them off the juries. they keep them off the voting rolls. us witht is complicit this rise of racism in the south and remember at the same time in northern states, blacks are blacks are officeholders. nation,ajority of the this ruling will not have any where the majority of african-americans were, this ruling has a profound effect. in these slaughterhouse cases, of course, the privileges were designed to force the seven the southernept states -- the southern states to accept this. you cannot have political equality if you don't have free speech. you cannot have political equality if you do not

it reduces federal spending by over $12 trillion in the next decade and balances our federal budget in the next six years. as you mentioned, the state of indiana passed an amendment to the constitution in 2018 to require our budgets to balance and hoosiers have enjoyed a balanced state budget since 2012. we have a triple a credit rating, and indiana has 15 different taxes while still balancing our budget and unding key state priorities. this proposed budget addresses out-of-control spending and significantly decreases our national debt. we're $22 trillion in debt as a nation. that's not my money. that's money that belongs to the taxpayers. because we have been paying interest on this debt for decades, it's really the money of our next generation of american taxpayers, our kids and our grandchildren. madam speaker, i'm proud of what hoosiers have been able to do in our state, and i will continue to fight for that same hoosier common sense here in d.c. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: i thank the gentleman for yielding. state of indiana has so much to be proud of. indiana provi

the problem with the federal authority is that there has there been a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously typically federal officials or federal criminal authority is interested in you know white collar crime and terrorism and immigration and major drug trafficking rings so when they hear oh you need to go investigate a domestic violence offense there's a sense culturally in the in the department that that's not my job i have more more important things to do than worry about what's happened to one indian woman four and a half hour drive away. the wait for justice is something valley and knows too well. her older sister ariel went missing in the summer of twenty seventeen she was twenty six. just a few months later her remains were found in the canyon below this bridge in arizona. this is where my sister was found. when i'm told where my mom was so when i just started putting flowers here to remember her and just to get a piece of where she was last found right where she lost her breath but yes. it's difficult to know that.

partner,with a senior from a federal judge. we worked to negotiate a las animas in oklahoma -- negotiate a loss settlement in oklahoma -- a law settlement in oklahoma. i was convinced he was the best attorney i don't with -- i dealt with. we were talking about this issue , and the judge said, i lost my niece to a prescription opiate overdose, and his law partner lost his son to an overdose. his son was a great football player and became addicted to opioids after being treated for his injuries with opioids, and ultimately, lost his life to the addiction. the more we talked about it, the more i became convinced that not only be at the best two lawyers in the state, but lawyers who would pour their heart and soul into the case. and as a result, i made a decision to retain reggie whitman and mike as the leads and they put together a legal team, and we sued these companies in state court. it moved to federal court and we were successful. in keeping the case in oklahoma -- where we are, we have had millions of documents and we are mo