fair housing. according to news reports, he has brought a halt to fair housing investigations and enforcement actions, even proposed taking the phrase, inclusive and sustainable communities, free from discrimination, out of hud's mission statement. so address these harmful actions, i have introduced the restoring for housing, protection, elimed by hud act of 2018. in respond to each action that second carson has taken to undermine fair housing. congress should not stand by while the agency charged with ensuring fair housing turns its back on the mission and takes actions that roll back critical protections that ensure that all americans have fair access to housing. so i thank the secretary for coming today and i look forward to hearing his testimony on these important issues. and as to the chairman's comments about civility, and about what he would do if he owned a restaurant, let me just say that i think every reasonable person has concluded that the president of the united states of america has h

john's episcopal church and white house. i am sure you will hear more about that later today, and there is british history everywhere you look. from the scottish stonemasons carved double roses into the iconic columns, to the resolute desk, a gift from queen victoria which has been used by pretty much every president in the last century. we are very proud of the role the u.k. has had in building and rebuilding the white house, but we are most proud of the relationships we have built within the halls. from the foundations to the furniture, this collaboration of british and american design has symbolized the special relationship, bringing us closer on every level from global security, trade investment, education, research and culture. we are grateful to this wonderful country for allowing us to play a part in the history of this iconic building, arguably the most famous building in the world. we look forward to many more years of history and friendship between the united states and united kingdom, and thank you again to the wh

live to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. we give you thanks for giving us another day and our creatures can come before you and ask for guidance for the men and women of the people's house. there are many issues facing congress. some are quite contentious. all are of importance to so many of our citizens and residents. bless each member with wisdom and insight into the implications of their legislative actions so that your spirit is at work in the business of the people's house. bless us this day and every day. may all that is done here be for your debater honor and glory, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, thejournal stands approved. pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from matsui. a, ms. ms. matsui: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which

the house will be in order. the house will be in order. members, take your conversations off the floor. the speaker pro tempore: members, take your conversations off the floor. and also clear the aisles. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. barletta: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 5294. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. e clerk: union calendar 583, h.r. 5 94, to address the impact of drug apuse in appalachia and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. barr leta, and the gentlewoman from from the virgin islands, ms. plaskett each will control 20 minutes. mr. barletta: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to resize and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 5294 the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. barletta: i yield myself such time as i

housing. he has fault -- brought a halt to fair housing, and taken sustainable communities out of h.u.d.'s mission statement . to address these actions i have introduced legislation to restore the fair housing protections that secretary carson and the trump administration have eliminated. hr 6220, in restoring for housing, protections, in lynden -- eliminated by h.u.d. 2018. response to each act that secretary carson has taken to undermine fair housing. congress should not stand by while the agency charged with ensuring fair housing transit back on the commission, and takes action that rolls back critical protection, and ensure that all americans have fair access to housing. thank you, i look forward to hearing the testimony on these issues. as to the chairman's comments about stability, and about what he would do if he owned a restaurant, let me to say that i think every reasonable person has concluded that the president of the united states of america has advocated violence, he has been divi

san francisco is in a huge housing crisis and we desperately need more house, especially affordable housing. i think anything we can do to ake 10 affordable housing projects go faster is going to be in the best interest of the city and in the best interest of those who can't afford to take time off of work and come and voice their support for this today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. ction f san francisco neighborhoods. we support the planning commission's recommendations and i want to point out that these were hammered out after a -- i believe it was a five-hour meeting and there were a lot of compromiinlv so i hope that you will incorporate them. in particular, we'd like you to keep noticing for the rear yard pop outs. as one member of the commission pointed out, he would not want to make up one more when the cement mixer pulls up at his next door neighbor's backyard and finds that the time that a two-story building is going up right next to his home. so this is something that is very important to people and they just need to be notified about it. if th

the white house luncheon, it is a real treat for us to have not one but two former white house secretaries with us today and i am sure they are grateful they did not have to plan and execute this white house luncheon. one of our guests today is a democrat, one a republican. they are not afraid to be friends. they support one another and show up in public together. imagine that. originally from a small town in ohio, he served as white house-200042,007 under pres. and mrs. george w. bush. prior to that he was chief of staff to second lady lynn cheney and bessel secretary to vp cheney. when asked how they landed both jobs, she was in the right place at the right time and and qualified for all those roles and an event planner, and a full-time mom to two adult waters and a couple dogs. she hosted daily blog from america's table which i have secretly bookmarked, involving travel and home life and cooking and food, glorious food and tips and entertaining and adequate which she says quoted not just about knowing which fork to use but about treating each other with kindness, even and especially in

housing vouchers. congress has made money available in a bipartisan way to reduce homelessness for veterans. it's unconscionable v.a. would use funds for that purpose on another purpose. daigle scounty -- san diego county has the third largest population nationwide. that's why since being elected i have worked with my colleagues to provide more funding and services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. i furthered this work over the last year and a half as a member of the house committee on veterans' affairs. these vets took an oath to protect our country and now america must keep its promise to should notf them and be struggling and most certainly should not be living on the streets. san diego has achieved some progress in getting vets off the streets and into housing in recent years. other should not be cities like stimulate city, new orleans, and houston have reached functional zero, which means that homelessness among veterans is rare, brief, and nonrecurring. across the cou

these subsidies will provide housing stab housing sta housing stablity, and one-third of the housing in san francisco are seniors. and we need to provide for that. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jessie johnson. we recognize that many of the people who live in the streets ago were just our neighbors, people who have been thrown out of their houses by landlords eager to make a profit off of the housing crisis. tonight, people in the tenderloin will sleep on the bare friends of their friend's s.r.o. rooms, they'll sleep in bathtubs, they'll sleep in closets. i've seen people in the tonederloin lend their best shirts for a job interview, i've seen them lend their last cigarette. please give us back the 14.8 in budget cuts. fund something positive. fund employment services for homeless people, fund transgender services. forget tasers. tasers only mean heartache and death. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tess davis. i'm here today to urge you to fully fund the hspa budget ask of $14.8

there's a demand for housing in the city for student housing, senior housing. we have a chance to go higher, bigger, whatever, not just for the city. we remember that there's a demand out there, a need for it. we need to respond in a legal and safe way. >> commissioner richards: we approved the amendments. i think we're doing everything we can legally to get to that point. >> even a.d.u. >> there was a motion and second and we talked about potentially modifying that motion. >> i'll just read them just for clarity sake. the commission will go back to the approved plan that there are no sleeping room or bedrooms on the ground floor. no bathrooms on the ground floor. number of bedrooms willn(q limited to four on between the second and third floor as well as limit the number of bathrooms to three between the second and >> thank you all. we'll go back to 13. >> item 13a and b for case numbers 2018. for -- we do have some additional business to attend to. if you are leaving the chambers or entering, if you can do so quietly, we would appreciate that. >> good afternoo

from everything that happened recently from puerto rico to mexico this house this type of house is very good because it's resistant to hurricanes and as well as quakes also if we think. of california the wildfires that they have because you have the tires are protected it's all covered with a berm this house could also protect you know from fires in the future. so here's a simple survival it's the first one that we've built ever and since then we have built several all over the world. come on in you're welcome. so these houses are called simple survivals because of the systems themselves and also the way that they can be built should be easy for anyone in the world with a set of plans and basic training to be able to build the systems themselves are sustainable the same as in all other our ships but they're very basic and they have a lower cost in terms of disaster relief the electrical system in this house is also very good for traveling because this is our storage system which consists of a car battery and then it has different fuses which can be found anywhere in the world and also a

if we think of a cardboard house most of us think of cardboard boxes that kids make into play housesbut the vehicle house created by dutch inventor rene snell is designed to be an actual two wedding for grown ups. company fiction factory has developed a house that can be produced in different sizes that's windowed weatherproof and can be set up almost anywhere. the founder of fiction factory is holding. up by the idea. of books. yep a revolutionary book because i think all books cardboard makers like this because the books would last too long and then he talking with a friend. about it and he said. it's so strong you can make a house. of this concept. the biggest problem was to make the cardboard houses waterproof the solution was twenty four layers of high quality cardboard but held together by an adhesive and coated with a waterproof air permeable protective foil wooden siding provides additional protection the cardboard is wrapped around a mold that's house shaped this method gave the concept its name little house all wrapped house for use fear the third fourth is layer is holding

the house survived all those years, just sort of the house, like the house of a banker in an american city somewhere. in 1902, president theodore roosevelt, looking for a new image, mckinley was assassinated. this young man came to office, a young and vigorous man, living publicity and loving to be around. he ordered the house restored. it wasn't really restored. but the stone walls were not harmed. there was a lot of damage to the basement. it was repaired. 50 years later, president harry truman and the secret service faced the problem of danger, the floors squeaked, and the architect in the enlargement of the state dining room in 1902 used tire rods -- a enlarged the room, and he used them to screw the ceiling into the wooden timbers of the attic. in 1925, the attic was torn off and replaced and not much attention was given to that. so the ceiling sank. i took -- i talked to an engineer, and he said the east room ceiling had dropped in the middle almost 30 inches and the dining room more. it could have fallen at any time. hi they were faced with that. and the security issue. preside

you house to take care of you properly. we just close the skylights which are basically. during the day evacuated through the sky it's and because it's no night time we just want to hear at this time to stay inside the house say every night which is close to me please it's retaining me ok. we used tires for the structure of the building we call them. radially reinforced rammed earth bricks as what they really are the tires are radially reinforced with steel for being tires but that works perfect for a radially reinforced brick. full of pounded compacted earth they become compression bricks and they're laid just like bricks and they will last forever termites don't eat them they don't rot and they're tremendous structure and tremendous thermal mass and thermal mass is what you want to hold temperature mass holds temperature and that makes it so that the building stores heat for the winter and the heat is brought in with the sun absorbed into the walls and given back when you need it most at night. but let me. go to back to j

the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a co the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, this is to notify you formally pursuant to rule 8 of the rules of the house of representatives that i have been served with a subpoena for testimony issued by the circuit court for queen answer county, maryland. after consultation with the office of general counsel, i have determined that compliance with the subpoena is consistent with the privileges and rights of the house. signed, sincerely, john windgrove, community liaison. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on june 21, 2018, at 9:31 a.m. that the senate passed with an amendment h.r. 770. appointment, united states commission on international religious freedom. with best wishes, i am, signed sib searly --sincerely, kare

unaffordable housing crisis. affordability, alone is not an issue. this board needs to have substantial evidence before it that shows new or more significant impacts due to growth projections or income levels of future residents. as a plenty department staff has painstakingly detailed, the appellant has detailed -- identified none. simply, it would be inconsistent to overturn the cpe based on the eastern neighborhood's eir, simply because it is mixed income instead of 100% affordable. and finally, taking a step back, the eastern neighborhood's eir is important for all types of housing projects. both affordable and mixed income. not just in the mission, but also in soma, showplace square, the dogpatch, and other neighborhoods. in fact, a number of affordable housing projects have recently relied on, are expected to rely on the eastern neighborhood's eir for their clearance including 143 units, hundred 57 units, 48 units, and 130. this is a very viable area plan eir. so, in summary, requiring further environmental

the house faces south west. huge windows capture the sun's rays and fill the living space with like the office living room and dining room. here is that that was the south that so that means we get sun flooding the brow even in winter no one out lots of parts of iceland especially in the west are your odds don't see any sun for two months by warner cable added sunny year until the eleventh of december and then the sun comes back on the first of january but between those two days the sun is only there for thirty seconds. winters in iceland are not only dark they can also be harsh with strong winds and heavy snow. these are photographs of the house completely snowed under for going for snow in concluding the top windows i had to climb up two metres from the ground to dig them out to let light in. given the often inhospitable climate the house is built from the weather resistant. it's completely made out of concrete covered with the launch of delhi minium and has a blanket of cross on the roof the living space cove

these types of investments prevent homelessness and housing is the only solution and community housing partnership was born out of that understanding as the only nonprofit organization that builds and produces for those who are formerly homeless. we must also provide services that keep people in housing. i want to congratulations commune partnership and all of your partners and bank of america. we need our financial partners to invest in us. it is an investment in our city. this work is not altruistic. it is quite selfish because we are better off and we are safer and healthier when our neighbors have access to affordable, permanent, stable housing. congratulations to everybody involved today and to the 100 seniors that will be able to stay in place at 666 ellis. >> thank you supervisor kim. [applause] on behalf of the honorable mayor mark ferrell who again apologizes for not being here it is my pleasure to introduce kate hartley. >> thank you gail. i am so happy to be here and be here with all the amazing people in this area who made this happen. mayor ferrell sends his regret. he rea

in order to help prevent osure and stabilize housing markets states hit hardest by the housing crisis. state housing finance agencies in 18 18 states and the distrif columbia were selected to participate because these areas expect an opponent rates at above the natiol avege and a home price declines greater than 20%. hhf was designed to give the participating hs and the maxims exposed to design and administer eir own programs instead to local conditions and the respective communities. the states have been able to adapt the programs and were to address the changing needs in their communities over time. as of december 31, 2017, states assisted roughly 30300 homeowners and funded the demolition of nearly 24,000 blighted properties. the flexibility afforded to hs eight by parsippany may treasures that oversight a critical aspect. treasury mains strong maintains a a strong commitment to ensure the program achieves its goals and federal taxpayer dollars are used for their intended purpose. treasury requires each hsa to set goals and demonstrate said progress toward meeting these goals. trea

at the white house with more. john? >> kennedy, sorry for looking down there but i'm just processing the latest information that i have been getting. the president speaking to the pool just a short time ago and we will have that for you momentarily. the president talking about immigration saying, quote: i will be signing something in a little while that is going to do that. that is keeping families together. he was asked about that. i will be doing something that's somewhat preemptive and ultimately matched by legislation, i'm sure. earlier this morning, we broke the news that the white house, the president is considering some sort of executive action. we don't know if it would be a memorandum or an executive order or exactly what it would be. to solve the problem that we are experiencing right now on the border where these families are being split up. the children are being separated from their parents. the white house, the department of homeland security, insisting that under current law, they have to separate c

preserving the white house as a museum. this leads me to my third conclusion i will share with you, which is that jacqueline kennedy's first ladyship shows that first ladies are free to innovate and do what they want. but as we shall see, there are limits. ok. ok. so in the second section of my book, and i will just focus on the ford years, from johnson through carter. i focus on first ladies and how they navigate the politics of -- a quality -- equality and personal issues. this is a photo of betty ford congratulating gerald ford after he signed the executive order establishing the national commission for the observance of international women's year. i came across a memo here at the ford library that i thought was interesting, because it shows exactly how the ceremony was staged. the fords were to start out together in the oval office and they were to proceed from the oval office into the cabinet room, where the crowd was waiting. the staff actually, the white house staff, wanted betty ford to stand behind gerald ford as t

housing delayed is housing denied to families like them. these mild changes are a good step facing the mistakes of our past. please pass these today. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners. i'm greg scott, president of pacific heights residenidents association. we oppose this. we oppose anything that opposes input and having things reviewed. i have a personal experience with a house next to me illegally divided to four units with no parking and they wanted to expand the top unit that would impede my light and air. and i had to point out to the planner, who had not thought about it, that it was an expansion of nonconforming use, which is not allowed under the planning code and that stops the project. maybe that makes me xenophobic, but i think that things should be kept to a code for a reason. we have a planning code, so we have a rational understanding of hat wll happen in our neighborhood. we need to respect zoning and the neighbors' time for input. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next

to the housing trt fund. the trust fund goes up by $2.8 million each year. in 1819, we'll be using that increase for our community partners. additional investment in new housing development and continuation of work on the online affordable housing portal. the budget in 18-19 has a reduction of one time $3.1 million in the current year due to the elimination of revenues sent over from dbi in the current year. the 18-19 budget also has some good news for the general fund in that there's a reduction of $5.3 million in los subsidy required. we've been able to move those units over to project based vouchers funded by the federal government instead of the city. the biggest change is this last item, one time appropriation of the downtown neighborhood's preservation fund. this was adopted by the board in 2016. this was a project commonly known as the ocean life center being built at 51st street. $40 of dedicated revenue to affordable housing that has specific uses defined. and we're appropriating those funds in this

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 190. the nays are 230. the motion is now -- not adopted. the question is on passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentleman from new york. the gentleman from new york. vote, aillat: a recorded please. the speaker pro tempore: those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the ayes have 121, the nays are 301. the bill is not passed. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution 964 on which a recorded vote is ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 159, h

chairman, the committee on house administration is responsible for providing funding for house committees other than for the committee on house administration. sections 5 and 7 of h.res. 1451 of the commission's enabling resolution, which is carried forward through h.res. 5, make clear the commission is not authorized to receive a direct appropriation. the commission's enabling resolutions spessfies the role of committee on foreign affairs in providing staff and resources for the commission as well as funding for the commission. in fact, consistent with h.res. 1451 at the request of the committee on foreign affairs, the committee on house administration adopted committee resolution 115-9 earlier this year authorizing $200,000 from the committee's reserve fund to provide for support for commission personnel. in summary, mr. chairman, there is no authorization for the commission to receive a direct appropriation of funds, and i reiterate my point of order and i ask for a ruling of the chair. the chair: does any other member wish to be heard on the point of order? if not the chair will rule.

and so they're not new -- the idea that a fire house has apparatus bay doors, the house gets called, goes into automatics, apparatus bay door opens. they've been on fire houses in san francisco the last 80 years. they're automatic. they are not originally installed doors. they've -- they've been maintains and removed and replaced in the past without a bond. so it gets a little hazy whether it's maintenance or capital improvement that that is, you know, a component of a structure that has outlived its life like shower installations or change in use because of the occupancy. you know, apparatus doors are in every other fire house. so at some point, every sippng apparatus door clearly has to be removed and replaced in the fire department -- and in the police department, for that matter. so again, no reflection on the administration of the bond dollars or the work performed, but it does -- i do share the concern that at what point is that routine maintenance -- expenditures that should be inside a departmental's budget or an expenditure that warrants a bond expenditure. >> i was just goi

fundingr affoable housing, building affordable housing on underutilized sites around the city, likee will do at the mcdonald's sight. and reforming our city, -- archaic approval process for 100 %, compliant projects. the public safety challenges facing our city are personal for me. i know what it's like to have your car broken -- cart window broken not once but repeatedly even when you have nothing to steal. i boat legislation to curb heartbreak ends and tourist hotspots and commercial corridors through collaboration with aal car coanies stopping property crime and making sure people feel safe and protected in their own neighbourhood as a top priority of mine. as supervisor, i helped but 400 new police officers on the street including bilingual officers and as mayor i will add 200 more officers to our streets by the end of 2019. our city needs a mayor who will represent all san franciscans. we have a responsibility to everyone. people are depending on asked to work together to attack the challenges, not attack each other. and i am running for mayor because i believe that together, t

the house faces south west. huge windows capture the sun's rays and fill the living space with light the office living room and dining room. here is direct that was the south that so that means we get sun flooding the brow even in winter no one out lots of parts of iceland especially in the west are yours i don't see any sun for two months by morning kyra but it's sunny here until the eleventh of december and then the sun comes back on the first of january but between those two days the sun is only there for thirty seconds. winters in iceland are not only dark they can also be harsh with strong winds and heavy snow. mountain. these are photographs of the house completely snowed under for going for snow and concluding the top windows or i had to climb up two metres from the ground to dig them out to let light in and. given the often inhospitable climate the house is built from weather resistant material. lately made out of concrete coupled with the launch of the new mini m m has a blanket of cross on the roof of

>> i ask the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motio adopted. accordingly, the house standses adjourned until 10:00 a.m. for mornin >> what i appreciate about c-span, it's 40 years old. it's much older than me but what i appreciate -- that's a joke by the way. you can laugh. what i appreciate about c-span is that it's not partisan. you watch the sparring that takes place. you watch your delegations talk back and forth. it's extremely informative and very educational. one of the best things on the bus, and i'm a tech geek, so i hope they take me with them on their touruse i would spend hours on that bus, but if you go in and look at their interactive video screens, people can learn and kids can learn about government. i mean, government doesn't have to be a bad word. >> be sure to join us july 21 and 22 when we'll feature our visit to alaska. watch alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org, or listen with t

republicans control the house of representatives. here in the senate on a bipartisan basis. senator mur, senator collins, senator kennedy of louisiana, and they voted net neutrality. we know, as senator schumer just said, that it the vote was taken right now on net neutrality in the house of representatives, it uld win. we would be able to put those protections back on the books. so, millions of people rose up throughout the six months of lastea year. 22 million them contacting the fcc peered ajit pai, chairman of the fcc ignored those 22 million people, and i sits and i secreted to vote two vote on the federal communications commission. they took net neutrality off of the books. in other words, they officially stripped consumers of the protection that have allowed the economy and our democracy to flourish. now, amerins w h blindly trust their cle companies, their broadband companies,heir internet providers to protect them against discrimination. the cable dream come tru they were in one of the fcc, but now they've come to revolution is underway. here is the sun appeared it'

he's lost his house, he's lost his life.e people say he lied, and some people say he didn't lie. i mean, really, it turned out maybe he didn't lie. >> uh, flynn pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi, and president trump himself in a tweet said, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and to the fbi. lastly on immigration here, and this administration's policy that is ripping children from their parents at the border. here, once again, is the president. >> the children -- the children can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and immediately. the democrats forced that law upon our nation. i hate it. i hate to see separation of parents and children. >> fact. there is no federal law on the books requiring family separation as fact check.org states, quoting them. instead, it is this administration's decision to criminally prosecute all immigrants who cross the border illegally that will cause children to be celebratseparate their parents. we are also on that final point, beginning to get our first look at

housing. know, and i think what we're trying to do is work with the city and with the san francisco foundation, and a number of advocates in the mission, bayview, western addition, all across the city to launch a very robust housing acquisition program so that we can buy these housing, keep the people in place, and, you know, make sure that it's permanently affordable into the future. robert: yeah, i guess you gotta start with stabilizing first, huh? malcolm: that's correct. robert: yeah, do you think this model minority kinda syndrome you were talking about before, do you think that's stopping people who could help from helping? cally: i think a lot of it is, no, i think those who do very well, we see that they're very involved in the community, whether that's a city level, at the local level, or even in different organizations. i think, you know, one of-- this model minority is that, you know, a lot of our parents came here as immigrants, so and ones when they do make it that you do see them

who is included in that housing, and yes get the housing built. we need to be sure we are part of that discussion and we have the right of appealing at the board of supervisors whom we have voted for. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, commissioners. kelly hill, you nighted to save the mission. we want to make sure that this does not take away the community safeguards fought for and make sure it doesn't under mine the tools for the entitlement process including working with developers for true community vision as we have done in the mission and vulnerable communities. we feel like it should be adjusted to the prop c legislation where certain neighborhoods like had mission, tenderloin were at higher inclusion rerates are higher. the broad brush needs adjusted to local areas. i think it should be use it or lose it. we are seeing more and more projects going straight to real estate markets. they need to be built or expired. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the neighborhood council. i am going

white house visit. the first time i got to the white house was when i was working as an advisor for dav cameron. guess for golfers, it is winning an open championship, for actors, it is appearing on broadway, but for diplomats, it is walking across the threshold into the white house and even more into the oval office. you feel if you do that, you can die happy. anyway, the british prime minister who i suspect would approve this, who spent the most time in the white house was i think winston churchill, because in 1941, he pd a 24 day visit to the white house. it is impossible and modern diplomacy to imagine a 24 day visit anywhere. a 24-hour visit is hard enough. indeed, churchill thought of the white house as a second home. here as a bigive family in the greatest intimacy and informality, and i have formed the highest regard and admiration for the president." looking carefully at the record, i am not sure every element of that was entirely reciprocated. [laughter] >> i imagine you have heard the story o

the clerk: house calendar number 161, house resolution 971. resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order without intervention of any point of order of order to consider in the house the resolution, house resolution 970, insisting that the department of justice fully comply with the request, including subpoenas, of the permanent select committee on intelligence, and the subpoena issued by the committee on the judiciary relating to potential violations of the foreign intelligence surveillance act by personnel of the department of justice and related matters. the resolution shall be considered as read. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution and preamble to adoption without intervening motion or demand for division of the question except one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the judiciary or their respective designee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one hour. mr. collins: thank you.

so, it does president even matter if the house is successful in getting those identities. it's already threatened -- it threatens to have an impact. whether it is or not, i don't know, but i would imagine it is. i've seen situations like this where our ability to protect sources sort of comes into question because somebody has revealed for one reason or another. and we end up having a harder time collecting information in investigations. >> we can put up the obliteration of norms the president has steam rolled over behind us on a wall and make a big fancy graphic, but this seems like one in which lives could be lost and american national security could be in peril. >> yes. and also the irony -- i'm old enough to remember when the republican party was the law and order party. >> is that donald trump's convention speech? >> before that. long before -- the party was supporter of the justice department, the fbi. democrats were accused of being weak on that. the other thing people aren't talking about which you alluded to in a subtle way before is that as soon as the justice de

the gardens associated with the biltmore house. much of the land that vanderbilt was purchasing and looking at the time, because of its proximity to metropolitan or lived in areas of the time, much of the land had been over forrester, had been burned over, cut over. people had taken everything from firewood to salt from some of it. people farmed on this land and it was not rich farmland at that time. so the land was not nearly as pretty as we see it now. so, a lot of vanderbilt, and a gentleman named frederick law olmstead, their plan was to rehabilitate the land and make it that hospitality based location for george vanderbilt's family and friends. olmstead was probably -- what we call the first landscape architect. mr. olmstead did not care for that term, landscape architect, but what he was looking for was the big picture. he had come from central park in new york city. he had a vision that spanned huge acreage, and also the ability to see what he called the picturesque -- what that pretty little vignette would look like. he sta

bills through the house. worry about those things later. >> mr. speaker, has it been more difficult to convince the moderate members of your conference to stick behind you and not move forward? >> no, i don't think that's it at all. it's this is a difficult issue. what we've been trying to do is do through the regular committee process, judiciary committee, homeland security to get 218 votes for a bill. we don't have 218 votes for that bill. so now we're trying to figure out where that sweet spot is. the members who want to see action on this issue were getting exasperated because something didn't get to the floor. the democrats walked away from the process once the supreme court took away our deadline. that has left it to us to figure out how do we get this done. i worry that democrats would rather have an issue than a solution. we're going to work on a solution. >> thank you, mr. speaker. so what is your new deadline? >> it's not to have a deadline but to work with members to get things done and avoid a dis

rt b of house report 115-712 it is now in order to consider amendment number 15 printed in art b of house report 115-712. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. meadows: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 15 printed in part b of house report 115-712 offered by mr. meadows of north carolina. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 923, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. meadows, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina. mr. meadows: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, initiating an independent counsel investigation comes with many political and constitutional challenges. these individuals were bested with the full -- vested with the full power and independent authority for the investigation and empowers -- powers at the department of justice. when the independent counsel statute was re-authorized in 1994, an amendment was made to the law requiring the government accountability office to conduct periodic

breaking news from the white house. president trump firing off a round of tweets targeting democrats calling them weak on border security as we await two votes on different immigration bills. i'm bill hemmer live inside "america's newsroom." got that? >> sandra: good morning to you, bill hemmer. here we go. i'm sandra smith. house republicans trying to pass immigration reform this week one day after the president reversed course and signs and executive order stopping the separation of families at the border. last night 9,000 supporters packed a minnesota arena to hear all about his policies. >> president trump: we are going to keep families together but the border is going to be just as tough as it's been. [cheering and applause] democrats don't care about the impact of uncontrolled migration on your communities, your schools, your hospitals, your jobs or your safety. democrats put illegal immigrants before they put american citizens. what the hell is going on? >> bill: we have team fox coverage on all of this. we're li