mrs. handel: thank you, madam chairman. i yield back. ms. foxx: mr. espaillat, you are recognized for three minutes. mr. espaillat: mr. secretary, thank you for being here today. before accepting the nomination to be secretary of labor, you were the dean of a very successful -- dean of the florida international law school. florida's international university has been at the fore front of standing with daca forefront of standing with daca students. do you support and protects our daca students? secretary acosta: congressman, i appreciate your question. it's certainly my hope that congress resolves this issue and finds a legal solution to this daca issue. i should add that the clock is ticking. so i hope congress does so expeditiously. mr. espaillat: thank you. now, my district alone has 2,400 daca recipients and a total of 5,800 total daca eligible recipients. removing these individuals from our work force, our experts have said it will decrease our g.d.p. by an estimated $155 million. what in the world is going to happen -- what are we going to do to f

chairman.ou, madam mr. president of the executive council, madame director general, ladies and gentlemen, heads of delegations, differen -- dear friends. may i begin by saying how proud iam today, how enthusiastic am at the idea of heading this organization. i would like to thank you for decision through the most important body which sets the policies of unesco. , asuld like to pay tribute the president has already done, to the election process which was conducted in a very transparent way with public enabled and which has each of you to be familiar with the ideas and programs of the candidates. at this moment, i am thinking of all the people i have met in recent months or whom i had met before this in my previous jobs and who have high hopes for the future of unesco. we must not forget that. i am thinking of unesco's mandate which is very moderern d to which we owe a successful pathization which is on a with its modern nature. it is facing difficulties but irreplaceable. unesco is essential in the wake of t

thank you madam chair. >> thank you ms. bond myrtle beachy. mr. lewis you are recognized for three minutes. >> thank you madam chair. over the past years, this committee has conducted numerous hearings focusing on the department's overtime rule making which was initiated under the obamacare administration in 2014. the committee has significant concerns with the previous administration's approach. we have heard testimony about the negative approach of this rule making on a number of stakeholders adversely impacted. in july the wage and hour division initiated requests as wed understand it relating to the regulations for white collar employees. could you update us with respect to the information collected where we are in this process how it's going to be used to reform the revisions going forward and what kinds of clarity we will need for reviewing the information. >> certainly, as the congressman is aware, this was also brought up in a federal court, and the federal court joined the implementation of that overtime rule. i have said previously and i'

mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to calendar number 165, s. 1519. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of s. 1519, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the department of defense, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. mcconnell: madam president, during the last decade, hardworking american families have tried to get ahead, but they too often faced insurmountable barriers. the economy was sluggish, paychecks were stagnant, jobs and opportunities seemed literally out of reach. the people we represent deserve a whole lot better than that, and it's time for us to deliver. it's time to take our foot off the brake and get our economy going again and growing again. we can go that through tax reform. every american who has ever interacted with the i.r.s. already knows that our tax code is broken. rates are too high. the deductions and loopholes are too complex to understand, and it's too e

mr. neal: thank you, madam speaker. 33% of mr. knight's constituents derive a $16,000 annual benefit from the mortgage interest deduction. in the case of the gentlelady, 37% of her constituents enjoy an $18,200 mortgage interest deduction benefit. it's my intention to close if there are no more speakers on the other side. thank you, mr. chairman. more than anything else, madam speaker, this is, as i opened with, a missed opportunity. we all know what's wrong with this tax code. we could have found areas of compromise, emphasizing the middle class and middle income earners. we understand that the tax code that american corporations use is not competitive now internationally. but we wanted some relief from middle income people -- for middle income people. here's where the investment could have taken place. we could have begun an investment in human capital. you've heard it tonight. labor participation rates in america, we all should be alarmed by what's happened in the postwar period, where at one time it was 66% and nouts 63.8% --

i yield the floor, madam president. mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, my friend, the senator from new york, is my friend, and we've worked together on a number of occasions, but i must disagree with a number of things he said today. first of all, the consumer financial protection bureau was a partisan creation by democrats during the obama administration that had virtually no republican support. what they did is they created a modern day emperor, somebody immune from congressional oversight and appropriations process and now that mr. cordroy is leaving following the election of a republican president, they are taking exception to the fact that this president has the authority under the law to appoint his successor instead insisting that somebody chosen by mr. cordroy, this modern-day financial emperor, they should be able to make a choice and foist that on this administration when clearly this administration was elected to office in part in response to the overreach of the previo

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, mr. bonamici. mr. ewis, you're recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. over the past through years this committee has conducted numerous hearings focusing on the department's overtime rule making which was initiatived by the obama administration in 2014, i believe. the committee has had significant concerns with the previous administration's approach. we've heard testimony about the negative effects of this rule making, especially on small businesses, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education. among a number of stakeholders adversely impacted. in july, the wage initiation a question for information related to overtime regulations related to white collar employees. mr. secretary, could you provide us with an update with respect to the information collected, where we are in this process, how it's going to be used to inform the revisions going forward, and what kind of clarity we'll need for reviewing the information? >> certainly, congressman. as the congressman is aware,

i yield the floor, madam president. mr. leahy: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: madam president, what is the parliamentary situation? the presiding officer: the senate is considering the kan nomination. mr. leahy: i thank the distinguished presiding officer. they are going to put it in place a couple of things here. mr. leahy: madam president, over the past ten months, the attorney general has testified pf the senate -- before the senate on three occasions. this is about his contact with russian. he has provided supplementary testimony, but no matter how much he tried, he's not getting his story straight. on numerous occasions numerous disclosures of his communications involving russia have raised serious questions about his testimony. they raised questions about his testimony, and not one of these disclosures have come -- has come from the attorney general. these disclosures were not from the attorney general correcting what he said before. all of it came from the press or court records. now, that's a pr

mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: during the last decade our complex tax code left hardworking families behind and allowed the wealthy and well connected to get ahead. it's so bad one small business owner in paducah, ky, wrote to my office asking for relief, because, as he says, taxes are suffocating my company and me personally. the pain isn't just being felt in kentucky. it's an urgent problem nationwide. families and job creators are doing their best to get ahead but too often our tax code keeps them reaching for the american dream. working families and small businesses in our country deserve better than our outdated tax code, and that's what we're trying to deliver. tax reform represents the single most important thing we can do right now to spur economic growth, help support good jobs, and boost the middle class. this is our once in a generation opportunity and we should meet the challenge. overhauling our tax code can mean more money for small businesses to hire, to invest, and to expand. it can mean

mr. neal: thank you, madam speaker. 33% of mr. knight's constituents derive a $16,000 annual benefit from the mortgage interest deduction. in the case of the gentlelady, 37% of her constituents enjoy an $18,200 mortgage interest deduction benefit. it's my intention to close if there are no more speakers on the other side. thank you, mr. chairman. more than anything else, madam speaker, this is, as i opened with, a missed opportunity. we all know what's wrong with this tax code. we could have found areas of compromise, emphasizing the middle class and middle income earners. we understand that the tax code that american corporations use is not competitive now internationally. but we wanted some relief from middle income people -- for middle income people. here's where the investment could have taken place. we could have begun an investment in human capital. you've heard it tonight. labor participation rates in america, we all should be alarmed by what's happened in the postwar period, where at one time it was 66% and nouts 63.8% --

madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i recently visited the innovations commons at penn state's campus in erie county, which is an idea lab that offers support for entrepreneurs and startup companies. 2016, to n january, innovators, including those at the student level who sought to place -- a place to organize, collaborate, compose, and construct their ideas. the innovation commons is a part of the innovation beehive housed at and 2016, to managed state baron. with three ship other universities, mercy herst, and edinburgho. it was the first of its kind in 2016 and its success established a business network across erie county. and in other words the beehive. the sites will operate as with both niversities, mercy individual service providers and part of a larger connected network with multiple points of entry for entrepreneurs. all services will be available to the public and to businesses seeking to develop new products or enter new markets. each lab wil

mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: for too long many of america's middle-class families felt left behind by the obama economy. paychecks seemed to stagnate. good-paying jobs seemed harder to find, and opportunities seemed difficult to come by. our country can do better for hardworking families, and that's exactly what we're working to deliver as we continue our efforts to pass tax reform. it's a once-in-a-generation opportunity and it's the most important thing we can do today to get our economy really growing again and going again. last week the house ways and means committee passed its proposal to lower taxes and to boost economic growth. i'd like to commend chairman brady for his efforts to get the bill approved by the committee and to the floor of the house. here in the senate, we also remain focused on tax reform this week. today the finance committee began its markup of the tax reform proposal released last week. under the leadership of chairman hatch, the committee will consider this plan that has rea

mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: now, first, before i get to my main issue of taxes, i just heard the majority leader talk about taking away the blue slip. now, we hear from the other side professing they want to work in a bipartisan way, but every step they take takes away bipartisanship. reconciliation takes away bipartisanship. getting rid of the blue slip takes away bipartisanship. unfortunately, the majority leader has taken so many steps this year to remove any hint of bipartisanship, most notably reconciliation on this major, major tax bill. this is the first time we're doing tax reform in 36 years, but then it was done in a bipartisan way, and the product lasted and people in retrospect were proud of it, because this bill is being done in such a partisan and narrow way. and the idea -- and i even heard my friend from utah say this, join us. you don't join us after you put together a bill in the dark of night just with republicans and then say come join us. that is not how tax reform was done in 1986.

. >> madam leader and mr. neil, does this surprise you? you saw what happened with healthcare -- [inaudible] >> there's a huge difference. hearings, amendments, opportunities for the minority party to participate as they did across congress. this is being done, the major argument here is you taking the financial architecture of the country and you're altering it without one single hearing. there's been no examination of anything. these are complicated issues that some members spent a career just trying to master one part of the discipline. and all of a sudden this vast bill is put before us without an opportunity to even talk about it. you could take a look, for example, at the estate tax. you can do two weeks of hearings on that. and here from everybody. not a chance, we're just going to do. you can talk about alternative minimum tax. you can spend two weeks about how we got there, how we would fix it. that's not what's happening. this is simply an opportunity for one side without one hearing, without one witness, now without even their o

mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. i'm going to spend the bulk of my time this afternoon focusing on the tax plan, but first i must address president trump's trip to asia. without exaggeration, the president's trip to asia has been one of the most embarrassing foreign trips a president has taken in my memory. it shows when it comes to foreign policy, president trump is not ready for prime time. after a campaign in which he routinely criticized china -- rightly, in my opinion -- for rapacious trading practices that have stolen american jobs and depressed american wages, president trump went to china and gave them a get out of jail free card. instead of speaking sternly and truthfully to the chinese leaders about the realities of our imbalanced and unfair trade system where we play by the rules and they do not, we lose jobs, they gain them, president trump tried to appease the chinese and their leader. instead of demanding concessions on trade, instead of demanding the same equal access to markets we provide chinese firm

mr. burgess: madam speaker, may i inquire as to how much time i have left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas has 6 1/2 minutes. the gentlewoman from new york has nine minutes remaining. mr. burgess: let me yield myself -- let me yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: because i want to address the issue of the public health fund. this bill before us does redirect $8.9 billion from the prevention and public health fund to support critically important public health programs that expand access to care and improve health outcomes. prevention fund was established in the affordable care act as mandatory funding for prevention in public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in public and private sector health care costs. according to statute, billions of dollars in advanced appropriations are to be used for the broad purpose of supporting programs authorized by the public health service act for prevention, wellness and public health activities. however, prevention,

madam chair. are you back. >> thank you. mr. allen you are mechanized for three minutes. >> thank you, chairwoman. thank you secretary for being with us today. i was in the construction industry for 35 years before being elected to congress and a point of clarification, if i understood you correctly on the silica rule, has the rule been finalized or is it still be negotiated and is it being now implemented or is it going to be different? i have people that don't know -- they are out getting quotes and this is very expensive to deal with. where are we with this? are they to comply by this exact rule now and what happens if it changes? it's very expensive to comply with this thing. where are with us? >> i the question and i was smiling because the rule is completed and has multiple dates which might be the basis for some of the confusion. parts of the rule are in effect and parts do not go into effect for some amount of time. the party is split in litigation and all sides are represented in litigation. i'm told close to settlement

madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: madam president, i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. the commerce committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. it's now november 9. over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. this non-controversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. it's truly unfortunate, madam president, when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nominee who is well known to many of us here in the senate do to his previous work as a senate staffer. to illustrate how noncontroversial and well qualified this nominee is, less than two years ago, mr. kan was confirmed by voice vote in the senate to be a director on the amtrak board of directors. the only thing that has changed in the two years since mr. kan was previously confirmed is that some on the democrat side have decided to hold th

>> the clerk: yes, madame chair, mr. wiener. >> director: two minutes. >> mr. wiener, san francisco state alumni. my time is running out. i like what is presented by director davis. i'd like to submit my own comment. now, you talk about equity. transportation should be accessible to everyone. it should be a right for everyone. this is not the case right now. what this board does is believes in identity politics. the groups that get up and testify before you in support of your program are the groups you support. it's a reciprocal relationship and the public is left out of it. what happens is it works in the community. like for instance, in outer richmond there were many non-english speaking foreign immigrants denied service. the same thing applies to the parking spaces in the bay view. what happens is when you do trade-offs you're trading off one group of individuals against other individuals. that's basically what it is. unfortunately the definition of politics for this board is the politics of compromise is the art of comprising people. so i really believe in

mr. mcclintock: thank you, madam speaker. in the last four national elections, americans made it clear that we won't accept the economic stagnation that we've suffered during this past decade. mr. obama's policies of higher taxes and regulatory burdens suppressed economic growth to a dismal 1.5% annual average. that's about half of the post-war growth rate of 3%. president reagan averaged 3.5% annual growth by reducing the tax and regulatory burdens crushing the economy. result was one of the greatest economic expansions in american history. the trump administration has made significant progress on regulatory relief. attested by rising wages, employment opportunities, and growing consumer confidence. but tax relief is vital to finish the job. the imperative should be clear. the american corporate tax rate of 35% is the highest in the industrialized world. now i know there are lots of special interest loopholes that go to politically connected companies that bring the effective rate down to 18.6% but that is precisely the probl

mr. garamendi: madam leader, thank you so very much for joining us here tonight. i remember here on the floor, when the debate occurred over the budget that did pass the house of representatives a couple of weeks ago. you spoke eloquently on the floor about what this budget would mean. that it would open the door to some very bad public policies. in fact, public policies that would harm individual americans, as well as the american economy. and you were very passionate about it. you said that that budget, which was -- passed the house only on republican -- only on republican votes. ms. pelosi: and just barely. mr. garamendi: and -- yes. jeff denham included. and mcclintock and the other republicans. ms. pelosi: all 14 california republicans, like lemmings to the sea, betray the economic security of their families. mr. garamendi: inly aing -- in laying that out you made it very, very clear that it would lead to a tax bill that would be harmful. we had some ideas then of what it would be but we had no idea it would be such a horrendous problem for the american econo

mr. wyden: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator oregon. mr. wyden: i first want to respooned to the senator from texas. then i will pose a question to the senator from ohio. the senator from texas talked about how everybody on this side was obstructing bipartisan tax reform. i'm a little puzzled by that, having written the only two bipartisan tax reform bills that have been before the senate. maybe the senator from texas will bring his bipartisan tax reform bills over and we could look at them at some point. one of the keystone x.l. to that bipartisan -- one of the keys to that bipartisan proposal and it relates to the point made by the senator from pennsylvania is our cosponsor, senator gregg, our former colleague, very knowledgeable about economics, said that what he wanted to do was make it more attractive to do business in the united states. heart of that bipartisan bill was to make it more attractive for small businesses, businesses of all sizes to create red, white, and blue jobs. this bill does just the opposite. it makes it more attrac

madam secretary, please call first item. >> clerk: thank you, mr. vice chair. the first item is roll call. please respond when i call your name, commissioner pimentel. and commissioner gonzalez is absent. commissioner singh. and vice chair bustos. and madam chair mondejar is absent, and commissioner rosales is absent. the next order of business is item 2 announcements. the next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on november 7th, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. at city hall, room 416-c. the announcement of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting, please be advised that the ringing of and the use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or the use of the cellphone, pager or other similar sound-producing electronic device. c, announcement of time allotment for public comment. please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make pertinent public comments on each

>> yes. >> madame chair is absent. mr. vice chair, the vote is three ayes, two absent. >> thank you. motion carries. >> item 5d, commission members, announce your vote when i call your name. >> the motion carries. for item e. announce your name. >> commissioner pimientel. >> yes. >> commissioner singh? >> yes. >> vice chair bustos. >> yes. >> mr. vice chair t vote is three ayes, two absent. >> motion carries. >> for family 5f, commissioner pimientel. >> and a continuing disclosure certificate and approval of docs ments and actions there's project areas and. >> good afternoon commissioners, this item you see in the various versions of this item this is the final action of the commission for the approval of the sureance and sale of bonds for the 2007 series d and e and. >> good afternoon vice-chair, commissioners, director. my name is john daigle i'm senior financial analist for the ocii. so commission item 5-g our resolution 43, 2017 is the final action necessary to allow the issueance of two series of refunding bonds and s

mrs. hartzler: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today in support of an important bill that could help so many families with loved ones struggling with life threatening diseases. i'm talking about the right to try act. which would allow terminally ill patients to request access to experimental drugs after all other available treatment option vs. been exhaust austed, as well as prevent the federal government from interfering with states that have already passed such laws. . i was reminded of the importance of this bill just last year. as i was returning to my office one morning after votes on the house floor, i was stopped by a little boy, zach, who ran after me to catch my attention, zach, who is only 11 years old, is one of the most effective advocates for the right to try campaign. his father, frank, was diagnosed with a.l.s. a few years ago. this devastating disease has an average life expectancy of two to five years with half of those diagnosed surviving for only three years. ever since that life-changing diagnosis, zach'

madame secretary, item number 3 on today's agenda. >> mr. chairman, commissioner, third item will be presented by the wireless telecommunications bureau, it is entitled accelerating wireless broadband deployment by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and donald will give the introduction. >> thank you, madame secretary. if you and the folks are ready, feel free to take the floor. >> for the next item i am pleased to present to you the replacement utility polls report in in order. i'm joined at the table today by susan petro, garnet and steph and david, in addition to wireless bureau staff at the table, excuse me, i would like to thank jill springer and jennifer from our competition and infrastructure policy division for their work and all of the commission staff listed on the slide for their input. david will present the item. >> thank you, don. good morning, mr. chairman, commissioners. >> good morning. >> the draft report order before you is designed for rapid infrastructure by reducing regulatory barriers, this order focuses on

madam president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: madam president, two days ago, i visited the community of sutherland springs, texas, a small rural community about 35 miles from san antonio, texas. we all remember the terrible shooting that occurred there just over a week ago at the first baptist church, an be event that those in sutherland springs and across texas and maybe even across the nation we will never forget. i hope we never forget it because i believe that those events were by and large preventable, and i'll explain that more in a moment. but what i saw during my visit and what i found to be so remarkable is that the community has already started the healing process. already the church building that was riddled with bullets and the bodies of people who were killed and injured has been turned into a memorial which will forever mark the terrible events of that day and honor the lives of those who lost their life. after an excruciating trial, the rest of us can't even begin to comprehend the attitude in sutherland spr

mr. sanders: thank you. madam president, president trump and the republican leadership is on television every day telling the american people how this tax bill is going to help the middle class, how it was written for the middle class. unfortunately, i will not shock too many people by suggesting that what president trump is saying is not truthful. this legislation, according to independent studies, will provide 60% of the benefits to the top 1%. so we are living in a moment in american history where we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality, where the top one-tenth of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, where three people -- three wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of the american population, and yet my republican colleagues believe that this is a moment in which 60% of the benefits of this so-called tax reform bill should go to the 1%. meanwhile, millions of middle-class families will end up paying more in taxes. so we have a situation where the w

. >> thank you, madam secretary. mr. stockdale, whenever you're ready the floor charts. >> good afternoon mr. chairman and commissioners. it is my pleasure introduced the spectrum frontiers item which continues our effort to make high-frequency bands available for broadband and other uses. this item would maintain the spectrum allocations and the flexible framework the commission adopted in the 2016 report and order and would make available an additional 1.7 gigahertz of millimeterwave spectrum for flexible terrestrial wireless use under similar rules. it also take steps to provide or to maintain access to millimeterwave spectrum for satellite and unlicensed uses. after use became the first country in the world to make these bands available for 5g and other wireless services, we have seen tremendous interest and investment in these bands. we hope to build on that success by making additional spectrum available, expanding our flexible framework, and eliminating burdensome regulatory requirements. the flexible market drive

madam chair. i would like to start with you, mr. ramos.do you think politics have played a part in prepa's failures? >> historically? >> yes, historically or currently. >> i cannot attest historically. certainly there's been, it's very hard to manage prepa being a big corporation which is part of government. it gets, it is, even in its current bankruptcy it's like the jewel of the crown for puerto rico regardless of the best service in that condition which it is in. and certainly there's too much intervention, you know, , by government officials in the sense of -- please, don't feel bad, but it gets a lot of attention if you do bills for prepa, if you do, people get attention. politicians in order to get attention, they do subsidy subsidy, actually subsidies have killed prepa in its finances as well. too many subsidies in order to get i guess votes, et cetera certainly there's been -- >> encourages people to do that. what about employment? how many political appointees are currently employed by prepa? >> prepa traditionally has been a comp

thank you, madam chair. >> you're welcome. and mr. latta. five minutes. >> thank you very much, madam chairwoman, for today's hearing. thanks very much to the commissioners for being with us today. as always, it's great to see you all. and just following up on my friend from illinois, i really appreciate mr. chairman and commissioner o'reilly for you coming out to my district, because i think, you know, you take an interest in this one case when the chairwoman was out with the very small rural telecoms that you met with. and it wasn't where there were a round table. they were on a square table. but there were quite a few people there that day that you addressed and they appreciated it. and commissioner o'reilly for coming out and talking to the -- you know, our smaller broadcasters in the area. i appreciated that. so it's good that you listened to the folks back home. chairman pai, if i could start my questions with you. like you, i believe that modernizing regulations is critical to spur innovation. for instance, i would like to see the fcc

mr. daines: madam president, today the u.s. house of representatives begins marking up h.r. 1, the tax cut and jobs act. and as the u.s. senate continues to debate tax cuts, i'm reminded by a speech that former democratic president john f. kennedy delivered in new york city in 1962. in fact, it was december of 1962. and let me quote president kennedy. in short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. the experience of a number of european countries and japan have borne this out. this country's own experience with tax reduction in 1954 has borne this out. and the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget and tax reduction can pave the way to that employment. the purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit but to achieve the more prosperous expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus. president kennedy went on to say this, i repeat, our practical choice is

mr. garamendi: you laid out, madam leader, our republican colleagues from california that seem to ignore or want to not even think about the state and local tax deduction and also mortgage interest deduction. trying to find a house in california that's less than $500,000 or $700,000 is virtually impossible, certainly in the bay area and much of surgeon california and in the sacramento region, it's almost impossible. so by reducing that mortgage interest deduction, together with the state and local taxes, you are seriously increasing the tax burden on homeowners and on working men and women in california. you laid it out so very well. in the district directly to my south, mr. denham's district, 101,000 of his constituents currently have a $7,982 average deduction for state and local taxes and for the mortgage interest. they will lose that and they will wind up paying somewhere 25 focht 30% on that lost deduction. so let's say 25% of $,000 is, what, $2,000? new taxes. ms. pelosi: new taxes. and you know, we all want to encourage home ownership because it's putting down roots, building comm

mr. ramos? thank you, madam chair. the commission operates with a statutory budget that is a limited to what the requirements are, the local law mandates the commission to do. especially now, with the restoration that is required, one thing we need to keep in mind is that preppa is a government owned nonprofit utility. the tools that regulators have to be borne by the right payers, they are not present in the that atty. gen. paxton: has. the entered -- the prepa has. prepa has. covered byat is not federal, will be covered by the people. we have to make sure that all actions are prudent. with that situation, that is white the energy commission ruled on the order that since we cannot disallow costs after the fact, we needed to stop them from being incurred at all. that is the reason why we requested prepa to submit the budget so we could approve the budget before they actually started spending the money. there is the challenge with the prepa board, and we asked them if this was something that could be coordinated between

good evening, madam president. >> thank you, mr. president and commissioners, thank you for having us. mary baldwin. i'm the president of the bar association of san francisco. you are all familiar with the work that the bar association has done on this issue and has presented to you over the past two years. our criminal justice task force has studied this issue closely. it's made up of prosecutors, public defenders, prime criminal defense attorneys, law enforcement, judiciary, civil rights attorneys, mayor's office, and academics, and i emphasize that to emphasize the broad range of viewpoints and perspectives that makeup that task force and that brought those backgrounds to bear in this careful study of this issue. the task force produced two memos. you have them. the most recent was done on september 18th of this year. in presenting the findings to the board of directors of the bar association, the board of directors voted unanimously to not support the use of tazers, and we sent you a letter to that effect. i just want to emphasi

mr. president and madame first lady, thank you very much.dent trump meeting with the delegation from japan as they talked about the fact that some of the japanese citizens have been kidnapped by north korea. that's a problem that has not gone away. the president will talk with them about how they can deal with that. there is a lot going on tonight. not only are we following the asia trip of the president of the united states and awaiting his news conference with shinzo abe of japan. but we are also following events that unfolded here in america that shocks the nation and ripped the heart of the president. and that's in the small county town of sutherland, texas. matt finn joins us from that town of 407 people. as we follow developments of the day, and when you first arrived, the atmosphere and the heartbreak of sadness was pallable. what are you sensing now as lou enforcement gets on with the african-american task of basically going over that crime scene which is a church. going over that crime scene knowing how grim their task is. >> so gri

mr. smylie. do we have, madam secretary, do we have any speaker cards? >> yes, madam chair, there are seven speaker cards. the first is jason fried. >> jason fried, san francisco shipyard homeowner. first off a little disappointd in what was presented i don't think he answered any questions you had in the past. i get it he is their lawyer and he is telling them not to address. this is what we have been dealing with, stonewall, stonewall, stonewall from them. it's very frustrating. we have tried to have these discussions and they went silent. this is the first i've heard from them in quite some time they are willing to have a discussion about what was discussed with us, but they have yet to actually reach out and tell us, but they are telling you now. but they haven't. you really need to hold them accountable. they are going to want to make changes to the shipyard. they have already presented to the c.a.c. some of what these suggested changes are. i would tell you this, do not agree to do anything until they come and present everything to you, not through

mr. speaker. thank you, madam chair, for your condolences and your prayers for sutherland springs. i also want to thank mr. byrne and of course chairwoman foxx for the work on this particular bill. i want to thank mr. lieu correa and other -- lou correa and other supporters. the standards used by the nlrb made it easy to understand who is and who is not a joint employer. for decades, joint employer relationships existed when one company had direct and immediate control over another company's work force. wever, as you know under the industries, this established a new expanded joint employer standard. this standard could trigger employer liability by a company exercising a vaguely defined indirect control over employee. we heard from local businesses from my district and across the state of texas, and it is clear this decision is costing them significant confusion. in my district, let's say laredo, texas, there is a local restaurant owner who says his restaurant currently employees close to 1,000 local employees. this expanded joint employer standard has limited his investment in his

mr. mayor for being here today. madame clerk, let's get to our consent agenda items one through four. >> the clerk: considered to be routine if a member objects an item can be removed and considered separately. [taking roll] . >> the clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> they're adopted unanimously. read five through seven. >> the clerk: authorizing the settlements in superior court for kevin smith filed in 2016 and involved alleged personal injury on a city street. item six is a settlement for a lawsuit of t mobile west for filed september 9, 2015 include utility user's tax refund and item seven is the lawsuit by at&t corp filed october 26, 2016 involving a breach of contract claim arise from a dispute of a design of a medical grade device. >> supervisor: without objection the items are adopted unanimously. let's skip over eight and nine and go to ten. >> the clerk: it was referred without recommendation from the finance committee a resolution to authorize the issuance of a revenue bond in aggregate presence principle amount for t

mr. neal: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, correction, not one hearing was held on this tax bill. 38,000 people in mr. reed's district will lose the student loan interest deduction. with that i'd like to introduce a real champion of the working class in america, the gentlelady from ohio, marcy kaptur. one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: i want to thank the exceptional leadership of ranking member richard neal of massachusetts and trying to fix this horrendous bill. mr. speaker, the g.o.p.-led tax and deficit disaster rewards the big corporations and billionaires. it will accelerate job outsourcing. indeed, 50% of the tax benefits go to the top 1%. this tax scam locks in, get to a 621,500 tax bonus each billionaire in the billionaire class. the top .1 of 1%. do you think they need it? meanwhile, this tax scam raise ed money from the pockets of 38 million middle class taxpayers, likely those caring for their sick relatives or trying to help their kids in c

mr. gee. anybody else? madam chair, close comments. >> supervisor kim: close public comment on item number 3. >> supervisor yee: mike young, are you here? mike. mike young from the superior court. i want to ask, since you folks are looking at software, what's your timeline in terms of, you know, your ability to adapt a new software system? >> supervisor, we have implemented a new software. selected a vendor almost five years ago now, and the court is a very large organization with several case types. first case type implemented was the traffic and infractions division. that division has had a new case management system since november of 2015. with an updated refresh just implemented about three weeks ago. in the next year work has already started but within the next year we anticipate being completed with what this hearing is all about, which is the criminal division's usage of a new case management system. we hope for that to be in place around october or november of 2018. >> supervisor yee: ok. appreciate it. m