thank you mr. chair -- thank you, mr. chair. mr. alcorn: thank you for those remarks. that concludes our business for the day, and i move that we adjourned for the day. is there a second? i have a motion at a second. all in favor say aye. >> aye rare adjourned. . -- we are adjourned. >> the republican david yancey won won the election. you can see this event later at www.c-span.org. we have more coverage later today on c-span with the discussion on the protests in iran and what they might mean for the future of the country and the entire region. eastern from:30 the washington institute for near east policy, live on c-span. touris weekend, the cities takes you to springfield, missouri. toare working with mediacom explore the literary scene and history of the birthplace of route 66 in southwestern missouri. authory at noon, an talks about conflict occurring along the kansas-missouri border in the struggle over slavery in his book "the border between them." >> john brown comes back to the territory in 1858 and begins a series of raids into western missouri during which hi

and i use the term advisedly, mr chair — ripped off by their providers.ost people pay for their handset over two years of their phone contract. she pointed to research by citizens advice. it seems that 36% of mobile handset customers stay on their previous contract after the 2a month fixed period. on average, people stay on their contract for an extra seven months. however, the chances are, that if you are a customer with one

mr. alcorn: madam vice chair, will you give the ball a stir? >> cook in the kitchen. ok. there you go. mr. alcorn: i will draw one canister. madam vice-chair, will draw the second canister. the winner will be the first canister. madam vice-chair, will you pull your canister. the ball is empty. the winner of house district 94 is david yancey. ms. mcallister: and the second name for the other candidate, shelly simonds. mr. alcorn: i therefore move that pursuant to virginia code section 24.2-674, that david yancey is that newly elected delegate from house district 94. is there a second? >> second. mr. alcorn: there is a second. all in favor say aye. the motion passes. will you please distribute the certificate for signature? ms. mcallister: who has the blue pen? thank you, ma'am. we have legal counsel from the attorney general's office. he provides us with a blue pen so that we know we have all signed. mr. alcorn: thank you. madam vice chair, and madam secretary, i believe you would like to say a couple words. ms. wheeler: a couple of words. today we have witnessed an unprecedented event i

thank you, mr. chair. mr. alcorn: thank you, madam secretary. thank you for those remarks. that concludes our business for the day, and i move that we adjourn for the day. is there a second? >> second. mr. alcorn: i have a motion and a second. all in favor say aye. >> aye. mr. alcorn: we are adjourned. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] house,y at the white president trump met with republican leaders in the senate. they discussed immigration policy, including the possible renewal for deferred action for childhood arrivals, better known as daca. our cameras were in the room for the start of the meeting. here is a look. >> happy new year. pres. trump: an important meeting. thank you for being here. making a lot of progress on a letter different things. today, i am with the senate working group on immigration. i think that started around november 8 and maybe a year and a half before that, starting with the campaign. we a

[microphone turned off] >> chair peskin: mr. washington, this is about item number seven, the balboa transportation. >> public: i have another minute to talk, sir. >> chair peskin: you can speak during the general public comment at the end of the meeting. ace, you can speak during general public comment. >> public: this is my moment. [bell]. >> public: i'm able to get up here and speak because you have white boy -- >> chair peskin: ace, would you sit down, please. >> public: give me my time back, sir. >> chair peskin: you will have two minutes at the end of the meeting which will be a total of three and then that's enough. all right. next speaker, please. >> public: down here at silly hall. i done seen it all and i'm going to tell it all. i will be back and i'm going to say what i have to say about them -- >> chair peskin: ace! next speaker. >> public: is it on? my name is michael errands. i'm a member of the westwood park association and i'm appointed to the cac balboa reservoir committee. i gave my comments last night and i wil

and i use the term advisedly, mr chair — ripped off by their providers.r phone contract. she pointed to research by citizens advice. it seems that 36% of mobile handset customers stay on their previous contract after the 2a month fixed period. on average, people stay on their contract for an extra seven months. however, the chances are, that if you are a customer with one of the bigger mobile phone providers who dominate the market, the price consumers are charged each month will not change. meaning that consumers continue to be charged for their handsets even though they have already paid for them over the course of their two year contract. the fact is, mr chair, that most providers don't tell the customer how much of their monthly bill goes towards the mobile phone handset and how much is paying for data and calls. the minister said there was a competitive market and that the government was determined to make billing easier to understand. in my opinion, this means more transparent. it includes making it clearer when a customer has paid off the price of

mr. hairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having under consideration h.r. 3326 directs me to report that it has not come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 3326 and has come to no resolution thereon. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> because of the act, families are optimistic. families are seeing energy bills come down as utility companies are cutting rates. in february, an estimated 90% of americans will see their take-home pay increase. as i travel around washington, i hear about family, this is making a big difference. they were excited about increased paychecks, about being able to pay for mortgages and college tuition. it's making an impact for them in their pocketbooks. despite the out of touch rhetoric we're hearing from the defen

eyes are looking forward to ensuring the outreach and technical requirements for those. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. shaw. commissioner cohen. >> supervisor cohen: i would like to withdraw my request to continue this. you want this to go forward. i will support it and vote for it. >> chair peskin: thank you. that works for the second. commissioner breed? the motion to continue is withdrawn and on the motion made by commissioner yee, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on item seven, commissioner breed. breed aye. commissioner cohen. cohen aye. commissioner fewer. fewer aye. commissioner peskin. >> chair peskin: aye. >> clerk: commissioner kim. kim aye. commissioner ronen. ronen aye. safai aye. commissioner sheehy. aye. tang aye. commissioner yee. yee aye. we have first approval. >> chair peskin: all right. before we read item eight, i want to thank you mr. hartnet for patience. i have had a request by a commissioner to make -- ask for a motion to rescind the vote on item number four. commissioner yee, would you luke to make -- like to make that motion? >> supervisor yee: move. >> chair peskin: seconded

mr. bill rakes i. the chair: -- mr. bilirakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for all the hard work they've put into re-authorizing chip. this is a six-year re-authorization of the chip program, the longest chip re-authorization congress has ever passed. the house already passed a full chip authorization last year, by the way, we also re-authorized the community health centers. most democrats voted against that. democrats need to put politics aside and support the bill for the sake of our children. chip re-authorization will ensure funding for 200,000 children in florida's chip program. in addition, this bill has my legislation that protects chip buy-in programs. this allows children who aren't eligible for traditional chip to buy into the chip program. it makes sense. inconsistent guidance from c.m.s. jeopardized these buy-in programs. this bill will provide clarity and protect about 12,00

mr. chair, the rest, i turnover to you. >> supervisor safai: great. thank you, supervisor cohen. >> oh, one more thing. >> supervisor safai: yes, please. >> supervisor cohen: i just want to thank my fantastic staff for pulling this all together. >> supervisor safai: okay. unless there's any additional questions or comments from my colleagues, we can open it up for public comment. unless there's questions from my colleagues. okay. we'll open it up to public comment. please speak directly into the microphone. please leave official copies of the document for the file, and please lineup to the right. please proceed. >> my name is denny len order. i lived in san francisco for about 35 years or so. in 1992, i worked with the san francisco foundation to change their columbus day to italian american week, and that was a meeting of the national board in washington d.c. and the local people here. and i travelled to italy in 1992 and debated columbus on national italian television. the debate was very successful. 76% for me and 24% for columbus. the italians wer

mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from ohio, ms. minutes.r five . ms. fudge: mr. speaker, today i rise to recognize dr. toby cosgrove, an innovative leader and recently retired president of the cleveland clinic hospital system. i am fortunate to know the doctor personally and i am privileged to call him friend. some say a picture is worth a thousand words. that was certainly true of toby cosgrove. toby was an accomplished sailor as a young man. that was his path until he saw a photo of his neighbor in an operating room. that photo inspired him to become a surgeon. he graduated from williams college in massachusetts and earned his medical degree from the university of virginia school of medicine. after medical school, dr. cosgrove served our nation in vietnam as a captain in the u.s. air force. he was awarded a bronze star, and the republic of vietnam commendation medal for his service during the war. dr. cosgrove joined the cleveland clinic staff in 1976. dr. cosgrove was a world renowned he

mr. chairman. now the chair will recognize the ranking member mr. pollone for the purposes of opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> this committee has a long history of overseeing food safety. over the last decade we've had multiple hearings examining the food and drug administration's oversight of food recalls and the agency's authority to protect the nation's food supply. the fda plays a critical role. fda oversaw more than 3600 recalls and this is no small task, but we have seen cases that exposed weaknesses in fda's ability to respond to these threats. for example, as has been mentioned in 2007, a committee investigation into a salmonella outbreak identified serious flaws in our food safety network. in 2010 the committee found that fda had limited authority to ensure compliance and did not always take swift action when needed. witnesses repeatedly told his committee that fda lacks sufficient authority to address weaknesses in our food safety system and that's why congress passed the food safety modernization act and fisma had the ove

mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. costa, for five minutes. mr. costa: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute -- address the house for five ominutes and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. costa: mr. speaker, i rise today to talk about the national debt and our shared future. our country has been on an unsustainable fiscal path regardless which party has been in power and we all know this. as a result our national debt is the largest it's ever been. as of this week the national debt is in excess of $20 trillion. that's with a t. this works out to be an average man, woman or every and child in the united states. it's outrageous, it's completely unacceptable amount of debt, and we have it because of irresponsible governing and a lack of political courage here in our nation's capital. sadly, this congress has chosen to continue this irresponsible and unsustainable fiscal course. the tax cut legislation that our

mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my ime. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from maine, ms. pingree, for five minutes. ms. pingree: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to voice my strong opposition to the trump administration's proposal toift decades old ban on offshre o and gas drilling on our country's atlantic and pacific coasts. this proposal has to be one of the most irresponsible actions of the trump administration. currently 94% of the outer continental shelf is off limits to drilling. and rightly so. given the importance of protecting the economic and cultural value of the country's coastlines. the trump administration has offered a staggering reversal. proposing to open up over 90% of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas drilling. well, governors and lawmakers from both parties have risen to voice their opposition to this plan. the administration is moving forward at a breakneck speed and given a mere 60 days for the public to comment. in my home state of maine, which has much to

mr. himes, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. duffy: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. duffy: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. mr. duffy: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of h.r. 4258, the family self-sufficiency act. this legislation will streamline a program designed to help those unable to purchase a home while reducing their dependency on welfare assistance and rental assistance provided by the government. i want to thank my colleague from missouri, my friend from missouri, mr. cleaver, for all of his bipartisan and helpful work on this legislation. it passed out of our committee 58-0, which is somewhat historic for the financial services committee. . this program is focused on helping families in public housing and the housing choice voucher program. t

chair will recognize from new york mr. ton ka for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair. this committee has repeatedly heard that fda must manage food recalls more effectively. that is why congress gave fda new authorities under fizz ma in 2011. fda has told us it is taking steps to improve that recall process. however, the oig's report finds that fda's data on food recall is often incomplete or inaccurate. which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to tell how things have improved since congress gave the fda new tools. for instance, fda's recall data system does not track key milestones, such as the date that fda learned product was potentially hazardous. so miss jar mon, can you offer some in sight about why those data are important, and how incomplete data make it difficult for fda to manage food recalls? >> yes. it's very important that the data in the recall systems is it complete and accurate. that way they can -- i mean, that's key to monitoring the food recalls. and like we mentioned in our report, there was no data in there for when fda became aware that an ite

mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona, mr. gallego, for five minutes. mr. gallego: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the life and legacy of bishop alexus thomas who passed away on january 28, 2018. mr. speaker, bishop thomas was many things to many people. he was an inspiring pastor, a father, a son, and a brother. he was a dynamic and passionate leader not just to the baptist church but throughout our community in phoenix. , er his careful stewardship bishop thomas' service extended well beyond the church. he founded the african-american christian clerky coalition and alliance -- clergy coalition and alliance in phoenix. bishop thomas will be remembered as a man with a remarkable vision for change who was taken from us way too soon. mr. speaker, i was proud to call bishop thomas my friend. i can personally attest that he worked miracles, large and small, every day in phoenix and ariz

mr. bill rakes i. the chair: -- mr. bilirakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for all the hard work they've put into re-authorizing chip. this is a six-year re-authorization of the chip program, the longest chip re-authorization congress has ever passed. the house already passed a full chip authorization last year, by the way, we also re-authorized the community health centers. most democrats voted against that. democrats need to put politics aside and support the bill for the sake of our children. chip re-authorization will ensure funding for 200,000 children in florida's chip program. in addition, this bill has my legislation that protects chip buy-in programs. this allows children who aren't eligible for traditional chip to buy into the chip program. it makes sense. inconsistent guidance from c.m.s. jeopardized these buy-in programs. this bill will provide clarity and protect about 12,00

mr. bill rakes i. the chair: -- mr. bilirakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for all the hard work they've put into re-authorizing chip. this is a six-year re-authorization of the chip program, the longest chip re-authorization congress has ever passed. the house already passed a full chip authorization last year, by the way, we also re-authorized the community health centers. most democrats voted against that. democrats need to put politics aside and support the bill for the sake of our children. chip re-authorization will ensure funding for 200,000 children in florida's chip program. in addition, this bill has my legislation that protects chip buy-in programs. this allows children who aren't eligible for traditional chip to buy into the chip program. it makes sense. inconsistent guidance from c.m.s. jeopardized these buy-in programs. this bill will provide clarity and protect about 12,00

mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kansas, mr. yoder, for five minutes. mr. yoder: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor and remember the life of a longtime public servant in this body, one of my predecessor, former third district congressman, larry wynn. larry passed away on new year's eve at the remarkable age of 98 and will be dearly missed by his family and the people of the third district. larry will long be remembered in our community and in the halls of congress as a devoted public servant. representative wynn served in this body for 18 years from 1967 to 1985. his time in the house spanned across nine congresses and five presidential administrations. from lyndon b. johnson to ronald reagan. he served alongside some of the great statesmen of his time. larry's freshman class in the house included later president george h.w. bush. larry and his wife joan became became close ry friends and greatly respected president gerald ford who visited the third district and drew a huge cr

mr. steele chaired his at least partially russian-based allegations far and wide. he shared them with the f.b.i. he shared them with the media. and according to public reports, he shared them with high-ranking officials in the justice department and the state department. well, in the course of our review, senator graham of south carolina and i came across some information that does not add up. we saw mr. steele swearing one thing in a public liable suit against him in london, england. then we saw contradictory things in documents that i'm not going to talk about in an open meeting, open setting here. i know everybody understands that. and from everything that we have learned so far, senator graham and i believe these discrepancies are significant. so we send a referral of twister steele to the justice department and the f.b.i. for potential violation of 18 u.s.c. 1001. now, i guess people are going to say whatever they want to say about this whole matter, no matter what the facts are, but it doesn't contribute anything meaningful to the public debate to ignore thos

the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. emmer. >> thank you, mr. chair and thanks to the witnesses for being here today. i want to go back to chairman barr's opening when you say how do you balance national security versus direct foreign investment. i want to tie it to -- i think it was something ambassador kimmitt said, there is no definition of national security in the law. what is the priority for cfius, when you're reviewing a transaction? is it national security or is it foreign direct investment? which one comes first and then has to be balanced against the other one. when you're talking national security, i'll just add, how do you define it and we'll start with the ambassador. >> my point was national security is a dynamic, ever-changing concept. it meant one thing in the cold war, post 9/11, post financial crisis. the important thing is cfius, which exists only to screen investments for national security concerns, has at the table every department and agency that is responsible for safeguarding the national security interests of the united s

>> thank you, mr. chair. let us bring us back to this topic here. first of all, thank you, i'm so encouraged to hear the conversation today. i heard the word, crisis, mentioned twice. i've heard, sense of urgency mentioned several times. as the next business guy in seeing this crisis, i am terribly encouraged by what you all are doing. i've met you, and we've had private conversations. secretary wilson yesterday was so gracious with her time talking about a major air force base and major piece of technology. i want to talk about something a little different. secretary esper, you mentioned first in your opening comment, in 1941, and we built up, not in years, in months, literally, we had things coming off the production lines, literally in months because we broke through everything, because we considered it a crisis. but in 1949, just three years after we demilitarized after world war ii, we were right back in the same position. and that war was a little different, and so forth. but today, we find ourselves in crisis. i'm not going to spend time, i d

the chair now recognizes mr. judd for five minutes to testify. >> chair woman mcsally and filem filemon vela and distinguishing members of the committee. i would like to thank you for having us. we have a long standing relationship with you and i appreciate everything you do for our agents. my name is brandon judd and currently serve as president of the national council where i represent approximately 16,000 border patrol line agents. i have 20 years of experience as border patrol agent and a through owe understanding of the policies affecting border security and i'd like to discuss a few issues with you today. the debate over what to do with undocumented immigrants in the united states has been raging for as long as i can remember. and the debate will continue as long as people from other countries are able to sneak across our borders, evade apprehension and dis peer in the shadows of society. in short, until the borders are secure, we will continue to have hearings such tas this and border security in illegal im

spend billions of dollars tearing down the bay bridge when all it needed was renovation -- >> chair peskin: mr. rice, there will be an opportunity for general public comment. this is just public comment on the minutes of december 12, 2017. >> public: all right. >> chair peskin: thank you, sir. seeing no other members of the public for public comment on the minutes, we'll close public comment and a roll call please. a motion to move the consent agenda made by commissioner tang. seconded by commissioner breed. and on that, a roll call please. >> clerk: on the consent agenda, commissioner breed. breed aye. cohen aye. commissioner peskin. >> chair peskin: aye. >> clerk: peskin aye. ronen aye. commissioner sheehy. sheehy i. commissioner tang. >> vice chair tang: aye. >> clerk: tang aye. we have approval. >> chair peskin: all right. next item. >> clerk: item four, election of chair and vice chair for 2018. this is an action item. >> chair peskin: okay. nominations are now in order for the office of chair. are there any nominations for said position? commissioner cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you

>> thank you, mr. chair. thank you, secretary sulkin. one thing mentioned in your opening comments that i want to get more information on, i knew and was glad that the department is showing some latitude and providing services to veterans with other than honorable discharge. can you tell me about the scope of that and maybe the numbers of people that have been served to this point? >> yep. yep. as you know, we're trying to decrease veteran suicide, doing the right thing for our veterans. take a look at where our highest risk veteran suicide is, it's in several categories. homelessness and homeless veterans that don't have access to care, clearly. that's why we're targeting an end to that. other than honorable discharge veterans, very higher risk. what we provided them with is an emergency mental health that provides -- all they have to do is show up, we'll give them 90 days of emergency mental health care, stabilize a crisis and get them into longer term treatment if that's what's required. so far, we've treated and have come to us for h

mr. thompson, and the full committee chair, mr.ccaul , in bringing our committee together in producing a myriad of constructive legislation all geared to our task. because when all is said and done we are the homeland security committee with the homeland security department created in the aftermath of the most may heys now, horrific tragedy in the history of the united states of recent recollection that was in the an incident of war. therefore i think the american people and i know the american people owe our diligence and owe our commitment and are owed our studiousness and i am pleased to say that on this committee the production of legislation that comes to the floor all is geared to securing the homeland. so i ask my colleagues, mr. speaker, to -- and i urge passage of h.r. 4555 and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. rutherford: i yield myself such time as i may consume. i'd like to thank the gentlelady from texas, ms. lee for h

mr. judd. the chair recognizes mr. anfin for five minutes. >> i want to thank you for inviting us to the committee and affording us the opportunity to testify this morning. my name is john anfinson and i've been assigned to the del rio sector my entire career and including working two years at the u.s. attorney's office. i want to discuss with you this morning the issues of retention and recruitment and how they affect border patrol's operations in the field. as you know, law enforcement is a difficult career. the hours are long and often unpredictable, and we workweek ends and holidays and all of this takes a toll not only on us, but our families. i work with a lot of great people who truly care about border security and they've become a second family and after 11 years on the job i still look forward to going to work every day. interdicting drug smugglers or rescuing undoumencumented immigs lost in the brush, it presents a challenge when it comes to recruitment, retention and morale. unlike other law enforcement agen

mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from oregon, ms. bonamici, for five minutes. ms. bonamici: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm a member of congress, but i'm also a mom. and as a mom i am puzzled and frankly dismayed because congress has not found a bipartisan way to provide long-term funding for the children's health insurance program. more than nine million children and pregnant mothers, including thousands in oregon, receive basic health care through chip. in the past, this popular program has always had broad bipartisan support. we must do better than the stopgap band-aid that's forcing states to rely on short-term funding, and importantly leaving vulnerable families with uncertainty and with distressed. recently i met a wonderful family in oregon that relies on chip for the health of their two kids. their story pulled at my heart. this is david. david is 5 and his brother is 20 months old. both children have neurological conditions. both require long-term medical care. david battles a life threatening form of epilepsy that r