mr. denham. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. denham: i thank the gentleman and rise in support of the electricity reliability and forest protection act. in california we know all too well the disaster effects of wildfires and reducing the threat of wild fires requires numerous proactive efforts including the timely remove of fire hazards. my colleague, mr. lamalfa, identified a solution to help federal re hazard on lands. there were more than 18,000 miles of power line osen federal lands and these transmission lines are critical to the power distribution in the west. the cost of operating and maintaining these transmission rights of way are borne by utility companies but approval for companies to remove the fire hazards comes from the forest service. currently it takes the forest service months to grant approval to even remove a dead tree. h.r. 1873 address this is issue by allowing utility companies to remove fire risks in a timely manner and ensure responseable stewardship of our federal lands. ditionally, -- mr. webster: i yie

to school to rose on the format of mr denham money payments. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt debt to us might seem you know i need this loan to to go to school or need this loan to buy a house but to wall street it's just a product that they can buy and sell in package and socialists another way for them to get as much profit as they want and they treated as such one of the things that . i'm going to talk about a little bit today is how to create a more secure america. by achieving the goal of five and a half million new minority homeowners. certainly don't want there to be a fine print preventing people from owning their home. once wall street figured out that they could create these mortgage products they're like wow this is the deal of the century we need to make more of these. the house is always the big one it's the way the. economy is is set up. by house housing values to go up so it's a majo

mr. denham, to preside over the ommittee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 2842 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill free throw vide for the conduct of demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of subsidized employment for tanf recipients. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from nebraska, mr. smith, and the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from nebraska. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: i rise in support to talk about h.r. 2842 the accelerating individuals into the work force act. according to the bureau of labor statistics, there are more than six million job openings. the highest level since the government start tracking the data in the year 2000. at the same time, the share of americans participating in the wor

mr. stivers: we have clusters of states we'll pay attention to. california is one of those. denham,nge county seats, valedao and knight, we have santa nity necessary barbara, sacramento and in san diego, there are three seats we a shot at and we have good places, i feel like there is a good chance we'll be competitive in those areas. are working hard to make sure is in california there actually, we're partnering with the california republican party, problems in 2016 was the senate race, you may remember, between two democrats, top of the the ticket. he presidential race was not competitive in california, if there wasn't some fight for the enate race, there wasn't going to be as much to bring republicans out. in the gubernatorial race this we're working hard to make sure there is a republican that make its through the new jungle california, em in that will make a difference. smart i know we have hard-working members that are going to do well in orange county. with meme rtable darrell and ed royce and issa, he is working hard. e had the closest race we won in the country, it was just