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mr. scott regarding a report on urban warfare. amendment 249 r-1 by mr. gallagher, regarding continuous monitoring capabilities and comply to connect. and amendment 321 r-2 by mr mr. khanna on a briefing on information technologies. i yield back. >> is there further discussion? if not, the question is on the amendments offered by the gentle lady from new york. those that are in favor, say aye. those opposed say no. being the chair, the ayes have it. the ayes have it and the amendments en bloc are adopted. the gentle lady from new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i offer amendment 385, the national security commission on artificial intelligence act of 2018. this amendment would create an independent national security commission on artificial intelligence and is the bill i introduced as hr-5356. mr. chairman, this amendment will direct a comprehensive and national-level review of advances -- >> i'm sorry, if the gentle lady will suspend for just a second. >> yes. >> the clerk will distribute the amendment. all right. now, gentle lady may continue. >> mr. c

mr. updike received his b.a. in urban planning from the university of arizona and, thereafter, spent two decades leading downtown revitalization efforts in tucson, which at that time, was among one of the fastest growing cities in the u.s. he partly came and joined the city as assistant director of real estate 12 years ago in 2006. as someone who has been linked to land use policy on the board, i have enjoyed working with john, since i've been back on the board. john oversaw negotiations for the 60-year master lease for the beloved produce market, sale of $30 million in properties for the aquisition of city office buildings, including where the m.t.a. is located and also where human services agency is housed. john has led the real estate department with pragmatism, professionalism, and a knack for advancing the city's best interests and adhering to the professionalism. his works touches every one of our city's functions. even the operations of the farmers and flea markets and the u.n. gift gallery in u.n. plaza, to name a

mrs. lawrence: it supports urban farmers food banks and so our farmers and people can thrive. we should not put all of this in danger. republicans, i call on you today to stop, to remove this terrible proposal for snap with this poisonous bill. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tpore: the gentlewoman from michigan yields back. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: i continue to reserve. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to insert in the letter a -- from children's initiative strongly opposed to this bill. i k unanimous consent to insert in the record a letter from the coalition of over 60 child advocacy organizations opposed to the bill. the speaker pro tempore: without obction. mr. mcgovern: i'd like to ask unanimous consent to insert in the recora letter from the national education association strongly opposed to this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: at this point i'd like to yld one minute to the distinguished gentleman from new york, mr. gel. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman fr

you have a lot of suburban, ex- urban districts, my old neighborhood. mr. ellis: yes. mr. ferguson: you have talked about how -- mr. ellis: your old seat is one they need. mr. ferguson: my old seat is one they need, is very much in play this year. how -- if -- you talked about how these are districts even hillary clinton won in the presidential race, but they elected still a republican member of congress. how how do president trump's , numbers, and favorability, and impressions with voters, now that he'll have a year and a half, two years under his belt as president, is he doing about the same? this assumes he's doing about the same in these districts, isn't it? i mean, is he doing worse? are his favorability ratings worse than those -- is he more of a drag on some of those republican candidates, and therefore, is that more perilous for republicans if they need to hold these republican congressional districts that president trump is maybe very unpopular in? mr. ellis: well, and again, i think the answer to the question is he's actually in better shape today than he was on

there's a palpable sense of excitement at least in the urban areas, there is a definite hunger for change among people that feel mrd. they feel this is really a make or break a election that with the charisma and... to get ethnic malays to support them, this is their one chance to overthrow him and remember, it's a fairly fragile opposition coalition made up of various quite different component parts. jonathan head in kuala lumpur speaking earlier to kasia. indonesian scientists have launched the largest ever study into whether tiny plastic particles can affect human health. they are investigating the presence of plastic in seafood. they hope to establish if there is any evidence that ingesting small pieces of plastic is harmful. 0ur science editor, david shukman, has been to semarang on the north coast of java in indonesia, one of the countries worst hit by plastic pollution. a journey through the mangrove swamps on the coast of indonesia. plastic hangs from the branches and lies traps in the roots. indonesia sends huge volumes of plastic into the ocean. 0nly china releases more. there's so much, itjams our boat'

the 17th secretary of housing and urban development. welcome back, mr. secretary. >> thank you. >> over the past year, secretary carson has made significant strides in his efforts to make hud programs more effective and efficient. he's embarked upon a multi-month listening tour traveling across the country to help with a deeper understanding that hud policies have on communities. not long after returning, secretary carson took on a major leadership role in hurricane efforts in texas, florida, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands, providing both immediate and long-term relief to thousands of families who have been displaced from their homes and are without electricity. that work continues. as a nominee just over a year ago, secretary carson testified before this committee about the importance of revisiting our housinging programs to ensure that families who are struggling in america have the best opportunity to climb the economic and social ladder. to break intergenerationalcycl psy -- intergenerational cycles of poverty and become self-sufficient. se

mr. president, later today we'll vote on two more qualified nominees for important positions in the trump administration. first comes brian montgomery, the president's nominee to serve as assistant secretary of housing and urban development and head of the federal housing administration. his formidable background includes previous service as federal housing commissioner from 2005 to 2009 and as the acting secretary of housing and urban development. it's no wonder that our colleagues on the banking committee reported this nomination favorably with a bipartisan voice vote. i'm glad we can vote to confirm him today without any further delay. after mr. montgomery, we'll vote to advance the nomination of jelena mcwilliams, who the president has chosen to share the fdic board of directors. ms. mcwilliams' resume spans government and the private. as a lawyer, policy expert, and executive, she's studied financial regulations from all angles. she understands the fdic's role in safeguarding america's holdings, overseeing the banking sector, and reforming inefficient policies that create obstacles for families and job creators. ms. mcwilliams is especially attentive to the difficulties facing smaller community banks. in

but did mr netanyahu offer new evidence of anything we didn't know? 0ur diplomatic editor mark urbant. there was a lot of files an a lot of power point, what do you make of it all? well, look, i don't think too many people have been impressed or had their minds changed by this, there was a statement from the white house press secretary this evening which i think the israelis would have regarded as helpful who said that the presentation had shown that iranian work on nuclear weapons which stopped in 2003 was further along than they had thought. that is about the most encouraging thing anyone said today, the iranian foreign minister said binyamin netanyahu was crying wolf, this is what he does, if one has to look at the arms control nerd, people connected with the nuclear watchdog which went in to investigate previously alleged elms of a nuclear weapons programme, one can say there has been a collective raspberry blown to the whole thing. the big date is may 12th because donaldj trump is saying she is sceptical of the deal and may terminate american involvement. this comes round six mo

mr. chairman. it is with deep disappointment that i stand in opposition to the bill. i joined the house committee on agriculture because of its reputation of being bipartisan. i represent an entire state, urban, rural, and suburban. the bill is vital, and that is why i was so disappointed. of creating a thriving economy and moving people out of poverty is a goal we all share. throughout my career, i have worked to connect people with jobs. as a former secretary of labor and social services, i have overseen work post development and economic safety net programs. i believe in work, we believe in work. however, the proposal would essentially forced individuals to pay for an unproven, untested and severely underfunded program. what happens if your child gets sick or your car breaks down, should that mean you and your child go hungry for up to a year? what makes this even more troubling is the program designed to give us best myctices, one of which in home state, have not been completed or evaluated and won't be until 2019. why are we putting the cart before the horse? if the majority is really concerned with getting the policy right, why not wait until we have evidence and data to make good use

mr. jake tapper, everybody. thank you, jake. we'll be right back with keith urbanbenz. the best or nothing. >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >> jimmy: thanks to carol burnett. thanks to jake tapper. apologies to matt damon. this is his album. it's called "graffiti u." here with the song "coming home," keith urban! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ i wake up feeling in my soul i'm living someone else's life ♪ ♪ i'm turnin' into concrete harder than these city streets where no one even ♪ ♪ cares if i'm alive i gotta get it right get it right ♪ ♪ there's a place that i know where they all know me i gotta get back now ♪ ♪ to the ones who love me wrap myself around you never let you go there's nothin' in the ♪ ♪ world that feels like the place that i know where they all know me i gotta get back now ♪ ♪ to the ones who love me wrap myself around you never let you go there's nothin' in the ♪ ♪ world that feels like coming home home home mmm coming home ♪ ♪ my mind's heavy and i can't sleep not even a memory is

only 11% in urban, but there are people out there that don't see that, mr. chairman, and that's why i am also disturbed, that when you take the african-american colleges, a four-year scholarship program there and snatch away the funding from the ccc. how can your four-year scholarships and you don't put the money there to do it? >> the time of the gentleman has expired. any further comment on the bill? mr. davis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i actually want to thank you for your leadership in producing a farm bill which supports agriculture producers and gives hope to those who are wishing to climb the economic ladder. four years ago i was a freshman on this committee and it was my first opportunity work on a farm bill and be part of a conference committee and it allowed me to see firsthand what democracy at work is all about. we had our ups and downs but in the end we got a bill across the finish line. the cbo projected that bill was going to save taxpayers $23 billion. when they came back to us just a few years later we have now saved $112 billion and we do

mr. speaker, this week is national charter school week. it is my pleasure to celebrate alongside the students who benefited from these innovative institutions. charter schools serve over ree million students students providing in rural, urban, and suburban settings with unique educational opportunities. the reforms in the every student succeeds act enabled charter schools to serve more students and allow states to support new, high quality charter schools to address the growing demand for these schools. and the demand is high. currently five million students are waiting their chance to attend. charter schools offer american families the right to choose what environment is best for their child. it is clear that parents and students want this choice available to them, and they deserve to have it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona, mr. owe who ran, for five minutes. -- owe holler ran -- owe hollerian for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman suspended. recognize the gentlelady from north carolina again. my apoll gis. -- apologies. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise to recognize sean of winston-salem, north carolina. this year the north carolina hi

mr. raskin: in my district i have urban, suburban and rural. i have sur ban -- i have urban centers like rockville, suburban places like bethesda and silver springs and rural places in frederick county, middletown , in carroll county. i've got the full fwa mutt of america in my district. -- gamut of america in my district. and there are people who strug until all of them just like there are people who become prosperous in all of them. our job, i think, as members of congress is to keep the country unified and see what that beautiful magical phrase at the beginning of the constitution, we the people, means for us to stand together. in all of our magnificent diversity of ways of life and different kinds of communities we have across the country. what sit that binds us together? i think the good thovepbs american people is that we are invested in the success of everybody. not just this or that group. not just our business buddies. not just our partners. not just people in our political party, we're invested in the success of everyone. that's our j

mrs. rosa parks. rosa parks was one of the number of activists leaders from the saw theiod who different urban disturbances from the latter 60's is really a boiling over of frustration on the part of people who had been trying to change the system for years and were meeting continued resistance over time. to was one who was going certainly not -- she did not think that urban disturbances were productive for change. reporters she by wanted to shift the burden of responsibility onto the status quo and the establishment for long sustained campaigns for making change. you could make the same case about the vietnam war where activists said, i sat in for years, i was involved in nonviolent forms of dissent for years and years. the war is going on as a 1970 under nixon. the war has been escalated again into cambodia. we have to escalate our terms of resistance. >> i agree with everything you just said. if we agree that things escalated how does an author make the argument that the escalation as much over exaggerated? which i think is the point he said he makes, the divisions are exaggerated. said they got worse a

mr. speaker, we are in the midst of a national crisis. urban violence has too often been left out of the national conversation about guns and gun running, gun trafficking, and instead too often the epidemic in urban centers is used by many as a misguided, misdirected distraction so that our conversations on gun reform, racial justice or police tactics are disregarded. gun violence programs have been shown to break the cycle of violence and impact their communities. the question is, will congress truly get serious about supporting these programs? will we get serious about universal background checks? will we get serious about limiting access to weapons of war? nine out of 10 americans agree that we should have universal background checks including three out of four n.r.a. members, but this republican congress has shown to be spineless. in the east room of the white house, the president expressed his solidarity with the people of santa fe and said his administration would do everything in their power to protect schools and keep guns away from tho

host: talking with former ecretary of houseing and urban development, julian castro, 2017.d from 2014 to mrcretary, thanks for your time. great to be with you. host: coming up, dennis daugaard aboard the c-span bus as part of "50 capitals south carolina is where the bus is parked today. that conversation coming up right after the break. >> sunday on q&a, university of professor story of iam hitchcock, the age eisenhower in the 1950s. disciplined the presidency and eisenhower, the way he carried himself and the a disciplined man, a great athlete when he was in every organized man respect, very methodical, that ran the white house, too. extremely organized. people, especially john kennedy criticized developed, for being organized and predictable. for eisenhower, it meant when had a plan, knew how to respond and who to turn to. plans are say worthless, but planning is everything. you are always thinking, what is what crisis might erupt? we should be thinking about it. e was systematic in the way he governed, he met the press every week, congressional leaders week, he chaired the national secur

mr. president, i rise today to oppose the nomination of brian montgomery. he's been nominated by the president to serve in the u.s. department of housing and urban development as the assistant secretary for housing and federal housing commissioner. if confirmed, mr. montgomery would oversee the federal housing administration which ensures loans for homeowners, multifamily rental buildings and health care facilities originated by h.u.d.-approved mortgage lenders. h.u.d. is how they would -- they would oversea h.u.d.'s housing counseling program and rental assistance for 1.2 million low-income seniors, individuals with disabilities and families. we're considering this nomination at a time when the nation faces all kinds of housing challenges thanks to a deep shortage of affordable rental housing, a quarter -- think about this -- a quarter of all rentals -- i'm sorry -- a quarter of all rentals, a quarter of all households renting rg paying more than half their incomes for housing. that means if anything goes bad in their life, if their car breaks down on the way to work, if their child is sick and they have to decide do we send our child to school

not just to rural communities but to urban areas and in fact the entire nation and beyond. so enagain, mr. speaker, i want to thank the chairman for his diligence and leadership on this issue. not only in regard to the commodity title but to the into triggs title and tower chairman and vice chairman. i appreciate all the work on the part of our ago committee. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognize. mr. mcgovern: how much time do i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has 3 1/4 minutes. mr. mcgovern: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlelady from delaware, ms. blunt rochester. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. blunt rochester: thank you, mr. chairman. i had the honor of not only sitting on the agriculture committee, but also of sitting on the education and work force committee. so i know very well how important healthy, hunger-free children are to a good education system. on top of an already harmful p

urban schools in the bay area. a former student wrote me. i had to withdraw from classes at u.c.-berkley so i could find stable housing to afford my monthly rent. mr. speaker, our community, our country can't function without nurses, teachers, young people living in decent, affordable housing. we need to solve this crisis but it's too late. these stories represent just a small number of the responses i received. i heard from many constituents who are delaying having children and passing up opportunities to open a business or switch their career because they can't afford to move to live where they want to live. i heard from residents who live in cars, on couches, or on the streets because the cost of rent has soared. now, i see, sadly, homeless camps with sofas and chairs and tables. so many people have been evicted with nowhere to go. believe you me, there are many more in my district and across america who are homeless right now. seniors, veterans, single moms raising children, they have nowhere to sleep at night. we must do better so no one is forced to live on the streets. we must do better to ensure that no child is homeless. and we must do be

mr. norton: historically, both local motor fleet operators like local trucking companies and later national organizations, particularly the american trucking associations, have long been advocates making roads and streets, including urban roads and streets, accommodating to vehicles. if you go back a hundred years or just 80 years, most of that was a multimodal system where the freight would be delivered, particularly by steam railroad, and distributed from warehouses to retail or other destinations in the city. and there was certain streets and roads that were primary conduits for this that kept the truck and other kinds of delivery traffic off the smaller streets, and that is not too different for the most part from where we are today. ups trucks may find itself going down quite a small street. where policy becomes -- there may be a watershed here -- after the 1950's whence the end or it's coming from the american society of state highway officials, later transportation officials, start mandating much more accommodating street and road infrastructure for trucks, particularly on the justification that emergency vehicles need to have wide turning radii, and that happens to serve the interests of those who also want tru

demonstrations in iran that include not only the educated urban class but also the poor and the rural populations, so that regime is in trouble, and what i think mr. trump is thinking about is give it a push and it could collapse. >> question number two is, when iran talks about resuming its nuclear program, and indeed under the existing jcpoa where the nuclear developments were forestalled for 10 or 15 years, when they say that, are they talking about actually building nuclear weapons, or are they talking about enriching uranium and plutonium or is that a distinction without a difference >> it's a distinction without a difference because you don't need plutonium for anything. >> other than that >> other than having nuclear weapons, number one. number two, senior iranian officials, i believe even the president, said we are going to build any weapons we need to defend the iranian islamic republic but the islamic republic is now just took over lebanon. hezbollah is a fully owned subsidiary of the slammic republ -- islamic republic the leader of hezbollah has the title of supreme leader in lebanon. they're throwing the weight around they're building

urban design guidelines, and this project grossly violates every single one of the design elements of that new passed law. that's exhibit six that i submitted. please take a look at that. >> thank you, mr. williams, your time is up. >> thank you. we ask for your support. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public comment. thank you all, and open it up to commissioner comments and questions. maybe i can start by asking mr. winslow to just give us a little history of kind of the planning department's review of this. we heard a lot about two tower alternatives and kind of how we got here. >> yeah. well project comes into our department, we review it, and we review it from kind of, you know, the basis of patterns. seeing the pattern of the courtyard, it seemed a logical response that that pattern of open space be continued, and the diagrams that have been referred to were mooreerely a feasibility report to assure ourselves that it was feasible. we don't look under the hood sf feasible from a financial stond point. we continued to push for an optimal solution in that respect, what we thought was a neighborly gesture to the con

mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i especially thank him for his exceptional leadership over the years to honor the historic collaboration that has always existed in our country between urban and rural america that is in all of our interests, that our farm country succeed and it's in all of our interests that the american people are not food insecure. so i thank you, mr. chairman, for your outstanding -- ranking member, for your outstanding leadership on behalf of america's farmers and hungry families. mr. speaker, this bill is just a mystery to me because we have tried so hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way to come together to write a farm bill that does honor that historic collaboration, urban, rural, meeting the nutritional needs of the american people, encouraging the economic growth in farm country. this legislation does not do that, and i have some questions as to why. some of the questions came to mind last week when i was on a farm in iowa listening to hardworking men and women talk about their challenges with this farm bill, that it does not bolster or preserve the farm safety net, that the bill reduces investment in agriculture research, conservation,

more money in a big, urban area, and it's such a difficult environment to work in, but i hope you're successful. with that, my time's expired. i yield back. >> the chair now recognizes mr. correa from california for five minutes. >> thank you, madam, chairperson mcsally, and of course, chairman mccaul for your time and ranking member thompson and ranking member vela, and of course, commissioner mcaleenan for being here today. i come from the state of california. today we're probably the fifth, sixth largest economy in the world, and we're probably looking at becoming the number four economy in the world since we passed great britain. unemployment right now in my county is less than 3%. big ag industry in my state. my farmers keep talking about the need for more workers. i think we can all agree that our immigration laws are broken in this country. maybe not. but one thing we can agree on is drug addiction, opioids and heroin, and the challenges it presents to our country. it's my understanding that addiction deaths of about 500% in this country right now, all over the country. so, the issue illegal drugs is a major one for all of us, and i think all of us can agree on

mr. secretary, you've been forward leaning and trying to help solve that problem. and our state and missouri there are a lot of urban missourians, suburban missourian who's live in communities that have lots of options. they can shop. there is competition. there are lots of missourian that's don't have that at all. in fact, i think in june of 2013 we had 199 suppliers of durable medical equipment. many of them -- the only supplier in rural communities. we're down now to 152. i think the office management and budget just released a rule that you sent them last year. what will that do to encourage people to continue to provide the kind of medical equipment that allow people to stay at home rather than their other option which is much more expensive for taxpayers in most cases of the nursing home that leads to medicaid and all kinds of federal costs where durable medical equipment being available often can make the difference in whether that happens or not available and supported by somebody who is a phone -- who is able to really support the equipment. >> well, mr. chairman, thanks you to and other members of the sena

mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i especially thank him for his exceptional leadership over the years to honor the historic collaboration that has always existed in our country between urban and rural america that is in all of our interests, that our farm country succeed and it's in all of our interests that the american people are not food insecure. so i thank you, mr. chairman, for your outstanding -- ranking member, for your outstanding leadership on behalf of america's farmers and hungry families. mr. speaker, this bill is just a mystery to me because we have tried so hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way to come together to write a farm bill that does honor that historic collaboration, urban, rural, meeting the nutritional needs of the american people, encouraging the economic growth in farm country. this legislation does not do that, and i have some questions as to why. some of the questions came to mind last week when i was on a farm in iowa listening to hardworking men and women talk about their challenges with this farm bill, that it does not bolster or preserve the farm safety net, that the bill reduces investment in agriculture research, conservation,

mr. tillis: thank you, madam president. i -- there's a million reasons why i love north carolina, but one of them is that it's a state of ten million people. about half those people live in urban areas, and the other half live in rural areas. it's also a state that one in ten people in the state are veterans and it also is the state that proudly claimed being one of the fastest growing veterans populations in the country. when i go into the v.a. committee and i look at what we've got to do, i don't look at it as coming from an urban state. i don't look at it as coming from a rural state. in many respects, i think that north carolina is a microcosm of the nation as a whole. when we look at some of the changes that we want to make, what i hope we get out of this review is what do we do with the 430 empty buildings, many of them as much as 90 years old that are owned by the v.a.? and we may have to do basic maintenance on them but they're properties that may have historic value. maybe we can convey them to the states and sell them and use those resources to blow back into quality -- plow back into quality care for the veterans. i can tell my friend from west virginia we share a m

mr. mayor. i'm the executive director of the council of the great city of schools which is a coalition of 70 of the largest urban school systems. my board of directors is on as the superintendent and the president of the board of education at each one of those major city school districts. i will be brief because i know everybody wants to have a broader discussion about school safety. before i begin, however, i'd like to make just one additional kind of tactical remark on the conversationhat we just had. i completely agree wh the observations that were made about the role of social media and i agree with the observations that were made about issues of race and how that informs school violence and the like. one of the initial questions was, what made the parkland situation a little bit different, and what kind of galvanized those kids to speak out in the way that they did? it's a small thing, probably, to be sure. but one of the things that that school system does -- this is the broward county school district where stoneman douglas high school is located. that particular school district mandates debate clubs in ev