talents that we have tried to make mr allen is very open and transparent because we want to talk more about the challenges not less so we have a different approach to sustainability if you want. as a wreath there's an opportunity. the name fair phone still promises more than the company can entirely deliver but it is helping to make the difficulties associated with fair production plain for all to see. in recent years mobile phones have become almost essential for making money transfers and handling business transactions in africa and of course you can take your phone with you wherever you go where you also have to keep the battery charged here in nigeria that's not always so easy because the past apply is quite erotic but then again engineers at the university of nigeria are working to alleviate the problem let's go see what they're doing. nigeria's national power supply is notoriously unreliable. there are frequent outages so many people depend on generators. engineers at the university of nigeria looking for solutions. they've constructed a system that converts organic waste into g

legendary translator eight to me which of mr allen's wonder when all is great leaders shake hands laughs formerly of who are more jokes in front of the cameras smile. when it's obviously a mask it's a role that they play in front of the media now you being with behind closed doors are the masks also once they sit down to the negotiation table are they different or they keep playing the. well for the most part you know in my experience the masks are off and they begin to be very human. they obviously make an effort. to explain they sometimes see that the other side doesn't understand they think that the other side doesn't want to understand he can become annoyed they can become upset i saw sometimes tears in reagan's eyes in reykjavik were example but i also saw them in very human situations when the media was present but they were extremely natural and not wearing masks during public moments so i would not agree that during public moments when they smile when they say things that they are playing a role that this is a mask not always some of it is a mask and that's necessary because you

mr. allen brown. mr. speaker, may i start by thanking the net -- the mental health foundation for organizing this year's mental health awareness week? we are investing in record levels in mental health. we want to make sure people receive the treatment and care where they need it. i had meetings with ministerial colleagues in addition to my duties in the house, i am joining world leaders and internet companies for tackling terrorist views of the internet. >> allen brown. >> i would like to say that as well. -- approved and after receiving in this cabinet but -- [indiscernible] having to get these answers of the prime minister, make sure the u.k. service nhs blood and , transplant undertakes a case review to identify why this malignancy was not picked up earlier and why red flags were not identified post-operation? pm may: the honorable gentleman has clearly raised a very concerning case, and has given some details here on the floor of the house. i will ensure that the relevant minister looks at the issue

. >> commissioner: thank you, mr. allen. i appreciate it. lastly, public health. is anyone in the house? >> in terms of the overtime at dph they're driven by vacancies at the hospital. starting with san francisco general we opened the new facility in may of 2016 and since then we didn't see that spike in overtime and it's sense leveled off. we saw increased e.d. volumes as well as increased patient census we have staff to make sure we're meeting the patient's needs according to mandated staffing. the volumes have leveled off through the opening of our new urgent care center which allows us to divert cases which may not require the level of an e.d. and going to urgent care as well as other triage strategies within the emergency department. for the in-patient census, san francisco general has been looking at patient flow. looking at the backdoor of getting people outside of the hospital and improving the patient's flow to try to maintain the census and not have it increase any more. at laguna honda hospital the patient census has been fairly stable over the last few

mr. allen brown. mr.er, may i start by thanking the net -- the mental health foundation for organizing this year's mental health awareness week? we are investing in record levels in mental health.

mr. allen brown. our parliament. we value relations with you and your country. >> questions for the prime minister, mister allen brown. >> mister speaker, may i start by thanking of a mental health foundation for organizing this year's mental health awareness week. we are investing record levels, to make sure people receive treatment and care when they need it. we had meetings with ministerial colleagues, we are joining world leaders and internet companies on tackling terrorist use of the internet. >> instead of market search and improved and extended life, the project received a death sentence. a falling rate with comfort, that is what happened. to get these answers, to make sure that the uk, undertake a case review and identify post operation. >> the honorable gentleman has clearly raised a very concerning case and gave details of that case on the floor of the house. i would ensure the minister looks at the issue he has raised because it is a matter of concern when someone receives something and they have given the

mr. allen brown. our parliament.e relations with you and your country. >> questions for the prime minister, mister allen brown. >> mister speaker, may i start by thanking of a mental health foundation for organizing this year's mental health awareness week. we are investing record levels, to make sure people receive

craig allen joins us now mr. allen, welcome how do you react as the leader of a trade group or a group representing 200 american companies when you hear the president suggest that if you want to avoid paying tariffs you ought it make your products here or buy them in a non-tariffed country, i.e. not china. is that feasible >> well, the most important thing to note is that most american companies are in china for the rapidly growing chinese market they -- china will represent approximately a third of global growth over the next ten years, and american companies must be in china if they are to take advantage of that growth and that is true across the board. so we have a globally integrated economy and china is a part of that we have become very prosperous as a result of that collaboration. we hope to get to yes as quickly as possible with regard to these negotiations >> so if most companies are there to tap into the chinese market that would suggest they're there to sell to that chinese market rather than to source from

. >>> the gentleman from georgia, mr. allen. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, madam secretary, for taking on this challenge of education and your courage to testify on this challenge because it's a very complex issue. coming from the business side, i know about shortage of workers. everywhere i go in my district, we have a shortage of workers. it's putting tremendous pressure on our education system. of course, in our state, i think out of a budget, over 50% of the money goes to education. i know this hire county, over 50% of the money goes to education. so it's -- and then you look at the statistics, and you look at the last 20 years where the cost has gone from 6,000 to 11,000 per student, yet teachers' salaries have not really increased, so you wonder, where is the money going? i'm sure you're looking into all that. and you have been an out spospo supporter of the challenges, and i support that because every student is different, every student's needs are different, and we need to do everything we can in our communities to meet those

mr. allen: as many of you know, the opiate epidemic has de-stated families and communities across our country which has been a major factor in the recent uptick in child abuse and neglect cases. h.r. 2480 assists states in addressing this recent increase in child neglect by improving tai ta collaboration between state, strengthening accountability, supporting evidence-based services and developing best practices for reducing child neglect linked to parental substance abuse. most importantly, it provides parents with parental education and leadership skills, developed to help keep them in their -- and their families safe and together. we have a duty to ensure that american children are protected from maltreatment and neglect and stronger child abuse treatment and prevks act says it's on the right path to do is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and

mr. allen: thank you for yielding and the time here this evening and tore your leadership in crafting this very important budget and this discussion we are having on it tonight. obviously, we have been waiting on a budget to vote on in the united states congress. and have yet to see a budget. and i think we learned that thee may not be a budget in united states congress this year. hard to s very understand, because, you know, , 're spending $4.2 trillion 2/3 of that $4.2 trillion, 2/3 of it, is mandatory spending, which is basically on automatic pilot. and it is skyrocketing. the biggest increases in our deficit are created by this mandatory spending. on the discretionary side, it's about a third about what we spend totally. and as far as discretionary spending goes, we have had some modest increases. you know, for the time that i was in the congress, we basically had budget caps. and actually discretionary spending was held at the same level the entire time. so, you know, i think it's sad that

mr. allen: serving more than 1,800 students from pre-k through 12th grade, drew charter school has implemented a project-based learning approach that is helping all students reach their highest potential. the numbers speak for themselves. drew charter school has a 100% graduation rate. no wonder there's a wait list to attend this wonderful school. while speaking with the administrators touring the beautiful campus, and visiting a few classrooms, it was evidence that -- evident that drew charter school has excelled in their mission to provide a quality education. as a senior republican on k-12 education subcommittee, i look forward to sharing my support for charter schools and everything they do for our young students. by supporting charter schools, we are putting kids first in education, not politicians more concerned about power and money. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there any further requests for one-minute speeches? the chair lays before the house the following pers

mrs. washington. allenmarry him. >> the biggest mistake i ever made in my life. >> within months of moving to his new mexico ranch, allen says peggy was nosing her way into his horse business, pressing him to fire longtime employees and hire friends of hers. >> you know, she wanted her people to do the accounting and stuff. >> when he refused, allen says, the man magnet turned into a maneater. >> she'd get on me and it was -- it was like a man getting on you. she's a pretty good sized woman. i looked in her eyes and i -- i mean, she's evil. she is evil. >> but if peggy thomas married well, she divorced even better. allen says he gave her money and an 80-foot houseboat just to go away. >> the divorce took way longer than the marriage did. >> looking back, mark allen says he should have known better. he says a few days before their wedding peggy let him in on a little secret. >> she said she was accused of being involved in a murder and that her ex-boyfriend had killed a guy, she said, but i didn't have nothi

mr. allen: right now america is a divided nation and we are fighting for the values that this great country was founded upon. more than anything else, we need unity. mark 3:24 says a kingdom divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand. but to find unity we must put our faith before our politics. we must do what is right for the american people. why? because our faith unites us in christ. jesus prayed for us in john 21:17, that all of them may be one, father, just as you are in me and i am in you. may they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. i encourage all americans to join me in celebrating the national day of prayer and humbly come before god to seek his guidance on how we may become one america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition? >> permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. it was an

alalthank you for yielding the -- mr. allen: thank you for yielding the time and this issue is affecting far too many americans. it's a shame to keep doing things and they don't work. so something has to be done. madam speaker, the rising cost of prescription drugs is causing significant financial burdens for patients, seniors and our businesses. too often americans have to choose between much needed prescriptions and household expenses. president trump made it clear to the american people during his state of the union address that lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the top priorities and as we have seen throughout his presidency is promises made are promises kept. of ill create to reduce out pocket spending on prescription drugs potentially becoming the most sweeping change. a much needed change. by delivering discounts directly to patients at the pharmacy counter and bringing perhaps to a broken system we are putting patients and seniors first and that's how it should be. t's high time to end these kickbacks to

mr. hathaway or hello allen. he would never even answer me. so this one guy, i had to go down. everyone was on a picnic and no one could be reached. i wrote a long memo. the next morning his secretary called me and said allen wants to see right away.i said, you see i was right not to move. i'm about to be fired. all the way into the office, i was sure i would be fired. his secretary said to me, go in. he had a glass-enclosed office and i could see this big red head, bent over beating me something very intently. and i saw it was my memo that he was reading. waved me to a chair he said i didn't know someone from princeton could go through files like this. from now on, you do investigative work. i have - - [indiscernible]. i said i don't know anything about investigative work . >> he looked at me for what i remember as a very long time and said, just remember one thing. turn every page. never assume anything. and i can't tell you how many times in my life that stuck with me and really resulted in me finding something. >> you say in the book where you are maybe a document away from

terry allen, i heard he was relieved because he was not very kind to his superiors, and also, i believe his son was killed in vietnam. mr. mcmanus: you are correct. his son was killed in vietnam and the big red one in the fall of 1967. terry allen, one of the reasons terry allen was loved is that the soldiers figured out quickly he cared a lot more about them than making himself look good to his superiors. terry allen had a tempestuous relationship with george patton. it is not that they disliked each other, but he did not suck up to patton or anybody else. allen was not wired that way. you mentioned night. i believe allen is a pioneer in his advocacy of night attacks. in world war ii and really they're forward through the vietnam era has this night, let's fight at and hunker down in our perimeter and shoot anything that moves. let's use our firepower to destroy anything at night. this allen's division, the was not necessarily a good thing. 104th, was different. absolutely. a he was just too confident commander to sit out the war. 104th, which is called the timberwolves. liberate aelped concentration/labor camp at the e

allen. >> reporter: every week otis visits an elementary psychological trying to get student mrs.ence and math. it's the first step towards getting them to think about following had niz footsteps and some day becoming a doctor. >> i don't b field that can compare. >> reporter: this 31-year-old married father of two is on a journey few young black men take. he's a first year medical student in atlanta. the number of african-american male medical students peaked at 542 in 1978 and has been falling ever since. in 2014 only 515 black men entered america's medical schools in the class of some 20,000. the education requirements and the cost in time and money turns many of his peers away. he expects to be $200,000 in debt. >> you took the medical exams four times to get in. >> yes, correct. >> this is like nine years plus of school. >> there's nothing else i want to do other than practice medicine. >> reporter: a doctor is dean of admissions. >> black men don't know this is an opportunity they should aspire to because they have never seen a black male physician. >> reporter: dr. o'ma ri

responding to the prime minister's tears at the end of her speech heidi allen, who quit the party to become an independent mp with change uk over mrspolicy asked ‘why didn't we see that emotion more? things could have been so different....' andrea leadsom, who resigned on wednesday, and who is widely expected to run for the leadership herself said the speech was very dignified and that it was ‘an illustration of her total commitment to country and duty. she did her utmost, and i wish her all the very best‘ one other bit of reaction from ruth davidson, leader of scottish conservative party, highlighting what the prime minister had said about the young briton's second female prime minister. with david sensing, as britain's second female prime minister, she has been a role model for women across the uk showing there is no glass ceiling for their ambitions. my colleague geeta guru—murthy is outside the houses of parliament. we arejust we are just gathering some reaction here. with me are three guest, lord kenneth baker, former tory party chairman when margaret thatcher was forced out. lord baker, your thoughts on theresa may's resignat

mr. bercow: order! [laughter] order! good morning, ladies and gentlemen. and i ams john allen, the president of the brookings institution, and it is my pleasure to welcome you all here today. those in the audience who are with us, but also those over webcast and over c-span as well. very happy to have c-span here. we welcome you for a conversation on the role of parliament in policy and politics at a crucial moment in one of the best friends of the united states and our closest ally, the united kingdom. ais past year, there's been series of extraordinary development in british politics, with the house of commons at the center of it all. of particular interest has been the long-running debate over the country's departure from the european union, in which there have been three defeats of the government's brexit deal and two extensions of the deadline. last week, the u.k. along with the rest of the e.u. held elections for the european parliament, and the country will soon have a new prime minister. a leadership contest is getting underway within the governing conservative party,

mr. dent 10, -- d'antuono, edge'ables week to some of the unique challenges faced in identifying and stop being tbi allen how can more centralized up-to-date ownership information assistant focusing limited resources to improve investigation and enforcement efforts? >> so tb ml is a huge money laundering issue, it's a time intensive resource training intensive investigation. they use shell companies intentionally . >> i'm the chairman and we have discussions all the time about those lanes. we are all combating that across the globe because it's difficult to dive into those cases there's so intense. there is a lot of data and the beneficial ownership of the repository will go very well as a tool for us to be used to combat and el chapo is not gonna list the el chapo on the application. it would be great if he did but unlikely . >> unlike the. but, it's one of those things where there might be the nominee in the account, we could then go and put the hand on them and say if there is some bite to the law or a law that we could then in force that and say what is truly the story . that's where we come in and t

mr. woods. trump today also presented the commander in chief's trophy to the west point football team and made some news while doing it. according to jonathan allenaid monday that he wants to allow top athletes from service academies to defer their military duty so they can play professional sports. the president said the move would boost recruiting for the service academies sports teams. of course, one famous example of this restriction, david robinson, had to wait two years after the 1987 nba draft to join the spurs because he had to fulfill his service requirement at the naval academy. almost took them to the final four in 1986. the controversial disqualification at this weekend's kentucky derby. that was the first time in the race's 145-year history that a horse was dq'd. that's been upheld tonight by racing officials in kentucky, and the president sounded off on twitter after the race. he said the decision was not a good one, it was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually a beautiful thing to watch. only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. the best horse did not win the kentucky derby, not