mr. brady, we conclude with you. mr. brady: good morning, chairman hatch, ranking member widen, distinguished members of the committee. my name is terence brady, as the newly appointed president of the underwriters laboratories, aim honored to appear before you today to share u.l.'s experience gatting the rise of counterfeit goods in e-commerce and offer our perspectives on the challenges face facing the right holders in this evolving global market. u.l. is a global independent safety science company that has championed safety for nearly 125 years. our 14,000 professionals around the globe are guided by our mission, to promote safe, living and working environments for people everywhere. we use research, standards, and conformity assessments to meet ever evolving safety challenges. we partner with manufacturers, retailers, trade associations, and regulatory authorities internationally to provide solutions to address the risks of increasing the -- increasingly complex global supply chains. u.l. takes counterfeiting very ser

mr. brady, we conclude with you. mr. brady: good morning, chairman hatch, ranking member widen, distinguished members of the committee. my name is terence brady, as the newly appointed president of the underwriters laboratories, i'm honored to appear before you today to share u.l.'s experience at getting the rise of counterfeit goods in e-commerce and offer our perspectives on the challenges face facing the right holders in this evolving global market. u.l. is a global independent safety science company that has championed safety for nearly 125 years. our 14,000 professionals around the globe are guided by our mission, to promote safe, living and working environments for people everywhere. we use research, standards, and conformity assessments to meet ever evolving safety challenges. we partner with manufacturers, retailers, trade associations, and regulatory authorities internationally to provide solutions to address the risks of increasingly complex global supply chains. u.l. takes counterfeiting very seriously and devo

mr. brady: mr. ambassador, can you touch the microphone. >> that is a great question and topical as you suggest. the president is going to make a decision i believe in the very near future on this issue of this 301 which we started in august and which we have been thoroughly examined. we have studied and had hearings and spent thousands of hours reading pages in chinese and stud yesterday with american companies and our view -- and no decision until the president makes it. we have a very serious problem of losing our intellectual property, which is really the biggest single advantage of the american economy in my opinion. we are losing that to china in ways that are not reflect tive of the underlying economics. it is an enormously important issue. i will be happy to talk about it at some length. it is the most important thing that will have been done in terms of rebalancing trade, specifically with china. the problem with the intellectual property is something that has been going on for a long time.

mr. brady was appointed to his new position just last week. but was just recently serving ul as vice president and chief commercial and legal officer. prior to joining ul, mr. brady was an associate and partner for 27 years in the chicago office of winston and shraun llp. he graduated from dartmouth with undergraduate and law degree from notre dame law school. i want to thank you all for coming and being here with us today and for testifying today. ms. gee nop louse we will begin with you and your opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman hatch, ranking member widen and members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to be here today to discuss our recent work on intellectual property rights. [ inaudible ] second, i'll discuss the nature of efforts that customs and border protection and immigration and customs enforcement have undertaken to enhance ipr enforcement. and finally, i will cover some of the ways in which cpb and i.c.e. coordinate with the private sector in enforci

mr. brady was appointed to his new position just last week but was just recently serving ul as the vice president and chief commercial and legal officer. prior to joining ul, mr. brady was an associate and partner for 27 years in the chicago office of winston and strong, llp. mr. brady graduated from dartmouth college with his undergraduate degree, then received his law degree from notre dame law school. i want to thank you for being here today and testifying today. miss giannapolis, we'll begin with your opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman hatch, ranking member widen, and members of the question, thank you for the opportunity to be here today to discuss our recent work on intellectual property rights. the united states is a global leader in the creation of intellectual property. companies that illegally import and distribute counterfeit goods can cause a number of harmful effects on the u.s. economy, such as slowing economic growth and threatening american jobs. what's more,

mr. brady once pled guilty to a felony bribery charge in a very famous scandal where he paid huge bribes to new york state officials to get business for his wall street firm. those new york officials went to jail. he became a cooperating witness for the government and initially pled guilty to a felony that was reduced to a misdemeanor. but he was the guy who paid the bribes. that made it a scandal when he turned up as a major trump donor and named deputy finance chairman of the rnc. the bribery guy? but now in this george nader era that we're in, in this new era of george nader reporting here, that same guy, elliott brady, turns up as a defense contractor. a defense contractor? i thought he was a wall street briber. he has very recently received hundreds of millions in contracts from uae, arranged by his new friend, george nader, who he just met at the trump inauguration. boy, that's a quick turn around, trump wasn't inaugurated all that long ago. you didn't know this guy before the inauguratio

. >> there was a brady bunch episode where mrs. bradyost her voice just before she had to sing i think it was at easter. she got it back. >> maybe laura will get it back. >> miraculous healing going on here. we have sunshine, a lot of that in the forecast and also really warm weather just in time for spring break and also easter. let's talk about our high temperatures today where we're headed and some records that may be set. i think we could set some records in santa rosa and napa where our high temperatures today will reach into the low 80s based on my forecast. 83 degrees the record today, 82 degrees in napa, 81 is that old record is 78 degrees. these other areas interest concord, oakland, san jose to mountain view will be very close, but i think we will have to really watch those north bay numbers. as you head out the door for school maybe these are the last couple days of school before spring break or also having good friday off. it's going to be in the low 50s heading out the door, but by the time you walk home from school, it's go

mr. brady to be with you. >> boy, i've thrown up a lot of numbers. >> i know. i've been around a long time. >> you have accomplished quite a bit in your career so far. i want to take you back to not so long ago, super bowl lii. final chapter of your docu series focuses after the game. what was in your mind after the loss, after the game? >> it's a process you have to deal with. it's so great to be in that game. but to win that game is very tough. and we had a couple of close losses to the giants, unfortunately. another one against the eagles. i think you realize the sun comes up the next morning. your life goes on. but, you know, those games live with you for the rest of your life. and, that's part of being an athlete. that's part of being in a very competitive sport. it's tough to win that game. i'm proud of our efforts throughout the year. overcame a lot of adversity, like you always need to do to get to that game. just came up a little bit short. >> after the season, you always talk about th

mr. brady, who you referred to, says don't do it for canada and mexico. is there a middle course?resident could ultimately decide to have carveouts for some types of businesses that would allow them to raise tariffs on some companies while not doing it on others. yesterday president trump spoke directly about nafta to reporters in public comment. he also said he does not think there will be a trade war. i spoke with a source yesterday who is working on trade who told me that there could be a watering down as this gets to the finish line, but that this is an opening bid, dented puts him directly at odds with several of his key allies, most notably boeing, as he tries to attempt to get this done. david: ok, kevin, thank you for the great reporting. alix? u.s. stock futures are in , shaking this morning off rhetoric about tariffs. joining us now, david cohen talk. i wanted to get your take. as markets continue to come back and things go well, does that make president trump -- on his harsh rhetoric? >> i was going to ask you, you are at in the middle of the oil conference, and there a

. >> leave of absence requested for mr. brady of pennsylvania for today. mr. clyburn of south carolina for today. mr. danny davis of illinois for today. mr. defazio of oregon for today. ms. jackson lee of texas for today and tomorrow. ms. eddie bernice johnson of it'd texas for today and tomorrow. and mr. neal of massachusetts for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2017, the gentleman from illinois, mr. shimkus is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to start by recognizing the chairman of the energy and commerce committee for as much ime as he may consume. >> mr. speaker, i want to thank the chairman of the environment subcommittee, my friend, mr. shimkus who has worked tirelessly not just this year, not just last year, but probably since the first year he came to congress to try and find a permanent solution to the waste storage of nuclear waste in america, and he has been a tireless worker in

in our next hour, mr. brady joins us.ore tax cuts, or are we going to correct the mistakes in the first tax bill. yeah, we'll be back. ♪ stuart: look, i'm not allowed to sing along even though i would like to, that is just fine. beatles music. like it very much indeed. play it every day at 10:30 eastern. we're still down, for the benefit of our radio listeners, we're down 64 points, 24,942. what do we have on oil in storage? liz: way more than expected. up five million in storage. third week of increases. hanging is in there at $61. iran is telling opec we have to get oil stuck around this range to hurt u.s. shale producers. stuart: we have a lot more in storage, frackers are churning it out. liz: that is correct. barely up for the year. stuart: i want to check the stock price of equifax again please because the sec has charged a former executive with insider trading. this is about the massive 148 million person hack. ashley: you got it, the data breach. the individual was the chief information sister. sec claims that he

mr. bennie thompson, bob brady -- bless you -- for proposals that we have to protect the integrity of ourcal infrastructure which is our voting system. yes, ma'am? >> back to the politics for a second. conor lamb ran -- to the camera saying i do not support nancy pelo pelosi. he ran against you the entire time. do you think your other candidates should do the same thing and does that pose a problem for you if you take back the house? >> i don't think that he ran against me the entire time. i think he ran on his positive agenda protecting medicare for preeminently that there for working families, strong support from labor. on the one hand, republicans are saying, see, he ran like a conservative, and on the other hand, i guess that identifies that they want to support medicare, which they don't. and the rest. so it was, i think, a very issues-oriented campaign as a part of it, with tens of -- with millions of dollars of ads coming in from the koch brothers. that will happen all over the country. demonizing me as the leader of the democratic party. the -- i just wanted him to win. i don't th

mr. hogg, and everybody else. this caucus stands very strong in trying to do something about guns. i've been trying a long time. i was the author of the brady law. dianne feinstein was the author of the assault weapons ban. there are tens of thousands of people walking the streets who would have been dead. we don't know who they are. but it happened. but unfortunately, they plucked holes in that legislation. we stand for universal background checks. we stand for assault weapons dealing with assault weapons. and we stand for protection orders. and those are the three issues and i talked to some students and some others who i've met that we are going to push and push and push until we get them done. because you inspire us but more importantly it's a necessity, a necessity in america, to try and deal with this. we will fight hard to do it.

that the russian state was responsible for the attempted murder of mrs group all and his daughter. i'm police officer nick brady. after threatening the lives of other bridges citizens in salisbury. and after some months lukewarm support from the united states earlier this week at the us envoy to the u. in and out says that the u. s. teaches that view. the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain. the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on to people in the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agen. no two nations enjoy a stronger bond than that of the united states and the united kingdom farce is truly a special relationshi. our friends in great britain face the challenge. the united states will always be there for them. always. and british authorities will now be revisiting the deaths of at least fourteen other individuals who died so in the uk. at this that may be linked to the crime and erin okay takes it back suspicious deaths of you can also uk sort of high profile ex russian agents spies. and critics of let me vision. great britain is becoming an in

mr. pilpel. i think we have another. >> alexander brady. >> great. thank you. [please stand by] . >> hearing none, 10.5 is approved. >> madam chair, your regular calendar is next up. item 11 approves a parking and bike lane between 8th street and harrison and townsend. >> good afternoon, madam chair woman, director reiskin, my name is alan, and i am the project manager for phase two. this project takes place on 8th street between harrison street and townsend street. before we mention phase two, i'd like to mention some portions of phase one, which are highlighted in green. i apologize if your slides may be a little different than mine. i moved the pictures to a new slide to make them larger. phase one was a phase on 8th street between harrison and market street. phase one was completed in may 2017. because -- [ inaudible ] -- the 8th street safety project was divided into two phases. phase two required more engineering and traffic analysis because of 8th street's connection to the bay bridge on and offramps, its unique placement under an elevated freeway, and a

special counsel amended documents directly related to the president's businesses, brady the investigation closer to mrtrump. at this hour former fbi director andrew mccabe is asking the department of justice not to fire him 72 hours ahead of his scheduled retirement. mccain is accused of authorizing the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and then lying about it. attorney general jeff sessions has the final say but he is not at today's meeting. if mccain is terminated, he would lose out on his benefits. crown prince does not want the middle east to turn into world war ii era in europe. in a interview with cbs news, the pen set the kingdom will prevent iran from trying to ande control of the region he used harsh rhetoric to describe iran's leader. >> many countries around the world and europe did not realize how dangerous hitler was. i do want to see the same events happening in the middle east. the saudi arabia need nuclear weapons to counter iran? >> saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, if wen develop a nuclear bomb, would pursue it as soon as possible. killed hundred

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that kennis badey, a -- brady, a eastbound in of my staff be dwrantsed floor privileges for the remainder of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i'm here to share a little bit of alaska. i no he that you will also appreciate the update on an event that we in alaska celebrate every year, the past 46 years. the annual idatarod race has been run in the state of alaska. this is a sled dog race of international fame, a race that begins just outside of anchorage, alaska, and ends in nome. about a thousand miles. i think this year's southern rate was 998 miles to be exact. it's one of the longest dog sled races on earth. and it travel, over some pretty interesting terrain and interesting is a choice word to use as you cross mountains and frozen tundra and forests and out on the frozen ice. the idatarod is truly a race for only the most hearty, only the best. the idatarod itself commemorates the diphtheria outbreak that happened in nome. and there was no way to get the diphtheria from the coastal area down in seward a

the committee's chairman, congressman kevin brady elaborated on those concerns yesterday on msnbc. watch this. >> the messages we stand with you, mrpresident, in taking tough action to keep us safe and economically strong by targeting bad actors in trade. at the same time, we encourage the president to tailor these tariffs in a way so that we can continue to sell more american-made manufactured products, including steel and aluminum around the world so our businesses can continue to use these products to be able to compete. and, of course, we want to keep hiring more workers here in america. >> and republicans are reportedly pinning their last hopes to sway the president to abandon his tariff plan on the second in command at the white house. while vice president vice president has expressed support for the president's plan, he privately has expressed opposition to the across the board tariffs. pence, a lifelong advocate of free markets and free trade has been quietly delivering messages to the president from republican lawmakers who are concerned about the plan. but he's reportedly made sure to maintain a deliberately neutral posi

brady and george naida trying to influence the u.s. government. it's not clear if it's illegal with regard to mr nader there is not sufficient evidence to make that claim but with regard to mr brody's actions there certainly are day shifts into to tell a sitting president that he should fire and secretary of state and for there to be a self interest in that that is his economic dealings with the u.a.e. certainly brazen and presumptuous but not necessarily illegal at least no evidence so far ok so should we expect any backlash against the. well i don't think so i don't expect any i mean we've seen now over the last six or months or so a number of email leaks including the email account of the u.a.e. powerful and that's your to washington use of a table in which there were all kinds of improper things revealed and we saw our really no backlash so i'm not expecting any ok so what do you make of the timing then of these leaks because the saudi crown prince might have been summoned to in the u.s. later this month. well not only is muhammad and someone going to washington but also another trump centra

letter to ask to reconsider and brady saying this morning that he thinks trump's approach is the problem here. >> where we're at in a lot of republicans in the house is, look, mrgo after the bad actors. we're with you. protect the good ones because that protects our jobs. so we're going to keep having that discussion with him. >> not all republicans agree on this. i talked with senator shelby from alabama. he says if trump is playing the long game here and it works, he doesn't see a problem with this strategy. >> i don't know if it's the wrong way to go. what is wrong or right is what works. we'll see if it works. if it doesn't work, it's the wrong way to go. sometimes you have to get people's attention. we're losing out in the trade war. let's be honest. the question is, is it our fault or the trade fault or because countries are dumping steel and aluminum on this country to detriment of our own people? we need to figure this out. this is a good tart to start. >> trace, there's a middle ground here. i talked to republicans and democrats today who agree that cheap chinese steel is a problem but how to handle the problem is the sticking point. trace? >> trace:

mr. kaltbaum, we've got tax reform, lower taxes, helping to unleech some of that -- unleash what they call those animal spirits. they're talking about round two coming on tax reform. in fact kevin brady telling our own stuart varney this morning that he is gearing up for round two. i would imagine that larry kudlow would be very significant and helpful as we look forward to phase two of tax cuts? >> give me round two. give me round three. give me round four. the taxpayer has been screwed for many years, paying too much money into the system, and the other part of kudlow, he loves smaller government. if he can get into the republicans ears on the size of government, the size of government spending he have year, then you get the big trifecta with the free trade also. now something that was said today that i'm hopeful on with the tariffs is using tariffs as a negotiating point instead of as a hammer. if you want to use it that way, and you negotiate well, then we can get something done of the fact is that there are bad players around the globe. there is something that does need to be done. we can do better on trade. hopefully that is the route they're going. trish: you have to be carefu

mr. hogg and everybody else. this caucus is very strong in trying to do something about guns. i've been trying a long time. was the author of the brady line, dianne feinstein was author of the assault weapons upon more than 20 years ago, and i the brady law -- there are tens of thousands of people walking the streets who would have been dead. they don't know who they are. weapon don't know who they're but it happened, but unfortunately the plugged holes in that legislation. we stand for universal background checks. we stand for assault weapons dealing with assault weapons, and we stand for protection orders, and those are the three issues. and i talked to some over students and others who he have meat. their going to push and push and push until we get them done because you inspire us but more importantly, it's a necessity. it's in necessity in america to deal with this and we'll fight hard to do it and i want to assure all of you how strongly we feel. thank you. >> thank you so much. thank you. mr. gutenberg, thank you. >> can you hear me? >> there you go. >> first, if anybody wants to know why after losing my daughter only three we

mr. hogg, and anybody else. this caucus stands very strong in trying to do something about guns. i've been trying for long time. i was the author of the brady law. diane feinstein was author of the assault weapons ban more than 20 years ago. that brady law, there are tens of thousands of people walking the streets would have been dead. they don't know who they are. we don't know they are but it happen. but, unfortunately, they plot holes in that legislation. we stand for universal background checks. we stand for assault weapons, dealing with assault weapons, and we stand for protection orders. those are the three issues, and i've talked to some of the students and some of the others who i've met that we're going to push and push and push until we get them done. because you inspire us, but more importantly, it's a necessity, it's a necessity in america to try and deal with this. we will fight hard to do it. that's what i came by. i wanted to assure all of you how strongly we feel. thank you. >> that you so much. thank you. mr. guttenberg, thank you. >> first, if anybody wants to know why after losing my daughter only three sigar what i'm opt