mr. brandon. >> mr. chairman, ranking member feinstein and distinguished senators on the senate judiciary committee. thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you today. on behalf of the men and women of atf, i extend heartfelt condo loans to the friends and family of those killed, injured and survived the horrendous attacks in las vegas and sutherland springs, texas, and survivors of all forms of the firearms violence that plagues too many of our communities every day. all of the men and women of atf are aware of the need for constant vigilance fulfilling our mission to combat violent crime. although we are a small agency, we embrace the challenge of our mission and strive to the best partner possible to our colleagues. delivers investigative and technical experience that drive results. atf is the federal agency primarily responsible for enforcing the provisions of the federal firearms laws, particularly the act of 1934 and the gun control act of 1968. atf's authority to regulate firearms

mr. brandon, bump stocks are not complicated devices. it's my understanding after study of it that it could be a piece of plastic, so bump stocks could be made by a 3-d printer in somebody's garage. if i'm correct on that, given the simplicity -- if i'm wrong, you can tell me, but given the simplicity of manufacturing these devices, how does atf propose to regulate them? >> well, mr. chairman, to the first part of your question with 3-d printing, there's been rapid advancements in that technology over the last few years. i would imagine that's possible. and as far as going forth with any regulation, again, i'm just going to go back that -- to adhere to the administrative procedures act, and we'll follow that to the t. and go from there. but keep the committee informed. >> i've got three seconds left. so i can start my question. mr. fine, the inspector general for the department of defense recommended in 1997 and 2015 that d.o.d. needed to take steps to improve its nics reporting and to comply with federal law and d.o.d. regulations and y

mr. brandon judd is the border patrol agent and president -- is a border patrol agent and president of the national border patrol council representing 16,500 border patrol line agents and brings nearly 20 years of experience as a border patrol agent. mr. judd is border patrol agent in montana. mr. john anthenson has been an agent for 11 years and assigned to the del rio sector in texas and spent several years working in the prosecution's unit including two years as a liaison to the u.s. attorney's office in texas and is certified as an emt. agent anfinson the local president of the union and elected as a national vice president with the national council. miss rosemary pepperdine began her career with the u.s. border patrol california. during her 21 year career she has apprehended numerous aliens, worked for multiple agencies on different task forces and is here from my town tucson, arizona. mr. anthony anthony riordan is the national treasury employees union and a member of the union representing 150,000 federal workers including 25,000 custom and border protection employees. ree riordan h

mr. brandon jud is border patrol agent and the president of national border patrol counsel representing more than 16, 500 borderline agents brings with him nearly 20 years of experience. mr. judd is currently assigned in montana. mr. jon anfinsen border agent for 11 years in texas. several years working in prosecutions unit in texas and certified as emt. agent anfinsen is last year elected as national vice president with the national council. mist rose maria pepp has worked for different agencies and is here from my town, tucson, arizona. mr. anthony reardon is leader of the largest independent sector union representing 150,000 federal workers, including 25,000 custom and border protection employees. reardon has over 25 years of hands-on experience addressing the concerns of frontline employees. the witnesses full written statements will appear in the record. 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

mrs. may appointed brandon lewis as party chairman, and david davis and boris johnson all held on to their jobs sterling in response hit a three-week high against the euro following that reshuffle we're joined by richard myles from absolute strategy research. it didn't go very well for mrs. may yesterday, did it? >> it started poorly of a job that chris graley actually wasn't given and got worse from there. many are refusing to leave their jobs, others are refusing to take jobs. jerry hunt was going to be moved, that didn't come off. in terms of substance, you didn't get big moves and the main jobs, foreign secretary, chancellor, these are the jobs where if you had a strong prime minister, they would have been sacked by now, but we have a weak one since that election debacle. so there wasn't a huge change here the balance of remainders and levers has been carefully maintained theresa may can't be seen to favor one of those factions over the other. the optics of this become more significant. this was about trying to demonstrate that theresa may kind of regained her grip on the government it

photo opportunity, rather an odd one, in front of number ten, when mrs may appeared from nowhere, flanked by her new party chairman, brandon about seven or eight vice—chairman of the conservative party, predominantly new, younger, female mps. and reflects the desire of theresa may to give the party machine a kick up the backside, to try and inject some energy, a bit more oomph into the party operation after its poor showing in the general election campaign. but i imaginea lot general election campaign. but i imagine a lot of people will be pondering, amber rudd? what is going on? how wide ranging is this expected to be? there was a feeling that the big beasts were not going to be moved. i sense was that it was going to be a sort of relatively restrained, middle order reshuffle, where some of those cabinet ministers who had been in posts for four or five years, ministers who had been in posts for four orfive years, had reached ministers who had been in posts for four or five years, had reached a certain level and were not going any further, they might be removed, there might be a clutch of them moved out, then tomorrow we w

in the past few minutes, brandon lewis has been named the new conservative party chairman, replacing patrick mcloughlin. mrso due to announce a successor for her close ally, damian green, who was sacked for breaching the ministerial code. earlier this morning, the northern ireland secretary, james brokenshire resigned from the cabinet for health reasons. our political correspondent ben wright reports. a new year, a new cabinet. morning prime minister. will this rejuvenate the party. she will hope so after the tories botched election last year, the question is who will she choose to chop, rejig and row motor in her team? this morning the health secretaryjeremy team? this morning the health secretary jeremy hunt was team? this morning the health secretaryjeremy hunt was swerving speculation he might be on the move. do you expect to be out of the cabinet? so was the education secretaryjustine green, cabinet? so was the education secretary justine green, she cabinet? so was the education secretaryjustine green, she can't be sure of having a ministerial car by the end of the day. the reshuffle began with the res

brandon. >> ohhhh. >> this beautiful floral arrangement was just delivered by mr. timothy simond. >> ohhhh! [applause] >> what about me? [laughter] equal opportunity! >> thank you very much. >> aww. thank you. thank you. thank you. beautiful. >> ok. >> we're good? >> item on the consent calendar, request approval of memorandum and understanding mx334 with the san francisco public utilities commission for use of a portion of sea wall lot 345 at 855 terry a. franÇois boulevard to construct, operate and maintain the mariposa dry weather pump station for a period of 30 years for a lump sum rental of $502,294 with two options for a total up to 66 years. >> there any public comment? can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> there any public comment on item 10a? seeing none, commissioners, are there any questions or concerns? >> consent. >> why? all in favour -- >> aye. any opposed? resolution 1801 has been approved. the first resolution of the year. [laughter] >> item 11-a informational presentation regarding the port's proposed federal and state legislation programme. >> there we go. good

mrs thatcher in the 1980s. who replaces him? best guest —— guess is brandon lewis of the immigration minister.r. and we also saw james cleverly who i think is mr lewis' parliamentary aide arriving a short time after that. he could be in line for promotion. one possibility is you could have a double—header in central office with mr lewis and mr cleverly because pa rt mr lewis and mr cleverly because part of the thinking of this reshuffle is to try and get a grip of central office and shake it up and make it more fit for purpose. there is a sense it's not up to speedin there is a sense it's not up to speed in the way that the labour party is in terms of attracting new members and campaigning on electioneering in the digital media. that might be a bit of the shake up we are seeing. it will be interesting to see who theresa may replaces james brogan shire with as northern ireland secretary. at crucial role given the relationship that has to be negotiated with the dup and the government. it really is. the letters exchanged between mrs may and mr brogan shire have published and he talks about a lesi

brandon lewis, who took over the role in last week's government reshuffle, said the tories would equip activists with a cyber "toolkit." speaking to the andrew marr show mrl voters. what matters to me is we have a huge number of people, not just what matters to me is we have a huge number of people, notjust members, but volunteers and activists around the country who are out there day in and day out knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, getting involved in social media to ved spread the message about positive things we are doing in government, so we win the votes in local and general elections, to make sure we give people good governance in local areas. do you have as many members as the labour party? i'll not play the numbers game, as tempting as it is. it not just the numbers game, as tempting as it is. it notjust a s the numbers game, as tempting as it is. it notjust a 5 numbers game, if ican is. it notjust a 5 numbers game, if i can say, they are absolutely taking you to the cleaners online as you have more or less admitted and they have lots and lots of people to mobilise up a indown the country to hit constituents with bodies knocking on doors an

brandon lewis who took over the role in last week's government reshuffle, said the tories would equip activists with a cyber "toolkit." speaking to the andrew marr show mrsupporters engage with potential voters. what matters to me is that we have got a huge number of people, not just members, but volunteers and activists around the country who are out the day in and day out knocking on doors and spreading leaflets, getting on social media to spread the message about the positive things we are doing. to get the message across in local and general elections to give good governance in the local. have you got. as we saw injune last year, we did not win the seats we would like to win, but we did get over1 million votes tha n win, but we did get over1 million votes than we had before. the biggest ratio we have had in decades. i want to make sure we are building on that and as you say, quite rightly, building our online presence as well but doing it in a respectful way. ellie king is a student who spends time working as a conservative activist and blogger. thank you for being with us. we were hearing there that labour are taking the conservatives today cleaner

brandon lewis who took over the role in last week's government reshuffle, said the tories would equip activists with a cyber "toolkit." speaking to the andrew marr show mrs. what matters to me, we have a huge number of people, notjust members but volunteers and activists around the country, day in and day out, knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, getting involved in social media, spreading the message about the positive things we are doing in government so we win votes in local and general elections, to make sure we give people good governance in their local areas. have you got as many members as the labour party. as tempting as it is, i will not play a numbers game. this is notjust a numbers game. this is notjust a numbers game, they are absolutely taking you to the cleaners online, as you have admitted, and lots and lots of people, mobilising up and down the country, it in constituencies with actual bodies knocking on doors and handing out leaflets. the conservative party has nothing like that number of people. we have a huge number of great people delivering leaflets and knocking on doors, the last test, june last year, we did not win the seat we

brandon lewis, who took over the role in last week's government reshuffle, said the tories would equip activists with a cyber "toolkit". speaking to the andrew marr show, mrpporters engage with potential voters. what matters to me is we have got a huge number of people, notjust members, but volunteers and activists around the country who are out there day in, day out, knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, getting involved in social media to spread the message about the positive things we are doing and government are people so we went those votes in local and general elections, to make sure we give people good governance in a local areas. have you got as many members as the labour party? speaktempting as the labour party? speaktempting as it is, i am not going to play a numbers game. they are absolutely taking you to the cleaners online, as you have more 01’ taking you to the cleaners online, as you have more or less admitted, and they have lots and lots of people they can mobilise up and down the country to hit constituencies but lots of actual bodies knocking on doors and handing out leaflets. the conservative party has nothing like that number of peop

brandon judd is representing more than 16,500 border patrol agents. he brings 29 years of experience. mr. judd supporter patrol agent assigned in montana. mr. john an attempted has been an agent for 11 years and is currently signed to the del rio sector in texas. he spent several years working in the prosecutions unit including two years as a liaison and the attorney's office in del rio texas and certified as an emt. agent -- last year was elected as a national vice president for the national council. would ms. rosemary pepperdine her career with u.s. border patrol california. during her 21 year career she separated numerous aliens seized drug cases drug cases as well as work for multiple agencies on different task forces and is from my town tucson arizona. the return is the national -- president of the employees union. the leader of the largest independent federal said you're representing 150,000 federal workers including 25,000 customs and border protection's employees. riordan has over 25 years of hands-on experience addressing the concerns of front-line employees. the witnesses for w

mr. coats was employed full time at dish for three years, and during that time, he never possessed, used, or requested accommodation for medical marijuana in the workplace. >> they are talking about brandoncoats. when he was just 16, a car accident left him a quadriplegic. coats is now 35 and a licensed user of medical marijuana. how important is medical marijuana to your day-to-day life? >> well, it's very important. it allows me to live a more normal life -- the most normal life that i'm able to. >> back in 2007, coats started working as a customer-service rep at dish network. dish is headquartered in englewood, colorado. >> they have a ranking on the wall of where you are. i was always in the top five percent. i never had a write-up. i was always on time. i was -- i did good, yeah. >> then he began having trouble with debilitating muscle spasms. so, it was while you were employed at dish tv that doctors recommended you try medical marijuana? >> right. >> how would you use it? >> sometimes, if i was getting a spasm attack, i'd do it right after work. but it was normally right before bed, kind of help me not spasm so i could sleep through my night. it would usually last 24 hours, but so

mrs may has complete faith in. she has shown herself to be the sort of prime minister who promote those she absolutely trust. it could be somebody like brandonpatrick mcloughlin, i mean, he‘s been a minister since... the late 1980s, since mrs thatcher. so he really has been here a long time. we can expect some middle ranking names to be moved to one side. crucially, however, this does not look like the sort of reshuffle that is really going to make the headlines, with big names being axed. all of the signs are that the figures like borisjohnson, like signs are that the figures like boris johnson, like amber signs are that the figures like borisjohnson, like amber rudd, like philip hammond, they will stay. as do the brexit ministers david davis and liam fox. we saw david davis earlier popping into work and we saw borisjohnson popping earlier popping into work and we saw boris johnson popping into earlier popping into work and we saw borisjohnson popping into work too, that suggests to me that they are not going to move. what we seem to be shaping up for today is a kind of mid—ranking reshuffle, not wholesale butchery but a little bit of calmi

brandon lewis, and the vice—chairman will be james cleverly. they arrived to do their newjobs this afternoon and this is what they had to say. congratulations, mrking forward to getting on with thejob. looking forward to getting on with the job. what do you think the challenges? just looking forward to getting on with the job, proud and honoured the prime minister has as good a lead a great party. do you think you can reach out to new voters in a theresa may failed to do at the general election?” voters in a theresa may failed to do at the general election? i think it isa at the general election? i think it is a massive opportunity, an exciting team, as you can see, really looking forward to this. do you think you can deliver the kind of thing the prime minister is hoping for? absolutely, this is such a positive mood, it is brilliant, thank you. we know roughly what is going on, it wasn't a totally smooth start, confusion over what chris grayling is up to? so many leaders are parties, prime ministers in the past, have said reshuffles can prove to be very tricky, there have been famous exa m ples tricky, there have been famous examples in the pa

mr. speaker -- speaker ryan: cheap seats. brandon lafell -- [laughter] speaker ryan: next quepque. reporter: because what leader mcconnell said yesterday not knowing where the president is, [inaudible] a revised tweet this morning. these are tough votes for you and tough votes for your conference. is it helpful -- do you feel the president is helpfu to the pentagon making sure why our military needs funding. he's supporting getting this done. the president likes to do things in an unconventional way. he does it with his phone. it does help us. reporter: thank you, mr. speaker. from the pbs news hour. politico is saying mcconnell is making contingency plans for a shutdown. are you open to a one, two, three-day c.r.? speaker ryan: i won't negotiate to the media. that's up to the senate democrats. if the senate democrats want to deny funding for our troops and stop chip funding, that's a choice they will make. i don't think it's a good choice for them to make but that would be their decision to make. reporter: with "time" magazine. this will be i guess the fourth time in as many month