mr. castro: i yield, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. bice: i yield back, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. pursuant to house resolution 900, the previous question is ordered on the amendment offered by the gentleman from texas. the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is -- the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. bice: madam speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-s of house resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings are postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 56 printed in part d of house report 117-241. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. crenshaw: i have an amendment at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the amendment. the cl

mr. castro. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 43 printed in part d of house report 117-241 offered by mr. castro of texas. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from texas. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. hudson of north carolina, mr. timmons of south carolina, mr. armstrong of north dakota, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. hudson, mr. timmons and mr. armstrong will all vote no on amendment number 43. the speaker pro tempore: for w

mr. castro. one of the issues i have seen from a financial services perspective, and i assume it is true and the same here, is a multitude of data privacy standards that we have across the country and the different states. you mentioned in your testimony that there are 34 state legislatures that introduce bills in the space from 2018. i want to get your thoughts on the importance of having a uniform federal standard for data privacy. it will go across the board. >> i really appreciate that question. >> thank you so much. >> for so many companies, especially smaller companies, we think about data privacy. we are often thinking about facebook and google. these laws impact everyone. the impact local florists and barbershops and grocery stores. complying with those laws can be very expensive and very difficult. even though, the end of the day, most of these laws are based on the same thing, they say it to little diffley. complying with those laws so that you are not, especially if there's a right of

mr. castro: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized. mrs. steel: i yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of the amendment offered by representative steel. this amendment is simple. it demands that china, the world's most worst producer of greenhouse gas emissions, meet the same emission standards that are opposed in the united states. greenhouse emissions have declined since 2010. in 2020, china somehow managed to increase their emotions. -- emissions. nearly, every other country reduced theirs. if my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to be serious about the climate, let's start by creating a level playing field for u.s. businesses to compete and require the world's largest polluter, china, to step up to the plate. mr. balancederson: -- mr. balderson: thank you, madam speaker. i reserve. mrs. steel: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. castro: the united s

mr. chair, i yield back. chair castro: i want to thank everyone for joining us for the subcommittee hearing. that concludes our questions. i will now close briefly. the members of the subcommittee will reflect on this testimony as we pursue our legislative and oversight responsibilities on the united states engagement with the united nations and other international organizations. last november, this committee held a hearing on u.s. leadership at the united nations on the administration's strategies to contest elections and place more americans within the u.n. system. for years, senators from hawaii and ohio requested that the gao look into the issue of u.s. representation within international organizations. the last such report was in 2010. today, i come along with the ranking member malliotakis, representative reg remix, michael mccaul, request the gao to resume these assessments. these requests include barriers to recruitment, hiring and retention, the state department's efforts to improve u.s. representation, and of th

mr. castro of texas, mr. grijalva of arizona, representative stansbury of new mexico, mr.linois i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.res. 900. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma rise? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. cole from oklahoma, i inform the house that mr. cole will vote no on the rule. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york rise? ms. velazquez: mr. speaker, as the member designated congresswoman yvette clark of new york, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. clarke of new york will vote yes on house resolution 900 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise. >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. hudson from the great state of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. hudson will vote no on the present rule. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from virginia rise. ms. wexton: mr. speaker, as the member designated by members allred, porter, trahan i infor

ok, let's get the picture out of dc hydro castro, joining us live this are heidi hi there. so this invitation from mr. zalinski to jo bite and just kind of increase the pressure on the bite and ministration to go further than they've gone to date. perhaps it does, peter, but you know what's telling is that this detail out of that call came not from the white house, but from the office of the ukrainian president lensky. now, in his read out of the call and his offices read out. it says that the lensky invited biden to go to cave in the coming days, quote, unquote, because the u. s. president presents there and the ukraine and capital would be crucial for de escalation. again, there's no mention of this. and the official read out that came from the white house and we are waiting for a response to that invitation. what we do know from the white house is that this call lasted about an hour, and that biden said to zalinski that he affirmed that the you as an allies are ready to respond. he said swiftly indecisively. if russia furthers aggression against ukraine, if a recall yesterday biden use nearly thos

hope for a diplomatic solution live now to hydro castro are falling developers for us out of washington. so heidi, the pentagon doesn't believe that mr. putin has actually made up his mind yet one way or the other. but white house official saying that the russian invasion could begin at any time. so that kind of coming up with, with 2 possible scenarios here. how does that all break down there? right, the way that you can explain that peter is, according to this pentagon spokesman, russia has its troops ready. we know its surrounding ukraine on 3 sides. and the u . s. intelligence has found that russia is ready to invade from the air from the ground, from the seas even. and what's missing at this point is an order from couldn't himself, for the troops to move in. and it has been undetermined whether prudent has made that decision to invade. and we saw the precarious nature of the situation, underscore by a white house spokeswoman, who did say that we are in the window or, and where an invasion can happen at any time. and that was the rationale behind temporarily closing the u. s embassy in here that happened today. keith is only abou

availability of public transit of divisadero and castro and noe, but they're comparatively on flat lands, and simply adding bicycle parking meets some generic requirement as mr. fung plans on doing, according to his application. it's almost as if the developer is adding boiler plate features to make it seem appropriate for home s.f. using home s.f. as a means to justify the added height tacked onto this project undermines the equity and value of the project in this area of san francisco that can not handle something like this. the proposed structure is looking to take advantage of a program that's designed to take advantage of a lot designed to hole much more future residents -- hold much more future residents. thank you. >> clerk: all right. [please stand by] . >> i would urge the board to look at the original sellers' plan, which calls for the same building. our lot is four units, four units. they want to put on the same size as our four units, which is pretty small. we really do need housing, but i really resent -- >> clerk: okay. thank you. is there any further public comment on this item, please raise your hand. okay. i don't see anymore hands raised, s