mr. clark you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. good morning representative fox, and scott and members of the committee. my name is jonathan philip clark. i'm the father of 7 wonderful children and in iraq were veteran. i work at mission city a nonprofit that provides mentoring, tutoring and art camp during the summer. i live with my wife, and 4 of our children. i also serve on the board of directors before moving forward a group of parents and students advocate for high-quality, equitable education for detroit children. of my 7 children. 3 currently attend school in detroit. we have had children in public, charter, and private school. we have had good and bad experience in all three mac. there are fewer experienced is in charter schools that i want to bring to your attention. my oldest daughter attended university academy charter school for 4 years. the students attended schools from 8 am until 5 pm with 2 hours of math and 2 hours of english each day. as well is a weekly class to

mr. clark's testimony powerfully indicate and the most comprehensive study suggests little different on average in how much students learn in charter and nearby schools yet dismissing the charter track record as mixed ignores clear evidence of benefits for students from low-income family, students of color and students living in urban area, all groups for whom educational opportunities are too often limited. studies from my home state of massachusetts illustrate this pattern of result. in our urban centers, each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter middle school increased a standa15% ind of mediation in english and math. this is large enough to close the black-white achievement gap in three years n.contrast, attending a charter school in a suburban or rural area lowers student achievement by a small amount despite the fact that these schools are popular enough to hold admissions lot rifles many of these non-urban charter schools have a distinctive curricular emphasis that may explain

mr. clark's testimony that powerfully illustrates into the most comprehensive studies of the sector suggests little difference in the charter and nearby district schools. from the students of color and the students living in urban areas all groups for whom educational opportunities are too often limited. studies from my home state of massachusetts illustrate this pattern of graceful and each year of attendance had a charter middle school increasing the student achievement by 15% of the standard deviation and rating at 42% in math. these are among the largest on record for an educational intervention implemented upscale large enough to close the achievement gap in three years. in contrast, tending the charter school in a suburban or a rural area was the achieved by a small amount. despite the fact that these schools are popular enough to hold the missions. many of these have a distinctive curricular emphasis of me explain the sustained popularity despite a lack of success in improving test score

mr clark, are you ready to move on? >> yes i believe the next one is the office of technology. >> that is right. they have a budget of $128 million. they are asking for an $11.5 million increase. they have 225 personnel and they're looking to increase their personnel by seven. >> reduction by seven. >> okay. a reduction by seven. thank you. reduction by seven. extra points for reduction. >> technology problem. [laughter] >> are we ready? >> yes. >> excellent. >> good afternoon, supervisors. good to be here. i would like to start by thanking the dp cfo and their budget team as well as the dt chief of staff for all the help and assistance in preparing the budget. it has a large budget. there are millions of details and it is quite a feat to bring it forward to you. thank you to them. i am here today to talk about the department of technology and i'm very excited to share with you some of the strategies and the work we will be doing in the upcoming year. it is very important to remember what our mission is which is to prov

mr. clarke: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker -- ms. clarke: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of this evening's special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. clarke: thank you, mr. speaker. this evening the congressional black caucus -- the congressional progressive caucus is going to be sharing some thoughts with the american eople about this extremely horrible zero tolerance policy subjected our has nation to. so i want to thank the speaker once again. and i rise today in opposition to the administration's cruel and inhumane zero tolerance policy at the border that has resulted in the separation of more than 2,000 children from their families and their loved ones. this policy calls to mind the worst of our history. including the internment of japanese americans during world war ii, our refusal to grant safety to jewish refugees during the holocaust. and the treatment of africans who were born here as chatt

. >> supervisor cohen: that's what i was trying to do, but i was unsuccessful, so -- mr. clark. >> supervisor yee: i would like to make a motion to accept the b.l.a. recommendation for those amendments. for the items that were included in 2 and 3. >> supervisor cohen: awesome. i'll second that, and take it without objection. >> clerk: b.l.a. recommendations for items 2 and 3, have been accepted with supervisor sheehy being excused from today's meeting. and may i suggest, i believe it was proposed that these matters be referred to the july 17th meeting of the full board. no? >> clerk: items 2 and 3, i think you want to continue them to the call of the chair to be combined with the june 1st budgets in front of you. and then item one can be tabled at this point by the committee. >> that is right. >> clerk: items 2 and 3, those have been amended. and i believe the motion now is to continue those matters to the call of the chair. >> supervisor cohen: that is correct. and item 1 is a table item. a tabled item. >> clerk: yes, to be heard and filed. >> supervisor cohen: great. now, we

supercohen: th w i was trying to do, but i was unsuccessful, so -- mr. clark. ion the visor yee: i would m b.l.a. recommendation for those en for the items that were included in 2 and 3. >> supervisor cohen: awesome. i'll second that, and take it without objection. >> clerk: b.l.a. recommendations for items 2 and 3, have been oehyr ingbe excused from today's meeting. and may i suggest, i believe it was proposed that these matters be referred to the july 17th meeting of the full board. lerk: items 2nd 3, i think f thehair c continue them to the nwith the june 1st budgets in front of you. his p th committee. >> that is right. >> clerk: items and 3, tho have been amended. and i believe the motion now is to continue tse matters to the sor cohat ts hair. and i 1s a tab itabled item. >> clerk: yes, to be heard and . >> svihen:t now, we will hear from item 7. lerk c 7 has called. >> supervisors asnow,rofcessues on how the city perfoing st t budget you ag we issued our last rejection report for the fiscal year we are ending. we call it the nine-month report. it's avail

mr. kenneth clark. >> mr.aker, doesn't last week's summit demonstrate that president trump has little or no time for multilateral meetings or agreements, no time at all for the wto and its rules, and he wants to take steps that he hopes will force rich and developed countries like ours to export last to the united states and to import more from politically sensitive sectors of the american economy? doesn't she reflect upon last week's unfortunate address and think that when she negotiates in europe, when we leave the european union, whilst things are going to change, we must keep frictions light and as much of the qualities of a single market and totally free trade as we possibly can? because we are going to need it more probably in the near future than we have in the past. pm may: my right honorable learned friend, we have set out very clearly the objectives we have for our future customs arrangements with the european union, which does reflect frictionless trade as possible, alongside being able to negotiate

mr kenneth clarke. ect on the unfortunate events of la st reflect on the unfortunate events of last week and think that when she negotiates in europe when we leave the eu, whilst things are going to change, we must keep frictionless trade and is much of the qualities of the single market and customs union and totally free trade as we possibly can because we're going to need it more probably in the near future than we have in the past? can i say to my right honourable learned friend that, as he will know, we have set out clearly the objectives we have for our future customs arrangements with the european union which does indeed reflect as frictionless trade is possible alongside being able to negotiate our own trade deals with an independent trade policy and no hard border in northern ireland between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. it will be important as we leave the eu, we want to ensure we have a good trading relationship with the eu but also able to an independent trade policy that enabl

mr. ben rosenfield. madam clark, 5, 8, 9, and 10. ordinance adopting the neighborhood beautification and tax destination ceiling for 2018. item 8 is 800,000 from district 7, 8 and 10 board projects responsible unit propitiating 800,000 to zar yus departments to support budgeting projects in fiscal year 2017-2018. item number 9 is a resolution concurring with the controllers and establishment of the consumer price index for 2018 and adjusting by the same rate and item number 10 is a resolution with the controllers certification that services previously approved can be performed by the project and by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work for city and county employees. >> all right. >> thank you, i appreciate that. >> just so we're on the same we're talking about a total budget of $68.2 million with a 1 million-dollar increase and personal at 252 and there's a request for six-person decrease. you don't see that very often. >> thank you for the introduction madam chair and i'll be brief as requested. you know as well our

clark: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you to the gentlan for yielding. i rise today in support of h.r. 5102, the substance use disorder work force loan repayment act. as families at home know too well, our country is in the midst of a devastating public health crisis. the opioid epidemic claims more than 115 lives every day. and in 2016 alone, more than 42,000 people lost thei lives to opioid-related drug overdoses, and more than 64,000 died from drug overdoses overall. every one of those lives lost left heart broken families, friends, and communities. part of addressing this epidemic is making sure that everyone who is looking for help can access effective treatment and ongoing management of this chronic condition. to date, however, we have failed in this endeavor. the surgeon general's 2016 report on addiction estimates that only 10% of americans living with substance use disorder receive any treatment. there are a range barriers to accessing treatment, but one of the most significant is is a shortage in the work force needed to provide it. between the

mrs ardern, who's said to be regaining her strength with macaroni and cheese, and her partner, clarkrom around the globe, including a private email from queen elizabeth. twitter wags have dubbed the baby "prime miniature." i think probably, like everyone, we went through that struggle for a matter of months. we kept a short list of names. we wanted to wait until the baby arrived to really see which one felt like it worked, but we chose neve because we just liked it. and when we met her we thought she looked like she suited the name. and it means — in various homes — it means bright and radiant and snow which seemed like a good combination for matariki and for solstice. te aroha though is.... that was something we settled on quite early. te aroha was our way of reflecting the amount of love that this baby has been shown before she even arrived. and all of the names that we were gifted along the way, i thought, how do i reflect the generosity, particularly from all of the iwi who gifted us names, and te aroha seemed to me to be a way we could show that love and generosity. that is how

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mr. speaker. i want to commend representative representatives kinsering, clarke, lahood and davis. h.r. 5590 requires the department of health and human services to develop an opioid addiction plan to evaluate what h.h.s. is doing across the department, to address the opioid crisis and how it can be improved. this action plan will include an evaluation of coverage and reimbursement rates for non-opioid pain treatments, the potential role of medical devices in addressing this crisis, and the availability of treatment for rural anded mically underserved communities, among other components. in addition, medicare and medicaid are on the front lines of this epidemic and we need to be sure that they are not creating adverse incentives that can harm beneficiaries with coverage and reimbursement decisions. addressed in this bill will provide a review of how c.m.s. can continue to fight this national crisis. i urge my colleagues to support and pass this bipartisan bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. and the gentleman from massachusetts is

mr. walden: i want to thank ms. clark and ms. mullin for bringing that to our attention. i yield to the gentleman from indiana, one of our doctors on committee, dr. bucshon. the chair: the drafment indiana is recognized. mr. bucshon: i rise today for h.r. 6. his bill will help our struggling communities by focusing on providing care to those in need while addressing opioid misuse and abuse. i'm proud of two pieces of legislation introduced are included in h.r. 6 as sections 202 and 203. section 202 which i worked closely with representative peters on to introduce would incentivize the development of nonopioid pain alternatives for post surgical pain. section 303 would increase screening for chronic plane paine, address possible nonopioid pain alternatives and -dirnl' proud to have worked with my colleagues on solution those this serious crisis and urge my colleagues to support h.r. 6. i yield back. the chair: gentleman from oregon reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new yor

mr mnangagwa hinted that political opponents within the ruling party might be responsible for the attack. new zealand's prime minister, jacinda ardern, and her partner, clark gayford, have introduced their new daughter to reporters outside the hospital in auckland where she was born. the little girl, who's just three days old, has been named neeve. now on bbc news, time for dateline london with jane hill. hello and a warm welcome to dateline london, i'mjane hill. this week our major topic for discussion is migration, and how's it's handled across europe and in the united states. plus, as major companies rang alarm bells in the uk, what are the prospects for striking a proper deal with the eu before britain leaves? lots to discuss, and around the table with me this week, the sunday telegraph columnist janet daley, the portuguese writer and lecturer eunice goes, thomas kielinger, for many years correspondent for germany's die welt. and, from bloomberg news, their senior writer stephanie baker. this weekend, a number of eu leaders are meeting to try to thrash out solutions to the migration crisis. at angela merkel‘s request, france's emmanuel macron, and the

mr mnangagwa hinted that political opponents within the ruling party might be responsible for the attack. new zealand's prime ministerjacinda ardern and her partner, clarkayford, have introduced their new daughter to reporters outside the hospital in auckland where she was born. the little girl, who's just 3 days old, has been named neeve. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week: robot hunts killer starfish, hurricane in a tube, and gravity train runs out of steam. florida, america's sunshine state — and home to the us's first sustainable town. this is babcock ranch. powered, befittingly, almost entirely by that big burning ball in the sky. it's 33 degrees. that humidity, i believe, about i,000,000%. and i've come to a solar field, so you don't have too 343,000 solar panel spent some 440 acres, providing 75 megawatts of electricity. that's enough to power 15,000 homes. one of the big problems with solar energy has been when the clouds, over or especially when it gets dark, the whole thing effectively goes dead. and we haven't really had a way of storing solar energy until very recently. but over there, ten buildings full of batteries. so it's a

mr mnangagwa hinted that political opponents within the ruling party might be responsible for the attack. new zealand's prime minister, jacinda ardern, and her partner, clarkhe was born. the little girl, who's just three days old, has been named neeve. now on bbc news, time for dateline london with jane hill.

mr. gal behr of wisconsin, amendment number 15 by ms. clark on massachusetts, amendment number 29 of by mr. courtney of connecticut. the chair will reduce to two-minutes -- to two mines the time for any vote in this series. the unfinished business is the question for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 offered by the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. gallagher, on which noes prevailed the voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in house report 115-785. offered by mr. gallagher of wisconsin. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be downed. a sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. this is a two-minute vote. [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 chair: on this vote, the eas are 116 a

mr. chairman, i may request how much time i have remaining? the chair: the gentlewoman has two minutes remaining. ms. clark: i would like to yield a minute and a half to my colleague, mr. russell. the chair: without objection. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. russell: thank you, mr. chairman. i thank my colleague from massachusetts. the defense innovation unit experimental is a program that leverages brilliant engineers at places like the silicon valley or m.i.t. to invent such amazing things as saline cooling to save lives of badly wounded sole zwhrornse battlefield or create improved communications. in just the last year, the diux program saved the united states air force hundreds of millions of dollars by replacing a whiteboard management system for managing refueling with an integrating app that saved millions of pounds of fuel each week, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars and ultimately billion os savings this would never have happened without diux. it pays for itself many times over. in fact, we would not have things like predator today or key anti-missile defense systems without

mrs. maloney: thank you. i want to thank my good friend and colleague from the great for of york, ms. clarke, organizing this incredibly important special order. her mother and i served together on the city council. she was one of my best friends there. she's one of my best friends here. i'd say that they have been major leaders in the immigrant community, thrick from the caribbean -- particularly from the caribbean where her mother was born and been a leader n all forms of social justice 20 -- a leader in all forms of social justice in the 20th century. throughout history we have been a nation in which the -- the world's oppressed and vulnerable look to for hope, a beacon of light signaling a better life. the zero tolerance policy put forth by the trump administration utterly violates that tradition of values in this country. families are fleeing unspeakable danger and oppression only to arrive at you are o borders and be torn away from each other. yesterday president trump executive order that haltses -- halts segregated detention for parents and children. we have to remember that the pres

clark, assistant secretary of treshry, heath. they have put in countless hours working through details, language on this bill. mr. chairman, i have worked on fius related issues for nearly three years. prior to firrma i spent my efforts identifying problematic transactions engaging in a public media campaign to raise awareness and stoke the government action. three years later i'm so happy to say we have a robust impact on this issue. for example, we helped prevent the chicago stock exchange from falling into the hands of opaque chinese ownership. we protected our defense ply shane by helping a semiconductor being purchased by chinese tate-owned fund. our successful initiatives yet garnered the attention of senator cornyn. we began a year-long process to draft the organization version of firrma. mr. chairman, over the past year my staff and i have seen dozens of versions of firrma, both interduesed versions and redline edits from various offices and stakeholders. for months we have fought for he strongest cfius reform bill possible. today we reach a milestone where committee action is imminent. and congress -- co

mr. dean martin. 101 today. >> ♪ i'll hold your hand >> announcer: this is ktvu mornings on 2. >> good morning. thank you for joining us here on mornings on 2. thursday morning, june 7. transit -- i'm dave clark>> i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. a look at our kohler weather. >> -- cooler weather. >> not a lot. nothing we can't handle or haven't seen. once you're in that pedal does pattern to its tough to break it down. cool to nice. inland areas should be about near 80 for some. they will be hard-pressed. this is a very cool pattern. there will be a little warm up on friday. the temperature trend sunday, saturday has been down. warmer. saturday, real cool. we see a little bump up on sunday. temperatures, san francisco 52, 52. record is 85. 1979. mostly sunny for napa. about along the cool side coming 46 for a low. that's pretty chilly. 75. that's not the airport. that in town. that's still pretty cool with upper 70s. low clouds in place. i don't think they're going to budge too much. onshore wind has no problem. kicking up. that's already in place. you can see some of that great getting up and down the coast and pulling in. more so than yesterday at this time. 40s and 50s on your term

the business secretary greg clark says companies like airbus should be listened to with respect on brexit. mrbut if we win four more games, we've won the world cup! four goal is to tell you about from this afternoon's games already, as well as england. the egyptian goalkeeper i mentioned in the last hour, the oldest man to play at the world cup, has also saved a penalty. thanks tim, and ben has all the weather, and it's a scorcher in many parts of the uk. 29.4 degrees in london, it is the warmest day of the year so far. this heatwave is going to last throughout the week, in fact throughout the rest ofjune. more on that plus some impressive footage of a dust devil in halfan impressive footage of a dust devil in half an hour. it's very impressive, i've seen it. also coming up... changing its tune, the uk's official music chart will now take into account videos downloaded or streamed online. hello everyone, this is afternoon live, i'm ben brown. supporters say it's vital for the economy, opponents say it's a threat to the planet, today mp5 will vote on whether or not to build a third runway at h

mr. masterson, i think you need to know this, i worked very closely with the election officials. in fact, i think it's true everybody should volunteer. i volunteered in clark county when i was assistant county manager, but know this, i want to convey the election officials in nevada have told my office that dhs has been great to work with. extremely helpful, generous with your services and knowledge, so thank you for that. i really appreciate it. one of the things they told me, however, and i'm curious if you're hearing this and if this is true. it's not a negative thing. it's that there's too much information. that they don't have the bandwidth to process the daily dhs updates and have difficulty figuring out what pieces of information are relevant for them and establishing priorities among the information overload. are you hearing the same thing? >> thank you, senator, for the question. i think this may go to chairman blunt's question, as well. we have heard some of that, and part of what we're trying to tackle, you know, as you establish a new sector, this is a new flow of information to election officials, is finding that balance about what is the righ

after-tax clarks mr. president. so think about this. you're making $150,000, b insurance with deductible and co-pay, pharmaceutical costed, et cetera is about $50,000 before your insurance kicks in. "the washington post" thought i was exaggerating. they went down and interviewed somebody in louisiana. oh, he's right. it really could cost you about $50,000. the high cost of drugs impacts the medicare trust fund, it impacts the trust fund. if you look at state budget after state budget struggling to make ends meet, a major expense which has grown over time is medicaid. and state dozen all sorts of machinations nard'd no -- in order to decrease the state's cost of the program. dose spiel all the tricks that state did, still medicaid gobbles up in order and more of -- gobbles up more and more of a state's budget. one of the reasons why college tuitions have risen so much and along with it the amount of money that college students have to borrow to get through state universities is that the amount of state general fund dollars going for stat