mr. cummings. mr. cummings: the last time you were here to discuss the postal issues in may of 2016, you testified tonight "the postal -- you testified "the postal system continues to deteriorate." decline volume, mail and growing expenses. what trends have you observed in postal services and the financial condition over the last eight months? has that deterioration continued? >> rehab observed the continued same decline that we saw before, the same types of losses about the same nonpayment of pre-funding, continuing in the difficulty to generate the kind of revenue in order to support the expenses. mr. cummings: let's go through financial figures for fiscal year 2016, chris brennan. the end -- chris brennan. at the end of fiscal year 2016, the postal service reported 610 area dollars in controllable income compared to $1.2 billion in controllable income at the end of fiscal year 2015, is that right? postmaster: that is correct. mr. cummings: it includes retiree health benefits, pre-funding, pension lia

mr. cummings: i'm very, very pleased to yield to mr. beyer, the maker of the amendment, i yield to him, madam chair lady. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for five minutes. mr. beyer: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, mr. chair. madam speaker, my amendment today is meant to address only one of several very troublesome provisions in the bill. as my colleagues have pointed out, the scrub act is a radical approach to deregulation. prioritize cost savings through repeal of rules without considering their public benefit. it would also prevent agencies from making any new rules, even in the case of an imminent threat to public health or safety, unless the cost is offset by repealing the existing rule. we have heard often on this floor, my republican friends rail against regulations promulgated by faceless bureaucrats. well, this bill seeks to accomplish all of this through the work of an un-elected commission, faceless, with virtually unlimited subpoena authority and jurisdiction over every existing regulation. this bod

mr. cummings and the relentless leadership of mr. connolly and mr. meadows, who have really avoided the land mines during this whole process. i think as well we have been helped enormously by ms. lawrence on our side and mr. ross who a long time ago got into this battle. there are a bunch of others. we've have been in the trenches it's been like mud wrestling at times but we have come out of this in good shape. based on the stakeholders' testimony this morning. i don't want to leave anyone out here. i know that our president of the letter carrier this year. behind him jim sauber and corey keller have been helpful to us during negotiations. with the rural letter carriers, jeannette dwyer and paul schwartz have been terrific. the apwu that's my mother's union and my sister's union. i have 17 members of my extended family that are letter carriers or postal clerks. this is important for me to be able to go home. mark and jennifer warburton, terrific with us. great job. mail handlers, presidents with the labor international and mail handling union have be

mr. cummings's chairman said today it is not within your committee's purview. then the chairman of your committee said that all of these conversations between mr. flynn and the president are probably covered under executive privilege anyway. to questions. why do you think at least right now republican leaders do not want to investigate and what is the biggest unanswered question you have right now? reince i don't know why they don't want to investigate. i don't know why. let me say something will stop i agree with ranking membership. it is fine for the intelligence committee in the house and senate to look at this. one of my concerns has always been having headed up the select committee on benghazi, we saw what happened. it got into a partisan problem. big problems. so our position was, my position was, it is fine for them to do that. what we need to have is this commission sort of based on the 9/11 commission so they can figure out exactly what happened. congressman, but reputable citizens just like the 9/11 commission. find out what happened. i think that is t

mr. cummings. >> based on mr. ross's last question. i have not seen unions work so hard to try to come up with solutions anywhere than the postal union and we could not have done this -- i'm sure everyone would agree without the unions when i thank you because it's difficult. you have to balance the needs of your members and at the same time and calls for phenomenal leadership and i want to thank you all of you for what you done. i want to reiterate that. >> the gentleman with the stylish glasses. >> i notice that the ranking member took some of my time. they restarted. >> the chairman is always fair with his time. >> all right. >> we're glad that gentleman could get out of bed come to this hearings. >> the postal service to deliver mail to every american in the u.s. six days a week. currently the postal service delivers to nearly 154 million address which is a staggering number. mrs. brennan, the postal service has to have enough personnel and a large enough network to serve this number of addresses. doesn't it? >> that's correct. we

mr. cummings as chairman said today if not within your committee review, then the chairman of your committee said that all these conversations between mr. flynn and the president are probably covered under executive privilege anyway, so there's nothing to know. so two questions. why do you think at least right now republican leaders don't want to investigate, and what's the biggest unanswered question you have right now? >> i don't know why they don't want to investigate. i don't know why. let me tell you something. i agree with ranking member shift. it's fine for the intelligence committee in the house and in the senate to look at this. one of my concerns has always been having headed up the select committee, and he was on the committee on benghazi. we saw what happened there and cut into a partisan problem, big problem. and so our position was, my position was its fight for them to do that, the intelligence committees, but we need to have this commission sort of based on, 9/11 commission, so they can figure exactly what happened. no senators, no congressman on the commission but reparable

mr. chairman, ranking member cummings, members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify today. the ig community sincerely appreciate this committee is steadfast support over the years. years. and thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member cummings, congressman meadows for your sponsorship at the landmark ig empowering act, and for the committees unyielding work in making sure that past. congress could not have spoken louder or clear about its bipartisan support for giving igs the tools we need to do are important oversight work. ig

mr. cummings said today that it is not in your committee's purview, then the chairman of your committee said all of these conversations between mr. flynn and the president are probably covered under executive privilege anyway, so there's probably nothing to know. why do you think republican leaders do not want to investigate? and itt is the biggest is a question you have right now? >> i do not know why they do not want to investigate. let me just say something. it is fine for the intelligence committee in the house and senate to look at this. one of my concerns has always , having headed out the committee on and ghazi, we saw what happened there, got into a big artisan problem. -- my position was it was fine for them to do that, the intelligence committees, but we need to have this commission the 9/11 commission so they can figure out exactly what happened. no senators and no congressman on the commission, but reputable citizens like the 9/11 commission. find out what happened, give recommendations, and make sure it does not happen again. that is the best way to handle this as to why they wi

mr. cummings has also said. i think it's a very good idea. i think it's a very good idea. again, the public outcry toward the president's dangerous ban over the weekend was massive, and the president is clearly eager to shift attention away. you notice that every time something gets hot, he changes the subject. he is an illusionist. now you see it, now you don't. whenthe heat is turned up, people turning out at airports surprised him, he decided to move up his announcement of his supreme court justice from thursday to tuesday. so on tuesday night, the president announced judge gorsuch. he is far outside the mainstream of american judicial thought. in terms of women's rights and hobby lobby, the judge singled out women's health care discrimination and allowed employers to medical into women's reproductive health care decisions. as a judge and in private practice, he consistently sided with powerful corporate interests against consumers. if you care about clean air, clean water, food safety, safety of medicine, workers' rights, shareholders' rights, class action suits agains

mr. cummings has also said. i think it's a very good idea. i think it's a very good idea. again, the public outcry toward the president's dangerous ban over the weekend was massive and the president is clearly eager to shift attention away. you notice every time something gets hot he changes the subject. he changes the subject. he's an illusionist. if you -- now you see it, now you don't. so when the heat was turned up by turning -- people turning out at airports, he surprised it and decided to move up his announcement of supreme court justice from thursday to tuesday night. so the president announced judge gorsuch. he's far outside the mainstream of american judicial thought. in terms of women's rights and hobby lobby, the judge singled out women's health discrimination and enabled employers to meddle into their workers' most intimate reproductive health decisions. when it came to workers and consumers, as a judge and in private practice, he consistently sided with powerful corporate interests against consumers. if you care about clean air, clean water, food safety, safet

mr. cummings: let me begin by asking everyone in this room a very simple question. o you hear that? do you hear the silence? this is a sound of house republicans conducting no oversight of president trump? zero. that is what it sounds like when they abdy gate their duty under the -- abrogate their duty under the constitution. we have been asking for months for basic oversight. the president and his advisors and their ties to russia. our chairman, jason chaffetz, has not lifted one finger. he's not requested a single, solitary piece of paper. and think about where we're right now. general flynn flew to moscow to have a lavish dinner with president putin. and celebrate the kremlin-backed media outlet. according to our own u.s. intelligence officials, r.t. is, and i quote, the kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet, end of quote. flynn now admits he got paid for that trip. but he refuses to say how much he was paid. he may have violate the the constitution in the process. as a retired officer, he may not cept for emol new meant -- emoluments. the pentagon is investigating

mr. cummings, you know who he is. a couple weeks ago he was interviewed by a washington post editorial board, and at that meeting, he said that he is hatsidering legislation t requires anyone who has access to the nuclear codes be subject to a mental health examination. [cheers and applause] rep. pelosi: so we are like, ok. sign me on your bill. this might be an all-time first. mr. cummings wants to be on the bill. i do. it has not really developed. yesterday he said all candidates for president, all candidates should be subjected to them. but the fact is that these psychiatrists are sending around this letter saying you cannot officially issue a diagnosis unless you have examined the person, but by all appearances, there is a grandiosity, a narcissism, behavior that would reflect, without stigmatizing, but to say, should he have access to this nuclear codes? and they are asking us to set up a meeting with him so he can get a mental health examination. well, you know that is not going to happen. he is not going to sub

mr. chairman, ranking member cummings, thank you for inviting me to testify today. the community sincerely appreciates this remedies steadfast support over the years. thank you mr. chairman and ranking member cummings, congressman met those for your sponsorship of the empowerment act and for the committee's unyielding work in making sure that it got past. congress couldn't have spoken louder about the bipartisan support for giving the tools we need to do our input and oversight work. the representatives of taxpayers making sure the money is being used effectively and waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement are without. the independent are the foundation of the work allowing us to conduct objective oversight. that resulted in the community identifying approximately $26 billion in potential savin savings. and identifying or allowing agencies to receive or cover $10 million. compared to the communities aggregate budget of $2.7 billion, the recovery of the potential savings represent a 14-dollar return on every dollar invested by the congress. they also issued recommendati

mr. cummings said. i think it's a very good idea. i think it's a very good idea. again, the public outcry toward the president's dangerous ban over the weekend was massive and the president is clearly eager to shift attention away. every time something gets hot, he changes the subject. he is an illusionist. now you see it, now you don't. when people are turning out at airports, he decided to move up his announcement of his supreme court justice from thursday to tuesday. so on tuesday night, the president announced judge gorsuch. he is far outside the mainstream of american judicial thought. women's rights, and hobby lobby, he singled out women's rights for discrimination and allowed employers to medical into women's reproductive rights. the judge while in priflet practice, he consistently sided with powerful corporate interests against consumers. if you care about clean air, clean air, food safety, safety of medicine, workers' rights, share holders' rights, class action suits against fraud, if you care about the enforcement idea and rcement of children with disabi

mr. cummings. >> thank you. calling this hearing. let me say to all of the stafftors general and the here today, i want to thank you. talking, irman was thought it would be appropriate that i share with you a question over andcome to me, over and over again. is, when someon of these issues came up, people about the me inspectors general. they say, do you trust the inspectors general? and i say, yes. but the other question they ask well, if the inspectors general were replaced, how would you feel about that? all, the people who hold these positions are are independent. and if they felt that they could they wouldpendent, not take the positions. and so i would feel comfortable with our inspectors general -- and i want to thank you. words of the chairman. we trust you. believe in you. we thank you. we realize that so many of you be doing so many other jobs, probably making a lot more money. but you are doing the job that feeds your souls. and so we thank you. you do an extraordinary job. we in congress rely on you reasons.ly these the ti

mr. cummings is obviously very disturbed individual. >> reporter: the mosque believes authorities took thet seriously. dhs telling us today, "it was immediately referred to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for review." you can see the memorial where it happened, and cummings is facing first degree murder charges. >>> there is much more ahead on will the will the this thursday. police say a shooting plot foil. the mother who tipped them off. >>> also inside the hostage siege, and inmates armed and barrica barricaded. how authorities moved in. >>> new clashes tonight over the dakota access pipeline. more than 70 protesters arrested on private land after refusing to move. >>> and then that passenger plane detour bound for los angeles, diverted to a remote canadian island. we have new reporting tonight about what those passengers went through during those 14 hours in that frigid village. (roosevelt) i always thought that cigarette smoking just messed up your lungs. i never thought that at only 45 it would give me a heart attack. my tip is; do your heart a favor, and quit now. (announce

mr. cummings. >> to mr. cummings. >> i want to let mr. meadows know, when i asked you to yield, one thing i was going to say is before you got here, and i will share this with you many my opening statement, i talked about all the efforts that we have made in this committee with regard to the other breaches. i listed them one by one, all of the many we have done and i said it in a way that because president trump, said we suddenly got excited about the russian hacking. but i laid it out and, again, i will share my -- it was a courtesy to you, because i didn't want anybody to think that this is something new to us. we spent in a bipartisan way hours upon hours upon hours upon hours trying it deal with these and i give the credit to a lot of credit to the chairman. that's what i was trying to tell you. i didn't want you to be left with the impression we haven't been working on these hacks. every single time. >> will the gentleman yield? >> it is the gentlewoman's time. >> will the gentlewoman yield for a comment? a nice comment. >> yes, cert

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mr. chairman, ranking member cummings, members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify today. the ig community sincerely appreciate this committee is steadfast support over the years. years. and thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member cummings, congressman meadows for your sponsorship at the landmark ig empowering act, and for the committees unyielding work in making sure that past. congress could not have spoken louder or clear about its bipartisan support for giving igs the tools we need to do are important oversight work. igs other representatives of the taxpayers making sure the money is being used efficiently and effectively, and a waste, fraud, and abuse and mismanagement are rooted out. the independence of igs is the foundation of our work speed if we're going to leave this for a moment as secretary of state rex tillerson is being greeted by state department employees this morning. live coverage on c-span2. [applause] >> well, good morning all. we apologize for being late. it seemed that this years prayer breakfast, people felt

mr. cummings. >> thank you. i would like to call you for this hearing. it's important that we let federal employees know how important they are and we do everything in our power to provide them with the type of salaries and security they need. that is one of the things that would help to attract them and keep them. it's about the process needed to conduct background checks for federal employees for seeking very important security clearances so they can have access to the most guarded secrets. this couldn't come at a more perfect time. yesterday i sent a letter requesting the pentagon investigation of the president's national security adviser for the potentially serious violation of the united states constitution. i was joined by the ranking members of the committee in the judiciary, homeland security, foreign affairs. general flynn has admitted they received payment in december of 2015 voted by russia today that a state sponsored propaganda outlet. during that event, the general dined with russian president vladimir putin. as the letter explains, the dep

mr. cummings. you can read more about that on twitter and that the washington post. we are going to go to robert in san jose. caller: i wanted to give an example for the listeners how the media in this case it was monday atlitzer last 3:00 west coast time talking to adam schiff, the head of the democrat party on the intelligence committee. they started out with a question that says can you confirm that and then they go on with 40 seconds of rumors about donald trump and his relationships with the russians. adam schiff response. off a string of rumors. listeners have to be listening very closely to realize they were just being a five-minute segment on cnn slamming the president. it's absolutely awful. they are using the national media to spread anti-trump rumors. to reform opportunity the country and get it act on the right track and the democratic opposition should stop. they should start supporting getting trump. he needs staff to run an organization as big as the federal government. they are helping nobody. i think it's absolutely terrible that they think this is p

mr. cummings -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> president trump said he would provide healthcare for everyone anhealth care for everyoneand i. are you aware of how that is going to work, mr. chairman? i'm asking you. >> i'm not sure what he had in mind what anyone has in mind when they make statements that what i do know is what i just outlined in the false statements that were made when the affordable care act was presented. >> i reclaim my time. i just wanted to those of the general public with no of the president is talking about. let me take a few minutes to discuss what we can expect the health-care system to look like. he claimed that his replacement would provide healthcare that is far less expensive and are better but based on the action taken so far, the only thing it seems to be doing is creating chaos and leaving people uncertain about their healthca healthcare. he issued an executive order to deter and grant exemptions from the implementation of any provision of the act. the order is short on the concrete details but

mr. dicken: i have. you cummings: does it worry that there is no copy visible -- no comprehensible plan in place? mr. dicken: we need to understand the roles that will be working. in addition to creating uncertainty among consumers, it appears that the trump administration is taking steps to actively prevent people from enrolling in coverage, according to a recent politico article. the trump administration canceled tv advertisements for open enrollment that had already been placed and paid for, even though the last day to enroll wasn't until today. mr. robinson, that's ms. robinson, your central mission integrity."ct the this --and to look into do you plan to look into this issue? by the way, i was in my district on monday telling my constituents to enroll. ms. robinson: thank you for the question. i don't have that detail. rep. cummings: even if the money that has been written on the ads that never. is somehow recovered it is concerning that the trump administration would intensely sabotage that's intentionally sabo

mr. cummings, and we set a very candid, very direct letter to the white house and to the office of government ethics. they need to investigate it what kellyanne conway was wrong, it should never happen again and there should be some accountability there, absolutely. >> kellyanne has been counseled and that's all we're going to go with. she's been counseled on that subject and that's -- that's it. >> reporter: conway not commenting further other than to point to the president's support. >> he supports me 100%. in fact, it was a very heartening moment. all i can say to america's women is at some point in your life you ought to have a boss who treated me the way that the president of the united states treat med today. >> that's halle jackson reporting. now, b.a.r.t. could soon become a sanctuary transit agency. that means similar to sanctuary cities like san francisco, b.a.r.t. would limit collaboration between b.a.r.t. police and the immigrations and customs enforcement. that's i.c.e. b.a.r.t. board member latifa simon saying regardless of their immigration status riders should have the securit

mr. cummings and calling for the investigation, i suppose to many critics, it's weak tea, but i thought that significant. i also thought one of the things that happened that we didn't comment on in your montage there at the beginning. what the president's tweet attacking john mccain. mccain said something that annoyed trump and mccain annoys all presidents with, that's why he's a charming guy. trump instead of brushing it off, attacks mccain viciously in a tweet. he's giving comfort to our enemies by mentioning at this raid in yemen seems to not have gone as well as was hoped. john mccain is one of 52 republican senators. he's an important one of the 52. they only have 52. it takes 50 to get legislation passed. trump's behaving as if he has, you know, 25 vote margin in the senate, those guys are automatically going to go along with everything he wants. they're going to defend him when he's attacked, or he doesn't need them. you do need them if you're president of the united states. at some point, you need to pass legislation. i think he's at great risk of losing the sort of bending over back

mr. cummings, for an opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i really appreciate your indulgence. i want to thank chairman meadows and ranking member connelly for this hearing today. whistleblower protections are built on the foundation of our civil service system and its due process protections. i look forward to the testimony today on how we can continue to strengthen whistleblower laws to ensure that all federal employees who blow the whistle are protected. the topic of today's hearing is the whistleblower protection enhancement act of 2012 and it could not be a more timely subject. i was an original co-sponsor of this bill which significantly expanded the protections available to government workers who risked their jobs to disclose wrongdoing, and we have had a number of them to come before us over my 21 years in this committee. unfortunately, it appears that the trump administration in its first week has already violated the whistleblower protection enhancement act. just last week, only days after president trump's inauguration, we learned

mr. cummings and then we'll go -- >> can does the gentleman yield? i'm next. >> yeah. >> president trump has said he's going to provide health care for and everyone it will be cheaper. can you tell bus that plan so that we can -- so the american people will be aware -- are you aware of it, how that's going to work? chairman -- >> i thought you were asking our -- >> i'm asking you. >> i'm not sure what mr. trump had in mind. i don't know what you have in mind when you make statements and i don't know what everyone else has in mind. but what i do know is what i just youpt lined. the false statements that were made when the affordable care act was made to the american people -- >> you're not answering the question. i reclaim my time. thank you. i just wanted to know so the general public would know what the president's talking about. i'd like to take a few minutes to discuss what we can expect our health care system to look like under the trump administration. president trump has claimed his replacement to the aca would provide, and i quote, "health car

mr. nunez are men of integrity and run the committee appropriately area of i am sorry you don't -- run the committee appropriately. rep. cummingsyou are putting words in my mouth. that is not accurate. i am not questioning the integrity of mr. nunez or mr. schiff. what i am saying is what the gentleman said, that we want a report. when people look at the report and they see somebody on the transition team for mr. trump, then it becomes questionable. all i am saying is to the world -- that's why we file the bill that we filed, and that is why we are asking for more like an independent investigation. rep. chaffetz: last point, we have gone way past the time here. and i ask this rhetorically. do the democrats truly want this committee to do an investigation of the dnc and the dccc? rep. cummings: yes, we do. rep. lynch: a lot of these emails our public. we link to them. -- leaked them. rep. chaffetz: let's recognize the gentleman from north carolina. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we will refocus on the focus of this hearing. i wish we will have as much passion that is concerned about the well-being of the 22,000 people that got hack

i now recognize ranking member cummings. >> mr. dahl, and thank you for being here. mr. doll, you raise two issues that really caused me to pay super attention when you raise the issue of out the job corps. without getting into any confidential information that you can't disclose, some point i would really like to talk you about that because that is a serious problem. you may not know it but i had a nephew who was brutally killed about five years ago, shot to death in norfolk. and i would just like to talk to you about the job corps, because i'd like to know that young people that are going into the job corps are going to be safe. the other thing is drugs. five years now, bernie sanders and i and others have been working on the high price of drugs and the fraud schemes that i didn't know you all got into that kind of stuff. but i really would like to follow up on that. mr. roth, we understand that the number of inspector general received phone calls from patrol official on friday january 13, 2017. some director with them while others receive voicemails. but the message w

mr. cummings is obviously a very disturbed individual. >> the mosque believes authorities took the threatediately referred to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for review. and you can see the growing memorial here where the shooting happened. cummings is now facing first degree murder charges. he will have his first court appearance friday. clayton sandell, abc news, denver. >> mexican drug lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman is heading to court in new york this morning. guzman was initially set to appear by video but his lawyers argued that his absence would make it look as if he's too dangerous to be brought to the courtroom. guzman charged with running a massive drug tracking operation and has repeatedly escaped from mexican prisons. he was turned over to u.s. authorities after they agreed not to seek the death penalty. >>> and we are just to days away, of course from, super bowl sunday. we're hearing very little about lady gaga's plans for a halftime show. >> yeah. so the six-time grammy award winner spoke to the media during super bowl week about her show prep and what we can look

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mrs. ida r. cummings was one of the first african-american female kindergarten teachers here in the city of baltimore, also with the cummings family instrumental with filan slop ing efforts to -- philanthropic efforts to the university. frank k. trigg down in lynchburg, virginia, he has an extraordinary history being born a sleeve and his family being enslaved to the governor of virginia. then he goes off to hampton institute, where he's a classmate of booker t. washington and then joins the faculty at the lynchburg campus and assumes the principalship there before becoming the college president of the bennett college. morgan continues to produce noted alumni even to the current. earl graves, the earl graves school of business is named in honor of was significant. a noted 1958 graduate in the graduating class of the exercises dr. martin luther king, jr. delivered the excerpts from the "i have a dream speech and mr. graves is the founder and publisher of the black enterprise magazine. judge robert bell gra