mr. rodney davis of illinois. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 790, the gentleman from illinois, mr. rodney davis, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of my bipartisan amendment to h.r. 1230, the protecting older workers against discrimination act. i'd like to thank my friend on both sides of the aisle for their co-sponsorship of my amendment, including representative shelly pingree, elise stefanik, haley stevens, jennifer gonzalez-colon, marcy ptur, betty mccollum, mark desaulnier, will lurd, and mike bost. i thank chairman scott for his support for this amendment. i was proud to co-sponsor this bill which provide an important fix caused by the 2009 grs vs. f.b.l. financial services supreme court decision. this bill will ensure older workers can seek the justice they deserve when they face age discrimination in a workplace on a level playing field. my amendment highlights the discriminati

while russia supports hafter moscow has denied reports that it sent mr davies to reinforce the general's fighters but on thursday turkey confirmed it had started deploying troops to help our surrounds in tripoli despite a un arms embargo. with libya so unstable the fear of resurgent islamist terror has worried many european countries but other factors also mean the e.u. is split over its alliances officially the tripoli based government has the backing of europe including germany that italian prime minister just separate contests met general half earlier this month rome sees him as crucial in stemming the flow of migrants across the mediterranean and france's concerns over terrorism as well as its interests in libya's oil wealth has put it odds with the e.u.'s official line there are claims it has given covert military help to general haftar earlier this week peace talks in moscow broke down despite the many interests at stake and the players involved germany remains determined to pursue its mediation role but even if a ceasefire is agreed the road to peace looks like a very long one. wh

mr. davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks? a number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. i don't know if you have any response. >> we will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. as i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k-5. that was a mistake. however, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. we ask for it all of the t

mrs. davis is a citizen of south exas whose life has been characterized by a servant dedicated to work hard. ii, she drove r which havettes into airplane wings. and today at 100 years old she supporting the students at galvan elementary christi, texas,s where she's known as granny davis. teachers she helps with clerical work. she worked as a foster years, rent for 25 mentoring young people and pouring into them some of the ost formative years of their lives. mrs. davis loves caring for young people and shows it by her time and of energy into the children of corpus christi. it's difficult to imagine the impact ms. conster davis had in living the life of that continues today to impact generation after generation. people of the e 27th congressional district of texas, i'm proud to honor her service. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the from florida, mr. rutherford, for five minutes. rutherford: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the me

turn to ouro ranking member, mr. davis, to introduce our next panelist. ranking member davis: mr.n r palmer, thank you for your service in the jag core. s. jag corp the cocounsel of our committee corps, joining the jag leaving this committee next week, so thank you for what you have done here and thank you for your service. i am proud to announce our last witness, my home election official, county clerk and recorder in christian county, .llinois, he was in the private sector and was our supervisor of assessments, not the most fun job in the county courthouse to do with property tax assessments, but he did a great job. mike is here because i believe his testimony is going to provide an interesting perspective, given his experience as a local county official who has administered elections. i have known mike almost my entire life, from playing youth sports in the same hometown, to graduating high school together and working together, as he was a fixture at the courthouse when i was working in illinois. , butand i are good friends mike is a democrat. i am a republican. ,nd i know that

mr. davis: please to yield time we call sus garcia and him we call him chuy in chicago. but everybody knows him that way. mr. garcia: thank you, congressman davis. i'm delighted to be on the floor this afternoon and to join you in honoring the life and the memory and the legacy of richard barnett. richard was a neighbor of the chicago's longdale community and lived a few blocks from my house and worked as a postal service employee prior to his retirement in 1982. he was very devoted to his wife and his children and was involved in his local community and in the schools, parks and churches and every aspect of civic life as a good community resident. but richard was also a mentor to me. in my earliest days as candidate for political office. from the early 1980's when i first stepped up, i first learned how to organize in communities of color so they could become politically empowered at the local, state and federal level. he helped enrich my understanding of the voting rights act and how the federal law could help chicago's latino communities in the early 1980's elect peopl

doesn't mean that it's a successful as it has recently but you're you're right that might have that mr davis but doesn't mean that they're capable of making them get to places all right but they're there they're trying to offer a different scenario i've recently talked to a to a pretty i think influential foreign policy expert from russia who said the war in syria for us was a successful startup but as every start up can be considered a cynical statement about if you look if you look at was one of the consequences but whoever he said it was it was a successful start a bit like every start of you need to have an exit you need to sell it and we haven't actually found a way to sell the start of successfully so they are trying they're trying to keep the political process ongoing also to gain international legitimacy and at the same time during this time. i'm to have bought try to find a military solution but i think the russians are honest about something they know that just conquering every bit of syrian territory with the bashar assad is not enough they need to find a political solution and th

mr. davies recommended that you leave. thousands of astray the ins have been forced to decide stay and defend their homes or leave and lose everything i want to mine i started to think it's property and i didn't study it back or i did and was. swarmed so sorry. let's go. this is what many will return to over a 1000 homes have been destroyed in recent days. the by animals of the silent victims burned in their paddocks and on the roadside. experts say over half a 1000000000 animals have been killed those that have survived a burnt down to their skins. now the army reserve has been called up to help the relief efforts. this is the largest single call out of the defense force reservists working together with defense forces to provide a support which this country has never seen before the prime minister is fighting political fires after being criticized for his handling of the crisis. more scorching days are full cost the only thing that can stop the blazes is rain and no serious showers are expected for weeks. when israel has

then if you are bored at being against mr davis then rebuild be completely excluded from the confusion in the bodyboarding game all of the muslim community every larkham that you know how do you do usually exclude and when there is a member that see it coming we are being called to do it in the excluded we are some sulking but not for a longer know you are an old indian what it is certainly does not apply to them and i think that the lot of course you would walk again i think that you'd have to say you know a lot of you know i did i mean you know. why do people don't you know what is the law do you know you doesn't it sometimes i would. not be an american i'm going to have the good shepherd does it doesn't represent a threat if i do i didn't i should i shut and aside complicate the consequence color casing is that see this ca it doesn't apply to you you saying it doesn't apply to you you're not a 4 refugee it doesn't apply to me i pay you just one more thing because obviously we are not going to come to agreement in this conversation that's not going to have a but i want to share with

mr. davies, i see my good buddy mr. kogan went ahead and took care more -- recommendation for more time for question the witnesses. good job. where to go. that was a little slide, buddy. no,, actually i think it is a great recommendation, for communities the size, and for the committee i am the ranking member of, and which ms. law frontiers, the house administration committee, five minutes of questioning is not enough for us to do not only proper questioning of witnesses but proper questioning of witnesses during a hearing but proper oversight and, i can't get the questions asked for each of the agencies that we have. but i will tell you, this lebron and i work together to do second and third round of questions so a lot of the stuff can be easily solved at the committee level. if you had a cooperatives chair who i would ask for extra time, but he would not give it to me, right? if i ask for unanimous consent, my colleagues with all objects. i guarantee it. so i'm also the ranking member of the largest subcommittee in co

i now recognize our ranking member mr. davis for any opening statement he may wish to make. >> thank you, madam chair. especially also thank you for holding this necessary and long-overdue hearing that i've been looking forward to since the beginning of this congress. and i want to thank our witnesses for being here today to discuss the important issues regarding elections and election security and elections administration. my agenda since becoming the ranking member of this committee has been and continues to be focused on nonpartisan and effective oversight of our nation's elections. which are maintained by the states, not the federal government. but that does not mean that this committee and the house itself does not have an important oversight role to play in securing elections. our witnesses here today have state, county, and local jurisdictions as clients. who know their electorate best. we also have witnesses who have experience with running those elections. but we know that threats from foreign actors to our nation's ele

think you'll mind mr death repeatedly uses the word we we hear of the opinion that and i often say mr davis or rather albert who is this we today your party the farmers union or the dairy collective you're chairman of this what is this weed becomes blurred when he says we are of the opinion that that is when i notice how his position isn't clear and how important it is for a parliamentarian to remind themselves of their juicy to the public when not here to get the best deal on behalf of a dairy company he might not be mandated to ensure that the pharmacy received direct payments with a minimum of conditions to feel what i am here for is to conduct agricultural policy for the entire population. of me back in our offices in cologne considering the industry interests present in the committees can the parliament still make balanced decisions. in the us if we place the 3 sheets on top of each other we will get a picture of how the system works. the full picture shows the web of connections between the key corporations lobby groups and politicians. their representatives sit on the same committees

mrs. davis: thank you. mr. speaker, i voted against the 2002 aumf.n coming to that very difficult decision, i learned an posh lesson. that -- important lesson, that we must ask every administration that seeks to use military force , how will it manage the consequencesists actions, even -- consequences of its actions, even if those actions can be justified? has this administration done that? unfortunately i think the answer is no. i will vote for this resolution today for the same reasons i had then. no overall strategy, no justification, and nobody in this administration can answer how, how it will respond to the aftermath. by virtue of the power and the responsibility granted to us by the constitution, we must ask those questions. let's take this opportunity to make diplomacy work. let's stand together as a congress to establish our authority. let's stand together and vote against a new war without an end game. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you,

mr. davis talking about hr one, quick question along those lines my question is you are experts in this industry and i applaud you for the testimony that you've given today as we look into the future, all three of you i want you to touch base on this where did you see the technology of the systems headed five, ten, 15, 20 years down the road because obviously the ranking member on the other committees when it comes to intelligence and specifically as technology advances -- >> unlike other industries, the direction seems to be more and that wasn't the case years ago and now they have moved that way which is interesting from a technology perspective of today i feel like it will continue to evolve a look at it in three ways. the standards on the security and how the technology comes to be in terms of manufacturing supply-chain further programs and continued work at the federal and state level in terms of better eliminating barriers in modernizing the infrastructure from a technical capability pers

. >> mr. davis. >> thank you mr. chair. i see my good buddy spokane.ctually i think it is a great recommendation. for committee this size and for the committee that i am the ranking member on and this -- i can't get the questions asked for each of the agency we have. i like that. but, i will tell you we work together to do second and third rounds questions. a lot of these stuff can desobe solved at the committee level. i am also a ranking member on the large subcommittee in congress. we have 59 members. now, you use the intelligence committee during the impeachment process is an example of what to do. i don't know if that'll be a good idea like ours. the members did not get asked many questions. they were still pushing to the top. you got a committee of 59 members and by the time we get down to the end, we are asking the same question again, not because they want the committee to hear the answers, they want to post something on social media. that's a problem, too. that's something to think about. thank you for your recommendation. dr. hudak. i am glad

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mr. davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks? a number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. i don't know if you have any response. >> we will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. as i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k-5. that was a mistake. however, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. we ask for it all of the time and we get it when we ask for it from other petitioners and so do other districts in the bay area. as far as the enrollment at the school, i will just say this. the number of 85 that i mentioned last night in the curriculum committee is 85 in district, ada, and it comes from one purpose's prop 39 request for next year. they say they project 85.46 for this year, and are projecting 102 for next year. perhaps the difference is enrollment versus ada, but i don't think they would havena low of a percentage of ada to enrollment or maybe it is the

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize ms. xena graduate of cent native of s 2022 and illinois. xena was selected in 2017 from a 18,000 more than applicants as some of the brightest and most skilled minds country. the past two years of training and her graduation from earned her the title of astronaut, and she's space flight.or as a new grad, xena will support asa's current missions, such the work aboard the international space station, the theercial crew program, and program -- artimice program of setting the goal of sending americans back to the 2024.y i'm proud to recognize xena as ne of the brightest space minds. a well-deserved congratulations, xena. congrats on your graduation and do.k you for all you do. today to r, i rise recognize frank mitchell, a native of springfield, illinois, african-american house of representatives page reconstruction. faison's high school, he was asked to for view for a page congressman finley. when ifsh smith called -- irv called t

mr. davis: mr. speaker, in honor appreciation ment day, i rise today to recognize the united of states capitol police force for their heroic actions to save as part of their highly trained and committed service throughout 2019. when they heard the radio call about an unresponsive individual respondedtwo officers and ultimately saved the life of a man who had suffered a heart attack. they helped get that person to a hospital after a shooting. three officers saved the life of shockingly had a heart attack during his visit to this building. these are only a few occasions in an impressive list of heroic actions. we owe our gratitude to all of the officers of the united states capitol police force for they do here. thank you. thank you, all, for going the only to protect and defend us here in the congressional community but for our ou do in all of communities. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the yields back. 779suant to house resolution and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of

psi mr. davis: though i wear different colors, black and gold, i'm still proud to call him my brother. brother hubert, may you rest in peace. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> the united states has adopted an aggressive, proactive approach of gathering intelligence on our enemies and removing those individuals who seek to cause us harm in order to save american lives. president trump did just that. on january 3, our military, acting under the direction of our commander in chief, can killed iranian general soleimani to protect the lives of americans and end his reign of terror in the middle east. the actions of our president and military damaged iran's ability to tsao unrest in the middle east and we have no doubt saved countless lives by removing a terr

mr. davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks? a number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. i don't know if you have any response. >> we will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. as i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k-5. that was a mistake. however, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. we ask for it all of the time and we get it when we ask for it from other petitioners and so do other districts in the bay area. as far as the enrollment at the school, i will just say this. the number of 85 that i mentioned last night in the curriculum committee is 85 in district, ada, and it comes from one purpose's prop 39 request for next year. they say they project 85.46 for this year, and are projecting 102 for next year. perhaps the difference is enrollment versus ada, but i don't think they would havena low of a percentage of ada to enrollment or maybe it is the

speaker, i yiel twminutes to the gentlewan california, mrs. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is minutes.d for two mrs. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, when colles make recruit students, we expect that those promise is to be met. yet, time after time, we see colleges clothing our losing ccreditation, leaving their students with worthless degrees. here are currently 240,000 defrauded students waiting for loan relief, and over 40,000 of these students are from my home of california. these defrauded student needlessly ave been waiting, many for over a year, to obtain the student loan relief, and the most inexcusable part of this situation is that he department of education, during all this time, could have brought relief to these students borrower's iginal defense rule. but instead, this administration an decided to create entirely worthless rule that does almost nothing to help bore otherest, and -- and it provides help institutions. his recent rule is sending a message, message to the american public that any

mr. mcwilliams or dr. davis, can you explain the aspects of climate change that are driving this increased risk? i would start with mr mcwilliams, if i could. >> yes. again, not a climate scientist but spent much of my career in this area. the science behind climate change has been around for 100 years. we essentially have a one-way mirror that as co2 is put into the atmosphere. wavelengths change. as it's reflected in, it comes back down to earth. that's causing heating, thermal expansion of >> water, intensifying storms and other weather effects. so and, obviously, wildfires. so that's the essential effect. and i also do not mean in any way to i think putting opposition between climate change and forest management is a false dichotomy. we obviously need both to solve these problems and the low-hanging fruit in some ways is forest management practices because that's the fuel. we have to look at the conditions over time across the country and other place in the world that are creating more fuel and making, exace

to or where mr lucy davis you were 16 years old when you spent your 1st night as a rough sleeper.tell us about go back to that night and what you felt a sense of. everything that i knew coming crashing around me sense of sheer panic complete disorientation. can be unknown or my anchor point points something we learned about the nexus course was suddenly just completely torn away. so sense of hopelessness feeling lost betrayed and completely uncertain as to what's going to happen to me now so simple for happen to you then all i saw is his 1st round very sort of friends i knew from cannot know for certain. place to place staying from place to place on floors of wherever people would have me and then i end up living in a van on the side at the age 27 by lance in college. and then from there kind of built my life back up into up until about so free 4 years ago when i found myself homeless again and oversample well my most recent stint was stone pillow was last year i worked very hard in the question and industry candles by. then i had some difficulties with family and some mental heal

mrs. davis: thank you. mr. speaker, i voted against the 2002 aumf.n coming to that very difficult decision, i learned an posh lesson. that -- important lesson, that we must ask every administration that seeks to use military force , how will it manage the consequencesists actions, even -- consequences of its actions, even if those actions can be justified? has this administration done that? unfortunately i think the answer is no. i will vote for this resolution today for the same reasons i had then. no overall strategy, no justification, and nobody in this administration can answer how, how it will respond to the aftermath. by virtue of the power and the responsibility granted to us by the constitution, we must ask those questions. let's take this opportunity to make diplomacy work. let's stand together as a congress to establish our authority. let's stand together and vote against a new war without an end game. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you,

. >> mr. davis. >> thank you mr. chair. buddy took the time. i think it's a great recommendation. for committees this size and for the committee that on the ranking member on and miss lofgren shares, the house administration committee. five minutes of questioning is not enough for us to do not only proper questioning of witnesses, during hearing, but proper oversight. i can't get the questions asked for each of the agencies we have. i like that. i will tell you, miss lofgren and i worked together to do second and third rounds of questions. a lot of this can be easily solved at the committee level. if you have a cooperative chair who i would ask for extra time but he wouldn't give it to me today. >> i would. [laughter] >> if i asked for unanimous consent of my colleagues would all object i guarantee you. but i'm also the ranking member of the largest subcommittee and congress. we have 59 members. use the intelligence committee during the impeachment process is kind of an example of what to do, i don't necessarily know if that would be a good idea on a committee like ours because th

mr. davies is saying there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus across the u.k.gs escalating quickly and china. there were concerns of cases in stock -- in scotland and the u.k. is saying there are no confirmed cases. tom: it is a very interesting story, and i'm trying to get my time straight. we are 6:00 p.m. in asia roughly so they are moving into the night and saturday. on a friday in davos, it is a look back. continue, a very important panel this morning on central banking and on treasury as well. what i like about this panel, it is a mixture of bankers and finance officials together and it led to a spirited conversation about the mystery. we can summarize that and do better than five or six people talking to singularly talk to the gentleman, angel gurria. secretary-general, -- he is the secretary-general of the oecd. with lawrence boone and the other analysts, he can synthesize a lot for us. he took his sunglasses off so we can do tv. i wore my sunglasses once on tv and said, do not ever do that again. qere is qed, boom or bust -- , boom or bust. to research

mr. davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks? a number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. i don't know if you have any response. >> we will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. as i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k-5. that was a mistake. however, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. we ask for it all of the time and we get it when we ask for it from other petitioners and so do other districts in the bay area. as far as the enrollment at the school, i will just say this. the number of 85 that i mentioned last night in the curriculum committee is 85 in district, ada, and it comes from one purpose's prop 39 request for next year. they say they project 85.46 for this year, and are projecting 102 for next year. perhaps the difference is enrollment versus ada, but i don't think they would havena low of a percentage of ada to enrollment or maybe it is the

. >> the last thing you brought up and you can't really answer this necessarily, but maybe mr. davis can. the fact you enroll at fifth grade. our schools are k-5. students that enter at the fifth grade that naturally that would have an impact on our schools. how many end up leaving to enter kipp ate fifth grade? >> yes, we have numbers. i don't have those tonight but in looking at the overall enrollment projections we can show the effect of students from fourth grade to fifth grade as continuing at fifth grade in the district schools. >> do you know any schools that have been harmed by the reduction in students at their sites? >> i don't know any to name at this point without looking at the data. >> thank you. >> commissioner lamb. >> a couple questions. first the governance of the kip area board of directors and how the school sight councils i understand that is at the site level i am particularly curious about understanding how do the school councils inform or development policies for the organization. the second question is around at temperature dance an-- attendant retention, kno

. >> we now move to the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis. >> thank you very much management. want to commend you rep. for the roles of both of you played in causing this hearing to take place and i want to thank the chairman or calling this in all of the witnesses who are participating with us today. there are seriously believed, that you can measure the greatness of a society by how will it treat its old and how well it treats its young, and i will increase those who have difficulty. caring for themselves. we've heard a great deal about the personal sacrifices of individuals like ms. brown and ( for her mother but you know unfortunately, many people are unprepared to become the caregiver that we need due to their own circumstances or the inability to have resources. >> we break away from this committee hearing on caring for aging americans. going to take you live to the floor of the senate for a brief pro bono session and will return to the series momentarily. this is live coverage on "c-span2". [background sounds] the senate will come to order. we will read it communication

. >> the last thing you brought up and you can't really answer this necessarily, but maybe mr. davis can. the fact you enroll at fifth grade. our schools are k-5. students that enter at the fifth grade that naturally that would have an impact on our schools. how many end up leaving to enter kipp ate fifth grade? >> yes, we have numbers. i don't have those tonight but in looking at the overall enrollment projections we can show the effect of students from fourth grade to fifth grade as continuing at fifth grade in the district schools. >> do you know any schools that have been harmed by the reduction in students at their sites? >> i don't know any to name at this point without looking at the data. >> thank you. >> commissioner lamb. >> a couple questions. first the governance of the kip area board of directors and how the school sight councils i understand that is at the site level i am particularly curious about understanding how do the school councils inform or development policies for the organization. the second question is around at temperature dance an-- attendant retention, kno

mr. davis: off the air earl and doris and their family worked hard running their small business in raymond. i knew earl and doris for over 25 years. they are some of the most generous people i have ever met. giving back in every way to their community. not only with their financial contributions, but with their time and talents as well. there is nothing that made them happyier than their hometown of raymond, illinois. except maybe the st. louis cardinals. earl and doris were very well loved by me and by everyone in central illinois. they are missed immensely. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. engel: pursuant to house call up h.r. , i 550, with the senate amendment a motion at i have the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of he bill, designate the senate amendment and report the motion. he clerk: h.r. 550, an act to award a congressional gold medal collectively to the