mr. davis: mr. speaker, against my better judgment, i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. graves. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. graves: mr. speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from illinois for his evolution and thought there and for yielding. mr. speaker, over the last two years, we've seen just the absolutely incredible experience going through covid. it might be the mask mandates that were thrust upon people, as i mentioned. it might be a funny memory of trying to eat or drink coffee through their mask, as i know i have. we've seen this evolution in the workforce where people are working remotely all over the united states. and we've seen millions and millions of people choose to leave the workforce. this is something that has affected so many people. we've seen multi-generational businesses close, and we've seen fledging businesses surge as a result of covid-19, as a result of this pandemic. we've seen record speed at which a vaccine

mr. davis: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of s. 3294. as all members of congress and every american who has visited the united states capitol when it was completely open know, the halls of this foot hold of democracy are alive -- lined with statues to honor and commemorate the lives of great americans from all corners of this country. all walks of life and different political leanings. the national statuary hall collection includes two statues donated from each state. and in addition to the base collection, congress has been able to accept donations or authorize the commission of statues of other individuals who have shaped our nation. and contributed to the excellence of this country. such additions have included the statue of abraham lincoln, commissioned by congress in 1866. the portrait monument to lucritaa motte and susan b. anthony in 1920 and the statue of rosa parks which was unveiled in 2013. it is among these giants that today we consider the addition of the first two women confirmed

the chair now recognizes mr. davis for five minutes. mr. davis: yes. thank you very much. and commissioner, let me thank you for being here and answer all of this plethora of questions that are coming. first of all, let me thank you for your letter yesterday clarifying that payments to foster youth are nontaxable. mr. rettig: i apologize. i thought that went out to you previously. and you and i have had discussions in that space before. and the letter was to confirm those discussions. thank you. mr. davis: well, thank you very much. and i also want to thank you and your team for creating the materials to help foster and homeless youth understand the earned income tax credit provisions are relevant to them. and further, i want to thank the chicago taxpayer advocate, mr. andrew van single, an district leads for their help educating my constituents about the refundable tax credit. mr. commissioner, i know how life changing the tax year 2021 enhancements to the refundable credit will be to my constituents this year. and so for each of the refundable credits, can your team prov

mr. davis, who has a long standing interest in human rights. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. davis: the putin regime requires every strategy and every action we can muster to put a stop to russia and restore sanity to our world order. russia's aggressive and brutal behavior, brutal action toward ukraine, is beyond what i call the pale. we have no other choice but to step in and put a stop. i strongly support this resolution and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from arkansas, mr. crawford. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. crawford: i rise in support of h.r. 7108. everyone here on the floor with me today can agree that russia's aggression in ukraine with beale ruse's support is reprehensible and wrong. while i strongly believe the next round of sanctions will continue to hold russia and belarus acc

i'll turn first to the ranking member, mr. davis, for questions that he may have. >> thank you, madam chair. my first question, mr. bolton, again, thanks for being here today. i want to start -- excuse me -- by thanking you and your team for the hard work you put into these reports. we have now had numerous meetings and hearings to speak about these reports and your office has always been responsive to our questions and concerns. i want to ask you a few quick questions because we only have five minutes. so short answers or i'm going to ask to reclaim my time. in your testimony you explain that you asked over 80 officers to speak with your office about january 6th but only about 36 of them have actually completed an interview. now, these officers weren't obligated to speak with you. but would you consider that to be a normal response rate for an investigation? >> for police officers, i would say that's about a normal rate. they're under no obligation because they weren't the subject of an investigation. they were just soliciting thei

mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in strong support of h.r. 6968, suspending energy imports in response to russia's barbaric inhumane, and unprovoked attacks on ukraine and the ukrainian people. these imports include crude oil petroleum, coal, coal products, natural gas, and other products. on march 8, president biden issued an executive order to prohibit energy imports from russia which i totally agree with, support, urge passage of h.r. 6968, and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm proud to yield two minutes to the republican leader of the oversight committee, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. rice. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. rice: thank you for yielding the time. thank you to mr. brady, mr. neal, and mr. doggett for their leadership on this bill to sanction russian energy exports, which

with that, i would now like to recognize our ranking member, mr. davis, for any comments you may like to make. >> thank you, madam chair. thanks to ourto witnesses. mr. bultman mr. schuman for joining us today. i look for to continuing our past discussions on the dotted for increased transparency and accountability by speaker pelosi, capitol police board leadership and capital security overall. mr. bolton, this week he received a letter from republican members of this committee addressing numerous concerns that a members have tht we've raised regarding practices and clear breaches of trust by capitol police leadership. the magnetometers outside of the chamber that serve no security purpose and address no known internal threat, the incident in november when officers entered a members office, took photos of legislative planning materials and subsequent open and investigation in that office is likeev to support and others. even be on the increased scrutiny of members "politico" reported last month the capitol police intelligence division is there conducting

with that, i would now like to recognize our ranking members, mr. davis, for any comments he may like to make. >> thank you madam chair, thanks to our witnesses. mr. bolton and mr. human for joining us today. i look forward to continuing our past hearings discussions on the dire need for the increase transparency and accountability by speake pelosi. the capitol police board and leadership, and capitol security overall. mr. bolton, this week you received a letter from republican members of this committee addressing numerous concerns that members have that we have raised regarding practices including breaches of trust by capitol police leadership. the magnet tom utters ide the chamber, that serve no security purpose and address no known internal threat. the incident november when officers entered members office took photos of legislation planning materials and subsequently opened an investigation to that office is legislation work in others. even beyond the entry scrutiny of members, political reported last month at the capitol police intelligence division

mr. davis: mr. speaker, i have been taught and told an african american proverb when a tall tree falls, it makes a lot of noise and gathers a and everyone knows that something is happening. a few days ago, a tall tree fell in the chicagoland community where i live. one man spent the last day of p pervice is known -- purvis is known as the great blues man because he's a great artist who projected, promoted, and entertained us for years. purvis was born in ida beana, mississippi, and like many african-americans who were born itta bena, mississippi, many integrated else places. and thousands and thousands and thousands of them made their way to chicago, illinois. as a matter of fact, we fondly say that the only place where there are more mississippians than there are in chicago is in mississippi itself. many of the individuals left the delta area. so did purvis spann. worked in gary, indiana. joined the military. but eventually made his way to chicago. and he came to chicago and used his g.i. bill to g

i yield back. >> thank you, mr. davis. and now i want to yield to the chair of the full committee for any opening statement he may have. >> thank you, madame chair. thank you for holding this very important hearing. thank you to all the witnesses. since there are so many, i will be brief. the challenges that are proposed, obviously, there's tremendous promise with avs with already a number of those aspects of those promises have been mentioned. i won't repeat those. but it's also a tremendous challenge to regulators. to regulate a rapidly evolving technology to be certain that the public is all public interests are included in the development, the deployment and operation of these vehicles, it's going to be an extraordinary challenge for the federal regulators. i shouldn't be done state by state. we need some reasonable guidelines federally. we have to get it right. unregulated, we saw what happened with boeing and the max. we don't want that to happen with avs. i just read a report today and i think it was the post that t

. >> the gentle man yields back and recognizes mr. davis for five minutes.nk you commissioner and for being here and answering the questions. let me thank you for your letter yesterday. >> i thought that went out to you previously and you and i had discussions before and the letter was to confirm those discussions. >> to help understand the income tax credit provisions are relevant to them. from the congressional district helping educate constituents. can your team provide myself and the committee income reports on a number for tax year 2021. could that information be provided? >> i have that information for you today. we don't keep the information directly but we do under the act required to hold those until february 15th. the information i have today is on the refundable credits that we have held as of february 15th but have since released the three basic categories. it's held not only for economic impact or earned income tax but it was held only for the child tax credit and both child tax credit so in total, $34 billion was held through february 15th in a

. >> the gentleman yields back in the chair recognizes mr. davis for five minutes. >> thank you very much and let me thank you for being here and answering all of the questions coming in. first of all, let me thank you for your letter yesterday clarifying payments to foster youth are nontaxable. it's not showing me -- >> i apologize, i thought it went on to you previously and you and i have had discussions in that space before and the letter was to confirm the discussions. >> well, thank you very much. i also want to thank you and your team for creating materials to help homeless youth understand earned income tax credit for reasons relevant this. i want to thank the chicago advocate and their help educating my constituents about the refundable tax credit. each of the refundable edits, can your team provides myself and the committee reports on the amounts in 2021, the refundable tax credit soon after? this information will be of great help to understand how they impact families and could that information be provided? >> i have the information for y

mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in strong support of h.r. 6968, suspending energy imports in response to russia's barbaric inhumane, and unprovoked attacks on ukraine and the ukrainian people. these imports include crude oil petroleum, coal, coal products, natural gas, and other products. on march 8, president biden issued an executive order to prohibit energy imports from russia which i totally agree with, support, urge passage of h.r. 6968, and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm proud to yield two minutes to the republican leader of the oversight committee, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. rice. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. rice: thank you for yielding the time. thank you to mr. brady, mr. neal, and mr. doggett for their leadership on this bill to sanction russian energy exports, which

mr. davis: thank you, madam speaker.e in strong support of this legislation as a type two diabetic myself for the last 30 years. i know firsthand the high cost of this prescription. there is nothing in my district more prevalent as a disease entity than diabetes. i strongly support it. it's an idea whose time not only has come but has passed. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from nebraska. mr. smith: madam speaker, i reserve. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. kildee: thank you, madam speaker. i yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, also a member of the ways and means committee, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. doggett: to assure a stable supply of insulin and better health at $35 instead of $300 monthly, i fully support this bill for yolanda, a retired texas teacher, and the quarter of dependent patients forced to

we on our side have also included mr. davis' legislation that ensures workers with student loans don't miss out on 401-k matching contributions, representative murphy's legislation to increase the required minimum distribution age to 75 is here as well. we created a higher catch-up contribution for those years just before retirement, a provision particularly important for pilots who have a mandatory retirement age, that was a priority of representative sanchez and pascrell. mr. kind's bills have been included. his legislation is fixing a problem with start-up credits and multiple employer plans is here as well. secure 2.0 contains representative chu's legislation that would enhance the savers' credit which was a priority for representative sewell as well. we've included representative panetta's legislation that provides 403-b custodial accounts that invest in investment trusts, as well as hisslation reforming family attribution rules and we've included representative sewell's legislation to reduce by one year the period of serv

mr abramovich is thought to be vladimir putin's money man. the allegation has also been made in parliament. speaker: david davies...tee, he is the man, or at least one of the men, who manages putin's business affairs. that is a really important issue about whether he should be on our target list. it's a claim we've heard repeatedly, that vladimir putin's wealth is linked to oligarchs like roman abramovich. i think there are certain vested interests involved, and, er, abramovich may be sharing the wealth. with whom? with putin. putin would never, ever give away anything to anyone without having direct financial interest involved. mr abramovich's lawyers told us he denies he's been protected by president putin or president yeltsin, and that he denies he is a money man for president putin. but business is done differently in russia, and roman abramovich has profited from corrupt deals under both presidents. take the sale in 2002 of another big russian energy company, slavneft. different factions had been fighting for control of the company. there were armed raids and a bomb scare. when the russian state decided to auc

let's watch after billy is going to be topper davis and that will be a questions to dr. carlton, dr. turner well, mrs. again, just as a kid. i just like to thank you. and really have a whole bunch of questions, but i'm gonna try and hold it to just one. oh, go ahead. well, like the squeaky wheels the druggie seem to get most of your attention, what would you meant for parents and teachers for us kids for us many kids who are responsibility and drug-free. i know it's it's true. you're right. you're absolutely right. the bad news seems to get more attention than than good news. a matter of fact bill. can i tell this story? dell was going to bill was on a morning show with a couple of his children and who had had drug problems? but he has another child who was had no drug problems at all. and the two children who had had drug problems were on the problem with him. i was pretty exciting to them to be on this big show. but the other one said dad you know, i haven't done anything. i've never i've never smoked pot. i've never taken anything and i don't get to go on national television and that doesn't seem

davies, bbc news, southern ukraine. president biden has announced a major deal with the eu to reduce europe's reliance on russian gas. mrp up its own supplies of liquified natural gas to the eu this year, sending an additional 15 billion cubic metres. he said europe and the us would also accelerate efforts to reduce demand for gas overall and switch to renewable energy. robert horvath is a specialist in russian politics at la trobe university. hejoins me from melbourne. good to have you with us. i want to turn first, a lot of our viewers are thinking about when russia talks about that it has completed its first phase of its operation as they call it, the special military operation, the western intelligence celsius are saying that it shares a failing of russian names in this war. how do you say? it russian names in this war. how do you say?— do you say? it is too early to “udue do you say? it is too early to judge the — do you say? it is too early to judge the long-term - judge the long—term significance of that statement. from the beginning of the war, russian propaganda has basically had two narratives. 0ne basically h

davies, bbc news, southern ukraine. us president biden has announced a major deal with the eu to reduce europe's reliance on russian gas. mrtep up its own supplies of liquified natural gas to the eu this year, sending an additional 15 billion cubic metres. he said europe and the us would also accelerate efforts to reduce demand for gas overall and switch to renewable energy. as we mentioned earlier, russia has indicated it's changing its approach to the war. a senior general said the first stage of the campaign is over, and the focus will now shift to the eastern donbas region. our reporter mark lobel has been following events. there was a strategic presentation when this was announced, a top russian general there. announced, a top russian generalthere. let's announced, a top russian general there. let's hearfrom him now. translation: the general there. let's hear from him now. translation: the main tasks of the _ him now. translation: the main tasks of the first _ him now. translation: the main tasks of the first stage _ him now. translation: the main tasks of the first stage of - him now. translation: the main tasks of t

mr. chairman thank you very much. minister davis, appreciating you appear before the committee today.d to talk with you about this historic funding to make real progress towards universal funding for broadband connectivity. i know today's hearing is a combination of critical and bipartisan broadband investments. that we've been working on for a long time on this committee. and i'm very pleased with the bipartisan infrastructure law makes equitable investments across the country by expanding access to broadband access and addressing affordability concerns which in a district like mine is very important. among other things, the infrastructure bill puts emergency broadband benefit program on the more permanent footing and it's renamed the affordable connectivity program. and it is funded at about 14 billion dollars. these investments make it possible for all americans regardless of income or zip code to afford, to participate in two days internet-driven economy. and in a district like the one that i represent, in a dallas fort worth area, it's very important we make sure people aren't le

mr navalny leads an anti—corruption foundation that claims president putin has illegally acquired a fortune worth billions of dollars, including a huge palace and one of the world's largest yachts. as our moscow correspondent caroline daviestension to the two—and—a—half year prison term he's already serving. speaking in russian. this was alexei navalny�*s last moment as a free man. arrested at the airport as he arrived back in russia in 2021. with a kiss to his wife, he was taken by the russian authorities. the kremlin critic is already behind bars. wearing black prison uniform, he heard today's verdict from his jail — guilty of embezzlement. and nine years in a maximum security penal colony. crowd chants. these were the anti—corruption protests mr navalny led. the man who had been one of president putin's fiercest critics has always maintained the legal case against him was political, as have many in the west. in 2020, he was poisoned using novichok and left for treatment in germany. he chose to return to russia. now many of his allies have left the country, afraid of what might happen if they stay. more media sites are banned day by day here in russia. meta, the company that owns facebook and instagram, has been declare

mr. lincoln. that was a sacred effort another quote i think is important. so when lincoln finally frees all african-american's everywhere south and north and border states, he goes after jefferson davis leads his version of the white house. he wants to go to richmond at which time he goes aboard himself. can you imagine that with his son the president united states that all black crowd greets him and here's what his address to him is extemporaneously and he's clearly moved by their feelings towards and many of which are crying. this is my poor friends. he said you were free as heir liberty is your birthright. god gave it to you as he gave it to others and as a sin that you have been deprived of it for so many years the crowd shouted. joyful approval lincoln resumed speaking they fell it you must try to deserve this priceless spoon. let the world see that you merit it and are able to maintain it by your good works. so think about that point in moment and even lincoln brought there by douglas in many ways was moved by he changed he evolved too. and douglas and his frustration now picture this they got a dedicate to now controversial statue of an african-american rising up out of change

mr navalny leads an anti—corruption foundation that claims president putin has illegally acquired a fortune worth billions of dollars, including a huge palace and one of the world's largest yachts. as our moscow correspondent caroline davies extension to the two—and—a—half year prison term he's already serving. speaking in russian. this was alexei navalny�*s last moment as a free man. arrested at the airport as he arrived back in russia in 2021. with a kiss to his wife, he was taken by the russian authorities. the kremlin critic is already behind bars. wearing black prison uniform, he heard today's verdict from his jail — guilty of embezzlement. and nine years in a maximum security penal colony. crowd chants. these were the anti—corruption protests mr navalny led. the man who had been one of president putin's fiercest critics has always maintained the legal case against him was political, as have many in the west. in 2020, he was poisoned using novichok and left for treatment in germany. he chose to return to russia. now many of his allies have left the country, afraid of what might happen if they stay. more media sites are banned day by day here in russia. meta, the company that owns facebook and instagram, has been decl

davis who have the full animal chamber approach. i do believe we need to be very smart and not duplicating, right, these very precious resources and really work together to develop. mr. costa: i think your comments are well taken. my time has more than expired. you i wanted to make sure we get the academic perspective in here. i really do believe as we look toured, you know, money is always a challenge as we try to provide ample resources but that we combine our research efforts in ways that makes sense through the academic -- incredible academic resource we have in this country on a regional basis without further ado, my friend and ranking member of the subcommittee, dusty johnson, it's your opportunity here with your five minutes. look forward to hearing your questions and comments. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. chairman. and just great witnesses. i mean, really, really a topnotch panel. you can tell how much they agree on. these are happy, optimistic solutions focused people who want to make the world a better place. they have done a great job. i'll start with dr. stackhouse-lawson and we'll go to ms. brackett to a similar set of questions. i thought your testimony

william travis, sam houston, gym bowie, davy crockett, and all the people they led risked everything to make freedom a reality for generations of texans. mr. president, i'm reminded of a story that was told to me by former senator from texas, my friend phil gramm. phil gramm in the early 1980's was a member of the house of representatives, and he was a democrat. he was a conservative democrat. ronald reagan was president and phil gramm as a conservative democrat in the house introduced the reagan tax cuts, and he fought for the reagan tax cuts. and phil describes a meeting of other conservative democrats in texas back when we had conservative democrats in texas, a meeting where he was urging his fellow democrats to support the reagan tax cuts. and phil drew an analogy to the alamo on that fateful day when colonel travis drew a line in the sand with a sword and called on each of the men there to step across that line and commit to defending the alamo. and one of those other conservative democrats said to him at the time, said, phil, everybody who stepped across that line, they died. and phil, not missing a beat, he chuckled and said yes, y