mr. donovan: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. ms. clayton: amendment number 1 printed in part b of house report 114-551 offered by mr. donovan of new york. -- the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in part b of house report 114-551 offered by mr. donovan of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 720, the gentleman from new york, mr. donovan, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. donovan: thank you. this amendment expands eligibility for existing family-based substance abuse treatment grants to include pregnant women. in new york state alone, over 1,700 pregnant women pass through our corrections system each year. on any given day, there are 12 to 15 pregnant women in new york state prisons and 110 in local jails. many of these women are coming in with drug addictions that pose harm, not only to themselves, but to their unborn children. states across the country have passed laws and implemented program

mr. donovan: thank you very much, congressman guinta, and i'd like to thank congresswoman kuster for her leadership in this area. mr. speaker, this week the house of representatives will act to pass a package of bills addressing the opioid crisis. one of them, the comprehensive opioid abuse reduction act will authorize new grant programs to cities and nonprofits for education, treatment, and enforcement. and not a minute too soon. opioid abuse an epidemic. it's everywhere you look. it's in our neighborhoods, in our social circles, and in our schools. too many parents have buried their sons and daughters, or watched the struggle for years with addiction, treatment, and relapse. it has to stop. an effective response needs to address three areas, education, treatment, and enforcement. today's youth have to be educated about the dangers of addiction and loved ones need to learn to recognize the early signs. the legislation the house will pass this week authorizes new grants to prevent the next generation of abusing pills and heroin. proven diversion programs like the drug treatment courts i

mr. donovan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. admiral, thank you for your testimony and your candidness with this committee. we saw with the shooting at lax last year and what happened in brussels, the vulnerability of the non-secure areas of our transportation hubs. is that the total jurisdiction of the state and local authorities, or does the tsa have a role in the nonsecure areas in the airports? >> we have a role in setting standards and expectations. my primary role is at the checkpoint, down in the baggage area, and out in the secure areas of the airport. we work very closely with local law enforcement to patrol and guard the public areas of the airport as well. >> i know last summer, it may have happened actually before your appointment, there was the covert testing with the tsa and the vulnerabilities of the things going through. some changes have been made. have you found those changes have improved our ability to detect things going through our checkpoints that shouldn't? is there data that supports that? >> there is. a

mr. daniel donovan from new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and, secretary, thank you for your attendance and your testimony today. in february of this year, the u.n. came out with a report about vietnam making prohibited purchases of weapons from north korea. as the president and this administration is about to enter into a trade agreement, should their voiding and actually unlawfully purchasing weapons from north korea be a consideration as we enter into an agreement with vietnam? >> we would be concerned with any country violating its obligations under the u.n. security council resolutions in terms of purchasing or making available to north korea weapons. and if that's the case with vietnam, that's going to be a concern. we're being very vigilant about making sure that countries are not doing that. >> and are you also -- you also indicated about supplying north korea with weapons. that same u.n. council has indicated to us that cuba is providing north korea with illegal weapons. as the administration tries to renew relations with cuba, shou

mr. daniel donovan from new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and secretary, thank you for your attendance and your testimony today. in february of this year, the u.n. came out with a report about vietnam making prohibited purchases of weapons from north korea. as the president and this administration is about to enter into a trade agreement, should they're avoiding and actually unlawfully purchasing weapons from north korea be a consideration as we enter into an agreement with vietnam? >> we would be concerned about any country violating its obligation under the u.n. security council resolutions in terms of purchasing or making available to north korea weapons. and if that's the case with vietnam, that's going to be a concern. we'll be very vigilant about making sure countries are not doing that. >> and you also indicated about supplying north korea with weapons, that same u.n. council has indicated to us that cuba is providing north korea with illegal weapons. as the administration tries to renew relations with cuba, should that be a

mr. donovan. >> thank you for your candidness with your committee. we saw the shooting in brussels and the vulnerability of our transportation hubs. is that the jurisdiction of state and earlier to patrol a& changes have been made. have you found the changes have improved our ability to detect things going through our check points that shouldn't and is there data that supports that? >> i won't get into details, but i can tell you our testing told us we are improving significantly. it is improved over the measures we took and the retraining we did and the changes in focus helped and i recently met with the inspector general. testing our improvement that will take place over the course of the next few months. i look forward to if he is val kading any of those. >> with your efforts to get more people on. >> the last thing people would like is to have a bad taste in their mouth because they missed their flight. specifically, do the fsds have the ability to grant overtime if they need more employees? >> they do. i pushed a lot of overtime. they do and we

mr. donovan. >> thank you, chairman. admiral, thank you for your testimony and your candidness with this committee. we saw with the shooting at lax last year and what happened in brussels the vulnerability of the non-secure areas of our transportation hubs. is that the total jurisdiction of the state and local officials or does tsa have a role? >> we have a role in setting standards and expectations. my primary role is at the checkpoint down in the baggage area and out in the secure areas of the airport. we work very closely with local law enforcement to patrol and guard the public areas of the airport as well. >> i know last summer, it may have happened actually before your appointment there was the covert testing of tsa and the vulnerabilities of things going through. and some changes have been made. have you found those changes have improved our ability to detect things going through our checkpoints that shouldn't? is there data that supports that? >> there is. and i won't get into details in an open setting. i can te

mr. trump goes to washington the meeting the presumptive g.o.p. nominee is having to day to try to unite the republican party. >>> well, today is thursday may 12th good morning i'm jim donovanbrooke thomas. i like to say it is friday eve. we look at the this as a positive. meisha is here with traffic and katie has your forecast good morning, friday eve indeed, cheers to that. we are looking good. a lot

mr. trump goes to washington the meeting the presumptive g.o.p. nominee is having to day to try to unite the republican party. >>> well, today is thursday may 12th good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm brooke thomas. i like to say it is friday eve. we look at the this as a positive. meisha is here with traffic and katie has your forecast good morning, friday eve indeed, cheers to that. we are looking good. a lot of cop trucks. >> owe broken record. >> we will see some sunshine, and a nice day. >> i know. >> but it will feel like it is already friday or what. at the moment or last few hours we had a couple showers rolling through portions of the southern tear of new jersey, central delaware. see how they are fizzling, rotate ago way. high pressure is starting to build down here. that means more clearing skies and also, more sunshine, obviously as a result here. nice warming trend that comes with more sunshine. one little minor issue that we have in a handful of community is poor wrist built. we will have patchy fog and that is obvious where it is taking place. the off to the west and off to the south in some spots. millville under 2-mile visibility. pretty poor out in lancas

jim donovan, we're told the prison escapee that was missing for almost a week could be ready to surrender. chopper three, live over the fork river rest area, on the garden state parkway ocean county, mr buckle making arrangements to surrender but walk away before state police arrived. buckle walked away from a camden county prison facility last week. >>> now, let's sends it right over to katie for look at the eyewitness weather news forecast. >> the forecast definitely looking up at this point, here, jim. there will be few hiccups along the way, warmfront lifting in today, and that's going to trigger few additional clouds, as the day progresses which you can already see starting to nudge in in from the southwest, however, you know, you might even see shower through the delmarva peninsula, southern new jersey at some point specially late today into tonight. meanwhile, next couple of days, well, again, could you see few showers tomorrow. more clouds, limiting warmth, but back into some sunshine mid to late week, meisha? >> going to be nice, thanks, good morning, hammy monday, you guys, schuylkill westbound at conshohocken curve accident pulled all the way off blocking far right showere

mr. speaker, before yielding to my good friend from texas, i ask unanimous consent to include in the record a letter from the white house over the signature of sean donovan, the director of the office of management and budget, and susan rice, the national security advisor directed to the speaker of the house of representatives, paul ryan, on april 26, 2016. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. hastings: thank you very much. excerpting from that a portion of the first paragraph of the second page, let me read what is said in partial response to my good friend from oklahoma. without significant additional appropriations this summer, the nation's efforts to comprehensively respond to the disease will be severely undermined. in particular, the administration may need to suspend crucial activities such as mosquito control and surveillance in the absence of emergency supplemental funding. state and local governments that manage mosquito control and response operations will not be able to hire needed responders to engage in mosquito mitigation efforts. additionally, the administration's ability to move to the next phase of vaccine velopme