teague and/or mr. duffycann enlightn us, but i support a motion that essentially addresses the deck and not the rest of it. >> let's break that down a little bit further, in terms of detail. when they limited it -- the penthouse, the previous scheme had the roof of the third floor depressed so that the height of that penthouse was not as great -- it was 4 feet or something. >> i can't remember. >> it was prointruditruding up >> it was protruding some amount, but it had been dropped, and the curb framing is dropped straight across. i have no issue with that. if you get rid of penthouse. the question then is where the -- the height was picked up, and whether there's an issue. i'm sensing that a couple of the commissioners here have an issue with the increased height of the lower floors. i'm not sure i shared that so much. the question, also, then, is roof decks. i didn't want to say too much, but you recall that two of the commissioners killed the first motion, which deleted any roof decks and required that it

mr. duffy, the chairman of the housing insurance subcommittee of our committee for offering this bill. each year, mr. speaker, public companies hold shareholder meetings where shareholders vote for the company's directors and other significant corporate actions that requires shareholder approval. mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. ladies and gentlemen, the house is to be order. take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman is recognized. mr. hensarling: mr. speaker, the securities and exchange commission requires that before these annual shareholder meetings take place, public companies must provide shareholders with proxy statements that include all important facts about matters to be voted on as a shareholder meeting. many shareholders and investment advisors rely on information provided by proxy advisory firm to guide their votes on their matters. this bill would enhance transparency in the shareholder proxy system by requiring p

i would defer to mr. duffy if there are any such requirements in the building code. >> no lighting except that mandated by the building department. >> and i don't know if there's any in the building code, so i would defer to mr. duffy. >> okay. thanks. >> he looks very pained. good evening, commissioners. joe duffy, dba. that type of lighting wouldn't come into plan a single-family home, like emergency lighting like you see on a high-rise building. but if they have a roof hatch up there to that, you're going to need lighting to get off of that, so it's more of a common sense approach. we do see track lighting in the floorings of decks. now, there would be a light requirement inside the stern in the lower area, so it's really -- there isn't a code provision, i wouldn't think, as much as your common sense sense code. >> well, there's some general comments in the code that talks about that. >> yeah, but no emergency lighting. there's no such thing as that in a single-family home. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> tha

there was also a discussion mr. duffy mentioned, why aren't we just talking about the rule? it's because, mr. speaker, like 56 other rules, it's a closed rule. what else can we say about closed rules? we said everything. there's no amendments. i could spend an hour complaining about how they're not allowing amendments in and it's closed and so 56 other rules but it's more productive to get to the underlying issue because we had the debate on closed rules 56 times. just in the last 10 months. that's a record, mr. speaker. you should be proud of presiding over a record number of closed rules for the united states congress, but it's not very interesting to talk about for another hour. so they'll talk about an interesting bill. a minor bill. i think i discussed that. i mean, we have a government shutdown. we have an issue with tax reform. we have dreamers. we have a million things we could be doing. this is a minor bill. ok. let's talk about the merits of giving the current corporate boards that might be too insular and current c.e.o.'s and management a little more power, like th

thank you. >> mr. duffy, anything further? >> sorry, president honda. i know you're in a rush away, but i know if the gentleman -- >> i'm missing dinner, but it's okay. >> i know the gentleman wanted to let them in because he has his own violations, but if he would let him in to put some building paper onto fix the current problem, i would ask that. >> mr. duffy, we would ask the same thing. >> i know. i just want to say that on record. that's all. >> so can the permit holder come up? i'm sorry. that was a question we should have asked the last time. i apologize. >> actually, today, i talked to them and made that proposal. i said i'll let you come in and do some emergency stuff, and -- but they -- they didn't -- they didn't -- they didn't accept that. i did offer them today. >> so that is on the table. you would allow them to at least put building paper, not to do permanent work, but temporary work. >> that's right. i offered that today, but they still insist to fix their work. >> council, the matter's submitted. >> counsel or mr. duffy? >> db a has iss

teague, mr. duffy? okay. commissioners, then, the matter's submitted. >> should i start? >> yeah. >> okay. so i understand the concern of the -- of the adjoining neighbor. i've seen many of these additions and improvements done throughout the richmond, as well as the sunset. i know that the next door property owner is concerned. at the end of the day, these homes were built in the early 1900's, up to -- up to the 20's and 30's. they're made of lathe and plaster. there is no insulation. with the new current building code and construction laws, you're going to see insulation, you'll see sheetrock. it should be -- it should allow more quieting or insulate the two properties. also, i kept on hearing the word common wall. i don't believe that it is a common wall. there's usually two buildings built separately that are very close together. i've only heard of two incidents on 19th avenue where a builder had used a common wall on accident, right, joe? you know, it's going through all the city process, and unfortunately -- i mean, i do recommend that when you're doing a large impr

we're targeting the more professional type trader and institutional investor >> mr. duffy's karen if we see 500% swings in bitcoin, can you imagine a scenario where you change your margin requirements as a result of big moves either way? >> karen, that's a good point, and absolutely, we will change our margins if we see any activity like that as you've seen already, we already made a change in our margin from 35 to 47% on initial, then the maintenance margin will be a minimum of 43%. that's even before we launch the product, we've already had to move it. so this is something that we pay a lot of attention to. it's what i've been outlining all along, karen, is the risk management protocols cme has in place. if in fact this thing moves precipitously, our velocity logic will kick in and the other functions we have as well. >> do you plan on introducing a product that will appeal more to the retail investor, like a mini product for instance for bitcoin futures? >> you know, i think that is yet to be determined i think we're going to do a wait and see, see how this contract tra

shane duffy i have given him a hard time as house putting together this tax package, so i am sure mr. duffydvisory art laffer, stuart varney don't miss any top story congress has until tomorrow midnight to aelevator government shutdown after gop victory on tax reform, blake burman live at the white house with the latest blake. reporter: hay there goingen good morning to you a quick story yesterday at the white house as the president and capitol hill republicans were celebrating big tax victory one aide on capitol hill came up said what a great day all we have to do next make sure the government doesn't shut down. >> here at the white house, they are not too concerned about that, kellyanne conway earlier today put the odds, of slim to none last night the treasury secretary mnuchin echoed that as well. >> i think it is highly in likely there is unlikely a shut down i don't want to dwif that shoirnz until pafford by congress gets to the president i can tell you president doesn't want a shutdown. >> no washington on capitol hill the house will begin to put a plan into place, that would fund the

congressman sean duffy joins us now. mr.ll the house, just maybe adopt the senate bill, so that you could just speed through everything immediately? could we do that? >> good morning, stuart. we could do that but we're not going to do that you saw last night we voted in the house to go to conference with the senate. listen i like to beat up on the senate. i like to rib the senate but tell you what? i'm pretty proud the senate actually got a tax bill done but there are things i have concern about. to not get rid of repeal alternative minimum tax is mistake. we do that in the house bill. senate didn't repeal alternative minimum tax. that is tweak we have to make. stuart: can you do that for corporations? can you get rid of amt for corporations? i think that is one of the bills, in conference get rid of it, it would certainly help tech stocks? >> it may, my biggest concern concern is upper middle income families that we have in america that get hit by this tax which was meant for wealthiest americans when it was implemented, st

duffy. >> good evening. prei don't have too much to add. i did see the e-mails that mr. z sent this week. i have to say they were very, vy thorough. he spent a lot of time investigg this. there was quite a lot of eviden. my experience as well at dbi is- probably in the 19 oos it was t, when people get permits there, e the roofing contractor could gee story wrong. dbi could issue the permit. it depends on what the permits r but i'm confident this buildings three storeys and a basement. a condo process would involve af research. there are cfcs and lawyers invo. like -- think what i'm trying ty it's pretty thorough and i thine building is what i it should bee storeys and a basement. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment s item? seeing none, commissioners the s submitted.fké >> to be consistent with last wi would conclude as well that theo new evidence and no manifest ini would move to deny the rehearing request. >> we have a motion from commisr lazarus to deny the request on e motion. vice president fung. >> aye. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> aye. >> commissi

mr. kaine, it's rachel campo cam duffy here. i think you are right it's fine, fine fine with me.andate repeal. and as a businessman you know that will have a big impact. talk to us a little bit about that. here is what you don't hear in the mainstream media. last year nearly 8 million people chose 9 to buy health insurance and chose to pay the penalty. think about those 8 million people. most of them are people that are the poorest and they said i can't afford to buy it. i'll try to pay the penalty. the republican plan has removed that penalty so people will have a choice as to what they want to do with health insurance. i agree with you, rachel, that is a huge win for the american people. >> herman cain, i think we should have had you on at 9:00 a.m. you are good any hour. [laughter] thanks, buddy. >> thanks a load, ed. merry christmas. rachel: merry christmas, mr. kaine. >> merry christmas to all of you and your families. ed: we just heard what herman cain thinks about the tax plan. what does donald trump's former campaign manager think? i think i have an idea. corey lewandowsk

duffy. this bill lim prove the quality of proxy research while increasing transparency for public companies and their investors. systemic r. 3312, risk improvement act, sponsored by mr. luetkemeyer, this replaces it with a process that analyzes each institution with individual risk factors. the house will also consider the conference report to accompany h.r. 1, the tax cuts and jobs act sponsored by representative kevin brady. this historic legislation will cap off a 31-year journey to reform america's broken tax code. we will double the standard deduction making the first $12,000 of income for an individual and $24,000 for a family tax free. we will increase the child tax credit because investing in families is among the most important investments we make. we'll reduce the tax rate on small businesses to the lowest rates that have seen in 40 years. and we do all this while simply filing the tax code so americans can file in minutes on a form the size of a postcard. republicans have championed cutting taxes and growing our economy for years and i am excited to deliver this important promise. finally, mr. speaker, additional legislative items are expected, including

duffy. this bill lim prove the quality of proxy research while increasing transparency for public companies and their investors. systemic r. 3312, risk improvement act, sponsored by mr. luetkemeyer, this replaces it with a process that analyzes each institution with individual risk factors. the house will also consider the conference report to accompany h.r. 1, the tax cuts and jobs act sponsored by representative kevin brady. this historic legislation will cap off a 31-year journey to reform america's broken tax code. we will double the standard deduction making the first $12,000 of income for an individual and $24,000 for a family tax free. we will increase the child tax credit because investing in families is among the most important investments we make. we'll reduce the tax rate on small businesses to the lowest rates that have seen in 40 years. and we do all this while simply filing the tax code so americans can file in minutes on a form the size of a postcard. republicans have championed cutting taxes and growing our economy for years and i am excited to deliver this important promise. finally, mr. speaker, additional legislative items are expected, including