mr. goodlatte is recognized. mr. goodlatte: i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. goodlatte: i wreeled myself such time as i -- yield myself such time as i may consume. the state or locality could exercise that authority ongoing and practically speaking, if a school district in virginia felt the standards of learn wrg not suitable for their needs, they would have the opportunity to create and administer their own rockingham county assessment test. but since the state is ultimately responsible for this and has -- this will occur in limited circumstances because the state still has the ultimate power and responsibility. the same requirements as laid out by the underlying bill for state-designed academic assessments would apply to locally designed academic assessments. reading and math in grades three through eight and once in high school and in science once in elementary, middle and high schools. reasonable adaptations and accommodations for students with disabilities inclusion of english learners and so on. this will encourage creativity and innovation that may help

mr. goodlatte was sharing. if you want to join us, i'll put up some charts and we can chat on if -- for a few minutes. ms. waters: thank you very, very much, mr. garamendi, for your leadership and for affording our members to have the opportunity to share their experiences so that all of what we learn to share with relatives and friends that information is going to be valuable to our researchers and because of you we'll be able to get those stories out. thank you so much. mr. garamendi: you mentioned research in your opening remarks. thank you so much. i know you have another appointment. your leadership on this has been absolutely extraordinary. the bills you have introduced and the encouragement you've given to others to introduce legislation, push it forward. i think this is where we're going to spend our time fighting for research. i'm going to go through this, ms. waters, i know you must leave, thank you for joining us. thank you. this poster shows how we're spending our national institute of health researc

mr. goodlatte. i think for the third time, i think there are other limits as well. and they include not only spending the money, making sure it's in terms of the statute, making sure the priorities are rational making sure the priorities are compatible which congress has specifically mandated and so on. it would depend on all of those things. >> let me just ask our other penalists, attorney general axality, would you respond to the president having this massive discretion? >> zooming out congress has been debating this for many, many years and in this particular case this path was not -- specifically not voted on by congress so by president obama's own words many times over again before he did this, this is just not a power that our institutional system contemplated. i believe if five million ok then why isn't six million and why isn't seven million? if two years isn't ok then why not three? it seems pretty clear that this -- by his own words has stepped over and once you add the benefits that are included, there's just no justification this fits under prosecutorial

mr. goodlatte said he has no intention to legislate a modification to the formula. the effect of not having section 5 is to allow jurisdictions to pass discriminatory election laws with impunity and without oversight. the voting rights act enabled african-american communities to elect hundreds of black elected officials. we successfully litigated dozen and dozens of cases. many of my colleagues were elected because enforcement of the voting rights act forced -- it force -- states to draw congressional districts where black communities are not submerged in their -- and their vote diluted system of mr. speaker this story must be understood by every american citizen, the right to vote for african-americans was obtained by blood, sweat, and tears and we are determined the congressional black caucus, is determined to continue this fight into 2016 and beyond. mr. payne, ms. kelly, thank you very much for yielding time. i yield back. mr. payne: thank you, chairman. we are looking forward to your leadership in the 114th congress and we will continue to strive to make sure t

mr. chair. i yield back. chairman goodlatte: the chair will recognize himself. general laxalt, my colleague from new york, mr. nadler, suggested that you were naive for thinking that the 22 separate times the president has said he lacked the power to do what he did, you and i should have realized that was a political comment and not a legal comment. what i would ask you to consider is requiring a disclaimer beneath every comment made by an elected official so we can know whether he or she really means it or whether it is just for political expediency. i mistakenly thought the chief law enforcement officer for the entire country would mean what he said when he was making a legal observation. it was news to me that all of that was political grandstanding. if you can work around the first amendment limitations and require disclaimers so we know whether a candidate or officeholder means what he or she is saying, it would be helpful to me and i wouldn't feel as naive, and perhaps you wouldn't either. what are the limits of prosecutorial discretion? mr. legomsky: to su

mr. chabot: thank you. i rise today in support of this bill, h.r. 527, the small business regulatory flexibility improvements act of 2015. i want to thank chairman goodlatte as well as chairman marino for the opportunity to work with them on this important piece of legislation. small businesses are critical to this country's success. they provide a means for millions of workers and their families to attain the american dream. they employ one out of every two private sector workers and create two out of every three private sector jobs. there are over 926,000 small businesses in my home state of ohio. small firms rarely have in-house legal departments or regulatory comblines experts on staff -- compliance experts on staff. often it's the owner who must also keep up with regulations and the payment of taxes. small manufacturers retailers and construction firms want to comply with the law. however when they divert resources to costly regulatory compliance, they cannot hire workers or start new projects or make other job creation investments. if there is a way to find less expensive means to achieving regulatory objectives of our agencies, small businesses cou