mr. grant you are now recognized for five minutes to give an oral presentation of your testimony. >> thank you. chairman foster, ranking member gonzalez, members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i'm here on behalf of the better identity coalition anty organization focused on bringinh together leading firms from differenth sectors to work with policymakers to improve the way americans established, protect and verify their identities when they're online. our members would included leader some financial services, health, technology, syntax, payment and security. yesterday marked the three anniversary of the release of identity policy blueprint which outlined a a set of key initiatives that government should lunch to improve identity that about meaningful and, in fact, and practical to implement. our 24 u members are united by common recognition of the way to handle i didn't did it today in the u.s. broken and by common desire to see both the public and private secto

>> mr. grantt quite know how to say this but you're not allowed to ask that when someone is applying for a job. >> want to call a cop? [ laughter ] >> it did represent what women were going through in the '70s. they were standing up saying i must be heard. >> sitcoms used to be about the wife was at home doing the dishes and then this woman sprang on to a screen to have a job and often the smartest person there. it was sort of liberating. >> you got spunk. >> and i waited a beautiful moment and i say. >> i hate spunk. >> and i want to correct something right now. i don't hate spunk. i love spunk. >> it was a total shift in gender roles. she's a single working woman, you know, living in a building with other single women. >> how would you both like to help abolish capital punishment? >> fphilis, there is no capitol punishment. >> it creating this uncomfortable dynamic. >> it was right, huh? >> yes, ted, you were right. >> ted the ego statistical ego man. >> all right, all right, let's not dwoel on

i want to thanko all of you including mr. grant for the introduction today. and commissioner atul steen and tate for their dedicated public service as well. and last but not least, what a privilege to appear on the virtual stage with some of my predecessors and distinguished public servants, just great americans. chair man kennard, chairwoman cliburn and chair wildly as well. >> [inaudible] >> terrific. i think the digital divide remains an issue today and it's for a couple of different reasons. in parts of the country where typically these tend to be rural areas where the incomes tend to be lower and in this case deployed broadband network is accordingly much more challenging. that is an area where in my vision the fcc and federal government with large is stepping in changing the regulatory framework and applying the subsidies. there's parts were the networks exist but not affordable there's other digital literacy programs that didn't exist that need to be boosted and to me at least you pointed out so much of our lives today depend on the digital connection,

mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized the gentlelady's request is granted. mrs. miller: speaker pelosi reinstated the mask mandate. she's threatening to arrest staff who refused to be obedient. the democrats are using fear and mandates to continue the crisis mode, but the real crisis has yet to hit. depression, alcohol, and drug abuse, suicide, supply chain issues, halted production, economic collapse, and worse, the damage to our children's hearts and minds from being out of their school and activity. for the speaker of the house, these mandates are all about politics and not science. that's why when she thought no one was watching, she went to a closed hair salon to get her hair done without wearing a mask. she got caught and then blamed the hair salon owner. the rules only apply to we the people. they never apply to those in power. americans are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. the democrats in this house and the rest of the federal government do not know better than you. and they never have. since when did the federal government become your doc

a report from that committee recommending against the proposal to grant mrs.coln a pension stated, quote: there are some other facts bearing on this subject which it is probably not needful to refer to, but which are generally known, and the evidence part of which is in possession of the committee. schwartz wrote of lincoln, quote, it was no secret to those who knew the family well that his domestic life was full of trials. the erratic temper of his wife not sell tom put the gentleness of his nature to the severest tests and those troubles and struggles which accompanied him through all the vicissitudes of his life from the modest home in springfield to the white house in washington and the untold private hear burnings to his public cares and sometimes precipitating upon him incredible embarrassments in the discharge of his public duties for one of the most pathetic features of his career. schwartz, who voted in favor of the bill granting mary lincoln a pension, put it even more strongly calling the president's marriage, quote: the greatest tragedy of mr. linc

a report from that committee recommending a desperate proposal to grant mrs. lincoln a pension stated, quote: there are some other facts bearing on this subject which it is probably not meaningful to refer to but which are generally known, and the evidence a part of which is information of the committee. it was no secret for those who knew the family well that his domestic life was full of trials. the erratic temper of his wife but the gentleness of his nature -- struggles which accompanied him through the -- of vicissitudes to his life -- [inaudible] springfield to the white house in washington as the untold private -- and sometimes precipitating incredible embarrassments in the discharge of his public duties from the one of the most pathetic futures of his career. putting it even more strongly in her interview calling the president's marriage, quote: the greatest tragedy of mr. lincoln's existence. lincoln once gave his wife a copy of a book called the elements of character publishes publishes -- [inaudible] he had underlined a package indicating that marria

mr. grant, you talk about trust. what we can effect, i think, is trust, quite easily actually. dr. doherty i would love if you would share with my colleagues what you heard after you did that retreat with staff? >> thank you. what really came out of this was this awareness of many more commonalities than they had realized. i'll give you an example. when we did the life experiences exercise, what life experiences have influenced your approach to public policy and public good, what they discovered was how many of them on each side had religious roots to their interest and passion for social change and that those who came out of college with those ideals, those who are more conservative moved in one direction, took up issues of abortion and pro life for example. those who were more liberal moves into the social justice and poverty area, but the roots are similar. that was something that was not expected. the second thing is in all of our workshops we do a humility part of it. one of the things we did was have each group separately come up with two issues that their member of congress

grants. mr. wood: the military is already a representation of america, right? so the primary purpose, defending the country, you would expect they would spend all the waking hours looking at that. there's a difference between a college student deciding to take a philosophy course or political science course and engaging in these debates over theoretical construct and you question the underpings of western -- underpinnings of western liberal democracy or not and being a captain in a unit and having somebody come in with a deck of powerpoint slides and conveying what is a theory but really in more of a fact sort of presentation that there are these divisions, these perceptions oppressed versus oppressors. those are two different constructs there. and to your point, you know, good idea fairy comes in. wouldn't this be cool to broaden our instruction? and when you implement that in the real world and how it manifests in the 3:30 formation to get to a 6:00 formation at higher levels. to your comment about secretary austin or general millie or chief of operations, i

. >> what religion are you >> mr. grant think i was violating your civil rights if i ask if you're married? >> presbyterian. >> film "being married, the mary tyler moore documentary" set to premier sometime next week >>> next up, coldplay just announced their next album, it's called "music of spheres" and marks their ninth studio record. yesterday they released a song teasing what fans can expect here is a taste of that. ♪ ♪ >> as you can see and hear, the music sphere continues that interstellar theme from their most recent musical release "higher power. they did that on the plaza the next single is set to drop this friday and that full album in october >> that was so great oh, my gosh. >>> next up, matt damon and ben affleck together again in the first trailer for their new film called "the last duel." they wrote the movie, costar in it together. it's a medieval movie based on a true story in the movie, both actors looking almost unrecognizable. here is a look matt damon as the knight challenging the squire in a fight to

so my question, and mr. grant you talk about trust, and when i think we can affect quite easily actually. so doctor dougherty, i would love if you shared with my colleagues what you heard after you did that retreat with representative stoppers staff and my staff. i think better coming from you and me if you could start with that. >> yes, thank you. what's really came out of that was this awareness of many more commonalities than they had realized. i will give you an example. when we did the life experiences exercise, what's life experiences have approached your approach to public policy and the public good. what they discovered was that how many of them on each side had religious roots to their interest and passion for social change. and that those who came out of college with those ideals, those who were more conservative moved in one direction, they took up issues of abortion or pro-life or example. those who were more liberal moved into the social justice and poverty area. but the root system with similar, the

i am very proud of the fact that the boston fed, under the leadership of mr. grant, has been working with m.i.t. in their cryptocurrency lab on working on this digital model for the united states and for the fed. i am a little bit worried about the pace, though. we see -- i think there is 86 separate central banks that are already engaged in this. do we risk sacrificing the reserve currency status by -- i think some would argue, slowness in response to this. does this dialogue that you envision stretch out the timeline for adopting --, or delay that considerably? >> i would agree. i think this is the beginning of accelerating that decision process. we have a lot of work left to do on the technical side and the policy side, but a critical part of it is the public consultation. on reserve currency, the u.s. is a reserve currency that really isn't a good competitor out there. all the things you need to be the reserve currency, the united states has it. we are not in danger of losing it, certainly not to china, which does not have an open capital account. it's the kind

mr. grant, thanks for joining us this morning. -- >> happy birthday again to you, stuart. stuart: thank you my son. thank you very much indeed. >>> all right we got this story for you democrat mayor urging vaccinated residents to wear masks indoors even vaccinated. what is the reason for that? todd: orange county florida mayor, say residents wear masks, jerry demings wearing masks indoors, cases rising among the unvaccinated. stuart: that is true. i look at front pages of "the new york times." they got this chart, for the first time i saw this today, cases are rising quite sharply actually. todd: delta variant. stuart: delta variant, that is what it is. dr. fauci getting heat for his latest mask recommendation. what is the mask recommendation now. todd: the white house medical advisor under fire for saying this on another network. >> unvaccinated children of a certain age greater than two years old should be wear being masks. no doubt about that. that is the way to protect them from getting infected because if they do, they can th

mr. richard e. grant. [ cheers and applause ] there he is!d applause ] >> yes, that's cool, that's very cool. >> arsenio: i'm looking at the clip here. when you took the role, did you know what the character would look like? >> i thought that it would look like -- exactly like the jack kirby illustrations from the 1960s and the costume design said i would be in the full muscle suit like in the '60s. then i got there, where's my muscle suit? and there was none. i can see, arsenio, we share a physique type. we're muscle-free zones. i said, where's the muscle suit? i look like cameron the frog if i'm not wearing the muscles. what can i tell you? you're in pink, you're 65, i'm 64, we're the dinosaurs of show business, baby. >> arsenio: yes, yes. [ cheers and applause ] >> and we're still here! >> arsenio: what's next for you? are you working on something else there? >> i have just wrapped today on a netflix version of jane austen's "persuasion" with dakota johnson and cosma jarvis. [ cheers and applause ] >> arsenio: cool, cool. when are you comi

i will move quickly through the scope of our grant here. >> clerk: mr. n mute. >> sorry about that. so the infill infrastructure grant program is flemented through the california department of housing and community development and it's intended to promote the development of infill housing by funding some of the necessary infrastructure necessary to facilitate that housing development. it can be used for a wide variety of infrastructure including parts, open spaces, utilities, or in our case, streets and road -- [indiscernible] -- the qualifying infill projects that were used to support this project are all part of the major phase on treasure island and include the apartments that are in construction right now. the roadway improvement is this section of roadway on the south side of the island between the new eastbound ramps -- sorry, the new eastbound ramps on hillcrest and southgate. the h.c.d. issued the nofa for this program in october of 2018. in january of 2020 we went to the board of supervisors for a resolution seeking authorization to apply under t

mr. richard e. grant. there he is!you know what the character would look like? >> i thought that it would look like -- exactly like the jack kirby illustrations from the 1960s and the costume design said i would be in the full muscle suit like in the '60s. then i got there, and i said where's my muscle suit? and there was none. and i can see, arsenio, we share the same physique type. we're muscle-free zones. i said, where's the muscle suit? i look like kermit the frog if i'm not wearing the muscles. anyway. what can i tell you? you're in pink, you're 65, i'm 64, we're the dinosaurs of show business, baby. >> arsenio: yes, yes. [ cheers and applause ] >> and we're still here! >> arsenio: and you're a tall dinosaur. didn't somebody tell you at a young age that tall actors don't work much? >> yeah. everybody said that you have to be either tom cruise height or sylvester stallone, that you'd never make it. and i said what about john wayne and clint eastwood and, you know, magic johnson? those guys. they're all tall. and th

mr. biden expects the to grant an emergency use authorization for children under 12 to get the vaccine soon and said unvaccinated students should wear masks in school this fall. >> if you're vaccinated, you shouldn't wear a mask. if you aren't vaccinated, you should be wearing a mask. >> reporter: 48% of americans are fully vaccinated. in missouri, that number is just 40%. >> you don't want it to be your child. >> reporter: kristin ruthstron can't wait to get her three young sons protected from the virus. >> we know that the vaccination is what is going to help keep our kids safe. >> reporter: at children's mercy in kansas city, missouri, 11 children are currently in the hospital battling covid-19. >> some have underlying conditions but some are healthy, normal kia t ofenag >>orissoi govr parson l program to encourage residents to get their shots. >> i ask you to turn off the clutter. all the misinformation that's out there, all the people that have a political agenda to talk about this virus. >> reporter: the cdc is set to meet today to discuss whether or not covid booster shots are needed

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that kimy chernaby be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this year. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: and i ask unanimous consent that andrzejczaker and hana oak other be granted privileges through september 1, 2022. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: thank you. over the last four years, the national labor relations board, which was founded to protect workers' rights, has again and again tipped the scales in favor of very large corporations, while democratic nominees to the nlrb were blocked and anti-worker nominees were jammed through, we saw decades of worker protections reversed. this has had a devastating impact on workers in our country, who are not only struggling through the pandemic but have also seen their rights to strike and organize and bargain collectively undermined and constrained in ruling after ruling. but today the senate has the opportunity to begin healing this damage by confirming two exceptionally qualified individuals. that is why i am urging all of our colleagues to join me in

mrs. nixon, although very frail, and not doing interviews or granting them, agreed answer questions that i submitted in writing to her through her daughter, julie. and both with the help of helen smith, who i knew in washington, who was mrs. nixon's press secretary, and then julie, they let mrs. nixon know that i would be in the audience and i would signal to her and she would signal to me. so i was seated in about the third or fourth row there, when she came out. and i nodded and she gave me a big wink and a wave. betty ford i really got know well. and i must say, perhaps breaking the boundaries of professionalism, really came to love as a friend. i visited her many times at her home in the desert before president ford became very frail. and of course he died at the end of -- i think it was 2005 or 2006. but mrs. ford had a great love of history, and a love of the history of first ladies, and spoke often with her affection for pat nixon. so although between the two of them they only represent eight years in the white house, and of course in recent times, from bill clinton to george w. bus

mr. nixon to become president. in return i would grant him a pardon. that was a total inaccurate fabrication. the only way that i could put it on the record under oath was to respond to a request by the house committee on the judiciary to go to capitol hill and lay out the facts. so at the request of the chairman of that committee, and the chairman of the subcommittee, i went up to capitol hill and testified under oath that there was no deal. that the decision was made strictly on what was best for the american people. >> on the third floor of the white house, he is a husband and father first before he is president. >> that is contribution. to history during time in the white house. it was her total dedication to openness, frankness, her real strong belief in equal rights for women, breast cancer surgery. >> jerry and betty ford were committed to honesty. it was their legacy from grand rapids. it would be their example for america. their children became adults before the eyes of the nation, living in the most famous and least private house in the land.

the commission to enter into a grant agreement with multiple venders for prevention of elder abuse services through june 30th, 2025, in the amount not to exceed $946,062 and mr. ceron will present this item. >> thank you commissioners and director dearman. we're requesting authorization to enter into new grant agreement with the institute of aging to operate our elder abuse prevention program and with the asian pacific islander legal outreach to provide the same focusing on the asian pacific islander communities. the purpose of the grant is to meet state mandate to provide mandated reporters of suspected elder and dependant adult abuse with education and instructional materials on abuse and neglect and obligation to report. through this grant agreement, we can continue to provide mandated reporters and community with information on how to recognize potential abuse and neglect of older adults and adults with disabilities, how to report known or suspected incidents of abuse and neglect and give proper telephone numbers to call and information about protective services with our investigation of the report. also, through this grant agreement, the asian pacific i

mrs. nixon although frail had not been doing interviews is or granting them agreed to answer questions that i submitted in writing to her through her daughter julie. both with the help of helen smith who was her press secretary, and her daughter julie, knew that i would be in the audience, and she would signal to me, and i would signal, and she came out and nodded and she gave me a big wink and a wave. bettie ford, i really got to know well, and i must say perhaps breaking the boundaries of professionalism really came to love as a friend. i visited her many times at her home in desert before president ford became very frail, and of course, he died at the end of 2005 or 2006, but mrs. ford had a great love of history and a love of the history of first ladies and spoke often about her affection for pat nixon. so, even though between the two of them they represent eight years in the white house, and so from bill clinton to george bush to barack obama, we have had the unusual historic occurrence of three consecutive presidencies of eight years, the last time that happened was jefferson, madison

mr. speaker, this is shameful. scrap the deadline and introduce automatically-granted settled status, or will the prime minister's legacy be -- [inaudible] local community workers, teachers and many more. >> mr. speaker, it's obvious from the -- outstanding success, because we've had huge numbers of people applying and, of course, if there are people -- there's been several extensions. it's five years now since the brexit referendum. we've founded 72 organizations to help vulnerable e.u. citizens to understand what their rights are to make the applications. anybody applying within the deadline will, of course, have their case dealt with, and i ask them to get on with it. >> let's go to henry smith. henry. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. i pay tribute to the government for the world leading covid-19 vaccination program, and can i encourage my right honorable friend and the government to press ahead with allowing those who are fully vaccinated greater international travel to save as many aviation and and travel sector jobs as possible and help regrow our economy? the. >> i thank my honorable friend, and and i congrat

mr. salesses, between 2:30 p.m. and 4:32 p.m., what were the internal deliberations of the department of defense to grant the request? mr. salesses: senator, there was discussion. secretary mccarthy and secretary of the army at the time asked, what was the national guard going to do? sec. mccarthy wanted to understand exactly how the national guard was going to be deployed come into the capitol? obviously, the environment, because they had heard that gunshots had been fired, explosives, it was a dynamic environment, so what he was trying to understand was what was the national guard going to do when they came up here? were they going to be asked to clear the building? were they going to be part of the outside perimeter? he was trying to understand that. he went as far as going to the metro police department at 4:10 p.m. to sit down with them and make a clear understanding of how they would be deployed. at 4:10, he went back to the acting secretary of defense and at 4:32 p.m., he deployed the national guard. sen. ossoff: was he aware while conducting this analysis that the nature of the request, related to the genera

mr technology. —— mrna technology. we take that for granted now, that it happened. just have it at your fingertips. so i think technology's profoundly influencing everything we do. i want to end by asking a couple of big picture questions about the future. what do you think is the biggest challenge facing us? i would define climate change as a clear thing we can all focus on because it's something we are leaving behind for the next generation. i think our generation will navigate through it, but it's what we leave for the next generation. something in which you need to act early, before the warning signs fully appear. and they're appearing now. before the actual events play out. like covid, except you had to make all the right decisions many years before it actually hits you. i think it's one of the more important challenges of our lifetime. people always want to know about the personal technology habits of those who run big technology firms. i'm going to ask you about some of your habits. what time to wake up in the morning? it varies, but typically 6:30—7. do you

mr. michael s. doyle of pennsylvania for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request is granted. the gentleman from california, mr. lamalfa is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. lamalfa: thank you, i appreciate the time. i want to speak with they here about the situation in the west with the wildfire and drought. as so many of you know from the news there's wildfires breaking out all over in the western states. my home state of california has several going on right now. i represent the very north part of the state, the first congressional district, and we have fires reaching the -- routinely now the five digit mark, including the newest one, the dixie fire, over 30,000 acres. my understanding, 11,000 new acres just last night burning up in the area of the river canyon. this is not, unfortunately, news this time of year or in the west. our -- or anything west of the rocky mountains pretty much seems to be on the line. what's going on is that for many, many years, we in this country valued the smoky the bear principle of putting out fires when they

mr. chair? >> thank you. we have received a grant from the california office of emergency services to purchase supplies to assist our forensic testing efforts. our granter has requested a formal copy of a spend resolution and we're requesting the committee's recommendation for the acceptance of the grant. if there are any questions regarding this grant award, i would be happy to answer them. >> chair haney: is there a b.l.a. report? >> we do not have a report on this item. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment, press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until you've been unmuted. are there any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> chair haney: public comment is now closed. i want to make a motion to move this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. can we have a roll call vote, please? >> on that motion, vice chair safai? >> supervisor safai: aye. >> supervisor mar: aye. >> chair haney: aye. there are three ayes. can you call items 5 through 7. >>

grant funding. >> let's go to -- [inaudible] >> mr.aker, the prime minister promised me that he would listen to the calls of -- had exploded for -- [inaudible] to protect their jobs, businesses and incomes during the coronavirus pandemic. yet over the last six months, many of my constituents are calling to tell me that they have been shut off and ignored, and millions across the country continue to be excluded. i ask the prime minister, why did he give those who have been excluded false hope instead of the support they desperately needed? >> prime minister. >> mr. speaker, i thank the honorable gentleman. of course, i know how tough it has been for millions of people up and down, because i know how tough it has been for business. that's why this government put in an extraordinary 407 billion pounds to support jobs and livelihoods throughout the pandemic, and the single most important thing we can do now for the individuals and families that he represents -- and he's rightly talking about today -- is to help our country get back on its

application here, and they making the case as saying to this court that mr. wilma is a serial law breaker that by this court granting is application, they are in effect assisting him in doing that. and reminding the court that the constitutional court, all supreme court is the highest court in the land. and that court has taken the decision on the system and that decision should be respected and obeyed. otherwise, this country has the situation of legal chaos as, as one of the lawyers arguing against mr. assume it's application, put it so certainly some of the mitigating factors, mrs. duma has presented is that he's an old man and that going to jail right now in the height of a panoramic. he's not fascinated, he's got pre existing health conditions would effectively be a death sentence, but the law is opposing this application. say the court that gave him that present sentence, new or new, his age knew that the conditions in prison, and therefore that court's decision should be respected. nicole, the constitutional court actually said that they handed him that sentence because nobody is above the law, didn't they? w