mr. jordan: that's the point isn't it? mr. cohen: no it is not. mr. jordan: you did not get brought to the dance. proudhen: i was extremely to be personal attorney to the president of the united dates of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i could tell you a story of mr. priebusaming out reince because i have not taken a job or mr. trump wanted me to which is working with don mcgann at the white house general counsel. what i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney-client privilege and in order to handle some of the matters that i talked about in my opening that it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president -- mr. jordan: here's what i see. a guy who worked for 10 years trashing guy he worked for for 10 years did not get a job in the white house and now you're behaving just like everyone else who's got fired or did not get the job they wanted. mccabe, sameandrew kind of selfish motivation after you don't get wha

mr. jordan: and i would urge, mr. speaker, that all members oppose the amendment from the gentlelady from florida. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. shalala: i do not believe that this is an underdue burden on -- undue burden on the government office of ethics. it is simply a request for us to apply the new waiver to see how many -- what the explanations are for the number of ethics waivers that have already been given. it is simply a transparency issue and it is perfectly appropriate for congress to equest this information. the chair: does the gentlewoman reserve? ms. shalala: yes. i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. jordan: mr. speaker, we yield back. i yield back our time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. shalala: i yield back. the chair: the gentlewoman from florida yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman

mr. jordan. mr. jordan: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank our witnesses, as well, for being here. normally when you start a new congress, the majority gives the designation of h.r. 1 to its key priority. last congress h.r. 1 was the most significant tax reform, tax cut package in a generation, returned millions of dollars to americans, simplified our tax code, and was one of the key reasons, i think, we've seen five million new jobs added to our economy in the last couple years. that bill, the tax cuts and jobs act, was bold, realistic, and it was signed into law just over a year ago. i think it's also helped create the lowest unemployment in 50 years, an economy that's moving in exactly the direction we want. this congress, the democrats' h.r. 1 is the so-called for the people act. more accurate title would be for the people who want democrats to win elections from now on. it includes a laundry list of proposals designed to benefit the majority by tilting the playing field in their favor.

mr. jordan, that's not what i said and you know that's not what i said. shame on you, mr. an. >> jim jordan grilling michael: during that explosive hearing on capitol hill and today he's going a step further. sending attorney general william barr an extensive 30 page letter that is calling on the department of justice to investigate michael cohen for perjury. good to have you with us tonight. explain to me exactly what you want the department of justice to investigate about what happened yesterday. >> we think there are at least six occasions where in yesterday's testimony, mr. cohen said things that weren't accurate. he said he would take it 100%. >> you are not supposed to say things that are not true in front of a congressional committee, particularly when you are the first announce witness of this congress and into months months you are going to prison for lying to congress and you don't tell the truth, that's not supposed to be how it operates. so that's a concern. there are other issues that we spell out in the letter. the idea he didn't register as a lobbyist, when y

mr. jordan votes yes. saar votes yes. mr. massey votes yes. mr. meadows votes yes. mr. grothman votes yes. mr. comber votes yes. gibbs boasts yes. mr. higgins votes yes. mr. norman votes yes. mr. roy votes yes. ms. miller votes yes. mr. green votes yes. mr. armstrong vote yes. on this vote we have -- on this vote, we have 17 yay's and 20 no's. >> i now recognize the gentlelady. >> thank you, mr. chairman. point of clarification. i know that i'm new which is why i got a little overeager, but prior to us getting here, how many times did we as democrats try to shut down a hearing like this when the republicans were in the majority? >> in my 23 years on this committee, never. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i have a number of motions i would like to make at this time. >> the young lady is recognized. >> as the gentleman from louisiana suggested following mr. meadows and mr. jordan publishing an op ed saying that today's hearing is designed to go with the ongoing supreme court case, that statement is false. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the invitation letter t

mr. jordan from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. junior dan: i want to thank the gentleman for yielding. thank him for his service on the important rules committee as our ranking member and his years of service in the congress and on that particular committee. most of the grab bag of democratic favors are unrelated to each other. how does demanding unfunded president ate to divesting from holdings. only one committee marked up this legislation. the amendment in the nature of a substitute was 447 page the rules was 6 2 pages. the oversight committee had ubstantial interest in this. we sent a letter to the chairman asking for a markup, we got a letter saying we'll do that after the vote on the bill. how does that work? i think the underlying legislation is wrong for the country. the idea that every single tax payer is going to have to finance public campaigns, finance election campaigns? just what the voters wanted. just what they need. the very people in the swamp, you now have to pay for them to get reelected to stay in the swamp. t

mr. jordan. mr. king. there was a difference, mr. speaker. we didn't wait 10 years. initially we acted, the entire democratic leadership with a ery point and direct letter. that anti-semitism was not acceptable. period. no confusion. and within days, we put a suspension bill which by the way the rules are waived on suspension bills as the gentleman knows, you don't necessarily have to give 72 hours. but there were 72 hours that that was being discussed and people knew it was being discuss and the leader and the whip has referred to that but i hope that nobody would diminish what we said yesterday about anti-semitism. or racism. r any kind of other ism. let us not diminish what we did yesterday. i think this was a good week, mr. speaker. for the house of representatives. we spoke about making sure that voting rights were protected for every american and not only that, protected but facilitated. made easier. to register and to vote. so that all americans could express their opinion on the policies of their country and their state and municipality or whatever office the

mr. jordan. mr. king. there was a difference, mr. speaker. we didn't wait 10 years. initially we acted, the entire democratic leadership with a ery point and direct letter. that anti-semitism was not acceptable. period. no confusion. and within days, we put a suspension bill which by the way the rules are waived on suspension bills as the gentleman knows, you don't necessarily have to give 72 hours. but there were 72 hours that that was being discussed and people knew it was being discuss and the leader and the whip has referred to that but i hope that nobody would diminish what we said yesterday about anti-semitism. or racism. r any kind of other ism. let us not diminish what we did yesterday. i think this was a good week, mr. speaker. for the house of representatives. we spoke about making sure that voting rights were protected for every american and not only that, protected but facilitated. made easier. to register and to vote. so that all americans could express their opinion on the policies of their country and their state and municipality or whatever office the

mr. jordan, as he was known to me. (applause). my cousin, michael and joann joanne and my second cousins, if they would come up here. for my uncle barney, what a true hero he was in my life, for those of you who know the story and it's very cool to be up here to be able to my uncle. there was one more honorary grand marshal but her family couldn't make it today, mary callahan and we want to give a round of applause to mary. [cheers and applause] >> and again, i would like to close my remarks with thanking you all for coming out here. in has been going on for 168 years. i know john moyland just celebrated his 90th birthday, so he's been out here for a few. [cheers and applause] >> and it's becausema because me him, people like you teaching the little ones it's all about the community, inviting everybody else to come in here. i know my good friend susie loft agrees with me and i'm happy to see her here. happy st. patrick's day. >> i'm still holding mary callahan's certificate. if she were here, i think we all know what we would do r

mr. jordan, for a unanimous consent request and his closing statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask unanimous consent, study from the heritage foundation which finds that strict i.d. laws have no significant negative effect on registration or voter turnout. >> without objection, so ordered. >> i thank you. look, i'll be brief. i want to thank you, secretary ross,. 6 hours and 20 minutes, you've come here, answered all kinds of questions. appreciate your service to our country and your leadership at the commerce department. but 6 hours and 20 minutes for basically one question which is why don't the democrats want to know? why don't they want to know how many people in this country are sip citiz citizens of the united states? i mean, i find that almost astounding. but thank you for doing it. thank you for your service. and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you very much. first of all, i want to thank all of our members for sticking around. the ones who have. i really appreciate it. it's so very important to our democracy that we do this. to you, secretary ross, i

mr. jordan and mr. meadows' publishing an op-ed yesterday asserting today's hearing is and i quote designed to interfere with the ongoing supreme court case, that statement is false. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the invitation letter that chairman cummings sent to secretary ross on january 8th, 2019. >> i object. >> the gentleman objects. >> mr. chairman. >> okay. >> would my colleague yield for a second. >> yes. >> i would plead with my friend from north carolina if we're going to go down the road of objecting to unanimous consent and inclusions of material for the record, it will be a sad day for this committee and two can play that game. so i would strongly urge my friend from north carolina to withdraw his objection to unanimous consent. >> i appreciate the tone and tenor of where my good friend from virginia would certainly articulate his concerns and i have some of the same concerns. we don't want to go down this. i would ask the gentle woman to consider changing one of the phr

mr. jordan from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. junior dan: i want to thank the gentleman for yielding. thank him for his service on the important rules committee as our ranking member and his years of service in the congress and on that particular committee. most of the grab bag of democratic favors are unrelated to each other. how does demanding unfunded president ate to divesting from holdings. only one committee marked up this legislation. the amendment in the nature of a substitute was 447 page the rules was 6 2 pages. the oversight committee had ubstantial interest in this. we sent a letter to the chairman asking for a markup, we got a letter saying we'll do that after the vote on the bill. how does that work? i think the underlying legislation is wrong for the country. the idea that every single tax payer is going to have to finance public campaigns, finance election campaigns? just what the voters wanted. just what they need. the very people in the swamp, you now have to pay for them to get reelected to stay in the swamp. t

mr. jordan, as he was known to me. (applause).joanne and my second cousins, if they would come up here. for my uncle barney, what a true hero he was in my life, for those of you who know the story and it's very cool to be up here to be able to

mr. jordan will, dictate how i go about running my committee.odical, transparent and, most importantly, we will hold the president accountable, and mr. cohen accountable. he said i told them that if he has lied, i will nail you to the cross. and i meant that. if he has lied, what we refer to doj, i can tell you, i've got to really look at it and make sure they are true in inconsistencies and outright lies and that it meets the threshold that even doj would investigate. so questions about whether michael cohen was truthful when he came back before congress in that public hearing and developments that have played out since then. cohen is also now suing the trump organization. paul manafort is about to be sentenced by a virginia judge. stay with us here on cnn. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> the man who helped steer donald trump toward the white house in court right now, about to learn how long he will be locked up. sentence and instant reaction, coming up. >>> split on how to handle a freshman congresswoman's incendiary comments about

mr. jordan. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. jordan: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. it's bad enough this bill will tell states how to run elections, bad enough it will have taxpayers finance the politician who created this law so they can get back. but the attack on free speech. the aclu says we should vote no because it burdens free speech and association rights. it use ours ole friend the i.r.s. remember just a few years ago, the i.r.s. systematically targeted people for their political beliefs. they went after conservatives. think about your first amendment liberties. your right to practice your faith the way you want to. the right to assemble. freedom of the press. what is the most fundamental liberty we have under the first amendment? your right to speak and particularly to speak in a political fashion, a political nature. that's what the i.r.s. went after. this bill does this. it gets rid of the schedule b protections that are under -- that are currently in law. it says the reason it protects the information has nothing to do

mr. jordan who is also.hter] is going to make sure that we get to the bottom of this to whatever extent possible. chris: how can you say whether or not he lied. he said i never asked report and his lawyer said, he directed his lawyer to talk about a pardon. >> again, i don't know how that went down. exactly. i don't know if lanny davis heard something. look, probably yet, i would imagine the panic that was going on, when you're about to go down, right?you'll say yes, let's figure out what you can do. probably, and i imagine that chairman cummings will end up -- that is my guest here when chairman cummings system think i'm going to nail you to the cross, he means it. i have seen him in action and he is not going to let this go. chris: the house judiciary committee. not your committee, the judiciary committee sent documents last week. document requests last week to 81 people and entities asking for information about everything from hush money payments to potential insurance fraud. as someone who says that you

mr. jordan the entire transcript of what exactly was said. they're going through that process. the reality is that -- to me it doesn't really -- we have to focus on whatever was said previously, we need to focus on what was said in the testimony from the point that he sdiedeci he was going to cooperate with us and no longer covering for the president. that's what really matters. i just think this is yet another attempt by the president and his allies to diminish what we know could be very credible. i think that's really where the -- >> if he did lie before your committee under oath in open session about a possible pardon, that further undermines his credibility. >> it's certainly not ideal. but i also think that we have a -- we're never going to rely entirely on his testimony for whatever ends up happening. we know that's something that can set the context, it can give us clues of where to go next. it's not something that you can rely on in and of itself. >> do you believe cohen or do you believe the president? >> considering cohen was lying previously to protect the president,

mr. jordan, who was also going to make sure that we get to the bottom of this to whatever extent possible chris: how can you say you're not sure whether he lied? he he said i never asked for a pardon and his lawyer says he directed his lawyer to talk about a pardon. >> representative hill: again, i don't know how that went down exactly. i don't know if lanny davis heard something. probably i would imagine that in the panic that was going on when you're about to go down that you're going to say that, let's figure out whatever you can do. so probably -- and i imagine that chairman cummings will end up referring him. that's just my guess. when he says -- one chairman, chairman cummings is something like i'm going to nail you to the cross, he means it. i've seen him in action and he's not going to let this go. >> chris: the house judiciary committee, not your committee, the judiciary committee sent documents last week, document requests last week 281 people and entities asking for information about everything from hush money payments to potential insurance fraud. as someone who says that you

mr. jordan? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mcdaniels, democrats said there's no crises, no emergency on the southern border. in your judgment, in your 20-some years of experience, is there an illegal drug crisis, illegal drug emergency on our southern border? >> yes, sir, there is. >> there is? >> yes, sir. is there a gang and cartel crisis and emergency on our southern border? >> yes, sir. >> and is there also a human trafficking crisis emergency situation on our southern border? >> yes, there is. >> so there is? all three? >> yes, sir. >> we've got a drug emergency, human trafficking emergency, we have a gang and cartel emergency on our southern border. mr. carroll, is there a drug crisis emergency on our southern border? >> yes, sir. there's a drug crisis in our country. and all of the drugs that are here are coming into our country -- the fatal drugs are coming from overseas. mexico, china. >> is there also a gang and drug cartel problem on our southern border? >> sbrult. there's no question. >> and associated with this ca

mr. jordan. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. jordan: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. it's bad enough this bill will tell states how to run elections, bad enough it will have taxpayers finance the politician who created this law so they can get back. but the attack on free speech. the aclu says we should vote no because it burdens free speech and association rights. it use ours ole friend the i.r.s. remember just a few years ago, the i.r.s. systematically targeted people for their political beliefs. they went after conservatives. think about your first amendment liberties. your right to practice your faith the way you want to. the right to assemble. freedom of the press. what is the most fundamental liberty we have under the first amendment? your right to speak and particularly to speak in a political fashion, a political nature. that's what the i.r.s. went after. this bill does this. it gets rid of the schedule b protections that are under -- that are currently in law. it says the reason it protects the information has nothing to do

mr. chairman. ranking member jordan. mr. chairman, before i start, i would like to propose a question to the ranking member or yourself. this morning, congressman higgins made a motion to adjourn because members of the supreme court said further testimony on this issue could bias pending cases. that motion failed and was followed by a question from a democrat member asking if republican leadership, their party, your party ever asked to adjourn to keep a witness from testifying to which, of course, the answer was no. my question is, to the ranking member, did republicans ever call a witness whom the supreme court had asked that testimony not be given because it would interfere with a pending case? >> no. >> of course not. here we are spending this committee's time looking into the question of whether or not citizenship should be added to the census, something we have done many times before, something the u.n. suggests, something nearly all nations do and something that exists on multiple u.s. forms and state forms. meanwhile,

mr. meadows, jordan, the president and others have pushed out this false narrative that i spent ten hours with mr. cohen. that's not true. it makes for good fox pundit commentary and so they have pushed out this falsehood. >> sean: adam, we never said you spent ten hours alone in a room with michael cohen. we're saying your staff spent ten hours with him. why? and also breaking tonight, get -- guess what. judicial watch has filed an ethics complaint against schiff over this improper contact with cohen along with a secret meeting with glen simpson. just happened to run into each other while simpson was a key witness in this ongoing committee probe. he needs to not only be reduccue recuseed, he needs to be investigated fully. you do have the right to remain silent, but i think we both know that is not going to happen. he is in love. it is rage, compulsive trump ba bashing. we have a lot more to get to. joining us now with reaction to this huge -- and i bet he read twice all pages. he's a maniac when it comes to this. the author of "the russian hoax," greg jarrett, sarah carter, and the rank

mr. meadows, jordan, the president and others have pushed out those false narrative that i spent ten hours with mr. cohen. that is simply not true. they know it's not true but it makes for good fox bonded commentary. so they have pushed outdi this. >> sean: adam, we never said you spent ten hours alone in a room with michael cohen. we are saying our staff spent ten hours alone with him. why? also, breaking tonight, guess what? judicial watch has filed an official ethics complaint against schiff over this improper contact with cohen along with a secret meeting schiff had with fusion gps counterclaims, glenn simpson, they just happen to run into each other, while simpson was a key witness in his ongoing committee probe. he needs to not only be recused, he needs to be investigated fully. my advice, by the way, congressman schiff, you do have the right to remain silent. but i think we both know that's not going to happen since he is in love -- it is rage, compulsive, trump bashing every hour, every day, every week. a busy night tonight. a lot more to get to play joining us now with reaction to

mr. mulvaney: the freedom caucus was getting really boring. jordan and me all the time, and desantis was leaving anyway to run for governor. raul labrador was leaving. we thought we would let jordan and meadows run it for a while. >> you are director of omb to start. that is like, for members of the freedom caucus, this is like kids in a candy store. you are in charge of the budget. mr. mulvaney: i think i spoke your last year and told everyone what the budget office management did, which i'm sure was an education because no one knows what we do, and we like it that way. it is much better for people to not understand what we do, but it is a great place to work. there was a great way to learn about the government because omb quite literally is involved with everything. i remember when the president asked me to be acting chief of staff before christmas, we spent a lot of time together before the government shut down. we were going through something and i said we had to go through this, and through this. the president goes, how do you know all this stuf

mr. meadows, jordan, the president and others, have pushed out this false narrative that i spent ten hours with mr. cohen. that's simply not true. and they know it's not true but it makes for good fox pundit commentary and so they have pushed out this falsehood. but proffer sessions are done in every credible investigation. i will point out that the sfe l special counsel's office according to mr. cohen's open testimony had seven proffer sessions with michael cohen, undoubtedly far in excess of the duration of the staff proffer sessions that we had, and these are important to be able to make the interviews more efficient when they're conducted, but a large part of mr. cohen's proffer sessions involved his reviewing the transcripts from his prior testimony. >> jessica stone from cjtn, chinese television. >> may not surprise you, chairman, that i have a question about huawei. i'm wondering if you have seen anything in your role on the intelligence committee, not asking you to detail it, but have you seen solid evidence that huawei is a national security threat to the united states? not that i

mr. meadows, jordan, the president and others have pushed out this false narrative that i spent 10 hours true. and they know it's not true. >> those close to cohen have called on schiff to release a transcript from cohen's closed door testimony recently saying it will vindicate him but the congressman would not commit today for a timeline for releasing the cohen testimony. in a separate development, neil, a source familiar with the investigation confirms to fox news that the new york state attorney general has sent subpoenas to deutsche bank and the investors bank seeking financial records for several trump organizations that were mentioned during trump's testimony. the subpoenas are the response to that testimony and the valuation for trump properties, the trump organization had no on-the-record comment today. and fox news also confirmed that the special counsel budget is in place through september, but this reflects the government rules rather than inside information about the investigation's duration, neil. >> neil: all right, catherine herridge, thank you very, very much. >> you are

mr. mccarthy: i think jim jordan did an excellent job as a ranking member. i thought the committee did an excellent job of getting to the point. just like any committee, one thing i do as the leader, i meet with all the committees. but most of it's all left to them to work. this is their expertise. this is what they do. this is what they focus on. reporter: when do you expect to name members of the select committee on climate security? some democrats -- mr. mccarthy: i already named before i walked out here. it's today. reporter: could you share them with us? [laughter] >> last question. reporter: the u.s. trade representative said yesterday that he may not need congress to sign off on any type of understanding between the u.s. and china in regards to a trade deal. do you think that congress should have the opportunity to weigh in? mr. mccarthy: if it's not a treaty, then the constitution says we don't. i support the president in his effort, trying to have a more level playing field with china. let's wait to see what it is. if you simply check via constituti

mr. jordan, pardon me, sir. thank you. i mean looking at the status that we are today you would say the summary of previous administrations objectives have been successful? >> the scope of our on going. >> thousands of people dying. as a former prescriber of these drugs that does not look like a success to me. >> the trends are continuing to increase. >> you agree with me they have been a failure? >> i can't say it has been a failure. >> you would say 70,000 people dying is a success? >> i would say it's a crisis. >> thank you. >> so it has been a failure. >> director carol i quite understand the complexity of this being a former prescription person, there is unintended consequences. so i am from western arizona and i have a population that is fairly old. so some of the consequences of counting pills actually back fire on us particularly with veterans and those suffering from pain applications so a lot of these folks are forced underground because of the previous measures. where they can get illicit drugs cheaper right. >>

mr. jordan. mr. king. there was a difference, mr. speaker. we didn't wait 10 years. initially we acted, the entire democratic leadership with a ery point and direct letter. that anti-semitism was not acceptable. period. no confusion. and within days, we put a suspension bill which by the way the rules are waived on suspension bills as the gentleman knows, you don't necessarily have to give 72 hours. but there were 72 hours that that was being discussed and people knew it was being discuss and the leader and the whip has referred to that but i hope that nobody would diminish what we said yesterday about anti-semitism. or racism. r any kind of other ism. let us not diminish what we did yesterday. i think this was a good week, mr. speaker. for the house of representatives. we spoke about making sure that voting rights were protected for every american and not only that, protected but facilitated. made easier. to register and to vote. so that all americans could express their opinion on the policies of their country and their state and municipality or whatever office the

the republicans fighting back led by congressman mack meadows rank aring committee member jim jordan. >> mrhen how long did -- how long did you work for donald trump? approximately a decade. mr. cohen how long do you work in the who white house? >> i never worked in the white house that point mr. cohen. yes it is no it is not sir. >> you wanted to work mt white house. >> no, sir. you didn't get brought -- >> i didn't want to go to the white house. j here's what i see a guy ho worked for ten year answer trash the guy working for ten or years didn't get a job in the white house, and now and now you're behaving just like everyone else who has got fired or didn't get the job they wanted like andy mccabe about like james comey same kind of selfish motivation after you don't get the thing you want. that's what i see here today i think that's what the american people see. >> our top story tonight president trump's first day in vietnam. a busy one, president trump signing a 20 billion dollar deal with vietnam for vietnam to buy boeing aircraft and technology. which would significantly reduce the 37

mr. jordan is alluding to is the corrected version from his attorneys that he is allowed that may have happened when he was the president's and part of his legal team. we have to see what all of this means and get it in the proper context. that's the way i hear chairman cummings responding to it. not at this time. we need to read the transcripts. >> bill: you are on the transportation committee. boeing has been grounded, that particular line of jets. are you okay with that? and if so when do they fly again >> i think what the president did is right. we should be prudent. the key part is training for people who are not domestic pilots here in the united states. we need to make sure these planes are safe and that the pilots know how to fly them properly and pilots all over the world. i think it's the wise thing to do. >> bill: do you have a guess being on that committee how long that takes? >> i think we can do it -- i think we can come to the conclusion and the faa can quickly within 60 or 90 days. how we deploy the training in a satisfactory way may take longer. >> bill: thank you, sir, democra

mr. chairman. ranking member jordan. mr. chairman, before i start, i would like to propose a question to the ranking member or yourself. this morning, congressman higgins made a motion to adjourn because members of the supreme court said further testimony on this issue could bias pending cases. that motion failed and was followed by a question from a democrat member asking if republican leadership, their party, your party ever asked to adjourn to keep a witness from testifying to which, of course, the answer was no. my question is, to the ranking member, did republicans ever call a witness whom the supreme court had asked that testimony not be given because it would interfere with a pending case? >> no. >> of course not. here we are spending this committee's time looking into the question of whether or not citizenship should be added to the census, something we have done many tyimes before, something the u.n. suggests, something nearly all nations do and something that exists on multiple u.s. forms and state forms. meanwhile

mr. heldfond in this appointment. i have not been happy with the way this was handled out of the mayor's office, and i would have very happily supported wendy paskin-jordan had she been appointed and came before me today. i do want to say, mr. heldfond, i appreciate your firm commitment to divesting in fossil fuels and the e.s.g. in this fund. and i hope that you will continue to represent us very strongly on this board, so thank you for your willingness to serve. colleagues, do you have any comments or -- >> supervisor walton: no comment. i just want to make a motion. a motion to recommend thmove t the full board with a positive recommendation. >> clerk: we will be sending this as a motion, so i believe you want to send it as a report. it will be the expiration of a five-year term, which is what is stated in code. >> chair ronen: okay. >> supervisor walton: okay. so move -- move this item to the full board as a committee report for consideration. >> chair ronen: with a positive recommendation? >> supervisor walton: yes. >> chair ronen: and that passes. yes. can you please read item number seven. >> clerk: item number seven is a hearing considering appoi

mr. heldfond in this appointment. i have not been happy with the way this was handled out of the mayor's office, and i would have very happily supported wendy paskin-jordan had she been appointed and came before me today. i do want to say, mr. heldfond, i appreciate your firm commitment to divesting in fossil fuels and the e.s.g. in this fund. and i hope that you will continue to represent us very strongly on this board, so thank you for your willingness to serve. colleagues, do you have any comments or -- >> supervisor walton: no comment. i just want to make a motion. a