mr. pallone: thank you, steve. congressman mcnerney. mr. mcnerney: i want to thank everyone here and everyone listening to us too. i think the more the word gets out, the better off we're going to be. i heard a couple of things i want to rehash. dr. mckee, you mentioned that at a minimum, 10% of the nfl players are going to be affected or are affected by c.t.e. and that this is -- the question you asked is this an acceptable risk? i think that's a profound question at this point. dr. stern, your question was do we want to have children engage in sports -- we want to have children, it's not a question, we want to have children engaged in sports but how do we do it without risk of c.t.e. and related problems? in the prior set of questions, the technology came up. can we make a helmet that's going to save people's brains? and the thing is that deceleration injuries are what's causing it. is there any sort of technology that you can see that would make a difference? dr. mckee: no. the solution to this is not going to be technology. as henry cars

mr. mcnerney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcnerney: i want to thank the ranking member for his hard work on this he's been a great voice. this is a harmful and decreateful bill, it's strictly part -- deceitful bill. it's strictly partisan. when you do something on a partisan basis it's not going to work. learn from our mistakes. work with us. there hasn't been a single hear tissue hearing on this bill. is the public out there confused? they should be because they haven't been informed about what this bill does. it was rushed through in one week. it takes more than a week to name a post office around here. what's going on here? no one understands the consequences of this bill but i can tell you what it does, it will greatly reduce taxes for corporate america. it'll reduce taxes for the wealthy. and so where do you think the money is going to come from to pay for social security, to pay for our roads and highway, pay for our education, pay for medicare? i can tell you if you haven't guessed, it's going to come from the middle cl

mr. mcnerney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcnerney: i want to thank the ranking member for his hard work on this he's been a great voice. this is a harmful and decreateful bill, it's strictly part -- deceitful bill. it's strictly partisan. when you do something on a partisan basis it's not going to work. learn from our mistakes. work with us. there hasn't been a single hear tissue hearing on this bill. is the public out there confused? they should be because they haven't been informed about what this bill does. it was rushed through in one week. it takes more than a week to name a post office around here. what's going on here? no one understands the consequences of this bill but i can tell you what it does, it will greatly reduce taxes for corporate america. it'll reduce taxes for the wealthy. and so where do you think the money is going to come from to pay for social security, to pay for our roads and highway, pay for our education, pay for medicare? i can tell you if you haven't guessed, it's going to come from the middle cl

mr. mcnerney: mr. speaker, it's critical we re-authorize chip. slashing public health funding is not the way to do it. treatment of chronic diseases that accounts for 75% of our nation's health care spending and many of these diseases can be prevented. unfortunately, h.r. 3922 does not do that at all. this bill cuts in half the a.c.a. prevention and public health fund that plays a criticalole in preventing and treating chronic diseases, including keeping kids healthy. the massive cuts to this funding will be devastating to my central valley of california district. my district has the largest number of tuesday besh low ciscases for children under 5 years old. children in this age group will develop life thatening forms of t.b. since their immune is less mature. they are releague on the funding from the prevention fund to address t.b. outbreaks. it's troubling that republicans are using chip re-authorization to take poor public health services away from kids. it's also frustrate bug not surprising the reblicans are making another attempt to sabotag

mr. mcnerney: mr. speaker, it's critical we re-authorize chip. slashing public health funding is not the way to do it. treatment of chronic diseases that accounts for 75% of our nation's health care spending and many of these diseases can be prevented. unfortunately, h.r. 3922 does not do that at all. this bill cuts in half the a.c.a. prevention and public health fund that plays a criticalole in preventing and treating chronic diseases, including keeping kids healthy. the massive cuts to this funding will be devastating to my central valley of california district. my district has the largest number of tuesday besh low ciscases for children under 5 years old. children in this age group will develop life thatening forms of t.b. since their immune is less mature. they are releague on the funding from the prevention fund to address t.b. outbreaks. it's troubling that republicans are using chip re-authorization to take poor public health services away from kids. it's also frustrate bug not surprising the reblicans are making another attempt to sabotag

mr. mcnerney: mr. speaker, it's critical we re-authorize chip. slashing public health funding is not the way to do it. treatment of chronic diseases that accounts for 75% of our nation's health care spending and many of these diseases can be prevented. unfortunately, h.r. 3922 does not do that at all. this bill cuts in half the a.c.a. prevention and public health fund that plays a criticalole in preventing and treating chronic diseases, including keeping kids healthy. the massive cuts to this funding will be devastating to my central valley of california district. my district has the largest number of tuesday besh low ciscases for children under 5 years old. children in this age group will develop life thatening forms of t.b. since their immune is less mature. they are releague on the funding from the prevention fund to address t.b. outbreaks. it's troubling that republicans are using chip re-authorization to take poor public health services away from kids. it's also frustrate bug not surprising the reblicans are making another attempt to sabotag

mr. mcnerney. mr. mcnerney: i want to talk about climate. we know that climate is changing. california we had the lives.es that claimed 40 and we see devastating and more powerful than ever before. the effects are there. now the thing we are faced with if there is a go significant amount of people hole deny climate change. something that is in your interest, you will talk into anything that is everything. we continue to use fossil fuel. f you are a company that produces fossil fuels, this is what you want. the cost of denial is clear. we talked about weather and health effects and both in terms of elevated temperatures us causing people to have health roblems and going from the a kuwaitor and significant infrastructure costs. these are real costs that we are going to pay for the denial? the significant benefits, we have been spending american taxpayer dollars to reduce carbon emissions. i was working at u.s. wind power with some amount of taxpayer llars we developed wind pour technology. tax credits ended. made a lot of money based on that and we paid for that in united stat

mr. mcnerney. >> i thank the chairman, and i thank the witnesses this morning. mr. alexander, you mentioned prevention as a part of the mission. within the stafford act framework, can the electric infrastructure of puerto rico be rebuilt to improve grid resilience and using sustainable technology? >> sir, the stafford act allows us to restore the grid to prestorm conditions. meeting u.s. code, electrical code, in order to satisfy life, health, safety requirements. some have interpreted that to mean we are making a more resilient or betterment on the system. but that is not the case. >> okay. ms. hoffman, has there been a credible estimate of the cost difference between rebuilding a system that's resilient or just rebuilding the old system to look like it did before? >> there has not been a cost estimate taken in consideration. the amount of work that has been done, and that is being planned to be accomplished from the army corps of engineers. so there has been discussion around different advanced solutions. but that needs to be baselined with the work and building p

mr. mcnerney, you're recognized for five minutes. >> i thank you for the hearing and the commissioners for your work. it's not an easy job. and it's interesting to see the different viewpoints you all have. mr. chairman, i recently had a chance to visit huddle, which is a co-worker space in my district where startups go together to bring innovative ideas and working hard to get their businesses off the ground. but they're very worried about the impact that doing away with net neutrality protection also do to their businesses. would you -- if net neutrality protections are weakened, as you propose, can you commit to me that small businesses and jobs will not be hurt in my district? please answer with yes or no. >> congressman, i didn't know that particular company, but obviously we support a free and open internet that allows small businesses like that to thrive. >> commissioner clyburn, do you think that that will hurt small businesses? >> i think if we shift gears that it would. that they would not have the certainty that they need. and i think that what doesn't get enough attention is th