mr. paulson because you've been a former fema administrator.ld you be able to speak to it is required every five years to update the flood maps? >> i know what i was the fema administrator we had started doing flood mapping in the eastern part of the united states and north carolina was one of the first states we started. i'm not sure how fall -- how far but i know fema had started that process of trying to do the entire country to get more accurate flood maps. >> i appreciate you all being willtoday and i think i have to submit my questions for the record for someone else in your agency to answer but i appreciate your cooperation. thank you. the chair recognizes the gentleman for five minutes. >> just backed the line of questions by the subcommittee ranking member. i asked similar questions at an earlier hearing and what we have is a contradiction. the two contractors claim that fema reviewed the contract and signed off on excluding oversight. that has been denied by fema and again today. the inspector general is going to try to get to the bot

mr. steve paulson. >> good morning to you mr. sal castaneda. >> we're looking at the tracy super commute. and westbound 580 looks pretty good. eastbound there's a little bit of roadwork towards stoce roadw little bit of a delay. nothing major but it's not going to you're heading that way. and tracy commute to livermore things are getting more crowded by the moment. and castro valley, it's off to a good start. and at the bay bridge, it's a good trip to san francisco. >>> developing news out of el sobrante. a deadly shooting on san pablo road bridge. investigators have been on the scene. a body of an unidentified person was seen in front of a home and authorities are not releasing any information. the san pablo dam road, we'll have a live update in the 5:00 hour. >>> 22 soldiers are recovering after a large tent collapsed at an army base in monterey county. it happened about 70 miles southeast of big sur. a blackhawk helicopter was landing around 9:30 and the wind from the rotor caused the tend to collapse. most of the people were

mr. paulson is recognized. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for being here and sharing your personal stories. being from minnesota, you know, minnesota being the third largest producer of soy beans in the country, it's our farmers who have been planting soy beans well before the current trade dispute haves been in place. and well before china announced a tariff on u.s. soy beans. prices for soy beans are down a dollar and a half or more per bushel. you have farmers facing uncertainty, knowing they have to harvest the crops in the fall. but they won't have access to the marks they've come to rely on. would you share your perspective on that. i think the uncertainty farmers are facing from these tariffs are hurting the broader community, projects being put on hold and it's hurting the economy on a broader perspective. let me just ask you as a fourth generation farmer, do you think that these tariffs will hinder future generations of farmers from a long-term perspective and make it more difficult for the family farm to be handed down? p

mr. paulson and mr. sheehan discussed are all challenges that we face but from the state and local perspective, the more you do in policy to add incentives, it just helps us to reiterate the importance of those mitigation steps and it gives us the leverage that we need to do those mitigation steps, even another they are link at this and even though they are costly. there are other things to spend that money on. and some more incentives that are there at all levels and, as i mentioned earlier, directly to private sector partners and citizens would also be a benefit. the more incentives, the better there. that gives us more leverage to back up the mitigation projects and hopefully do more in the future. >> thank you. the chair recognizes ms. titus for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would just like to go back to some questions i was asking earlier. as you noted in your generalized answer, i had some specific questions i wanted to ask you one more for the record. can you very specifically provid

mr. paulson in the u.s., all want to save their respective economies, i don't think there's any doubt aboute real issue is that until we get exit, it is hard to say whether it was a success in the grand scheme of things certainly it seemed to have stopped the tide, and there were big tides at the time. that isn't my definition of success. i understand those issues. in the u.s., we can debate how they bailed out banks. the real issue is how long this policy remained in place and what damage that indeed has done what companies exist today health of the banks, especially in europe today versus then. maybe securities are acting differently. in many ways, that's more policy give you an example. one week after he said that, they introduced omt. but they scrapped it just like they scrapped but they scrapped it just like paulsen's first plans. and qe ended up taking it over the real issue is markets were saved. but the inventory of much of what saved them still hasn't been undone. jon fortt, back to you >> thank you, rick santelli. >>> when we come back, one of the largest ipos year, up 30% plus, w

mr. paulson for any additional comments of introduction and he would like to make. >> i am proud to welcome kevin paap here along with his wife who is joining him as a fourth- generation farmer. he is going to provide the minnesota perspective on the negative impacts of tariffs. i welcome him. >> our fourth witness is scott vanderwall. he is secretary and treasurer of vanderwall farms, president of the south dakota farm bureau and vice president of the american farm bureau iteration. i would -- >> i am proud to introduce my friend and fellow south dakota and scott vanderwall traveling here today. i think it is imperative when we have these discussions and have folks testifying that live the reality of these tariffs and retaliation we are seeing from other countries against our farmers and ranchers, but has longtime been a leader for agriculture across the country. his farm and ranch is about 45 miles south of my ranch. i have appreciated his leadership not just at the state level, but the national level as well. him and his wife michelle have been active. they raise going and soybeans and h

mr. paulson for additional comments of introduction? >> i'm proud to welcome kevin pap here along with his wife. he's a fourth generation farmer. he's going to provide the minnesota perspective on the negative impacts of tariffs. i welcome him. >> thank you. our fourth witness is scott vander wall, secretary and treasurer of vanderwall farms. president of the south dakota farm bureau and vice president of the american farm bureau federation. and i would yield to representative gnome for any additional comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm proud to introduce my friend and fellow south dakotan paul vanderwall. it's imperative we have folks testifying that live the reality of the tariffs and the retaliation from other countries against our farmers and ranchers. scott has been a leader for agriculture across the country. his farm and ranch is just about 45 miles south of my ranch. i've known him for many years and appreciated his leadership not just at the state level but at the national level as well. him and his wife michelle have bee

mr. steve paulson. >> thank you, mr.al castaneda. >>> from florida to the carolinas they are looking for 5 to 10 inches of rain without a tropical connection. there's no tropical storm. there's no hurricane. but there's projections of really heavy rain. from mainly tampa, st. pete, northward. if you're traveling that way, be advised. they had some pretty good thunderstorms yesterday. today looks quieter. no flash flood watch. probably more isolated with the high pressure building in. that provides a little bit more of a cap. fog is there. no problem. water temps came down a sociofrom the upper 50s and 60s to about 58, 59 degrees. a few filter in. 57, 59. and that's down from bodega bay. yesterday they were 60. berkeley is e. 54 at the napa airport. and 50s and 60s here. and temperatures 58 in livermore. and you can find 60s but you to and upper 50s for dublin. and also into danville. walnut creek, martinez, and 57, 58, 59, there's still a decent breeze at travis. still holding on. heat advisory starts noon and goes until

mr. micklethwait: hank paulson came here -- mr. blankfein: but i am still assuming that people will be caring about their credit rating position and people tend to pay back when they can. we will have to make the right macro -- again, macro risk decision. make a judgment about one person or 500 people is a thing.etchy it is easy to make a judgment on 50 million people. mr. micklethwait: and if the politics come back, you will have all of these banks that had to go through the hell of 2008 and 2009, which you did in a very different way. this particular one, if it does go bad in consumer debt, this is something where people will use images which may not be as helpful. mr. blankfein: well, i will tell you, we will be the ones who will suffer because, again, these are not mortgages on people's homes or secured lending. if they don't pay us back, we will be the ones on tv will feel -- on tv you will feel sorry for. [laughter] mr. micklethwait: it is possible. [laughter] mr. blankfein: by the way, we have other consumer verticals, too.

mr. chairman, congressman paulson, that is a great question. you know, the driveway that julie and i drove down yesterday on the way to the airport was the same driveway our family used 119 years ago. personally, except for college, it in my lifetime i have only ever lived in three houses onto farm yards have a mile from each other. our son is farming a half-mile down the road living in a house his great built, sleeping in the same bedroom he was born in as a fifth-generation in agriculture. we hope they are working on that sixth generation sometime as well. what we need, what that safety net is is trade to continue. as we have young farmers and ranchers wanting to get in, it is hard to get started in agriculture. ask existing family. farmers and ranchers are all , but thetainability most important sustainability in agriculture with farm families is that generational sustainability. the ability to continue on the next 119 years. i really worry that we do not have the ability as we are not taking advantages of markets that we have got. we have s

mr. steve paulson -- >> thank you -- >> we'll go 94 in napa. that's in napa. not yawnville.st. helena gets hot. and san jose, 90, 63. the average is 82, 58. 102 in 1959, the record high. and 43 back in 1893, the record low. i remember that morning, dave. >> i know you do. period of time there was a c hillin the air that lot of that is disappearing fast. a teeny bit of drier air is in. tropical monsoon moisture to thea and a little bit sneaks itgoing the record rain for phoenix, a half inch of rain. that's a lot of rain on the desert. and they had a massive dust storm. especially near yuma. look at the thunderstorm activity. southern california and the high desert. there are projections after thursday that we might see some of that. the possibility of some of that coming off the sierra and maybe -- lake county and also in the mother load. that would be towards friday and into the weekend. 50s, 60s, to 76 in brentwood. berkeley is 59 degrees. and around the bay, 57 seems popular. kensington, el cerrito. and the city is 57. tiburon at 54. you want to cool down. arcata. 56 in mo

mr. steve paulson. >> it has been this way since the beginning of the month, although it looks like inlandmp up. no great shakes on the weather. it will be mainly south and in the valley. there is fog inland through wednesday. officially, livermore has not had a 100 degree temperature yet. it is getting smoking hot already down in the desert southwest, at 101. phoenix is at 97 degrees. we are starting to see the fog burning and there's plenty on the coast in that will keep the coastal areas in the 60s and 70s. sierra nevada is the big news, with flash flood watches at 2 pm to 9 pm. temperatures are cooler, -4 in san jose, fairfield bumping up a little bit. there is enough of a breeze hanging on to the west southwest. there are tropical clouds and thunderstorms in the sierra. there have been some pretty good boomers there in the last 24 to 36 hours. we have temperatures from the 60s to the 90s. it looks like it will cool right back down after thursday, heading into the weekend. >>> barbara lee announced her bid for democratic congress chair this morning. if she succeeds, she would become th

mr. paulson for additional comments of introduction? >> i'm proud to welcome kevin pap here along with his wife. he's a fourth generation farmer. he's going to provide the minnesota perspective on the negative impacts of tariffs. i welcome him. >> thank you. our fourth witness is scott vander wall, secretary and treasurer of vanderwall farms. president of the south dakota farm bureau and vice president of the american farm bureau federation. and i would yield to representative gnome for any additional comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm proud to introduce my friend and fellow south dakotan paul vanderwall. it's imperative we have folks testifying that live the reality of the tariffs and the retaliation from other countries against our farmers and ranchers. scott has been a leader for agriculture across the country. his farm and ranch is just about 45 miles south of my ranch. i've known him for many years and appreciated his leadership not just at the state level but at the national level as well. him and his wife michelle have bee

mr. tim paulson, now executive director of the building trades. >>> okay. i apologize. we had a lot of different requests. m supervisor safai would like mr. arsay to speak. >> i apologize for missing timing and things like that. i want to ask about city build and how it relates to things on the table. there's been a lot of question about city build and how it may play with this proposal. i know we're going to be prop e proposing amounts and what that means. i think they're very committed to seeing a pathway for all the different underrepresented communities that you work with. i just want to hear your thoughts on that. >> thank you, supervisor safai. in the office, economic, and workforce development, i just want to say thank you for all your hard work, obviously to the city administrator, policy makers, and the contracts particularly lbe coming together. for city build as a program, and i'm happy to provide further context on what city build is or does. it's a program that's been around for 12 years. it's the preapprenticeship program that provides pathways to career op

mr. steve paulson in. >>> we will get right to it. we have plenty of low clouds and fog and hazy skies. much of the coast and city cannot get out of the low 60s. slight delays at san jose, not to to -- not due to fog but due to thunderstorms. i could find dallas -- there might be a delay, about 45 minutes if you are flying out of san jose. the problem here is with this with -- west northwest wind, you get smoke moving into upper lake, and from the river fire, coming down to the west, you get smoke moving into lakeport. it is a generally west northwest freeze. -- breeze. it is due west of lakeport. that is where all the smoke continues to pour in. it is better than north east but that is where the smoke has been going towards, lake county and clear wake -- clear lake. we have no monster -- monsoon moisture. the smoke rings hazy conditions. temperatures are anywhere from 52 in the sistine -- city and santa rosa has a fog. it is 51 degrees, 50s for many, 60s for some. tracy is at 63 and 64. 58 in dublin but 53 cool degrees in lafayette. the lot -- water temperatures make a huge difference.

executive director's, rudy gonzalez and tim paulson from the labor council and my sister alyssa from 2121. we have the operator's army in the house. we have mrjames bryant who played an interesting -- a great role in labor over many years. we must continue to work together and continued to fight together. we are with you guys in terms of making sure that we continue to fight for worker's rights. thank you. [applause] >> i was going to try and recognize some of the labor folks here but i think joseph just covered everybody. tim, connie, ramon, also everybody else. thank you for participating and attending. the next speaker's rep estate -- reputation precedes her. she has been the organizing director with a chinese progressive association. [cheers and applause] >> i was nervous, but now i have something to distract you all. just watch him if i get off track here. good afternoon. many thanks to pat and -- let's give it one more round of applause to the hard-working staff of the office of labor standards enforcement you every day help workers to make sure every day law is a reality and not just a good theory. i want to start by saying it has bee