mr. perry: nobody's flying to guantanamo bay for recreating and whatever and would be protesters at some point and of course you won't go there kind of unannounced and exercise some terrorist activity. that's just not going to happen at guantanamo bay so it's shielded by that from the geography and the place that it is. also, i just wanted to say, since you mentioned the military and of course you have a high component of military members in the state and in the area, thank you for your -- you served with your husband as well. we appreciate the -- your sacrifice in that regard. can you talk at all about the costs to local law enforcement, whether it's regarding protests, whether it's being prepared for any eventuality and not have the failure of imagination whether or not one of these individuals would get out or someone would use the facility as a target, can you address that at all? governor haley: you know, we can talk about costs but you can't put a cost on fear. you can't put a cost on wha

mr. perry: all right. thank you. in my opinion, the epa continues to overregulate the energy industry and with that, i don't think they have the ability to determine or examine the requirements. mr. fugate, i'm sure you're aware based on what i have based on december 2015, retiring due to epa policy retiring or converting 81,423 megawatts or 499 units based on regulation. has fema done an examination of how the epa regulations affect the grid and capacity? are you interested in doing that? do you know the capacity and the ramifications of the loss of the 499 units and the 81,000-plus megawatts? ms. hoffman: -- mr. fugate: to be honest, congressman, we depend upon our partners in dhs that do that. we are not the subject matter experts. so we determine for our infrastructure protection what that means and what those impacts are. having come from the state of florida we've seen dependence move from coal to -- i was in the unique experience of having a gas pipeline severed. knoged out all the natural gas to the southern a

mr. perry: without objection, so ordered. mr. duncan: there is a school, elementary school or middle school, near the naval big, is that correct? governor haley: yes. i talked to someone yesterday and said good luck tomorrow. he said everybody in my area is terrified what could happen. mr. duncan: we're talking about south carolinian mothers and fathers considering sending their children to a school in close proximity to some of the most wanted and dangerous terrorists in the world so thanks for pointing that out. the letter that you and governor brownback sent to ash carter, did y'all get a response on that? governor haley: i'm not aware that we got a response. i will follow up and just confirm that but i am not aware of a response. they've been very -- they handled this very much on their own and have not included us in the process. i have had conversations of governor brownback and i have made it very clear and i want it to be made very clear, any governor that has to deal with this, i will fight for them to make sure it doesn

mr. perry: without objection, so ordered. mr. duncan: there is a school, elementary school or middle school, near the naval big, is that correct? governor haley: yes. i talked to someone yesterday and said good luck tomorrow. he said everybody in my area is terrified what could happen. mr. duncan: we're talking about south carolinian mothers and fathers considering sending their children to a school in close proximity to some of the most wanted and dangerous terrorists in the world so thanks for pointing that out. the letter that you and governor brownback sent to ash carter, did y'all get a response on that? governor haley: i'm not aware that we got a response. i will follow up and just confirm that but i am not aware of a response. they've been very -- they handled this very much on their own and have not included us in the process. i have had conversations of governor brownback and i have made it very clear and i want it to be made very clear, any governor that has to deal with this, i will fight for them to make sure it doesn

senator perdue: have the local -- mr. perry: have the local law enforcement in collaboration with federal enforcement agencies done any cost estimates that you know of? i don't know. you said it's difficult to quantify but at some point it's going to require additional -- whether it's additional training, whether it's additional manpower, equipment, briefings, protocols, have you even begun? based on the phone call you said you got, have you even started down that road and have local law enforcement officials aware of this expressed any concern to you? governor haley: whether that be of d.p.s., whether that be our military bases or general, those are the conversations we've had. i will spend whatever it takes to help my people. whether it be law enforcement, whether it be military, whether it be tourism, whether it be economic development, every call i've gotten has been, please don't let this happen to south carolina. representative perry: thank you. the chair recognizes mr. thompson for his five minutes of questioning. repres

the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry, is recognized for five minutes. mr. perry: request permission to address the house. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, this year job creators should expect significant changes to the federal wage and hour laws throwing yet one more hurdle in front of them and their employees as the u.s. department of labor, the d.o.l., finalizes new overtime regulations under the fair labor standards act, or the flsa. the basic premise of the flsa which applies to many pennsylvania employers is that if you're receiving a salary, it must be because your employer is cheating you. the rule that has the force of law discourages salaried employees, discourages the give and take between employee and employer to work for best interest of each one. here are limited exceptions to obligations for narrow categories of employees and those particular industries and occupations. the most common exemptions are for white collar employees like executive, administrative, and professional employees. curre

mr. perry: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, yesterday was tax day where at least the deadline for filing and paying your taxes and i can't imagine very many citizens look forward to that. we all know that we have to do our part, but we are often frustrated by the unacceptable waste of government spending. we all work hard and yet they take our money and oftentimes spend it on things that we find objectionable or worse, they simply waste it. and to add insult to injury, government doesn't have to follow the same standards that every citizen has to, and no more is this more obvious than in the i.r.s. and its commissioner who scoffs at the very same rules that every other citizen has to abide by. now, i just ask you, if you got subpoenaed to produce documents and to protect documents and just ignored it, how do you think that would go for you? if you lied to government officials, let's say government officials in the i.r.s. about your tax records, knowing their requirements, you just refused to provide them, how do

mr. perry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 223456 minutes. mr. perry: i'd like to thank the gentleman from tennessee for offering this bill as well as chairman mccaul for bringing it tooth floor. when terrorists attacked, you find out people on the internet messaging, you say where is the f.b.i.? why aren't they doing everything they can? this is one thing they can do. offer testimonials from people that have been there who are willing to give people who might be interested in joining, the truth. but there are some people who aren't interested in doing that. i want to remind everyone this is the result of a bipartisan task force, member led that said we need to do exactly this and unanimously move this forward to the full committee. they say it's unnecessary. if it's unnecessary, why isn't homeland security doing this already? why not? how long are they going to wait? they say that they offered amendments. really? they offered amendments? they couldn't be bothered to an

the building the two images the scale of this building is now smaller both houses on both sides as mr. perryd 65 percent of additional space underground and can't say be seen and are we have pulled the back so it is no deeper than either the two neighboring properties and we have lowered the parapet that is basically the same height as the house to the north so the red outline it the existing house the green outline it the proposed new three story and the yellow are the areas we've eliminated including areas from the existing house to create more distance away from the neighborly properties on south side we've pulled back 13 feet from the back and another 4 feet about 6 foot 2 from face to face eliminating some of the spaces on a the house and on the north side 3 and a half feet 7 feet from the north side so we have a total of 6.6 separation on the north so responding to the concerns of the commission i think the planner actually went through it well, we reduced the square footage and reduced from a san francisco to a two bedroom, two bath unit and a three bedroom, 3 bath the volume of obvio

. >> chair recognizes mr. perry for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary hoffman, the fast act you were just discussing includes what you were just discussing some additional roles and authorities. can you talk a little further about the importance of the transformer reserve and what your thoughts on that are particularly? >> thank you very much for the question. the transformers in the united states are very critical component of the system. the fast act recognizes the criticality of these transformers, as well as the need to assess where are we at with respect to any sort of need for a plan to develop a plan for transformer spare capacity. so what this means is really evaluate i evaluating the spare capacity in the united states, the ability to transport transformers. so where we should have a transformer stockpile, if necessary. where should it be located? because of the difference sizes and dimensions of the transformers. so part of the plan of what we're look at with oak ridge national laboratories, our plan is assessing the number of transf

. >> chair recognizes mr. perry for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary hoffman, the f.a.s.t. act you were just discussing includes what you were just discussing some additional roles and authorities. can you talk a little further about the importance of the transformer reserve and what your thoughts on that are particularly? >> thank you very much for the question. the transformers in the united states are very critical component of the system. the f.a.s.t. act recognizes the criticality of these transformers, as well as the need to assess where are we at with respect to any sort of need for a plan to develop a plan for transformer spare capacity. so what this means is really evaluating the spare capacity in the united states, the ability to transport transformers. so where we should have a transformer stockpile, if necessary. where should it be located? because of the difference sizes and dimensions of the transformers. so part of the plan of what we're look at with oak ridge national laboratories, our plan is assessing the number of transform

. >> chair recognizes mr. perry for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary hoffman, the f.a.s.t. act you were just discussing includes what you were just discussing some additional roles and authorities. can you talk a little further about the importance of the transformer reserve and what your thoughts on that are particularly? >> thank you very much for the question. the transformers in the united states are a very critical component of the system. the f.a.s.t. act recognizes the criticality of these transformers, as well as the need to assess where are we at with respect to any sort of need for a plan to develop a plan for transformer spare capacity. so what this means is really evaluating the spare capacity in the united states, the ability to transport transformers. so where we should have a transformer stockpile, if necessary. where should it be located? because of the different sizes and dimensions of the transformers. so part of the plan of what we're look at with oak ridge national laboratories, our plan is assessing the number of transfor

mr. perry says that the threat of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the cold war. governor brown called for more public awareness about the threat of nuclear weapons. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone, welcome. i'm barry pavel, director of the brent scowcroft center on international security, and we're to horned and -- honored and thrilled to be here for a conversation with two very, very gushed guests -- distinguished guests, california governor jerry brown and former secretary of defense william perry x. they'll engage in a discussion on reducing the threats posed by nuclear weapons. i'd love to thank governor brown and first lady ann gus brown and secretary perry, and my colleagues and the plowshares fund, thank you so much for partnering with us on this event, and the honorable jan lodal who's a board director here and former president of the atlantic council. he'll take the stage shortly to provide introductory remarks and other atlantic council board directors and all of you here today, thank you. this is, obviously, a very timely to

. >> the chair recognizes mr. perry for five minutes. >> the fast act you were just discussing includes which are just discussing some additional roles and authorities. i can you talk further about the importance of the transformer reserve and what your thoughts on that are particularly? >> thank you very much for the question. the transformers in the united states are very critical component of the system. the fast act recognizes the criticality of these transformers as well as the need to assess where are we at with respect to any sort of need for a plan to develop a plan for transformer spare capacity. so what this means is really evaluating the spare capacity in the united states, the inability to transport transformers. so where we should have a transformer stockpile if necessary to where it would be located. because of the different sizes and dimensions of transformers. so part of the point of what we're looking at with oak ridge national laboratory's, our national laboratories with industry, is assessing the numb

over the course of 2013 staved off the debt ceiling crisis for several weeks. >> this morning perry's lawyers, mr. mcgill, mr. olson from gibson dunn, they're together, and, of course, the government will be in front of the d.c. court of appeals making a case looking for an order that will come from the court, they hope, that vacates that third amendment. they should get a ruling let's call it anywhere from six weeks to nine week, something like that. a fascinating story that continues to be followed closely. a lot of twitter traffic earlier in the week when the documents became unsealed and therefore were allowed to be in the public realm as will the arguments today. >> preferred or -- >> that's what perry holds. it's also what berkowitz and fairhome -- where trials were being used are going to be useful, they believe, and then you've got ackman in a lot of the common and some prefer. but, jim, if the d.c. court were to rule in perry's favor, all of the -- all the equity related to these gscs would go up as they did this week when we at least saw these documents for the first time. >> i want to

mr. chairman for your leadership on this issue. >> why does the v.a. reject perry a veteran with a service dog? >> we don't we are thrilled service dogs help veterans but as a large organization we have to rely and evidence based edison and veteran population and what helps one will not help all and. >> has said the preliminary results pointed to change the thinking within the v.a.? >> in the publications one of the main conclusions is from right out of the paper. shoes also quoted in the military times article that unbiased research needed to be completed. >> with that said the v.a. approach is it fair to say relies heavily on pharmaceuticals? >> i am a veterinarian to make your not familiar? so basically you don't have as much knowledge john pts? >> my role here is for the study i am not an expert of human clinical medicine. >> all indications we have received that you get counselee and you get drugs but there others that would say that that is not good bb you can you answer this but to provide veterans opioids and other pharmaceuticals? >> what would you say? >>

perry. however the deal needs final approval from the vatican. >>> a former mrs. america arrested. why the beauty queen could i've been blind since birth. i go through periods where it's hard to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. learn about non-24 by calling 844-844-2424. >>> we are back now with a former miss america in trouble with the law. police say the winner from 1989 swindled a department store out of thousands of dollars. abc's lindsey davis has the story. >> reporter: she is a beauty queen turned potential convict. >> mrs. america. >> reporter: the former mrs. america, jennifer susan klein, seen here competing for mrs. world, could serve up to 10 years in prison after allegedly making more than $5000 worth of fraudulent returns. minnesota police say the self- proclaimed beauty and style expert who regularly posts social media photos promoting products spent thousands of dollars on designer clothes at macy's back in november. then about a week later, went to two different macy's locations to return the clothes, and collected a $5500 refund. the problem? a store

mr. speaker to travel on the london underground. >> claire perry bringing us to the end of this edition of the program. we'll be back when parliament returns on monday the 11th of april. >>> but for now from me, alicia mccarthy, good-bye. >>> coming up live today on c-span 2, a discussion on expanding opportunities in the digital economy. it's co-hosted by the american enterprise institute, the center for american progress and the merkel foundation. that's at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >>> and the senate returns today following a two-week break. they'll gavel in at 3:00 p.m. and later turn to work on a bill to combat the theft of corporate trade secrets, a final passage vote on that measure is expected at 5:30 p.m. watch the senate live on c-span 2. >>> and on the road to the white house tonight, senator ted cruz holds a campaign rally in waukesha, wisconsin. he'll be joined by mike lee and carly fiorina tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> campaign 2016 continues on tuesday, april 5th, with the wisconsin primary. live coverage begins tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. tune in for complete

mr. butterfield: is this ok? >> oh, no. this is all good. [laughter] this was almost unbelievable perry it was a big state denture -- this was almost unbelievable. it was a big state dinner. there is a big cocktail party in the east room for 30 or 40 minutes, making sure people are enjoying themselves, waiters are passing drinks on trays. and then you go through the receiving line. and then people file write down through the cross hall to the state dining room, and they have dinner. when they come out of the state dining room, they go into the three rooms, the green room, the big blue room in the center and the red room. mr. woodward: you see why he was such a great source, he has almost a cinematic memory of things. you do. now get to the point. [laughter] mr. butterfield: first i have to ask, what was the questions ? [laughter] so, he got all excited one day. he hated that 30 minute period after dinner and before the entertainment started in the east room. that is every -- that is where everyone ends up. there is a 30 minute coffee period. congressman and everyone who wants to talk to

mr. speaker, i rise today to remember the life and contributions of chief justice perry hoop every sr. who passed away this past sunday. justies hooper was born in birmingham in 1925. he served our nation in the united states marine corps for attending the united states of alabama school of law. elected to be probate judge and later circuit judge. chief justice of the alabama supreme court in 1994 marked the first time a republican had served on the court since reconstruction. mr. byrne: he brought dignity and brace to the supreme court along with his consummate professionalism. he raised the court to a higher level. whether you were a lawyer or party, he treated you with respect and fairness. most importantly, justice hooper understood that judges don't make the law but decide cases with wisdom and fairness. so on behalf of alabama's first congressional district, i want to share my deepest sympathies with his wife and his four sons, justice hooper will never be forgotten. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from massach

mr. vice president? lemonade? oh. msnbc, msnbc here tonight? actually now stands for missing a significant number of black correspondents. am i wrong? have you guys seen, they like fired melissa harris-perryse they thought he was related to isaac hayes. that's wrong. msnbc got rid of so many black people i thought boca haram was run that network. what was going on? you know i should say some of america's finest black journalists are here tonight. don lemon is here, too. hey, don. how is it going? alleged journalist don lemon, everybody. al sharpton, i think was here tonight. you know i'm surprised al is a hillary supporter. you don't put a relaxer in your hair for 40 years and not feel the burn. that just doesn't happen. it's impossible, is what i'm saying. right? if you're sitting next to al sharpton feel free to feel the perm. it's okay. we've cleared it. it's okay. lots of big news this year. the treasury promised to hut harriet tubman's face on the $10 bill but now we have to wait for the 2030 for the $20 bill. yeah. man, women haven't been this deceived by a bill since cosby. oh, like i did it. ben carson was also against harriet tubman replacing andrew jackson on the $20 bill. he pr