mr. schweikert: i reserve. ms. scanlon: i appreciate the thoughtful inquiries from the gentleman from arizona and that is what this amendment is directed toward. it sets up a small dollar program and assess how it's working going forward. and i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman from rereserves. mr. schweikert: i accept this as ne of the tenets of faith. that isn't what happened. you have 25 years and other states and other communities particularly in legislative bodies. i thought the same thing. but the fact of the matter is what you do in this fashion is the person who is part of a certain leftist group, right group. i just need these folks to write me enough checks so i get enough matching or a good direct mail vendor who hits the ideological extreme so i get those dollars. that isn't the fact. and on occasion, we have to take a step back and look at sort of the incubators of democracy and experience what our state legislatures and understand the reality of what's happened. i'm a conservative. it worked out fin

mr. schweikert: madam speaker, i'd like to make a motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for morning hour debate. and to strengthen ethics rules for government officials. ofre expecting much thursday to be spent debating the remainder of the 72 amendments to the bill and a final passage vote is slated for friday. live coverage of the house when they come back into session here on c-span. >> so right in your wheelhouse why is it a big forslative priority democratic leadership? >> well, it was on the campaign trail. they talked about the components that have made into h.r. 1, all along the campaign trail in elections.d-term it was really a signature for aof the campaigns lot of the people who are freshmen,atic to make this a top priority so i think you're seeing them trying to make good on a campaign pledge. >> it's a big bill in terms of not only prior

mr. schweikert arizona, mr. lahood of illinois, mr. marchant of texas, ms. herrera beutler of washington. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to section 401-c and the order of the house of january 3, 2019. of the following individuals to serve as the governing board of the office of congressional ethics. the clerk: nominated by the speaker after consultation with the minority leader mr. david skaggs of colorado, chair. brigadier general retired, belinda pinckney of virginia, miss karen english of arizona, mr. mike barnes of maryland, alternate. nominated by the minority leader after consultation with the speaker, ms. allison r. hayward of varks, co-chair, mr. james m. egan the third of colorado, mr. liam of westmoreland, georgia. mr. paul d. voinovich of district of columbia, alternate . e speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's reappointment of 306-k, 42 u.s.c. 442-k and the order of the house of january 3, 2019 of the following individual on the part of the house to the national committee on vital

mr. schweikert: would the gentleman be willing to enter into a colloquy? mr. gathes: i would. mr. schweikert: you're one of my buddies from florida. you actually get this. you also know i love the technology disruptions because none of us have figured out if it's republican or democrat yet, which makes it possible for us to do it. eventually we'll break it into partisan because everything has become weaponized. right now, think of this, this is a natural gas electric facility. it can can power 5,000 homes. it is up and running outside houston. t doesn't have a smokestack. all the carbon is captured. they came up this brilliant technology that the carbon actually flows through, my understanding of the engineering, it helps spin the turbines and the excess carbon is saved and sold. we actually have a tax credit that was -- we adjusted, hopefully made it moreau bust as we did tax reform, that if you want to take some of that carbon and put it in concrete or piece of plastic or certain types of oil recovery -- mr. gathes: was it a refundable tax credit? mr. schweikert: it's a tax credi

mr. schweikert: madam speaker, i'd like to make a motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for morning hour debate. and to strengthen ethics rules for government officials. ofre expecting much thursday to be spent debating the remainder of the 72 amendments to the bill and a final passage vote is slated for friday. live coverage of the house when they come back into session here on c-span. >> so right in your wheelhouse why is it a big forslative priority democratic leadership? >> well, it was on the campaign trail. they talked about the components that have made into h.r. 1, all along the campaign trail in elections.d-term it was really a signature for aof the campaigns lot of the people who are freshmen,atic lawmakers and

mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. let me recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. evans, to inquire. mr. evans: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, you mentioned, you talked about the word of poverty and that's been a huge concern obviously in the state of pennsylvania, particularly in the city of philadelphia. i want to raise the question about utilizing low-income housing tax credits and private activity bonds to fund low-income housing. i'd like to know your thoughts on fixing the low-income housing tax credit at 4% while either removing the cap from private activity bonds or havinga expired cap funds go back into the pool. mr. mnuchin: i'd be happy to follow up with you in your office to go through the specifics and your ideas of what we should do on that. we'd be open-minded to looking at your suggestions. mr. evans: second question, i want to kind of follow up a little bit on the issue regarding opportunity zones. obviously that is a great concept. however, it appears that, although well-intended, weal

mr. schweikert: hopefully i won't use the whole two minutes. having been here for a little while, be careful. good intentions and when people often bring us issues and bring us -- be careful. you may have good intentions and the intentions are often of those who bring us a thought or issue until we vetted whether they have particular potential, particular interest, i'm just sharing my concern. the amendment just as it's designed right now, our side is going to have to vote no. we create a fourth level. we don't create enough definitions. we hand so much power to the executive director. for the gentlewoman, i would love to talk to you about election encryption and my personal fixation on block chain technology, but for this one, i think we may miss the mark. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman is recognized. she has three minutes left. ms. scanlon: i would yield to the much more experienced gentleman from maryland. the chair: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. sarbanes: i thank

mr. schweikert from arizona. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. you look good in that seat. >> majority has its privileges. >> this is one of those -- look, i love this subject. because i -- i see it a bit as a puzzle. but let me share with the panel and my fellow members, i see it as a financing issue, a technology and then we're going to have to deal with permitting litigation, those sorts of things. first on the financing, and madam chairwoman, i would like to actually just submit for the record, it's a basically -- it's something from the center for capital markets about the amounts of insurance capital that would be available. and part -- with no objection. >> without objection. >> and one of the reasons for putting that in the record is we have on occasion -- we'll hear, do we need the infrastructure bank, those things. capital isn't our problem. it's silos to pay it back. it's what is the mechanism to pay it back. there's -- seems to be plenty of capital floating around our society in the world right now for infrastructure. it's what you're