mr. welch: thank you, mr. speaker. first of all, i'm a strong supporter of the good work that is represented in h.r. 3700. i congratulate chairman luetkemeyer and chairman -- ranking member cleaver for their hard work on this as well as chairman hensarling and ranking member waters. this bill is an improvement over the status quo. this amendment would extend some of the been fits of h.r. 3700 to folks who live in mobile homes. and that happens to be an awful lot of vermonters who are working real hard making ends meet. the idea of a bricks and sticks house is a dream for them but love the mobile home they have and they have economic challenges staying in that home. that is true in vermont and across rural america. what this amendment would allow is for the section 8 housing vouchers to be used for some of the obvious expenses that are associated with owning a mobile home, mr. speaker. right now, only the land rent is what can be included in the voucher. in addition to that, obviously, you have the true cost of the mobi

mr. welchf the architects of that deal along with the man who runs ete and etp, kelsey warren. he's been a chief communicator with wall street, the banks, investors. it was a simple 8k followed up by another 8-k filing where they said the replacement of mr. welch was not based on any disagreement with respect to any accounting or financial matter, it was not a matter of health. mr. welsh's health is fine. not accounting, not helicopter, no information forthcoming. no press relesion. no conference call. no nothing. from a company that has incredible capital needs, incredibly complex structure in terms of the securities -- set of securities it has out there in the marketplace and a need to be in the capital markets. just to put it in perspective, they need 6 billion there cash for the williams deal itself because it's not just a stock deal, it's $8 a share in cash. that amounts to about 6 billion there. they need 3 billion because we're assuming debt will be accelerated at wpz, the part of willia

i don't know if i want to sit through another one mr. welch he appreciate your beliefs he sat here and used the words economic he cleansing i residential design it when i think of ethnic cleansing i think of things when i saw people lined up and getting shot because of a different religion i get where how coming from it could go create pressure thank you for your thoughts i think ethic cleans was not something i would have used but appreciate what you brought to the discussion i go back to the december 3rd hearing with supervisor wiener pr and we joked about it today he was saying basically it us dear completely do something do something stop continuing it i don't want a continuance why wait get it up to the language we voted, 3, 3. >> the land use got it to push it forward basically none of the things we've mentions i put myself back to tonight going you know, i think there are so many issues some of them political to be honest i'll pin the boards for this one for the protection of legal loss to be honest the staff has done an amazing job abs

. >> question for mr. welch if we may, please. in your opinion the difference between an lpa we just approved a project tonight for a hundred units based on an lpa >> deputy zoning administrator said it pretty clearly. you basically have design criteria that you cannot violate. the density bonus, so you can't do what you want to do. i mean you can twist and turn but your staff just told you, no, you don't have the same power that you have in a ceu and that's the question, you know? the answer is pretty clear, you don't. >> thank you. thank you. so the question then, mr. teague, even if we start chopping things off and moving things around and it doesn't qualify for the bonus, what's the deal? >> i think i was pretd clear -- pretty clear that you can disapprove the project if you want. the planning commission has that authority and it's very clear in what's proposed, it's very clear in lpa's, you have that authority. the caveat i was making was the relevance of understanding the context of the program when you are reviewing a proje

speaker, i would now like to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, i respect the motivation that underlying this bill. we've got a debt in this that's too large and we've got to address it. but this is a nonresponse. the job of addressing the debt belongs to congress. it can't be outsourced. the secretary of the treasury has no more authority to address the debt than the secretary of agriculture or education or the democratic national committee or the republican campaign committee. this is a job that has to be done. but it is our job to do it. asking the secretary of treasury to come in and talk about when that date certain will be on default, when we set that date, when we pass budgets, means that we are asking somebody else to do our job and asking somebody who actually doesn't even have the authority to do the job that belongs to congress. you know, every time we vote on either a tax cut or an appropriation bill, it has clear implications for how t

you have a lawyer defending a client like that and actors that raised prices -- the's like when mr. welch said in front of congress, in front of joe mccarthy, decency, where is decency? in this case i thought there was no decency. they came close to saying that today, jim. see you tonight. "mad money" 6:00 p.m. eastern time as jim continues to report on an amazing week out of one market in san francisco. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla, sara eisen, david faber. simon hobbs. we are following the drug pricing hearing at the house oversight committee. meg tirrell is live outside the hearing. take a listen to trey gowdy of south carolina. >> is it pronounced shkreli? >> yes, sir. >> see there you can answer some questions. that one didn't incriminate you. i just want to make sure you understand, you are welcome to answer questions and not all your answers are going to subject you to incrimination. you understand that, don't you? >> i intend to follow the advice of my counsel, not yours. >> i just want to make sure you're getting the right advice. you do know not every

. >> thank you, mr. welch ladies and gentlemen, is there any additional public comment?> on item one all right. this matter is in the hands of this body public comment is closed. supervisor peskin. >> madam chair to the deputy director i know i promised you this gets complicated mr. gibner the ordinance the item before you is a subset of the ordinance that was before this body in december so the very small amendments that i'm going to verbally propose relative to operations and let me previous by saying to any colleagues given the mta fleblths is important i understand the notion that one time money should be used for capital when you can over time see that you get a certain inflow of consistent revenue and when you have a budget the size of mta's budget it is a source of flexibility you have a baseline that comes in year by year there is a tsf or tdif at least they can use some portion of the cooperation with in their structure i'd like to give them that perplexity and to that end i'll propose in section 411 a points 7 that we insert let me pull up for 11 a .7 where it

. >> thank you, mr. welch ladies and gentlemen, is there any additional public comment?> on item one all right. this matter is in the hands of this body public comment is closed. supervisor peskin. >> madam chair to the deputy director i know i promised you this gets complicated mr. gibner the ordinance the item before you is a subset of the ordinance that was before this body in december so the very small amendments that i'm going to verbally propose relative to operations and let me previous by saying to any colleagues given the mta fleblths is important i understand the notion that one time money should be used for capital when you can over time see that you get a certain inflow of consistent revenue and when you have a budget the size of mta's budget it is a source of flexibility you have a baseline that comes in year by year there is a tsf or tdif at least they can use some portion of the cooperation with in their structure i'd like to give them that perplexity and to that end i'll propose in section 411 a points 7 that we insert let me pull up for 11 a .7 where it

. >> now recognize the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. >> thanks for calling this hearing. to go over this astonishing and unsustainable situation of the price of prescription drugs, a couple things. miss retzlaff, if springfield hospital in vermont wanted to buy daraprim what would they have to pay you? >> we have introduced a hospital discount program. >> give me a number. what would they have to pay? >> for a 100 count bottle it would be roughly $35,000 for a fairy count bottle, $11,000. >> how much does that come to a pillo? >> $750 -- is 50% off of $750. >> if springfield hospital wanted to buy a pill it would be $350. what about blue cross blue shield and it was covered? what would they pay? >> that would depend on what the coinsurance was, about 25% of patients on daraprim have commercial insurance, the examples that were mentioned above, the patient would be asked to pay a co-pay of $5,000 in which case we would pay down that co-pay so they didn't have to pay more than $10 out of pocket. >> you are saying if i had to buy that, i had a $5,000 co-pay you would pay all

"welch - yes - mr lang - yes - mr wong - yes" and like that- in favor of a 'consent decree' "we got what we wanted - they got what they want" now allowing a 36-acre development that includes a brand-new 133-thousand square foot kroger marketplace store to move forward "this consent decree holds everybody's feet to fire - and by holding it to the fire - if they don't complete it - they're in contempt of court" the legal battle against developer 'silverman & company' cost the township 300-thousand-dollars. two years ago - amid pressure from nearby residents- trustees denied the request "we believe - and still do - that the original plan was sound even without this enhanced buffer"among other requirements - this plan for a landscape buffer to be built during the first phase of the project "if we would've gotten this buffer guarantee in the beginning this could've all been completely averted"still - "we're being sued to be forced to do something that was voted against" some say the changes aren't enough "this is an accident waiting to happen" "school buses and two-lane road!" deb lawrence li

. >> thank you, mr. welch ladies and gentlemen, is there any additional public comment?> on item one all right. this matter is in the hands of this body public comment is closed. supervisor peskin. >> madam chair to the deputy director i know i promised you this gets complicated mr. gibner the ordinance the item before you is a subset of the ordinance that was before this body in december so the very small amendments that i'm going to verbally propose relative to operations and let me previous by saying to any colleagues given the mta fleblths is important i understand the notion that one time money should be used for capital when you can over time see that you get a certain inflow of consistent revenue and when you have a budget the size of mta's budget it is a source of flexibility you have a baseline that comes in year by year there is a tsf or tdif at least they can use some portion of the cooperation with in their structure i'd like to give them that perplexity and to that end i'll propose in section 411 a points 7 that we insert let me pull up for 11 a .7 where it

mr. freeze has come to town as welch to the penguin's chagrin.the set with robin lord taylor who plays the penguin and he says this year his character is even darker. >> welcome to asylum. the trials that penguin experiences makes him even more ruthless and just -- ooh not afraid of anybody any more. what he goes through is so intense and traumatic and destructive to him, to his soul even. that at this point he doesn't fear death. he doesn't fear anyone. >> gotham spring premier kicks off a jam pack line up starting at 8:00 tonight. followed by lucifer at 9:00. full wrap up of your nace weather and sports on fox 29 news at 10:00. >> young girl battling cancer makes a we shall you might find surprising what she and her friends are looking for in the nationwide movement she started. >> coming up at 6:00 high school student is in hot water for some bad brownies watch police say was in those brownies he was handing out to middle school students. ♪ ♪ >>> forest workers in india come to the rescue of a leopard cub after it fell into a well. the young l

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