speaker, i rise today to recognize mr. welchfor his success in business and his dedication to making the savannah community a better place to live. mr. carter: he's the definition of a self-made man whose hard work launched a career in the car business that grew into a large and prominent enterprise. throughout his life, mr. welch has been committed to giving back. he's a devout catholic who supports many projects in the diocese of savannah, not the least of which is his alma mater. in 2012, he used a super bowl commercial to offer a reward for information regarding an unsolved murder of a volunteer firefighter. it led to the arrest and conviction of the killer. in the years since, mr. weapon much has not waivered in his crusade against crime in our community. more recently he took up the calls of his beloved bacon park golf correspond where he got his forrest job. after seeing the once pristine course call into disrepair, he invested millions to restore its historic donald ross design and rightful place in the community. these

mr. welch: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my ranking member on the telecom committee and the chair of the committee. there's two questions here. first is net neutrality. one of the biggest decisions that the f.c.c. made was to protect net neutrality. before they issued their order, they had literally millions of comments from people all across this country in your district and in mine, urging that the net neutrality be maintained and preserved. and the chairman and the f.c.c. did that with their order. now, that has raised some questions as to whether the assertion of f.c.c. authority is going to result in micromanaging through regulation. that would be a legitimate concern if it were a concern. but the chairman has made it extremely clear that he has no intention whatsoever of doing any kind of rate regulation under title 2. he's not going to do it. it hasn't been done. o this bill, which is going to "prohibit rate regulation" has some significant and potentially very dangerous consequences for two things -- net neut

mr. welch for five minutes. >> thank you very much. i want to thank each of you for the work you and your departments do. it's astonishing times when the kind of crimes that all america is exposed to are happening and the expectation on the part of the public is somehow some way you're going to make it right and make us safe so i think all of us appreciate your work. this issue as you've acknowledged is very, very difficult. i think if any of us were in your position what we want want is access to any information the fourth amendment allowed us to get in order for us to do our job. but there's three issues that are difficult. one is law enforcement that you've very clearly enunciated. you have problem cause, you go through the process of getting a warrant, you're entitled to information on the cabinet or in the phone or in the house but because of technology we have impediments to you getting what you're legally authorized. i think all of us want you to get the information you can rightfully ob

mr. welch: mr. speaker, earlier this week the justice department reached a setment with goldman sachs where they are paying $5 billion as the result of selling bad mortgages to good people. i want to ask question of vermont banker asked me. why isn't anybody going to jail? what they did is put together mortgages that were designed to fail. and then they sold them to police officers, to teachers, to folks who have pension funds on the trust that goldman sachs was working for them. so the banker questioned from vermont, why didn't anyone go to jail? that's the question. second question, why are the taxpayers paying over half of this settlement? it's tax deductible. the $5 billion settlement, $2.4 billion civil penalty, goldman pays. the rest of it is deductible. why should the taxpayers be on the hook for the misconduct, intentional misconduct? cruel misconduct, unnecessary misconduct, taxpayers should not be paying a cent. and the people accountable should be going to jail. the speaker pro tempore: t

mr. welch: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my ranking member on the telecom committee and the chair of the committee. there's two questions here. first is net neutrality. one of the biggest decisions that the f.c.c. made was to protect net neutrality. before they issued their order, they had literally millions of comments from people all across this country in your district and in mine, urging that the net neutrality be maintained and preserved. and the chairman and the f.c.c. did that with their order. now, that has raised some questions as to whether the assertion of f.c.c. authority is going to result in micromanaging through regulation. that would be a legitimate concern if it were a concern. but the chairman has made it extremely clear that he has no intention whatsoever of doing any kind of rate regulation under title 2. he's not going to do it. it hasn't been done. o this bill, which is going to "prohibit rate regulation" has some significant and potentially very dangerous consequences for two things -- net neut

mr. welch and i with some of the members that are on the diashave served on data security task force. for the committee looking at how we construct legislation and looking what we ought to do. when it comes to the issues of privacy and data security and going back to the law and the intent of the law. i mean, congress authorized wire taps in 1934. and then in '67 you come along and there is the language you've got katz versus the u.s. that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy. and we know that for you in law enforcement you come upon that with this new technology. and that sometimes it seems there is the fight between technology and law enforcement. and the balance that's necessary between that reasonable expectation and looking at the ability of your ability to do your job. which is to keep citizens safe. so i thank you for the work that you are doing in this realm. and considering all of that, i'd like to hear from each of you -- ms. hess we'll start with you and work down the pa

mr. welch i with some of the members that are on the diashave served on data security task force. for the committee looking at how , we construct legislation and looking what we ought to do. when it comes to the issues of privacy and data security and going back to the law and the intent of the law. i mean, congress authorized wire taps in 1934. and then in '67 you come along and there is the language you've got katz versus the u.s. that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy. and we know that for you in law enforcement you come upon that with this new technology. and that sometimes it seems there is the fight between technology and law enforcement. and the balance that's necessary between that reasonable expectation and looking at the ability of your ability to do your job. which is to keep citizens safe. so i thank you for the work that you are doing in this realm. and considering all of that, i'd like to hear from each of you -- ms. hess we'll start with you and work down the pane

notorious with the accusation of eisenhower being a communist that welch had to be read out of the conservative movement. echoes of mr. trump. the way in which the conservatives today, the national review for example has said donald trump is not a real conservative he should not represent the conservative movement. so there's some interesting parallels there. goldwater and buckley as well went to some pains to say many of my best friends are members of the birch society. their outstanding citizens, respectable americans, but robert welch should resign as head of the birch society. >> i cannot help but be reminded by the use made at a different nation in a different time but i believe it was at least horse vessel was at least a nazi. >> do you want to comment on that. >> know. i will will leave that is. any other questions. >> please state your name. yes i am really glad i am here today it is a very fascinating story. i'm interesting, what happened to the three americans that was -- >> they were to hagan, as i mentioned it took two months for them to make the journey was very arduous. there is a detailed report about

mr. chairman. >> senator adevelopment -- ayotte. >> thank you, chairman. general bogdan, i wanted to ask you recently general welch came before our committee and said that the mission capability of the a-10 will not be replaced by the f-35, yet the web site for the joint strike fighter program says the program -- that the f-35 will replace the a-10. so can you answer this question for us? there's an inconsistency there, and i would like to know is general welsh right or is your web site right? >> thank you for that question, ma'am. [laughter] first, the force structure of the u.s. our force and its fighter inventory is well beyond my purview. so i won't try and explain what general welsh said or what the decision making process is for the air force on replacing air fighter inventory. >> but could, general, i think this is an important question, so when general welsh comes before our committee and says the f-35 a, is not going to replace the a-10 and yet the joint strike fighter says it will, pretty important as we think about the capabilities of the -- general kendall? >> i can't speak for general welsh, but i thi