mr. johnson, mr. perdue, mr. braun, mr. scott, mr. kennedy, mr. cramer, mr. sanders. senator sanders: no. the clerk: mrs. murray. senator murry: no. the clerk: mr. wyden. ms. stabenow. mr. whitehouse. mr. warner. mr. merkley. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. ms. harris. mr. chairman. senator enzi: aye. the clerk: mr. chairman, there are 11 yeas and eight nays. senator enzi: the budget resolution is reported favorably. i ask unanimous consent the preparing measure for reporting the staff be authorized to make any required technical and conforming changes. the resolutions reported out of committee. if there is no further business i remind members wishing to file additional or minority views that hard copies be signed and filed with the committee clerk in dierkson 624 no later than noon tomorrow. i thank my colleagues for all their time and dedication today. the committee stands adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.o

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mr. johnson of ohio for five minutes. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. chairman. -- n acting director vaught vought. i appreciate you being here. i appreciate this budget addresses the mounting problem of unsustainable debt facing in this country, especially on the mandatory side of the ledger where about 70% of federal spending happens. as well as discretionary policies to right size the government so that it works for all americans. i also think the proposal to continue the tax relief provided by the tax cuts and jobs act is a wise policy given what we heard from the c.b.o. director earlier this year that increasing taxes, which would obviously be a requirement to fund all of the new spending programs that my colleagues on the other side are presenting, that increasing taxes would dampen economic growth, job creation, and wage increases. i'm glad to see that the budget proposes -- proposal includes $2 trillion in savings from reforms to mandatory programs. director vought, do you agree that mandatory spending is the true driver of our debt? director vo

mr. johnson? >> i believe it can be done. i think we need to be careful in not having government agencies -- and i know tom appreciates this -- going down the road of regulating speech or regulating political debate. there is a line that has to be drawn there, and i think first and foremost, it has to begin with the self-regulation by those who provide access to the internet. >> tom, one of the things that your predecessor in the white house says is this needs a whole government approach to take this on, generally domestic terrorism has been limited to the fbi. is that something thank you president trump might be resistant to? >> i don't think he's resistant. i think what we heard him voice was a common kind of difference between how pierre reported this and how i looked at it as a policy maker and how secretary johnson had to face this. i don't think that there is a comparison between the size of the threat between isis, which was a much larger, more organized threat to which we dedicated trillions of dollars and a global ef

mr. johnson? >> i think we left at the phrase so help me god. >> can we let the witnesses do it again for the record? >> if they want to do it but some of them don't want to do it. i don't think it's necessary and i don't want to assert my will. >> it has been part of our tradition for two centuries and i don't believe we should abandon it now but i would ask the witnesses if they would choose to use the phrase? >> mr. chairman, mr. nadler, if any witness objects i should not be he should not be asked to identify themselves. we do not have religious tests for office of anything else and we should let it go with that. >> we will proceed with introducing the first witness. >> noted for the record. >> miss elizabeth goitein is the author of many reports running live national liberties and extensive peace in the atlantic title, what the president could do with he declares a state of emergency. before coming here, ms. goitein served as counselor and the chairman of the constitution senate judiciary com

mrs. johnson and they were tremendously helpful.he would take this desk calendar and take it for one year at a time and she would look to it and say, oh, i see ats night we had dinner hall's restaurant, i remember that dinner, and this is what we talked about. , ier a number of years found in the-- i johnson papers, a telegram that becauseuzzled me johnson was out in australia during the war, at a time when he had to decide whether he was going to -- that the senior texas senator, sheppard, had died. johnson had to decide whether he was going to run again for congress or whether he was granted to run for the senate seat. he wanted to run for the senate seat. you are only allowed one telephone call when you are out there and he had evidently called someone named alice, i had never heard of her and she sent back a telegram which said, i think the exact text is in the book -- everyone else thinks you , iuld run for the senate disagree. i think you should run for the house. and he ran for the house. so in my mind is, who is alice? think

mr. johnson, it never has >> reporter: the tunney is the actress who poses as the attorney. >> what are you it again. you have to come back, maya. this time, we're going to get him. >> marsha gave me so much rein, and it was clear from the beginning, are you not playing me. we're going a completely different direction. and i think she wanted to write something that was fun, an escapism, a whodunit in a glossy way. it's designed to be really entertaining. >> this case is already being tried in the court of public opinion. >> reporter: part fictional legal drama. >> it's a soapy show. fast-paced, romance, of course, but there's a lot of bad behavior, people doing unto others a lot. >> not guilty. >> reporter: and part art imitating life. >> did it. mr. simpson, orenthal simpson, he did it. >> you're never going to get me. i'm an innocent man. >> reporter: but clark insists "the fix" is not a revisionist tale of revenge against o.j. simpson for that not-guilty verdict heard around the world. the show is not you, but it's you-ish. >> it draws on my experiences as a defense attorney and prosecut

mr. johnson about banning the box in federal contracts. it still doesn't allow someone to get a job or hide the fact that they had a criminal history, but it does get them past the first stage and after that they can decide if they want to or not. we have to give people a second chance. if they don't, they have prisons to go. we are looking at ex punkment laws for the younger offenders and continue looking at reasonable ways to deal with sentencing reforms and mandatory minimum issue we have in this country. i spoke to the just the tieses in the supreme court, the court had their judicial administrative folks and i said for the first time -- and this was underreported in the first step act, for the first time there has been a move again to give reasonable discretion back to judges. now, from a conservative -- that does bother me. not really when we are doing and put parameters in place but give reasonable accommodations to judicial discretion. and putting judges in place on the district court moving forward. that is where that discretion i

mr. merkley: i agreed to the switching of my amendments. i'd be happy to have senator johnson offer his side by side later or make his case for him, if you'd like me to do so. [laughter] mr. chairman, i have a room full of people who have been waiting for me to deliver a speech and so i'm just trying to be accommodating to the public. mr. enzi: well. we are trying to be accommodating and trying to get finished up here. we're getting close. so, go ahead. mr. merkley: thank you very much. mr. chairman, i offer merkley amendment number two. this creates a deficit neutral reserve fund to stop child separation at the border. and expedite family reunification. to cut the speech short, i'm sure everyone realizes how horrific this practice is. and yet it's continued and we have had numerous reports of several hundred more children being affected. it's time that we send a message that this offers us a great deal, this strategy of inflicking trauma on children. they'll feel it for a lifetime. so let's create a budget deficit -- deficit neutral reserve fund and for the purpose of address

property for decades was the lack of sufficient warnings a substantial factor in causing harm to mr johnson answer yes last august a california court initially awarded one johnson two hundred million for his cancer after using round up on schools as a groundskeeper the payout later reduced to seventy million but it opened the floodgates of some one thousand three hundred lawsuits against bayer but according to one of the attorneys representing her them in the case itself is about months until failing to warn the pub. like i took the clipper representative deposition he said to me that there's no evidence across the board that there's any association with cancer that's just nonsense there is a huge mountain of evidence and this company needs to get straight and be honest with the speech with its customers and say listen there is evidence that is associate with cancer and get let people make a choice about whether or not they use the product scientists associated with the environmental protection agency found those who were heavily exposed to round up had an astounding forty one percent highe

he's rachel ferrari you know and i mean assistant district attorney in new york county mr johnson. can you tell me why you're here today yes. i'm here because i'm in the port of. my colleagues and. for inappropriate. behavior with kids ok so why don't you tell me probably anything how this started what happened you know what happened. you know well that's a feel and remember this and to go around six of them was about. and then. presented me i had. missed that savings and i was at present and you know and so. i had taken. its hands during play time and playing around. and so i remember short and. you know for sure if for in that or the show or you call them. and so when you say give you pleasure at one time that was central. yeah it would have to be. i don't know you know. my memory of this like it is not a bit of it if you read out this demand i did that's your handwriting and it just losing it over briefly because it looks like it's been changed in any way. that's your signature at the bottom here because if you read this out here today you're going to show it to the camera. i do

mr. johnson, thank you. so, in reviewing this project, as i do with a lot, i just google them to just look and see what the listings have said. in all of the listings, even before we got the letter today, it said there were protected residents on the property. even in the pictures you can see that people were living there. i just personally -- i feel as emotional as my fellow commissioner, more and i do think, given th given the powerl testimony of all the folks that came to speak about how emblematic this is and also the community that it's in, i do not feel comfortable rewarding what happened here with approval of this project. it cannot approve this project. >> commissioner richards. >> i said it and i'll say it again and again and again. if he is stuck in a.d.u. why this project in the future we're done minutes tarly and we wouldn't be sitting here reviewing it. i'm telling everybody, you have to get to your senator, your assemblymen and tell them that discretionary reviews needs to stay on the books. ot

johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. the members of the texas delegation will join me. >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. ms. johnson: mr. speaker, today i'd like to recognize and pay tribute to the life and legacy of former congressman, fellow texan, and a dear friend, ralph hall. congressman hall served the people of the great state of texas for nearly a half century. 10 years as a texas state senator, from the ninth district, and 34 years as a member of the u.s. house of representatives, from texas' fourth district. he genuinely enjoyed public service and he was good at it as well. known throughout the halls of congress as an effective legislator, congressman hall made great legislative strides in the science field and was a top advocate for the country's space program during his time, as both chairman and ranking , ber of the house science space and technology committee. congressman hall was the first to reach out and offer his assistance when i was first elected to the

mr. johnson, sit down. the test came back, and they're all positive. your tumor is doing great!"pplause ) trump is also-- trump's also not doing well on his second biggest issue: china. last year, he started a trade war with china, declaring "i am a tariff man." ♪ come mr. tariff man tariff me bananas ♪ daylight come and me wanna play golf ♪ ( cheers and applause ) experts said the tariffs would explode the trade deficit, but trump promised the tariffs would actually bring down the trade deficit. and, surprise! this week, the commerce department said that the nation's trade deficit is at a record high, in part due to punitive tariffs trump imposed. this is what you get when you elect a guy whose central philosophy is that big numbers are good. (as trump): "look at that huge deficit. almost as impressive as my giant, beautiful cholesterol." ( laughter ) ( applause ) "my heart-- my heart pumps light, sweet crude." and it's not just trade. on tuesday, the treasury department announced the budget deficit hit $310 billion, a 77% increase over the previous year. ( audience booing ) i c

mr. johnson is right or not, it is not too soon to begin planning for a world in which the u.k.free to enter into its own trade agreements. welcome now the man as possible for keeping the u.s. of how things are progressing, consul general for the united kingdom in new york and u.k. trade commissioner for north america. welcome back to bloomberg. good to have you here. i won't ask you to comment on boris johnson, as intriguing as that might be. where should we be looking to go brexit in terms of our trading relationship with your country? guest: the point i always make on this is that the u.k. has no more important trading partner in the world that the u.s.. in terms of single countries, you are our biggest export market. we are the biggest investors in each other's countries. so we start with an extremely integrated relationship, but we should be looking forward, think about where we are going to find the sectors that are going to agree -- going to create jobs and growth in our country for your to comes. we should be looking at all of the things that are going to take us forward

mr. johnson. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. arthur, this is not your first time testifying to congress, is that correct?>> it is not. >> how many times in the past have you done so? >> this is the sixth time. >> and each time it's been on behalf of the center of immigration studies.>> the first time i testified before this committee, i testified on my private capacity. >> and each time you've testified you've been called by the republic? is that correct? >> that's correct read >> i heard you mention the term chain migration in your testimony. chain migration is where a legalized immigrant will bring family members over, correct? >> that's correct. >> and you take offense with that? >> with respect to the immigration of individuals of the united states, i go back to what barbara jordan said.>> i want you to answer the question. you take issue with chain migration? >> i agree with barbara jordan, and as compelling interest it should be based on skills. >> now when melania trump brought her parents over through chain migration, is

mr. johnson, the police superintendent basically saying why don't we give this to the fbi. >> right, chicagoa big city but it often operates as a small town. so the fact that you have someone who has the chief prosecutor's private cell phone number making connections between her and a defendant and a defendant who is facing criminal charges, and her sort of trying to smooth, make a smoother glide path for him is questionable. that's something that hasn't been talked about as much in the national media, but it is s something that chicago is very focused on, and i think you're going to see, like you mentioned, perhaps federal authorities looking into this as well as others. >> laura: they are.pe a statement that just came out another one from smollett's attorney patricia brown, she says "the assistant state attorney appeared in court and dismissed the charges. smollett forfeited his bond. the case is closed. no public official has the right to violate mr. smollett's due process rights." i can tell you what they are clearly alleging is that the police and the mayor, in the process of violating

mr. johnson, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i grew up in a large working class family in central south dakota. i suppose there were some years when we were more poor than we were working class. but i want to make it clear my parents worked hard every single day. so did i, so did my brother and my sisters. even with that hard work, 24r were times when we needed help -- there were times when we needed help from government to get by. i am who i am today because of the experiences of both welfare and hard work. government assistance can help people meet people's basic needs, we all know that. on its own, welfare alone means surviving just barely on the edges. welfare can meet short-term basic needs, but education and , k, yes, education and work they deliver long-term hope and dignity and purpose and opportunity. so that brings me today to the supplemental nutritional assistance program, snap. many of us call it food stamps. i know this program well from a number of personal and professional experiences. most of you probab

his racial ferrari you know and i mean assistant district attorney new york county mr johnson. and you tell me why you're here today yes. i'm here because i'm in the port of. my colleagues and. for inappropriate. behavior with kids ok so why don't you tell me probably anything how this started what happened you know what happened. you know well that's a feel and remember designed to go around six of them was about. and then. presented me of a hat and it's as i was at present and. so. i had taken. its hands during play time and in playing around my own. insular immersion. and. you know for sure if for them that or question or if you call them. and so when you say give you pleasure at one time that was central. yeah it would have to be. i don't know you know. my memory of you dislike it's not a bit of it if you read out and demand i do it that's your handwriting and it just putting it over briefly doesn't look like it's been changed in any way. ok that's your signature at the bottom and you read this out here today you're going to show it to the camera. i don't even think people

mr. andy, minnie jean brown, j.t. johnson, clarence t.leaders around the country, and they so the down and gave us an education. they said the black movement and desegregation wasn't knowledge, it was power. it was power. and so not should we be outside any longer with megaphones, but we should and must trade up ourselves to take positions of power to that last beautiful, beautiful word of our black national anthem. i want you to think about that word. i want you to think about the last verse. because the men outside have weary feet. come to the place for which our fathers died. we can't give up, black people in this city. we belong here. we belong here. my mother belonged here. she gave birth to me here, she will die here, and we want generations to come to see themselves and their leaders and their teachers and their fake bares. our leadership depends on it. thank you, san francisco. thank you so much, san francisco. [applause] >> thank you, miss lateefah simon. i'd now like to invite project bank danielle langton and her group up to th

mr. johnson? >> thank you mr. chairman, mr. arthur, this is not your first time testifying to congress, is that correct? how many times have you done so? >> each time it has been on behalf for the center for immigration studies?>> that is correct, oh no, the first time i testified i testified in a private capacity. >> and each time you have been called by the republicans, is that correct? >> yes that is correct. >> i heard you refer to chain migration is where a legalized immigrant would bring family members over, correct? >> that is correct. >> and you take offense with that? >> with respect to the immigration of individuals to the united states, i go back to what barbara jordan said, misses jordan said last >> i want you to answer the question, you take issue with chain migration? >> i believe barton george and -- barbara jordan when she said that absent compelling national interest, immigration should be based on skills. >> melania trump brought her parents over with chain migration, is that correct? >> i don't actually know

mrs. johnson, jack valenti, me, horace busby and a couple of others. and there were all the kennedy people but they were so grief stricken and so shattereds. that we felt as if we were alone on the island, and the ofland was in the midshis great tsunami. my and so i just puiles and all my correspondence, cables and all that in the files, as here i9 years old and there were cables coming in from the uprising in nigeria, and the civil war in cypress, anisthe turmoil of the brgovernment which was in trouble, and the information about the movement of chinese troops th towardborder of korea, and right on down the line there was one issue after another. and what did we know about them? what did i know about them? ac i had been at the corps. even lyndon johnson who had been in many of those meetings with dresident kennedy, wh he know about them? and suddenly decisions were being made about issues for which there was very little time to collect the evidence. you know lyndon johnson kept saying to me, in ill those years, "a mno better, a man's judgement is no b

will make an award to mr hardman and it may be like the jury award that was given last year to mr de wine johnson for over two hundred ninety million dollars so we'll just have to see what the jury but if they do. an act of substantial award to the heart of man and his wife mary then yes this will be a big blow for mom. and particularly for that company the german company bear which acquired monsanto last year sometime around july now bear is not in have be in the company and monsanto makes millions of dollars so in montana this is the around the all around the world now a patent for round of expired nineteen us given in two thousand so the problem is not just with monsanto because many agricultural chemical companies are now selling the eiffel state products around the world well currently there are over seven there open cases in the e.u. has against monsanto well you bring up a good point if monsanto actually knew what there was a previous case in which the same of verdict came about so they had to know something of a case of hardman's lawyers what they will be presenting arguments accusing mon

mr. nicholas johnson. what is axios's "1 big thing" for this morning? >> it's too much technology.the increasing use of technology in all aspects of our lives will keep us completely safe. the 737 max is possibly contributed to self-flying controls at that may have led to both crashes. you may remember with the increasing use of autonomous technology in cars. in arizona, one self-driving car ran over a pedestrian. some cars have caused accidents that killed the drivers. so it an important issue to remember as we're giving over more control of our lives to technology, we realize there's still a role for humans. this runs the gamut. it's like if waze makes me get off the highway too soon, it could be deadly. and this is going to be more in play as more drones and robots are on the way. >> is there any more action from washington regarding this? >> there will be something from the faa letting these planes fly again. this could happen in a week or so. it could be as easy as a software fix from boeing that the faa approves. >> and we're following the massive college admission story. axi

mr. johnson: thank you, madam speaker. this amendment is well-intentioned but riddled with inconsistency that is render it ineffective and unnecessary. although judges should be held to high ethical standards, it is a false equivalence to claim that members of congress and judges face the same dilemmas. judges do not accept campaign funds, they do not represent constituents, and have no term limits. every person who has the privilege to serve in our government should be held to a code of conduct. yet, it is a misstep to assume that all branches of government have the same prerogatives and ethical pitfalls. h.r. 1 already contains a reasonable approach to expanding ethics for the united states supreme court. and this amendment would confuse the clarity and enforcement of these standards. the judicial conference of the united states is best suited to issue a code of conduct for the courts of the united states. judges know best what predicaments judges face and how best to protect the integrity of our courts from corruption a

mr. johnson from georgia. >> i think the panelists for being here today. .legere, the day after the merger was announced, nine executives checked into trump hotel, is that correct? >> we announced our deal on april 29. on april 30, we came to washington as a leadership team for two things. one was to meet the fcc in the doj. the other was announce our quarterly earnings. >> i understand there was a purpose in coming. but the very next day, nine top execs checked into the trump hotel after the announcement, correct? >> yes. i made the decision. i am a longtime trump hotels stayer. well before this transaction. >> but the company had not paid for more than two nights a trump hotels prior to the announcement, correct? >> the trump hotel was only in existence for about a year. frankly, we had no reason. >> the bottom line is that only two nights have been paid for by t-mobile prior to the announcement. correct? d.c. the trump not counting tons of other hotels. announcement, $195,000 has been spent by t-mobile at trump hotel washington. t true? are -- is tha >> that is approximately true. do yo

mr. johnson, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank the panelists for being here today. mr. ledger, the day after the t-mobile/sprint merger was announced, nine t-mobile execs checked into trump hotel, is that correct? >> thank you, congressman, for the question. we announced our deal on april 29th. and on april 30th, we came to washington, d.c., as a leadership team for two things. one is to meet the fcc and the doj. the second is to announce our quarterly earnings. that was the reason for a large group. >> i understand there was a purpose in coming, but the very next day, nine top execs checked into the trump hotel. after the announcement. correct? >> yes, sir. very importantly, if i may add, i made the decision. i'm a long-time trump hotel stayer. way before this transaction. for example, for ten years, i've stayed. >> yeah, yeah, okay. but the company had not paid for more than two nights at trump hotel prior to the announcement, correct? >> sir, the trump hotel is only in existence for about a year. and frankly -- >> so,

mr. johnson for five minutes. >>> think you to the panelists for being here today. the day after the t-mobile sprint merger was announced, 9 t-mobile executives checked into trump hotel. is that correct? >> thank you for the question. we announced our deal on april 29 and on april 30, we can to washington dc as a leadership team to meet the sec and the doj but the second to announce quarterly earnings for a large group. >> i understand there was a purpose in coming but the very next day, 9 executives checked into the trump hotel after the announcement. correct? >> yes sir. and very importantly, i made the decision. i'm a long time trump hotel stairway before this transaction. >> okay. yeah, okay. but the company had not paid for more than two nights at trump hotel prior to the announcement, correct? >> the trump hotel was only in existence for about a year and frankly we had no reason-- >> the bottom line is only two nights had been paid for by t- mobile prior to the announcement. correct? >> at trump dc not counting-- >> other hotels. >> let me, because i'm running

mr. johnson: robert recently passed away peacefully with his family at his side. i'm honored to have gotten to know this brave american and his family. he didn't like to be called a hero, but that doesn't change the fact that he certainly was one. god rest in peace, robert pioli. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. ms. jackson lee: madam speaker, thank you. i serve on the homeland security committee and have done so since the heinous act of 9/11. i have a great deal of faith in the aviation industry of this nation, but i want to offer my deepest sympathy to the people of ethiopia and indonesia in the instance of the ethiopian flight. some eight americans died. ethiopian americans have been calling my office, saddened by the fact their relatives that are very special to them, some of whom lost their life. i called earlier today for the grounding of the 737 max 8, not because i don't have faith in america's genius, but because i belie

mr. johnson mentioned about the -- you would agree the biggest cost to our -- i guess the biggest factor is mandatory spending. mr. vought: again, i would agree it's one of the largest drivers. i might actually agree it's the biggest. when i say that, i'm trying to avoid conceding the fact that we have not dealt with our discretionary problem. and that that in many ways is how you start as a country getting a hold of your fiscal challenges is by identifying the waste and the abuse and the inefficiencies in the votes that members take every single year. this isn't the -- this is the process that's not on autopilot and so what we're trying to prompt a debate with this congress is to say, yes, let's talk about mandatory spending. we propose more savings than any president's budget in history, ut not at the expense of continued increased agencies year over year and what they're allowed to spend because quite frankly, those have a significant impact on the american people. mr. norman: i appreciate this effort and i appreciate you presenting the budget that is as -- is the first step in this lo

fa reporter: the about-face was a slap in the face for police chief eddie johnson. >> this mr.mollett who committed this hoax, period. if he wanted to clear his name, the way to do that was in a court of law so that everyone could see the evidence. >> reporter: mayor rahm emanuel was even harsher. >> this is without a doubt a whitewash of justice and sends a clear message that if you're in a position of influence and power, you'll get treated one way. other people will be treated another way. there is no accountability in the system. >> reporter: the dropped charges come just over two weeks after prosecutors laid out 16 felony counts against him, punishable by up to three years in prison for allegedly lying to police emen he told them he was attacked by two white men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs. heseit was these two brothers who admitted under oath that smollett told them to do it. u say toyou say to people who believe he's getting preferential treatment? in he's not. >> reporter: lead prosecutor adseph mcgats dropped the charges calling it common practice for nonvio