mr. rogers, seek recognition? mr. rogers: madam speaker, pursuant to the rule just adopted, house resolution 495, and as the designee of the majority leader, i call up h.r. 1314, with the senate amendment thereto and i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the senate amendment and designate the motion. the clerk: h.r. 1314, an act to amend the internal revenue code to 86, to provide for a adverse determination of tax-exempt status of certain organizations. senate amendment. mr. rogers of kentucky moves that the house concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 1314, with an amendment. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 495 the motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the majority leader and the minority leader or their designees. the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. roger

mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i yield such time as he may consume to a very valued member of my committee who happen also to be the chairman -- happens also to be the chairman of the labor-h.h.s. subcommittee, tom cole. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: i thank, mr. speaker. first i want to begin by congratulating both my chairman and my ranking member for the exceptional job they've done this year in getting all 12 appropriations bills through the full committee for the first time since 2009. so we really have on the appropriations committee done our work. six of those bills have come across the floor. and frankly, i think we would have had more across the floor if our friends in the senate, who are blocked by the democratic minority, had an opportunity to bring their bills to the floor. i think we're here in part because of inaction by the minority in the united states senate. it's ground the whole process to a halt. but i'm very pleased to see both my chairma

mr. rogers. and thank you for your this courageous support of our legislation, our great chairman of the appropriations committee -- aarp wrote, aarp strongly supports the bipartisan agreement you reached to avert deep reductions in social security disability benefits in 2016 and to address the imminent spike in medicare part b premiums which many older americans would otherwise experience. your efforts to reach across the aisle and together find sensible solutions to significant problems are appreciated and commended. together, working together, democrats and republicans we have found a way forward for the american people. i thank the republican leadership for their partnership in reaching this agreement. again, i thank the staff of the committees of the jurisdiction -- the budget committee, the ways and means committee, the appropriations committee, the energy and commerce committee and others. i commend our colleagues for speaking out on this important agreement. let us pass this agreement. le

mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: madam chairman, i'll be brief but i rise in support of the agreement before us this afternoon. madam chairman, as my colleagues are aware, the department of defense and the intelligence community have borne the brunt of our efforts to reduce the budget deficit and control our burgeoning national debt. under the budget control act of 2011, roughly half of all the discretionary spend regular duckses were taken from programs in the national security area. my colleagues, 2011 was a different time. security environment has changed significantly. since that time, threats from terrorist groups and nation states have risen dramatically. the security spend regular duckses envisioned four years ago seem extremely unwise and dangerous today. in this agreement the department of defense will receive additional resources, badly needed resources. $30 billion this year. and $50

mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: madam chairman, i'll be brief but i rise in support of the agreement before us this afternoon. madam chairman, as my colleagues are aware, the department of defense and the intelligence community have borne the brunt of our efforts to reduce the budget deficit and control our burgeoning national debt. under the budget control act of 2011, roughly half of all the discretionary spend regular duckses were taken from programs in the national security area. my colleagues, 2011 was a different time. security environment has changed significantly. since that time, threats from terrorist groups and nation states have risen dramatically. the security spend regular duckses envisioned four years ago seem extremely unwise and dangerous today. in this agreement the department of defense will receive additional resources, badly needed resources. $30 billion this year. and $50

. >> thank you mrs. rogers we have speakers come up i'll call the next 10 speaker cards (calling names) i have a group card of (calling names) together another one chang link and peter chang and his wife and child allocate group card (calling names) thank you. >> (speaking spanish.) >> i'm from district 10 speeding i want to thank you supervisor jane kim for this legislation we're discussing today. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> first of all, because it keeps our families together. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and then helicopter i'm afraid of ending up on the street and not having a place to live. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and if you don't think there is a housing crisis i invite you to look underneath any bridge overpass any member of the public wish to speak on any item. >> everyday i take my children to school we see the tents under the bridges this is an embarrassment to our city any member of the public wish to speak on any item there's a housing crisis perp in san francisco caused by t

mr. rogers: and that individual is the president's senior military advisor, isn't he? mr. thornberry: yes, sir. mr. rogers: so we have an easy choice, we can vote for a conference report that sends a bill to the president, that provides authorized funding at exactly the level he requested. or we can send the nation below the quote, ragged edge of manageable risk, closed quote. it's a bill that provides $320 million increase for our israeli increase on top of the $550 million in the president's request for missile defense cooperation. i'd ask members, especial -- especially those who supported the iran deal, that it's this funning that the administration said was vital to israel's security. because of that deal and it's -- and its termination of multilateral sanctions on ballistic missile proliferation. s that bill that provides $184 billion to -- million to fund an american rocket to end our reliance on russian made rocket engines. s that bill that provides the president's request of $358 million for cooperative threat reduction activities. what does that mean? that's how

mr. rogers in the white house. >> his message is everything i am looking for.m just worried that washington will swallow him up. mark: what do you think of the source of donald trump's political idealism? >> the wwf, maybe? >> it might be of mike tyson in his heyday. >> the nationalism that he is tapping into. it excludes others. >> i'm a teacher. if anyone in my classroom would say, "go back to mexico" to a latino or hispanic student, they would be in so much trouble. but trump can get away with it and people think he is tough. >> he is bombastic, but that is his style. it served him well to date. john: in a 3-4 words, what you think about donald trump? >> aggressive, nonsensical, over-the-top. >> not a strong christian. >> straightforward, intelligent, conniving. >> intelligent, businessman, open-minded. >> politically incorrect. >> i would have to agree with you -- politically incorrect. >> mouth shooting volcano. >> confident, arrogant, winner. john: why do you think trump is so brutally critical of other candidates in the race? >> i don't think i appreciat

we recognize this morris rogers. mrs morris rogers.oday in ther, people's house, it gives me great honor to nominate the people's speaker. you don't need to look any further than the architecture of washington dc to see what our fathers envisioned. not by mistake, the dome over the congress is the very center of the federal city. the white house and the supreme court are set about us. satellite to the supreme power of the people, expressed in this legislative body. in the house, we are eager for a fresh start that will make us more effective to fulfill our obligations to reflect the will of the people and to reestablish the balance of power. there is no better person to lead us in that calling then the man i'm about to nominate. he was first elected to the house at the ripe old age of 28, and has served for almost 17 years. we all member when he led the house budget committee, the visionary proposals, the lengthy debates, and who could forget those powerpoints? he is now the chairman of the house ways and means committee, but he's more

mr. rogers in the white house. >> everything he's bringing is everything i'm looking for. i'm just afraid washington will swallow him up. >> yes. >> well, we've got a lot to learn. >> we didn't cherry pick just the positive stuff. iowa and new hampshire, you saw there, the gap between what they say about ben carson and what people in new york and washington think is massive. the fact that they, the iowa group, everyone in the iowa group liked what he said to chuck on meet the press about a muslim president and we've talked a lot here about not understanding ben carson's appeal and i understand it after those two focus groups than i ever had. >> what's it appeal? >> people like heismis manor. >> people like my manor but don't want me operating on their brain. the people you speak to look like great, solid, wonderful people, do they think, did you ask them if they thought he could run this country on the power of mellow personality, he's a mellow dude. he's a mellow dude and he's a christian. i went to sunday school every sunday for 18 years with people who were mellow dudes

mr. rogers.s live view from our south beach camera looking southward in a lovely afternoon right now. these are our forecast pictures, it will be mild to warm again tomorrow. it will be a little bit cloudier and a little bit cooler. we're now looking at a chance of rain an ex tuesday and wednesday. let's go to the tropic pacific. powerful and dangerous hurricane before. look at how defined the eye of that storm is. it's centered south right now and poses a huge threat to western and central mexico. it's expected to take a path as a category 4 that will make land fall sometime late tomorrow. and, of course, this storm can produce massive and widespread flooding as a category four storm. so we'll continue to watch that storm frp you, and give reports on any damage that occurs. back closer to home, i should say, high pressure building back briefly. mostly sunny and mild weather. but that high pressure is about to be overrun by tomorrow. what about that chance for some weekend rain? we'll start with

mrs. mcmorris rogers: this week the house and senate sent the defense bill, as you've heard, to the president's desk. it was bipartisan and it is legislation that we pass every year to fund our military. this legislation is essential when it comes to providing a strong national defense that keeps us safe, that equips those that are in harm's way and also supports the families of those military service men and women. for the men and women at fairchild air force base in eastern washington as well as bases all around the world, our priorities should be to give them the equipment and the resources that they need. i also co-chair the military family caucus, and i hear regularly from military families concerns about whether they're going to be able to make ends meet at the end of the month and whether or not they're going to be able to juggle the demands when someone is deployed. when someone joins the military, it's not just a job. it is a family commitment that they make to our country. sacrifices, they surf us. it is our responsibility to make sure they get our support. military families rely on t

mr. rogers, zipping up a sweater. i'm eric hanson. elizabeth: i'm elizabeth klinge. and eric has the right idea. you are going to need a jacket recess. it's chilly. jason: it is chilly this morning and will be chilly all day long. we usually see highs in the low to mid-60's, we will be in the mid-50's today and starting in the upper-30's. 39 and we could see patchy frost through western portions of the state. temperatures following suit. 36, upper-32 over-40's. our cold start matches the rest of the day. we topped out in the middle-50's and sunshine all day long. for the weekend, a lot more working in our favor, a cool start, likely cooler tomorrow, bottoming out in the low-30's to start and topping out in the mid to upper, 67 on sunday with plenty of sunshine. elizabeth: in california a developing story, mudslides leave thousands of drivers stranded overnight. shaina humphries has more. and shaina, we understand the mudslide hit one o othe state's biggest highways? shaina: 2 highways. two highways are actually still closed. one of those is interstate 5, which is the

mr. rogers: i would agree completely with the secretary.xplain why the response to sony is difference from the response to opm. we work on a case-by-case basis and we are working our way through some of these broader definitions. i don't think there is any doubt about that. rep. thornberry: i appreciate it. other members may want to follow up. you look at opm, huge consequences for our national security. if you had seen it occurring, there had been action taken to is larget, but it consequences even for the theft of information that did not result in death, we trust. mr. smith. you, and i thank know you cannot talk about this in an open setting on what the response has been to some of these cyberattacks, but can i ask if you feel that response has been effective? attacks?terred more how comfortable are you that our responses to -- and again, there are, as you laid out, levels of cyber attacks. when you pass a certain level, we feel like the response is appropriate. have those responses been at all effective at this point? how would you defi

mr. do we rogers, assistant camp manager. the store is a new, very neat building. according to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. they indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. -- direction.: they go on to the people they meet -- "dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. he took us to the library where we set up our machine. cotton davis, extroverted, full of gags and witty sayings." khan davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. anyone that comes now to research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. it is individual stories that have been a superb job of recording. that is why the library of congress has collected these materials. we have a number of photographs in our dust bowl migration archives. most of the photographs were taken by a photographer in ventura. almost all of the photographs are officially farm security administration photographs of l

mr. rogers say a three day in the neighborhood? it really is.ratures are starting to warm up right now. this is the beginning of a great stretch of whether. fox 29's meteorologist kathy orr is coming up with allowing this could last. >> at philadelphia college tonight. swat official locking down the y college of philadelphia. witnesses told investigators he may have threatened another student with a gun. but as of tonight. police say there's no indication that he had a weapon. >> philadelphia police are trying to figure out why an officer lost control of his cruiser and crashed into a tree. it happened right around 2:00 this morning on war tram avenue in southwest philadelphia much the driver is at a hospital with neck and back injuries. his partner broke her leg. no other cars were involved. >>> a florida college professor is under arrest tonight accused of trying to kill her husband with a pillow. the husband's disable and would have hard time to defending himself. >> the couple's son burst in, saw what was happening and saved his dad ton nigh

mr. rogers and i think, he would say don't be scared, life is good, life is special. >> everybody is so specialt. >> just go and do the thing you love. that always stuck with me. >> see you tomorrow. ♪ can you tell me how to get how to get to sesame street ♪ >> "sesame street" introduced my children to the interaction of people with different backgrounds. ♪ it's not that easy being green ♪ >> count it. >> count that penny? >> yeah, count it. >> okay. >> count. >> one. >> "sesame street" was aggressive in terms of learning not only concepts of reading, but concepts of interacting. >> i may be small. >> i may be small. >> but i am. >> but i am. >> somebody. >> somebody. >> "sesame street" was as big as it got in terms of celebrity. everybody wanted to hang with the muppets. >> aren't you johnny trash? >> cash. >> cash, cash. >> educational children's television really matured in the '70s. >> i'm leaving. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> oh, thanks. >> now for something completely different. >> when i was 13 the show from england came on pbs, which before that was only the realm of my parents

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mr. rogers, i'll start with you today. two of the president's nine lines of effort in defeating isil our first exposing isis's true nature and disrupting the foreign fighter flow. over the weekend, the new new york times reported that 30,000 recruits joined isis over the past year and that is double the previous recruitment year. earlier this month, the ambassador at large said that isys's recruiting trend is still upward and the information was no surprise to her. she also said the upward trend was primarily due to internet and social media. so, do you believe their effort has succeeded on these two lines of effort in cyberspace and social media? just please a simple yes or no. >> no. >> okay, and why is that? with the record recruiting numbers for isis, how would you then assess the effectiveness of the u.s. governments counter effort in cyberspace? what specifically is your assessment of the state department think again, turn away program and supportive efforts to counter isis recruiting efforts. >> i am not knowledgeab

mr. do we rogers, assistant camp manager. neattore is a new, very building. according to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. -- direction.: they go on to the people they dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. he took us to the library where we set up our machine. cotton davis, extroverted, full witty sayings." khan davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. toone that comes now research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. it is individual stories that have been a superb job of recording. that is why the library of congress has collected these materials. we have a number of photographs migrationt bowl archives. most of the photographs were taken by a photographer in ventura. almost all of the photographs are officially farm security administration photographs of life in the migrant camps of california. a

mr. hoyer, miss mcmorris rogers, the gentleman from south carolina, mr.om oregon, mr. walton, the gentleman from california, mr. becera, the gentleman from indiana, mr. messer, the gentleman from new york mr. crowley, the gentlewoman from kansas, miss jenkins, the gentleman from new york, mr. israel, miss fox, the gentleman from new mexico, mr. ben ray luhahn. miss wagner, miss delaro, the miss edwards. miss processions, the gentleman from maryland, mr. van holland and mr. mchenry, and the members of the wisconsin delegation. mr. sense brenner, mr. kind, mr. moore, mr. duffy, mr. ribble, mr. pocan. mimi walters. the committee will retire from the chamber to escort the speaker-elect to the chair. >> it might have been easier to ask those members of the house who are not escorting the speaker of the house, but there's john boehner again with the emotional announcement that there is a new speaker. and nicolle wallace, those watching at home would be forgiven if they thought that somehow colin powell was looking at a lifelong quest to become speaker of the ho

mr. dewy rogers, assistant camp manager. the store is a new, very neat building. according to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. they indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. they go on to the people they meet -- "dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. he took us to the library where we set up our machine. cotton davis, extroverted, full of gags and witty sayings." cotton davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. anyone that comes now to research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. it is individual stories that have been a superb job of recording. that is why the library of congress has collected these materials. we have a number of photographs in our dust bowl migration archives. most of the photographs were taken by a photographer in ventura. almost all of the photographs are officially farm security administration photographs of life in the mi

mr. rogers neighborhood. now it's danielle tiger's neighborhood. a lot of same friends that i knew growing up like prince wednesday and queen sarah and a lot of new friends too. the thing about danielle tiger's neighborhood it's all about feelings kids knowing who to to be appreciative and thank ifful. one of my favorites is the trolley. that's how you get around the neighborhood. remember the bells? there he goes. >> we're talking like is it going to go completely off? >> no. one of the big about hits on disney junior now is miles from "tomorrowland." this is the stella sphere that he travels in. it gets kid excited about space and solving problems. you can take this apart. take out the big ship. yeah. if you pick this up a little bit, yeah. wait, we forgot one. here it comes. miles and his small ship right here. okay? >> don't want to forget miles. >> then if you would just open up the back. spread this out. put it down. there's who your headquarters. look how cool this is. lights and action. >> real quickly, like what does that teach us? >> it g

mr. rogers: and that individual is the president's senior military advisor, isn't he? mr. thornberry: yes, sir. mr. rogers: so we have an easy choice, we can vote for a conference report that sends a bill to the president, that provides authorized funding at exactly the level he requested. or we can send the nation below the quote, ragged edge of manageable risk, closed quote. it's a bill that provides $320 million increase for our israeli increase on top of the $550 million in the president's request for missile defense cooperation. i'd ask members, especial -- especially those who supported the iran deal, that it's this funning that the administration said was vital to israel's security. because of that deal and it's -- and its termination of multilateral sanctions on ballistic missile proliferation. s that bill that provides $184 billion to -- million to fund an american rocket to end our reliance on russian made rocket engines. s that bill that provides the president's request of $358 million for cooperative threat reduction activities. what does that mean? that's how

mr. rogers. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i share the concerns outlined by mr. smith about isil using the syrian refugees that the president has decided to allow into this country as a vehicle to sneak bad actors in. you described a, quote, pretty thorough vetting process as a part of your response to his answer. can you tell me more about that process? >> well, first of all, we're happy to brief you on the more sensitive aspects of it in a nonpublic setting. but it involves consulting a number of different agencies, law enforcement and intelligence, and the information that they have regarding each individual applicant. it is a more robust process than it used to be. to some it is time consuming. it's something that i think we need to do. and it involves any information you may have. it may take some time to resolve uncertainties about the information, there may be a variance in a name or date of birth or something of that nature, but it involves consulting a number of different agencies as well as a personal interview and gathering simply as much information a

mr. rogers. rogers: mr. secretary, i share the concerns outlined by isil usingbout people to sneak by doctors in. you described a thorough eating process as a part of the response -- bidding process as a part of the response. can you tell me more about that process? are happy to we brief you on the more sensitive aspects of it in a nonpublic setting. but it involved consulting a number of different agencies, law enforcement and intelligence, and the information that they had regarding each individual applicant. it is a more robust process than it used to be. to some, it is time consuming. but it is something i think we need to do. it involves any information that may take time to resolve any uncertainties about the information. sometimes there might be a variance in a name or date of birth. but it involves consulting a number of different agencies, as well as a personal interview and gathering as much information as we can have about the person. >> i would appreciate it if you have an appropriate staff membe

mr. rogers from kentucky, that there is a bipartisan agreement with the house leadership, so it is time for the senate to respond. i also want to echo the comments of the senior senator from south dakota with the help of senator rounds, and i would be remiss in not mentioning virtually every member of the ag committee that has been involved in this effort as well. so i appreciate the work of my colleagues and the work of our ranking member, senator stabenow , i especially want to thank her for also raising this issue and helping to find an agreement. i want to note that i have worked my entire career to build crop insurance as a public-private partnership that best protects our producers and taxpayers and consumers, not to mention a very hungry and malnourished world. this agreement reached today continues in that effort to fulfill that mission. i thank the majority leader, the majority whip and senator thune for their commitment. i also thank many of our colleagues who reached this solution today. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: mr

mr. rogers. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i share the concerns outlined by mr. smith about isil using the syrian refugees the president decided to allow in this country as a vehicle to sneak bad actors in. you described a quote, pretty thorough vetting process as a part of your response to his answer. can you tell me more about that process? >> well, first of all we're happy to brief you on the more sensitive aspects of it in a non-public setting but it involves consulting a number we of different agency, law enforcement and intelligence and the information that they have regarding each individual applicant. it is a more robust process than it used to be. to some it is time-consuming but it is something i think we need to do and it involves any information that you may have. it may take some time to resolve any uncertainties about the information. sometimes there may be a variance in a name or date of birth or something of that nature but it involves consulting a number of different agencies as well as a personal interview and gathering simply as much informatio

mr. rogers. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i share the concerns outlined by mr. smith about isil using the syrian refugees that the president has decided to allow into this country as a vehicle to sneak bad actors in. you described a, "pretty thorough vetting process" as part of your response to his answer. can you tell me more about that process? >> well, first of all we're happy to brief you on the more sensitive aspects of it in a nonpublic setting. but it involves consulting a number of different agencies, law enforcement and intelligence, and the information that they have regarding each individual applicant. it is a more robust process than it used to be. to some it is time consuming but it is something that i think we need to do. and it involves any information we may have that may take some time to resolve any uncertainties about the information. sometimes there may be a variance in a name or date of birth or something of that nature. but it involves consulting a number of different agencies as well as a personal interview and gathering simply as much inf

mr. rogers' neighborhood c) sesame street d) the electric company there's a new special character. julia, a character who has autism joined elmo, big bird and the rest of the sesame street family. julia is part of an initiative sesame street launched earlier this >>> it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, stand and deliver. >> when you start to kind of space out in the class and can you stand up and you refocus. >> we take you inside the newest trend in classrooms that's keeping kids on their toes. philadelphia freedom >> then philadelphia freedom. we catch up with wrangler as our puppy with a purpose hits the road. >>> and -- >> a little bit country right here in the big city. seven-time grammy winner carrie underwood takes the plaza by storm for a live concert today, friday, october 23rd, 2015. >> we love carrie! >> we're here this morning from indiana state. >> here to see carrie,! >> all the way from north dakota to see carrie underwood! >> and welcome back to "today" whampt a crowd. what a morning and what a concert we are about to have. carrie underwood is here. she's out mixing an

mr. do we rogers, assistant camp manager. the store is a new, very neat building.ccording to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. they indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. -- direction.: they go on to the people they meet -- "dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. he took us to the library where we set up our machine. cotton davis, extroverted, full of gags and witty sayings." khan davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. anyone that comes now to research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. it is individual stories that have been a superb job of recording. that is why the library of congress has collected these materials. we have a number of photographs in our dust bowl migration archives. most of the photographs were taken by a photographer in ventura. almost all of the photographs are officially farm security administration photographs of lif

mr. christie: iphone love with roger stall back and i have been a dallas cowboys fan ever since i was nine years old. i do not change my sports teams. some people in the race or cubs found -- cubs fans. i do not think that is the way you do things. if you are a fan, you are a fan. i do not think it determines how folks in new jersey vote because i have done well. steve: has not gone up in four years, what is your plan? mr. christie: symbol fight a tax system. get rid of all of the loopholes and deductions except for two, more just -- mortgage interest deduction and contribution deductions. 20% on the high rate and 8% on the low rate. do your taxes in 15 minutes and that will allow us all to fire a bunch of irs agents, and secondly, get the government out of regulating. $10,000 per employee for a small business to compile a federal regulation. the third thing we need to do is make sure we are putting the education system together with the business community. a lot of jobs out there need to be filled that we are not training people to fill. we need community colleges to work closely with bus

i'd like to pass it on now to admiral rogers, if that is okay, mr. chairman. >> sir. >> chairman mccain, ranking member reed and distinguished >> members of the committee, i am m honored to appearit before you today to discuss u.s. cyberpolicy and the state ofpo cyberthreats worldwide. i'd like to thank you for convening this forum and for your efforts in this important area.for i'm also honored to be sitting g alongside director clapper and deputy secretary of defense work. it gives me. great pride to appear before you today to nd te highlight and commend the unifor accomplishments of the uniformee and civilian personnel of u.s. cybercommand. i'm both grateful for and humbled by the opportunity i have been given to lead our cyberteam in the important worki they do in defense of our nation and our department. we're being challenged as never before to defend our nation's interest and values in cyberspace against state groupsd and individuals that are using s sophisticated capabilities to s conduct cyberaggression and rtao cyberexploitation. the target

mr. chairman. admiral rogers appreciate people like you that put yourself at risk and assiduously try to do everything you can to protect the homeland and the future generations, so on behalf of my children, thank you. i'm going to paraphrase here but in recent press briefings at the wilson center you said that what keeps you up at night -- i know you've been asked that question several times today -- are threats to critical infrastructure and that you've been observing nation-states spending a lot of time within the power structure of the united states. and as you know better than perhaps anyone the department of defense relies upon the electric grid for 99% of its electricity needs without which even the department's position is that it cannot affect its mission. and, of course, there are 320 million americans that also depend upon pretty significantly for everyday survival. and a widespread collapse of the electric grid, of course, would lead to gross societal collapse. so, under your cyber -- wearing your cyb

mr. hoyer. the gentleman woman, ms. mcmorris rogers, mr. clyburn, gentleman from california, mr. from indiana, mr. messer, gentleman from new york, mr. crowley, gentlewoman from kansas, ms. jenkins, the gentleman from new york, gentlewoman from california, ms. foxx, gentlewoman from missouri, miss wagner, gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards, gentleman from texas, mr. sessions, mr. van holland, mr. mchenry. and the members of the wisconsin delegation, mr. sensenbrenner, mr. kind, mr. moore, mr. duffy, mr. ruble. ms. mimi walters. the committee will retire from the chamber to escort the speaker-elect to the chair. >> all right. i want to bring back jeff zeleny while we await these two minutes or so as paul ryan is escorted. i would suppose up to where john boehner is now, right, jeff? >> reporter: that's right. john boehner is still in his seat there, but the escort committee is a group of both sides who brings in the new speaker here. just like during the state of the union address, there's a committee of members who bring them in. so, it's just a bit of formality. i've been lo

mr. work: i will take that for the record, sir. ashford: i want to pick up on something admiral rogers and mr. work mentioned a few minutes ago about the government shutdown. i have been sitting here since february, and i admire everyone on this committee. i have learned a great deal. i have been here eight months. i am from nebraska. it is absolutely unfathomable, it is beyond belief, it is incomprehensible that this government, this congress, or anybody would even begin to talk about shutting down the government. for whatever political gain they make it. inwere in the middle east february. at the beginning, not the beginning of the isis effort, but certainly it was in the beginning stages of our effort to combat isis. we were in baghdad, and there was discussion at that point about standing up a force to address social media issues. it was a very, very beginning. at least of getting both civilian and military personnel of to speed on what was going on with isis and social media. we are now in october. i know this is a little bit of a speech, and i apologize. but it seems to me, i came back w