and that way, i suggest, ms ryan, is not the route that our country should follow.defend their plans, i suspect, tells us everything we need to know. he turned to the spending demands facing ministers. there are many pressures on public spending. there is public sector pay, funding for our national health service, funding for social care, colleagues want more money put into schools, there are many, many pressures on public spending, and part of the challenge of being in government is that you cannot say yes to everybody, you have to make choices and you have to set priorities. would he also agree with me that our public services are under real pressure at the moment, and i think we have to recognise that, and i speak as someone who works in those public services, and i see that in my working life there. according to the latest forecast, the target, a structural deficit of less than 2% of national income in 2020—21 will be comfortably met by sticking to the current tax and spending plans. so there is about £25 billion worth of leeway to invest a little bit more in th

she called herself ms. ryannd she would answer the -- and her name was thelma pat ryan nixon, so she was in the same little office with rose woods and me and these people would call up. i remember one of them called up and said, "i would like to talk to vice president nixon." and she said, "well, he is busy right now." and she said -- a personal friend of pat nixon and pat went to mrs. nixon, she would tell us that and she smoked, and i was a chain smoker then and so when i ran out of cigarettes, i would go, "mrs. nixon, have you got a couple of marlboro's until i can go get a --" but she was a wonderful lady. i think she was a very strong lady. she had a good sense of humor and she was a realist and you know, i just liked her very much and i remember after i testified, the watergate testimony came off so well and the president said, "come on over to the mansion." you know, right after i testified, about five or six o'clock or so, i was having a party in my office and so i went over there and she comes running u

ryan about this? what point -- what -- ms. pelosi: i wrote a letter on july 18. the american people have spoken they rejected trumpcare's assault, and i do say, as senator mcconnell said earlier if we can't do anything we have to address the cost share regular ducks payment issue. so i suggested that we get on with that but we've had no conversations. all along, though, when we did the affordable care act, contrary to this, we had hours an hours of hearings and weeks of hearings and in a bipartisan way accepted scores of republican amendments, scores of democratic amendments and modifications to democratic and republican amendments. so we're ready to work in a bipartisan way on this. but so far i haven't gotten a response to my letter. some of my colleagues are writing too with some other suggestions. but it's a pretty exciting time because this affordable care act is something we feel very proud of. a pillar of economic and health security for the american people. social security, medicare, medicaid, the affordable care act. it took 100 years to pass, starting w

ryan hasn't taken repeal off the table have you been in touch with him since the senate vote? ms. pelosi: i reached out to him, they were in caucus this morning. they'll probably speak as soon as we leave here and finish the vote. obviously we were all up late last night. but i called him this morning, they were in caucus. but that opportunity has to be. reporter: is it incumbent on democrats to reach out to republicanses after this vote failed, and say we said we'd

ms. roybal-allard. >> aye. >> mr. ryan. >> aye. >> mr. serrano. >> aye. >> mr. simpson. >> no. >> mr. stuart. >> no. >> mr. taylor. >> no. >> mr. valladao. >> no. >> ms. wasserman schultz. ms. wasserman schultz. >> aye. >> mr. womack. >> no. >> mr. yoder. >> no. >> mr. young. >> no. >> members who wish to record their vote? mr. cuellar. >> aye. >> mr. joyce recorded no. >> anyone want to change their vote, seeing or hearing no? the clerk will tally. >> the ais are 23, the nays are 29. the amendment is not agreed to. >>> mr. serrano is recognized. for an amendment. >> an amendment, mr. chairman. i rise to offer an amendment. i ask that the reading be waived. >> consider it done. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. this amendment would help reduce the hard corby the administration, increase enforcement efforts. it would protect children and families from damaging separations by preventing i.c.e. from removing parents of citizen children absent some serious criminality on the part of that parent. let me repeat that again. if the parent is a criminal determined by t

ryan hasn't taken repeal off the table have you been in touch with him since the senate vote? ms. pelosi: i reached out to him, they were in caucus this morning. they'll probably speak as soon as we leave here and finish the vote. obviously we were all up late last night. but i called him this morning, they were in caucus. . t that opportunity has to be reporter: is it incumbent on democrats to reach out to republicanses after this vote failed, and say we said we'd talk when repeal was dead and here's where we stand? >> we have always stood ready to alk about health care. mr. crowley: we have stood ready with ideas about how to to mend or improve the affordable care act. it's incumbent on them to join us and bring us to the table as ell. >> just to follow up on chairman crowley's point, you heard this morning, there are lots of good ideas on the ways we can improve the affordable care act. there was a press conference last week outlining some ideas. there's no absence of ideas. mr. cicilline: what we have had so far is an absence of willingness to work with democrats in a bipartis

ryan hasn't taken repeal off the table. have you been in touch with him since the senate vote? ms. pelosi: i reached out to him, they were in caucus this morning. will -- we will probably speak as soon as we leave here and finish the vote. obviously we were all up late last night. but i called him this morning, they were in caucus. but that opportunity has to be under the regular order as we go forth. reporter: is it incumbent on democrats to reach out to republicans after this vote failed, and say we said we'd talk when repeal was dead and here is our ideas come here is where we are ready to compromise? >> we have always stood ready to talk about health care. we want to get health care to as many people as we possibly can. we are in the minority, we recognize that. have stood ready with ideas about how we can mend or improve the affordable care act. it's incumbent on them to join us and bring us to the table as well. >> just to follow up on chairman crowley's point, you heard this morning, there have been additional proposals put forward by the democratic caucus, there are lots of

ryan budget. so we will be having -- >> yeah. >> ms. mcgregor, in your written testimony you state secretary zenke has schedule willed quarterly lease sales in nearly every office. you also highlight the successful 2017 lease sale that generated nearly $129 million. what in your opinion precluded quarterly lease sales during the previous administration? >> thank you for the question, sir. i can't speak to the previous administration's decision on whether to hold lease sales or not hold lease sales. >> isn't it statutorily required? >> it is statutorily -- it is in the mineral leasing act to conduct quarterly lease sales in each state office. i can speak to the fact we've had more lease sales than last year. 11 lease sales were cancelled or postponed last year alone. we are hoping to continue forward with our scheduled lease sale also. of course, we believe leasing can be done economically even in these price conditions. just to touch back on mr. sclotchy comment, there is no low balling that goes on. the department when we conduct lease

ms. catherine mcgregor. now i'm going to yield time to the gentleman from new mexico to introduce the first witness. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to introduce ryan flynn who's executive director of the new mexico oil and gas association. as director of that, he has watched the permitting times on our wells increase from around 200 days to something over 400. he was formerly the secretary of new mexico environmental department where he has a strong reputation of balancing energy development with responsible environmental stewardship. appreciate you being here to testify today. i yield back. >> our next witness is mr. mark sclochie, professor of law, dr. laura nelson. let me remind the witnesses that under our committee rules they must limit their oral statements to five minutes. but their entire statement will appear in the hearing record. our microphones are not automatic so you'll have to press that little button. if you'll watch up front it is green. then it will turn yellow. then when you see red, please summarize. we'll recognize ms. mcgregor for her testimony. welcome back. >> thank you, chairman bishop, members of the subcommittee. i have