ms. harris. taiwan and ireland, great. technologically, we are doing better than we did 23 years ago when i started as a staffer. better storage, better email, better video content. what are we still missing? a lot of exciting room for improvement. there are lots of ways to improve the way that offices are processing the information. even the way committees are receiving information during the bill formation process from stakeholders and constituents. there's also a way to improve the way congress uses data. congress is passing a lot of great laws helping the executive branch move better and moved to evidence-based policymaking. that has to lead in this institution at some point. we will coming decade, see a lot of discussion about the balance between public participation and getting the data right. >> i know my time is up, and i tried it to go over to make the chairman upset. i want to tell you thank you. this is not stuff that makes headlines every day, but it is important to making our constitutional republic succeed as

ms. harris? >> thank you. i appreciate this opportunity. i am honored to be working with the american political science association task force on congressional reform subcommittee on technology innovation. as mentioned, i'm a proud former staffer with deep love for this institution and i'm the cofounder and ceo of pop box. a technology platform with a mission to inform and empower individuals and make government work better. i came to washington in 2006 from law school. i was an intern in the ways and means committee. i can tell you it was like stepping back in time. to move from looking up cases digitally and taking notes on a laptop to the paper-based system of congress. from day one, i kept a list of all the things i thought somebody should fix and my office colleagues put up with me telling them about it every day. i thought that someone should list the build online, allow organizations to weigh in with an account and post their position so the public could see what congress was hearing. and

ms. harris is doing? >> right. >> my time is running out. i had too much fun debating back and forth with my favorite senator. i want to get to ms. harris real quick. so taiwan and ireland. great, thank you. look, technologically, we're doing better than we did 23 years ago when i started as a staffer. we have better storage, better email, better video content, what have you. what are we still missing? >> there's lots of exciting room for improvement. >> no. >> there's lots of ways to improve the way that offices are processing the information. but even the way that committees are receiving information during the early bill formation process from stakeholders and constituents. there's also a way to improve the way that congress uses data. congress is passing a lot of great laws, helping the executive branch use data better and moved to evidence based policymaking. that's all got to land in this institution at some point too. i think over the coming decade, we're going to see a lot of discussion about the balance between public participation

ms. harris faulkn ms. harris faulkner.n other piece that they call "grandpa run for president," the concern is that he sees contemporary america through distorted haze of nostalgia. his values and assumptions were shaved by the last generation, or even the one before that. and after many years, he still lacks both self-awareness or discipline to wonder whether modern voters will find his rumination about the past as interesting and as relevant as he does. what is your reaction to that question marks before my concern was not the examples he gave because the way i took it was i have worked with racists, and i was able to get stuff done. i worked with people that i didn't agree with, but we were able to get things done. i'm sitting there saying but you are citing the '70s. you have to look at millennials, independent voters, that is where i think that joe biden has hurt himself. in addition, this is normal right now. i mean, we saw it when president trump had over a dozen opponents. they were attacking him as he was climbing

social media users have been quick to point out the irony of a man interrupting ms harris whilst shet south korean group to headline wembley stadium. the boy band blasted through 24 songs on saturday, assisted by quirky props, glitter cannons, jet sprays and 60,000 fans screaming their approval. earlier this year, the septet‘s latest album went straight to the top of the uk charts, days after their new single broke the youtube record for the most views in 24 hours. we still have some sunshine across eastern counties of england at the moment and temperatures could top the figures we saw yesterday of 28 at heathrow, the warmest day of the year so far. we could manage a bit warmer than that. you can see cloud which is a low pressure centre rolling towards uk bringing showers eastwards as it doesn‘t fresh air. temperatures in the high teens to the low 20s. showers through eastern england through the evening. a deep low centre rolls through to the north to the small hours. gusty ones and heavier showers for northern ireland and the north—west of scotland. lots of sunshine for monday acros

social media users have been quick to point out the irony of a man interrupting ms harris whilst she apologised. funeral plan providers are set to be regulated by the independent financial watchdog for the first time under new government plans. it follows complaints that some people are being pushed into buying products they don't fully understand. those found guilty of bullying people into buying expensive pre—paid plans could face fines and criminal charges. there is some evidence of, for example, up selling, where consumers have been pressurised into purchasing a more expensive funeral plan that they might not want or need. there have been issues around, for example, hidden management charges, so that it's not clear to consumers exactly how much money is going to the funeral plan provider for administering the plan. fridges and air conditioning units are responsible for a fifth of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. now, scientists think they might have come up with a solution to make them better for the environment — and a balloon has provided inspiration for the idea. richard

social media users have been quick to point out the irony of a man interrupting ms harris whilst she event have apologised. fridges and air conditioning units are responsible for a fifth of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. now, scientists think they might have come up with a solution to make them better for the environment — and a balloon has provided inspiration for the idea. 0ne fifth of the world's energy goes on running fridges and air—conditioning units. they are often inefficient, energy hungry and can leak greenhouse gases into the air. demonstrate it quickly. so now a cambridge team... it's gone really hot! ..has come up with an alternative. and then... it's really cold! that's amazing. i will explain the balloon thing in a second. first, you need to know that fridges and air—conditioning units currently work by expanding and then squashing gases. the cambridge team is looking to replace that gas with more eco—friendly solids. it is complex work but you can show it with a simple experiment and a thermal camera. like with a balloon, if you expand the new materials quickly

social media users have been quick to point out the irony of a man interrupting ms harris whilst shevent have apologised. iraq has suffered from decades of war and terrorism. the legacy of the fighting means the country is littered with unexploded mines, bombs and munitions — more than any other country in the world. from iraq, cameron buttle reports. radio check. weaving through the baghdad morning rush hour. flanked by mile after mile of concrete blast walls. frank phillips has been working in iraq for more than a decade. for the past year he's been setting up the halo trust operations. as the convoy moves north the threat changes. 15 kilometres to our east is a town called tarmia. tarmia, at the moment, is one of the hotbeds of activity of what remains of isis. this kind of pop—up terrorism will be active in one area, then inevitably the government will mount operations against them, may neutralise them, they may move on somewhere else. morning. hi, frank, how are you? halo has been dealing with mines, munitions and explosives around the world for 30 years. in places like afghanis

ms. harris, she may have talked about the changes that are on here, sue hester, i was san franciscans growth and i attended every single hearing on the downtown plan with three engineers that worked with me on dealing with what became the office limits in the housing fee, and the transit fee. they all came from a lot of work. years of work from the people in the city. i want to point out a couple of things that are just in here, one of the things that jumped out to me was page 3 report on the office allocations. i have the office allocation report that you were given two months ago, three months ago 10 months ago, by cory teague on the office allocations. the pending small-cap projects on the pending large-cap projects are not in the c-3 at all. i summarized them up there. four of the small caps are not in the c-3. the ones that are in the c-3. a lot of 4999 ft. . depending large-cap projects, 10 of them are not in the c-3. when i say c-3 r, ost. they are not in the downtown core. what that means is that the whole transit system that was talked about in the downtown plan, the fees that were

ms. harris assailed mr. biden for remarks he made earlier this month invoking his work in a senate that included a pair of notorious segregationists. her quote, there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate in public schools and she was bussed to schools every day, said ms. harris, and that little girl was me. >> it was a perfect moment, but it wasn't the first time she made this argument. when he made these comments at a fund-raiser she responded essentially along these lines. and to all of your points, he has had days to prepare. maybe he didn't know she was going to say it in such a dramatic and powerful and effective way, but he knew the thrust of what she might say. so i think it as much as a -- it's not a trouble sign for biden but for people in his campaign who would like him to spend more time preparing for what they can reasonably predict, this was a line of argument from her, of attack from her, if you will, they could have predicted. >> joy, he used a phrase,

ms. presslow: i reserve. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? mr. harris: i seek time in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. harris: thank you very much. there's no arguing that these programs are important. but again, we have to set priorities. this doesn't say this program is important and this other one is less important so we're going to take money from it. in fact, it takes money from c.m.s. management. that's kind of interesting because i got a lot of seniors in my district who depend upon medicare being administered properly. 13,000 seniors enter medicare every day. what this amendment does is cut the funding to h.h.s. that oversees the management of c.m.s. oversees the management of these 13,000 people entering medicare every day. i have no argument with school health programs. they're important. but if they're important, then we have to choose what is less important. i wouldn't have chosen certainly the management of the medicare program. i don't think that's -- i think the seniors in my district would beg to differ that that's

she makes it clear, you don't try that with kamala harris, because i'm well prepared and i can handle it. >> now, mss impressed by the courtroom skills expects her to deliver in the first democratic debate. harris will be on stage with joe biden and bernie sanders, two older white men who currently lead her in the polls. her campaign tonight says that she is in miami for last minute debate preps. >> i want to go now to democratic strategist. washington post columnist wrote when harris entered the race it seemed the senator from california might be the one who had it all, experience, charisma and exciting potential to make history as the first african-american and asian woman to sit in the oval office. and then spoke to a voter who said she is intrigued by harris but thinks harris needs to soften up a little bit and let people in a little bit. she is all business. if she would show personal side i think she would be amazing. is this relevant to the fact that she has been sort of flat lining in the polls? >> i don't know. i think the voters get to decide whatever issue they want to determine whether t

harris: i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. adams: i would just again urge support for the amendment as our most important job as members of congress is to make the lives of americans better. the c.r.c.'s do that work and let's do ours and ensure that they have the resources they need to continue that progress and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. harris: thank you, madam chair. this is a good cause. it's a good idea. t we have $10 billion in unspent chip funds sitting in a fund. so the question is, why take this from the secretary's office? i get it. some people don't like the secretary. some people don't like the administration. but there is $10 billion sitting there that could be spent on programs like this. unspent chip funds. so i have to oppose this amendment because again, let's prioritize. this is an important fund. don't take it out of the secretary's office. i get it, you don't like the administration, don't like the se

ms. ocasio-cortez: i'd like to reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. harris: i rise to claim time in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. harris: thank you, madam chair. the bottom line is, this is not the place and this won't do what the author in support of the amendment say it's going to do. the fact of the matter is that the d.e.a. is the one that enforces the classification of schedule one. this bill does nothing to do with the d.e.a. in fact, the problem with research and the problem with the difficulty in doing research does not lie in h.h.s. the problem lies in the fact that it is a schedule one drug and the appropriate way to deal with this is through app authorizing committee, as -- through an authorizing committee, as the gentleman scuggetsuggetted. i will yield a minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania. >> i thank the gentleman from maryland and i just wonder about the responsibility of this legislation. to have the government promote these items that ron the schedule, things like mdma. the pure form of molly

harris: then, i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from pennsylvania is recognized. ms. hew lan: madam chair, i am nearly speechless from the conversation i heard. the equipment we need to be functioning in our society, that skill of literacy, that we are thinking somehow this sacheck book balance situation rather than an investment in a child, an investment in a family, an investment in the future. if we're talking about the need to imagine, we have to give people the skills so that they may imagine, imagine the life that they will be able to have when they are able to read a street sign, when they're able to read to their child, when they're able to read their driver's test. these are things we should not deny anyone. these are fundamental things that we absolutely have to provide for every single citizen in our country. if we are not providing education in literacy, what good is this nation? i will conclude by saying, i came here to congress and i stand on this floor, the daughter of a refugee from poland. he came here with nothing as a 5-year-old. he came here with n

ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker. on june 12, 1948, president harry s. truman signed into law the woman's armed services integration act allowing women to serve as regular members of the military. in the state of texas an amendment or bill was sent in to establish women's veterans day and that bill in the senate was signed into law by the governor of the state of texas. i'm honored to represent over 160,000 distinguished women veterans in the state of texas. moreover, i'm proud to work alongside women veterans serving in the 11th congress and many more. on this day it is imperative we highlight women's role in the united states military. this should be no secret that women played an integral part. they volunteer for the same reasons as men. 4.3% of women in the military reported, sexually assaulted. female veterans are three times morelike than their civilian counterparts to become homeless. 2.5 times more likely to commit suicide. thank you dr. jones for bringing to our attention honoring women's veterans today. they will be taking part in many activiti

harry truman was in the white house. "i love lucy" had not yet hit television. your mother, ms. deborah wau wasserman schultz, was 4. we were still fighting in korea. and, you know, the world was just a wonderfully different place. and for the ensuing 69 years, which kind of is conveniently glossed over in this motion, we didn't do it. if you would allow me to finish my thought. and i appreciate the sincerity of the author of this amendment, but it's in a series of clearly dilatory motions by the other side. i'm not quite sure why my friends on the other side are so anxious to protect the production of documents about a simple question, the answer to which could easily clarify our concerns or not. and it's the "or not" part that i guess i'm getting really suspicious about the more i get these amendments. what is it you're trying to protect? what is it you're afraid of? and, oh, by the way, as ms. lawrence indicated, we all take an oath. i'm just curious -- and i ask it rhetorically -- at what point do you honor that oath as opposed to protecting whoever is in the white house? and i'm really looking forward to the da

harry truman was in the white house. "i love lucy" had not yet hit television. your mother, ms. wasserman-schultz, was 4.we were still fighting in korea. the world was just a wonderfully different place. and for the ensuing 69 yeerz, which kind of is conveniently glossed over in this motion, we didn't do it. >> will the gentleman yield? >> if you would allow me to finish my thought. and i appreciate the sincerity of the author of this amendment, but it's in a series of clearly dilatory motions by the other side. i'm not quite sure why my friends on the other side are so anxious to protect the production of documents about a simple question, the answer to which could easily clarify our concerns, or not. and it's the or not part that i guess i'm getting really suspicious about the more i get these amendments. what is it you're trying to protect? what is it you're afraid of? oh, by the way, as ms. lawrence indicated, we all take an oath. i'm just curious, and i ask it rhetorically, at what point do you honor that oath as opposed to protecting whoever is in the white house? and i'm really looking forward to

harris? >> yes. >> ms. stanphill? >> yes. >> it's a terrific goal, but it's not particularly my expertise. >> okay. >> yes. >> okay. thank you. ms. stanphill, recent reporting suggests that youtube is considering significant changes to its platform including ending auto play for children's videos so that when one video ends another doesn't immediately begin, hooking the child on to long viewing sessions. a call for an end to auto play for kids, can you confirm to this committee that youtube is getting rid of that future? >> thank you, senator. i cannot confirm that as a representative from digital well being. thank you. i can get back to you, though. >> i think it's important and i think it's very important that that happen voluntarily or through federal legislation to make sure that the internet is a healthier place for kids. senators blunt and schatz and myself, senator sasse, senator collins, senator bennet are working on a bipartisan children and media research advancement act that will commission a five-year '95