ms. levine, first question to you. facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town in the last couple of months. what's going on with that case and do we expect further attention to that company? ms. levine: thank you for having me, it is great to be here. settlement5 billion with facebook, culminating the cambridge analytical data scandal, has divided washington. on one hand you have republicans and industry groups saying the $5 billion fine, because it was the largest in the history of the agency, it met facebook was being held accountable. on the others, you have democrats and consumer and privacy advocates blasting the ftc's track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebook's size and how much money it has, this won't deter facebook from bad behavior in the future. right now in washington, we are in this wait and see mode with facebook. facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers who are, by the way, watching facebook's every move to see if there are any other privacy m

ms. levine, first question to you. facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town in the last couple of months. do we expect -- what's going on with that case and we expect further attention to that company? >> thank you for having. great to be. the ftc $5 billion settlement with facebook which was the culmination of this long privacy probe prompted by the cambridge analytica data scandal has divided washington. on the one hand, you have republicans and industry groups say this by building daughters find because is the largest to come that that in history of te agency really, that it meant facebook was being held accountable. on the other side you have democrats and consumer privacy advocates blasting the ftc track record on enforcement and saying that because a facebook's size and how much money it has, this will not deter facebook from bad behavior in the future. so right now in washington we are in this wait-and-see mode with facebook where facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers

levin: let me start by thanking ms. wagner, mr. castro of texas and mr. yoho for introducing this legislation. southeast asian states and the association of southeast asian nations, or asean, have been central to american policy in asia for decades. they are key partners in advancing our interests in the done pacific. but at this point, the trump administration still hasn't put together a comprehensive strategy on how to strengthen our engagement with these countries. this legislation would require such a strategy. it calls on the secretary of state, working with the secretaries of defense and commerce, to come up with a plan that will make sure the united states and our partners are working together on some of the most critical issues we're fatesing from climate change and human rights, to security cooperation, energy, and a growing global economy. a multiyear strategy for our engagement with asean and its members -- member states will help us build partnerships in the region focused on short-term challenges as well as longer term opportunities. many sou

levin: i now recognize the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. schakowsky. ms. shah cusky: thank you for leading this discussion about climate. what i love about so many of our freshman members like congressman levin, who says how urgent the need is right now to act. a sense of urgency. i'm on the climate and environment subcommittee. we had a hearing. we had nice people testifying but we still heard, particularly from our republican colleagues, that it's a decision between jobs and clean environment. are you kidding me? we have known about this crisis which it is, for decades. we knew about it even in the johnson administration. long, long ago. we've had we have had this debate as if you have to pick one or the other. representative levin went over and over how good for the economy, how good for workers, how good the jobs are that we address asting time to this problem. it was really, really frustrating to me that we have gone over this and over this. and in the meantime, the forests are burning in california. the fields are flooding in illinois where i'm from.

ms. spanberger. mr. levin. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman.according to the united nations assistance mission in afghanistan, there were more civilian casualties in 2018 than in any other year since they began counting, and it was also reported that for the first time since the united nations began documenting civilian casualties in afghanistan, more civilians were killed by afghan government and american forces than by the taliban and other insurgents. i don't think there can be a clearer sign that the u.s. military intervention there has failed to secure the afghan people. ambassador wells, it's good to see you again. immaterial i want to ask you that why should we expect that doing more of the same thing we've done for the last 18 years will lead to a different and better outcome than these statistic suggest? >> first, i want to say that the u.s. military does everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. nobody is more meticulous in its planning and as thoughtful in its efforts, and i contrast that to the enemy that we face that delibe

levine said trauma is a fact of life. it doesn't have to be a life sentence. and we believe we can move our children from trauma to hope. >> thank you very much ms. hoffmeister. and now i like to recognize dr. jackson for five minutes please. >> did morning chairman, ranking member allen and members of the committee. my name is janice jackson and i am the chief executive officer for chicago public schools which serves 361,000 students and is the third- largest school district in the nation. i am grateful for this invitation today to talk about one of the greatest challenges that we face in chicago. many of our students are growing up in communities that struggle under the wait of poverty and have been significantly impacted by violence. the purpose of my testimony today is to explain how exposure to violence can create trauma for chicago's children. more importantly to share the steps that cps is taking to combat the damaging effects of trauma. first i would like to tell you about two students, rodney and kenyatta. these are children who live in a world where trust is scarce and anger is overly abundant. they describe their communities in their o

ms. levine, first question to you. facebook has seen a lot of attention in this