ms. norton: madam speaker, i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. reporter: what they were trying to do is raise caps from the budget control daps -- caps without any action. spending levels are going to fall $1235 billion next year unless there's a legislative fix to raise the caps. so the house democrats said, we're not going to do a whole budget resolution. it's too controversy within our caucus to bring everyone together over what an ideal plan for the next 10 years looks like. let's just do a bill to raise the caps. and that was supposed to come to the floor either today or tomorrow. they never scheduled it. but that was sort of the hope and the intention after they passed it out of committee last week. that was something that they were not able to do in the end. after there were some serious disagreements from the various wings of

ms. norton for 30 minutes. -- ms. norton, for 30 minutes. ms. norton: madam speaker, tuesday, a week from tuesday, will be what we call emancipation day in the district of columbia. we use that occasion to point out the continued inequality the residents who live in your nation's capital continue to have. emancipation day was the day en abraham lincoln freed the slaves in the district of columbia. yes, there were slaves working in the district of columbia. it was considered a southern state. nine months before the emancipation proclamation freed all slaves. and yet the residents of the districts of the nation's than l remain less free any other americans. the without statehood, people of the nation's capital have indeed made progress. i'm -- i want to discuss the problems and the progress. especially as we come close to the point when we will bring our d.c. statehood bill to the floor and the house will vote whether to make the district the 51st tate. we recognize we were the last to be free. because we are not free. won't be free until the distr

ms. norton here. mr. sanchez, here. mr. cook, here. >> president cook: i'd like to open this meeting in honor of ms. harriet tubman who said, i freed a thousand slaves, i could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. section a. general information. accessibility information for the public. b, open items. number one, approval of board minutes for the regular meeting of april 9, 2019. can i have a motion and second on the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> >> president cook: roll call vote. seven ayes. >> president cook: speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to our assistant. members of the public have two minutes to address the boards, or the time set by the president. importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. super

ms. norton: mr. speaker, d.c. makes a big deal of emancipation day. that's the day that abraham lincoln freed the slaves in the nation's capital nine months before the emancipation proclamation freed the rest. you'll forgive us if we say that it's hardly enough more than 150 years later, when the residents of your nation's capital, white and black, are number one in federal taxes paid to support this republican, and have no final vote like the vote just cast in this house on the house floor, and no senators whatsoever. emancipation day will mark the day when we will celebrate h.r. 51, to make the district of columbia the 51st state. lincoln freed the slaves in the district of columbia. to ress must pass h.r. 51 make freedom mean equality for the residents of your nation's capital with all other americans. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recogni

ms. norton here. mr. sanchez, here. mr. cook, here. >> president cook: i'd like to

ms. norton: thank you for the comments. if this is really a priority for us, i heard last year it was and hearing this year it is, let's work with staff for a way that the -- we control the agenda. it's our agenda. if we want to have a couple of times at board meetings throughout the year we're looking at this and asking for progress on options, we can do that and we should do that. it's not just the responsibility of staff to bring us issues. it's our responsibility to tell staff what we want to hear about and what we want to monitor. i would just suggest that if this is a priority, then let's look at this with enough time over the next year, so we're in the in this position again if people are really feeling like it's taking too long and it should get better. and there will be tradeoffs, right? it's $11 million, this contract is $11 million. the price point for the food, you know, is pretty -- i mean $2.50 for a lunch is pretty tough in san francisco to have a fresh locally sourced food prepared 30,000 units of it prepare

ms. norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized. i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. i rise in strong support of re-authorization of the violence against women act. the world has changed, my friends, since our last re-authorization of vawa. this bill updates the bill to cover new victims of domestic violence that were not covered in our prior bill, and desperately need protection. in addition, the me, too movement has made women more determined concerning their rights than ever before. perhaps the most desperate need of victims -- for victims of domestic violence is for sanctuary. shelter, emergency housing, or affordable housing. all in short supply. victims who stay with an abuser risk everything. homelessness, loss of custody of children, more abuse, and even injury and death. victims who remain with an abuser in 40% to 50% of cases also see their children seek being abused. -- s high as 70% of fee female homicide victims were murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in a relationship where there had been ongoing abuse. the mos

ms. norton, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. this is an exquisitely important hearing. and my questions begin with you, mr. carroll, director carroll. i served in, as head of an agency in a democratic administration and learned that the buck stopped really with me and that's all there was to it, so i am concerned that the failures of the office of drug control policy may be a failure in leadership, so that we're seeing no reduction in overdose deaths, and you just heard a very negative report card from the gao. i'm very concerned that that report card showed no way to measure, no way to know if we're making progress. so let me see what progress has been made. early last year, a 24-year-old former trump campaign worker, with no prior drug control experience, was appointed deputy chief of staff of the office. replacing a career civil service, who was removed to make room for that person. who made that decision? and have other experienced career civil servants been reassigned to make room for political appointees? i'm sorry, direct