them that is mindful of the progress that we made then and also maybe the limitation for that nvestigation 40 years ago. sfloo >> monday on "the communicators, michael o'reilly like net neutrality, spectrum auctions and political divide within the cc and join by howard buskirk. >> take the most aggressive approach to policy making. leaves little ground when it becomes the first primary goal of the item, when the policy and direction they want to go becomes the first goal rather than any consideration consensus. you end up with what we have today, where there is little interest in bringing my opinions on board, and i'm less likely to be supportive. "communicators" monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> on lectures in history, robert childs of the university of maryland talks about labor and social unrest at the turn of the 20th century, as well as the reforms that tried to combat this disconnect. the tension between corporations, workers, and the government over issues such as working conditions. he also discusses how all levels of society sought to alleviate fears about the rapid so

being ip fearier in science and technology is a serious challenge, quite naturally, causes china to nvestigate lots of things. knowing only that they are investigating those things is consistent with technical lagging, but it's also consistent with those who have been waiting for the great chinese buildups parity. and if we had more transparency on what we were doing, that might help. other areas where greater transparency might help is hina's investment in sea-based strategic deterrent, whose relationship with the what is now called i think the pla strategic rocket forces or -- me. t clear, at least to and the actual purpose of the ssbm programs is not clear, at least to me. a discussion of how we both think about that would be an portant area or -- transparency as would a discussion about how we both think about the regional role. finally, in talking about arms race, i want to make a point, all discussions about arms race ook at the united states and another country. and what they fail to account for is the unique extended deterrence role of the united states. that leads many of us to believ

was they mostly retired and when get a pretty ey good retirement. 92 fraud 7 fraud cases, theft nvestigations, assault investigations. it runs a spectrum. misconduct we have 90 cases, 14 of which have been and nted to the agency adjudication. >> when we have a process where is hired and then serious offense, do to report and y where do we draw the line there? epa employees, there's no requirement to report either an arrest or a conviction. bviously if you're a law enforcement offerser like myself, you must report. if you're an attorney, you must report. if you work for the ig, you must report. a security ve clearance, you report an arrest conviction. agencies re other where they have to -- the list three?ger than that >> yes, mr. cummings. been a law enforcement officer my entire life. i've worked for, you absolutely have to immediately report an arrest and a conviction. i was surprised to learn that he epa employees did not have to do that. i've accepted that as that's the ules, but i was a little curious as to why just for the sake of knowing if you put trust and confidence in a particular

adams: i don't believe that there is an allegation that week .nvestigated for that t there were byproducts of information that developed, and i think at a point, you had a situation where the tail was wagging the dog, perhaps. but i don't see any basis for such investigation. i find it is very difficult to get into a discussion of this in view of the prohibitions that i think we -- >> you answered my question. >> you are familiar with the bureau's domestic intelligence work for many years. how did the bureau come to launch the co-intel program, and what did the co-intel program accomplish? mr. adams: the program, as such, as i can reconstruct from the files, was indicated to concern over the conspiratorial efforts by certain groups, and an attempt, a decision made that perhaps, more affirmative action should be taken to neutralize violence, which was becoming of more concern to the fbi in that regard. considerations that went into the launching of co-intel. the first one, the communist party, of course, that was a concern here to neutralize the effectiveness of the communist party in the u

jackson lee joel my previous amendment dealt with the nvestigations account which is the predecessor to the construction account. let me say i took to the floor of the house in may of a the floods occurred and had a moment of sealens. mr. chairman, this wasn't a hurricane or a tornado, but hard rains that caused individuals in their cars to drown. very, very tragic. some going to work. some nurses. this is what it looked like in my district and looked like the same way in 2015 and again in 2016. and so the construction account, which i want to thank miskaptur nd mr. simpson has $1.9 billion in that account and the construction account is important to members across the nation and important to the region. harris county as they collect information per pained to the shore protection, money that tant will will be important. a study and then the instruction. the areas that may be impacted necessaryy corps, and over.e areas that spilled on april 15, appear estimated 24-good ops felled in a poufer period. that's why these construction dollars are so important. and north of-10, my congressio

he said since the start of this nvestigation of a single e-mail has been destroyed and ike to ask him he said that undergrowth unfortunately e is not here. hey deserve to know that government officials knew it. as he so incompetent as to bfuscate the truth forever? that includes our hearing today. i can thank the witnesses for attending. you can submit additional written questions for the witnesses. the steering is adjourned. -- this hearing is adjourned. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," u.s. senate historian betty koed. she talks about events in senate history and the work done by her office. brian: betty koed, historian of the united states senate -- if you had to choose a character that you have studied over the years in the senate to write a book about, who would it be? betty: it would probably be a tie between charles sumner and everett dirksen, two very different people and two very different eras. but they are people that the more i learn about them, the more interesting they get. charles sumner just seemed to be a bottomless pool of the interesting facts and passions and contr