their pensions and we cannot postpone a solution to this till twenty thirty we need to set up a pension committee quickly and set a clear pension level as well. to show people that we're focusing on security and reliability in this area so we're pursuing new paths we're going to have to change the constitutional law of the basic law as well in order to. look at how we can proceed digitised in education and as sure comparability in education as well we're going to have to think these things through and i believe if we manage to do this with the same spirit with which we've carried out these exploratory talks it will be a new start. and i want to just say something about my skepticism certainly optimistic now that we may have. tricky times ahead i'm sure the s.p.d. leadership spoke unanimously in favor all i can say is that i wish the s.p.d. party congress every success as well and of course the coalition of negotiations won't be any easier than the exploratory talks work but it's a challenge and we'll take it on. so people well i think that there are so many decisions and resolutions that support

work and pensions committee.ition at carillion as you understand that? as you understand that? the deficit, and that was not fulfilled. fulfilled. borrow in parts to pay shareholders dividends. dividends. will begin in our enquiries tomorrow morning. morning. of course these things are meant to be regulated very thoroughly? be regulated very thoroughly? and we have a pensions regulator. have a pensions regulator. reported back in 2016 on the fiasco at british home stores. at british home stores. specific legislative changes to the government. government. programme, while she concentrates on the main issue of brexit? the main issue of brexit? today is of tory disquiet, nothing much going on rather than brexit. much going on rather than brexit. opportunity the prime minister could take. take. what is your response to that kind of appeal? a slight novelty. nobody doesn't like this. doesn't like this. could not do its just off our own back. back. working carefully with civil servants. servants. success, harold wilson

we start at the health education and pensions committee. earlier today doctor tom inglesby brief members on the severity of the flu season in public health funding. this is about two hours. >> will call the hearing to order. owner recognize the chairman of the committee for a statement. >> thank you.

the commons work and pensions committee has accused the firm of attempting to "wriggle out" of its obligationsners for nearly a decade. at the same time, it continued to pay dividends and high salaries to executives. three years after it was placed into special measures, rotherham children and young people's services has been told it is no longerfailing. in 2014, a public inquiry revealed that at least 1,400 girls had been sexually exploited by gangs of men over a period of 15 years and the government took direct control of the council. the regulator, 0fsted, has now rated the service as good, but inspectors say some aspects still require improvement. when in 2014 news broke that 1400 mostly white girls and teenagers had been sexually exploited by gangs of men, mostly of pakistani origin, the government took direct control of rotherham council and of all of its functions. children and young people services was roundly castigated a widespread systemic failures. today, three years after the scandal broke, the public service watchdog 0fsted has said the service is now fit for purpose. 0fsted insp

the commons work and pensions committee has accused the firm of trying to regard out of its obligationss in west london. a second man is being questioned after he handed himself in after a police appeal. local people have left hundreds of tributes of flowers and candles at the scene of the crash. our porter is there. personal, heartfelt m essa g es is there. personal, heartfelt messages from people who knew the three boys who died and mementos of their lives. somebody left an xbox game the boys enjoyed playing the plenty pictures of them in football kit or mementos of the football team say supportive. one heartfelt message that caught my eye from a friend who said, three of the loveliest and nicest boys i have ever known. a new law targeting online grooming has uncovered what a leading children's charity has described as the staggering extent of abuse in england and wales the nspcc says more than 1300 cases of people sending a sexual message to a child were recorded in the first six months of it being made a criminal offence. the charity is calling former nesters and social media platfo

financial reporting council — was challenged by mps at a joint hearing of the business and work and pensions committees now exists amongst the accountancy firms, shouldn't we be considering a recommendation to the government to break them up? onto that one first. we feel that there should be more competition in the major accounting and audit area. we asked the competition commission in something like 2012 to do a review, and they did and they made a number of recommendations, which have been implemented. there has been no entry to the market by other firms at that top end of the corporate sector. there would be if we broke the companies up. i think the cma now at some point will need to review the effectiveness of what they recommended and look at it again. later in the commons, in a sustained attack by labour, the shadow business secretary laid out what she said was the situation for carillion‘s suppliers. micro businesses are owed an average of £98,000, small firms, £1ai,000, medium firms, £236,000, and large businesses are owed on average £15.6 million. since 2010, carillion has paid out over £500 m

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mps on the committee have begun an inquiry into the way carillion‘s pension deficit was handled.irman says regulators should have stepped in much earlier. our political correspondent, emma vardy is here with me in the studio. take us through these points yes, so questions are being raised over why alarm bells weren't ringing much sooner, because carillion‘s accounts we re sooner, because carillion‘s accounts were audited, signed off by the regulator kpmg, as a going concern, saying this company has the cash flow to keep going for the foreseeable future, that turned out to be in hindsight a very poor judgment, because months later carillion was shown to be 234 serious trouble. frank field, the chair of the work and pensions select committee is saying it is no just the big bosses who need to be under scrutiny, we need to ask tough questions of the the auditors too, it was because of to that sign off partly from the auditors giving the company a clean bill of health that carillion bosses were paying big dividends to shareholders, the bosses on healthy salaries which in hindsight whe

senator lamar alexander chose health education labor and pensions committee.this is two hours. >> the senate committee on health education labor and pensions committee will come to order. debbie talk about the opioid crisis the number one public health changes good out witness today's sam quinones. the author of dreamland, a true tale of america's opioid epidemic. senator murray and i will each have an opening statement and then i will introduce the witness. then we will hear from mr. sam quinones and senators will each have five minutes of questions. this is the only witness i suggest if you want to take more than five minutes, to say whatever he has to say, we welcome that but there will be plenty of conversation back and forth for members of the committee. mr. sam quinones it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. but this is an unusual topic. one that you quote - a professor is probably the worst man-made epidemic in history. the challenge this crisis presents has captured the attention of every member of this committee. your research and wri

we start at the health education and pensions committee. earlier today doctor tom inglesby brief members on the severity of the flu season in public health funding. this is about two hours. >> will call the hearing to order. owner recognize the chairman of the committee for a statement. >> thank you. think senator burr for chairing the hearing today. senator casey for serving as ranking member. they have both been leaders on the subject. senator burr was the author of the pandemic and all hazards preparedness act. i'll collect all hazards preparedness act. the law helps protect us from the full range of public health threats from national disasters to terror attacks. in 2013, senators burn casey by the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards act. many contributed including senators and sam bennett. warren, hatch, roberts, and others. now it's to be reauthorized for a second time. today's hearing is the second for this year. last week we heard from the administration including from the assistant secretary, the fda and the ce

i want to welcome my colleague and the chair of the work and pension selection committee. a member working without interruption since 1979. 38 years and member of parliament. -- 38 years, a member of parliament. recognized by many as what we want a member of parliament to be. seekeripled and fearless and speaker for truth. [applause] >> for decades, he has campaigned against child poverty. he's a specialist in social security and pensions. he's forgotten more than i ever known. he's an outstanding representative and has never been scared of anybody or anything. a standing that you should aspire to obtain. thank you for your work. what about our friend from the northeast? plenty of time to prepare. representing northeast. these ideas would improve our journey to further educational work. motion onoritize this the basic foundations of educational initiation. we can work on the investment of other education and must ensure that every single young person a the u.k. is guaranteed basic and unbiased curriculum to prepare us. thank you. [applause] >> northwest of england. who do

mps on the committee have begun an inquiry into the way carillion‘s pension deficit was handled. says regulators should have stepped in much earlier. 0ur political correspondent, emma vardy is here with me in the studio. andrew marr show. sniet so there are two concerns here, the the first is the auditors kpmg, take us through that. yes, so the question that frank field is raising here, is why alarm bells weren't ringing sooner because kpmg have been auditing the accounts of carillion for many years, they had give them a clean bill of health to say they are a going concern, which means they have been judged to from the the cash flow to continue operating for the foreseeable future, after having been given that sign off by kpmg, just a few months later, carillion were then looking to be in serious trouble so there are questions ore how the judgments we re are questions ore how the judgments were made, and with such a big black hole in the pensions fund, now known to be round £600 million or almost that, you know, why weren't the auditors picking that up sooner, why was that clean

mps on the committee have begun an inquiry into the way carillion‘s pension deficit was handled. regulators should have stepped in much earlier. 0ur political correspondent emma vardy has been following the story and spoke to me a little earlier. so the question that frank field is raising here is why alarm bells were ringing much sooner, because kpmg had been auditing the accounts of liszt for many years. they'd given them a clean bill of health, a sign of, to say they were going concern, which means they were judged to have the cash flow to continue operating. but having been given that sign off by kpmg, a few months later carillion were looking to be in serious trouble. there were questions over how those judgments mould made and with such a big black hole in the pensions fund, known to be around almost £600 million, why weren't the auditors picking that up sooner? why was that clean bill of health given? it's notjust the bosses of the company carillion facing scrutiny, frank field said it is the auditors who need to be questioned as well. we will, as a committee, be looking a

i want to welcome my elementary colleague, the chair of the pensions select committee of the house, the right honorable member without introduction since 1979, 38 years a member of parliament and widely recognized members across the house and in many parts of our country as more people want a member of parliament to be which is a principled and fearless seeker and seeker for truth. [applause] what about a friend from the northeast who has plenty of time herself and we look for to hearing what you have to say. >> mr. speaker, i'm representing [inaudible]. the idea of work experience is so ideal in battle furthering our education for work. how can we possibly prioritize this notion the basic foundation of our education and institution are not yet filled. the work on investment of our education we must ensure every single young person in the uk is guaranteed a basic, fair and curriculum for life. >> northwestern england. the gentleman waving second from the end red tie, white paper in his hand just to chelating now. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm the member of the youth [inaudible]. i know

i want to welcome my parliamentary colleagues in the worker, pension, select committee of the house. the right honorable member without interruption since 1979. thirty-eight years a member of parliament and widely recognized member of the parliament across the house and in many parts of our country as what people want a member of parliament to be which is a principled and fearless seeker of the and speaker of the truth. [applause] for decades, frank has campaigned against low pay and child poverty as a specialist in the field of social security policy pension policy and forgotten more about pigeon policy that i've ever known. he is truly an outstanding representative and never been scared of anybody or anything. it's a standard that perhaps you should aspire to attain. thank you, frank for your support. [applause] what about a friend from the northeast who has plenty of time herself and we look for to hearing what you have to say. >> mr. speaker, i'm representing [inaudible]. the idea of work experience is so ideal in battle furthering our education for work. how can we possibly prio

i want to welcome my parliamentary colleague and the chair of the work and pension select committee of the house, the right honorable , without interruption since 1979, 38 years, a member of parliament. widely recognized, members of the youth parliament, across the house and in many parts of our country, as what people want a member of element to be, which is a principled and fearless after and speaker for truth. [applause] >> for decades, he has campaigned against low pay and child poverty. he's a specialist in social security policy, pension policy. he has forgotten more about pensions policy than i have ever known. he is truly an outstanding representative. he has never been scared of anybody or anything. it is a standard that perhaps you should aspire to attain. thank you for your support for the parliament. [applause] >> what about our friend from the northeast? plenty of time to prepare. we really look forward to hearing what you have to say. speaker, the idea of work experience hubs seems so ideal and -- in bettering our journey to further our education or work. how can we possi

local 21 pension advisory committee is made up of active city employees and staff that are tasked with providing oversight on behalf of the workers. we've reviewed the staff recommendation and unanimously voted to communicate the following. first, the members of local 21 are firmly dedicated to the responsible care taking of our environment and taking appropriate steps to limit the impact of fossil fuel usage. second, the committee is encourages by the six-point recommendation for taking action on this topic, but would like to request more information regarding specific timelines for each of the action items lefted in the staff plan. the committee would like to communicate their grave concern regarding the possibility of a mass divestment of fossil fuels within a short time frame. the committee would advocate that the board undertake no such rash action until completing a complete analysis of the financial impact the effect it would have on pension performance and costs. we appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand

cochairs the congressional shipbuilding caucus and is a member of the , serves onommittee the pensions committee as well as the higher education workforce training committees. lotnow he does an awful locally for us and has been an advocate for employment, particularly for veterans and environment. tois my honor and privilege turn the podium over so that we can begin the town hall meeting on the new federal tax law. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, gina. thank you for, as you have done so many times, and the college has done so many times, hosting a public forum of this nature. we consider manchester community college the flagship of the community colleges in the state system, and we cannot thank you enough for the tireless work and headingou have put in this great institution. it is always a pleasure for us to be here. we also want to thank the citizens who have turned out this afternoon, and we deeply appreciate that. of course, we are especially pleased to note that today we are joined and being filmed by c-span. or as we like to say, democracies network. i think this is

the senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee looked at issues related to the reauthorization of the pandemic and all hazard preparedness act signed into law

office going back a couple of week ago when you were coming before the health education labor pensions committee, a committee of which i am a member. and at that time we talked a good bit about health care policy, in particular, medicaid, which is a program that i think many americans appreciated over many years but probably never more so or never with greater urgency than this year when there were proposals which in my judgment, and i think in the judgment of a lot of folks who follow health care policy for their whole lives, a lot of concern that medicaid would have been decimated by some of the proposals this year that were put forth. i tend to focus on it not only in a programmatic sense, but in a people sense when we get letters from families that are very concerned about medicaid. i got a letter last year from pam simpson, she is from southeastern pen pens. she was talking about her son, rowan. this is the letter she sent me, back and front. pictures. you can't see them from where you are, but she concluded the letter by making a plea to me to protect medicaid because her son, rowan, she d

local 21 pension advisory committee is made up of active city employees and staff that are tasked with providing oversight on behalf of the workers. we've reviewed the staff recommendation and unanimously voted to communicate the following. first, the members of local 21 are firmly dedicated to the responsible care taking of our environment and taking appropriate steps to

>> the senate committee on health education labor and pensions committee will come to order. debbie talk about the opioid crisis the number one public health changes good out witness today's sam quinones. the author of dreamland, a true tale of america's opioid epidemic. senator murray and i will each have an opening statement and then i will introduce the witness. then we will hear from mr. sam quinones and senators will each have five minutes of questions. this is the only witness i suggest if you want to take more than five minutes, to say whatever he has to say, we welcome that but there will be plenty of conversation back and forth for members of the committee. mr. sam quinones it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. but this is an unusual topic. one that you quote - a professor is probably the worst man-made epidemic in history. the challenge this crisis presents has captured the attention of every member of this committee. your research and writing has been a claim for their depth and breadth. this is what we call a bipartisan hearing. most of them are.

author of dreamland, the true tale of america's opiate epidemic, testified before the labor and pensions committee. this is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. >> senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. today, we turn our attention again to the opioid crisis. the nation's number one public health challenge. our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of america's opiate epidemic. senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then i'll introduce the witness. then we'll hear from mr. quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. since he's our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. but there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. but this is an unusual topic, one you quote washington state research professor gary franklin as calling the worst ma

her office going back a couple of weeks ago when we're coming for the health education labor pension committee of which i am a member and we talked a good bit about how the policy and in particular medicaid which many americans appreciated over many years but probably never more so or never with greater urgency then these proposals in my judgment and i think in the judgment of a lot of folks who follow healthcare policy for their whole life a lot of concern that medicaid would have been decimated by some of the proposals the sheer that were put forward. i tend to focus on it not only in a problematic sense but in a people sense when we get letters from families that are very concerned about medicaid. i got a letter last year from pam simpson, from southeastern pennsylvania talking about her son rowan this is letter she sent me back in front, the pictures you can see from where you are but she concluded the letter by making a plea to me to protect medicaid because her son she described in the letter what his life was like for medicaid which we call medical assistance in pennsylvania and how muc

the senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee looked at issues related to the reauthorization of the pandemic and all hazard preparedness act signed into law december 2006. this is just over two hours. >> i would like to call the hearing to order. first off, i would like to recognize the chairman of the committee for a segment. >> thank you. i want to thank the senator for chairing the hearing today. sen. casey: serving as ranking member at senator murray's request. they have both been real leaders on this subject. senator burr was the original -- i will call it the all hazards preparedness act. in 2006. the law helps protect us from the full range of public health threats. in 2013, senators berger and -- senator burr and senator casey led the committee. many members of the committee contributed, some are still on the committee. in the middle of the flu season, it is critical we reauthorize the act before many of its provisions expire and set number. i hope we will do this in a bipartisan way and i expect that. it has been the tradition with the law and with this committee on

about there were times where i was tempted to, we had a hearing in the help committee, health, education, labor and pensions, we had a hearing on enda, the employee non-discrimination act and still in 30 states, you can get married now on a saturday, get fired on monday for being an lgbt, so we were trying to correct that and give, you know, say that you can't discriminate people for that and-- - i'm remembering the joke, that's why i-- - yeah, yeah, well-- - it's a great joke. - well, it was a good joke. (audience chuckling) but i'll be the judge. - okay. (audience laughing) - anyway so-- - better. - so we have the hearing and it's on this issue and not one republican shows up and it was the first time i'd ever been in a hearing where no one from the minority showed up there. they were in the minority at the time and so i'm sitting there and i'm the newest member so i'm down in the row and i'm sitting there going like, boy, it would be funny if i said it's a shame that none of the gay members of the committee showed up. (audience laughing) and... and the whole, the hearing was full of lgbt advocates so you

the senate health, education, labor and pensions committee. this morning, we are holding a hearing titled facing the 21st century public health threats. our nation's preparedness and response capabilities. we will hear from dr. robert kadlick, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the department of health and human services. dr. steven redd, director of the office of public health preparedness and response at the centers for disease control and prevention, and dr. scott g gottlieb, commissioner of the food and drug administration. this is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. the second will be noticed for tuesday, january 23rd. senator murray and i each have an opening statement, then i'm going to turn to senator alexander and senator casey for any opening remarks they might have. after that, we will introduce our panel of witnesses and hear their testimonies, and then each member will have up to five minutes for any remarks and questions. finishes first i would like to welcome the chairman and thank him for

pensioners who have contributed to and earned every penny of their pensions or you will hear about that later. we have to find committee health programs that have lapsed. you'll hear about those e-mails have to do more for our brave veterans to get the quality health care they deserve. they didn't wait in line in iraq and afghanistan and they shouldn't have to wait in line here. and of course we have the past disaster relief that addresses the needs of all of our states and territories in texas florida louisiana california puerto rico virgin islands and western states that are plagued by fires. unfortunately on every one of these important issues the president has been impossible to pin down or he has been completely absent. president trump's inability to negotiate with congress is what caused the three-day government shutdown from which we have just emerged because of the fact that we are not making more progress on these issues. a republican the republican leaders don't want to go ahead on their own. they are afraid of president trump. they want to know what he will do and the usually tell them you do it yourselves.

pensions minister, there. ukip's ruling national executive committee will meet today for a specially—convened meeting to discussa rty‘s leader, henry bolton. mr bolton has faced calls to step down after it was reported his girlfriend sent a series of offensive texts, including racist comments about prince harry's fiancee, meghan markle. our political correspondent emma vardy is here. he has been fighting, mr bolton, a bit of a rearguard action today, doing lots of interviews, defending his position, trying to shore up his position as leader. yes, he's appeared on three sunday morning political discussion shows, fighting to keep hisjob. he says the relationship is over and that he is 110w relationship is over and that he is now completely focused on taking ukip forward. the problem is, though, he has lost a lot of confidence within the party. there have been many ukip meps and other party figures coming out and calling for him to go saying it has become an embarrassment and too much of destruction, the many headlines that we re destruction, the many headlines that were created during his short relationship with

yourpsed british construct -- constructors have a select committee to make sure the a billionercomes dollar loss in the pension scheme. open an investigation into the failed firm. for business, a new controversy surrounding volkswagen over emissions testing. officials are demanding answers about experience that exposed monkeys to toxic diesel fumes. the new york times reported friday that a research group set up had commissioned the 2014 study to defefd the use e of dies f following revelelations ththat it's exhaust coululd caue cancer. monkeys were confined in airtight chambers and forced to breathe e the exhaust frfrom a volkswagen beetle. all three automakers denounced testing. jose can said it was a mistake and it is against their ethical standards. on monday -- bolt wagon -- volkswagen said it was a mistake and it is against their ethical standards. >> thank you very much. it is time now for the press review. ♪ >> time now for the press review on the program. we are joined in the studio. >> you are going to start us off with egypt, where today is the last day to declare for elections coming in march. >> t

he is a member of the senate finance committee, health and education, labor and pensions, banni banking and housing and urban affairs, but his story is more powerful than any political. raised by a single mom. mentored by a powerful figure that taught him that everyone deserves an opportunity and that every opportunity ought to be seized. he -- i had read over the weekend you had a town hall down in south carolina. and ivanka trump was there and senator graham was there. and he said tim is the smartest guy in washington. that is not saying much. but he is the smarte esest guy washington. my experience with senator scott, you won't remember this, but i'll just take a minute to say this, a couple years ago we had a summit on poverty, catholics and evangelicals and others. and senator scott was one of the few leaders who agreed to come. the other leader who agreed to come was the president of the united states. and when he agreed to come was the time we had given to senator scott. and we called up and said as politely as we could would you be willing to move around a little so we could hav

. >> the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. today we turn our attention again to the opioid crisis. the nation's number one public health challenge. our witness today is sam

your testimony about people and it is about people with things i love about this committee health education and labor pension so in the context of our labor -- we are having senate hearings about approaching the rewrite of education act. programs such as public loan forgiveness. this is on education site pretty well approached your jobs from a different background of expertise but share any concerns you have about the current public health workforce in this country as you look forward. .. and we do need more stuff but we really need more people and the budget environment today constrains the number of people you can employ which is why there is this going on in healthcare and we don't have a lot of capacity but in the end there are not enough nurses to staff of hospitals or clinics in some of those limitation limitae greater in certain communities than others and there is a public health force issue as well and what we need to do in education and maybe through some incentive is to direct more of our future young people towards these important carriers because these are in addition to taking them a paycheck,

pension. >> harris: that's interesting. >> guy: that's another element of the timing. we could be looking at it in light of the vote tonight in the house intelligence committee, may be just math and when they can get rid of him as soon as possible while he still gets his pension. if i've maybe there's something else in there and another part of the investigation where his name is a critical element. >> harris: i have to stop you when you get to the third may b be. we have a lot of facts to work with here and i've got to tell you, as you look at this, the big question is what's in that memo and what went on at the fbi home and just a lot of questions at this point. >> kennedy: too many. let us see it. let us see all that there is hidden. i understand what actions for the sake of national security, but the rest of it, go ahead and open it up so there's not the kind of speculation. >> harris: he'll let me know if i'm getting it wrong, but that there might not be any reason to redact anything. i know representatives eldon who said last week, they might not be any reason to redact anything. again, if everyone is taking a peek at it and they look and they see. >> sandra: is im

. >> the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. today we turn our attention again to the opioid crisis. the nation's number one public health challenge. our witness today is sam quinones, the author of "dreamland: the true tale of america's opiate epidemic." senator murray and i will each have an opening statement and then i will introduce the witness, then with her from mr. quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. since his are only witness i suggested to him that if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that, but who will be plenty conversation back and forth from members of the committee. mr. quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearing but this is an unusual topic, one you quote washington state research professor gary franklin is calling the worst man-made epidemic in history. the challenge this crisis present has captured the attention of a member of this committee. the research and writing has been acclaimed for the dep

the committee would advocate that the board undertake no such rash action until completing a complete analysis of the financial impact the effect it would have on pension performance and costs. we appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before it's made. >> sorry. time. >> thank you very much. >> again, everyone has 1 minute. we're going to announce loudly when you are at your 1-minute mark. understand the constraints we have. sara greenwald, are you present? seeing she's not here. i will set her speaker card aside. phil casky, followed by margaret pierce. >> phil casky, retired from the water department. i think -- i want to say briefly the water department is an incredibly wonderful system. it's one of the most protected systems in the world. and we didn't get that way by being unprotective of the environment. so burning fossil fuels is not protective of the environment. and i would like to keep the water system the way it is and i think that san francisco can be a leader in many, many ways and by divesting is one way to do it. thank you. >> t

pensions? secretary mnuchin: i will say it's a significant problem. it's not one with a clear, simple solution, but we look forward to working with the committee. senator jones: ok. thank you, mr. secretary. the small business jobs act of 2010 was created to support a lot of local small businesses that help accelerate growth. that was an important initiative for alabama. i think we created a number of jobs. we got $31 million, but that has now -- that round one has effectively run out. would you support a re-authorization of the sbci? secretary mnuchin: not necessarily but i wouldn't rule it out. again, it's something that i would work with congress and we need to look at more carefully. senator jones: all right. i wasn't here when the tax bill was brought to the floor and passed and i'm sure you may have talked about this add nauseum and i a-- ad and i apologize. you said it would help create wage inflation and create wainl growth. that's the problem in my state. the median income is $47,000 a year which is below all but a handful of states. in some counties, that median income is below $30,000 a year. could you just explain how the tax bill a

higher pension contribution and it's all because of the tax cuts and the tax reform and i want to thank all of the companies that work so hard to do it. liz: let's bring in former oversight committeeir jason chaffetz. let's talk about the press today the media, 19 questions at the white house press conference congressman, all about steve bannon, nothing about the stock market run-up. nothing about the pace of job growth or what companies are doing reinvesting the corporate tax cut. i remember watching obama press conferences they talked about the market, they talked about the economy all the time. what's going on here? >> it's such a double standard. the numbers are really quite stunning and you have the atlanta fed upping their estimates to now a gdp growth of 3.25% and the obama economy we were down hovering in the about half of that and so the numbers are stunning and they cannot even ask a question of it. i understand they want to get to the national inquirer type of stuff but the market is smarter than that. it's affecting real people's lives and they're reducing the regulations, put a tax cut on top of that and look at what's happening. liz: from where the trump voter sits t