that is a top priority for my office. i know we mentioned this as a priority for me, which is not currently on this list is $1.2 million for a 20% increase to community-based contracts that are working with survivors of domestic violence. which intersects, you know, a lot of the time with sexual assault. so this is an area that's very important for me on a number of levels. we know that with demi too movement and time is up, that many more women are feeling comfortable coming forward and the place they feel comfortable going is to the community-based organizations. if you see the number of cases of women that access different services in fiscal year 2016, we had 21,000 cases and community-based organizations while only 3,000 cases went to police departments. 1500 cases to the special victims unit, and the d.a. filed incidents in only 545 cases. the bulk of the places that survivors are seeking services, is in the community. that number has gone up substantially and we haven't met that need to. >> supervisor cohen: is as a

of the american people, a priority of yours and a priority of congresses. it is important to have regular order. i feel optimistic. we are led by our chairman who very aggressive about getting the bills done, getting them done on time. it is important to all of us to let our colleagues now that the appropriations process is the way to get a lot of our priorities done and done quickly every single year. we are getting our job done and we thank you for your help. thank you.rump: scott, anything? >> thank you for your time. i want to speak to what the senator was speaking about. i appreciate the senate and my chairman and the rest of my peers on probation and how we are moving along. i want to caution us and make sure that i cannot leave without stating we cannot have resolution and government shutdowns when it comes to defense. you have done great work in negotiating as our folks in this room to make sure we have the funds needed to have the maintenance and readiness and training for our men and women who are out there every day. we have to make sure we are s

values and priorities. i am honored to work alongside ambassador haley and under her leadership to expand our reform efforts, including greater accountability and transparency, fiscal discipline and making the u.n. fit for purpose. if confirmed, i intend to work closely with other member states in the general assembly to advance these priorities and other issues related to sound management and reform. thank you for this opportunity to appear before this committee today, and i look forward to taking your questions. >> thank you. there has been a vote call. senator murphy has gone to vote. as soon as he comes back, i'll even vote. at this time i'll turn it over for questions. >> thank you. i want to congratulation you all and your families. it's a tremendous sacrifice for families to have you serve like this. ron, it's good to see you here in this capacity. and i know of your good work in chicago. ambassador nicholls, we had a good visit in my office yesterday. we all know, and if you don't, zimbabwe is going

thank you for your priorities. what if i were myself and my staff to put it down into another list, into another master list. we would update the website so everyone would have a chance to look at that, and we could start from that so that's a little bit of a stronger starting off point. >> supervisor yee: before you do that, chair cohen -- >> supervisor cohen: what did you say? >> supervisor yee: before you do that, i guess what i did and some of us did was just rattle off, here's some more things that i'd like to see funded, here's an amount. and when the other supervisors came in, some of them gave more rationale and so forth, and i was actually holding back on that discussion. >> supervisor cohen: would you like to say some more? >> supervisor yee: in terms of understanding why i'm asking for it, i thought we were going to have this discussion now, rather than -- but when i heard the other supervisors, when they gave rationale, i said geez, i wonder if we're going to have an opportunity. all we did was rattle o

one of the priorities has been infrastructure. if you look at what has been payment is a huge down on a priority of the american people. and it is important to have the regular order. i am optimistic. whore led by our chairman has been very aggressive in getting hills done on time. it is important to all of us to let our colleagues know that the appropriations process is the way to get a lot of priorities done quickly, every single year, and we are getting our job done and thank you for the help. >> i appreciate it. i appreciate your time. i just want to speak to what the senator was speaking about and i think that we are moving along along, but iving wet to caution us that cannot have continuing resolutions and government shutdowns with defense. you are doing great work with negotiating to make sure we have the funding we need and the training for the men and women out there every day, but these continuing resolutions are devastating and we have to make sure that we are shepherding the process and make sure we don't do that again

values and priorities. i am honored to work alongside ambassador haley and under her leadership, to expand our reform efforts, including greater accountability and transparency, strengthened whistleblower protections, fiscal discipline, and making the u.n. fit for purpose. if confirmed, i intend to work closely with other member states in the general assembly to advance these priorities and other issues related to sound management and reform. thank you for this opportunity to appear before this committee today. i look forward to taking your questions. leftjohnson: sen. murphy: -- sen. johnson: sen. murphy: has left for a vote. murphy johnson: sen. has left for a vote. flake ambassador nicholas -- sen. flake: ambassador nicholas, we had a good visit. some bubbly is going through elections for the first time in isut 40 years -- zimbabwe going through elections for the first time in about 40 years, free and fair, after the departure of robert mugabe. can you tell me about the importance to get there by i thank

you know, where do we get the 3.5 million for the navigation center if that's a priority, and not wait for this rebalancing or hopefully some state money will come through? so i'm really urging, and i'm going to be looking at those budgets to say, you know maybe this doesn't need to be funded because this is not our priority, and hopefully, we can find some funding for all of these things actually have expressed strong support for. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, supervisor yee. appreciate your thoughts. supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: yes, thank you, chair cohen. so i have to say that i concur with supervisor cohen that in the budget, it seems as though prop d, we should not have been depending on prop d as we actually have learned our lesson before. but my question to you is the 27 million that we are trying to negotiate with the state now, that is going to be -- that will then pay for the rapid rehousing, for the housing subsidy pool, and the t.a.y. gaf nation center, because these 27 million were earmarked for homeless services, and these are homeless services that we will n

you have allocated it to your prioriti priorities. if it was approved in 2013 that money would have added to your pot. >> a quick correction to that. it actually is non-general fund. it's related to the security bond self-insurance fund. these are funds that have been allocated from enterprise departments including the public utilities commission, dpw and then airports -- ports. sorry. those are the three departments. >> and the committee -- >> hold on. let him finish. >> those funds come to us in regular transfers in the amount of $30,000 per transfer from those departments for a total of $150,000 per year and that helps to fund the cost of the position but helps to build the self-insurance fund which we've been trying to increase the size of over the years that helps us provide additional protections to small firms so they can have assurances to reduce their cost of entering into a contract so we can have more small businesses developed. so there's a multipurpose to this. one was to help insure that the bond self-insurance fund was

those are the priority. the priority is let let's cut taxers in strongest and wealth jets and pay for it by taking money from people who need it the most in america. we've seen time and again they are more focus thond needs of they have wealthiest and well connected. we should be addressing the challenges of the middle class in this session and making sure they have ample assistance. now they're after health care for children. now they want to propose $7 billion for the health care plan. let's be clear, their priority is one -- as long as i've been in the congress has been taking care of the strongest and the most powerful at the very top. in 2001, january 19, bill clinton said good-bye to the country. there was a $5.6 trillion surplus. ut taxes by $1.3 trillion in 2001, cut taxes by another trillion in 2003. there was $2.3 trillion of tax cuts, two wars, 1.5 million new veterans and think answer to that of course was let's have more tax cuts. and that's precisely what they did with their tax cut plan. $2.3

i believe that they didave h an k higher, but we weren't able to -- with the competing priorities and limited sources, able to fund that. >> supervisor sheehy: ao nd s do you know what that delta is? >> i can talk to you offline. i think it's about 600 k, but we'd have to talk to the sheriff's department. >> supervisor sheehy: okay. great. >> i'm almost done. >> supervisor cohen: we're not rushing you. please continue. >> some other highlights. of course we have a $40 million state and federal impacts reserve. we did a $10 million state and federal i rerve that was pretty much impacted by december. on the horizon me that sho as wells the heartburn and potential repeal of senate bill 1, the gas tax. from what we're hearing, it is likely that it will make the lily that it wi pass by california voters in november . if that were to be repealed -- if that tax were to be repealed for the general fund alone, it funds $23 million annually of our road repaving program, so over the next two years should that be implemented, it would be over $30 million just for the general fund. it doesn't take

safety and security is our top priority. we have invested nearly $850,000 and a landscaping redesign project to mitigate some of the safety and security concerns on the perimeter of that building. we are certainly open to re-examining the sfpdm work order and redirecting a greater portion of that for the branches and increasing the amount of coverage and control for eureka valley. with regards to rfid, ironically, that would allow us to repurpose more staffing capacity and convert some public services position into more buildings anrounds contol officers. we currently have about 21.5 fte of buildings and grounds. patrol officers. we are fully cognizant we are operating in and no new fte environment. with respect to rfid, i want to clary the record, there's absolutely no threat to patron privacy with rfid. the technology simply does not function in a manner where individuals can be tracked. i'd be more than happy to provide more explanation of how that works. our chief of collections and technical services is here today. she'

we said this is a priority and it's not a priority in the budget. that's a cop out answer. >>> supervisor yee, did mark f ferrel include you, in your perspective, in the budget that he submitted? >>> through the -- through her, he did ask. not directly, didn't have a meeting with him on that. but this is something that was said from all of us as a priority. it's not my individual priority. i'm hoping that i'm reflecting my colleague's desire to have this as part of the budget. that's all it is for me. >>> yes, you definitely raised an interesting point. the bottom line is the mayor has the ability to put forth what they want to see in the budget. that's why we're on the budget committee, supervisor. we'll make the corrections. one of the areas that i'm most uncomfortable with is this increase of $47 million that you've requested for your budget. if you could just go through that one more time again, $47 million you're asking for. not to mention, kelly said it was an increase of personnel. on my notes, i have an increase of five. it's a little dishea

a priority the american people a priority of yours and a priority of the people so again it's important to have regular order. i feel optimistic. we are led by our chairman and frankly very aggressive about getting bills done and getting them done on time and to let our colleagues know that the appropriations process is the way to get a lot of our priorities done and done quickly every single year. we are getting the job done and we thank you for your help. >> appreciate it. >> thank you for your time and thank you for having us here. appreciate it. i think we are moving along and i appreciate the senate and of course my chairman and the appropriations and how we are moving along. as want to caution we need to make sure, can't leave the room without stating that we can't have government shutdowns. you've done great work mr. president negotiating with our folks in this room to make sure we have the funds we needed for the training for the men and women that are out there today but these continuing resolutions are absolute devastating. we are wanted to make sure that we don't do that to t

funding to the priorities. so the plan will function as implementation tool and guide you in your discussions here as well by providing guidance with impact fees in parks and open spaces the interagency effort has been critical in the implementation budget with programming over $4 million toward complete streets and parks with more to come. indeed, it's galvanized support for and guided investment of over $10 million of public realm improvements in the neighborhood from ucsf, including $5 million for renewed park. now i want to take a moment to recognize the tremendous amount of interagency effort it took to move this plan forward into several years of dedication. as staff, we we have other staff from m.t.a. and there's been a partnership of moving through forward through the community process and now implementation. some of our sister agencies are moving forward with improvements as well as underpass lighting and installation. and now i would like to take a moment to thank some people, individuals and groups t

where the main priorities of the house verses what the presidents request help? >> guest: thanks for having me. the house bill in many

me the senior leadership of the army for making acquisition reform a priority. and i believe the bill that we are considering today supports investments for critical weapon systems and research and development activities. for example, the bill authorizes full funding for the army's request for battle tanks as well as army helicopters to include a-64 apache helicopters andblkh. makes target investments to improve the range and thee that willty of artillery systems and supports the feeling on combat vehicles order to better protect ourolers.here isi area that i support but i am concerned that some of the programs were not fully funded. the most notably, the joint light tactical vehicle program. while the senate mtly presidentt annual request, we should be mindful of the impact of the force. ensuring our soldiers havehe equipment and resources they need on the battlefield is our highest priority. in the area of space, this committee has taken irn depth briefings on the thrts we face through the use of our space systems while many of the details are classified, i'm

priority: you ♪ >>> welcome back. i'm in for alex witt.sident trump escalating his call for merit-based immigration after he was forced to retreat from his policy of separating children from their parents at the u.s./mexico border. using angel families to once again channel his vision for who should be allowed into the country. >> we want people in our country based on merit, not based on a draw where other countries put their absolutely worst in a bin and they start drawing people. >> congressman quigley of illinois. great to have you with me. >> good morning. >> let me start by asking what you have heard from stit constituents. you have had 800 falls. what are you hearing and what are you telling them about what congress might do to correct this problem? >> that is over 3,000 contacts with my office now. after this discussion, i'm heading up to a rally in the middle of my district where kids and families will be there. people who are ashamed, disgusted and extraordinary ily angry at what's happening. i have a former marine who talked abo

but administrations change and priorities change. and i guess that's fair. however, when priorities change, and perhaps there is a step back in enforcement, that's when offices of attorney generals have to really step up and do more. let me tell you, you remember this, you went through many budgets. i just went through a budget period, and i got to tell you, one of the priorities for our office was getting really really smart on anti-trust law, on privacy law. why? because not only do we read the papers, we know that residents get very concerned when their data is used in a way that they weren't aware of. and we are going to be there to step up and protect those residents without regard to whether a federal partner will be there with us. >> so tell me a little bit about what that looks like. when you revamp, you are the first elected attorney general in the district of columbia, which means it's not just a mayor's appointee, you are actually answerable to the people and trying to translate their priorities into how you do your job. so the fact that you are h

another priority is to revolutionize the utilization. the goal is ingreat near realtime data and also be able to use signature and informed by artificial intelligence and machine to machine learning to significantly improve the performance of the dprid. furthermore -- grid. furthermore, these will have vulnerabilities and enhance energy resources and the use of micro grids and energy storage. storage, the holy grail of energy has a huge role to play in energy. there are initiatives in doe focusing from pump storage to flow batteries. there has never been a time where megawatt storage has been more important. oe is voiding reactive for bulk power systems, as well as frequency control. working with the national laboratories, oe is pursuing three high probability capabilities, batteries using organics, sodium based batteries and recharge bl and zink batteries. oe and caesars are members of the grid modernization, oi focuses on new concepts, tools and technologies that will better analyze and protect the grid. oe and the office of energy off

it's our priority to rebuild the readiness, keep america safe. i've invited the chair of the defense appropriations subcommittee, kay granger, to join us today. she represents naval air station joint reserve base in fort worth, texas. provide for our national defense, give our troops the highest pay increase that they've seen in nine years. it's our priority to rebuild the readiness, keep america safe. i've invited the chair of the defense appropriations subcommittee, kay granger, to join us today. she represents naval air station joint reserve base in fort worth, texas. she's leading the way on this bill that helps bolster the defense and support our troops. so thank you, chairwoman granger, for being with us. ms. granger: thank you, cathy, i appreciate it. you were talking about military power and that's what this is all about in the defense bill. in the last defense bill, we began the process of rebuilding our military. we did that by meeting with the joint chiefs, with the secretary of defense and saying, what do we need to do to rebuild this

in order to collect priority is from the farmers. i view myself as hired help and i am committed to writing a farm bill in the rural communities and address sensitivity. i have heard repeatedly over the last year about the need to write a farm billha helps manage the uncontrollable risks of farming including perfectin g the commodity programs that reflect market conditions. i heard about the importance of that with the new market opportunities, particularly for supporting experts to the markets around the world. i heard a strong passion of many for the water health and quality. i listen to those who care deeply about the support and the local communities especially doing everything we can to fight the opioid epidemic. i talked with students and researchers and assorted benefits of investing in tomorrow's farmers and technologies and i visited with them to spend their time fighting hunger in our communities. the farm bill developed by this committee reflects those important priority is, promotes voluntary conservation, develops nemark

we're here to learn about priorities of america's mayors. five years ago, we began this research when washington was roried in dysfunction and today, things are not much different. but as you know, city leaders don't have the luxury of doing nothing. i leaed when i served as mayor in a small city in south flr for 24 aryewe dealt with issues of s to broad band to water and waste water issues. transportation infrastructure, police, opioids, race relations, city officials have to deal with those issues. so we lead and will in reed and you'll see cit mayors lead on issues that are important. that's why we started this verge to look at mayoral priorities from cities large and small and urban and rural. we wanted to know what america's local governments were prioritizing and accomplishing. and to understand why these change over time. fast forward today. twhaen local leaders will continue to lead. and they recognize their important role in making sure america's cities function officially and effectively. let's hear how mayors are lead ing. >> proo

i will communicate what my priorities well. okay, send an e-mail. i am specifically looking for an introduction to this potential prospect. do you know anybody? >> is there anything you can do about getting your employees to know how to use our prospects. >> they bring someone to the company and have a free lunch. at google we did this a lot too. i would always bring friends, family, people interested in working at google, bring them, host them for lunch. that was a great way for them not only to get a look and feel what the company is like but actually be able to have a centered around how can i help you, how can you help me. >> so the more people you get in the door the better. >> part of my story for how i even started, i did an analysis of all the introductions that i had made of people i spoke to within my network and realized i had a knack for match making. it led to millions of dollars in acquisitions, investment, et cetera. all i was doing is understanding what are the priorities for this person's business, what are their biggest needs. who

priority number two violent crimes, priority number throw property crime and priority numberfour-foot- patrol and it explains how those fit into the strategic clusters and framework and how it intersect with our priorities. hopefully you understand the thinking prioritizing these initiatives. our operational initiatives are based on the many concerns we get from the community. particularly in regards to homelessness and harm reduction. next slide. our budget enhancement and our sworn personnel. i want to go into detail of what that will get us and how it will serve the city. i want to highlight that a lot of this is driven by the department of justice recommendations. our sworn positions will enable us to maintain the recently foot patrol presence throughout san francisco. we have increased our total number of burglary and aut. our general crime units that we just initiated a few months ago has enabled us to better deal with those type of cases, also increase district base investigations and giving communities more direct access to the investigators handling the cases. dedicating call

another priority is to revolutionize sensing technology utilization. the goal is to use high fidelity technology to integrate near realtime data into the north american grid model. we'll also be able to use signature recognizing and machine to machine learning to significantly improve the performance of the grid. furthermore these efforts will enable strategic investments by highlighting vulnerabilities and enhance the resources and use of micro grids and energy storage. storage, the holy grail of energy, has a huge role to play in national security. there are various initiatives within d.o.e. focused on pump storage to flow batteries. there's never been a time where the availability of megawatt scale storage has been more important. o.e. is pursuing storage technology capable of providing reactive and power control over bulk and distribution power systems, as well as frequency control. working with the national laboratories, o.e. is pursuing three high probability capabilities, flow batteries using organics, sodium-based batteries and rechargeable bat

thank you again for making this hearing a priority. i understand that after this hearing was scheduled, president trump let you know that he had plans for you today, as well. every member of congress knows how to feels to have to be in two, sometimes three places at once. so we're going to try to make the most of our time together. i'll insert the remainder of my statement in the record, and i now yield to ranking member scott for his opening remarks. >> thank you, madam chair. madam chair, this is the first time an official from the department of health and human services has appeared before this committee since president trump took office. yet this opportunity to hear from the department is long overdue, and i appreciate the secretary giving us time this morning. it may not be his fault that nobody has been here before, but the fact is, we haven't heard from anyone from the department of health and human services. d of health and human services. i'll also implore the majority and the administration to try to schedule this hearing at

. >> i wonder why you think it's not a priority at this point. >> i think it's a priority to deal with it politically. all i'm saying is we want to see it actually get done. that's how we'll know it's a priority, if it actually gets done. i don't mean it's not a priority in the sense that they're talking about it. i mean, they need to prioritize getting it done. >> i think people would hear what you're saying and say, yeah, we agree, let's force them to reunite these families. but could it be that they weren't reuniting families as quickly as a lot of people would like to see because logistically, the system is complicated? >> well, it's a mess of their own making. they separated these little kids and they didn't put a system in place to track them, so there's no question it's a mess. that's why we're not asking for it to be done in three days, a week, which is what should happen when you have a little baby, a 2-year-old, a 3-year- d 3-year-old. they can have 30 days and sooner for little kids. 30 days is enough when the united states government wants to do something. there's no questi

the ships in our navy, a critical priority. ships that i am proud to say are being manufactured, designed and engineered by many hardworking men and women in my district. so i ask my colleagues to oppose and yield back the balance of my time. mr. visclosky: i would yield one minute to the gentleman from california, -- the chair: the gentleman may not yield blocks of time. mr. visclosky: i would yield time to the gentleman from california. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. calvert: i thank you and i rise in strong opposition to this amendment. which would add $1 billion in advanced procurement for two additional virginia class submarines -- in f.y. 2022 and 2023. the navy has a substantial plan for submarines that achieves the mission of 355-ship navy by 2050 and does it in a way that's fiscally responsible and provides for stability of the industrial base. in a letter to the -- from the secretary of the navy to -- to chairman frelinghuysen, the secretary states, f.y. 2019 president's budget provides sufficient funds t

shulkin his only clinical priority was on suicide priority. you've talked about a lot of feedback information. a question i have for you, is you're collecting a huge amount of important information hand much of it tracks what we we know anecdotally as well as the research needing to be done about feedback. do we have an ability to share or how will we go about sharing that important information that basically you're developing with the privacy concerns and that's proprietary to you, and here's part of challenge. we have innovative work being done on the private sector in order to push it through all of the v.a. and then we have questions about access. who has access to the data and how do we safeguard it and then share that information that you're developing that would help us develop better programs for veterans. >> okay. well that's a - i'll tackle that in pieces. first off, under secretary shulkin and under president trump suicide and prevention in mental health is a number one priority yet they don't -- there's no visible funding for techn

senator has a priority of his own. keeping president trump's trade policies in check. >> because they are utilizing it in this unprecedented way, we have asked, how can you continue the things. once you complete the work, you have to submit a test for approval because tariffs and revenues are the responsibilities of congress, not the executive branch. >> democratic leader tipped his hat on how he wants to spend august now that the senate is in session. >> why don't we get something done on the issue that numerous polls say is the number one priority of americans? health care. we democrats, our entire caucus, believes this previously on scheduled session time can be put to good use. >> president trump applauded mcconnell's call, saying "great. maybe the democrats will finally get something done other than their acceptance of high crime and high taxes." his praise may have fallen on deaf ears with kevin mccarthy who said he has no plans to keep the house open, telling reporters i understand why the senate needs to finish

set ourere we priorities like our spending bills. farmers everywhere face increasingly difficult times and vermont is no exception and a dairy farm is the backbone of many of our communities and they have faced significant challenges in recent years and it's a hard time and we see the working 365 days a year and enormous hours in difficult work and i see the deaths in hundred depth in despair who have been in generations who have been the backbone of our committee and the best of vermont. this is another opportunity to provide support and security that the dairy farmers deserve with higher risk coverage and it provides nutritional support for our citizens as well as reduce hunger worldwide and [inaudible] i like what is done in the organic industry and when i first wrote that bill when i was chairman of this committee on of us would have imagined it would turn into a $50.000000000 industry. it is a good bill. it's a bipartisan bill. i will put my whole statement in ntthe record. one of the two committees i enjoy serving on this one i

another priority is to revolution news technology. the goal is to use high fidelity, reasonable cost and technology to integrate real data into the north american grid model. we will also be able to use signature recognition and coordination formed by artificial intelligence from machine to machine learning to significantly improve the performance of the grid. furthermore, these efforts will enable strategic investments by highlighting system invulnerabilities and enhance distributed energy resources in the use of microgrids and energy storage. storage, the holy grail of energy, has a huge role to play in national security. there are various initiatives within d.o.e. from pump storage to flow batteries. there's never been a time where the available of megawatts scale storage has been more important. they're for butting sigh -- pursuing real -- they're pursuing real control. working with the national laboratories, o.e. is pursuing three high probability capabilities. equally soluble organics, sink, manganese batteries. these are member

i want to say that we stand by families as a priority. but we also discuss whether an additional amount in the allocation should go for seniors. finally i think the sheriff's station, station $1.3 million transfer ask is important. it's actually something we haven't really discussed here in the committee. i like to begin discussion here. as i mentioned this is a jumping off point for negotiation. i thank my colleagues for their continued engagement in this process. through our priority process, we've identified public safety, clean streets, clean and green streets and homelessness and housing as a significant priority for this committee. again, i want to remind the public that these policy areas reflect policy spending. if there's a specific population that has a specific need, we should disss that here today as well as on wednesday. otherwise you want to trust our departments to do their best to identify the needs within these specific policy areas and they will do that through the r.f.p. process. we will bring expanding funding back on

a high border wall is priority. to make sure want there is a certain amount of money going to the defense and i'm not sure on the exact civics -- exact specifics. i wanted to ask rosie gray, what is her evidence that stephen miller is the reason behind the immigration situation with the separation of families? guest: i point you towards the new york story -- the new york times story in which stephen miller defense policy and the times reports he has been behind the scenes, pushing this at the white house. host: you sound skeptical. the new york times, did you notice who their sources were? these days, i am a little skeptical about sources whether they are anonymous and his stephen miller the only one in in supportouse to is of this policy? it sounds like they are all against it but they have been it, am i enforce wrong? guest: there are certainly other thegration hubs in president, including the president himself. as far as the policy, you are correct that not everyone in the trump administration necessarily support