limiting this program -- eliminating this program could mean firing 8,000 teachers. how do you explain this to parents? sec. devos: we believe with the elimination of essa, states will be best equipped to make these decisions on behalf of students closer to the -- rep. delauro: decisions though, without resources. sec. devos: there are resources through title i th are very flexible with that regard. rep. delauro: we've got a serious shift in funds in title i, shifting the money out of title i to school choice. that is part of where you all want to go with title i. so, title i is not going to be at the level that it necessarily needs to be in order to be able to accommodate these efforts. you talk about in your fy2018 budget that it reform kisses the department -- budget that it refocuses the department's mission. my view that eliminating title ii part a contradicts this mission, how do you square this ciurcle? sec.evos: we believe these decisions are best made at the local and state level and their ability to target the resources to where the needs are for their stat

1033 program. thank you also to our four witnesses for being with us today for what i expect to be an insightful discussion. let me begin by stating that i understand the value of the 1033 program. it allows federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to fill critical equipment shortfalls at little to no additional cost to the taxpayer, leveraging excess dod property. many of these items are noncontrolled, can be purchased at any office supply or furniture store, and help ,lleviate budgetary stress particularly on local agencies. however, this equipment can also be controlled property, items that are sensitive in nature and cannot be released to the general public, such as firearms and military grade imagery technologies. that is what makes the gao report particularly concerning. not only does it highlight the negligence with which dla treated property procured with taxpayer dollars, but it demonstrates a dangerous vulnerability that could compromise the safety of the american people. i am p

program. he is also led reviews and programs and regulatory changes authorized under the emergency economic stabilization act in the dodd-frank wall street reform act. mr. garcia diaz joins the gao in 1998. he hasn't x'ers degree from dartmouth college and a master's degree in public policy from harvard university's kennedy school of government. then we will hear from mr. granth whitacre president of the national council of state housing agencies. mr. whitaker hails from my home state of utah and has been extraordinarily helpful as we have prepared for this hearing. he has dedicated his career to serving the financial needs of low to moderate income families in our small state of utah. he currently serves as president and ceo of utah housing corporation a self-supporting state-sponsored public corporation which has been funding and promoting affordable housing in utah since 1977. mr. whitaker was appointed to this position or to the position of president and ceo in january of 2009 and has serv

the program can be improved by reconfiguring the benefits the tax credit program to favor mixed-income developments provide holy markets were income developments are not feasible. the tax credit program remains an important tool for resolving the nations affordability problems with improvements that can be made better. thank you. >> thank you. mr. macdonald we will turn to you. >> thank you. appreciate the opportunity to testify to the picnic up with a specialist in the construction management management of a portable or in the housing. own and manage 4700 units throughout texas. for the past 20 years i've built affordable rental housing for the low-income housing tax credit. we are here today because of housing affordability. the number of renter households so severely cuspert mean they have more than half of their income on rent hit an all-time high of 11 .4 million people. this is one in four renters. the first step to solving this crisis is to pass senate bill 548 the affordable housing credit improvement act of 2017. i want to thank senator cantwell , senator hatch and all the bip

forgetting this program, a 30% lotis going to shut down a in the program. the superfund appropriations have different pockets. is the money that goes out of the area. we know the remedial program budget has declined in real dollars. you are basically going in and addressing current risk may mediate risk. it's hard to imagine you can do long-term cleanups with that kind of a draconian cut. the second point, it would be good to know how much money they need. say i don't understand it, but ever since the report they have stopped estimating liability. i don't know why, but it is hard to say what the impact of a cut is if you don't actually know. this is what we need for the enforcement. this is what we need for oversight. that is doable. maybe it is hard. it is actually not hard as long as we're not trying to go to the moon. i would argue the first thing somebody needs to do is tell how much money they need in the implication of the cut's are. >> i think our time is up. i would urge we follow-up on this point. we should have an estimate of the costs. if her bud

that is going to hurt the program no matter how we feel about the program. it is hard to absorb huge cuts quickly, extramural dollars are the same dollars, hard to cut staff quickly and have that pay off so the 30% cut to any program in one year will shut down a lot in the program, just a reality. the superfund appropriations have different pockets. the money out of the agency for cleanup and out of the agency for removal actions and staff and other things. we know the remedial program budget has declined in real dollars. hard to see how you can accelerate cleanup and cut the budget without becoming a removal only program. we were going in and addressing current risk but hard to imagine you can do long-term cleanups with that kind of draconian cut. the second point which i made 100 times for 20 years it is good to know how much money they need. this is not a republican or democrat issue. i don't understand but ever since the report we issued in 2001 they have stopped estimating out your liability. it is hard to say what the impact of the cut is if you don't

it is a popular program. studies about this program have showed mixed results. it is on the chopping block for the top administration and trumpicans in progress -- administration and republicans in congress. congressman like reblican lou barletta, who supported president trump saying this is a bad idea. you cannot cut these funds for afterschool programs. in general, republicans have shown a hesitancy to fund -- to back some of these cuts. earlier this year we saw a republican senator tell education secretary diverse that that hist -- devos budget is hard to defend. notably included small cuts for special education funding and title i funding for poor students, which they are the largest sources of federal education funding that flows to schools. that is also indefensible for a lot of people who support his agenda. >> >> on school vouchers, a push by this administration, how do they work and why are they seen as controversial? >> they have been seen as very controversial once betsy devos was nominated, because a lot of people see them as funding options, expandi

once in place, it is very difficult to repeal or eliminate the program. david's work, rachel's work document evaluated programs and though i wouldn't say the logical conclusion is eliminate everything, it is true when subjected to rigorous evaluation methodology, programs not having intended impact, enormous room for improvement. every president until the 80s had the authority to organize the government and it is high time we re-empower administrations with that authority because it is so hard to do it otherwise. congress at least from the oversight committee, pretty supportive of this kind of authority where -- the authorizing committees and appropriations committees because those are the committees that have specific jurisdiction power, money assigned with specific agencies or programs under their jurisdiction. what tends to drive organizations and government are crises and the most recent example of that is the establishment of the department of homeland security. there had been a long discussion over time about whether homeland security could be stren

the bracero program didn't bring an end to guest worker programs. it brought an end to the largest guest worker program. what we also see is that guest worker models are popular globally. so guest worker models are used across europe, across the middle east, and what do we know about the bracero program? i will tell you what we know. we know that it is -- it was the largest guest worker program in the americas, and it became a model for other places. so when you think about guest workers and mexican guest workers coming in, you can think about the ways in which they shaped other policies around guest workers, right? okay. another question. how many of you actually have family members that came in through the bracero program? one? really? usually it is more. >> i don't -- i don't know. >> you see. a couple. so the other thing that we know is that the guest worker program really, really impacted migration histories, right? so if we go back to what is the bracero program, the bracero program was a bi national agreement between the u.s. and mexico that

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but because the community and program theelopment biggest of those programs of programs was found to be economic t to the development administration that we felt was more results oriented and while the overall level of these programs combined was lower, we thought moving them to a ore outcome oriented proven effected entity would mean you can get more with less. well there were some people that disagreed with the president's proposal. o'malley, is rtin esult of this called the president, the osama bin ladin of american cities. was a highlight, not a highlight of my political career. but it just goes to show you the interests need to be considered when you're developing and enact these kinds of proposals so if i step back i lessons that i take from my combined experience kinds of these initiatives are leadership. one of the advantageous i had was a boss who was the president's best friend and that clear out a lot of bureaucratic under brush if to advance these kinds of initiative but eadership that gets it that is willing to invest the time and nergy and intellectual and political cap

labor program. the bracero program literally creates another wave. so when people start to talk about temporary guest worker program and talk about the reality of guest workers right now and when the guest workers are used as a potential solution to immigration policy and immigration reform, you all need to remember that the bracero program didn't solve undocumented immigration it augmented undocumented immigration. that is one reality. what do we know about the period right before the guest worker program? the 1930s? [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >> repatriation. >> which is when the -- [ inaudible ] >> what what it does and what you're pointing out is there is a moment that when there's deportation what 1942 does in the 1940s is bring back mexican migration to areas like maybe michigan, illinois, in the midwest. where these sort of populations were hit so hard by repatriation, so it reinvigorated mexican migration to states that been hit hard by immigration. traditional areas like texas, california,

we've heard a lot today about the commitment to apprenticeship programs. but the president actually called for pretty deep cuts to funding for seats that would go for technical training career training, things like that how do you square the two up? >> actually president budget maintains equal funding for apprenticeship program and does not reduce it. but let e me say one of the -- one of the points that i -- that i worry about sometimes in -- is that we judge the successful program by how much is spent and we should judge the success of the program by how effective it is, and so if you look at apprenticeship for example in building trade. building trade spent almost a billion a year of private sector money on apprenticeship programs. that's a success. the fact that they spend a billion a year private sector money u should be a compliment and not a problem, and so part of the apprenticeship program and key here is that we expect industry to be in charge. that industry is should take the lead and should be paying for much of this training. and in so first l

programs. this is 15 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. alex, secretary of labor acosta and secretary of education betsy devos gave an update. the secretaries will each give remarks about their discussion with the president and will then take a few questions. questionsp your related to today's discussion on workforce development and apprenticeship. i will turn it over to secretary acosta. >> thank you, and good afternoon. pleasurest say it is a to be here to update president trump on the optimistic outlook of the american workforce. discussedpecifically our process of implementing the executive order in apprenticeships. the president's top priority is jobs and more jobs and the department of labor is implementing his vision to make sure americans have the skills jobs.eed to fill good there are 6.2 million job openings here nationwide. this is the highest number on record. yet 7 million americans are looking for jobs. americans want to work. american companies want to hire. we need to close t

thvie vary by the program.for this path what you need to do, thouour vt this for or fillt these boxes. for this pathway you need to do something dt the ferent. lack of standard care coordination, i see this again time and time again for every facility is doing something different and the care clinician processed also varies by prl traps in tersom of our two major network where different ways to partner with providers. ouour v large contracts, summer three things called provider agreements. ouour v ainiciliation agreements. our committee partners might be working with us under more than one way and that's also hard for them. to them there seeing our veteran patients. some of the behind the scene complicates it there is variaare pay the reconstruction. s it mer actress set in law of what the payment rates are. others are more varied and creates concision when to our partners ac the va different prl trasom have dt the ferent r. until recently th choice prograb as a secondary payer for certain conditions which mean

the national flood insurance program, for the first time ever has coverage in place. the flood program covers the first $4 billion of loss and then for losses in excess of that up to $8 billion, 26% of that will be paid for by private reinsurers. i fully expect that they will be participating in the losses associated with this event. >> our guest is here to talk about the program. we will talk about his current fiscal status and you can ask questions as well this morning. the lines are open. then, if you are a texas or louisiana resident,, was it 20,274,888,002. was it katrina that reallyt caused the lion share of theht debt? >> of the $25 billion in debtds, that they currently hold, which ultimately is the debt of the u.s. taxpayer, yes it was katrina that put them most deeply in the whole. that was added by hurricane sandy in 2012. it was never able to retire its debt from katrina which was incurred in 2005. of course there are many other storms in the 2004, 2005 time that challenged resources. katrina, rita, wilma and of course in 2008 we had ike. also we had sandy

program. today will hear testimony from witnesses with extensive involvement in cleaning up superfund sites. eyewitnesses will discuss their experiences in working with the epa, state governments and local communities to clean up and repurpose the site, as well as offer suggestions on how cleanups can be completed quicker and more efficiently while best utilizing taxpayer dollars. since 1980 the comprehensive environmental response and liability act has been a cornerstone of our nation's hazardous waste management program. the superfund was enacted by congress to give the federal government authority to clean up contaminated and hazardous waste sites and respond to environmental emergencies oil spills and natural disasters. the program crater a trust on that is dedicated to clean up abandoned waste sites and give the agency the authority to work with potentially responsible parties to facilitate a site cleanup. it also allows for two types of cleanup actions, short-term removals for emergency

the old survivor insurance program. average is 1,171 a months, which equalities to only 14,000 a year, which is less than you would ernl working full-time at minimum wage. the average for much younger workers, it's based on your previous work history. the average for a 25-year-old is only $655 is month. so who receives social security benefits? going back to what we talked about, i would say that it's important that you think of this as a system that protects you throughout your lifetime, but one seven in ten workers or ssdi beneficiaries are over age 50. one in 18 is 65. and to the person who is receiving benefits. they don't know which trust fund they're coming out of. and throughout their work history, if for any reason the wage worker cannot work, they will get a benefit to help support them and their family. in addition when you get ssdi you become eligible for medicare after a 24-month waiting period so it helps provide health care for you in the evident you cannot work. >> so how important are the benefits to ssd

i hope they don't make cuts to the program, that's all i really want to know about the program and such. call. appreciate the a good place to end, your prediction for what happens end month? guest: my optimistic prediction, congress will act to extend chip funding and they will do so recognizing that with a lot of haos happening in health care generally it is important to provide stability to states and families and provide for a long funding extension, five years or more, and to just allow states to then have time and bility to improve quality, focus on delivering system changes they want to make and make chip a better program for is today.han it host: kelly whitener, center for families, d appreciate your time. come back again. guest: thank you. host: up next on "washington we'll be focusing on new report for competitive nterprise institute discussing reorganizing and shrinking the size of the executive branch. us in rray will be with just a minute. >> every month book t.v. on c-span 2 features an in-depth with an author about their writing career. mata xus, 3 rdz, eric "if you can ke

program is. the purpose of the ssdi program is to replace wages for people who can no longer remember as part of their social security insurance package . so it has a very narrow, strict definition for disability to become eligible. i will read the definition. it's the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity or sga by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in that which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continued period of not less than 12 months so can't perform substantial work, medically determinable impairment that you prove with evidence and must have expected to last at least 12 months . that is a really strict definition. substantial gainful activity is defined by a monetary amount. you can earn more than $170 per month. that's considered substantial work and substantial gainful activity by social security. and you have to have an impairment that not only prevents you from doing the job that you did befor

some have suggested there's little or no need for a federal cleanup program and that the program should be delegated to the states. yet few if any states have the financial resources to pay for the cleanup of an npl site. to address this issue, state concerns about their burden of operation and maintenance of npl sites, epa should conduct an analysis of state superfund programs. thank you for asking me to ha y appear today, i will be happy to answer any questions. >> i'll begin our questions. this one i would like to ask the panel and i most certainly appreciate all of your backgrounds in this, i'm just curious, there is a process, risk based -- environmental management to protect human health and the environment is based on a scientific assessment of the risks posed by c contamina contaminants. this is a management that we have used for cleanup of petroleum sites. i'm just curious, does epa currently use the process for managing cleanups? or could be potential lly utilized? i'm just curious what your thoughts are. >> the rebeca program is successful because it focuses on the risk based

we insisted through this tool that agencies and programs begin a process of subjecting their programs to these evaluations. it was the beginning of what we .all now the evidence agenda i have to admit, we didn't make a lot of progress integrating this data into the budget decision-making process. policymakers do not have a huge appetite listening to evidence when it comes to funding decisions. are highlyse political. so there is room for improvement , as a matter of understatement. as far as reorganizations are concerned, among the government programs, these are the ones that share a similar mission come other common or conflicting measures of performance. deeprea we decided to do a dive in was an economic development. there are programs throughout the government that are intended to improve the economic condition of the poorest communities across government. we proposed taking all those programs and consolidate them into the economic development administration at the department of commerce. many programs were found to be an effective. to get anlly hard ineffective rating with this to

. -- john youngs program. these measures can generate lost savings of $1 billion per year for the regime. clearly, this can change the situation. it underscores the scope of the mechanisms at the disposal of the security council when it acts in the unanimous manner, as is the case today. it also provides for humanitarian exemption to the repercussions on the north korean people, who are not being targeted by these measures. this new resolution is not only a determined response and a decisive response, but it is a further warning, the dangerous and irresponsible push of the regime, which is irrational and , thisical in its goals must be put to an end. north korea must become aware of the fact that it continues to escalate in engaging provocations, we will have no other choice but to further step up pressure, and we stand ready to do so. that is one of the messages we are unanimously delivering today , as we repeatedly stated, sanctions are not an end in themselves, but a means to yangel don young -- pyong to re

ultimately, this program is keeping our teen safe. you can be part of making that happen in making a difference. >> i believe in my heart -- [inaudible] >> you may have noticed the person that's in that video that is instrumental from the beginning of helping develop that. -- [inaudible] who is here with us. pat mac his passion for road safety has been his original essay developed it and it's really helping us understand how they can apply what they are learning in the classroom and to advocate the. thank you very much for your dedication. working with several traffic safety partners to engage in the project for over five years now and it's been very fun to be in the project. as he saw the video, student led efforts are an eye-opening opportunity to allow student to the lands of what they see as an entirely different perspective on road safety instead of being told what to do, they ask their kids and are given a platform to educate their peers. through the analysis of data it in just this past year alone, train for students, here's wh

future of nasa's space program. here's how to join the conversation. use this number. democrats, this number. independence, all others, the number on your screen. we welcome your comments as well. a couple here. from eric, who posts, i like the direction, with the cooperation between nasa and spacex. more of that, reusing rockets, in solar and fusion power, completely different view from tony. cut the space program. don't need any of their science projects anyway. thoughts. your thoughtsful to jeff too, talking earlier with space news about a possible new administrator at this reporttioned as we were doing the conversation. briedenstein, the congressman from oklahoma, is mentioned. nasa reporting that the trump administration has chosen the administrator. the new nasa administrator will be jim. a republicanently member of congress. john schumacher, a senior aerojet. at once the president makes the announcement, and he hasn't yet, hearings.t senate baker, west virginia. michael, your thoughts on the program? the spac

host: we are talking about the national flood insurance program. can you remind our viewers what the purposes and why we have it? guest: the national flood insurance program, in place 1968, provides coverage for people otherwise unable to obtain insurance against the disaster of flooding. historically, a flood insurance has not been historically available to the private sector. this is not a new situation. it has been around for half a century. at this day and age, there is a debate on should the private sector play a greater role? it ensures currently about 5 million people across the country and larger shares in places like florida, the texas gulf coast and other areas prone to flooding, especially on a regular basis. host: does the federal government take all of their risk for people who purchase these programs and how do they work in conjunction with insurers? guest: historically, it has assumed all of the risk. the policies are written through typically through your standard homeowners insurance company and you will work with your ordinary age

it is a solid program and it also has his thought is many motivation is he can have a new program to incentivize they take care of the property to make sure it's the right property. is that not correct? >> absolutely, sir. we have what is examined by ourn lenders, if we have section eight vouchers where we are being reviewed on those and of course our state agency is out every year. notice what we are doing can i make the property evaluation is a complete need assessment and gives us 90 days to fix it. we lose our tax credits and take it very, very seriously. on a local basis. of a lot of oversight to make sure that the compliance is carefully, carefully monitored. >> in terms of cost of unit cover what percentage of the cost of the average unit cost of regulatory cost. >> all tried or to early colonists, but want to talk about what local governments can do to make it easier to bring housing programs is the future regulatory burden of cost on the developer themselves. mr. whittaker was talking about the homeless veterans program. we have a family, a veteran in 1906 to give 300 acres

>> there are a couple of programs in nasa's exploration program. a next generation, heavy lift rocket that will be used for missions beyond earth's orbit, including mars. another is the orion spacecraft, that will carry astronauts on those missions to the moon, mars, and the solar system. both of those programs received less money and 2018 than what congress appropriated in 2017. congress is trying to overturn those proposed cuts. another area is nasa's earth science program. the administration sought to cut $200 million, about 10% of the programs budget. row graham's budget. the senate bill would actually restore funding for those programs. >> what does the earth science program do? >> it monitors the outer earth climate, it studies everything from ocean currents to the levels of government dockside -- carbon monoxide in the atmosphere. and also, long-term trends in the ocean, the atmosphere, and on land. what sort of guidance does congress get, in terms of priorities for the administration. what does the trump administration want to do with nasa?

low income housing tax credit program is the most affordable housing production program. it is a good program, but it is in need of improvements to make it better. i would like to make three observations about the performance of the program and use those observations to support recommendations to make it a better fit with current housing market conditions. the first issue answers the question of if the low income programtax credit creates units where there is a shortage of units. here, sadly, the answer is no. generally, rents fall in the range of $500 to $1000 a month. if a household is not supposed to spend no more than 30% of income to afford these units, then the units need to be in the $20,000 your range. when we examine rental market across the nation, we find that there is no shortage of units in this price range. rather, the number of units is far in excess in the number of households with this income. when we shift to the lowest tier , we see that there is a significant mismatch. the number of households with incomes below $20,000 a year is far in excess of the n

the programs have had challenges but i don't think the way to is to eliminate the programs. we greed one of the important jobs is to help kids to learn to love science and technology and i looking to working with you and the chairman to ensure nasa can train e to inspire and the next generation of technical orkers where building rockets, building american industry in the private sector. over all the budget request is 19-point 1 billion. below the f.y. 2017 evel but those cuts were not applied equally. in addition to elimination of budget proposes deep cuts to next generation and arth science transportation systems, items priority because hey help nasa reach the agencies calling to explore, discover and teach and inspire. shelby's discussed the need to fund orion and the space the zo s needed to orbit.mans beyond earth i'll take a minute and talk about earth science. change comes to climate nasa's job is to observe the earth and tell us what is to our planet. nasa doesn't tell us what policies we need to take in surveys but from published by school of public olicy this spring

is a good program. one that is a need negative to prove it to make it perform better i can make toee observationsns support recommendations with the current housing market conditions.e an does sell low income programs the in the price range where there is a shortage? sadly the user iso. no generally the rent is in the range of 500 or $1,000 and to afford these units the to be in the 20,040,000 per year range so we find that there is no shortage in this price range in . >> with get the rental markets below there is a mismatch.. those with incomes below 20,000 is available forap those apartments available under $500 so the tax creditcome program is adding units to seg the market that is already in surplus but is not able to reach far enough down so the first reform is to exercise greater rigor with a need for each tax credit development not by the developer and driven analysis of the second reform is the state finance agency's ref four voucher authority where that is appropriate to the marketplace the vou

we want to welcome your comments on the future of nasa's space program. use these numbers to share your thoughts. at c-spanus a tweet and we welcome your comments on our facebook page ar. eric said i like the operation --co-operation between nasa and they say. that's in spacex. we welcome your thoughts. we will take calls for 15 minutes or so on cspan. we were talking about a pot will need administrator -- a possible new administrator for nasa. the trump administration has chosen the deputy administrator of nasa. idenstine, and br that is a senate approves position. once the president makes the figure, west virginia, we will hear from michael. what is your thoughts on the future of the space program? >> is the most important thing. the legitimate functions of government to include developing one is goingd no to care about climate change or any of these other things if civilization collapses because industry no longer have anything to work with. that will happen unless we start nigging minerals out of the moo and other bodies. >> do you think the issue of

program.ed by a medical center and other local agencies. it provides a 90-day in-patient alcohol detox and rehab program, specifically aimed at inmates like laforce, homeless men and women with an extraordinary number of arrests. laforce has left that program as well as other programs, several times now. >> well, i couldn't do the program. i had to get out. i was in the rehab, shaking real bad. i'm going to go get a beer now. >> he's a drain on resources, from getting arrested to medical staff talking to him or dealing with him, the courts dealing with him, and he has no intention of stopping. >> welcome back. >> yes, i know it's only been about five days. but, no, rehab didn't work. so i had to come on back. >> you don't try rehab, that's why. >> he comes in, we still interview him every single time, even though we know what he's going say. >> you want to kill yourself? >> heck no. >> need protective custody or anything? >> no, no. >> no gang association? >> no, no. >> okay, we're done. court

to repeal orficult eliminate the program. work,s work, rachel's evaluating programs. logicalthink the conclusion is to eliminate everything that isn't effective. programs not having their intended impact. there is enormous room for improvement. every president until the 80's had the authority to reorganize the government. i think it's high time we re-empower administrations with that authority. it is so hard to do it otherwise. congress, at least from the oversight committee, is supportive of this authority, where you trip up is in authorizing committees and the appropriations committees. power,ve jurisdiction money assigned with specific agencies under their jurisdictions. what tends to drive reorganization is crisis. the most recent example of that is the establishment of the department of homeland security. could it be strengthened if we consolidated the programs responsible for securing the homeland. that was fought until 9/11. you'll will recall immediately workers11, contract could not adequately secure airlines, airplanes. commercial travel. fairly soon thereaf

because the community and economic development program, the biggest of those programs, although set of programs was said to be ineffective. we moved it into the economic development in their session which we felt was more result oriented. while the overall funding level of these programs combined was lower, we thought intellectually moving into a more outcome oriented proven effective entity would mean you could get more with less. well, there were some people who disagreed with the president's proposal. and, in fact, martin o'malley is result of this great proposal that i recommended called the president the osama bin laden of american cities. that was a highlight, not highlight of my political career. but it just goes to show that the entrenched interests need to be considered when you are developing and trying to enact these kinds of proposals. so if i step back i would say the lessons that i take from my combined experience in driving these kinds of initiatives are our leadership. one of the advantages i had was -- the presence vestment of akin cleared out a lot of bureaucratic und

so, how is that program going?a special on it before, and you were just starting to expand into different areas, including san jose. how's the program going now? kristi: it's going very well. so, my always dream foundation has the always reading program that goes in the kindergarten classrooms. and like you said, we're all throughout the bay area with the different schools we support in kindergarten, as well as arizona and hawaii. so, we're starting to branch out and reach more kids, and, you know, just trying to do what we can to really improve the literacy skills, especially at that early literacy age of kindergarten. robert: i know, it's a huge situation, a huge problem. give me an idea, though. as you stretch out, as you broaden your program, makes it more difficult, or are you able to get more resources to keep up with the demand? kristi: well, you know, we work really hard to bring in resources so that we can support our program and expand and support the schools that we're currently working with. so, you kno

that each agency program sees how they can better support apprenticeship programs. for example come the department of defense is looking to see individuals that are leaving military service and programs. and we are working with several agencies in that review is underway. >> we've heard a lot today about the commitment to the program. but the president called for stem -- [inaudible] career training, things like that. how do you square those two things up? >> the president's budget maintains equal funding and does not reduce it. but let me say, one of the point that i worry about sometimes in washington is that we judge the success of the program by how much we spent and we should judge the success of the program by how effect of it is. if you look at apprenticeships for example the building trade, the building trade with the billion-a-year the private sector money and that is a success. the fact that they spend a billion dollars in private-sector money should be a compliment and not a problem. part of these apprenticeship programs in the key here is we expect indust

transportation programs. the grant program will be cut in half. the port security program will be cut in half. the president is calling for complete elimination from the terrorist attacks grant program. i am concerned that these priorities are not getting the attention they deserve, especially in light of what is going on around the world. i think we may be focused on the shiny objects known as the travel ban, when instead we need to be focused on how many people we have, in your terminology, boots on the ground, in terms of being able to identify and prevent these terrorist attacks. the difference in terminology is very important, because as you know, the majority of drugs and other contraband come through our country through the ports of entry, and the cpb officers are responsible for finding them and stopping them. we cannot neglect our ports of entry as we try to increase resources in terms of border control and i.c.e. agents. there are a lot of important issues ahead of us. i have questions and i know th

it's a good program, it seems to me but it seems if you can't run the program without vetting and screeningsts, then you can't have the program. it's a no-brainer. this feels like a scene out of "24" or some tv show. we don't know if some of these guys, whether are they like people just skipping on their visa and have no terrorist ties. we need to find out a lot more. there's a good argument to use people from some of these countries because they have native language skills and native intelligence about how to work in those countries. other than that, we've got to find out more. >> bret: and we will. james rosen is on top of it, broke the story. we will stay on it. we wanted to talk about it. tax reform, staff shakeups, russia, the white house has a lot on its plate. the panel breaks it down next. ..e panel breaks it down next. for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second

should they continue their pursuit of an illegal missile program and a deadly nuclear program they will have vastly less resources to do so. we've also capped the number of foreign workers from north korea. every year, they send thousands of ordinary workers overseas. they often endure poor conditions and long hours and their toil serves to provide critical foreign currency for north korean government coffers. this is undoubtedly a forge of modern slavery and today we have taken the first steps to ending it. this is undoubtedly a the world will now monitor and curtail work authorizations for for those who are already a victim of this abusive system, united kingdom will be able to work towards a complete and -- to the institutionalized slavery. by acting inflated later -- flagrant obligation of its legal north korea has chosen the path it now finds a health on. at a minimum, will lead to further suffering for its own put, and that most, catastrophic for the whole world. it does not have to be this way. north korea should forgo provocation. forgo further escalation. there's no reason why

programs. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: the 8019th meeting of the security council is called to order. the provisional agenda for this meeting is nonproliferation democratic people's republic of korea. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rule 37 of the provision, of the rules of procedure i invite the representative of the republic of korea to participate in this meeting.s be is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. members of the council have before them document s/2017-74 containing the text of a draft resolution by united states of america. that counsel is ready to proceed to the boats on the draft resolution before it. i shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. will those in favor of the draft resolution contained in documena s/2017 dash 674 please raise their hand? the result of the voting is as follows. the draft resolution reseed 15 votes in favor.ot the draft resolution has beend adopted unanimously as reso