we realize all states are different, but in our state we have had some concerns from state regulators that's fish and wildlife has been inconsistent with protecting habitats in the state even compared to other states. particular, rather than going through the formal role-making they have been establishing bumper zones. these are critical habitat in all but name but have not been through the formal role-making. as a result, the footprints are unclear. there has been no consideration for the economic impact and it has impacted some of our ability to do reclamation activities. i am wondering, has all three of your states had that inconsistency and have you had these buffer zones created an set of critical habitat? >> i will start. no, we have not had bad expense. if i can harken back to the con cottontaile -- the example, there was actually a federal agency helping us work with private landowners and helping is due agreements rather quickly. i think because we started working collaboratively end equally with the fish and wildlife service on what the goals would be. a very collaborative e

red states care for their people as well as blue states. is elevated wages in oklahoma. understand this polarization we are seeing is really difficult, but if in fact we had a convention of states and force the federal government, what is wrong with us living within our means? is very moral question, you don't think you ought to pay for your medicare? you don't think you ought to be paying for what is coming down the pipe to benefit you? or should you charge it to your children? that is the moral question. we can take it off into a back alley and say that is not what we're trying to do but that is what we are try to do. host: do you see this as an ?nron -- an end run guest: they knew the ineffectiveness and cost of the central government collecting power to itself would have to be neutralized. what wasbout restoring originally in our constitution in terms of the state having the ability to make decisions. we $100 billion we waste every year in the military, who is working on that? i have documented it. who was working on that? nobody. the question is, do we have represen

i want totalk about how the united states got involved in the awwar and what the united states did to set the situation genitjennifer talked about. jennifer and i were trained by the same dissertation advisor and look at things from the ground up. that is not saying politicians are necessarily representative of what american is doing. and this is especially the situation with wilson who only won because the republican party split and won the next election by a decision so raiser thin wilson went to bed that night thinking he had lost. what i want to do is talk about the pre-war period. i don't know what any of you learned. but i learned nothing of consequence about this time period in high school, in college, or graduate school. i was taught it sinks and we go into the war two years later. obviously there is something more going on. what i want to do is show what that something more is. i want to do one prelude in response to jennifer's talk which is to say that once the war begins i think there is a very different dynamic going in the united states. some of the things jennifer talked

we had the conservation, wide conservation plan, five states, oklahoma, my state was one of those states, and we worked hard. we worked for a long period of time. we had meetings in all five of the states and we came up with some conclusions as it relates to the lesser prairie chicken, and even though -- we went to all that work. we went through so much work that a texas court came in and said that -- that the fish and wildlife was violated because they didn't consider properly the conservation plan that was put forward. so right now we're in the process of looking at this and seeing what we did do, but there doesn't seem to be any incentives for people to really work with these conservation efforts. would i like to have you give us your opinion as to the seriousness of that particular conservation effort and why they are not incentivized in our system to participate. >> the -- senator inhofe, senator barrasso, the lesser prairie chicken i think is the classic example of what states can do when they integrate together and work with partners, both in the private sector as well as the publ

are stately is the red outcome of the purple violet is the state flower, the honeybee is the state insect, and the eastern bulfinch is the state bird. we are standing in the public gallery of the general assembly. the chamber was built in 1891 by james moreland was an architect builder as well as a member of the assembly. the chamber features two examples of technology -- the edison chandelier hanging in the center. it was installed by the edison mining company. it consists of 66 lightbulbs and weighs over 1000 pounds. another example of technology is an event that occurred in the chamber, and that is the first transcontinental phone calls from new jersey. they were placed from this at the world's fair in san francisco. on the walls, we have portrait of our first and 16th president -- washington and lincoln. both president pays had trenton connection -- both presidents had trenton connections. first washington crossed the delaware river it .5 miles up the river and marched the army to trenton and attacked the british shoulders ever occupying the city --british soldiers that were occupying

authority and state experiments and states addressing the issues directly of their citizens; basic states' rights. but not so much in this case. h.j. resolution in fact will be particularly harmful in states like connecticut, which has already begun to bridge the retirement savings gap for nearly 600,000 people who lack access to employer-based savings retirement in our state. the connecticut retirement security authority has pioneered this effort. i'm very proud to say. and connecticut is among several states that have made real progress toward expanding secure pathways to retirement savings for their private-sector employees. by leveraging state facilityation with private employers, these plans allow accessibility to low-cost savings. which in turn allows more workers to adequately prepare for retirement, improving life for those workers and also reducing the burden on taxpayer-funded services. in fact, encouraging increased retirement saving yields important savings for federal and state budgets in the future, not just now. studies have shown that expanded retirement savings programs c

in 32 states, on that today, in 32 states, every bank had been closed by a state government hiatus. on the moment of the inauguration, the stock exchange closed his door, and the editor of nations business noted "beer or during on panic, loss of everything, our fellow man, our institutions, private and government, worst of all, no big and ourselves or the future." between 12 million and 15 million americans, about 25% of the workforce were unemployed. millions of people had lost their life savings and many had lost their homes and lived in uncertain conditions. many were even forced to stand in long lines for free super and americans -- a00 blood of america's banks have failed. -- c and fear roosevelt 's after hoover inability's to effectively manage the crisis or opera solution to the people, fdr and his approach was welcomed. roosevelt responded to the crisis in his mandate with and revolution. he suggested the republican party's talk down -- top-down policies would not allow for economic recovery. the country needed new initiative that would "put their faith once more in the forg

not to state any opposition, or say that we can't state an opposition because of the--the fact that we're involved in a struggle i think is an error. this is a difficult period of time, but the mere fact that we're shooting one another across the world doesn't make the united states automatically right. i think it should be examined. it doesn't make the course that we're following at the present time automatically right, automatically correct and i think that those who have a different point of view, no matter what their point of view might be and whether they are in favor of using increased force, or in favor of lessening the force, or even some--of pulling out unilaterally--i happen to disagree with that but i think they have a responsibility and a right to state those views, even though we're in a difficult period of time. mr. collingwood: would you draw the line at draft-dodging though. yes, mr. reagan? governor reagan: well, i just--again apparently i haven't made myself clear. senator, i want to make it plain, this. no, as i say, we reserve the right of dissent, but when that dissen

and the united states government.cyber security has got to be one of our highest priorities at the department of state, and as an entire government. my experience in government, when i was at the commerce department was, because of our lack of cyber security, now this was 12 years ago. all our systems were open to a number of different foreign governments. such that we had to create our own internal operating system to communicate among ourselves and prepare documents for the secretary to send to the swowhi house, because we had so little confidence that the system we were using wasn't penetrated. so cyber security is, for me, very high priority. >> thank you, mr. sullivan, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you mr. chairman, and thank you mr. sullivan for your willingness to take on this responsibility. i just want to follow up a little bit on senator gardner's point about china, because we had a hearing before the armed services committee where experts testified that there really are only two things that the chinese

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in its approach for required habitat protections in the state compared to other states. in particular, rather than going to the formal rulemaking to designate habitat they have been establishing buffer zones. these buffer zones all critical habitat but have not been through the subject of public rulemaking. as a result it is unclear, the footprints are unclear. there has been no consideration for the economic impact on even has impacted our ability to do some reclamation activities. have all three of your states have bad inconsistency? have you had this issue with buffer zones being created instead of critical habitat? >> we have not had that experience, if i can go back to the new england cocktail example that was an example where a front there was an agreement on conservation on the ground and what we would strive to do and it's actually a federal agency to help us work with private landowners and doing those agreements rather quickly. that's because we set out in advance working collaboratively with that u.s. fish and wildlife services on what the goals would be. so t

to the state of iowa. leading that delegation was a young man who's business card read, xi jinping, feed association of says wang wong. during the trip, we took our new chinese visitors on toweurs of farms andtries and to redepgs sinners. they attend a birthday party, a mississippi river cruise and we showed them true hospitality. i even hosted the delegation in the governor's formal office. a connection was made and a friendship was founded. so this day, president shooe still speaks fondly of iowa and the hospital tailt taltd he enjoyed there so many years ago. if confirmed, i hope to use my unique position as an old friend of president xi and a trusted confident of president trump to positively influence the u.s./china relationship. as the governor of iowa, i saw firsthand the importance of a positive and healthy trade relationship between our two countries. nearly one out of every two rows of iowa soy beans last year were sent to china as well as a lot of pork in 2016. the importance of trade extends be

state to washington, d.c. turns out that e.p.a. job didn't work out great. he was installed as one of these political minders the white house placed atmosphere every agency. "the washington post" reported that done benton was so annoying at the e.p.a. at policy meetings he offered so much unsolicited advice so often that the senior staff of the e.p.a. just stopped allowing him to come to any meetings. because they are not exactly swimming in top tier talent because they are not drowning in capable cornereds for poses they decided they couldn't spare him, despite the way he washed out at the e.p.a. they couldn't simply send him home after he proved dramatically unsuited for that no work job at the e.p.a. so instead when they decided was to fail him up once again. they decided to put him in charge of his own agency. they named don benton chairman of the selective service. he's now the man who runs the military draft for the i'm not sure. he's the first director in the history of the selective service who has nev

the states did decide. again, the way we do this is through a constitutional amendment that the states approve that the supreme court can't have any control over. that's why we the people have to solve this problem. we're the ones that ought to be deciding because it's us that is being affected. >> from georgia, independent line, david, hi there. >> caller: hey, how are you doing this morning, pedro. this is nothing but the old state's right argument that they keep -- these conservatives keep trying to bring up all the time. the reason they want to go back to the state's rights which gives all the power to the state which is is pretty much governed by republicans from the dark catch on up it's basically just white rights. any way, there was a thing that happened back in the turn of the century. the farmers were given the money from the state to doll out to all the other farmers for whatever reason. well, they gave it to the white farmers. the white farmers gave all the money to their friends and other white

if you take a look at the state department and terrorist groups the u.s. state department of terrorists, i believe it's two of them that are shia nature that have some connections to iran. the u.s. se the vast majority are with a has beenies with some degree of funding or yg logical support. if our objective is to fight terrorism we need to have a much, much firmer conversation with the saudis about this and stop the amount of funding coming out to these organizations instead of making the united states a party in this conflict. a rival between iran and saudi arabia. that is not to say that iran is a particularly positive acter or to argue that iranian isn't a right against them. but when it's comes to isis inspired individuals and groups killing people in the streets of paris, brussels, niece, manchester, sbern, et cetera, there is a very clear link. all of them are wo has beenies and all of them have a degree of radicalization or ideological financial support. >> president trump said the iranians have bolsters assawed. >> certainly would not agree with t

it's a beautiful state. we all think it's the most beautiful state in the world. and i want to encourage everybody who's watching in the gallery, on tv, to make sure you take at least one trip to alaska sometime in your life. you will love it. it will be the trip of a lifetime. but alaska is much more than just a beautiful state. it's actually a state that's critically important to america, critically important to our country. we have abundant natural resources -- fish, metals, minerals, oil and gas, resources that help feed our country, that have helped build our country, helped power our country. and further, mr. president, given today's threats, we are also the most strategically located state in the country. in fact, the father of the air force, general billy mitchell, said in testimony to the congress in the 1930's that alaska was the most strategically important state in the world. he called it the most strategically important place in the world. that could control asia, north america, europe. he said whoever controls alaska controls the world. so now we are

no one knows how many states or which states. -- host: $8 billion in addition to what? it can do a number of things to try to help offset some of the premiums. it is a valid with the affordable care act. people can get insurance, but then they can afford to use it. the question is whether what republicans are doing with solve it. if it. if they do not have to cover summoning benefits, it would be cheaper. care, it the maternity is things like hospital care, prescription drugs and doctors visits. host: let's hear from connecticut. you get insurance from the affordable care act? caller: yes i do. through the exchange. i'm 91 years old, but for years had medicare. under the formal carrots, i gave up medicare and that was a much better deal for me. i did not have the high deductibles under medicare and my insurance didn't pay for hospital care that i needed at the time, but when i went through the portal terra, i was able to get an operation that enabled me to get an operation and did not have to pay for a penny of it. if you go into the affordable care act and don't examin

i could be anything i want including president of the united states, secretary of state, whatever i want to be. the way they did that was interesting because they have two important mantras and i repeat these to my students. no one is going to be able to throw you off your horse. secondly, they said there are no victims. the minute you describe yourself as a victim, you've given control of your life to somebody else. my father would say somebody doesn't want to sit next to you because you're black that doesn't matter as long as they move. after co- [applause] don't let somebody else's prejudice bring you down. so i say to the young women and minorities don't internalize somebody else's prejudices about you or the views about you. i think by the way, social media has contributed to this. i heard somebody say once to a group of young people, don't compare your actual life to somebody else's virtual life cosby read on social media and everybody is perfect on social media. i think they are internalizing this sense of i can't succeed, and we need to say to them life is not so easy but if you

the iowa state fair. and i also -- secretary perry, former governor of texas, they're also a big wind energy state. >> they had the renewable portfolio early when president bush was governor. >> they followed our lead. they're one of the i think 23 states that copied basically the law signed in '83. there's a company called hz, it's a chinese company, that has a couple wind turbines near nevada, iowa. they're a subsidiary of china. i've called on them, and frankly, we think there's -- as you pointed out -- opportunity for collaboration on this in a way that can benefit air quality and the whole world. >> excellent. i work forward to working with you, thank you mr. chair. >> senator rubio. >> thank you, governor, congratulations. as you know i spent time in iowa over the last year and a half. and we, too, went to the fair and my kids enjoyed it very much. they wanted to know why we didn't go this year. >> we miss you. >> yeah. >> you're always welcome. >> well, i asked them what did you learn at the fair.

of education state in our great nation, why has the state of education been in a permanent state of decline ever since the creation of the federal department of education, which i believe was under reagan ? i believe it was the first commissioner or secretary of education, that is one. that is an established fact. no one disputes it. america used to be number one in public education and now we are down around 23 or something in there. also, why is it since pell grant's, the cost of college -- what is increased the word? -- geometrically? i would like your response on that, please. headed forink we are a debate over -- i think the education secretary was created under jimmy carter, but we are headed for a debate over the proper roles in the federal government in education that i think a lot of conservatives have been wanting to have for a long time. fore has long been enough from republicans conservatives, to reduce the roles of the federal government and education. there are some efforts in congress now to completely eliminate the department of education. this administration has made clear

because of the nature of the job there, that is to say there was very little likelihood of any kind of a state-on-state war, but it was all about as i looked at it, all about partnering with people to help them help us stem the flow of drugs, stem the flow of illegal migration movements, and everything in between. so i would just tell you that in this job, as hard as we worked in my last job to make a difference, and we did make a difference, i won't go into it right now, but the fact is that the alliance for prosperity we had to, frankly, in order to get that accepted by the united states government we had to out-maneuver the other agency because they weren't interested, even though the alliance for prosperity was those three countries getting together for regional approach, regional solutions, put their own money against it. there were many that were not interested in the washington inner agency because it was complicated, it was difficult. so we outmaneuvered them. and without lobbying, of course we could never do that but by informing and educating the united states congress and a number of members

you used to have state by state regulation of insurance.bamacare came in with a whole large number of other mandates. >> right. >> that jack up the cost of healthcare. if states want to go back to the previous laws that they used to have on their books before obamacare, they will be able to do that if they want. >> so i want you to take a listen who house speaker paul ryan criticizing democratic efforts to pass obamacare back in 2009 before he was speaker. >> i don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read, that we don't know what they cost. if you rush this thing through before anybody even knows what it is, that's not good democracy. that's not doing our work for our constituents. we shouldn't rush this thing through just to rush it through for some artificial deadline. let's get this thing done right. >> so as you know, this bill was passed without sufficient time for the congressional budget office to do an analysis of it. many member also of the senate, republicans are criticizing the process by which not enough people had enou

the united states is very good at imposing sanctions. lifting sanctions, however, is something we have far less experience with. so that process of lifting the sanctions turns out to be far more complex than any party had expected. and that's resultd in a situation in which people in iran are disappointed. nevertheless, even though that was seen as the biggest weakness that they had not done as well as you will had hoped for, they managed to reelect him with a bigger mandate than they did before, not because they were endorsing everything he did but , because they were terrified that iran would go back to the much moreof the hard-line policies. host: how long is the presidential term? guest: four years. host: let's hear from new york. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a couple of comments here. my first comment is let's not kid ourselves. we negotiated the iran deal with the conservative regime in power. he was not in power. second of all, i would like to point out that in order to negotiate this deal which you find to be a triu

navy and in the united states marine corps.oday, when the boards and bars are placed on your shoulders, you will become the next link in a chain that stretches back unbroken into the mist of american history. the links before you were forged by heroes from john paul jones, stephen decatur, bull halsey, tim stockdale, and michael murphy. because of them, and through the bravery of all who have called themselves marines and sailors in our nation's history, america's freedom endures to this very day. and we honor all who have gone before you. [applause] but now, it's your turn to assume the watch. and remember it's not just , america that your predecessors protected. think today of what the world owes the united states navy and marine corps. here at the navy marine corps stadium, the stands are emblazoned top to bottom with the names of lands and seas they -- lands and seas that were consecrated by the sacrifice of american marines. -- i seela would bella wood, where troops defended western europe i see , the battle of the atlanti

to the suburban and urban side of our state. but because of a peak of anger, a political posturing, the hearing is apparent ploly no longer -- apparently no longer able to take place. the hearings this morning which could only last for an hour and a half and for which i guess the minority members walked out seemed to me -- at least they sound like things that would be very important for us to pursue. the armed services committee, subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities was to have a closed briefing this morning. the homeland security was to examine cyber threats facing america. focusing on an overview of cyber threat landscape. the list is significant in the things that we ought to be paying attention to, and yet because of an objection, those hearings will not take place or were shortened or were disrupted by only one party participation. i'm not here trying to create further partisanship between republicans and democrats. i'm here trying to real estate mind ourselves -- i'm hearing trying to remind ourselves that the

the fact that united states involved in a war does not make united states correct. the idea that we are involved in this kind of a struggle, if there are those within the united states feel that the struggle could be and in more rapidly with less loss of life, that the terror and the destruction would be met if we took a different course, isaac that they should make their views known. i'm a big they are less patriotic because they fear that. i think they are less patriotic if they did not state their views and give her ideas. just because the united states is involved in this kind of a conflict at the present time, not the state or the opposition, because of the fact that we are involved in the struggle. error. it is an period of difficult time, but the fact that we are shooting each other does not make the united states right. at the could should be examined. it does not make the course we are following at the present time automatically right, automatically correct. i think that those who have a different point of view, no matter what their point of view or whether

about half of the states currently have a policy at the state level and half the states don't. a lot of students will tell you it's too little too late, it comes too late in their education if they get it at all. >> reporter: since the 1990s, teen pregnancy rates have decreased across the united states. but in the mid-2000s, west virginia's rate spiked in the opposite direction. today, it has the sixth highest teen birth rate of the 50 states. kierstin edwards is one of those teen mothers, raising her two- year-old daughter, aubrey, while staying in high school. edwards got pregnant at 14. >> i was still a freshman, and i was just like there's no possible way i could have done that. and it was a big surprise to me. >> reporter: a surprise even though she says she didn't use contraception properly. >> we were young. he was my first. we didn't use as much protection as we should have, and we didn't try to prevent it, but we also didn't think that it could happen. >> reporter: before her pregnancy, edwards had one sex ed class a year in her middle school. >> it was like one, basic

to be the deputy secretary of state. at his confirmation hearing he answered questions about proposed staffing cut at the state department and u.s. relations with russia and china. this senate foreign relations committee hearing is an hour and 40 minutes. >> the business meeting of the senate foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. secretary, we're going to do a little business during the time that you're here. we'll have a rolling vote at some point during your hearing process. but we want to go ahead and move forward some other nominees. today we'll consider three nominations. i want to thank my colleagues for helping the committee work through these nominations and promotions in an appropriate fashion to allow us to take these steps forward today. senator cardin, there are any comments you would like to make? >> no, mr. chairman, for mr. sullivan we're trying to get some confirmed ambassadors to make your job a little easier so i hope you'll appreciate the fact that chairman corker and our committee are mo

>> every state that acts as the prime agency for is. rf funds has their own set of chiropractor tear yeah they use to priortize projects. and therefore most of the moneys that the projects go to those with the highest priority to protect public health. >> and the several billion dollar question how do we pay for all of this. the local level, in the water bill i pay for it. at the federal level we throw a number on a piece of paper we borrow it or find it somewhere. are there any programs that you could tell us that they are not working and we should move money from them to this? any ideas how to pay for this at the federal level other than giving our kids and grandkids the due bill later in their life? >> the short answer is the newly created program is a great example where the burden on the federal treasury is demin must. it is a loan program and those who are in receipt of the loans really are paying back to the federal treasury and the effect is very, very minor. >> anybody else on the panel want to tackle the funding issue other th

today, it is known as chico state. the second oldest in the state of california.ere we are in the most interesting room of the mansion. today, the library is home to a vast array of original items including the bookcases themselves, 80% of the literature within the cases, the native american artifacts within the cases and the chinese tapestry in the corner. the quality of literature scene within this room is it something that would have been considered typical for the average household of the time. and this offers a great insight into the lives and minds. here, thinking to the history woman suffrage, we can see that they were involved in the women's suffrage movement. he openly comes out and says that he will help earn women the right to vote and he will make alcohol illegal. other items of interest that you may find in the room are a piece of literature on the agriculture and natural resources. he was an experiment farmer at heart. in the development of california agriculture. he viewed agriculture as the bread basket that could supply california with agricultura

or they could have caucuses or a state convention. but generally, the process kind of came to life. >> host: when were the first primaries ever held in the system? >> guest: in the early 19 hundreds, so the presidential primary was 1912 that conducted the disaster. they were getting the support from the traditional players in the party and roosevelt won most of the primaries but it wasn't enough to get him the nomination so he stopped out and created the party that resulted in the republicans losing the presidential race. it's kind oit kind of put a holr a while. the presidential primaries were not until after world war ii. they were around the state in the presidential primaries but they were always connected to the delegate selection. so they were not important until after it became important. >> host: when did the smoke-filled back rooms fadeaway? >> guest: the early 19 hundreds not so much because of the presidential primaries, but because of other outside influences. or, we started to get good public opinion polling in the 1930s

voter rolls, you can get an exact match, how many of them are registered to vote in state a or stateo something like that which would be informative and i don't know what the results will yield, i know for for example in kansas we have seen a large number of noncitizen register on voter role. maria: wow. >> we require proof of citizenship in our state. maria: informative indeed. thanks so much. we appreciate it. this morning the fbi looking for a new director after the firing of james comey. what is next for the bureau? what about allegations that the obama administration spied on rand paul and other senator? fbi director next. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ and my brother ray and i started searching for answers. (vo) when it's time to

in addition to promoting and easing travel to the united states, they relieved the department of state from having to interview low-risk applicants from countries at our consulates overseas. the vwp has evolved since that time with congress having modified it five different times. today the program can be properly viewed not just as a means of easing travel to the united states but as a means to improve our security posture, modernizing screening and vetting processes, increasing information sharing within our government and with foreign partners. as the committee is aware, dhs secretary kelly has emphasized that blocking terrorists prevents criminals from entering the united states is a top priority of our department and we're committed to working closely with congress and our inner agent of foreign partners to protect our homeland. currently 38 countries are approved to participate dh allows their nationals to travel to the united states for up to 90 days. travelers are required to complete an online application in advance of travel that is known as the electronic system for travel a

different states are different. let the states perfect this. while making sure we have multiple levels of protection for people with pre-existing conditions. we're proud of this. we're proud of the effort. it's us keeping our promises. >> there's a lot of uncertainty over what exactly it will do, including in the senate. senator lindsey graham said a bill finalized yesterday has not been scored, amendments not allowed, and three hours of final debate should be viewed with caution. i want to go back to something you said in 2009 when obamacare was being debated. here you were on msnbc. >> i don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read and don't know what they cost. if you rush this thing through before anybody even knows what it is, that's not good democracy. >> a lot of your members have conceded they didn't read the bill. there wasn't a single hearing or markup on the finalized version of the bill. there wasn't a cbo analysis of this bill. so have you met your own standard here? >> yeah, i think this is kind of a bogus attack from the

states that is the first pillar of security but not enough. the second is expanding economic prosperity because it is not the zero sum game greater opportunity for our neighbors only makes it less likely to come to the united states in a way that is illegal or irregular but help build the economies and in the absence of uh tee ppv to create an agenda that makes clear that china and other actors who should not be the alternative to the u.s. market. so forging closer economic ties including those set prioritize a free-market in tackle corruption to help partners by modernizing to be a sure that designs and the message that the united states is closed for business. the strengthening of alleged intellectual property with a non-tariff barriers such as to make clear that this somehow style but to be beneficial to all three of us. accelerate the growth in the presidential level initiative to show partners in the region to join the infrastructure bank to incentivize the measures with the production interdependent distribution of range of products and

there's no situation, if the state approved it, that you would put the state flexibility over our students, is that your testimony? sec. devos: i think a hypothetical -- rep. clark: it is not a hypothetical. this is a real school. rep. cole: the gentlelady's time has expired but i want to allow the secretary to answer. sec. devos: i go back to -- the bottom line is, we believe parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions, and too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them. we have to do something different. we have to do something different than continuing a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach. that is the focus. states and local communities are best equipped to make these decisions on behalf of -- rep. clark: i am shocked that you cannot come up with one example of discrimination that you would stand up for students. i go now to the gentleman from idaho, mr. simpson. rep. simpson: i'm sorry i had to step out and finish a hearing on the other side. >>> sorry i had to step out but we have hearings going on all

government create the states? any of you who would like to comment. >> this is the last question. >> keep it brief. >> i would say neither. it is not a question of the because thee union, actual process of the constitutional convention was ratification by state conventions, not by the legislatures. so the union is created by the people of the united states, something which of course is reflected in the preamble, "we the people." the effort of the founders was in fact to circumvent the question of states forming things, states creating identities, state sovereignty versus federal authority. the federal constitution is ratified by the people of the united states as a whole. in that respect the real sovereignty always belongs you movably in the hands -- immova bly in the hands of the people. >> thank you very much. i think that is the last question. we have had a very distinguished panel and a great program today. [applause] >> it has been my privilege for the last few years to be a member of the abraham lincoln inst

they were likely to leave it up to the states and the states selected with the primaries. when >> when were the first primaries held in the political system? >> in the early 1900s. 1912 turned out to be a disaster because that was the year teddy roosevelt decided he wanted to be president again. the republican president howard taft was getting the traditional support. >> did they stop that behavior? stha >> it put a halt on it and the presidential primaries were not as important. they were not always connected to the delegate selection. they got somewhat important. >> when did the smoke filled back rooms fade away? they faded away in the 1800s not so much because of presidential primaries but other out siside influences. you started getting polling in the 1930s and since the aim of the convention is to nominate a poplar presidential candidate. it might not have been a formal following of it but it seemed to have influence. there are more outside pressures from interest groups, media providing more coverage with radio and television so that sort of that thinking. winning in

republican states refused to set up state-based exchanges.republicans brought lawsuit after lawsuit to try to stop the affordable care act from going forward. republicans in control of the house and the senate jammed through legislation that reduced the risk insurance provided to insurance companies. c.b.o. did not estimate that republicans would wage a six--year long campaign to undermine and undo the affordable care act. in states that implemented the act like connecticut, numbers met or beat expectations. in states that didn't implement the affordable care act sought to undermine it, numbers didn't meet the expectations. and then comes president trump who openly telegraphs his desire to undermine the affordable care act, cuts off all of the advertising, tells the i.r.s. to stop enforcing the law, bleeds out payments to insurance companies one month at a time teasing that this will be the last month that you get your money. and finally on this question of a gun to the head of consumers, i guess that's a reference to the provision of the aff

much more power to the states. youmuch more power to the states.got a lot of things right, several important things wrong, including the launch of it. dr. orszag: everyone agrees on that. charlie: there were certain essential elements that it said, if you like your insurance from you could keep your insurance. buzzwords like that were not true. premiums did rise. dr. orszag: here is the interesting thing. the national budget office took a lot of heat for supposedly getting obamacare wrong. the fact of the matter is they got it basically right. premiums in 2017 are within 1% of what the cbo initially estimated when the affordable care act was passed. coverage, people say the congressional budget office blew it in terms of how many people would be on the exchanges. that is right. cdl overestimated how many people would end up on exchanges. that is because there were fewer employers that dropped coverage. it was expected that firms would drop coverage. what matters is the net number of people without insurance. cbo after the 2011 supreme court ruling

state of texas is not fully participating, state of florida is not participating. there was a bill in florida i think is not going to make it. last day of session is today to allow data sharing. but these are major states that are not participating in these programs, and when you look at the list, some that are not fully participating, so our responsibility is if a commission looks at this, you know, there needs to be an identification of this as a problem that needs to be resolved and the commission should make recommendations that all states participate. the issue of citizen verification has been both litigious and emotional. i'm not sure why. we have qualifications and verifications of all types of issues before a voter is fully qualified to vote to be a citizen. that is sort of one of those basic qualities in most state constitutions to vote in an election. we should have a process to verify citizenship, and as hans says, right now it's virtually an honor system. and that works some of the time, but there has to be processes in place that don't provide too much

there were four slave states in the united states that remain within united states -- do not succeed with the confederacy -- maryland, missouri, kentucky, and delaware. and lincoln has to worry that if he takes too big of an action against slavery directly, one or more of these states might secede and the confederacy. and lincoln -- kentucky in maryland -- if they were to go for the confederacy, prove hugely logistically challenging for the union war effort. d.c. would fall overnighted maryland went into the confederacy in all likelihood. this is a very significant worry for lincoln. some of his critics said he was so worried about being president of kentucky that he did not have time to be president of the united states because he was so worried about how his policies would play in kentucky for the first several years of the war. the border states are a concern for lincoln as well. another, i think, another factor that precluded some americans from seeing how quickly the war -- the union was imris emancipation was the fact that the policy announced i sam are in -- announced by simon

state foreign policy context. so i would look forward to working with and you members of the committee as we consider the best way order in to implement our foreign aid policy in a way that promotes u.s. objectives, protects our interests, and does so in an efficient way understanding the unique role of a.i.d., the culture of the agency, and the important role that its employees provide. >> i'll take that as at least a point that you understand the argument of -- and the concern about diluting the vision and work of a.i.d. >> absolutely, senator. >> thank you. >> if i could give an editorial comment. >> i get the sense there's no beginning point that says they should be combined, that that's not where people are starting. that may be where they finish, but just for what it's worth, i do not think that's where they're beginning. senator gardner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. sullivan, thank you very much for your willingness to serve and thank you to your family for your willingness to serve alongside as well. so

state of iowa has a sister state with taiwan. i recognize the importance of the one china policy but also supporting and enforcing the taiwan relations act. >> thank you for your directness. >> thanks for coming to visit with me into my office and i saw you before the break when i was heading to china. wanted to tell you people are looking forward to you as our ambassador. thank you. >> chinese people have been very nice to me. taken a lot of pictures of me for what that's worth. i would be interested in finding out how your trip went. and i think you were intending to go to tibet as well. >> yes. and very productive and fruitful, talked about issues just raised but also issues of trade. senator portman, former trade rep brought up issues, i did as well. soda ash. many u.s. industries experience concerns surrounding china's trade policies and practices. as we've discussed, soda ash faces unfair trade policies from china and other countries. united states is most competitive supplier of soda ash in the world. wyoming is the world'