b, committees and amounts, the committees and amendments referred to in subsection a are ommittee on agriculture, $11,437,517. >> dispense with the reading of the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? hearing none, so ordered. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for one hour. >> mr. speaker, for the purpose of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania and the ranking member of the committee on house administration, mr. brady, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. during consideration of this resolution all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to evise and extend their remarks consideration on house resolution 173. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. harper: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of house resolution 173, a resolution which authorizes house committee budget levels for the 115th congress. each congress the house looks to the

as for the subsection i-31.170 essentially just copies la law allowing the court to impose in addition to weather or criminal conviction penalty would impose for it violation, also a four-year ban on serving as a lobbyist for a contractor. it's in la law. as for the j restoration of the comparison table in your packet contrast j current law and the proposed amendment. which we think of as sort of j but better. the j highlights first private attorney general provision and 1.168 is expanded to include suits for penalties for the most significant violations. second, the penalty section has edits that give 1.26 violations parity with other relations and so the maximum penalty would go instead of being up to 5000 it would be up to the greater of 5000 or triple the amount of the illegally provided or the perceived. similar to your contribution limit violations. then, third and most important like the amendment extends the scope of 1.26 key elements including the personal or campaign advantage is prohibited the official specific interest of the may not be received the advantage. soar the sphe

85.5c4 to subsection 82.5b4. 4, line 7, page 48 in the beginning of the third line down, section 82.9e, remove the comma after 2011. i will now call up director of the office of labor standards and enforcement, pat mulligan who will speak to this and also make himself available for questions. >> thank you very much, supervisor fewer. welcome, mr. mulligan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer and supervisor tang. first, thank you for your remark as round local hire, supervisor fewer. so local hire has been a real benefit to the city and county of san francisco, both to community, labor, and business. it is successful as a workforce training program, and as a policy, but it's been successful as a legislative process. when local hire was first introduced by the board of supervisors six years ago, this was unchartered to the. territory and no other municipality had adopted local hiring mandates so aggressive with such specific language and with severe liquidated damages and appropriately so the board of supervisors included review periods to make accommodations going forwar

85.5c4 to subsection 82.5b4. 4, line 7, page 48 in the beginning of the third line down, section 82.9e, remove the comma after 2011. i will now call up director of the office of labor standards and enforcement, pat mulligan who will speak to this and also make himself available for questions. >> thank you very much, supervisor fewer. welcome, mr. mulligan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer and supervisor tang. first, thank you for your remark as round local hire, supervisor fewer. so local hire has been a real benefit to the city and county of san francisco, both to community, labor, and business. it is successful as a workforce training program, and as a policy, but it's been successful as a legislative process. when local hire was first introduced by the board of supervisors six years ago, this was unchartered to the. territory and no other municipality had adopted local hiring mandates so aggressive with such specific language and with severe liquidated damages and appropriately so the board of supervisors included review periods to make accommodations going forwar

a for which payment is permitted under subsection c shall be equal to paragraph one, and 100% for the calendar quarters in calendar yoos 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2021 and paragraph two, for calendar year years and quarters 2022. >> that language, again, it does not are require that the money e that comes from the safety net, this new safety net actually going to the providers, and maybe we can work on an amendment, ale though that i e know that we want to bring it in for a landing, but you have another clarification? >> yes, ma'am. we have been advised by the legislative council that the may is for states to accept the money, and in subsection b, the if they receive the money then the rules apply on the top of page 22 which payment is permitted under subsection c may be equal to and you is the amount or the march, the amount, the formula and then the limitation on the providers. so the mechanics is that it is a state option to take the money, and if the state takes it, this is the formula for the spend, the match and the parameters for that funding. >> so, is it clear to the committ

at the end of the bill add the following new subsection -- e, exemption for the office of government ethics. the provisions of sections 3522, 3523 and 3524 of title 44, united states code, as added by subsection a do not apply to the office of government ethics. the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. the gentleman from pennsylvania deserves to be heard, and the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. cartwright: thank you, madam speaker. this is the final amendment to the bill which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. if adopted, the bill will proceed to final passage, as amended. this motion to recommit is to defend ethical conduct throughout our government in response to the watergate scandal, congress created the office of government ethics to protect against unethical behavior in the -- >> madam speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house is not in order. the gentleman may continue. mr. cartwright: in response to the watergate scandal of the 1970's, congress created the office of government

they credit the move from licensing to subsection based sales.ek, they are unveiling -- an experience cloud of enterprise products in las vegas. ceo santanathe narayan about the new offering -- shantanu narayen. shantanu: it's about using data and intelligence to deliver to the right person at the right time. artificial intelligence, for us, is actually about harnessing the magic that we already -- we have always delivered in our products. when people use photoshop or illustrator, you always say "how do you do that?" it's about taking all the incredible knowledge we have about documents and content and predictions, as we've done in the marketing space, and delivering that, not just to customers, but also to developers who can then build on that. caroline: i wonder whether we could see more partnerships. salesforce and ibm have teamed up over ai. would you consider a partnership with ai or other parts of the business? shantanu: the partnership with microsoft is a very important one for us. they standardized on the adobe clouds for their marketing

as for the subsection i-31.170 essentially just copies la law allowing the court to impose in addition to weather or criminal conviction penalty would impose for it violation, also a four-year ban on serving as a lobbyist for a contractor. it's in la law. as for the j restoration of the comparison table in your packet contrast j current law and the proposed amendment. which we think of as sort of j but better. the j highlights first private attorney general provision and 1.168 is expanded to include suits for penalties for the most significant violations. second, the penalty section has edits that give 1.26 violations parity with other relations and so the maximum penalty would go instead of being up to 5000 it would be up to the greater of 5000 or triple the amount of the illegally provided or the perceived. similar to your contribution limit violations. then, third and most important like the amendment extends the scope of 1.26 key elements including the personal or campaign advantage is prohibited the official specific interest of the may not be received the advantage. soar the sphe

. >> pop down your next subsection. >> while poe says he hopes the jail's education program will helpy out of trouble the next time he's released -- >> let me see what you got. >> check it out. >> look. >> -- jacob cowin has turned to religion. >> ephesians, huh? >> i wrote that last night. why don't you read it to me. >> oh, armando. >> come on, read it to me, man. read it to me. i wrote it. tell me how it sounds. >> paul begins the letter to the ephesians by stating who he is. >> cowin has had numerous stays at santa rita over the past several years. not all the charges stuck. but one of his stays was the precursor to a five-year prison sentence he served after shooting and wounding another man in a bar fight. this time he's serving 75 days for battery and vandalism. according to police reports, he broke his girlfriend's door during an argument and punched her numerous times in the face and head. >> i only know how to do one thing, and it ain't good. you know? so it's like -- >> what is it? >> it's bad. just trouble. and the thing is trouble was getting me in trouble, you know what

the reason this was tritt criticized by the washington state judge was there was a special subsection giving special exemptions to certain christian minorities but not muslim minorities. >> that was removed. >> they took it out completely. the new one doesn't say anything about religion at all. now, why is the hawaii judge doing this? he's doing this for another reason. you remember there was a big argument about what trump had to say during the campaign about the muslim religion. he said he was going to do a muslim ban and giuliani right at the very end when this thing was being talked about in court, said i had a discussion with trump about how to implement a muslim ban, so i think the court is looking at those discussions and saying there's religious discrimination. >> important because the department of justice said even today those things should not be admissible. they were said on the campaign trail sort of as if they had a premonition or concern. they knew this case in hawaii was up today. now one in washington state. judge robart with the original restraining order was set to

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in subsection b-4 there's a list that starts as such as and includes the word "or" whereas in number three it has such as ut it has the word "and. the legislature knew how to say or or and. >> such as doesn't mean or or of. you're reading it to mean or or of. >> it modifies the nickname of the user and then you have three other elements to it. >> you need to finish your sentence. >> in this instance, the co-defendant, not the co-defendant but the other person charged in this case not before the court used initials. there could be something besides a name or nickname. >> thank you. mr. goldberg, you have four minutes remaining. >> i'll try to make four oints. our admission it is doesn't matter but overbroad as applied to any one site. but reading the statute doesn't york grammatically if you look in the a and the b, it talks about sites that create web pages or personal profiles and in a it says to become members or create personal web pages. you can't have a link requirement if there are sites that qualify without creating webpages. second, when they told mr. packing ham what this la

85.5c4 to subsection 82.5b4. 4, line 7, page 48 in the beginning of the third line down, section 82.9e, remove the comma after 2011. i will now call up director of the office of labor standards and enforcement, pat mulligan who will speak to this and also make himself available for questions. >> thank you very much, supervisor fewer. welcome, mr. mulligan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer and supervisor tang. first, thank you for your remark as round local hire, supervisor fewer. so local hire has been a real benefit to the city and county of san francisco, both to community, labor, and business. it is successful as a workforce training program, and as a policy, but it's been successful as a legislative process. when local hire was first introduced by the board of supervisors six years ago, this was unchartered to the. territory and no other municipality had adopted local hiring mandates so aggressive with such specific language and with severe liquidated damages and appropriately so the board of supervisors included review periods to make accommodations going forwar

85.5c4 to subsection 82.5b4. 4, line 7, page 48 in the beginning of the third line down, section 82.9enow call up director of the office of labor standards and enforcement, pat mulligan who will speak to this and also make himself available for questions. >> thank you very much, supervisor fewer. welcome, mr. mulligan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer and supervisor tang. first, thank you for your remark as round local hire, supervisor fewer. so local hire has been a real benefit to the city and county of san francisco, both to community, labor, and business. it is successful as a workforce training program, and as a policy, but it's been successful as a legislative process. when local hire was first introduced by the board of supervisors six years ago, this was unchartered to the. territory and no other municipality had adopted local hiring mandates so aggressive with such specific language and with severe liquidated damages and appropriately so the board of supervisors included review periods to make accommodations going forward, because of some of the uncertainty

as for the subsection i-31.170 essentially just copies la law allowing the court to impose in addition to weather or criminal conviction penalty would impose for it violation, also a four-year ban on serving as a lobbyist for a contractor. it's in la law. as for the j restoration of the comparison table in your packet contrast j current law and the proposed amendment. which we think of as sort of j but better. the j highlights first private attorney general pvision and 1.168 is expanded to include suits for penalties for the most significant violations. second, the penalty section has edits that give 1.26 violations parity with other relations and so the maximum penalty would go instead of being up to 5000 it would be up to the greater of 5000 or triple the amount of the illegally provided or the perceived. similar to your contribution limit violations. then, third and most important like the amendment extends the scope of 1.26 key elements including the personal or campaign advantage is prohibited the official specific interest of the may not be received the advantage. soar the sphere

and one other point about that is in subsection (b)(4), there's a list that starts with "such as" and includes a -- the word "or," whereas in number 3 it has "such as," but it has the word "and." so the legislature certainly knew how to say "or" or "and" in those portions. justice kagan: but "such as" does not mean "each of." you're reading it as though "such as" means "each of." mr. montgomery: no. we're reading it as "such as" nickname of the user, and then you have three other elements to it. so there could be things in -- chief justice roberts: you can finish your sentence. mr. montgomery: in this instance, the -- not a co-defendant, but the other person charged here in this case that's not before the court used initials. so there could be something besides a name or a nickname. chief justice roberts: thank you, mr. montgomery. mr. goldberg, you have four minutes remaining. mr. goldberg: thank you, your honor. i'll try to make four points. as to "the new york times," our main submission is it doesn't matter. but that said, because it is overbroad as applied to any one site -- but

the code section addressing the ground floor is 145 residential commercial mixed use they're in subsection a language proposed to be struck into the code is the following ground floor quote increasing non-residential should have a minimum floor to floor 17 from grade the proposed language quote the ground floor in umu regardless of use shall have a under height not less than 17 feet and they'll be designed to meet with the residential design guidelines unquote the planning department is recommending a section modification to those legislation which is to include district 10 from the height adjustment the department still buildings that is is important to address the mismatch and allow the height for the umu district, however, because of outreach focused to large extent on the district instead of the district 10 we believe to for the neighborhood before moving forward with the height this map on the slide shows the recommended change to the proposed zoning map updates there are approximately, one and 15 new parcels excluded from the adjustment in the district lastly on a procedural note whe

matt: i spoke with some investors who estimated that 1/3 of the retail properties that are in this subsection of 2012, 2013 malls could end up defaulting. when you look at that and boil it down, crunch the numbers, how much is that risk overall, you have a number that's much smaller. closer to $10 billion range. it is a lot smaller section. the risk is is that like we all know, perception is reality. if the perception is that there is weakness in the sector, it could spark contagion that starts to filter in to other areas. scar loathe: dot hedge funds -- scarlett: do the hedge funds default right away? >> that's why the investors aren't jumping into the trade. it could make months or years to work out these loans. a lot of people are saying it will be a slow bleed. >> matt, quickly, a couple companies that we need to watch? sears? matt: sears, j.c. pennies, the claires of the world. scarlett: my childhood. >> the luxury malls. matt: they are doing ok. america online thank you so much. check on the bloomberg "first word" news this afternoon. go to our newsroom where we have mark with more. mar

85.5c4 to subsection 82.5b4. 4, line 7, page 48 in the beginning of the third line down, section 82.9e, remove the comma after 2011. i will now call up director of the office of labor standards and enforcement, pat mulligan who will speak to this and also make himself available for questions. >> thank you very much, supervisor fewer. welcome, mr. mulligan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer and supervisor tang. first, thank you for your remark as round local hire, supervisor fewer. so local hire has been a real benefit to the city and county of san francisco, both to community, labor, and business. it is successful as a workforce training program, and as a policy, but it's been successful as a legislative process. when local hire was first introduced by the board of supervisors six years ago, this was unchartered to the. territory and no other municipality had adopted local hiring mandates so aggressive with such specific language and with severe liquidated damages and appropriately so the board of supervisors included review periods to make accommodations going forwar

it's subsection d4, romanette ii, and things like that, none of which -- justice ginsburg: but would you agree with at least the courts should say that the formulation more than de minimis sets the level too low, and that's -- that's the formula that was used at levels here. mr. katyal: and, justice ginsburg, we disagree with that. we think more than de minimis, which is what almost every circuit is using right now, has worked and it follows naturally from the some benefit language in rowley. now, you might disagree -- justice ginsburg: so you're -- you're equating some benefit to more than -- mr. katyal: more than de minimis. we think it means the same thing, and we think there's a long history of experience with this showing that it's working. and to return, justice breyer, to a point that you had made before. it's that there's some concern about the standard. that's really got to be up to congress. if this court were to change the standard, it would invite all sorts of litigation. just look at what mr. fester -- mr. fisher said. as the chief justice started, he -- first his petiti

85.5c4 to subsection 82.5b4. 4, line 7, page 48 in the beginning of the third line down, section 82.9e, remove the comma after 2011. i will now call up director of the office of labor standards and enforcement, pat mulligan who will speak to this and also make himself available for questions. >> thank you very much, supervisor fewer. welcome, mr. mulligan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer and supervisor tang. first, thank you for your remark as round local hire, supervisor fewer. so local hire has been a real benefit to the city and county of san francisco, both to community, labor, and business. it is successful as a workforce training program, and as a policy, but it's been successful as a legislative process. when local hire was first introduced by the board of supervisors six years ago, this was unchartered to the. territory and no other municipality had adopted local hiring mandates so aggressive with such specific language and with severe liquidated damages and appropriately so the board of supervisors included review periods to make accommodations going forwar

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amendment, under lines 11, 12, 13 and 14, it is the sense of congress that funds made available under subsection a shall be used to incentivize quality fee for service under medicaid, medicare and medicare advantage. that violates -- >> well -- >> you can take back your time. >> thank you. first of all, this is a sense of the congress. that's a very big difference, is it not? is it not -- >> mr. pascrell -- >> yes, sir. >> mr. chairman pascrell, medicare improvement fund is outside the subject matter. i don't know how clearer i can be. that is completely outside the subject matter. >> would you agree -- >> are you filibustering? >> i'm sorry? >> are you filibustering? >> i would never do that. >> i'm starting to wonder. >> i would never do that. >> i yield back to you. >> it's the furthest thing from my mind. but, there is a big difference when we have a sense of the congress and we have a regular amendment, would you not agree? >> no. because this is outside the scope of the area in which we are debating right now which is the renumeration section. >> are you yielding back to me? >> he yields b

the subsection of the bill entitled stay of discovery which stopped the use of discovery to coerce unjustified settlements by requiring federal courts to stay discovery pending resolution of rule 2 motion. that is, motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim. motions to strike class allegation. motions to transfer. other motions that would dispose of class allegations unless the court finds that particularized discovery is necessary to preserve evidence or to prevent undue prejudice to a party this amendment should be defeated. i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. soto: thank you, mr. chairman. even if we included motions to dismiss in the stay which are at the begin oofing the case because they're dispositive motions, there are still motions to strike that are left in this bill. after surviving motion to dismiss, motions to strike are regularly filed. anybody who has had any time in the courtroom knows they can be filed over and over and over again. there's no limit of them. under the federal rules of civil proc

going up and the broad unemployment numbers coming down, it's better than if it was a narrower subsection >> confidence coming back. that's a big part of the equation. be careful. i think you can buy europe on any selloff. you can buy some of these oils and oil services with the selloff that's accompanying the sharp decline in petroleum prices. asia, japan you can buy. that leads you to asia, the a in verna. >> there you are. >> china's 19 peoples congress is two weeks. le kachan and their janet yellen said they're going to keep things on a very even keel. that's a good thing. world's second largest economy, stable, steady as she goes. that can allow the market to advance further. but we are extended in terms of valuations. >> it was sort of weird central bank transactions where they're trying to sell ford so they don't deplete the reserves. you worry, is there more pressure building than we can see. >> i think, kelly, that's an adequate concern. you have high debt levels there. you have really the structural reform that really stepped on the accelerator again to do the things that they'v

or the housekeeping staff so they asked me to present it is a fun event to acknowledge the urban subsections heroes in the hotels on the third ever march i attended larkin street i'm on the committee over 4 hundred people at the hotel for a worthy cause on march 4 i attended the san francisco firefighters prevention fundraiser and on the 6 of march i know that commissioner covington will want to probably add to what i'm going to say a personal friend but a life ceremony so for ms. eileen hernandez a 90-year-old woman that has done in her lifetime extraordinary things i know that commissioner hardeman you were at the celebration on monday fought for workers rights and wage equality and for your consideration commissioner president cleaveland i recommend adjournment in her memory for all she's done and iconicly today is women's international day i know that commissioner covington will honor her because she was a personal friend. >> on the 7 of march attended the department head meetings yesterday regarding health and wellness and additional training for city employees on the obesi training and

add at the end the following new subsection. d, authority of congressional leadership in making appointments. section 301-b of the congressional accountability act of 1995, 2 united states code, 1381 b, is amended by striking the period at the end of the second sentence and inserting the following. comma, who are authorized to take such steps as they consider appropriate to ensure the timely appointment of the members of the board consistent with the requirements of this section. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the amendment is agreed to. the bill is engrossed and read a third time. passed and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk report the title. the clerk: who were to accompany hose russlusion 198. resolution providing for consideration of the bill, h.r. 1259, to amend title 38 united states code

or the housekeeping staff so they asked me to present it is a fun event to acknowledge the urban subsections the hotels on the third ever march i attended larkin street i'm on the committee over 4 hundred people at the hotel for a worthy cause on march 4 i attended the san francisco firefighters prevention fundraiser and on the 6 of march i know that commissioner covington will want to probably add to what i'm going to say a personal friend but a life ceremony so for ms. eileen hernandez a 90-year-old woman that has done in her lifetime extraordinary things i know that commissioner hardeman you were at the celebration on monday fought for workers rights and wage equality and for your consideration commissioner president cleaveland i recommend adjournment in her memory for all she's done and iconicly today is women's international day i know that commissioner covington will honor her because she was a personal friend. >> on the 7 of march attended the department head meetings yesterday regarding health and wellness and additional training for city employees on the obesi training and the st. p

limitation, this subsection shall not apply to any bill, repealing the patient protection and affordable care act. mr. speaker, as you can see, with this act, the majority declared that they were not going to let the rules of this house, which are purport he hadly in place to stand in their way of repealing the affordable care act no matter how much it would cost the american families. but mr. speaker, it gets even worse. as we stand here today, republicans have taken -- have taken their head in the sand approach to the affordable care act to a new low. right now, both the energy and commerce and ways and means committees are considering republican legislation to repeal health care reform without providing any analysis from the nonpartisan experts at the congressional budget office of the cost of the legislation. let me put this another way. earlier it was said, it doesn't cost to take health care away. they don't want to know how much it will cost or the impact it will be or have on american families. mr. speaker, we have over 200 employees at the congressional budget office. that offic