new businesses to rhode island. now, the good news is that for the first time in a long time companies are moving here and expanding here mostly because they want to hire rhode islanders. but for decades we just sat back and we watched as massachusetts rebuilt. boston and its suburbs flourished and we all saw it. the mill buildings along 95 in the black stone river were vacant and crumbling. now, that didn't just happen in massachusetts. that wasn't an accident. they had a plan. they had a strategy to create good jobs and put cranes in the sky. they used job training and incentives to create thousands of jobs. in fact, massachusetts and nearly every other state in the northeast still uses incentives and job training. they have all been doing it for years. until recently, though, we didn't. our leaders didn't have much of a strategy. and because of that rhode islanders got hurt and the few times that they did take action they either put all their eggs in one basket or chased special deals. any way you slice it rhode

he had -- founded rhode island. he had come from england seeking religious freedom. 20 years after the founding of rhode island, those people in barbados said this is where they wanted to come. quakers,jews, but people who had been persecuted or would be because of their religious beliefs. here77, the jews that were needed a place to bury their loved ones, so they bought a and if land of the hill, you see that small little cemetery, you will see that it has the names on the gravestone of rodriguez, rivero. these are all portuguese names, those early jews here in newport, rhode island. the cemetery was important because it documented that jewish people could own property, which wasn't the case in all of the colonies. by 1758, things were changing dramatically for newport because it had been transformed from a sleepy little town to one of the top seaports in colonial there with newup york, philadelphia, boston, and charleston. our waterfront was filled with 150 sailing ships that traded in ports all over the world. in

i think rhode island is one of the only states. i've been governor for about three years now i think i'm willing to take a risk in looking for opportunities to innovate. really very focused on helping businesses. cutting taxes are red tape making it easier to work with business recruiting opportunity. sometimes they teased me that i don't have to but i think of it as persistence. the fact of the matter is, i've been there. i know what it is like to put everything on the line to start a small business. it's very hard. i now frustrating it can be. i think you bring a fire in my belly to help businesses. >> to put in perspective was fabulous indices see this success is incredible when the come back in our country. >> so we should be proud the background of being in the private sector was a huge help. i started businesses and i've told the story before that i know what it's like to go home. i cofounded a company about having the right checks to keep the lights on, that puts things in perspective about the hard work that's in fall. so t

langevin of rhode island. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 736, the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from rhode island. mr. langevin: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. langevin: mr. chairman, i'm offering this amendment with my colleague and fellow bipartisan disabilities co-chair, representative greg harper. i want to mention it's the only bipartisan amendment being offered to h.r. 620. and i think it's important to stress this point. mr. speaker, two members of congress, from different political parties, who represent a caucus that exists solely to inform, educate, and highlight issues impacted with the disability community have come together to say there is something gravely wrong with this bill. we're offering an amendment that would make it palatable. so the amendment would strike r. 620's notice and cure requirement. so as pr

she wanted to innovate in the state of rhode island and pushed to get innovations into the state of rhode island prior to the last presidential election in 2016 and replacing the equipment and polling reforms in a num bber of ways. so the secretary and her staff r were incredible to work with as they were looking to innovate and improve the overall elections process in rhode island. thank you for being here, secretary. and to my left is secretary kim wyman of washington and she sis going to be talking about vote by mail, so we should be ready in the benefits of vote by mail. secretary wyman is unique amongst her peers in that prior to being the secretary of state, she was a local election official, and intimately familiar with how the elections are run, and the challenges of local officials facing and the challenges on the state level implementing new innovative reforms to securing the process in some of what happens when decisions are made in ledge slay chuck, right, that impact you all of the way down to the local level. secretary wyman, thank you for being here, and partaking in the pa

island's economy of an estimated $60 million. finding a solution for these people is not just the right thing to do, but it also makes smart economicic sense. and i believe that is part of the reason why the american people are largely integrated on helping dreamers. i also want to note that this same moral and economic sense flies in the needs to provide deeper t visually and legal stas for qualified recipients of temporary protected status, tps and deferred forced departure for these individuals came to america from devastated parts of the world seeking safety and a fresh start. and i become integral members of our community and our economy. like a daca recipients they have passed rigorous and periodic background checks, $800 in fees, and demonstrated that they are not at risk to public safety or national security. the average beneficiary has been in america for 19 years and many have been your even longer. about 70%-80% are employed and they are collectively panted nearly 275,000 american 75,000 american citizen children. sinc

. >> and your training is germane to rhode island, what they're doing in hawaii would probably -- you all have different policies and training? or is there an overall guide to what you should be working on? >> so i think when it comes to how we interact with the federal systems, we proscribe to the federal exercises in procedures and policy. every state is unique in how they apply that to their jurisdiction. i am unfamiliar with the exact protocols hawaii had. i would imagine that many of these protocols and policies are similar throughout the united states. but again, i'm going to take a guess that every state has unique protocol they follow. and it's up to us as state directors to make sure it's the right size for your state, the right size for the hazards you deal with on a daily basis, and making sure the public understands when that message goes out it's for real. >> okay, thank you. mr. krakauer? >> thank you, sir. so with respect to training, we -- our public warning team trains on a weekly basis. we call it wea wednesday in new york city. our public warning team is required to

since 1999 looking for a pathway for liberians who came to states like rhode island to escape bloodiest civil wars in the a bowl of virus outbreak. some of these have been fixtures for nearly 30 years in our community but like daca recipients could face deportation because of the expiration of tps protections. congress can and should include these populations and their solutions. mr. president, i along with many colleagues have taken the step to strengthen the border and play by the a rules and for comprehensive immigration reform that has passed in this body i know we can address the crisis if we choose to but the only true path forward is through bipartisan compromise. not you legislative gamesmanship. giving my support to the compromise legislation to the specific crisis before us and when we do that to begin earnest sessions on a bipartisan immigration reform and with that mr. president i yield the floor

. >> covert action arm of pakistani intelligence, main service called interservice intelligence, rhode island cia worked with them during the 19 0s to smuggle guns and money to the afghan rebels who were fighting in the soviet occupation. after 2001 as we tried to restore constitutional democracy to afghanistan, isi fostered the revival of the taliban ended up creating the mess that we're in now. >> brennan: there's a rope you picked that theme for the rest of the book. what's happening right now you've seen some terrible terrorist attacks over the mast two weeks in afghanistan. what is driving the violence right now? >> it's been a rough couple of years, there are groups based in pakistan that have continually carried out mass casualty attacks inca bull in order to unsettle the government. the trump administration has changed policy toward pakistan, us suspended aid, some

we'll hear from representatives from fema and the new york and rhode island emergency management agencies as well as wireless technology industry officials. congressman daniel donovan of new york chairs this homeland security subcommittee hearing. >> the subcommittee on emergency preparedness, response and communications will come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to review our ability to timely and effectively alert and warn the public in the case of an emergency. i want to welcome our witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to the protection of americans. effective and reliable alerts and warnings. the numerous disasters and terrorist attacks that we've witnessed over the past few months have illustrated that timely communication is critical in an emergency situation. and the ability of critical information, the availability of critical information can help individuals protect themselves from harm's way. while some of us grew up in an emergency alert warnings through television, radio and i'm old enough to remember when they told to us get underneath our desks be

some of the earliest colonial rhodes of long island -- island were leaving the massachusetts bay colony. it was it -- it was heavily. 10. heavily puritan. they formed to be settlements in rhode island that they hoped would be more open to different religions. the was a large quaker settlement, a large jewish population. island becameode places of religious tolerance for the 18th century. for the 18th century. >> newport was a thriving port city. it had international trade. this is a beautiful and rich example of such a useful book. astrological and matchesical chart that very nicely with some of the sea charts, that were also bought. this is a beautiful record of the kind of book that would be both a mark of status for wealthy merchants and have utility in their work and in making navigation possible. here, there are extensive instructions for how two-dimensional representation of the heavens and turn it into a three-dimensional model for navigation. >> these three diaries are part of a collection of diaries. thomas benjamin hazzard was a man who lived in kingston, rhode island, just ou

they joined units like first rhode island regiment. the first all-black unit of american warriors. many were slaves and in exchange for their service they were promised freedom. these soldiers bravely repelled repeated assaults by enemy forces and the battle of road island. -- rhode island. later they fought at yorktown were the british ultimately surrendered and america's independence was one. they would not have surrendered so easily and quickly without you, i tell you. the decades later, african-americans fought to preserve our union in the civil war. among them was a soldier who was born a slave in virginia and later and listed in the union army. during the second battle of fort wagner, sergeant carney saw the color guard of his unit fall and he was mortally wounded. immediately, he threw down his rifle, raced to grab the flag and carry it forward. plan to get on the walls of the 4 -- printing it on the walls of the fort. , he multiple wounds continue to guard the flag throughout the battle. you would later remark to his comrades that the old flag never touched the ground. late

rhode island cheated. people in the 18th century and every other colony, they really hated rhode island. it wasn't just rhode island didn't ratify, the reason they didn't ratify the constitution was that they were waiting to see if there would be some benefits from cheating. this was the kind of logical shipping maneuver. everyone else is when i can do it then okay, will do it. madison's first idea about why we needed a national constitution was the central government had to be able to coerce the state, force them to all be on the same page for trade, and that is what began to make him a national. the fear of it falling apart menu needed to pull it to the center and became a gravitational metaphor. if you wanted something in the middle like the sun they would exert tremendous gravitational pull so they didn't fly off in different directions. that's what he was thinking when he went into the constitutional convention. that was fundamentally defining his vision. he was a very strong nationalist. he may not h

these soldiers bravely repelled repeated assaults by enemy forces in the battle of rhode island. later they fought at yorktown where the british ultimately surrendered and america's independence was won. and they would not have surrendered so easily and quickly without you. that i can tell you. decades later, african-americans volunteered to fight to preserve our union in the civil war. among them was a soldier named william carney, who was born a slave in virginia and later enlisted in the union army. during the second battle of ft. wagner, sergeant carney saw the color guard of his unit fall and he was mortally wounded. immediately, he threw down his rifle, and raced to carry it forward, planting it on the walls of the fort. through gunfire and enduring multiple wounds, he continued to guard that great american flag throughout the entire battle. he later remarked to his comrades that the old flag never touched the ground. that's a big deal. sergeant carney's extraordinary valor made him the first african-american to be awarded the congressional medal of honor. highest award. [a

we, the people of the states of new hampshire, massachusetts, rhode island and providence plantation, connecticut, new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, delaware, maryland, virginia, north carolina, south carolina, and georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our prosperity. it doesn't have all that inspiring language about established justice to provide for the common defense and so forth. it just says do ordain to establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our prossperit. the name shall be the united states of america. the first time we see on paper the word, united states of america. let's see what changes are taking place. we now have a short preamble. we have congressional powers getting specified. congress has the power to make residents make war. we are giving congress more day to day decisions and more time. later, the president took a greater role. the necessary and proper klaus. th before the constitutional convention, the continental congress only has specific enumerated powers. it g

who grew up in cumberland, rhode island. they did two movies, one was called "dumb and dumber." this is a good example of dumb and dumber. it was dumb when president obama opened the south atlantic coast to the prospect of oil drilling. when he did, the reaction was immediate and profound from norfolk, virginia, all the way down the red south atlantic coast to st. august is teen -- august isine county, they all said, get that offshore drilling out of here. we don't want it. it was a sweep of that republican shoreline. it was called the resolution revolution because so many resolutions were passed saying, get your oil drilling the heck away from our coasts. ultimately, the obama administration got smart and in the final approval, there was no drilling in the atlantic, no drilling in the pacific. they gave reasons for their choice. strong local opposition was one. conflicts with other ocean uses was another. market dynamics was a third. and comments received from governors was a fourth. so in the wake of that, here comes the t

i'm the director of emergency management for the state of rhode island. i'm the chair for the state's interoperable communications committee responsible for ensuring alert communication and systems are properly governed, aligned and integrated. i have submitted my full statement to the committee. i want to briefly describe for the subcommittee first a snapshot of the warning alertsin the state of rhode island, second, what we have done since the hawaii false alert. and finally some insights and recommendation for a stronger, more resilient alert and warning communications system nationwide. first, let me describe our system from the local level up. in 2015 the state of rhode island invested in a commercial mass notification system called code red. using the emergency management performance grant we purchased on behalf of all communities, 39 communities and selected state agencies, a singular common system in order to remove duplication of effort, improve operational efficiencies and save precious local, state and federal funding resources. authorized trai

joe's visiting rhode island. hawks up by a dozen, james with steal. now going coastal on the play. gets the foul and the bucket. st. joe's shooting 51% from the floor. in the second. demry, game 21 points behind the hawks and rhode island the first home of the season beat them down by 30, 78-38 is the final score. >>> calling it quits done 93 jones retiring. he's the time all time leader in gross punting average. just a bit on the high note. >> way to go out >> well done >> up next. the captain and comedy, how . >>> comedy succeeded everybody laughed having a good time. kate? >>> we're creeping ever closer to the westbound. good news is even though we finish out the work week on a wet note. we got mild high, temperatures above average or close to normal for the weekend and our system will move out. it will still be >> georgia's lieutenant governor is threatening to retaliate against delta airlines. "i will kill any tax legislation that benefits delta unless the company changes its position. >> thai for flying delta. in the event of cabin decompression, an oxygen mask will appear. t

joe's visiting rhode island. hawks up by a dozen, james with steal. now going coastal on the play. gets the foul and the bucket. st. joe's shooting 51% from the floor. in the second. demry, game 21 points behind the hawks and rhode island the first home of the season beat them down by 30, 78-38 is the final score. >>> calling it quits done 93 jones retiring. he's the time all time leader in gross punting average. just a bit on the high note. >> way to go out >> well done >> up next. the captain and comedy, how (alex trebek) $over $8,000. now, why is this number so important? because $8,508 is the average cost of a funeral. if you've already planned how to help cover your final expenses, like this one, great. but if you haven't, i'm here to tell you about the number one most popular whole life insurance plan through the colonial penn program. if you're between age 50 and 85, you can start here, right now. so call now. you won't be alone. over half a million people called last year for free information. options start at $9.95 a month, a good price if you're on a tight budget. there a

my friend from rhode island and i talked about this a great deal. we are of the same mind and same agreement. we may disagree on somehow this is -- how to get there but at the end of the day, the a.d.a. is still there, the a.d.a. is not going away, the a.d.a. is not being gutted, the a.d.a. is not -- there's nobody asking folks with disabilities have law degrees. a lot of them have and they are making a difference. one of the greatest emphasis to a business that may have an impediment, they may have put something in a way is for someone with a disability say, by the way, i can't get in here and most business owner don't say, i don't want disability folks in my business. no, they want to fix it because they want to do business. to say anything else is simply unfortunately at times tending to scare people for the wrong reasons. if you want to defend trial lawyers and others who are willing to sue with nondisabled people to sue business, taking google photographs of google maps and saying this is a business that we're going to extort something from, th

next, we travel to newport rhode island. to learn about the breakers. this tour of the national historic landmark is about 25 minutes. these rooms were so ornate because the family wanted to make an impression. the first thing you notice and first thing you walk into is the great hall. 50 feet wide, 50 feet high. and it is highly ornamented with lots of carvings. the symbol of the vanderbilt family can be seen everywhere. the acorn and the oakley. which meant strength and longevity. and you will find the acorn and the oakleaf all throughout the house. so that was the theme of the family. and there were all sorts and kinds of marble, a lot of ornamentation. this house is supposed to look like an italian palace. they wanted to make a statement that, indeed, they had succeeded, that they had met the pinnacle, and that they were able to do what they could with their resources and they wanted to create fine homes that were in the style of european mansions. it was built by richard morris hunt, the preeminent architect of the time. he was the first american t

yesterday when my friend, the senator from rhode island, asked admiral rogers if the trump administration had directed him to counter russian meddling, he replied no. a hostile foreign power continues to interfere with our democracy and is planning to interfere in our next elections and the president of the united states is hardly lifting a finger. it was as if they were planning for war. cyber attacks, manipulation of newspapers is another way that hostile powers attack us. people have to wonder why president trump is so soft on russia, so unwilling to criticize president putin and so slow to stand up for america and protect our democracy. finally, one final word on a pending judicial nomination, marvin quattlebaum. for the benefit of the senate, i'd like to know the only current nomination is up -- nomination of quattlebaum is up is because two senators from south carolina refused to have a blue state. it's their right as the home state senators to not return a blue slip was respected by the democratic majority, chairman leahy in 2013, unlike the republican majority which has twice igno

our cities tour visits newport, rhode island. for seven years, we have traveled to u.s. cities, bringing historic site to our viewers. you can see more on our website, c-span.org/sitcitiestour. >>

we are in newport, rhode island, and it snows here. they had to make accommodations. i think the room -- the thing that stands out the most is the ornate carvings and the gilding and the size. those are the things that really leave the impression they do. this is the room that they would have certainly greeted people. this is the room that, when parties are being held, you would gather people together. you might have dances in the music room, you might have dances in this room as well. so, this is the center of the house. this is the place where everybody passes through all day long. and it would have had seating areas and it would've had been then opened up for parties. and just a multifunctional room, i guess you could say,. a lot of the furniture in the breakers itself is original. it came from the vanderbilt family. almost all of it, in fact, is original. and we own the majority of objects in the preservation society owns the majority of objects in the building. there are a few things that are on loan and then a few things that are just loaned by t b the family bu

island that power block island, rhode island. but in the years ahead, states like rhode island, again, but also massachusetts, new jersey and new york and really maryland, all the way down the eastern seaboard are jumping in as well as the likes of honolulu, mayor caldwell -- or i should say hawaii. the gulf, the great lakes around cleveland and many other places that are within view of major bodies of water. and the reason for that is this, the technology has evolved, has improved very rapidly in the few years such that it is foreseeable in the years to come that offshore wind will be cost competitive with fossil fuel-generated sources of electricity. and it can scale up in such a huge way that it will have an impact, we believe, in the united states first on the eastern seaboard and again going all around our coast. so -- and so mayors have a role to play in that. it all happens out at sea, but it is deployed from places on land, namely ports and cities and having mayors get up to speed more on how they can serve the advance of

i hope you all recall that discussion with elon musk in rhode island. i see a lot of people nodding their heads. i remember it. since that time, we have been actively engaging staff from your states and exchanging ideas on how we can prepare for the future that elon predicted or perhaps one that is less scary. that was pretty interesting. we have worked alongside some leading technology and innovation companies in the country and we appreciate their support of our work. we have seen firsthand how technologies are transforming our daily way of life in altering the way businesses and industries operate, from how we keep in cooler buildings, to the cars we drive in the car's that drive themselves. some of you may have had the opportunity to ride the autonomous vehicle in las vegas. we are witnessing what some have called the fourth industrial revolution. that included visiting the solar where we in colorado, toward amazing homes built by college students around the globe with no net energy used and riding in an autonomous shuttle bus in las vegas that took

two building, 777 brannen and 350 rhode island. 777 brennan will house our property unit, then 350 rhode island will house investigatio investigations. then we still have some need. there is multiple other units in the hall of justice we are trying to find locations for. the third building is our forensic service building that is slated to break ground and open in 2020. that will be the final from the hall of justice our traffic company will go there. again, we have to make sure the technology is available at all three of those locations. so i wanted to give you an update to some of the staffing work we have been do anything the department and the analysis. some of this will inform our budget request and the conversations we have with the mayor's office. you will recall the budget and legislative analyst. you may not remember this. the office had requested -- well the board of supervisors requested the office to perform staffing audit of our department. that is underway. they are due to complete that in may. we have been back and forth with them about they have had a lot of requests for

[laughter] but you know, we talk about some of the conversation we had in rhode island. it's somewhat of ar]r] doomsday scenario say with artificial intelligence. do you mind chatting a little more about that. >> i absolutely don't agree with it. but let me then be clear about, i always use the word this to be the issue of our time and the opportunity of our time. both of us together. so why do i say that about artificial intelligence? opportunity, i see this already as we roll out. particularly in less developed countries where i think they are going to leapfrog on the come in the united states is one doctor for every hundred cancer patients. india has one per 2000. already we are 150 hospitals around the world. we never have a chance to get world class healthhe care. these are the kinds of things. i think it is o completely wrong with some of the hype about it yet i would not call that artificialal intelligence. i would've called it augmented intelligence. i actually was an a.i. specialists. so let me started to spell what i think is the hype. if you look at the sort o

host: providence, rhode island, jack is a democrat. caller: i'm a conservative democrat. leftist elitist like this sullivan. host: let's not call names. what is your question? caller: all right. here it comes to my wife is chinese and i will talk about the korean peninsula here. you know the obama and clinton administrations were perfect when they doubt with north korea. nowave got a problem right thanks to bill clinton giving them billions of dollars. the north korean government, conned the clinton administration, giving them all that money, and they put it in their pockets and then they built nuclear forces. coinhey are almost out of or they could talk cities in the country. months away, ok? thanks to the clinton and obama and the bushns, administration. host: what is the question? this and menstruation will have to do with it because they do not want them to target u.s. cities. guest: thank you. i appreciate that. my view on the united states being a global leader and playing an important role in the world and being the one to help set the agenda and drive out positive

these soldiers bravely repelled repeated assault by enemy forces in the battle of rhode island. later they fought at yorktown where the british ultimately surrendered and america's independence was won. they would not have surrendered so easily and so quickly without you, that i can tell you. decades later, african-americans volunteered to fight to preserve our union in the civil war. among them was a soldier named william carney who was born a slave in virginia and later enlisted in the union army. during the second battle of fort wegner, sergeant kearney saw the color guard of unit fall and he was mortally wounded. immediately he threw down his rifle, raced to grab the flag and carried it forward, planting it on the walls of the ford. through a hail of gunfire and enduring multiple wounds, he protected that great american flag throughout the battle. he later remarked to his comments that the old flag never touched the ground. that's a big deal. sergeant carney's valor made him the first african-american awarded the congressional medal of honor. highest award. extraordinary pat

rhode island did not send a delegation to the philadelphia convention. how can you list them in the preamble when they are not there? when all 13 states actually ratified this thing, and if they did not and you listed them in the preamble than that would cause problems. the constitution was only bonding on the states that ratified it. this was a union of states, not of people. oftentimes, we read into this preamble and think this is what the constitution really means. let me tell you what james madison said about the preamble. this is a quote from james madison. "the general terms or phrases used in the introductory compositions are now a source of so much constructive ingenuity, were never meant to be inserted in their loose form in the text of the constitution. -- it was understood by all that they were to be reduced by proper limitations and specifications into the form in which they were to be final." this is a preliminary phrase. an introduction. nothing more. it just tells you that they were going to have a constitution. -- the preamble, even thoug

do you do a lot of auditions because you live in rhode island. >> i did. >> jimmy: you don't have to audition any more right. >> there was a time i lived in rhode island and they would call you to new york to read when they had the regular train took about four hours on a good day five maybe. >> jimmy: and you just go in for the audaudition. >> you go in walk in and say freeze, thank you, and back five hours on the train. >> jimmy: well it paid off. it worked out. what do people recognize you for most. >> depends on the age. "step brothers" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: and do people give you the -- >> yeah it happened three days ago. guy said to me, do i -- i know you right. i so no. yeah, no,no i know you. i so no you don't. i said okay i'm an actor. he said oh, yeah, no,no,i saw you on tv no you're a supporting actor [ laughter ] he had a point. >> jimmy: he did. not just a supporting actor best supporting actor [ cheers and applause ] so you never lived out here in l.a.? >> i came out here and lived here for about a year and got this part of my anatomy handed to me. >> jimmy:

reporter: governors new jersey, new york, connecticut and rhode island are tired of ridiculous fall tactics in washington when it comes to gun safety. they are looking to take action. they announced creation of a coalition, state for gun safety, they don't want to wait for federal lawmaker to school shoon florida. governors are looking to accomplish three things, create a cross state task force to trace and intere intercept illes coming up the pipeline. and information from mental health databases, and gun violence research to study about what more can be done to the say thstatelevel, governors were plg on announcing this later this year, but it has changed, saying that the time to act is now. >> on behalf of all of us, let's form a coalition of like-minded states in particularly in absence of national legislation. in that coalition, try to move the ball forward toward a better reality. reporter: all four governors will be in washington d.c. this weekend, for the national governor association conference, they were to talk about things like health care, education and jobs. you can now add gu

rhode island has good laws. new jersey has good laws. the problem is, you are limited biure own borders. so i can enforce those laws and i have that data in my state, but if somebody tries to cross the border and goes to connecticut to buy a gun, they don't have that information. so if the federal government won't act and you can't get a 50-state solution well, then get what you can. and start with state coalitions and that's exactly what we're doing now we have databases on mental health, on protective orders. we have databases on warrants for arrests, all of which would stop a purchaser in the state of new york. share those databases with the other states, so you're take wack are good laws and you are now expanding the foot print of that to a northeast coalition. >> what do you expect to be the financial implications of this pact among these four states? do you expect you will need a lot of new funding to be approved by the legislature, for example, in your is that it to get this going? >> money is tight especially after what the feder