. >> and bill gave a speech? >> yeah. this really was something about having good friends. >> just like a heres to good friends? >> yeah, just like that. >> wild bill was about an hour's boat ride from the main island. a big guy with a big personality. he was known for throwing parties at his place. and even in a place that is full of colorful characters, wild bill stood out. >> he was always the loudest voice in the room. he would text everybody and say, you know, your lord commands you to come to my party. >> your lord commands you? >> yeah. he always talked to himself in the third party and a royal sense of some sort. you know, everyone took it as one of bill's quirks. >> another quirk? a pirate club bill created called the jolly roger social club. bill joked that only 90% of the members survive. >> welcome to the jolly club. >> by now, an uneasy feeling about wild bill was spreading and the rowdy party guy was suddenly lying low. >> every time i saw him, he was in a hurry. he was trying to get it done and get

the senate should pass this bill. especially since had has made it clear it is waiting on congressional action it is important for our industry to have those mandatory guidelines in law so no other housing authority has to experience this tragedy as we did. >> thank you for that. but in the last two weeks there were two instances of carbon monoxide poisoning in detroit. we have to stop the silent killer. leslie to bring to your attention senator cortez master roseville affordable homeownership can come in many forms residential manufactured housing is one of those it is a safe housing option for 22 million working families in south carolina it is important as every one out of five homes are prefabricated the bill would open for more affordable housing options for families across the country can you explain how manufactured homes fill the important role with more affordable housing as the head report indicates is a very popular seat for manufactured housing it is about 20 percent of the homes are manufactured. what it

this bill is about control. for the 1st time this state will make georgia women criminals criminals for seeking basic reproductive care ok. these laws are part of a strategy to challenge move the way the supreme court decision that made abortion legal across the country almost 50 years ago do you think a majority of people in georgia wanted this bill to pass the heart no absolutely not was this law written to challenge oh yes of course it was faultlines travels to alabama and georgia 2 of the states on the front lines of this battle. or so for next saturday the 70 7 45 in the morning to ask what's at stake when access to abortion is under threat and how far can these laws go. if you think. that people i mean this bill would create a new pathway to criminalize black and brown women which you've already seen the disappointing facts in the criminal justice system these are the latest attempts not merely to overturn roe v wade and the right to choose abortion they are about stablish hang in the law the fact that wom

brand i was happy to pass my bill into law part of the 2018 farm bill. the authorization and this legislation made reforms to rural development titles to reverse the entrepreneurship and we create equality jobs across america. these reforms included multiple improvements to the business investment programs and access to equity capital. it is nearly nonexistent rural areas. entrepreneurs are in desperate need of this to start in rural businesses. the farm bill out a program that i proposed in the motivation for a strong economy or rise which authorizes grants of 500,000 to 2 million each in a local league driven rural jobs and partnerships made of entrepreneurs, leaders, investors and job training providers, so they can work collaboratively on the economy and the position region to be more competitive. can you provide a status update on the rural business program reforms and the newly created programs? >> yes ma'am. thank you for those questions. personally, the rural business investor program are in the process now of writing the rule that the changes to

this bill is not a democratic bill. it is not a republican bill. this bill is a survivors bill. it is written with the help of survivors who know what is needed in the real world. the bill accomplishes two things. it preserves the advancements we made during the last reauthorization in 2013 and includes certain meaningful improvements to the law. in particular there are three key elements. one, it expands jurisdiction over non-native americans for domestic violence offenses and crimes against children, elders and law enforcement. violence is a big problem on tribal land and the best way to address it is to allow the tribes to prosecute these crimes. unfortunately, some instead want to circumvent the tribal justice system that we know works and this moves us in the wrong direction. secondly the bill builds on antidiscrimination protections for the lgbt community. and the 2013 reauthorization, congress declared federal grant recipients could use funds to train staff to recognize and combat discrimination against lgbt individuals. unfortunately the law wasn't clear and organization

this is a good bill. it's an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill. it's a bill that includes support from 19 members of the florida delegation, including six republicans from that delegation. i urge my colleagues to vote yes. i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. all time has expired. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 737, as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. mcclintock: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: being in the affirmative. in the opinion of the chair the rules are suspended the bill is passed. the gentleman from california is requesting a recorded vote. the yeas and nays are requested. those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. for what purp

i'm afraid this bill is most harmful send a bill to amend the clean air act i have ever read. this bill allows a greater amount of air pollution increases from a greater number of industrial polluters that any senate bill i have seen. indeed, the bill lets industrial facility increased dangers air pollution to higher levels than the ever have polluted, worsening air-quality. this bill lets the cells increase pollution although it up to the worst possible colluding hour in the past ten years and then incredibly the bill lets facilities exceed even that astronomical increase. bill supporters say their other legal limits on these enormous pollution increases. that begs the question, why we can will also seduced to allow massive pollution increases if there are these other limits on actual pollution increases? the answer is because there are not these are the limits. my written testimony provides multiple examples of why these e are the limits on the pollution increases do not exist or do not limit massive increases. notably, the written testimony of my fellow witnesses does not c

but bill bradford wasn't at the beach anymore. no view from a jail cell, and while he waited in custody, detective keith mason went over to see the d.a. where he described his case, and waited for the go-ahead to charge bradford with murder for killing his ex-wife. didn't quite work out that way. >> the head d.a. right away said, do you have the gun? i said, no, we don't have the gun. he said, do you have anybody who could put him at the house at the time of the homicide? i said, no. he says, i don't think we're going to do anything with this case. >> uh-oh. >> i was mad. i was upset. i knew we just let a murderer out the door. >> so bill bradford went home, went back to work at trw, but his children weren't celebrating. in fact they feared their father, and worried they just might be his next victims. >> i spent a number of months looking over my shoulder wondering who was following me. i can remember cars following me at various times, and just kind of randomly driving places, trying to figure out what was going on, to lose who

he wants a more comprehensive bill. i offered such a bill, introduced it in the senate. i'll describe it in a few moments when i ask unanimous consent to pass it and it will include not a two-year short-term fix based upon a budget gimmick, which will have difficulty passing the senate, but permanently funding of historically black colleges and minority institutions. it will include simplification of fasa, the form that eight million minority students fill out every year, which in our state is the biggest obstacle to minority students having an opportunity for higher education and a variety of other bipartisan proposals. i'm ready to pass a comprehensive bill. i offered one before. it was blocked by my democratic friends. i'm going to offer it in a minute. we'll see if they will agree to it. i don't think we should pass a piecemeal bill. i agree with the senator from pennsylvania. i think we should be more comprehensive. and not only that, we should do permanently funding of historically black colleges. and the last point i'll make before i object. the u.s. department of

after matthew shepard and james were murdered in 1998, he sponsored our bill, my administration's bill, to strengthen and expand the federal government's power to prosecute hate crimes. we tried and tried, and i could not get it passed in my eight years, but john kept on reintroducing it, and finally, it was signed into law by president obama in 2009. 2009. it took all of that time. [applause] former pres. clinton: but john kept on pushing. i could give you a lot of examples. his devotion to universal coverage for health care, civil rights, responsible gun safety legislation. john was a cosponsor of the brady bill for background checks . 2 million felons and stalkers have been denied guns due to background checks. state is,the current we should honor john conyers by making those checks universal now. [applause] former pres. clinton: he cosponsored the family and medical leave law. by the tom i left office, 35 million people had claimed it when a baby was born or a parent was sick -- by the time i left office. it has now gotten so important to people in the workplace that in the last ye

. >> bill: how is monday? >> sandra: we're back. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer good morning, everybody. warren $52 trillion proposal. her plan under attack from just about every side including 2020 primary rivals. >> i am insisting that we deliver medicare for all who want it and at the same time in the name of freedom, let you decide when and whether you want it. that's how you get healthcare to every american. >> she is a good person. i just think getting that plan through in a democratic congress will be difficult. we can get it done immediately. >> this is still a free country and when it comes to your healthcare and your family's healthcare and your life, i think americans should be allowed to make the choice for themselves about what is the best option. >> sandra: brand-new fox news poll putting joe biden back on top nationally. fox team coverage this morning. peter doocy tracking the campaign in iowa. a busy monday jam-packed hour with the a-team straight ahead. >> bill: first here is peter doocy live in mason city, iowa. getting chilly out there. that means one thing. it's on th

>> it does, bill. in this sense. i've always thought the objective here was not actually to remove the president. i don't think they think they have any chance of doing that. it is to render him unelectable next year. to the extent that the drip, drip, drip of this is politically debilitating yes the longer it goes on it is damaging. doesn't mean they'll remove him but they dent him up. >> bill: you can stamp him with corruption and campaign on it. andy. thank you. both sides coming up in a moment. democratic house intel committee member denny hecht is live. republican lee zeldin is our headliner live in an hour 22 minutes here on "america's newsroom." thank you. >> julie: we have new details on the trump administration's immigration fight. new numbers showing while immigration jails are packed during this administration but the number of deportations are down from the obama era in fact. william la jeunesse has been digging through all this new information for us and he joins us now. hi. >> despite criticism of the p

they support these bills. this isn't just meeting and education and advocates saying this stuff is important. this is industry. and i think you're all also very aware that, you know, my work and justin's work is about bringing together the entire recreational economy, no non-consumptive, across divides. the last thing i'll say is that i think future visions of high quality life in america include outdoor recreation. i joke my kids can still draw you a better picture of what high quality life in the 50s was supposed today look like than 20 years from now. but we do know places like bend, oregon, and hood river in oregon, also, are icons of that. and i think if we can reform our process, if we can have dedicated account blg agency staff that are measured by outdoor recreation, and if we can have tools to tell emergema they need to plan around that. >> thank you, mr. davis. welcome. >> thank you very much, madam chairman. members of the committee for holding this very important hearing. we are doing critical work

that is what my bill would do. while snowden his disclosures were in defense of the fourth amendment, the sixth amendment guarantees an individual the right to face their accuser. yet the house of representatives has been conducting a secret impeachment inquiry based on secret flames made by secret whistleblower. my bill would make clear that this sixth amendment has brought superseded by statute. and that the president should be afforded the same rights that we all should. need to understand the nature of the allegations brought against him and to face their accuser. this is in the sixth amendment. and that for all the caterwauling about whistleblower statute, there is ahe highlightf the land and it is the constitution and is the bill of rights and the sixth amendment says that if you are accused of a crime, you get to face your accuser. in fact, as a resolution last week placed by the members of the republican caucus that condemns the process going on in the house and it condemns it because it says specifically i

>> bill: big moment today. president trump speaks at the 100th opening ceremony of the new york city veterans day parade in new york. the first president to take part in that event ever. >> bill: good morning on this veterans day. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. congratulations, well done. >> sandra: mainly the ukraine whistleblower whose testimony is says is unnecessary. >> bill: democrats pushing back on the call for hunter biden. here is lindsey graham. >> bill: it is impossible to conduct an impeachment inquiry when the chief complaining witness is unknown to the president. >> i would love to hear what hunter biden has to say. >> sandra: we're live in washington with the latest. >> >> out of the 14 witnesses republicans wanted to testify only a handful are expected to be approved by democrats. they wanted to hear from hunter biden and provide context on the kind -- democrats argue it isn't relevant to the impeachment inquiry saying that the president withheld military aid for investigations into his

this bill is a survivors bill. it is written with the help of survivors who know what is needed in the real world. the bill accomplishes two things that preserves the advancement of the last authorization in 2013 and includes many improvements to the law and incu particular there are three key points. it expands jurisdiction over non- native americans for domestic violence and crimes against children elders and law enforcement violence is a big problem on tribal land the best way to address it is allow the tribes to prosecute the crimes unfortunately someone it want to circumvent the tribal justice system that works moving us in the wrong direction second to build upon existing antidiscrimination protection and in the 2013 rireauthorization congress declared that federal grant recipients could use funds to train staff to combat against the lgbt individuals unfortunately the law was not clear and organizations are still uncertain if they can use funds for this purpose this clarifies the intent a small but very impor

no bills to lower drug prices, no bills to support victims of domestic violence -- nada. he can't afford to let any republican bills pass because it might just hurt his chances of becoming majority leader after the 2020 election. i think it's a shame that the part sanship in the house has now infected the senate and prevented us from passing bills that would make the american people's lives party. i hope our friends on the other side of the aisle have a great thanksgiving break, and i hope they use that time to reconsider why it is that they are here in the first place, why we are all here. we are all here to make the senate work for the benefit of the american people and not to engage in these unworthy, petty political games leading up to the 2020 election. mr. president, on another matter, before election year politics completely halt the work of the senate, here we are one year before the election. one item i'm really hoping we can deliver for the american people in addition to the ones i've mentioned is the usmca, the u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. this trade agr

bill to be had. and that was put on the side. there is a bipartisan way to do or a partisan way to do it and ultimately you are in the majority, you get to decide that. the senate has their own different set of rules and we might want to change them but that is how they operate and at the end of the day both sides have to get in a room and work it out and i would encourage us to do it, encourage both sides to do that. i yield to the gentleman. >> i would like to make an additional comment. it is ironic that the minority whip expresses such great concern about funding the armed forces of the united states we passed a bill at a figure the joint chiefs of staff thought was a figure that was acceptable and supportive of our national security and almost every republican voted against it. >> the levels funding wasn't the issue. it was the defense department to be able to do their job properly that were added in when everyone knew they were partisan additions that had never been in previous bills. we can ge

bill is one of those, bill taylor, where he said there was a quid pro quo here. there was a, give this now get that, ultimately. take it now to republicans. the democrats find -- they are convinced they have the justification for an impeachment vote here. but what about convincing republicans? we've been playing senator graham's response to a quid pro quo. let's listen to what he had to say about what's happening here. >> what i can tell you about the trump policy toward the ukraine, it was incoherent. it depends on who you talk to. they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> incapable, incoherent of performing a quid pro quo. the democrats are saying there was one. what does it take to convince republicans -- republican voters, that a quid pro quo happened and ultimately, it's something worth impeaching the president for? >> it almost sounds like lindsey graham is arguing the trump administration was kind of too stupid to get itself together to muster a quid pro quo. right? and that's a very similar defense to what we heard in the russia investigatio

this is bill taylor talking. he says ambassador sondland told me that he zelensky was dependent on a public investigation. he says president zelensky was in a box by making a public statement about ordering such investigations. so to manu's point, it's not directly coming from president trump, but it sounds like it's trump to sondland to taylor. is that good enough for democrats here? >> he doesn't suggest all this has been freelanced. when you talk about what is good enough, frankly, you talk about prosecutorial discretion and prerogative in a criminal case. when it comes to impeachment, we're talking about whatever it is congress says is sufficient to constitute abuse of power. frankly, the pure breadth of this system that you're seem outlines the abuse of power that you're seeing that is part and parcel to the impeachment inquiry for a variety of reasons. the notion that what bill taylor seems to be very concerned about is the overwhelming and cannot be overstated leverage that the united states had with respe

a lot of the bills of the house can't put through. if legislation is so important and these republicans can't go to leader mcconnell and fink was something on the floor. he is the one who has the sole power to do this. instead of debating more radical judges who take women's rights away. which is all we've been doing. it is hard to take president trump and senate republicans and seriously and they try to blend the house impeachment inquiry for legislative inaction. we haven't debated impeachment on the floor of the senate. we could be debating legislation. leader mcconnell is blocking it and every republican member who is going along. and i don't see them going to the floor and asking the legislation be brought up and debated. this is so typical of our republican friend. and listen to this one. that went out bowling this one is. three years into the trump administration, the most glaring failure of his president trump news refusal to work with democrats on an infrastructure package. he said right from the get-go he wants to do a big i

bill. -- post-9/11 g.i. bill. easier forake things the department of veterans administer a -- to the benefit. h.r. 3608, my bill, which would in-state tuition to veterans, is included in this bill. choice act required public schools charge veterans who are within three years of their in-state tuition rates, regardless of whether they meet the state residency to be ments in order eligible for g.i. bill programs. hat all public schools are complying with it. last congress, i co-authored the eliminate . bill and requirements that 36 months of benefits be expired 15 years after their last discharge. now that this change has become law, it makes no sense to receive in-state tuition rates if they have the entire lives to use their g.i. benefits. i thank jack bergman from michigan for his hard work and i urge my colleagues to support this bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. takano: i have n

the effects of that bill were immediate. by 1968, the percentage of african-americans registered to vote had gone from 6% to 60% nationwide. even in the south, where there had been extreme efforts to register voters then, registration in alabama went from the 60%, from 19% to 51% in louisiana, and when he did all of this, there were fewer than 1000 african-americans, think of that, in any form of local, state, or national office, in this whole country. today, there are more than 10,000. [applause] the congressional black caucus, of which john was a cofounder, began this session with a record 55 members. [applause] they are getting very close to having the actual percentage of african-americans in the united states, and i am grateful that nearly half of them are women, including the current chair. [applause] i am also grateful because barack obama, jimmy carter, and bill clinton would have never become president without the voting rights act and the support. [applause] -- and with the support of the people in this church. ove

mccarthy was for this bill before he was against this bill. not this bill. he was for export-import bank before he was against it. you look at the record. he's going to vote against it this time. mr. scalise voted against it last time, as did mr. mccarthy. on the re-authorization that i just mentioned, that was discharged out of committee. as did mr. mchenry. all three of them opposed this bill. in the past. so it's not a question of these amendments. for whatever reasons, they're opposed to this bill. that's a shame. there's no reason for supporters of american exports on both sides of the aisle not to come together and support the ex-im bank's re-authorization. i hope -- my hope is that what this house will do today, send a strong message of support for the export-import bank. tell the rest of the world, we're going to compete. tell the rest of the world, we're going to compete on an even playing field. tell the rest of the world, we're going to support our exporting community. indeed, according to the national association of manufacturers, during the four

on tuesday, we passed a packet of bills, nine bills, to improve the lives of our veterans, our heroes in uniform. among the bills we were very proud to pass the deborah sampson act, which reduces barriers for women veterans to access v.a., including anti-harassment initiatives. this has a broad base of support , and we are very proud to be passing it. the day after veterans day. monday night when i came into town, i went to the world war ii memorial to see who was there and just to visit it again. i love going there. it's so inspiring. and i saw two -- i was impressed particularly by two engravings on the wall. one that related to all veterans. president truman said "our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. they have earned our undying gratitude. america will never forget their sacrifices." how beautiful. and then particular to women, not necessarily in uniform, but women in the war effort by franklin delano roosevelt, he he said, roosevelt, "women have given their sons to the military services, they have stoked the furnaces, and

, just a bill. not a law. and no survivors are helped by a bill. but here we are today after months of work and mountains of effort that went into working toward a bipartisan bill, and at some point, someone pressed the big red button of partisan politics, and the democrats refused to work together any longer, walking away from the real progress that we had made. not only did they walk away from the negotiating table, but they did so by dropping a bill that is going nowhere, as they have acknowledged. the senate democrats' bill is a nonstarter. it won't pass the senate. it won't get the president's signature. and most importantly, it won't actually help the survivors that need it. these politics are bad. we should be helping survivors, not engaging in the kind of partisan antics that will never produce real results. we've seen this before. the democrats will say that republican women can't speak for women because we don't agree point by point with their leftist agenda, and these are worn-out tactics

diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor. the repeatedly described a quid pro quo to lawmakers behind closed doors and now publicly scheduled to testify one week from today. we're joined by our analysts and reporter. one of the things you're learning about this attitude towards the secretary of state, mike pompeo, over at the state department. >> we've talked to a lot of foreign service officers, career state foreign service officers. the general idea is they have lost confidence in him. he encouraglost confidence in ar yovanovitch. and our report is there has been a sea change at the department. pompeo, when he came in, did a number of good things at the department, who felt they were threatened during the tiller scenario and letting go of hiring freezes. he was doing good things. we heard about that during the testimony from one of his former top advisors, michael mckinley and spoke about things when it was good and now they're devastated over what is happening and lack of support they are getting from pompeo and they're fe

and bill barr and the doj cannot stop that from happening. so why put your approval on what is happening. i wouldn't touch it if i were him either. >> josh, will the hill ask barr to testify? >> i wouldn't be surprised if they did ask him to testify, but i don't think like other officials that he will be willing to do that. i also want to underscore i think one of the problems is that the white house wanted a full exoneration of the president and the justice department even to this point while they did ask for the narrow statement about the fact that there was no campaign finance law violation here, they have never said that there was no violation of the law whatsoever. and we now know that rudy giuliani is under some sort of criminal investigation and counterintelligence investigation. so it would be an exceedingly unwise thing for barr to do particularly given suspicions about him within the justice department to come out and clear the president am pliidst to be sort of on going investigation into the justice department. >> and dana, there

i want to start with bill. bill has paid a lot of attention to the public opinion aspects of impeachment. they were three recent national surveys that came out, , nbc, ac and fox news, and basically all showed 49% of the american public what trumpf impeached and removed from office. then bill wrote a post a few days agohe talking about how support for removal drops in some of the swing states. bill, where are we now and what should people be watching for? >> well, funny you should ask, darrell. [laughing] let me just take two or three minuteses to summarize the state of public opinion on these questions. there is, to begin, majorities for the congressional inquiry into the president's conduct. it's averaging in the low to mid 50s, if you look at most of the surveys. as you said, when it comes to actuallyve impeaching and removg the president, the country is split almost exactly down the middle with support and opposition both in the mid-to high 40s, depending on exactly which survey that you look at. interestin

thank you for supporting the bill. would like to clarify a couple of things with respect to the bill. it does not require participating jurisdictions to allocate hud funds for manufactured homes. it requires the apartment -- hud to consider manufactured housing when putting together their consolidated plans. the bill asks all jurisdictions to consider the role that manufactured housing plays for the very reason we are talking about today. question, does it make sense for community leaders to consider the millions of families living in manufactured housing when they consider housing policy decisions in their community? ms. bailey: absolutely. as we have said continually today, there is a huge affordable housing crisis. every option should be on the table. , the author highlights the people living in manufactured housing and the need to make it affordable and high quality and safe for people. manufactured housing plays a vital role in many communities in the affordable housing space. know my time is up. thank you for the

thank you for your bill. yeah, i mean, there were some studies pretty recently that we took 72 veterans out on a research study in the outdoors but a 27% reduction in ptsd symptoms because through that study which exceeds the success rate for prescription drugs -- >> thank you. i know we only have so much time, i think it is important we make access to everyone and streamline the permitting process. that is the reason why we're here for these bills. i think there is a reason conceptually why i support the stream looi streamlining process and we all do. from hearing from our federal agencies it is great you are in the process of trying to do the streamlining now but how long has the process been taking place? seven years? my concern is every time there is a new administration there may be changes in whether there is that cooperation in streamlining unless we codify it somehow in law. that's why i support this what we are trying to do with this legislation is make sure long term there is this coordination. i ap

for everything we did together. >> reporter: so what did eric know about bill and bill's relationship with nanette? the cops asked. >> i never met bill. >> you know who he is? >> i just knew of him. i knew of him and his, you know, partnership with nanette as far as business goes and stuff like that. >> reporter: eric told us nanette said she invented things, medical equipment, blood separators. sound familiar? and bill, she told eric, guided her through the process. >> that was her mentor. that was her business partner. and she could make her own schedule. she could work out all morning, grab lunch, do whatever she has to do, pick up the kids and take them to practice, be the team mom. >> reporter: pretty nice job. eric and nanette spent time at what she said was her house, right on the beach. what did you think? >> it was beautiful. beautiful house. right on the beach, right in newport. upstairs/downstairs, fully furnished. she had a picture of herself up in the upstairs bedroom, blown up. >> kind of a glamour shot. >> yeah. >> reporter: it never occurred to him, he said, that nanet

under budget billing will be participating customers will be billed based on an average of the past 12 months of customer usage to estimate a levellized bill for predictability. currently when a pgn and e customer has signed up for the pg&e program and joins cleanpowersf, the budget billing calculation only applies to the charges that pg&e puts on the bill, and not the electric generation portion of the service that cleanpowersf provides. so offering this budget billing program fills a really important gap in cleanpowersf service for customers also enrolled in pg&e budget billing program. cleanpowersf is the first of the territory to offer this program. and we're really proud about that. i think that -- we think that it's just an important step towards delivering more equitable service to our customers. and we also hope that the work that we put into this will help other c.c.a.s in the territory to follow suit. this slide here is just to give you a quick illustration of what this looks like. the stacked bars in this chart represent what the average san francisco residential customer pa

that was robbed from them, bill. >> bill: enjoy thanksgiving. thank you for your time. >> sandra: still in question how house democrats plan to move forward with impeachment. will they press on or ultimately change their strategy? new reaction next. you're still out there chasing what matters. that's why at aetna, we're committed to taking care of the whole you. with medicare advantage plans that offer health coaching and fitness memberships. plus hospital, medical and prescription drug coverage in one simple plan. with monthly plan premiums starting at $0. aetna medicare advantage plans call today to learn more and we'll send you a $10 visa reward card with no obligation to enroll. medicare annual enrollment ends december 7th. make family-sized meals fast, and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away. >> bill: "newsroom news vault" opening on thanksgiving. franklin delano roosevelt establishing the national holiday, on the fourth thursday in

we've got republican bills and democrat bills that we have considered here today. we have matters that people care about because they care about our public lands, they care about the ability to get outside and recreate. it is such an important part not only of our economy, but what we are blessed to have as americans. i think we recognize we have visitors that come from around the world to see our national treasures to go through our parks and two flute rippers are taken innertube. in the senator's state, we have extraordinary land and that is how we make them available. i'm also very, very cognizant that the experience is something we want to ensure is a good one and sometimes that requires a level of regulation some of us would rather not have to put up with but it's part of what we do. we also have to recognize the public lands are not just an entirely recreation but they are multiple use land and how we balance that is in important part of the discussion as well. so as we prioritized, that is one aspect. but making sure there is access in a way that treats the

1838 and senate bill 2710. the first vote will be a 15-minute vote. remaining votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is on ordering the previous question on house resolution 713 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 55, house resolution 713, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 1309 to direct the secretary of labor to issue an occupational health and safety standard that covers employers within the health care and service industries to develop and develop the violence prevention plan and for other purposes, providing for proceedings from the period november 22, 2019 through december 2, 2019 and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the natio

. >> bill: good morning. breaking news from overnight from a dramatic turn of events of the fate of a navy seal accused of war crimes. >> bill: a brand-new week. hope you had an awesome weekend. >> sandra: we are learning more details by the minute. defense secretary mark esper firing richard spencer after a dispute between president trump and top military brass over the handling of eddie gallagher's case. he was cleared of the most serious charges. the navy demoted him following his conviction for posing with the corpse of an isis fighter. congressman michael walz agreeing with the president's decision >> it was completely within the president's right. he looked into this case. my point is the navy has a lot of other things that it should be worried about right now. when you have men and women down range making these decisions in split seconds in the pressure of combat, they can't have lawyers back in washington with a 5,000 mile screwdriver second guessing and monday morning quarterbacking. >> bill: what a

now, the current background checks bill worked as it was intended to work. the shoot irtried to buy a gun -- the shooter tried to guy a gun in 2014 but was denied. why? because he had been found to be so seriously mentally ill when he was committed to an inpatient institution that his name was placed on the list of individuals who are prohibited from buying weapons. the problem is, texas doesn't have universal background checks. meaning that it was as easy as pie for the shooter, after he got deny add gun purchase at -- denied a gun purchase at a bricks-and-mortar store, to find a private seller who would sell him a military-style weapon without a background check. and in this case, it resulted in 020 people getting hurt and seven people being wounded. this easy way to find loopholes through the nation's background check system. but what happens every single day. every single day somebody buys a gun at a show, or online or at a private sale. and so i am deeply, deeply troubled. i'm profoundly, profoundly aggrieved by the -- my body's reluctance to even take

afety bills, 81 education bills, 47 national security and defense bills, 45 environmental bills, 36 immigration bills, 40 infrastructure and ransportation bills, and much more. m my point, madam speaker, is we're continuing the work of the american people. we never lost sight of our commitment to the people of this country. we're constantly fighting back the white house's attempt to from way health care millions of americans, and we are working to lower prescription drug costs. supporting our military and ensure they have all the resources that they need keep americans safe. we will not allow this president to keep us from fulfilling our to make our economy stronger, our schools safer, and tyranny.s from i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman tennessee seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. madam speaker, instead of this laser focus on impeachment, people's be doing the work and pass

bill: that is a good question. i do not know. i will put out an email. [applause] bill: sure. [inaudible] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> history bookshelf features the countries best known american history writers of the past decade talking about their books. you can watch our weekly series every saturday at 4:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3. this weekend on lectures in history, johnson county community college professor teaches a class on the expansion of the united states during the spanish-american war and the acquisition of hawaii. here is a preview. 1890, there was a tariff on hawaiian sugar. this is bad for hawaiian sugar. what you see as the disruption to their economy? americans with u.s. military support from pearl harbor overthrew the hawaiian government and the president at the time, president harrison, supported adding hawaii as a territory. congress does not get it done before he leaves o

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. 3537, a bill to. amend the small business act to business boots to program and for other business -- for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the illinois, mr. schneider, and the gentleman from ohio, mr. chabot, will each minutes.0 the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. : thank you, mr. speaker. i -- mr. schneider: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and remarks and include the neous material on measure under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. schneider: i rise in support the veteran entrepreneurship training act of 2019. spano for mr. joining me in introducing this legislation and helping lead this effort to improve the veterans can ure continue to take advantage of the boots to business program. to be here today to celebrate and honor our nation's veteran entrepreneurs. celebrated ek we veterans day and last week, we marked national veteran small week.ss every member

require i'm curious about this bill. senator gardner is in here, in the section i think it's five on a three it talks about what the money can be used for, most of the discussion has been for administrative costs, reducing permitting time, staffing of the agencies no problem there but that indictment other things he can be used for an interpretation activities, visitor services and signage law could you buy a new chair lift with this money been. >> could you build a road law. >> the ski company could submit an application. >> if you're talking about increasing your infrastructure of your ski area, what is that mean? on i'm a little concerned that we are talking about federal money human to finish before you go to his there is no magic requirement or anything talkative used for, what is that mean visitor services? >> i think first and foremost a do launch an out of these dollars would be used for payment or if i restructure for a private company. >> but earlier use the word infrastructure about five days on -- five times

pass these important bills. and we continue to work to try to expand access to health care in rural areas with our clinics, to create medical schools in areas that are significantly underserved and while we continue to patiently ask the senate to act, i know the blue dogs will continue to advocate for policies that improve access to health care for all americans and especially for those rural americans who we represent. i yield back. mr. o'halleran: i thank the gentleman. i want to thank the gentleman for his leadership in this important area as the legislative chair. citizens of arizona are fortunate to have a good representative. have a happy thanksgiving. i thank all my colleagues for joining me to participate in this important show of support by the blue dog caucus for rural health care across america and access, today. a couple of quick examples. first of all, when you are traveling across the country from urban america through rural america, this medical issue is your issue because the hospitals that we ha

i've and -- analyzing state transportation bills for the past year. have a personal background in i've spent many years at google leading programs for developer communities. the last four years working on early stage change projects for google x. i left last summer because i want to make a more in immediate impact to community organizing and policy work. transportation is important and interesting to me because i am sure as everybody knows it is the largest source of of emissions in california a whopping 41%. it's also so integral to our daily lives, safety. i mean, working climate change for the last five years has been depressing and a lot of eggs. the thing to remember is that many of our best solutions make life better and healthy for everybody. that drives me. that is really important to me. i've had a variety of different daily commutes including taking muni every day, taking google bus every day, biking every day all while being a healthy able-bodied woman, a parent with a small child i was recently something with a chronic illness that preclud

. -- must-pass bill. very few african americans voted for president trump. he seems only to care for those who voted for him. senator alexander wants to fulfill it. he's operating in a straitjacket with this president. the future act is budget neutral. it's fully paid for. we use the same offset the administration has used. it's a bipartisan pay for, not a gimmick. i should add that this senate and president trump less than two years ago had no problem passing a trillion dollar tax cut for corporations and the wealthy that wasn't paid for. we have seen under republican leadership in the white house, we have seen what happened to budget debt. we know that corporations have had huge tax cuts, we know that 70% of the tax cut went to the wealthiest 1% yet this body can't take care of historically black colleges. they hold schools that serve students of color to a different standard. i'm hopeful that senator alexander whom i trust, and senator murray, whom i trust, can continue to negotiate a truly bipartisan,

you can put it in the bill. you cannot put it in the bill. ex-im will not finance a business that is prohibited under law. so now you're saying they are prohibited under law from getting financing. ok, that's good. that's good. again it's a nice cover for what was gutted out of the bill that chairwoman waters and i negotiated. which actually did tough things. in that legislation republicans sought to restrict ex-im assistance for entities involved in human rights abuses including, human trafficking and sex trafficking. it goes beyond this amendment. rather than support those provisions democrats decided to allow this amendment, which is simply a watereddown version of that provision that republicans supported in committee. it will do nothing. it will do nothing. it will do nothing in law. this is much more about political cover. i'll tell you how i will know. i'm not going to ask for a roll call vote on this but i would suspect my democrat colleagues will ask for a roll call vote on this bill so it gives them cover, political cover rather tha

i will discuss each bill in turn. as a 2418 would make changes to offshore oil and gas revenue-sharing in the gulf of mexico and alaska title one would amend the gulf of mexico energy security act which governs offshore revenue-sharing with four golf producing states, alabama, louisiana, mississippi and texas and with the state grants program of the land and water conservation fund. the bill would provide for a higher portion of the revenues to be shared with the state. it would do this first by expanding the set of leases eligible for revenue-sharing and though it currently applies only to leases entered the law's enactment in december 2006. this includes approximately 60% of active leases in the golf but many of these new releases are not producing and the bill would broaden the qualified leases to include those entered into since october 2000. second the bill would increase the percentage of qualified revenue shared with the state. currently states get 37.5% of the revenues while 12.5% are shared with the all w cf

. >> bill: good morning, everybody. a high profile witness called to testify but will john bolton be there as democrats take the probe public opening hearings starting next week. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. packed show for you, three hours straight ahead. >> sandra: made it to thursday. good morning. i'm sandra smith. former national security advisor john bolton scheduled to testify this hour. no one knows yet if he will show as we learn the whistleblower's attorney may have had a clear bias himself pushing for a coup and impeachment of the president in 2017. >> bill: both sides hammering out their strategy before next week's public hearings. >> the testimony we're hearing today is actually getting easier to defend the president from a standpoint there is no linkage. >> i think you'll see throughout the course of their testimony and many others most important facts are largely not contested. >> the facts have never changed. they will never change. those facts are consistent. those facts are clear. >> if this