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Stoneman douglas school. Its hosted by donald payne jr. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on engaging the communitys perspective on School Security. Good morning, and thank you everyone who is here today. The subcommittee is meeting to discuss Community Perspectives on School Safety and how the federal government can better support local stakeholders in making our children safer. I want to thank the witnesses for participating in todays hearing. First, we have ms. Lauren hog...

Been popping up today. Firefighters knockdown flames of a new fire near lake sonoma. This fire started around 7 30 am west of geyserville. We have video from skyfox. You can see the fire burned a small area of brush. There were no major damages. And daly city, crews put out of the grass fire an hour ago. That was reported around 10 45 am near hamilton avenue interstate 280. No one was hurt and no word on how either fire started. Firefighters are optimistic about the progress overnight against th...

Were waiting for the conversation on the role of congress and National Security and Foreign Affairs to get under way shortly. The u. S. House is in recess right now. The chamber will gavel in at about 6 20 p. M. Eastern when andy biggs is expected to bring up his resolution to condemn and censor chair adam schiff over the current impeachment inquiry. A vote related to that resolution is expected shortly after that. You can watch that live coverage on cspan and at cspan. Org. Okay, thank you. Tha...

Eastern on cspan. You can also watch any time online at cspan. Org or listen n the free cspan radio app. The u. S. House resumed legislative work today after a twoweek break. Theyre gaveling in momentarily for a couple of votes. They dealt with several bills including chinas relationship with hong kong and protests in hong kong and also with veterans benefits. Theyre getting set for vote this is evening. Thals week i we may see a bill mposing sanctions on turkey. Coming up shortly here, house vo...

Six. The house set the ground rules last week on the partyline vote. Now we have another week packed with scheduled depositions. Several witnesses we think will not show up and the most important thing that will happen this week is that mister schiffs Committee Says it will release the transcripts of the depositions taken so far. Those are the headlines teeseven weather representatives spears or adam schiff talking about the process and where it is heade headed, they say we will have open hearin...

Here and when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member jafar here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum support for this, for the Iraq Initiative, Global Energy center. Ive been stealing ideas from a long period of time, he happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors as an analyst in the region and also a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by the councils Iraq Initiative and Global Energy center....

The hearing will come to order. This hearing is entitled congress and the frank bringing congressional mailing standards into the 21st century. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Happy halloween everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero, congressman, to be able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankenstein, have houses ghoulish mailing standards have haunted members for deca...

Two republicans and one democrat. She was plucked out of getting ready to leave after president bush the second, she was ready to go and work on injuring violent extremism until tillery clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what you are doing. She said im doingy a lot. And Hillary Clinton decided she was just the right person to create a brandnew jobor for. And the job was special representative to communities around the world. That little job. [laughter] she is banned in ...

Of Affordable Housing, a review of the Trump Administrations plan to change Housing Finance in america. Before i recognize myself members, today is [inaudible]s birthday come back if anyone wishes to sing happy birthday please save it until later. [laughter] we all thank you for that. Happy birthday. We now recognize myself performing its given soft Opening Statement. Good morning. Today we are here to discuss the impact of the Trump Administrations house and finance reform plan. We are joined b...

The law allows programs like this to exist and they were common. World war i, world war ii, vietnam war, korean war, this was Standard Practice of the government and only reversed by the department of defense in internal memos that undermine the intent express of congress with a statute passed by congress more than 100 years ago. You have lawlessness by the deferment of defense that are undermining a statute with internal executive memos. [inaudible] did you mention that . The 1996 act take away...