Executive director, vice, Vice President and general counsel of the der corp. A company that owns and manages retail properties. Each of the witnesses written statements will be entered in the record in its entirety and i would ask each of you summarize his or her testimony five minutes or less to help you stay within that time there is a light switch and from green to yellow indicates you have one minute to conclude and then five minutes have expired. Before i recognize the witnesses it is the tradition that you be sworn in. For those who cant stand do you solemnly swear the testimony youre about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record reflect the witnesses answered in the affirmative. I would now recognize the first witness and i would turn the microphone on if you pull it close to you. I live i i live in california. Im here to express my concerns with the disabilities act and how it is being used. I understand. Ive been d
Indulgence. It had nothing to do with discrimination. It had to do with a new policy. And it is true that i did rule and put a selfexecuting rule in that did answer the question desire of the committee to handle this issue, and i did it accordingly. I thank the gentleman. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, it appears that no one is going to be able to tell me what the schedule is for the week to come. I will tell you thats unfortunate. I hope there is a schedule for the week to come. Because theres a lot to be done. We havent done we havent finalized zika. We passed a bill here which we think was inadequate. We havent dealt with flint. We need to pass puerto rico restructuring. I think theyve made some progress on that. I congratulate the speaker. And the leader for facilitating that progress. We dont have a Voting Rights bill scheduled. We need to do that. There are a number of other serious pieces of legislation this house needs to consider. Were going to go out next week
Be gained on that, and they are ready they say they are ready to abide by the new rules about the environment, trade agreements, intellectual property, and as far as the u. S. Economy is concerned, the administration would say to your question, well, the only way to move forward and get better paying jobs and to pay down the debt is to grow the u. S. Economy and to do that through trade, and Bernie Sanders and some other people say no, either the trade agreements have to be renegotiated or negotiated in a more beneficial way for the u. S. Were we should perhaps protect parts of our economy to have some sectors that we simply protect the terrorists. Host let me conclude with this point, i we had a good pivot point with regards to the u. S. And vietnam . I we had a better point in five years or 10 years ago . Guest absolutely. Relations have improved pneumatically. It is not just economic driven. It is largely driven by this what china is of doing in the South China Sea and whether china
Breaks news out of the east bay. There was a one alarm house fire. An elderly person in the home did die, two others injured. One treated for minor burns and one for smoke inhalation. No word on what started the fire. President obama is in San Francisco this morning raising money for democrats. Today he will attend a round table at the home of a cofounder of a company, mark pinkus. At todays round table follows the president s big event last night at the w hotel. Katie was there and has more. Antiwar protesters greeted president obama in San Francisco. He didnt and the people or congress to start these wars. You dont want a woman and kids in shock for three weeks and nobody doing anything, just talking. The president s motorcade arrived at the w hotel a little before 7 00. Guests who paid between 500 and 32,000 were already inside being treated to a con sirte by r r b singer maxwell. Nicky shared this picture with us and took this video. He talked about how its great to get together, a
By the 00, 10 00, it clears. We have a few overall it is a sunnier and warmer day today with temperatures climbing through the 80s inland. Red flag warning goes into effect overnight tonight for the hills of the north and east bay. And then we are talking about rain all in just a couple of days. Matt. All right, thank you. We begin with breaking news in the east bay where right now crews are at the scene. A fatal house fire. The one alarm fire broke out this morning. An elderly person in the home did die, two others injured. One treated for minor burns and one for smoke inhalation. No word on what started the fire. President obama is in San Francisco this morning raising money for democrats. Today he will attend a round table at the home of a Pacific Heights home of cofounder of a local company, mark pinkus. At todays round table follows the president s big event last night at the w hotel. Katie was there and has more. [chanting. ] antiwar protesters greeted president obama in San Fran