D. H. S. Accountability enforcement act. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 4038, a bill to amend the Homeland Security act of 2002 to reassert article i authorities over the department of Homeland Security, and for ther purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. Mccaul, and the gentleman from texas, mr. Vela, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. Mr. Mccaul mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and including r remarks, any extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Mccaul mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore time yielded. Mr. Mccaul thank you. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in strong support of bipartisan d. H. S. Accountability enhancement act. Mr. Speaker, the current threats confronting our homeland co
Federal investigation now setting sights on a powerful democratic lobbiest. Who he is and why. What happened to those four american soldiers killed in an ambush in niger. Were expecting a News Conference from chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general Joseph Dunford from the pentagon. Any moment well take you there live. Look at markets. Nicole on floor of new york stock exchange. Well it is almost like we need a little bit of a breather, right, nicole . What are traders saying. They think it is quite okay we have a little bit of a breather. They are impressed we tested thresholds and moved higher. Scott ressler on us last hour said exactly that we pull back hold levels on bottom, only moving higher to the up side. You saw every sector to the downside, energy, materials, telecom, utilities, those dividendpaying stocks those did okay. Were trying to hold on to the green. Everything finished to the downside. The dow down 53 points after the 70th record close on friday under, since el
Department of defense has not been forth coming and it would be helpful for me to collar file for you and what we hope to find out in the ongoing investigation. Secretary mattis is in asia. Our soldiers are operating in niger to build the capacity of local forces to defeat violent extremism. As we have seen many times groups like isis and al qaeda pose a threat to the American People and their allies, they are a global threat to fighters and resources and seek to operate where they can exploit weaknesses in local government. If you think of those enablers as connective tissues, or strategy is to cut that tissue and deal with the challenges within the countries and region. We can be proud of our progress today, our work is not done even with the fall of mosul and raqqa and tonight im going to welcome representatives from 75 Different Countries to improve the effectiveness of our network to defeat terrorism. Well focus on improving information sharing between to detect between nations to
It runs 45 minutes. Today is the anniversary of the 1983 beirut bombing. After speaking to secretary mattis this morning, i decided to address you because theres been a lot of speculation about the operation in niger. Theres a perception that the department of defense has not been forthcoming. I thought it would be helpful for me to personally clarify to and whatwe know today, we hope to find out in the ongoing investigation. Retary mattis will be here would be here, but as many of you know, he is in asia. Up locals are building forces to defeat extremism in west africa. Times,ave seen many groups like isis and al qaeda pose a threat to the United States, the American People, and our allies. They are a global threat able by the flow of foreign fighters, resources, and their narrative. They seek to operate were they can exploit weaknesses in local government and Security Forces. If you think of those enablers as connective tissue between ups across the globe, is our strategy is to cut t
Was there and many people were in support and critical of the project opposed as to what of the implemented on Mission Street and. To know of feedback a small portion of what we heard the rest is summarized on the website we wanted to make sure that there are others opportunities for people to give input we did a round of merchant walks and engage how people were preserving the project for the Merchants Walk in april immediately after the implementation down the road to many merchants as we could over 4 hundred and 50 in the corridor we heard florida from a vast majority 22 percent their businesses are down and sales were dropping you know the project was not intend to harm merchants or decrease sales but very important to hear that feedback and also to get from merchants ideas that will help improve their conditions at the bottom of the page specific feedback in terms of what people thought will improve the drop in sales the most pronounced was adding nor parking to the corridor that