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Without objection, authorized to declare recess at any time pursuant to Committee Rule two and clause two chairman may postpone for the proceedings today an approving any matter or measure. Were adopting an amendment ordered. I want to thank everyone for coming. I know some people are here for the arbitration bill. Others for bills about preventing gun violence and still others about intellectual property. We are going to start with the arbitration bill, so maybe some time before we get to the gun violence prevention bills. That said, i want to recognize the gentleman from california whose bill we will be marking up today and i want to thank him for joining us. Mr. Chairman, could i just raise you mentioned the schedule for todays hearing. I had a question on the schedule moving forward. When will the committee get a chance to question mr. Horowitz on his report that was released two weeks ago . Im not sure which report youre refe ....
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2019 budget submission for the department of Veterans Affairs. 198. 6get request holds billion, in increase of 12 billion over last year. That is a huge number. Even more striking when you compare the growth in the Veterans Affairs budget with the overall federal spending in the economy. This graphic will illustrate this since 2006, the v. A. Budget point. Is up 175 . Overall federal spending increased by 54 and gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion appreciateources i the secretarys testimony. The Department Must stay focused on the core mission to ensure resources are properly utilized and veterans care prioritize. D. V. A. Will take action on many important items in some examples 2019. Include the impl ....
Department of women and status. If this ordinance just knishates the process and sets the equal pay Advisory Board who then over the next couple of months go through the process of getting all of this input, specifics on how we can treat nonprofits, how we can treat organizations with 20 to 50 employees or 20 to 100 employees, how we can treat larger organizations that may have a greater capacity to report, all of this will get worked out in the next several months. And the actual date by which we request these reports wont be until september 2015. So, i think being that this ordinance just sets out the process, i think that its important that we start it as early as possible so we can give maximum time to the process to make sure that we can maximize our input from our stakeholders and make sure that we have a really good process in place by september by which we can collect this really important reporting. Women deserve to be pa ....
This legislation, including an article in front page article in the San Francisco chronicle. This piece of legislation has been available to anyone who is interested in the issue. We have spoken, as i said earlier, to the San Francisco chamber of commerce and mr. Lazarus who spoke on behalf of the chamber of commerce indicated that he supports the aim of the legislation and that he feels better about it with the incorporation of the amendment that i just moved. We also set up a meeting with a number of contractors who during the hearing indicated some concern or desire to meet. We set up the meeting, but that meeting they did not attend the meeting, but we continue to extend our offer to meet with them whenever theyre willing and able. The Small Business commission heard this legislation and supports the aim of the legisla ....
Illicit Trading Network with these rare nation states, and last year signed an economic trade deal with russia. This will provide pyongyang with an economic boost to counter sanctions and counterbalance the chinese who have been putting some pressure on them. Theres a growing speculation about how big north koreas cyberarmy really is, and where it has received the training to orchestrate such an attack. Could either of you first describe the cybercapabilities and expertise and finally do you have a sense of how big that cyberarmy is . Thank you very much. I would refer to the general on the cyberissue. I think franklynoic is running out of friends because of their is it abus. China has a i think what we have seen in our conversation with china is china is working with us more effectively in trying to stifle north koreas dangerous activities. I think all of us need to do more, including china. There is been some contact, some seni ....