let me recognize the gentleman from georgia dr. ferguson to inquire. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being with us today. you said several times that you are very supportive of the administration's budget but one of the areas i want to talk about briefly is h.r. three. i'm very concerned about the impact that will have on innovation, very concerned about the impact that's going to have on ringing cheers for alzheimer's, diabetes, other things like that to the american people but i'm also concerned about the loss of pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs. could you briefly tell me which pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs you're willing to eliminate and sent to china? >> congressman, thank you for the question. i think we are actually going to see the number of jobs in this country increased as a result of some of your proposals the president has. if you take a look at the pharmaceutical -- >> but mr. secretary, if you don't mind i'm talking specifically pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs. do you see with a lack of investment and innovation and impacts of h.r. three were going t

let me recognize the gentleman from georgia, doctor ferguson, to inquire. >> thank you, mister chair. mr. secretary for being with us today. you said several times that you are very supportive of the administration's budget, but one of the areas i want to talk about is hr three. i'm very concerned about the impact that we will have on innovation. i'm concerned about the impact it's going to have on yours for alzheimer's, diabetes, other things like that to the american people. i'm concerned with a loss of pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs. can you briefly tell me which pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs you are willing to illuminate and send it to china? >> congressman, thank you for the question. i think we are actually going to see the number of jobs -- as a result of some of the proposals the president has. >> mister secretary, if you don't mind, i'm talking about specifically pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs. with the lack of investment and innovation and the impacts of hr three, we are going to lose those jobs. which jobs are you willing to sacrifice to sound to china? >> congres

that i believe it would have passed if it would have had that 2013 decision we would not see sb 202 in georgia become law as it would have been stopped under its tracks under a preclearance provision. this is a right-wing takeover that is and has been anti-democratic. we know that the vast majority of recent presidential elections have resulted in the popular vote going to democratic presidential candidates and we know that democratic senators represent 40 million more people than republican senators, and yet we have seen this right-wing takeover of the supreme court and folks like myself, and many advocates across this country want to do something about that. we want to save democracy itself from a supreme court majority that is hostile to democracy itself and while i won't commit to a specific deadline by which legislation will be introduced, it is an ongoing conversation with myself and my colleagues. >> do you have -- have you've been able to find any republicans who are even vaguely interested in doing like this, even in just conversations or is this truly purely a democratic push effort

carter from georgia credit opus or carter couple extra minutes from a prior hearing when he was cut off. going to recognize you for summer seven minutes ago and take them all we can roll them over too another time. >> thank you, mr. chairman fred appreciate you remembering that not that i would forget it but none the less you remembering it. thank you for being here today and for answering these questions. in fact it's hard for me to it decide which ones to ask. i will start by asking you in your testimony said the budget makes investments we need right now. as her big time growth or pumping the federal government into the economy. the economy will only grow under 2% for most of the decade despite all that funding for all that spending i should say your projections show the gdp growing to nearly the same as the cbo's big-time projection. why won't these massive enhancing investments as you put them continue long-term economic growth? why are you predicting this is only going to be short-lived like this? >> conger's mccarty probably heard me speak to the ranking member about this. it was

carter from georgia. i owe mr. carter a couple of extra minutes from the prior hearing when he was cut off, so i'm gonna recognize you for seven minutes, and if you want to don't want to take them all we can roll them over to another time. mr. carter. >> thank you mister chairman, i appreciate remembering that not that i was gonna let you forget a bit nonetheless i appreciate it. thank you miss young for being here today and for answering these questions. i have quite a few questions, fact is hard for me to decide which one to ask. i will start by asking you, in your testimony you said the budget makes investments that we need right now. it predicts high growth is as the federal government is pumping trillions and trillions of dollars in the economy. but it seems the economy will only dry at under 2% a year for most of the decade. despite all that funding or, for all that spending are say, your projections show gdp growing to nearly the same as the cbo's baseline projections. why won't these massive road enhancing

treated equally under the law, you want people to be able o exercise the right to vote, my god, has georgia not clarified the status for people? i think it has based on the conversations i have been having and so i'm really committed to making sure that this is described accurately as something that is essential to having a democracy moving forward. given the hostility that people on the supreme court, a majority, including a majority that is more conservative than the one that decided shelby in 2013 actually cares about these sort of bedrock principles that, again, of us had just taken for granted. i hope it doesn't take something truly truly terrible in a decision coming down from the supreme court whether this term or next term to get people to wake up, but my prediction is that there will be legislation already introduced by the time that happens, so that we can continue to rally around them. bill has added a comment asking, we have had nine justices seemingly forever, would it be wiser to adjudgeships at the apalate, do you think there's a risk to try and walk and chew gum by pushing f

the next year he got a job and he moved to atlanta, georgia, and then he worked at the atlanta university. there he taught sociology and imperial studies -- empirical studies. again, he taught greek and latin, and his son -- did anybody ever watch the andy griffith show? and what is the other guy's name? goaler pyle. gwork -- gomer pyle. rooks like a young girl but that is the vick victorian style. the child gets sick. he takes him throughout atlanta. no white doctor will help him. it was common up until probably the late '60 in some places. so his son dies of a disease which he could have easily been cured of. from that duboise wrote one of his great books on the passing of his first born, and his book -- [inaudible] but while duboise is there studying this, the other tragedies occur, and one is the tragedy of lynching. he's walking somewhere, and he passes a place, and he -- there's a klan, and there he comes upon a jar and it hooks very much like pickles, but instead of pickles, what are they? they're the nubblings of a human being. -- knuckles of a human being. i actually have seen bo

obviously why we were so surprised with the election of the two democrats from georgia. a look at american history shows that partisan anxieties have been common when states have been considered for admission to the union since the original 13. 37 times these anxieties were overcome to enable us to become the united states of america. here is an example which i think proves the difficulty of deciding this issue based on political predictions. in 1959, alaska and hawaii were both seeking admission to our union. there was a lot of concern about how the citizens of those states would vote. they were essentially both admitted together because they were expected to balance each other politically. alaska was expected to vote emma craddick, hawaii -- vote democratic, and hawaii was expected to vote republican. that was the consensus in 1959. in my 24 years in the senate, the opposite is the case. hawaii elect democrats and alaska has elected republicans. so much for deciding great constitutional issues such as this because of passing political prognostications. it is not only w

>> georgia. he has a gun store. anyway. we filed suit, and the lawyer is kim cuccinelli, pennsylvania and -- actually was deputy director of homeland, so anyway smart, great lawyer, we filed suit to stop that from happening, but since then -- they say well, oh, you just don't want to go through the metal detector. we go through metal detectors all the time. can't get through an airport without -- but in this case, it is a way to beat down and make republicans subservient. make the members of congress subservient. in the meantime, there are witnesses that have watched -- in fact, on the same day i got fined, pelosi went around the metal detectors and into the house chamber. we also had video where she didn't get -- didn't go through proper security to get on the house floor. but, andrew clyde started a website called queenpelosi.com. it says fines for the, but not for me. [laughter] this is unconstitutional and we have been saying if you can get away with this and nobody but her challenge -- now, this week we are told anybod

>> georgia. he has a gun store. he is just great. anyway, we followed suit, and the lawyer and -- lawyer is ken cuccinelli, he was actually a deputy of director and oklahoma. anyway, can a smart, he is a great lawyer. we had a lawsuit to stop that from happening. since then, they say well, you don't want to go through a metal detector. we go through a metal detector all the time. you can't go through a port without it. in this case, it is a way to beat down and make republicans subservient. like the members of congress. in the meantime, there are witnesses -- in fact the sand i got fined, pelosi went around all the metal detectors and went inside the house chamber. we also have video where she did not go through proper security to get on the house floor. but, andrew clyde started the website called queen pelosi .com. it says fines for me but not for the. this is unconstitutional, and we were saying if you can get away with this and nobody will challenge her, then she will start other stuff. now, this week we are told that anybody tha

so i think that there are ways it can impact us and i share that after the shootings in georgia. i wasn't there, but i think i felt more vulnerable as an asian woman than i ever felt before. so there are those broader impacts. but you mentioned that perhaps the answer will not be found in law, but really in greater societal change, changing the culture.e.g and it raises the question for u me about the extent to which law reflects the culture we live in, should reflect the culture we live in, or affects the cultureu we live in. and so i guess i'm wondering your thoughts on whether there actually is a dichotomy between solutions in law and solutions in culture or whether the law il linked to seeking change in our culture.g >> yeah, well, i think it is all linked together in important ways. in the most narrow focus, i mean, i've listened and participated in lots of panels in the last few months on hate crimes, for example. but i think as most people who work within the law know, hate crimes are very precisely defined and difficult to prove. and there are probably good reasons for th

let me recognize the gentleman from georgia, dr. ferguson, to inquire. >> you've said several times you are supportive of the administration's budget. but one of the areas i want to talk about briefly is hr-3. i'm very concerned about the impact that will have on innovation. i'm concerned about the impact that will have on bringing cures for alzheimer's, diabetes, other things like that to the american people. i'm concerned about the loss of pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs. could you talk about the jobs you're willing to eliminate and send to china? >> congressman, thank you for the question. i think we're going to see the number of jobs in this country increase as a result of some of the proposals the president has. >> but, mr. secretary, if you don't mind, i'm talking about specifically pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs. do you see with the lack of investment and innovation and the impacts of hr-3 we're going to lose those jobs. which jobs are you willing to sacrifice and send to china? >> as i was saying, we're in the business

let me recognize the gentleman from georgia, dr. ferguson, to inquire. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, glad to have you with us today. a couple of quick questions. can you share a list with us today of the businesses that will be in scope under pillar one foundation and can you talk about whether or not you think more than half of the companies that will be listed there will be american companies and how many chinese companies do you anticipate being on the list? >> so, i mean, what's being discussed at the oecd are companies with sales, i believe the cutoff is 20 billion euro. more than $20 billion, and they would be u.s. companies, chinese companies, and other companies -- >> but i understand that, but surely i on a proposal this large you would have some idea of the number of american companies and chinese companies there. if you would simply commit to giving us those numbers so we can look at the data as well. these are major decisions and we need to be able to make informed decisions on that and so far we haven't seen what's behind the curtain there and i don't th

i'm grateful to secretary yellen, georgia department, and the irs for helping get us through the last rounds of stimulus checks, as they went out the door smoothly. and i know that we can count on the same level of precision in care as we expand the set of vital initiatives. one item i know that we will agree on today is to empower the irs to collect taxes were legally. odd years of evidence have show that there's no better bank for our legislative daughter than fully funding the irs for every one dollar spent on tax administration, we return almost five dollars to spend on infrastructure investments and social programs. that is why the president has proposed to increase the budget of the irs to ensure compliance that administer new programs like the advanced child tax credit and to improve customer service for all taxpayers. as my commented indicated, there are many important policy challenges facing this congress and this committee, and it is in collaboration with your agency that we hope to address them, madam secretary. i am grateful for your partnership as we work together to bui

with georgia on their minds, democrats on the senate rules committee held a rare field hearing where lawmakers passed new election laws which could affect voter turnout amongst black voters. the governor kemp and others have said it expands voting especially in rural areas by adding another day of early voting and drop boxes in most rural counties. here's james in bridgewater, new jersey, asking you this morning to grade the president on his first six months. go ahead, james. >> yeah. well, you know, when you elect a president, you're electing one man, but there's a whole administration that goes with the president, and my point is that, know, he can do just so much in controlling the administration. hundreds of thousands of are there no matter who is president so try to squish what the president is trying to do is and what the administration is achieving. fork, me, i think the cdc it's outrageous and fauci is outrageous because most of the things they are going with it diagnosis and many so on, the facts is there is it note -- making a virus that you inject in people so they make an

comment on twitter that says there is a two-year minimum wait for low-income housing apartments in georgia south of atlanta. these parents are in poor condition and in our higher crime areas. is that wait in particular popular across the country now? >> yeah. the wait is not unusual. there are waiting lists for subsidized affordable housing everywhere you go. and those wait lists can vary from several months to several years. in some cases they go beyond a decade. so we absolutely need to expand these programs to meet the need. it is also essential that we ensure that these properties are kept up and that they are safe and decent, not only affordable for the people who live within them. and a couple of the callers and commenters are right, that much of our affordable housing stock in our country is in poor condition. that is due to decades of declining resources to repair these units and keep them in these sanitary conditions. so public housing, for example, has been underfunded for decades and now has a $70 billion capitol needs backlog. in other words, it would cost $70 billion to repair

and let's take that georgia piece of legislation. it's saying there is going to be mandated weekend hours, expanded opportunities for mail -- there's going to be this expansion be this expansion. and just putting some gird rails on what you can and can't do, that's up to a state if they decide to want to do it. colorado wants to do all mail and have a system for that. i'm fine for colorado to decide what colorado wants to do. i just think it's a good idea to centralize this all in washington. but you're absolutely right, and i think these issues get confused. there has been troubled history and that's where it's right for the government to step in. where you're having that happen obviously nobody is being denied the right to vote, but what we want to make sure is that going back to the original premise that we had in the '60s, i am a man, one man, one vote. i think it's ensuring everyone has confidence in that system. >> back to comments on checks. and by the way you can send us texts. sheila says until and unless congress gets back

new mexico; lexington, north carolina; phoenix, arizona; and also happy to see our friends from the georgia commission on the holocaust. good morning to all of you. now, leo, when did your father encounter the japanese diplomat, sukihara? >> well, you must remember that my father never wanted to get back anyway because he held the communists in such, in such a horrible stand so that the idea of leaving the russian rule of vilna was one of the main forces for him. and, of course, everyone understood that the nazis were only months away from perhaps capturing the city. and rumor had it that the japanese consul-general in lithuania, what was then the capital of lithuania, would possibly give transit visas to the jews that wanted to leave russian rule and the fear of nazi occupation. and so he along with thousands of others that were in vilna, theirs cape route. theirs cape route. now, mind you, these are the very few that managed to get out of the horror that was to follow in the holocaust. and it was sukihara's bravery as a diplomat to deny the orders of his government because they didn't wan

louisiana mississippi were majority black states and ground zero for reconstruction was south carolina and georgia alabama and florida were almost majority black so there is a real concentration of black power as was said to be in the film in the six southern states. that was true even before the civil war. it was called me grow country because it was so full of black people. and because of the economy and the productivity of the whites and the expertise of africans they brought to south carolina. but also a sizable three black community the ame church formed in philadelphia by richard allen. and formally born in the year 1860 in charleston, and there is the emmanuel church and in 1822, a man was accused of plotting and insurrection in charleston. that he was free how did he get free? listen to this because this is one of the ironies of american history and the complexity of history. and enslave man in 1799 he plays the lottery i get the convenience store and $11500. he used 600 of those dollars to buy his own freedom from his so-called owners so then he was free then in 1822 is a very prominent m

georgia has passed a law that is kind of unbelievable in some of its provisions. how does a for the people act -- we know the john lewis act will help in one important way, with identifying those policies in states that engage in discriminatory conduct going forward, which is one of the issues. it would be forward-looking. they would have to come before the justice department to -- for approval. but the for the people act is actually firmly grounded in the constitution. there is a provision in the constitution that has never been doubted that says the congress can make and alter provisions governing federal elections. and that's one of the things that interests me so much about the bill. can you talk about some of the important protections in this and how it could simply create some national standards for voting instead this mess, including how we count the ballots after, with some states, including some blue states waiting and not even starting counting them until after the election is over, and then everyone is kept in suspense for weeks? anyoneway, go ahead. >>

out of georgia. moore, go ahead. >> caller: good morning, c-span. i'm a 73-year-old african-american. and this voter i.d., voter restriction, i did two tours in vietnam and i could not vote. i could not vote until 1974. so voting restrictions have been around forever and it is time for it to stop. america, we are citizens. we have the right to vote. america, we don't have to show you all our i.d. do your homework. it is our constitutional right. by having an i.d., that doesn't constitutional right. have a good day. >> out of new york. good morning. >> caller: good morning. obviously, protecting the integrity of the voting is supremely important. if we expand access but not the integrity, you're defeating the purpose. they're jumping up and down. this is the biggest turnout ever. they turned election day into election week or election month almost. the turnout every year is abysmal for a reason. no matter who gets voted in, they don't spent our money financially prudently. they don't do their jobs and both parties are responsible for the way things a

that's what you're seeing in georgia, north carolina, a lot of these other places. it is an influx of people from other parts of the country and the suburbs are growing and the small town rural areas, the most conservative, most republican right now, those areas are contracting. so that's why you're seeing real changes in voting behavior in some of these states, fast-growing states. and conversely, in some of the midwest industrial states, it is actually democrats are having to pedal harder and harder. they're having more challenges with working class white voters. so there is a push-pull in different parts of the country. i didn't get into the specifics but i'm trying to stay away from the subjective stuff. >> what's an example of one of those democratic states where they're pedaling harder? >> michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. look at everything going on in those states. they were competitive but the democrats were naturally better off than they are now. and we're just seeing, we're seeing college-educated whites, specifically college educated white women, that a

james is a republican out of georgia. good morning. >> caller: good morning. you know, i'm just a little bit concerned about the way -- we talk about the taxes, i just heard you say joe manchin want a bill that would eliminate the trump tax cut, but the trump tax cut helped the working people and when they talk about taxes, they talk about taxes the core operations when they ought to be taxing the ceos. every time you tax the core operation that's why everything goes up. everything don't go up. you tax the core operations that tax is going to be added on and you're going to pay for it somewhere else. and the people that's going to pay for it is the hard working folk that's going to work every day. >> james, you would be okay with increased taxes on high earners, but not increasing the corporate -- >> caller: i am. exactly. the corporate is going to hurt us, the same people that joe manchin and bernie sanders claim that they are helping. if you want to help us, leave the core operations low so they stop going up on all other prices and get to the ceos that's ma

district of columbia have some form of shield law on the books including the state i represent which is georgia and i'm going to direct these questions to either miss burton or miss over lander. feel free to jump in. do these state laws. in their approach to providing protection from compelled disclosure and also into theextent that they do very , as this day by day approach adequately protected our journalists that have been engaged in first amendment activities? >> they do very asked the we previously mentioned. some states have a qualified privilege for everything you have to go through some sort of balancing test before you can get it. some states have an absolute privilege. most don't have an absolute privilege but they might protect that absolutely. there are variations but they do all provide some level, most of them provide some level of protection. the federal circuit have different standards and again you can completely depend on what circuit you're in. as to what its standard you have to put soap on them, the fact that there are varying standards creates great uncertainty on the part

sourc. 40 states and the district of columbia have some sort of shield law including the state i'm from georgia. so i want to direct this to ms. burton, and mr. and so to the extent that they do vary, it has the state by state approach adequatelyen protected our journalists that have been engaged and first amendment activities. >> well, that i do vary, as reviously mention and some states have a qualified privilege for everything where you have to go through theha balancing test before you can get it, and most have an an salute privilege, and everything including butom for mental collusionn and most of them provide someas lerg and differe standards so that you can again 134r6 andva as to what standard they have proceed and each creates o uncertainty for the journalists and the people who want to from sprid the the point ofand to the security though,er and to t point of some type of league indulge. it wouldl, probably be under th federal, and come out of the federal court if not always and then be faced with the circuit that you are in, and again, the do vary. >> and ms. burton did you want resp

columbia have some form of shield law on the books, including the state that i represent, which is georgia. i'm going to direct these questions to either ms. burton or ms. oberlander. do these state laws vary in their approach to providing reporters protection from compelled disclosure? and also to the extent they do vary, has the state-by-state approach adequately protected our journalists that have been engaged in first amendment activities? >> well, they do vary, as we previously mentioned. some states have a qualified privilege for everything where you have to go through some sort of balancing test before you can get it. some states have an absolute privilege. most don't have an absolute privilege for everything but for confidential sources. they might protect that absolutely. and there are variations. but they do all provide some level, well, most of them provide some level of protection. the federal circuits as well have different standards. again, so you can completely depend on what circuit you're in as to what is the standard you have to prove. so all of them, the fact that there

in georgia, we have georgia grown. we have farmers market promotion programs. what can we do to influence the consumer buying habits, to encourage them to go to the farmers markets, and other ways that they can buy directly from the farmers so that the farmer can get more than 10 cents out of the dollar that the american consumer is spending, and i know farmers from your area that actually carry their product all the way to the atlanta farmers market because they don't feel like they have the volume of customers at the local farmers market, looking for your input there. i know you do a lot with organics but obviously that's a specialty market. you have to have the volume of customers as well. any input there would be appreciated. >> yes, sir, thank you, congressman scott. you know, i farm in sumpter county, a really large green bean producing county in our state, and one thing that we observed this past year is that these large green bean packing houses that you said are typically sending things up to atlanta to serve urban markets, they started opening their d

he wanted to go to georgia -- he wanted to go to troy state which was a white college, in his home county. and they would not accept him. some of the kids down there tried to use the library and could not use the public library. so he sent a letter to dr. king and said he wanted to talk with him about going to troy state. dr. king sent him a bus ticket from troy, alabama, round trip to montgomery. he called me and told me when he would arrive at the bus station. and if i would go down and bring him to a meeting where he and reverend abernathy was, we would talk about the possibility of helping him get into troy state. we talked about it. he told us what the situation was. we knew he was a minor. they were willing to do what it took to file a lawsuit. it would have to be filed by his parents and he would have to go back and get his parents' consent. if i agreed that i would end up filing the suit if his parents wanted to do so. he went back to troy and, unfortunately, his parents felt that the pressure that would be brought upon them was too great and that they just would not permit him to

good morning to you from chicago, santa fe, lexington, phoenix, and happy to see our friends from the georgia commission on the holocaust. when did your father encounter japanese diplomat chiune sugihara? leo: my father never wanted to get back to bialystok anyway because he held the communists in such horrible stand. so the idea of leaving the russian rule was one of the main forces for him. of course, everyone understood that the nazis were only months away from capturing the city. a rumor had it that the japanese counsel general in lithuania, in the been capital of lithuania, would possibly give transit visa to the jews that wanted to leave russian rule and the fear of nazi occupation. and so, he along with thousands of others -- these are the very few that manage to get out of the horror that was to follow in the holocaust. it was sugihara's bravery as a diplomat to deny the orders of his government because they did not want him to issue these transit visas. if anyone understands what a transit visa is, they have seen the movie casablanca and if they have not, i urge you to see it. the tr