Waiting for Democrat Members of the Senate Budget comttee to arre here for this oversight hearing for the Congressional Budget Office. It appears they are arriving now. We should get underway in a moment. Hopefully this will be a really critical hearing and i think it has the potential to give us a lot of really good information. Good morning, welcome to the oversight hearing at the Congressional Budget Office. Im proud to say this is the third such installment of this committees continued oversight of cbo under my chairmanship. Im glad the House Budget Committee will hold additional meetings. The active 74 provides the Budget Committee to review continuing basis by the Congressional Budget Office of the functions and duties. The present of the committee with the opportunity to review as a performance and serve forum to discuss the way in which cbo could be more effective and intending to the needs of congress. They should also work in clarifying the office while improving its operatio
Act and we look forward to your testimony. For the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape, makes it more difficult for providers to deliver high quality care to their patients we advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare to the American People. Continue the drive to strengthen quality and care coordination. In our committee played a firsthand role developing comprehensive legislation repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act passed by the house last may we delivered marketoriented solutions that would truly increase flexibility, reduce costs, and return control of health care to the American People where it belongs. All this bill stalled in the senate, congress continued to deliver relief from obamacare, including repealing the harmful effects of the individual mandate in independ
Hopefully this will be a really critical hearing. And i think it has the potential to bless a lot of really good information. Good morning. Welcome to the Senate Budget Committee Oversight hearing of the Congressional Budget Office. Im proud to say a 30 year drought, the third such installment of this committee is continued oversight of cbo under my chairmanship. Im glad to see the house Budget Committee will follow our lead with additional oversight hearings later this month. Section 102 a of the congressional budget act of 1974 provides a Budget Committee with authority to review continuing basis of conduct by the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties. The oversight hearings resent the committee with an opportunity to review the ceos performance and serve as a forum for discussing ways in which cbo can be more effective and attentive to the needs of congress. Congressional oversight of an office like cbo could also like to clarify the Offices Mission while improving
About the u. S. Economic outlook iand the federal debt at an oversight hearing. Keith hall was asked about health care costs, immigration policy and government funding. He testified before the Senate Budget committee. I think this has the potential to get a lot of good information. Good morning and welcome to the Congressional Budget Office im proud to say this is the third such installment of the continued oversight under my chairmanship and im glad to see the House Budget Committee will follow the lead with additional oversight later this month. We have a congressional budget act that provides the committee with the authority to review the continuing basis by the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties. Present the opportunity to review the performance and served as the forum for discussing ways in which it can be more effective and attentive to the needs of congress. While improving its operations, the first director of the cbo instructed staff in the 1976 memo and s
Wrong when one family, the owners of walmart own as much wealth as the bottom 40 of the american people. There is something profoundly wrong when millions of workers are working longer hours for lower wages when we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world and almost all new wealth and income goes into the hands of the few. Enough is enough. That has got to end. And together, we will end it. This campaign is sending a profound message to the billionaire class. You cant have it all. You cant get huge tax breaks when children in america go hungry. You cannot continue to send our jobs to china when millions of americans are looking for work. You cannot hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and in other tax havens. When there are massive, unmet needs in this country. The greed of the billionaire class has got to end, and we are going to end it for them. But it is not just income and wealth inequality. It is the fact that we have millions of people work