Good evening. If you could all take your seats, and we will get started. All right. My name is mark strand, im the president of the Congressional Institute. Welcome to the 2018 congress of tomorrow retreat. [applause] a couple of quick announcements. Afterwards is going to be an afterhours sponsored by your leadership. It will be in the same place where the reception was. Tomorrow morning at 7 00, there is bible study. At 7 30, there is a catholic mass. Make sure you are prompt, because breakfast will start promptly at 8 00. Secretary mattis and secretary tillerson will be there. There will be nothing surged after 8 30 so we can get on with the program with the secretaries. Please be prompt. Yes . [inaudible] you are saying mass, it is listed in the app. I will find out where you are saying mass, sir. [laughter] one thing i want to say, on a serious note, we saw something today that was a tragedy. I wanted to point out as we reflect on the difficult things that happen, the tremendous r
Gave his annual state of the state address earlier this week at the state house in annapolis. He spoke about the Opioid Epidemic, a rail project outside washington, d. C. , and the prospect and the federal tax bill signed by President Trump meaning higher taxes from maryland residents. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and my fellow marylanders. Three years ago when i first had the honor of standing before this assembly to report on the state of our state, maryland was at a critical turning point. Our state economy was floundering and lagging behind the rest of the nation. Maryland was losing businesses, jobs and taxpayers at an alarming rate. Too many of our families and Small Businesses were struggling just to make ends meet. The people of maryland had become frustrated with politics as usual. Our state was at a crossroads and we faced a pivotal choice and continuing in the same direction and putting maryland on a new and better path a
We primarily measure our increasing growth not by how many people walked through the doors, but by the capacity and openness of our hearts. Our hearts has four chambers. Four core practices that obligate us. We are loving kindness in which we take care of each other at every stage in life. We are justice in which were obligated to redefine the very we of who is in this world. These walls may protect us but mostly theyre meant to come down so there can be all of us. We are prayer. We pray like our life depends on it and we work first fiercely is as if our prayers do not matter. Lastly, we are sacred text. We never stop plumbing their depths of it wisdom that continues to and the middle. Rabbi holtzblatt you dont have to be a member to join us. Just come. Join us for meditation and prayer, come and have a conversation and coffee. We actually have good coffee. So you came here tonight for Justice Ginsburg, a hero, an absolute hero. [applause] i we couldtt not think of someone to be with u
Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity oversight hearing on veteran homelessness. I want to apologize first for being a little late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee. And my breathe brad winstrup, chair of the Health Subcommittee will not be able to make it and so im going to preside. We have the vha subcommittee chair Julie Brownley and her capable leadership. Thanks for being here. Then my friend from texas and Ranking Member of the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity, orourke is joining me as well. Our chairman is joining us. Thank you, dr. Rowe, for coming, i want to begin by also asking for unanimous consent for congressman mike kauffman, congressman scott peters and i guess thats it to set in on the dais and participate in todays hearing. I dont hear any objection. So ordered. Im going to cut through my remarks here and break from my customary reading a script and just say that this is a subject that is heartbreaking. And when you look at the
Narrator among the nations unsolved problems of 1967 was the everincreasing flow of american dollars abroad. The balance of payments deficit could easily reach 4 billion. The president , during the final days of december, called a meeting of the men most familiar with the complex problem. Men to whom he could look closest and hardest for solutions. Leading the contention was the chairman of the Federal Reserve board, followed by secretary of the treasury fowler, secretary of state, dean rusk, secretary trowbridge, the budget director charles schultz, chairman of the house ways and means committee, wilbur mills, majority whip, and finally, senator long of louisiana, a member of many committees central to the control of the ations fiscal policy. To an outsider, they look no more than relaxed executives taking a lunch break in the company cafeteria, but taking their lunch break. In actuality, they were helping the president put the final stamp on a program of action that would bring the e