With rising wages, right here in the United States. For my first day in office until my last, as you surely in places that for too long have been left out and left behind, from my desk from the inner cities to the small towns, from Indian Country to coal country. Bym communities ravaged addiction, two regions hollowed regions to hollowed out by i believe our economy is not working the way that it should because our democracy is not working the way that it should. That is why we need to a point so pray in Court Justices who will get money out of politics and expand voting rights, not restrict them. Necessary, we will pass a constitutional amendment to. Erturn Citizens United american corporations that have gotten so much from our country, should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are. Too many of them are not. It is wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. Street canve wall never, ever be allowed to wreck main street again. And, i believe
It helped recognize at least the courage and strength of survivors. In this room echoing perhaps unseen and invisible our voices and faces of people who could not be here. And their losses are very much with us now. You give them the advocacy that they deserve and need. And i think everyone of you for being here. Thank you. Thank you, senator blumenthal. Chairman grassley. Thanks is without a long time for opening remarks i will put my statement in the record but i should thank all the witnesses for participating, and one seconds from my speech will kind of some of where i was going to end up with. The bottom line, we need to fulfill our commitment to make sure that the artwork is returned to its rightful owners. In addition, when the authors of this legislation feel it is ready to be put on the agenda i will put on the agenda. Thank you, mr. Chairman. We very much appreciate that and appreciate your leadership. At this point i want to welcome and introduce each of our five witnesses t
This is the third point of significance of collaboration in order to get this done. And its not even the subject of this hearing. And im wondering if you could just spend less than a minute talking about where you are and where you think that we are headed. I will be brief. Thank you for the kind words. Theres essentially two problems. And one is that we need relief from liability with the clean water act and we are making progress and then second of all we need more funding to clean that up. Thank you. I am from colorado. I am on the western end of the planes. The smoke is building and we know that we have a problem. All right, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing. It is good to hear from stakeholders on this issue and its a really important issue which deals with budgetary impacts on threats to the National Resources on federal and state and private land. So i am pleased to have these wildlife communities who recognize the need for change in our current policies. And i th
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Before and against the proposal. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. I appreciate folks joining us today. This is our first subCommittee Hearing of the 114th congress in the rules committee. Id like to thank my good friend, the gentleman from florida, hastings, for his support of this hearing. I would like to thank on his staff our subcommittee staff Ranking Member staff director, molly larson and mr. Cody for his help on the rules committee and janet rossy. This hearing before the subcommittee will examine 16 hr1610, the enhanced oversight act of 2015 introduced from my good friend from wisconsin, mr. Ribble. Biennial budgeting has been a topic of reform almost since the establishment of the congressional budget act in 1974. An act that i will make note was in the original jurisdiction of this rules committee that created the Budget Committee in 1974 and granted that authority. The question before us today is can moving from an annual to b