Congress to Work Together to fix the countrys debt problem. This Committee Hearing is about two hours 15 minutes. [background noises] the hearing will come to order break todays hearing will examine the need for a fiscal or Debt Commission. Well hear from a panel of experts including current and former colleagues that have been through these battles and have lived to talk about them. In fact extra special to have my mentor and friend steve who i am now literally serving as chairman and the shadow of his beautiful portrait behind us. And so it is an honor to have you back here in your chamber. Sender rob portman, ambassador portman is from ohio. We are delighted that you are here. He was a member of the bipartisan bicameral Super Committee established by the budget control act of 2011. He also served as director of omb during the Bush Administration which is where i got to know him. He has given a lot of thought to these issues over the years. Ambassador, thank you for your time we welc
Discusses the spending proposal at a hearing in the Senate Budget committee. This hearing begins with Committee Chair mike enzi and Ranking Member bernie sanders. Good morning. I will call to order the Budget Committee hearing. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on the president s Budget Proposal for fiscal year 2019. The budget submission comes to us on the heels of a very busy first year for President Trump. Im proud of all of the hard work and leadership that went into passing the tax cuts jobs act and progrowth tax bringing investments back to america and boosting takehome pay for workers. In the new submission i mentioned in the Administration Proposal to build on this momentum into further strengthen the economy. One of my greatest concerns as the United States senators on the countrys National Debt that is now eclipsed 20 trillion. To secure the economy long term for future generations, we must tackle this problem while lowering taxes is proving to bolster the economy that
Its just that life has changed a lot. I dont think anybody likes war. We are theke aggressors and we are doing it when you see these people the heading our people or killing innocent people because they have a different belief in religion or something. Pretty tough. Cracks im told our time with you is running out. We havent even gotten to education. What are you most proud of . Proud. Passedble to get a bill early on my second term that said we were going to build a big landfill. I was able to get a bill passed to make that go away. I was able to work on wilderness legislation. We did good things on education. ,e had reauthorizations done things that had not been done for a long time. In the committee, a lot of democrats have thanked me for the job that i did. I think of henry hyde. I used to just love this. Wanting to change the world. I hope that i can just get out of town with a little dignity. It was chairman of the judiciary committee. I had the opportunity to go and see how wonde
I never release my full movie list. But lets talk to the specifics of what we now know. It was announced today and we can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. I think it says Something Interesting about north korea that they had the state announce an allout attack on a movie starring seth rogen and james franco. I like seth and james, but a notion that they are a threat gives you some sense of the kind of regime we are talking about. They caused a lot of damage, and we will respond. We will respond proportionally and in a place and time and manner that we choose. It is not something i will announce here today at a press conference. More broadly though, this should be caused to work with the International Community to start setting up some very clear rules of the road in terms of how the internet and cyber operates. Right now, it is the wild west. Part of the problem is you have weak states that can engage in these kinds of attacks. You have nonstate actors that can do enorm
However, Christopher Demuth has, during his years for working for two Republican White House is and as president s of the American Enterprise institute, is probably this towns leading expert on regulation and on regulatory reform. Not only why regulation happens, but also the ways in which it has encroached upon aspects of american culture, society, and government in ways that are not entirely desirable, and what to do about that. Im glad to ask him and see if this is the thought process involved. At a certain point, watching the steady growth of regulation in american government, i suspect that my colleague asked why is this happening . And part of the answer was what congress ought to be doing and is not, and that is going to be the starting point for us to understand what it is a restoring the Constitutional Congress is about and what might colleague has to say about that particular topic. Im going to sit down. Let me start by saying to those who were coming to the christmas party,