2025 budget request before the house Budget Committee. She highlights with the administration sees as physical fiscaland legislative successes. The president s priorities for the latest proposal which totaled 7. 3 trillion. This runs a three hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order but welcome to the committee on the Budget Hearing regarding the president s fiscal year 2025 budget request. I welcome director Shalonda Young director of Office Management and budget. Thank you for being here. I have enjoyed working with you. You are one of the most likable people on capitol hill and in my experience in politics and kudos to you. As ive said before i like you a lot i do not like the president s budget im going to outline that with respect. But probably some sharp criticism. But i appreciate your service to our country as a former staff person here on capitol hill and now in this very important job as the director of omb. Welcome back to capitol hill and thank you for your time
2025 budget request before the house Budget Committee. She highlights with the administration sees as physical fiscaland legislative successes. The president s priorities for the latest proposal which totaled 7. 3 trillion. This runs a three hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order but welcome to the committee on the Budget Hearing regarding the president s fiscal year 2025 budget request. I welcome director Shalonda Young director of Office Management and budget. Thank you for being here. I have enjoyed working with you. You are one of the most likable people on capitol hill and in my experience in politics and kudos to you. As ive said before i like you a lot i do not like the president s budget im going to outline that with respect. But probably some sharp criticism. But i appreciate your service to our country as a former staff person here on capitol hill and now in this very important job as the director of omb. Welcome back to capitol hill and thank you for your time
Unreached republicans are reaching heretofore, unreached heights of hypocrisy and the senate is descending to a new low of chicanery. Read the bill . Theyre still writing it by hand mere hours before voting on it. Is this really how republicans are going to rewrite the tax code . Scrawled like something on the back of a napkin behind closed doors with the help of k street lobbyists . If thats not a recipe for swindling the middle class and loosening loopholes for the wealthy, i dont know what is. I dont know if its possible for a Senate Majority leader to depart further from responsible legislating than the process we witnessed with this tax bill. Tonight, mr. President , i feel mostly regret at what could have been. What a grave shame it is that we werent able to Work Together on this bill. Tax reform is an issue that is ripe for bipartisan compromise. Democrats have spent many long hours with our republican colleagues talking about our tax reform ideas. There is a sincere desire on t
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Seeing none, if not, the yeas are 48, the noes are 52. The motion is not agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the gentleman is recognized. A senator id ask unanimous consent that the following be called up and reported by number cruz 1852, kaine 1846. Mr. Cornyn further, that following disposition of the kaine amendment, senator manchin be recognized to offer a motion to commit and that there be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on the motion. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The clerk will report the amendment. The clerk mr. Cornyn for others proposes amendments number 1852 and 1846 to amendment number 1618. The presiding officer who yields time . Mr. Cruz mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from texas is recognized. Mr. Cruz mr. President , tonight i ask your support for this commonsense amendment whi
Im pete davis, Senior Vice President and past president of the club. The National Economist club was started in 196 by herb stein, the chair of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since presenting leading economists talking about issues of the day. Today were very pleased to mark gold wine of the committee for responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. Before i introduce mark, let me tell you about some upcoming programs. We have dr. Alice rivlin on february 1st at a luncheon right here at the chinatown garden talking about fed policy and maybe a little bit about the budget. Shes a former vice chair of the fed and, of course, the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office. We also have commitments to speak in february although the dates havent been set by the current chair of the council of economic advisers kevin hasset and also the Congressional Budget Office director. Mark gold wine is one