Listen on the go with this free cspan radio app. Host Grover Norquist serves as the president of americans for tax reform. We hear a lot of debate about the impact of the 2017 tax cuts. What would you say about that . Guest several things. What it did to economic growth, gdp, and it has gotten stronger. Wage growth is up. The last 15 months, about 3 . And that is particularly in the Median Income people, middle income folks Getting Better wages. We are also seeing 7 million job openings with less than 7 Million People looking. More people are leaving their jobs, which is a good sign. I means they know there are other jobs. You want people to leave jobs they are not happy with that are not going somewhere, and they are finding jobs. And the total workforce, the number of people looking for work, under obama, that actually declined. One of the reasons unemployment went down is people were so discouraged they quit looking, they retired early they did not , go to work, they stayed in schoo
In the Natural Resources committee, he will be so long shortly. Mr. Scott will stay on in for him. We will pick up with him later. I will read a stigma. A. Before we get started, unanimous consent that a member of the committee, be allowed to join us, mr. Brown who is behind me, and to participate in the questions and there is a formal ask unanimous consent that we allow him to participate in todays hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection. There being none. The nuns of kim subcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questions. And more okay with that, kemeny will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order and assent many in the Armed Services Committee Presents february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting oversight of the privatized military housing program. We first heard about this systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program
Join us, mr. Brown who is behind me, and to participate in the questions and there is a formal ask unanimous consent that we allow him to participate in todays hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection. There being none. The nuns of kim subcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questions. And more okay with that, kemeny will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order and assent many in the Armed Services Committee Presents february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting oversight of the privatized military housing program. We first heard about this systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program from a panel of courageous military spouses who provided graphic and disturbing testimony about lead and mold exposure and rodent infestations, rude and dismissive House Management in an effective oversight of the program by the services. And
More people are leaving their jobs, which is a good sign. You want people to leave jobs they are not happy with that are not going somewhere, and they are finding jobs. And the total workforce, the number of people looking for work, under obama, that actually declined. One of the reasons unemployment went down is people were so discouraged they quit looking, they did not go to work, they stayed in school, they stayed home. They were not working. That was declining during recovery. It was just the weakest recovery in modern history. We never had a recovery like that. But worse, people were leaving the workforce. During recovery. Growth, he blocked entering the workforce. Every once in a while, you see lots of people get jobs, but the unemployment number doesnt move because as many people start looking for work and that is a good sign. People wanting to work and finding work, more people being able to choose their jobs. Voluntary. Not getting fired. Voluntary departures are up. Wages are
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