Catherine herridge and we start off with mike emanuel with a big reward for one of trumps most loyal supporters. Good evening. Reporter good evening. Jeff sessions has served in the senate for 20 years. If confirmed by his colleagues to be the next attorney general, there is no doubt sessions will enforce the nations immigration laws. Americans cant continue to bring in labor to do work and subsidize people not working by the millions. Reporter sessions was one of the toughest conservative critics of bipartisan immigration immigration reform, concerned it would lead to amnesty for millions of Illegal Immigrants in this country. That made him a natural as the first senator to back donald trump in the 2016 campaign after trump spoke about building a wall to protect our southern border. We will build a wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. Reporter sessions defended trumps call for extreme vetting for those seeking to come to the u. S. If you have two people and one that wants to believes i
Catherine herridge and we start off with mike emanuel with a big reward for one of trumps most loyal supporters. Good evening. Reporter good evening. Jeff sessions has served in the senate for 20 years. If confirmed by his colleagues to be the next attorney general, there is no doubt sessions will enforce the nations immigration laws. Americans cant continue to bring in labor to do work and subsidize people not working by the millions. Reporter sessions was one of the toughest conservative critics of bipartisan immigration immigration reform, concerned it would lead to amnesty for millions of Illegal Immigrants in this country. That made him a natural as the first senator to back donald trump in the 2016 campaign after trump spoke about building a wall to protect our southern border. We will build a wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. Reporter sessions defended trumps call for extreme vetting for those seeking to come to the u. S. If you have two people and one that wants to believes i
Catherine herridge and we start off with mike emanuel with a big reward for one of trumps most loyal supporters. Good evening. Reporter good evening. Jeff sessions has served in the senate for 20 years. If confirmed by his colleagues to be the next attorney general, there is no doubt sessions will enforce the nations immigration laws. Americans cant continue to bring in labor to do work and subsidize people not working by the millions. Reporter sessions was one of the toughest conservative critics of bipartisan immigration immigration reform, concerned it would lead to amnesty for millions of Illegal Immigrants in this country. That made him a natural as the first senator to back donald trump in the 2016 campaign after trump spoke about building a wall to protect our southern border. We will build a wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. Reporter sessions defended trumps call for extreme vetting for those seeking to come to the u. S. If you have two people and one that wants to believes i
The committee will come to order. Todays hearing is on president obamas budget for fiscal year 2017. I particularly want to thank secretary lew for providing for appearing before us this morning and providing his time for us. While there are some hints about some of the details in advance, Congress Officially received the president s Budget Proposal yesterday. And as has been the case particularly under this administration, what we received was not a practical vision for the future. Weve going to have to have order here. As has too often been the case, what we received was a not a practical vision for the future but designed to sewuency constituencies. He looks to raise taxes on hard working americans, including some special new regressive taxes that are being packaged as, quote, fees unquote. With all the revenue going to fuel expanded government and spending that is being sold to the public as, quote, investment, unquote. No matter what terms people want to use, this budget once agai
About the president s 2017 budget. He answered questions about puerto ricos debt crisis, tax code reform and a proposal for a new tax on oil. This is two hours, ten minutes. The committee will come to order. Todays hearing is on president obamas budget for fiscal year 2017. I particularly want to thank secretary lew for providing for appearing before us this morning and providing his time for us. While there are some hints about some of the details in advance, Congress Officially received the president s Budget Proposal yesterday. And as has been the case particularly under this administration, what we received was not a practical vision for the future. Weve going to have to have order here. As has too often been the case, what we received was a not a practical vision for the future but designed to sewuency constituencies. He looks to raise taxes on hard working americans, including some special new regressive taxes that are being packaged as, quote, fees unquote. With all the revenue