Friday. Follow the senate life here on sleep into when members return wednesday at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Earlier today the House Rules Committee met to outline the debate on the spending measures to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year which ends on september 30th, 2017. This is an hour and five minutes [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. Today the committee will consider hr 24 fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill. I want to welcome both of our very special guest from the Appropriations Committee. Committee chairman and Ranking Member cup. We met last week and asked that you please do your very best and it looks like both of you have completed your work. Were delighted that you are here this bill includes, well, i think, i dont know whether that was a yes or no, we didnt ask for a vote yet judge. This bill includes full appropriations legislation from funding for the remaining 11 annual appropriation bill through the end
Marine le pen of the national front. At 2 55 p. M. Eastern. This afternoon, the House Rules Committee met to set the parameters for debate for the fivemonth spending measure to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Current funding expires friday. We will hear from the chair and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations committee, to discuss the budgetary process, and some of the provisions in the legislation, and other house members who offered amendments. This is about 90 minutes. Come to order and good afternoon, and thank you for joining us this afternoon. Today, the committee will consider hr244 fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill. And i want to welcome both of our very special guests from the Appropriations Committee, the Committee Chairman and the Ranking Member. We met last week and asked that you please do your very best. And it looks like both of you have completed your work, and were delighted that you are here. Rep. Sessions this bill includes well, i t
Suits against and that happened time and time again. I asked the office how much has been spent and they wouldnt give me the figure. Anytime the any time the legislator asks for the figures on the Appropriations Committee thats wrong. We should receive those numbers so we can do a better job. But the point of the budget this year. We were given a 7. 2 billion budget bill at 10 a. M. In the morning on the last friday of the session and the first vote was that 12 32 and a half years later when the legislators dont have the proper time to review the budget we certainly cannot see the best type of budget for oklahoma. We must be responsible with those taxpayers dollar and make sure that the legislation that passes is constitutional and it goes back to the thorough review from one year and thats why we will see better legislation and opportunities. The money that is currently being wasted should quebec into the classrooms to teachers for a pay raise, to protect benefits and certainly to hel
A lot to talk about. Policy front as well. The president unveiling a 4 trillion budget that he says is all about middle class economics. Republicans say this is just asking for more taxes and it doesnt balance the budget. It does include a proposal to bring offshore profits back to america. Its very similar to a bipartisan proposal introduced by republican senator rand paul. He will join us to speak about the president s budget and well try to figure out if hes getting in the 2016 race. You dont want to miss that. Plus could activist investors take aim at twitter and at the ceo. Darren swisher wrote a piece thats been getting a lot of buzz and our jim cramer has said, quote, a, b, c, anybody but costello. Well see how hots hot seat is for dick. Its a new month, were kicking things off in slightly negative territory. The dow has been up and down. Its hovering around the flat line. The nasdaq is the underperformer, off ten. Earlier it felt like flashback to december where we sat and sat
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