Cspan3. Dr. Kirk newman on his book hearing children. The a surgeons story on the front lines of pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are cutting things like medicaid and cutting the nih and doing all these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries and when you think about half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children, so whose going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare, why would we want to do that . We should double down and put more into our children. Watch the entire Program Saturday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Also on book tv on cspan2, david good hart on his book the road to some wrrks the pop lift revoelt and you see this in the contempt that people in my email chain after brexit. You had left wing professors why did we give these people the vote without some kind of iq test. For more go to book tv. Org. The Senate Finance Committee Held a hearing last week to consider Presid
Consider the nomination of mr. David cotter to serve as assistant secretary of treasury for tax policy. Mr. Cotter, welcome to the finance committee. We appreciate your willingness to appear before us today. We also appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity. And im sure that the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost on any member of this committee. Tax reform has been a major focus of our committee for some time now and we are grateful to have you here to discuss your thoughts on these matters. On a number of occasions, i stated my view that president ial leadership will be a key component to any successful tax reform effort. Just the last week i quoted president obama in a speech on the senate familiar back in 2012. He said things like, quote, our current Corporate Tax system is outdated, unfair and inefficient, unquote. The problem was that president obama never really got around to truly leading out on tax reform. I expect mo
So we begin with the 11th hour debate over the National Security agency controversial phone records collection and a part of the patriot act the house overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make changes in the extension of the law which expires on june 1st. We should not establish an alternate system that contains a glaring hole in its ability to function. Namely the complete absence of data requirement. Efforts to extend a program. Already declared. How can we abstain from an illegal act . Libby casey in washington. What is going to happen here for the holiday recess . We have two deck ladies, june 1st, the patriot act expires, but the memorial day recess startswhat time it now . At any moment. Theyre trying to get this through. What is most likely to happen at this point is the shortterm extension of the patriots patriots act. When this comes up again and rand paul much kentucky, who ran a talkathon to protest the patriot act wants it in writing and guarantee that hell be able to in
Office. And the battle for their ancestors. Members of chinas we are muslims to protect the cemetery. That said to be honored by the cup you were spiced Preston Joe Biden is trying to keep a dispute in east asia from getting worse. He held a meeting in tokyo with Prime Minister shinzo law back where he shared ideas on how to deal with chinas newly declared air defense identification zone. To know that we confirm that japan and the United States will not tolerate chinas attempt to unilaterally change the status quo. We also agreed that our countries will continue to work closely together to deal with the matter based on the strong Japan Us Alliance the United States has an interest and Lauren Lauren intentions this vital region as i believe all the countries in north east asian share that same in touch with us. This underscores the need for Crisis Management mechanisms and effective channels of communication between china and japan to reduce the risk of escalation. Ill be raising these
India Business News: Mumbai: In a big win for the revenue authorities, the Supreme Court of India (SC) has held that the provisions of the ‘Most Favoured Nation’ (MFN) cla.