Okay, so good afternoon. My name is reid smith and on behalf of the Charles Koch Institute id like to thank you for joining us today or what promises to be a substantive and timely discussion about the applicability or lack thereof of existing legal authorities to use of force against iran. Its great to see so many staffers here today. We are encouraged to see a full house. You guys that so much to do with the way that we approach the broader matter of congressional war powers, so its encouraging to see an interested room thats looking to get informed by some expert jurors up here with you today. For the sake of time and discussion im going to keep these introductions perfunctory in no small part because our panelists reputations undoubtedly precede them. To my far left, Stephen Vladeck is the professor in law at the university of texas school of law and austin, a graduate of Amherst College and yale law school, both degrees earned with distinction. His teaching and Research Focus on f
We would reduce to 22 . The current bill has it at 20 but 22 is just as competitive as 20 . Just like the current bill, it would be lower than the global average rate of 23 and just like the current bill would move us from last place to third place among the g7 countries. So it is just as progrowth. It makes us just as competitive, but it allows us to do the proworker reform that we decimately need. That we desperately need. It allows us to change the Child Tax Credit in the current bill to help working families even more. It would make it fully refundable up to the amount you pay in payroll tax. It would eliminate the marriage penalty, meaning that you would be paying more in taxes if you were a marriedum than you would if you are an individual. Number three, it would index it, the tax credit, to a chained c. P. I. , which means as inflation and the cost of living goes up, the credit doesnt lose its value. The one thing i want to emphasize is, who does this help . I have had some peop
Event has become such an important night. Wasnt always so . Was it always so . Betty president sent their message and writing. It was not a big event like this. Televisionbegan coverage and that made it a big in event and a national event. Since the 1940s it has been a major public event. Host it is mandated by the 2,stitution, in article section three. The president should from time to time. John adams delivered his in person. Oft tradition continued sending a written message. Radio came along and president Calvin Coolidge was the first to use it. The first president ial broadcast 47. In 19 was it a Television Audience that made that decision . Had on theevelt first evening broadcast by radio. It did not have quite the same impact. 1960 Lyndon Johnson understood the power of media. In 1960 five he decided to take the state of the Union Address which had always been given admitted day around high noon every day and he put it into primetime viewing and gave it to a primetime viewing aud
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Window. When i looked out the window, you saw Capitol Hill Police officers their guns drawn immediately sprinting towards where they heard the noises and the pops coming from. They then instructed the tourists who were in the field on the west front to get down, all those tourists were lying on their stomachs, and after a few mings of securing that immediate perimeter, they instructed the tourists to sprint and get out of the area and go to independence avenue. From my Vantage Point i saw men, women, children sprinting, a few dozen or so, printing to independence avenue. I saw Capitol Hill Police cars engage in some kind of chase. I saw them chasing something over towards constitution avenue, which is the senate side, and that is where apparently this standoff occurred and where this woman was shot and killed. What i can report is the sergeant of arms said the baby is believed to be fine. The Capitol Hill Police officer who was medevacked out of here from a Park Police Helicopter which