The meeting will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days to submit materials for the record. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the secretary of treasurys annual report on the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Now recognize myself for three and a half minutes to give an Opening Statement. Mr. Secretary, there is your first appearance before the house after the tax cuts and jobs act has been signed into law. I want to let you know on behalf of the majority how grateful we are to you and to the president for your leadership and for helping make this act signed into law. It is truly, truly historic. After eight years of failed economic policies that led to the slowest, weakest recovery in the modern era, the economy is starting to take off. And wages are finally growing again. Consumer optimism abounds. So, how ironic but totally predictable that equity markets wo
Store continues in jackson, mississippi. Our guest is Mississippi Attorney general jim hood. To it 30, more on efforts avoid a Government Shutdown this week, and volatility in the financial markets. We will talk to Carolyn Maloney. Host good morning. Its wednesday, february 7, 2018. The house is in a 9 00 a. M. This morning, the Senate Reconvenes at 11 30. The looming deadline is tomorrow at midnight, when funding runs out on the current spending plan and when another shutdown would begin unless a deal is reached. Lawmakers from both parties say they are close to coming up with a twoyear spending agreement, but yesterday, President Trump ofed an element uncertainty. We will talk about that this morning on the washington journal. As we do, we want to hear from you. Republicans can call in at 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, on twitter and on facebook. Morning to you. You can start calling in now. The president
Thanks to cspan for the interest theyve taken in this conversation today and for joining us here to capture the discussion. Im lynnnet, the director of Wallace House. Its the livingston awards for young journalists that brings us here today. Their livingston award is a prestigious prize referred to this thats pull letters for pulitzers prize for journalist under the age of 35. Our special guest visiting won the livingston award for National Reporting in 2017 for her story, unclaimed and it is that story that brings to us our talk today with the title beyond the wall the human toll of border crossingsment unclaimed tells the story of an anonymous, undocumented man, left in a vegetative state, after a tragic truck accident during a border crossing. Unknown and unclaimed, he languished in a hospital bed for now nearly two decades. The man came to be called 66 garage because there was no information on him no one knew his name. Perhaps that name was a reference to the truck route on which
Scalise was at the event to talk about his faith and how it played a role last year when he was shot while practicing for the annual republican baseball game. This is an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] mr. President , good to see you. I want to tell you a story about this wristband that i wear every day. On it are the words of the golden rule. Practice the golden rule every day. The golden rule is a statement made by jesus, recorded in the sermon on the mount and the gospel of matthew. It is translated in various ways but it goes Something Like this do unto others as you would have done unto you. After a local event, a physician in my hometown of st. Petersburg, florida came up to me and handed me one of these. I put it on and i wear it every day. I do so to remind myself that even in this noisy, conflicted , and acrimonious world of politics that we want to treat everybody the way we would like to be treated. I hope you will all ta
[inaudible] our guest today is eric holder. Thank you so much for coming [inaudible] [laughter] the son of an earlier era. That was one of the favorite judges. I will note that mr. Holder was 82nd attorney general. Serving six years under president obama. From 2009 until 2015. He continues to collaborate with the president obama today and his advocacy on redistricting. We are also joined by kelly ward, to the right of i yield executive director of the redistricting committee. Thank you for joining us. Ground rules. We are on the record. Please, no tweeting, no filing of any kind while this is underway. No embargo when we finish at 10 am. Email pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast is over. As you know, from a predecessor, dave kloke, if you like to ask a question, please send me a subtle nonthreatening signal. I will happily call on many of you as time permits. Do you say that, nonthreatening . It is the times. A big crowd today. Is that you limit yours