The ebola and zyka virus. Stressing the need to prevent the viruses from becoming a problem. Secretary burwell also presented the president s hhs 2017 budget request, calling for 82. 8 billion in discretionary spending. This is just over 2 hours. It is my distinct privilege to introduce secretary burwell. It would appear that senator widen, grassley, grapo, the indomitable senator schumer are not here, they have conflicts. None intended, and im going to ask unanimous consent that the statements by the distinguished senator from oregon, Ranking Member mr. Wyden and our distinguished chairman mr. Hatch be inserted into the record at this point, without objection. Our witness today isle th and huchlage Services Second burwell. Shes been leading the department of health and Human Services since june of 2014. She has a long history of Public Sector service including her previous position under president obama. In the clinton administration, she served as the Deputy Director of omb, the chie
At the metropolitan museum journal. She has her phd in art history at theu and volunteers mansion in new york and we will find out about that connection and the book the remarkable rise of eliza jumel a story of marriage and money in the early republic. Will be on sale afterwards. It is my pleasure to introduce margaret oppenheimer. Margaret thank you very much. On wednesday, july third, 1833, a distinguished new yorker and a former mayor of new yorker wrote a note in his diary. The celebrated colonel byrd was married on monday evening. The choice of at because was interesting. Not distinguish but celebrated. Celebrity have the same connotation it has today. Someone who was known to the public but not always with a mixed approval. Today, on going to talk about how alive the and aaron became public figures, why they married, and what happened after these celebrities joined hands. Ladies first. Here, we see allies are eliza on your right. She is painted here about a year before her marri
Triumph of ego over common sense. Talks about his role as a rockefeller republican and how the Republican Party moved from moderate to conservative. St. John fisher in rochester, nw york hosted this event in 2008. Richard i want to tell you about my book. I would explain the title, no room for democracy the triumph of ego over common sense. I would tell you about the style of the book. There is no room for democracy in a political party, political leadership. If cant get anything done you dont have a dictator running the political party. Its all right to listen to what other people have to say, but there are a lot of things decisions a leader has to make if you going to get anything done. I saw an article the other day in the New York Times in which democratic congressman said we need discipline in the party. I got a kick out of that because thats what i have been saying for a long time. There are examples in the book about decisions that had to be no roomt come down to for democracy.
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
Stressing the need to prevent the viruses from becoming a problem. Secretary burwell also presented the president s hhs 2017 budget request, calling for 82. 8 billion in discretionary spending. This is just over 2 hours. It is my distinct privilege to introduce secretary burwell. It would appear that senator widen, grassley, grapo, the indomitable senator schumer are not here, they have conflicts. None intended, and im going to ask unanimous consent that the statements by the distinguished senator from oregon, Ranking Member mr. Wyden and our distinguished chairman mr. Hatch be inserted into the record at this point, without objection. Our witness today isle th and huchlage Services Second burwell. Shes been leading the department of health and Human Services since june of 2014. She has a long history of Public Sector service including her previous position under president obama. In the clinton administration, she served as the Deputy Director of omb, the chief of staff to the treasury