speak to their state transportation departments, governors to get a list of infrastructure priorities. congressional democrats want to cram more in there than just bridges, roads and trains. the budget chairman told the hill the next reconciliation bill will likely combine infrastructure, healthcare and more as some colleagues are pushing to pass other priorities like immigration reform through reconciliation. that is the procedural tool that democrats used to pass the covid bill without republican support. it s unclear if those types of initiatives could get through the process. some could argue they re not tied to the budget. we re not there yet anyway. republicans expressed willingness to work with democrats on infrastructure, which is the biggest focus. this bold action is ours. if we want to work with republicans, we will. where we can we will. we will not be deterred from big bold action when we can t work with them. the white house sees the infrastructure as a way
But i do have some questions about how you suggest it would be implemented. First of all, it says it would be charged on a prospective basis. Your budget also says mortgages insured under that title under the previous fiscal year. Is this prospective or rhett owe active . Its prospective from when its enacted. But the fee will be assessed at one point in the year, at the end of the year. I dont think ive seen the text youre looking at. I believe thats whats been described. Its going to be on transactions Going Forward. Its not going to be going backward. It states the fee would be calculated based on mortgages that were insured under this title during the previous fiscal year. Thats right. If we started it tomorrow, the fee would be assessed after that one year. And its talking about going backward to capture everything after it was enacted. Also under your proposal it says small lenders i think would get hit with a pretty hefty fee because of the complexity of the formula. Will you ba
Tried to do in new york was to leverage shared Regional Service providers to try to ensure that districts were able to get the students the services they needed in a sustainable way. But certainly, i want to make sure our teams connect on that and talk through that because we certainly want to be in the position of supporting districts and serving students with disabilities as well as possible. Thank you. And my final comment is that i hope you will have a listening session in a rural area. We talked about that in my office, as opposed to just large urban areas like l. A. And d. C. Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, senator collins. Senator casey. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. King, welcome. Thank you for your testimony and your willingness to serve, and we appreciate that commitment. We want to commend and salute your family, as well, because when you serve, they serve with you, in one way or another. We appreciate the commitment your familys made to this high level of Public Servi
Tonight on cspan2, Energy Secretary talks about the upcoming un conference. Then part of the Federalist Society conference with a discussion on civil rights and criminal justice. Later a look at the Political Engagement of young people around the world Energy Secretary talks about the upcoming Un Climate Change Conference and the Obama Administration policy of promoting clean energy technology. His remarks at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace include questions from the comments. Audience. This is an hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It is truly an honor and privilege to welcome the sec. Of energy to carnegie. Those who have had the good fortune are familiar with his mit smarts and some of you have had the misfortune of negotiating with him are familiar with his toughness. All of you i suspect our familiar with his viral late night tv appearances. Ive learned a lot from him over the years ernie is not onl
Because there is something closer to a balance between the demand from the Energy Distributors to meet their statutory obligations and the supply of Renewable Energy into the grip. Ladies and gentlemen, we have come to the end of the period. I am delighted to have the foreign minister here and thankful to all of you for coming to the session. I would invite you to join me in thanking foreign minister philip hammond. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the British Parliament was in recess much of the week, so question time was not held. Question time returns this week on cspan2 on wednesday at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and again sunday night at 9 00 eastern and pacific on cspan. Watch any time on www. Cspan. Org , where you can video find video of other British Affairs programs. Cspan presents landmark vote, a guide to our lan