Here and i am here and get used to it. applause explorer nations passed on American History to be every weekend on seaspan three. A panel looking at ways to improve the budget process and before the House Committee on the committee of congress. The committee will come to order and declare a recess on the committee at any time and this hearing is entitled recommendations for improving the budget and the process i will look at the work of the joint elected committee on the process reform. I now recognize myself for five minutes and the 104th which convened in 1995 was the last two pass all the bills as part of the Fiscal School year and i was almost 25 years ago and motels members have not seen a process that works the way its supposed to where they are there on time and the committee on appropriation process which i served along my colleague who was established by the bipartisan act of 2018 and was charged with making recommendations to significantly reform the budget process. A very ac
Was the last two pass all the bills as part of the Fiscal School year and i was almost 25 years ago and motels members have not seen a process that works the way its supposed to where they are there on time and the committee on appropriation process which i served along my colleague who was established by the bipartisan act of 2018 and was charged with making recommendations to significantly reform the budget process. A very active establishing committee was that the process wasnt working at all to be. Local one such a nine says that no money shall be gone from the treasury and the appropriations made by law and the color of the purse within the constitutional powers. Its a constitutionally mandated shut down an executive power. When Congress Fails to pass it builds on time. It seized power to the executive branch. They passed 117 resolutions since the beginning of the fiscal year in 1998 and last Year Congress passed nine see ours and this year the pass three but. Thats a lot of time
Cspans q a. This week on newsmakers, neil bradley, the chief policy officer and executive Vice President of the u. S. Chamber of commerce. Thank you very much for being here. Neil thanks for having me. Greta we still we also have with us Jeanna Smialek with the New York Times and chris with rugaber with associated press. Chris. Chris lets talk about trade. 40 of the fortune 500 has complained on earning calls and so forth about the impact of President Trumps tariffs on chinese imports and other items. How big an impact, how much is this hurting companies . I am interested how you may compare it to the benefits of the tax cut in 2017, which reduced rates on business. Have these tariffs got into a point where there almost offsetting the benefits of the tax cut . Neil they are certainly dampening the benefit of the tax cut. There are two impacts of the tariffs on business. The first is the tariffs in already in place and are at cost. The is uncertainty of additional second tariffs. That i
Point where there almost offsetting the benefits of the tax cut . Neil they are certainly dampening the benefit of the tax cut. There are two aspects of the tariffs on business that are impacting business. The first is the tariffs already in place and are at cost. The second is uncertainty of additional tariffs. That is playing out over the next several months with respect to china and even automobiles, with respect to tariffs on automobiles. And if you are running a company by the way, not just Large Companies if you run a company, you have difficult y planning, because you dont know the cost of goods you are buying to either sell to consumers in the United States or the cost of something you are making in the United States. That is a real problem. The other side of that is not just tariffs on our imports, it is tariffs posted in retaliation huge harm for the ag industry and increasingly manufacturers. Jeanna the university of Michigan Confidence numbers just came out. What we saw was
Communicators of tech policy roundtable with three working journalist. We will look ahead to the fall at what the congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to tech policy. Lets introduce our panel beginning with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. We also have ashley gold of the information, and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town in the last couple of months. Do we expect whats going on with that case and we expect further attention to that company . Thank you for having. Great to be. The ftc 5 billion settlement with facebook which was the culmination of this long privacy probe prompted by the Cambridge Analytica data scandal has divided washington. On the one hand, you have republicans and Industry Groups say this by building daughters find because is the largest to come that that in history of te agency really, that it meant facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democra