System. This is about two hours. Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to the ways and means subcommittee on tax policy, our hearing on how tax reform will simplify our broken tax code and help individuals and families. Before we get started with Opening Statements and so forth, id like to yield to the chairman of the ways and Means Committee, congressman kevin brady for the purposes of introducing a distinguished witness who is before us today. Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Chairman rossman, thank you for your leadership of the tax committee. Thank you for leading hearings like this that allow america to have the conversation about creating a bolder, fair, flatter and more pro growth tax code. I want to thank all our witnesses for being here today, but i want to give a special welcome to our friend, my friend, chairman bill archer, former leader of this committee and a longtime mentor of me personally. Chairman archer, thank you for being here to share your insight and your experience o
System. This is about two hours. Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to the ways and means subcommittee on tax policy, our hearing on how tax reform will simplify our broken tax code and help individuals and families. Before we get started with Opening Statements and so forth, id like to yield to the chairman of the ways and Means Committee, congressman kevin brady for the purposes of introducing a distinguished witness who is before us today. Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Chairman rossman, thank you for your leadership of the tax committee. Thank you for leading hearings like this that allow america to have the conversation about creating a bolder, fair, flatter and more pro growth tax code. I want to thank all our witnesses for being here today, but i want to give a special welcome to our friend, my friend, chairman bill archer, former leader of this committee and a longtime mentor of me personally. Chairman archer, thank you for being here to share your insight and your experience o
And by contributions to your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome David Schweickart to this program, the fa loss fer and mathematician. He proet wrote the similar text after capitalism and has been teaching students about democracy for over 40 years now im honored to slim on this program. Thanks for your time, sir. My pleasure to be here. Let me jump with this the. Text that you wrote prior to this was called against capitalism and then comes the following book after capitalism. The against e against capitalism i understand but when i saw this one dint know where you were going with that this. That title means what exactly . A little background of that even. As you say i started out my career as a mathematician, taught for a year at the university of kentucky and then kent state happened hand this kind of conversion, i dont want to teach math, you know, way dont something more meaningful with my life, im just teaching engineers are going to do the military Indu
And by contributions to your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome David Schweickart to this program, the fa loss fer and mathematician. He proet wrote the similar text after capitalism and has been teaching students about democracy for over 40 years now im honored to slim on this program. Thanks for your time, sir. My pleasure to be here. Let me jump with this the. Text that you wrote prior to this was called against capitalism and then comes the following book after capitalism. The against e against capitalism i understand but when i saw this one dint know where you were going with that this. That title means what exactly . A little background of that even. As you say i started out my career as a mathematician, taught for a year at the university of kentucky and then kent state happened hand this kind of conversion, i dont want to teach math, you know, way dont something more meaningful with my life, im just teaching engineers are going to do the military Indu
You can let us know in the first hour on the phone lines. You can also post your thoughts on these latest calls for action in afghanistan on our social media channels. And the lead up to the speech he gave last night in front of military personnel, the president said he went on to say i heard decisions that are much different when you sit behind a desk of the oval office. Adding ton post in that speech yesterday, he hlighted three points three kind of goalposts when it comes to activity in afghanistan and highlighted those. Here is part of that. I arrived at three fundamental conclusions at americas core interests in afghanistan. First, our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made especially the sacrifices of lives. The men and women who serve our nation in combat deserve a plan for victory. They deserve the tools they need and the trust they have earned to fight and to win. Second, the consequences of the rapid exit are