Im Frank Mallicoat. Gasia and dave are enjoying the holiday. So is steve. Rosemary has weather duty which we have had the last few days. Yes. A few changes this morning. One of them has to do with fog along the valley floor in some areas and along the coastline. Good visibility at sfo. Not reporting any delays for arriving and departing flights. San francisco right now 48 degrees. Then you get into the valley, 32, santa rosa. Freezing start to your day with a little fog reported near the airport this morning. 36 in oakland. 36 in livermore. San jose checking in at 42. Temperatures are down for most by a degree or two. Visibility looking good for most. Then as we get into the north bay, were seeing it develop and it clears up and redevelops. Santa rosa right now down about a quarter mile. You can see the dark shade of gray stretching over to the west there. Highway 101, visibility down to three or four miles. You may come across the patchy dense fog. It is more dangerous because it is c
Vote on moving forward with his nomination today. Final confirmation vote is also possible today. When the senate comes in in just a moment, live coverage on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, the fountain of wisdom, thank you for hearing and answering our prayers. Lord, you have given us so much, blessing us in immeasurable ways, you have exceeded our own expectations. For that, god, we are grateful. We thank you for this great country, for our leadership, and for the women and men who serve in this body. Help them to remember, god, that this is your country and they are your stewards, but for a moment in time. We pray that you will help us move forward with faith in tomorrow, knowing you will transform our thoughts, words, and actions according to your divine will. We pray in your heavenly name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of all
President s 2019 budget request. He faced questions on the 4. 4 trillion proposed budget which increases the federal deficit. Director mulvaney acknowledged that he would have voted against the white house budget as a member of congress. This Senate Budget Committee Hearing is just under two hours. Good morning. I will call to order this Senate Budget Committee Hearing. Good morning and welcome to the Senate Budget committees hearing on the president s Budget Proposal for fiscal year 2019. This budget submission comes to us on the heels of a very first, very busy first year for President Trump. Im proud of all the hard work and leadership that went into passing the tax cuts and jobs act, historic progrowth tax bill thats already bringing investments back to america and boosting takehome pay for workers. With the president s new budget submission im interested in learning how the administration plans to build on this momentum and further strengthen our economy. One of my greatest concer
Good morning. I will call to order this Senate Budget committee hearing. Good morning and welcome to the Senate Budget committees hearing on the president s budget 2019. Al for fiscal year this budget submission comes to us on the heels of a busy first year for President Trump. I am proud of the hard work and leadership that went into passing the tax cuts and jobs progrowth taxc bill that is bringing investments back to america and boosting takehome pay for workers. The president s new budget submission, and im interested in learning how the Administration Proposes to build on this momentum and further strengthen our economy. One of my greatest concerns as a United States senators ar our Countries National debt. To secure our economy longterm for future generations we must tackle this growing problem while lowering taxes is proving to bolster our economy which will bring in new revenue, we we have a spending problem in america. I look forward to hearing which way we could use taxpayer
Good morning. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the Budget Hearing on the president s fiscal year 2019 budget. Today we will hear testimony from the director of the office of management and budget, the honorable mick mulvaney. During our hearing we will hear directly from the director of omb and we appreciate you being with us here today, mr. Director. Your insight will be very help of in our understanding. We see that the president s budget each year marks the beginning of the federal budgeting process or budget season as we like to call it, and the white house officially kicked it off on monday. While congress ultimately controls the purse strings, the president s budget request is still an important document for lawmakers to consider along the way. Each fiscal year the administrations budget documents documents the president s policy and spending priority. These are important for both changes to consider as work crafting the budget resolution begins in earn