Sen. Hatch the committee will come to order. This mornings hearing will be the first in a series of hearings on the president s fiscal year 2019 Budget Proposal. The Committee Welcomes steven mnuchin, who is here to testify. The president s budget includes numerous proposals to deal with a vast array of policy issues, including the opioid epidemic, infrastructure, modernizing government, National Security, and lowering drug pricing and payments, just to mention a few. I think i speak for all members of the committee when i say that we are all very interested in secretary mnuchins thoughts and insights on a number of items proposed in the budget. The budget envisions that governments receipts will average 17. 1 of gdp over the tenyear budget window, slightly below the long run average of 17. 4 over roughly the last four decades. It also has outlays averaging 20 of gdp over 10 years, which is also slightly below the long run average. The budget also includes some tax proposals, but they
Level of business engagement. If you go to Front Range Community college where ive been in colorado you will see they have an advanced manufacturing partnership. Its a partnership between the federal state and local government. You see that the curriculum is being devised in partnership with industry. You actually see that there are businesses whose workers are professors. And what they tell me is one of the reasons they love teaching is they cherry pick the best students. And thats fine. Thats how you build your talent pipeline. And so we need to continue the efforts. And, again governor fallin thank you for your leadership on behalf of Community Colleges. We had four years worth of what we call tax grants. We have since dismissed our acronym director because its a clumsy acronym. What it stands for is using Community Colleges to catalyze change in the work force system. What i learned from these grants is that oftentimes businesses werent talking enough to educators. And so in los an
Ook tv. And sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Looking ahead here on cspan3, health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies on capitol hill about reports that consumers are intentionalley falsifying information to get subsidyies on the health care exchange. And legal challenges to the health care long. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker meets with voters in iowa. And later a discussion on combatting Prescription Drug abuse at the state level. Obama Administration Officials were babbling on capitol hill testifying on the Iran Nuclear Agreement. We see here in politico the fourhour hearing turned testy at times. In one bit of sparring, scott perrey of pennsylvania said iran is like a crocodile or shark thats about to be given more teeth. And they should have thought of a stronger agreement, such as a treaty, no matter what irans leaders wanted. Here is the congressman in another exchange with secretary of state john kerry. Said we dont have a better opt
Thank you, senator. From my perspective, having joined as a correctional officer in 1988 and around that time the bureaus population was a little more than 60,000. I think historically when you book at the bureau of prisons and go back from 1940 to 1980, the bureaus population pretty much remained flat for many, many years in excess of 20,000. So in 1980, which is the primary target for this discussion, we, as an agency, we had approximately 24,000 inmates in the federal system. We had less than 9,000 employees, 41 institutions and able to operate the entour bur en tour bureau of prisons for 330 million. So when you look at the increase from 1980 to 2013, we were at more than 800 as far as the growth of the population. And our staffing didnt keep pace with that growth. And with our mission, where we are tasked with anyone and everyone who is convicted and turned over to the department of justice and placed in the care of the bureau of prisons, we have a job to do, a significant job. An
Sure. As you may know, i wound up in the middle of the National Health care debate after i know its ridiculous, but after a senator, senator bill cassidy of louisiana who was on my show in may and promised a Health Care Plan would pass the jimmy kimmel test. My son billy had open heart surgery shortly after he was born. He needs two more surgeries and that experience opened my eyes to how difficult life can be for parents in that situation and how important it is that families are covered like we are. Unfortunately, the plan senator k cassidy and his colleague Lindsey Graham came up with does not sufficiently protect those parents or children or anyone really. So i called him out, because he said it passed the jimmy kimmel test. Its a personal thing for me. I was in three cities this weekend, and at a charity event. I met so many people, almost every one of them was a stranger, wanting to tell me that the Affordable Care act that our president and half our senators are trying to kill s