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
At the end of january 1968 saigon was alive with the festive spirit as everyone prepares for the tet lunar new year. For the people of vietnam tet is both a joyous and a sacred time of the year. It was supposed to be the first spring of the second republic of vietnam and the tet truce proposed by the communist north vietnamese seemed to promise people a holiday free from the everpresent anxiety of war. The people gathered to pay respects for their ancestors. On the eve of the new year, thousands of saigon families prayed before the altars of their ancestors. They prayed that peace might be restored to their homeland. This year, however, the traditional firecrackers of the tet celebration came the fireworks of war. The vietcong taking advantage of the noisy celebration and the savage attacks on saigon, violating the fruits that they themselves his proposed. Areas of the city became a blazing inferno. Columns of smoke rose skyward after block after block in the capital city burned with t
Point center for oral history. Its 1 10. Were here at the west point center for oral history studio on february 23rd, 2015, with mr. Henry james thomas. Hello, mr. Thomas. Hi. How are you doing . Pretty good. Welcome. Thank you. Were happy to have the chance to talk to you today. Can you tell me a little bit about your childhood . Im interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early, earlier than most. Yes. I spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. I was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wadly, georgia, an area considered middle georgia. Not that far from augusta, georgia. And thats where i came of age as a teenager. I came by my activism very early. I always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i dont know exactly where i got that from. And the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not
Spirit seemed to emerge early, earlier than most. Yes. I spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. I was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wadly, georgia, an area considered middle georgia. Not that far from augusta, georgia. And thats where i came of age as a teenager. I came by my activism very early. I always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i dont know exactly where i got that from. And the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early as maybe as early as 7, 8 years old that there was something wrong with that. Obviously i wasnt capable of any kind of deep philosophical thinking. Its just that why cant we go there and white folks can, and why are we poorer than white people. Those were the things that as a child concerned me. I did have one incident in wattly, georgia, wherein i guess i violated
Kind of support they can get for a much more conservative bill that does limit the chain migration and the visa lottery, provide protection for dreamers and include some other immigration p Immigration Reforms that conservatives are seeking in the house. They want that bill on the floor. Were live on capitol hill this morning as the Senate Finance Committee Hears from treasury secretary steven mnuchin. Live coverage should get under way here shortly. The dcommittee will come to order. This mornings hearing will be the first in a series of hearings on the president s fiscal year to 19 budg2019 budg 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 al