Stressing the need to prevent the viruses from becoming a problem. Secretary burwell also presented the president s hhs 2017 budget request, calling for 82. 8 billion in discretionary spending. This is just over 2 hours. It is my distinct privilege to introduce secretary burwell. It would appear that senator widen, grassley, grapo, the indomitable senator schumer are not here, they have conflicts. None intended, and im going to ask unanimous consent that the statements by the distinguished senator from oregon, Ranking Member mr. Wyden and our distinguished chairman mr. Hatch be inserted into the record at this point, without objection. Our witness today isle th and huchlage Services Second burwell. Shes been leading the department of health and Human Services since june of 2014. She has a long history of Public Sector service including her previous position under president obama. In the clinton administration, she served as the Deputy Director of omb, the chief of staff to the treasury
Economy is likely to grow in coming days. Coming decades. As we address the immediate needs of the zikaaffected population, we must underscore the need to improve National Systems to prevent and dictate response to these pathogens. And i think this is the effort at the heart of the Global Health security agenda launched in early 2014. Beyond dealing with individual outbreaks we are seeing as dr. Fauci put as a perpetual challenge, one come after the other, we need to also Pay Attention to the land scape, better understand the territory where the usaid has supported work that builds capacity and helps predict and mitigate the impact of noble high consequence pathoges. Each year we take hundreds of pathogens and screen and make sure they dont jump into the human space. We find them in primates, in birds, we find them in bats, with he find them in rodents. But its not an infinite landscape. There is a logic to it, and we want to make sure science is brought to bear to address and indeed p
Government spending is something that does not guilty gel with real life. In other words all of these government expenditures in some of the graphs that we show today are because were not taking their money so therefore, that e kwatquates to Government Spending where in real life does not taking somebodys money equate to spending again, the credible credibility gap, i think increases when statements like that are made. By the way, if thats the case, i think that what . Our gdp is what . 17 trillion . What we take in revenue and taxes is about roughly about 3 trillion. Ballpark figures. So, in essence, that means that were spending 14 trillion because thats money that the government is not taking from the economy. So should we then call that 14 trillion in Government Spending . No. Thats ludicrous. And its ludicrous to say that money that we are not forcefully taking because people dont pay this willingly, theyre forced to pay is somehow Government Spending. Credibility gap. When one sa
Peoples opinion. They have their own experiences with this economy good or bad, and i suggest you stop digging once youre in a hole of that size. My question of you is how much business taxes are included in this budget. So what our budget does on taxes we propose a fully paid for set of middle class tax cuts that is paid for in the way that i discussed before. With business tax increases . Actually i want doesnt include any business tax increases. What are the taxes . I notice youre planning a massive increase for Capital Gains tax, nearly doubling the Capital Gains tax rate from the beginning of thiS Administration. All were doing is proposing to take it back to what it was under reagan. Are you proposing to take the income tax rate back down to where it was under reagan . We are propose inging a comprehensive, revenueneutral business tax reform. Were proposing to fully offset the tax cuts for 44 million middle class families average 600 drars ewith the Capital Gains tax. Heres the p
And Childrens Hospital in philadelphia and saint johns, and i was hoping for a commit beyond the 100 million and i think we are getting Great Results and i will submit a question on that and now that im out of time as well as the treatment of foster care for giving foster parents a specialized training they need to take care of kids that have particular challenges but ill do that by way of a written question. But thank for your testimony and for being here and for your service. Thank you, senator. Thank you mr. Chairman and thank you madam secretary for your service. I would like to in a very short period of time see if we can cover four topics. New jersey and protection and number three autism coverage and number four the midnight rule. So let me first of all, before we go to that, i want to highlight key components of the president s budget proposeal that i believe are critical and important for the in my view the most important part of the population and that is the children and the