In october of 1835, there was a letter sent to my family asking them to join the revolution. A copy of the letter is actually in my office here in washington, d. C. You can see them saying, the time to revolt is now. Over the generations, what has your family done for a living . Rep. Taylor i have been working in commercial real estate, oil and gas, farming, my family has a long history of texas with a lot of love for our state. I am very honored to represent the people of the Third District of texas. Who are your parents . Rep. Taylor my father is an attorney and a businessman, my mother is a homemaker. I grew up in midland, texas and i was born in dallas. I live about 50 miles from where i was born, not too far from home. I joined the marine corps, took a commission after i graduated from college, served on active duty for several years, continued to serve my country, got my mba from Harvard Business school, then i moved back to dallas where i was born. Went into real estate, and i w
What is the medium and longterm plan . This is certainly reaching crisis proportions. You have a debt in excess of 21 billion. Proposals like medicare for all will add over 30 trillion. This is crazy. One of the things we have to do, we have met with folks this week and last week talking about better ways of valuing the Public Benefit of different federal investments. Everyone knows you can look back at the percentage of the budget attributable to mandatory spending programs, programs not subject to annual congressional appropriations, that has exceeded far in excess of 70 of the overall budget. Up from percentages as low in the upper teens, even the low 20 percentile range decades ago. We have to attack the mandatory spending side and make sure we apply criteria that looks at the value generated from these investments, just like any private company would fo, just like a family at home would do. I believe we should actually impose penalties on members of congress. It is our job to nego
Recess, the chamber holding three votes on whether to override the president s vetoes of resolutions blocking u. S. Armed sales to saudi arabia. Why did the president feet over those resolutions . The resident believes this is an undue interference of by congress in his conduct of foreign policy, also believes the armed sales the arms sales specifically are vital for national interests, particularly regarding u. S. Saudi relations and the security in the middle east and in the persian gulf. So the vetoes were to be expected, but the congress has been on a bipartisan basis frustrated with the president and his administrations of relations with saudi arabia, involvement in the support of the saudi led campaign in yemen and it was a debate that we know the way this will end with the resolutions, the vetoes being sustained. It is an exercise that members of both parties wanted to go through. It is a busy week in the saying the headline senate will consider a budget deal, confirm judges and
Educational research. It is so very important as it relates to feed food anding can consult agriculture in particular to make an increase so that the 1890 institutions can again be at the forefront of research. One of my schools in my area, purview a m and Texas Southern university, prepare the leaders for the Agricultural Industry of the future. And so this legislation provides support for the many schools such as alabama a m, purview a m, fort valley state university, Kentucky State University and, of course, they enroll 40 of all africanamerican students. So i am grateful for this amendment and i ask my colleagues to support the underlying bill. Thank you so very much and i yield back. I yield back. Thank you. The chair the gentlewoman yields back. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from minnesota. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. The en bloc amendments are agreed to. Ms. Mccollum mr. Chair, a
The day he will take questions from the house intelligence committee. Both open sessions. Mr. Muellers report into russian interference in the 2016 election will air live on cspan3 online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding conspires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system nan the rest of the u. S. Congress funds them through block grants. So when the territories are hit by hurricane they go through funds faster and deplete the grants early. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on why states get continuous medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committees meeting today today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the insular areas under the Affordable Care act also known as the insular areas medicaid cliff. And the Committee Rule 4 f any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman and the ranking