Investigation. Those teams have been work and theyll continue to work and they have not been altered in any way. But there were a number of very strange comments that mr. Comey testified last week that you could have, i believe, shed some light on. But well continue. Thank you, sir. General sessions thank you again for your willingness to be here. Not sure that you sue 23450u it but your replacement sat through most of this, had strains hes played us regret that we dont have intermural basketball teams. Big luther ask i good round ballplayer, two lane. Youve been asked a wide range of questions, and i think youve answered things related to claims about the meeting at the mayflower, youve answered questions that surround the reasons of your recusal and the fact that you had never been briefed since day one on the investigation. But you made clear that you cant think of any other conversations that youve had with russian officials, youve covered in detail the conversation that you had, t
Debt limit and potential tax breaks for highincome taxpayers. This hearing is just over 90 minutes. Ill call to order this hearing for budget and revenue proposals. Good morning and welcome to our hearing on the president s fiscal year 2018 budget and revenue proposals. I want to thank you, mr. Secretary, for agreeing to testify today on the budget. Your agency, the department of treasury, as responsibility for fostering our nations Economic Growth and ensuring fiscal stability across our financial system. Our countrys growing debt and underperforming economy should be front and center in these conversations. America is faced with a mammoth nation debt that is over a patrol dollars and an economy thats holding back growth. We had a modest 2 rait over the next 30 years pro protections doubled from 77 in 2017 to 150 in 2047. In order for congress to tackle this enormous fiscal challenge it must reduce spending and ensure outlay growth does not outpace our economy. But wels must focus on
Debt limit and potential tax breaks for highincome taxpayers. This hearing is just over 90 minutes. Ill call to order this hearing for budget and revenue proposals. Good morning and welcome to our hearing on the president s fiscal year 2018 budget and revenue proposals. I want to thank you, mr. Secretary, for agreeing to testify today on the budget. Your agency, the department of treasury, as responsibility for fostering our nations Economic Growth and ensuring fiscal stability across our financial system. Our countrys growing debt and underperforming economy should be front and center in these conversations. America is faced with a mammoth nation debt that is over a patrol dollars and an economy thats holding back growth. We had a modest 2 rait over the next 30 years pro protections doubled from 77 in 2017 to 150 in 2047. In order for congress to tackle this enormous fiscal challenge it must reduce spending and ensure outlay growth does not outpace our economy. But wels must focus on
Your agency, the department of treasury, as responsibility for fostering our nations Economic Growth and ensuring fiscal stability across our financial system. Our countrys growing debt and underperforming economy should be front and center in these conversations. America is faced with a mammoth nation debt that is over a patrol dollars and an economy thats holding back growth. We had a modest 2 rait over the next 30 years pro protections doubled from 77 in 2017 to 150 in 2047. In order for congress to tackle this enormous fiscal challenge it must reduce spending and ensure outlay growth does not outpace our economy. But wels must focus on the other critical part of the equation, growing our gross domestic product. Ive suggested including longterm debt to gdp targets in the federal budget process which would provide key goals and bench marks for the budgets of both congress and the president. If baseline projections do not comply with these targets, the administration would need to sub
Committee. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Mr. Tillerson, mr. Secretary, we appreciate you being here. Were having a little bit of a discussion about the timing issue. We do have a lot of other things happening today, and i would really like to finish this in one round. So what i think im going to do without i think what well do, senator cardin, if it is okay with you, lets put six minutes on the clock. If we need to have a second round for some reason we will. Im open to discussion about that right now if you wish. I think six minutes sounds fair on the first round. I dont want to preclude a member on either side that believes they need additional time for a second round from having that second round, but i would encourage our members to try to be efficient on the use of their time. So i want to begin by saying that last night about 10 20 we finished negotiating a russia bill to be attached to the iran bill, and we were able to gavel in the senate and have Senate Mccon