Issues. We have callers during the first 45 minutes saying, why are they focusing on jobs and the economy. Concern think that is a that some republicans have. As i said a minute ago, many the basics see political rationale for these hearings as seen as how they can make make life difficult for secretary clinton. There are other republicans who think this is over doing it and it is a basic argument within the House Republican conference over how they should be positioning themselves for the fall. Wee say emphatically all need to do is tear down the president and make life difficult for the president , say no to everything the president is for. And others are saying the voters dont want just to vote against people, they want to vote for people, and the republicans should be standing for something, should be promoting something, should be advocating things. John boehner, the speaker, does try when you see him go before the cameras which he does a couple of times a week generally after Hou
Profile of the nations infrastructure issues to recruit new c. E. O. s and toplevel voices to the cause, and to generate more interest among the Business Community for addressing the challenges we will discuss today and throughout the week. Little did i know a year later we would be here today with a week packed full of events and national and Regional Media campaign involving a Steering Committee that unified business, labor, and think tanks. Paul urassi is the president of hnt tv culls companies. Paul, thank you to your dedication to modernizing our roads, railways, rivers, runways, and waterpipes, and your ability to put the chamber and the Council Together for that all important first meeting. For that, we are here today. Paul, please accept my thanks and the Steering Committees gratitude for h. N. T. s generous sponsorship of the week. Please join me in welcoming paul urassi. 6 [applause] i have the honor today of introducing the first keynote speaker, donahue. A number of years a
Duty as a congress, and certainly our duty as a part of this committee to make sure hat that check we figuratively wrote to those veterans never comes back marked insufficient funds. And to make sure that that check, the benefits of that check dont come back redeemed in a delayed fashion. So we have done what is necessary to make sure that they get their benefits, that he they get them in a timely manner, that the claims backlog is eliminated, and that we facilitate whatever it takes to make sure that they are rewarded for their service to our country because the price of freedom, it is not free. Somebody had to pay that price. And the people who paid the price are the men and women who served our nation in uniform and are our veterans and families who also sacrificed as the Service Members wept to war. With that i yield back the balance of my time, and i urge the adoption of this bill and ask my colleagues to support it. The chair the gentleman from georgia yields back his time. The g
The key one would be the toomey. Number ofee any amendments that would be related to taxes. You could see things that would make permanent some of the things that would be extended in the package, the package would only extend for two years. People might want permanent andnsions such as Research Development tax credits. That is something that was passed by the house last week a bipartisan vote. The General Convention wisdom is we will see a good debate in the senate this week. It is unclear if there will be an agreement on the amendments. It probably would not be an amendment as an would have to work it out later in negotiations. Would you think would happen with the house . The house is proceeding with its strategy of offering a single, permanent tax break extension. The next one they are talking an extension of investments by small businesses. Something very, very popular in the Business Community and we might see that when the house returns from their oneweek recess next week or by
Republicans in particular try to navigate an increasingly bitter and unpredictable president whos in his final days in office. Republicans are arguably in a really tough spot here. Later today the house is going to vote on 2,000 direct checks for americans impacted by the pandemic, something trump wants but that many republicans dont. And the house is also going to vote to override the president s veto of the defense bill, a piece of legislation the president doesnt want but republicans sure do. The two republicans at the center of the storm, the president has created, are georgia senators Kelly Loeffler and david perdue, whose runoff elections on january 5th are going to decide control of the senate. But will they choose to buck the leader of their party or not . And what about all the other republicans on capitol hill for that matter . Many of them hint want to run for president. All of this comes after President Trump put the government on the brink of a shutdown while railing again