Monuments. If youre not interested in that, you are in the wrong room. I will give you that warning at the beginning. Representative connellys office for arranging the room, and the people of the 11th district of virginia for electing representative connelly , since he has been the one generous enough to this. I want to thank amanda. , the assistant director of the National History center for doing all of the work. The National History Center Offers these briefings because everything has a history and when some of those everythings are within the realm of public policy, it is our obligation as historians to provide the Historical Context essential to inform debate and decision making. That obligation forms the soul advocacy position in these the sole advocacy position in these briefings. We are not here to convince anybody on legislation. We are here because change requires understanding the change that have brought us to the structure in the first place. We have discussed in these mee
We have a cspan audience, Live Streaming soap wonderful to have everybody joining us for what they think wilwethink will be at conversation. Im excited about the people weve gathered and the ideas we are going to be discussing. Welcome to the committee for responsible budget for thostherf you who do not know if they Nonpartisan Organization the board of directors or people many of whom are with us today who have run all the bigbudget institutions in washington so the federal reserve, the treasury department, omb, the Budget Committees comes of a. To try to have a realistic understanding of the budget improvements are going to be needed to improve the fiscal situation in the country and to trick yo to have in a bipartisan way it kind of understanding of how hard it is to make these traces but there are so many reasons they are necessary to keep moving the ball forward. With that said i will say it is a rough time for the budget policy this country. Nobody should be under the impression
Weve gathered and the ideas we are going to be discussing. Welcome to the committee for responsible budget for thostherf you who do not know if they Nonpartisan Organization the board of directors or people many of whom are with us today who have run all the bigbudget institutions in washington so the federal reserve, the treasury department, omb, the Budget Committees comes of a. To try to have a realistic understanding of the budget improvements are going to be needed to improve the fiscal situation in the country and to trick yo to have in a bipartisan way it kind of understanding of how hard it is to make these traces but there are so many reasons they are necessary to keep moving the ball forward. With that said i will say it is a rough time for the budget policy this country. Nobody should be under the impression that the Fiscal Health of the country is good. It is not. Our debt relative to the economy is twice what its been on average. We are on track to bother us to be 10 trill
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