Mrs. Mcmorris rodgers good morning, everyone. Because of the tax cuts and jobs act we continue to hear more good news across the country. Americans are optimistic, theyre confident they are going to see better higher paying jobs. Families across the country are seeing their energy bills come down as Utility Companies are cutting rates. And in february, an estimated 90 of americans will see their takehome pay increase. As i travel around Eastern Washington and hear about families, especially those living paycheck to paycheck, this is making a big difference and making a bill dealing in minnesotas Second District where congressman jason lewis is from. He just toured a home depot and was talking with some of the employees at home depot about the impact of tax reform on them and they were excited about increased paychecks. They were excited about being able to pay and save for their mortgages, college tuition. Its really making an impact to them in their pocketbooks. Despite the outoftouch
Tomorrow. The senate may also take up the bill on thursday. Follow the congressional debate over the funding of the federal government live with u. S. House coverage here on cspan. The senate on cspan2. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Today in the house several bills including reforms at the world bank and a bill expanding trade with africa. Theyll be in for leverage work at noon eastern. Well have live coverage. Ahead of that, 11 30, we plan to bring awe News Conference with the chair of the House Democratic caucus, joe crowley, vice chair Linda Sanchez on democratic priorities in congress. Set at 11 30. Well have it live when it starts ahead of the house. Before that part of this mornings washington journal. Discussionndtable this morning, were joined to talk about Bipartisan Legislation to reform the criminal Justice System. Go. Ressman scott, days to your thoughts on how it plays out . Guest i think there is a consensus we will not shut it down but
Up a shortterm spending, funding resolution, funding the government through mid february. House rules meeting tonight. Well have live coverage of the house when they gavel back in about 5 00 or so. Now we take you to the briefing with Democratic Caucus leaders from earlier today. Joe crowley and Linda Sanchez spoke with reporters about the daca legislation and theup coming debate on shortterm spending. Mr. Crowley good morning, everyone. Im joe crowley, chair of the Democratic Caucus, im joined by the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus, Linda Sanchez. We are days from the Government Shutdown they feel only person in washington who has said it would be good to shut the government down, i believe is the president. We dont want to see it shut down. Were working to see it remains open. America needs and redeserves reserve and deserves leadership but theyre not getting it from the president or from the republicans. With two days to go, our republican colleagues have been complicit in the l
Unblocking all the people. [laughter] good morning and welcome to the trump shutdown. And joined byey many of the members of our Democratic Caucus and leadership of the house of the Democratic Caucus. Democrats worked hard to avoid the shutdown. Not a single democrat wanted to see critical federal programs shut their doors, or put our economy at risk. This is not how we ran government when democrats were in charge. For republicans, they struggled in september to keep government doors open. He struggled in december. And yesterday, they failed. They failed the American People. Certainly shutdown could have been avoided. If speaker ryan leader mcconnell showed an ounce of leadership, a none of thise, wouldve happened today. We would not be here today. If instead of enabling in being complicit in this trump shutdown, by our republican colleagues, the government would be opened today. If they had shown half the effort that they did in passing core of thell, the effort in passing the tax bil
The Daily White House briefing, a discussion on the budget agreement reached by congressional leaders. This is 20 minutes. Right on time today. Good afternoon. We are pleased congress has been able to meet our defense spending requirement, and come together on a twoyear spending bill. This bill issues out of priority, a muchneeded increase for National Defense. This deal increases budget caps, ends the sequester, and provide certain tv the next two years. Certainty for the next two years. The bottom line is that aims to President Trump, we can have the Strongest Military has ever had. This increases the debt ceiling to march of 2019, which moves us away from crisis to crisis budgeting. Includes other priorities, including rebuilding infrastructure, tackling the opioid epidemic, and taking care of our veterans. To discuss this from an indepth military perspective, we have secretary mattis. He will make a brief statement and take a few questions on the importance of funding our armed for