Im very excited to tell my daughter all about it. For those of you who have not followed, through the artimus, the American Government will send astronauts to the service of the moon, another man and woman to the moon, which is very exciting. Conduct new science, prepare for future trips to mars. Today only 12 humans have walked on the moon. That was half a century ago. The artimus provides the opportunity to add numbers to that, of course. Lunar exploration has brought the most recently detailed in fy21 omnibus spending bill, and certainly we support this effort and endeavor. Why dont we go to you first, darlene. Reporter thank you. Can you update us on the president s thinking on forgiving Student Loan Debt . There are groups who are pushing for the president to forgive all Student Loan Debt. Where does he stand on all that . Sure. The president has and continues to support cancelling 10,000 of federal Student Loan Debt per person as a response to the covid crisis. Hes calling on con
Account was 36 million below the president s budget request in the bill brought to the floor and amendments already passed by the house have resulted in further cuts to the departmental administration. Federal salaries for the Nuclear Security administration are 30 million below this president s request. The funding levels in this bill send a clear message about growth in the federal work force requiring an automatic 5 cut across the board is a step too far and as i said it is not good government. For these reasons, i oppose these amendments, urge my colleagues to vote against it. I would note that when the gentleman says during the Government Shutdown they furloughed 60 of the work force, that was 16 days. These employees were labeled as nonessential. Same thing happened in congress. I would suspect in your congress, at least i know in my office, we had to declare which employees were nonessential. Those employees now work for me again and are rehired. I suspect they are in your offic
they have weak credit. that s what got us in the housing mess in the first place. and then there s a french, they re going back to the tax rate as the prime minister tried to explain away his secret swiss bank account. we ve got it all. varney & company is about to begin. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you ve known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who s lived well into their 90s. and that s a great thing. but even though we re living longer, one thing that hasn t changed: the offial retirement age. the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. do we have another example of apple losing its cool in listen to this. according to the wall street journal, apple is going to release two new iphones this summer, a smaller cheaper version along with a refreshed iphone that sounds a whole lot like the current model. so, no new fl
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and so i think the initiatives such as freezing spending for five years to produce a 400 billion-dollar cut in the deficit that s nice but it s a token compared to what we really should be doing. we have to make some very difficult decisions and have to go much further than $400 million in savings. , hersman sutherland, thank you for spending a few minutes here on c-span as we get a chance to know some new members of congress following the state of the union speech. but a long term, long time member of congress not so long. with 87 members that is a long time, congressmen. thank you. glad to be with you. you are a democrat in texas, and i want to start by talking about your friend, gabbie giffords because i remember you were on the floor talking about her. she is now in texas. was to light a little bit different than previous state of the union address is? i think the president touched the nation when he mentioned in the chamber will clearly we want her to be re