Nuclear ought to be in the mix. Cspan. Org. On our home page and by searching the video library. President trumps nominee for agriculture secretary, former georgia governor, sonny purdue, testified at his confirmati confirmation hearing. He was questioned about proposed white house budget cuts to farm programs, Crop Insurance, Forest Management, immigrant labor and farm bill reauthorization. Good morning, members of the committee. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry to order. This morning we welcome governor sonny perdue, the president s nominee for u. S. Secretary of agriculture. Members of this committee have great appreciation for the farmers, ranchers and consumers and other stakeholders that are directly affected by decisions made by the secretary. The department of agriculture is made up of 29 agencies and offices. It employs nearly 100,000 men and women that work in all 50 states and all around the globe. The department provides lea
Leap on Scientific Research and related issues that impact americans virtually every day. Throughout our nations history, our farmers, ranchers and folks in Rural America have survived drought, disease, floods, and tornadoes and fires and whatever else Mother Nature throws at them. Year after year, they produced the safest most abundant food and fiber supply in the world, however today, growers from cross the country are facing high prices. These strong producers need a strong market for their goods. The importance of trade for agriculture, our agriculture industry cannot be overstated. And if that was not enough, over the last previous years, farmers and ranchers and Rural Businesses have been burdened by regulations all across the federal government. I have heard time and time again as well as many members of this committee about the costly and hard to understand regulations that endanger the ability of our producers to stay in business. This committee will continue its efforts to ma
Hartman, pace communications, kelly services, thank you, carl for everything you do, the independent womens forum, Arizona State university, the aerospace corporation, and the [inaudible] [inaudible] and the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the National Aeronautics association. Our sponsors, lets give a round of applause for all our sponsors. We have a terrific lineup over the next two days. We will have conversations on the new administration and congresss first 100 days, we will look at the prospects for bipartisanship or as we heard earlier, bipolarship. The outlook for tax reform, immigration, infrastructure, a few little issues we are dealing with as a country. We will take a step back from Public Policy and discuss issues of Corporate Governance policy which has been a long focus of cd and our colleagues at the host it. E will we honor ambassador Barbara Barrett and we will present her with the leadership interest award followed by a conversation with barbara about her
Supporters applaud his strike on syria and the confirmation of neil gorsuch. Critics say he has lit made little headway on major legislation and his record low poll numbers reflect this. Joining me to talk about the presidency, from washington, glenn thrush. From california, hugh hewitt. Andr we also have dan c r, former advisor to mitt romney, and in the office of george w. Bush. And philip bump is a correspondent for the washington post. Do you go about an assessment of this president after 100 days . You have to use the old nixon yellow pad, the good and the bad. It has been the best of times and the worst of times. Neil gorsuch is a 30 year with, a significant win, and a huge free exercise for the court. More will be many decisions where Justice Gorsuch will be on the side of the originalists. It is impossible to overstate is they got with his win it on the other hand, the loss of the Obamacare Repeal is thestating to the idea republicans could a copy something if they had all thre
Supporters applaud his strike on syria and the confirmation of neil gorsuch. Critics say he has lit made little headway on major legislation and his record low poll numbers reflect this. Joining me to talk about the presidency, from washington, glenn thrush. From california, hugh hewitt. Andr we also have dan c r, former advisor to mitt romney, and in the office of george w. Bush. And philip bump is a correspondent for the washington post. Do you go about an assessment of this president after 100 days . You have to use the old nixon yellow pad, the good and the bad. It has been the best of times and the worst of times. Neil gorsuch is a 30 year with, a significant win, and a huge free exercise for the court. More will be many decisions where Justice Gorsuch will be on the side of the originalists. It is impossible to overstate is they got with his win it on the other hand, the loss of the Obamacare Repeal is thestating to the idea republicans could a copy something if they had all thre