Here. And for your willi in ingness t serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Now, thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table, having nearly two decades of experience in the health care sector, including about six years working at the highest levels of hhs. During his time at hhs, mr. Azar play eed key roles in implementg new policies including Medicare Part d and the Medicare Advantage program. He was also a leader in hhs responses to the anthrax attacks shortly after 9 11, the sars and monkey pox crisis, and hurricane katrina, just to mention a few. If confirmed, mr. A
Search bar. Now we take you to the u. S. House of representatives. On the agenda, ideal this is like covered on cspan. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will come to order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. February 13, 2018. I hereby appoint the honorable mark meadows to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fro
Invest in laborsaving is it not possible that improved wages themselves can help lead to improved product activity, which can create a virtual cycle with wage growth officer time yes, thats exactly what we hope is happening right now. So youre committing to keep your foot off the brake . When i was getting ready for this hearing, i went back and read something that you said in your very first year on the fomc committee. You noted you havent seen anything in the wage data yet to support that it struck me as interesting. It got me to thinking about my frustration, and how its been 2 1 2 years since he hit the supposed definition, yet it keeps dropping and the definition of full employment keeps chasing it it made me wonder, as it relates to what you said earlier, why dont we just use woo wage data to help define it. For a lodge time there was slack in the labor market. Weve reached the point where the risks are really twosided now. If we do get behind and the economy does overheat. If th
Committee will come together without onbjection. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I recognize myself for 3 1 2 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Not with standing the greatest monetary and fiscal stimulus, the economy limp aid long for eight years averaging 1. 6 gdp growth. Wages remain stagnant and failing since the 2008 financial crisis. New phrase by leftleaning academics in an attempt to rationalize the phenomena namely secular stag nation. Far more descriptive phrase is high taxes and heavyhanded regulatory policy. Fortunately with the election of donald trump and passage of tax cuts and jobs act that has all changed. Employment is now at a 17year low. Wage growth is the fastest in companies all over america are anow ns bonuses to employees and skpap expansions in their communities. Economic growth is averaging 3 . There is grea
The committee will come to order. Welcome everybody to this mornings hearing. Today the committee will consider and examine the nomination of vista alex cesar to serve as a sect of health and Human Services, one of the most aboard jobs in any government anywhere in the world. Id like to welcome mr. Azar to the finance committee this morning. Thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and, most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table, having nearly two decades of experience in the health care sector, including about six years wo