[inaudible conversations] welcome. Committee will come to order. Committee on the Budget Hearing today on the congressional budget offices budget and Economic Outlook will commence. Well hear testimony from director swagel through the congressional budget office. Welcome. Without like to yield myself such time as a may consume. We are talking about fisa mac this week, which is an issue of National Security. And want to quote admiral mullen, at a hearing defense hearing where when asked what the biggest threat to nationals could do was come his response was the biggest threat to National Security is our National Debt. Jerome powell the fed chairman who probably is loath to opine on fiscal policy in the 60 minutes interview said the National Debt, our fiscal path, is completely unsustainable, and its an urgent matter that we must address. I think thats significant. Thats some backdrop to the budget baseline update on february. Was recently in may of 23 and then this recent update here in
Wrong when one family, the owners of walmart own as much wealth as the bottom 40 of the american people. There is something profoundly wrong when millions of workers are working longer hours for lower wages when we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world and almost all new wealth and income goes into the hands of the few. Enough is enough. That has got to end. And together, we will end it. This campaign is sending a profound message to the billionaire class. You cant have it all. You cant get huge tax breaks when children in america go hungry. You cannot continue to send our jobs to china when millions of americans are looking for work. You cannot hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and in other tax havens. When there are massive, unmet needs in this country. The greed of the billionaire class has got to end, and we are going to end it for them. But it is not just income and wealth inequality. It is the fact that we have millions of people work
Solution to the Iranian Nuclear issue. One that will provide the necessary assurances on the exclusively peaceful nature of Irans Nuclear program on the one hand, and the list lifting of sanctions on the other. As such, it represents a significant achievement and a tribute to the merits of patient diplomacy from all sides. It is appropriate that this deal was struck in vienna, where all this began 12 years ago when the International Atomic Energy Agency started to look into possible iranian undeclared nuclear activities. Since then, there have been many months and years of at times difficult negotiations. A key milestone in that process was the interim geneva agreement in 2013, the smooth implementation of which provided necessary time and space for the conflict negotiation process which followed. This resulted in the parameters being set for the final deal. The format was especially effective. We feel that the European Union in particular was able to play a crucial or facilitation rol
A lot of areas where we can move forward. Thank you all very much and thanks for having me again. National Governors Association also held assumption on scripture drug abuse Prescription Drug abuse in the u. S. Mary bona also created the Prescription Drug abuse caucus. This is one hour and 20 minutes. If i could have your attention, lets take our seats so that we can get our joint session started. First of all, i am governors Steven Beshear from kentucky. I chair the mga health and Human Services committee. Welcome to all the governors who are here. This is a joint session of the health and Human Services committee and the Homeland Security and Public Safety committee. Joining me is vice chair of our Committee Governor bill haslam of tennessee. Im pleased we been able to come together with Homeland Security and Public Safety committee for todays discussion regarding the nations opioid crisis. I want to thank the leadership of the other committee, governor Rick Schneider of michigan, go
Level of business engagement. If you go to Front Range Community college where ive been in colorado you will see they have an advanced manufacturing partnership. Its a partnership between the federal state and local government. You see that the curriculum is being devised in partnership with industry. You actually see that there are businesses whose workers are professors. And what they tell me is one of the reasons they love teaching is they cherry pick the best students. And thats fine. Thats how you build your talent pipeline. And so we need to continue the efforts. And, again governor fallin thank you for your leadership on behalf of Community Colleges. We had four years worth of what we call tax grants. We have since dismissed our acronym director because its a clumsy acronym. What it stands for is using Community Colleges to catalyze change in the work force system. What i learned from these grants is that oftentimes businesses werent talking enough to educators. And so in los an