Thank you for joining us. Viewers what the Heritage Foundation and the center for American Progress are. Guest the Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank in washington, d. C. Of policyffect issues, my expertise is federal government matters. A progressive think tank covering a wide variety of issues. I cover budget policy. Romina. Will start with has been in control by the republicans for quite some time. The difference is the white house is also under control of the same party. Is this budget a continuation of the budget that has come out of the house, or are there notable differences . Guest notable differences is a reconciliation package, proposing to cut 200 billion in what are called autopilot or entitlement spending programs. That is the biggest proposal cut to these programs yet. The reconciliation the occult also includes instructions for tax reform. See the house gop setting up for a tax reform package with the president. Trying to do so while cutting spending at the
The influence of both sides. I think it is a far more balanced circuit circumstances are much more balanced than people suspect. The results are not absolute. If you spend an extra Million Dollars youll get that bill through congress. That does not work at all. Money is useful, sometimes important, but it is no means decisive. The voices of people as they are organized politically in the country are definitely heard in washington on all sides of the question. Host your final call this half hour is from paula from pennsylvania, republican. Caller hi. Ideas have a comment because i have been listening. I just have a comment because i have been listening. All those people who called in before and said the president lies, he is a liar, do they really think people who voted for President Trump forget the biggest lie we were told . If you like your health care plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep it. This was publicized. By all the democrats president obama, joe biden
The internet. The second wave. Now we are seeing the third wave pick up steam, the internet integrated in seamless and pervasive ways, sometimes invisible ways throughout our lives. Changing health care, transportation, energy, food. Pretty big sectors of the economy. Playbooka different point be successful. Can you give an example of a product that will see in the third wave . Take health care. Everyone focuses on the challenges of health care, how do use technology to make it more convenient to have Better Outcomes . Said when people come for second opinions, 25 of the time they were a first opinion. But is a Data Analysis problem. There is a lot of work when one company met with tempest creating an operating system for cancer, much more precise in terms of the diagnosis and what drugs or therapies people should take. We know kids learn differently. How do we use technology to create a more personalized adapted way to learn . All kinds of things. Some of that is changed in the first
With consideration for fiscal year 2018 concurrent resolution of the budget. I want to thank the Ranking Member for working with me to develop a structure for this markup that closely resembles and follows what has been done in the past. Openoal is to have it and markup. Besides will have the debate. Ity to we have a long day ahead of us and i think everyone for their cooperation. We will come lead our work i midnight and hopefully well before then. If we can all Work Together that might be possible. I would like to recognize the distinguished member from indiana. Good morning. Latereveral expected today i would ask unanimous consent that consistent with caused floor four of rule 16 the chairman will be authorized to declare recess at any time today. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that thats each side b advocated 40 minutes. The Ranking Member will make an Opening Statement out of that a lot of time. Each side then makes presentations out of the remaining 10. Mem
Amy Coney Barrett has that record. There were people advocating for Barbara Lagoa. She was seen as the president s other pick besides Coney Barrett. A lot of florida officials were pushing for her. Ultimately, the president , according to our reporting, decided he will go with amy Coney Barrett. Part of the problem that some of the president s supporters had with somebody like Barbara Lagoa is she did not have the written record of supporting things like overturning roe v. Wade. She was confirmed by the senate which was not an asset. They thought it showed she would not be on side. We will hear from the announcement from the president later today. One of the things we hear from the rally is fill that seat. His base is energized. They like the idea of him filling a Supreme Court seat. They like the idea of religious conservatives and evangelicals turning out. His numbers have been slipping a bit. They like this pick. However, there are concerns among the president s allies that justice