Democrats said no. The house will have to vote on the deal again. Its a formality. Biggest tax shakeup in generation. The winners, in my opinion, business, lowtaxed states. Wall street journal says it is a return of the politics of growth. Democrats hate it, senator schumer says its a disgrace, absolute disgrace. Elizabeth warren calls it a tax heist and Bernie Sanders says it plays to the billionaire class, but it is a win for President Trump, maybe thats what the left just cant stand and the president tweeting that he wants to hold a News Conference this afternoon. Today december 20th, 2017 historic, Merry Christmas, everyone. Varney company is about to begin. With further amendment, the tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Stuart bit more applause confetti, why not . We added that. Not that much applause and cheers from exhausted senate last night that. Was the scene on capitol hill when the bill passed the senate. For technical reasons the house has to vote again, as we said, thats a f
2008. Id like to provide specific welcome this morning to our new member, senator smith. It is good to have yes part of the committee. I think youll find that this is a committee that does good work it would like to focus on policy, and would like to do things in a bipartisan way every now and again. So looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is also returning to our committee and i look forward to welcoming her and her ongoing contributions. We do have a lot on our agenda today. Our broad Bipartisan Energy Natural Resources bill where again were looking forward to continuing that as the year progresses to our efforts to increase our nations mineral security, our need for wildfire funding fix, for Street Management reform, innovation, islands and territories. With a wide range of public lands come so theres just do the things that we have on deck for this new year. We were probably have a lighter attenda
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Vietnamese opt and our hospital and i went to nutrong once a week to do red cross work. Watch American History tv, every weekend on cspan3. The Senate Energy Committee Held a hearing on the Global Energy out look. The executive tiff director of the agency talked about oil and Gas Production and the decreesable price of Renewable Energy and Cyber Security and a another of other issues, this is about an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning everyone the committee will come to order as we begin our first hearing what propositions to be a very busy 2008 id like to provide specific welcome this morning to our new member, senator smith. It is good to have you as part of the committee. I think you will find that this is a committee that does good work. We like to focus on policy and we like to do things in a bipartisan way every now and again. So looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is returning to our committee
Welcome. Let me begin with tax reform and what the senate is proposing, the house bill, and how significant are they . Robert the key challenge for republicans is whether they want this tax cut legislation to be populist in nature or not. They know they want a Corporate Tax rate come bring down the rate to 20 . At the same time, the debate between the Senate Version and the house version for republicans is about the top rate. Should top earners see a tax cut or not . That will perhaps hold up the bill and coming weeks. Charlie what about other issues . They may delay the corporate reduction until 2019 . Is that still under consideration . Robert that is exactly right. That comes back to the point about populism. All these republicans were elected during the george bush and obama era and trump has disrupted their party. As they pursue this signature tax legislation, they are grappling with the idea that the base is not begging for it. Because of that feeling that the base does not want