Diversity to this commission and thats one of my core values that doesnt change and this is my First Official meeting with the rules committee and moving forward this is what i am looking forward to every member that is listening to this Committee Meeting is that we need to be creating policy bodies that can create and gender parity as well as Ethnic Diversity and that also includes class, diversity. It includes Sexual Orientation and every other category we san franciscans value, so i am here today to support dory and this Committee Also kept me up this agenda kept me up as well because we have several outstanding members of the San Francisco community thats stepping up. Now, one thing we inventory talked about is item. Havent talked about is item 7. I would love some of the men to be on the equal pay Advisory Board because that body is represented by women and women of color so you can imagine its an interesting balance were all trying to create, and these commissions are important b
The gentleman from wisconsin. Mr. Ryan i yield two minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Rothfus. Mr. Rothfus i thank chairman ryan for the hard work he has been doing over the last several years as we look to get a handle on the spending problem we have here in washington, d. C. Mr. Chairman, our debt is out of control. In the past 10 years it has doubled from 7. 1 trillion to 17. 6 trillion today. We paid 416 billion in interest just last year. Imagine where that money could have been better spent. Failure to address the debt and deficits reduces opportunity and prosperity for future generations and directly threatens our ability to pay for our priorities like Social Security, medicare, a Strong National defense and taking care of our veterans. Unfortunately, president obama has offered another budget that increases taxes, expands the government, does nothing to save medicare or Social Security and never balances. Harry reids senate will not even consider a budget this year
I know it is equal pay day and not obamacare day, but i do want to point out that the Affordable Care act guarantees Preventative Care like mammograms and contraception care and end the days when you could be charged more just for being a woman when it comes to your Health Insurance. [applause] thats true for everybody. Thats just one more place where things were not fair. We will talk about dry cleaners next. [laughter] [applause] i dont know why it costs more for michelles dress down my shirt. Thatve to make sure America Works for everybody. Harddy willing to work should be able to get ahead. We have to build an economy that works for everybody, not just those at the top. Restoring opportunity for all has to be the priority. Thats what america is about. Doesnt matter where you started out, what you look like. You work hard and you take responsibility. You make the effort. You should be able to get ahead. We have to fight for the opportunity agenda. Training americans to make sure tha
The story of catherine sibeliuss resignation is top of most news organizations news items. A wellregarded former governor of the state of kansas. She is leaving after months of intense criticism over the botched rollout in the fall of the insurance marketplace. Doing the firestorm, president obama made clear to his aides that he would not seek the resignation of the health secretary. Joining us to break this down is john sullivan. Thank you for being with us is morning. Guest thank you for having me. One of the things is interesting is this caught democrats on capitol hill by surprise. Obama kept within a closeknit circle. Republicans have been calling for her resignation for months waiting dating back to the troubled rollout of the healthcare law last fall, as you mentioned. It seemed like obama was going to stick with her. She has been around for just about five years. It is something that caught people outside of the immediate orbit of the white house by surprise. As we have seen fr
My money to bail out these bankers. That is part of why the tea party started. They were frustrated with republicans and giving up on the democrats. Are frustrated on republicans voting for the bank bailout. There is a bigger working than an honors class. I want to tell the workers of america that we are on their side. The president keeps offering you free stuff. More Unemployment Insurance. When is the last time that we created millions of jobs . It was under ronald reagan. Forwardld reagan come and say, lets just cut taxes for low income people . He said lets cut everyones taxes. Thats what rich people pay. More revenue came in in fact. People were carter and make more money. More revenue comes in. Say,nt let the democrats richower the taxes for people. Anyone here ever work for a poor person . We are all interconnected and weve got to get beyond this class warfare. We cant let them beat us up how manyave to people have their policies employed . Barely growing. You never get out of p