House subcommittee. On challenges facing his agency. Mr. Reeder says he expects the Multiemployer Program to become insolve vent by 2025. Absent changes in the law. A federal agency that ensures pensions of workers and retirees in the private sector defined Pension Plans. This is a 90 minute portion of the hearing due to technical difficulty. Present the subcommittee on Health Employment lay br and pension will come it order. Good morning, welcome. To todays subcommittee hearing on the financial challenges facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. And more importantly the impact to workers and retirees. George miller was a proud liberal lion of the commit toe. While we very often disagreed, in the years i served with him on the committee. I admire his commitment to ensuring americans have the ability to retire with dignity. And in 2014, he worked with john clin. Then our chairman to try to solve a real problem. Retirement system on the brink of collapse. They put politics aside.
Strengthening the ties between our two countries. Let me begin by first acknowledging the elephant in the room. That on the minds i think most of, if not all of our u. S. Efforts to try to work with our persons to eliminate security threats in the region. That is the unique challenge of our president , president trump, whose International Affairs budget, the hollowing out of the state department and most of all his hep reprehensible antimusli rhetoric handicap to partner with governments in the maghreb. The president s travel ban and outrageous tweets most recently one that has been condemned by almost everybody in the political constellation of Great Britain fuel the very ensur jsi jen sees were trying to suppress. In a part of the world where his antimuslim, rhetoric and policies are counter productive and they isolate those whose support we need most and are all too often the majority of the victims of the extremism were trying to eliminate. The United States has an interest obvious
Calling being present, the subcommittee on health labor and pensions will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays subcommittee hearing on the financial challenges facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and more importantly the impact to workers and retirees, George Miller was a proud liberal lion of this committee. While we very often disagreed, the years that i served with him on this committee, i admired his commitment to ensuring americans have the ability to retire with dignity. In 2014, he worked with john kline, then our chairman, to try to solve a real problem. A retirement system on the brink of collapse. They put politics aside, worked with employers and labor unions and negotiated a set of reforms to the multiemployer Pension System in order to provide benefits for millions of workers. President obama signed this bipartisan approach into law in 2014. The law was based on the premise that the Plan Trustees who have a legal and moral obligation to pensioners
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A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin id like to vitiate. The presiding officer were not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin i ask to speak concerning we have a colloquy, speak on the protection act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Manchin madam president , as you know very well, weve been asking for immediate passage of the miners protection act not just for our state of West Virginia but for all the miners across america and basically the retired miners who have done everything thats been asked of them. We have some of our colleagues today and im going to go, at this time, if i can, and my other colleagues will allow me, i would defer right now to senator brown from ohio, since he has other commitments. Hell be coming back and forth, if he could go ahead and get started at this time. And ill come back and go to our other senato