To welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in the Bush Administration toge
I wonder who has a better chance at taking down president trump, Bernie Sanders or colonel sanders. Robert mueller appeared in congress for nearly seven hours for q a, more q than a. Mueller is a marine, earned a purple heart. And he is a lifelong republican who spent the day being abused by his party. At one point, melania had to come in and tell them to be best. Republicans were very eager to poke holes in any part of mueller they possibly could to distract us from the crimes our president committed. Fox news went so far to bring in a body language expert to suggest mueller wasnt being entirely forthcoming. He holds his fingers together and his tongue juts out. Number one, when you keep your hands like this you are showing restraint. When you stick your tongue out, youre saying to someone, i dont like whats coming out. Im not happy with this. So hands restrained. Hes holding eye contact, not moving. And then you see that tiny tongue jut, and you realize, this a man trying to hold thi
From above. As we celebrate this vote today, we celebrate the lives of people like lou alvarez. Well never forget the heroes james delegate rode a, ray pfeiffer, and loual v. R. E. E. The september 11th Victims Compensation fund act is named to honor these three First Responders who lost their lives to 9 11related illnesses. Today the senate has an opportunity to honor these three and so many others that we have lost who never stopped fighting for 9 11 First Responders and the country they loved by voting yes on this critical legislation. Ive shared with many of my colleagues, i never had the privilege of going to new york city before september 11th, 2001, but i will never forget my first visit after september 11, 2001. It was just a few weeks after the attack had happened. Ill never forget the smell. Ill never forget the smoke coming out of the debris pile. Ill never forget the silent fire trucks with their lights on but no siren as they delivered even more heroes to the Recovery Effo
For broadcasting this event. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please be sure you silence any cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, mr. Clerk. I would just like to start this meeting by saying thank you all for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and your priorities to where the public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, weve been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will have to wait a while to speak, and we are not doing speaker cards today. Everyone can just lineup. We are prioritizing peopl