Birthday in march, the reality of spending more than 1500 nights away from my family over eight years hit me harder than it had before. Representative chaffetz was first elected in 2009. Agriculture secretary sonny purdue testified before congress for the first time yesterday since taking office. He briefed members of the housing a which you are committee on the role of farming, on rural economies throughout the United States. This hearing runs about three and a half hours. Good morning, the hearing on the committee of agriculture entitled state and Rural Economy, secretary of agriculture sonny purdue will come to order. Ive asked david scott to open for us. David . Sure, bow our heads, please. Dear heavenly father we come before your throne of grace to first of all say thank you, we thank you for so Many Blessings that you bestow upon us, many which we dont even know. On this occasion, we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry and that your blessings come upon our new secr
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming to this panel. Eric, the Deputy Director or today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a bit of attention these days, School Choice and especially private School Choice. I know there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters. In particular as well, but given the recent conversation and recent president ial election i think this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues and is so forth School Vouchers and other voucher like programs, voucher cousins, if you will has been growing in numbers. The cousins would be like tax credit scholarships and Education Savings Account and the latter is what one proponent yesterday called the cool new kid on the block. As most of you know President Trump and secretary of education ours big fans of School Choice and a secretary betsy devos was to talk about choice and its made it the centerpiece of her educatio
Standards. This is about an hour. Good morning, everyone. Takes for coming to this panel. M the Deputy Director at today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a little bit of attention these days, School Choice, and especially private School Choice. I know there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country, a conversation about charters. But given so much of the recent conversation and the president ial election, this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues if you have questions. School vouchers and other voucherlike programs, cousins, if you will, have been growing in number. The cousins would be tax credits, scholarships, and education accounts. The latter of which one proponent called yesterday the cool new kid on the block. President trump and his secretary of education are big fans of School Choice, and betsy devos loves to talk about choice and has made it the centerpiece of her education agenda. Said, these are complicate
Standards. This is about an hour. Good morning, everyone. Takes for coming to this panel. M the Deputy Director at today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a little bit of attention these days, School Choice, and especially private School Choice. I know there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country, a conversation about charters. But given so much of the recent conversation and the president ial election, this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues if you have questions. School vouchers and other voucherlike programs, cousins, if you will, have been growing in number. The cousins would be tax credits, scholarships, and education accounts. The latter of which one proponent called yesterday the cool new kid on the block. President trump and his secretary of education are big fans of School Choice, and betsy devos loves to talk about choice and has made it the centerpiece of her education agenda. Said, these are complicate
Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. The white house has requested 1. 1 trillion for the department of health and Human Services. Of the budget request includes cuts in Public Health and Biomedical Research took hhs secretary tom price talked at a Senate Finance committee the twohour hearing begins with opening remarks by the chair of the committee, lauren hatch of utah. Of the committee will come to order. We will first listen to the senator from oregon who has to go to another committee hearing, so i welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the president s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 with specific attention to the department of health and Human Services. I want to thank secretary price for being here. These hearings are an annual event for the finance committee and secretary price, since this is your first time around i will warn you these hearings can be a little grueling. Of course, you already know that that the president and hhs are eager to w