Will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who makes us one, use our lawmakers today as agents of reconciliation. Give them the wisdom to build bridges that will enable Diverse People to accomplish your purposes on earth. Lord, inspire our senators with such oneness of spirit and resolve that they will provide our nation with a model of cooperation. Remind them of the wisdom of matthew 12 25, which states that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Lord, we thank you for giving senator grassley another birthday. We pray in your unifying name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gr
The president will be speaking at 2 30 on the administrations efforts to reduce red tape and federal regulations. Within 10 days of taking office, President Trump issued executive order 13771, instructing the office of management and budget to remove two government regulations for every new one created. Washington stopped but the administration acted and in under a year weve unleashed the american economy, businesses and job creation. These efforts and the rest of the president s agenda have fueled economic growth, including alltime highs in the stock market, a 17year low in unemployment rolls, new highs in manufacturing and consumer confidence, and much more. As the president said yesterday, were at the final stages of historic tax cuts and reforms that will provide massive relief to middle class families, lower tax rates on american businesses to make us more competitive and make our tax code simpler and fairer for the first time in decades. We want to begin lowering the tax bills in
As most americans will. That is our pole that to make sure more americans see more of their hardearned money. That is what we push for and keep working with the house and senate on taxes. Reporter on two no, sir on senate. Bob corker, no for a while. Rubio said he is no unless he gets expansion of Child Tax Credit. Is the president willing to be more generous in the Child Tax Credit in order to get senator rubios vote . Were already doubling the Child Tax Credit, taking it 2,000 per child. Well continue working with senator. We made Great Strides in movement of Child Tax Credit. Well keep working with him until we get the job done which we still expect to happen before the end of the year. Reporter is there more room to move . Right now well focus on letting some of the senate move forward in the progression of ire conversations. Again, were extremely excited about the progress that weve already made to double the Child Tax Credit. That is something important to note. Something we work
Subcommittee hearing on irs reform resolving taxpayer disputes. Before it began my official statement i would like to recognize the extraordinary effort of two of our Witnesses Today that made it appear from florida. I think you drove from orlando, so thats pretty impressive. Both mr. Shinn and ms. Wilson came from the great state of florida. Thank you very much for your determination to be here. I know it wasnt easy. Let me pause for a moment to thank all our first responders, local government officials and Community Members who stepped up and respond to the Hurricane Irma in my home state of florida. It is impressive to see everyone working together. Im confident we will continue to Work Together in the aftermath of the storm as well. Todays hearing is another important step in the process of considering reforms to the irs. As i have stated previously, i do not view this effort as an opportunity to degrade or discredit the good work being done by irs employees. However, i am a big be
Take it somewhere else. [laughter] ok. I am proud to be joined by my durbin,es senator senator, to talk about health care. We heard a lot of talk about the state and governors just released was a letter. Governorsts, five posted the socalled grahamcassidy bill and more in favor of a bipartisan negotiation such as that of senator alexander and senator murray. I heard our republican colleagues speak. There was a word missing. People. Patients. Care. All this stuff, democrat, republican, governors, washington. How about how this will affect people . Millions will lose coverage. No preexisting conditions. An end to medicaid as we know it. Tens of millions of people could well lose coverage. People who desperately need Financial Services would lose it. Our republican colleagues do not seem to care about how this affects the average american. That is why trumpcare previous Trumpcare Bills were so unpopular. That is like this bill is unpopular. Despite all their efforts, they are struggling b