democrat congressman tim ryan. only 54% of democrats approve of the president s handling of the economy as whispers of a recession grow much louder and inflation straps family budgets. let s bring in buckeye state republican congressman jim jordan. he s the top republican on the house judicially committee. congressman, great to have you on. this is the sixth time the president has visited your state. he clearly believes he s got a captive audience there. your thoughts. he might believe that. but what is it? nine out of ten fellow citizens think the country is on the wrong track. that s up 15 points from two months ago. that s how bad things are. i don t know that making a trip to ohio will change things. you mentioned the senate race. where is tim ryan? i don t think he will be with president biden today. the president makes the sixth visit to your state and you re running for senate and you won t show up? that tells you about this administration and how wrong the policy is
let me welcome madam speaker today at our winter meeting. we know you have a very busy schedule and you are very kind to be with us. as a matter of full disclosure. i m not objective and i m a big fan of madam speaker and we have been personal friends for many, many years. as my children will tell you, when the speaker comes on the television, we have a mandatory silence policy so we can all hear what the speaker is talking about at the time. will not ask madam speaker about anything new that happened to come up in washington over the past few days. i think we all understand that. but i would like to start, madam speaker, on a slightly different tone and talk a little bit about your background. we are in this hyper partisan, hyper political time and i think some people lose the humanity of what we do in public service. we focus on labels and titles and positions and we forget that we are all people trying to do good things. and you have an interesting background. you re fro
the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. heavenly father, thank you for giving us another day. we thank you for every day you give us to be here at the seat of participative government. breast the work of all the men and women who represent the people of the united states. fill them with wisdom and good will that they might better work together for the benefit of our nation. bless all the leaders of all the branches of our government at the end of a difficult week when the divisions in our polity and our faith have been on open display for all the world to see. father, forgive us and send us your spirit that we might indeed heal the divisions and learn to love those with whom we disagree even our enemies. may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house her ppro
now, it didn t help that it was the united states that pulled out of the paris climate accord. it helped that we re back in it. good afternoon, everyone. i m so excited i just can t hide it. the rules committee just finished its work and now will make preparation for bringing this important american rescue plan to the floor of the house. it is so exciting as you know because of what it does. vaccines in the arms of american people, money in their pockets, children safely in school, workers safely back to work. it s a remarkable, historic, transformative piece of legislation which goes a very long way to crushing the virus and solving our economic crisis. it s interesting to me to see what i m hearing on the floor during the proact debate how republicans are talking about their tax scam, $1.9 trillion in their tax scam. 83% of the benefits to the top 1%, and this bill is the same amount of money. $1.9 trillion overwhelmingly helping america s working families. you ll hear mo
Recognition between the parties. All time rn be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Eters, for five minutes. Mr. Peters thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i understand that real tax reform is absolutely necessary. In 2013, the Harvard Business School Published a report that identified the most important priorities to promote American Growth and competitiveness. Two of the eight priorities were tax related. First to simplify the Corporate Tax code with lower priorities statutory owth and rates and fewer loopholes. And second, to reform the taxation of foreign profits so we dont disadvantage american businesses and workers. Many democrats would work with the majority to achieve these progrowth tax reforms. Thats how it worked so well in 1986 under president reagan a