Congressional staffers on proposals to address the debt and deficit. Okay. Thank you, ken. And i want to thank everyone for actually coming back after lunch. Its still pretty full and i wasnt sure that was i going toe the case but i guess with the starstudded panel its really what everyone was rating for and why you all spent the whole morning here last night i went to sleep, i was thinking this event is set up perfectly, the sequencing of the panel first the director women will give us the percentage of gdp in which it becomes guns available. There will come in and tell us that night is falling for the last it is in order, the economy will collapse and this cannot both will in the afternoon and saved america and eventually have statues all around the country. The panels for those of you who did not quite go where i laid out and assume we are here to talk about how to raise taxes in the subpanel about policy not politics policy does not operate in a vacuum, its a political something of
Community, ways and Means Committee. This hourlong program was hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society in the Committee Hearing room. We have a very many distinguished guests with us this evening. Im going to ask some of them to stand all of them to stand and please hold your applause until the keynotes be has been introduced. And that will be the end of the group. Congressman paul ryan, chairman of the ways and Means Committee. Congressman Sander Martin levin Ranking Member of the committee. We will hear from both of these gentlemen later in the program. Former distinguished chairman bill archer. Bill thomas. Charlie wrangle. Dave camp. Former Ranking Member jim mccrary. And all of the sitting members of the committee. Please rise. [applause] we have two former Committee Members, Robert Canales and Nancy Johnson , [applause] barbara and nancy were two of the first congresswomen to serve on the ways and Means Committee. Then we had that wonderful lady, Cokie Roberts. [applause]
[applause] and to now, the chairman of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from missouri will offer a toast to the committee and then we will have dinner. Before i offer the toast this evening, i want to give a brief history, a very brief history, of the committee. But i want to step set the record straight first. Jim was not only the ranking member, but he was chairman of this committee. [applause] it was 226 years ago and 10 days from now that this committee was created in 1789. Its responsibility is for a clear, to raise money to pay for the government. The newly signed constitution, as we all have studied, declare that all laws to raise revenue must originate here in the house of representatives. For the first two months, that is exactly what happened. The committee drafted and considered bills to impose tariffs and taxes. But a turf battle arose. A magic, a turf battle in washington. That is unheard of. This one arose between the committee and the
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This has been a long but rich and rewarding day. Ofdo have another full day panels and discussions tomorrow, which will make a full twoandahalf day for this conference. This conference has been going on so long that barack obama was still president when we started. [laughter] imagine that. This conference itself is now part of history. For a final discussions today, we have to mini panels. Coverp panel here will all of asia outside of russia and china. We will start with robert of rinceton university. Comments onr some the reagan ministrations stance toward afghanistan. We will continue the conversation with the more broad look at the region as a whole, the greater middle east from india to yemen, how the administration understood or misunderstood it. I may interject with a question or two. We will do a pivot from the middle east to east asia for our final to discussions of the day. Jennifer miller of dartmouth college, no relation. Dr. Miller will discuss the u. S. Japan relationship.