Apparently the field with respect to democrats this is a conference in name only. What i would like to do this for what we know today and talk about what would be in the public interest. Late last night the public land to the press that republicans had made no progress, there were its not my with respect to the tax bill. Visit all the major issues were still outstanding. I when everybody got up i made their way through their breakfast cornflakes, or told magically that everything was worked out must will be ready to go. I never been trying to move at the speed of light. We had yet another dose of fake mass when the Treasury Department reported their socalled analysis to project that this bill would generate great growth when it comes up a trillion dollars short. So i want to make sure the public understands what is on offer as of right now. With respect to the key issue which is the wellbeing of the middle class because millions and millions of middleclass people are going to get hurt
Harassment allegations made against the president. Congresswoman lois frankel Brenda Lawrence, and jackie spear at the Democratic Womens Working Group were joined by other democratic members at this press conference. It is 10 minutes. We are going to start when we said we would. Got everybody here . Good afternoon, i am lois frankel, chair of the democratic womens group. We will have two speakers, myself and Brenda Lawrence, who is our vice chair. Jackie spear may come, she is our policy communications chair. I want to thank our colleagues who are here today and thank you for being here today. The me too movement has arrived. Sexual abuse will not be tolerated, whether it is by a holiday producer, the chef of a restaurant, a member of congress, or the president of the united states. No man or woman is above the law. Clear is saying loud and that accusations of sexual abuse should be taken seriously. Victims must be heard, perpetrators must be held accountable, and all parties should ha
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [indiscernible conversation] announcer with house and Senate Tax Reform negotiations are taxg wednesday, reporter is with us. There is talk about the deal in the works. What is driving that . Talk started early this morning when senate in when several republicans senators said there could be in deal today. Yesterday, senator and house members were saying there were still a lot of issues to be worked out, but apparently they are getting closer to a deal on some outstanding issues and some differences between the house and senate tax plans. We could have a deal as soon as tonight. They may not reach a final agreement until later in this week. It will be a while before we see the final tax plan. The head of one of your pieces says six things to watch as tax overhaul and game nears very what are so
Good afternoon everybody. The subcommittee will come to order. I have to apologize in advance. I have to step out and have asked congressman to preside in my absence. So thank you for that. I want to thank everybody for joining us for todays hearing of the subcommittee on Economic Opportunity where we will begin our first oversight hearing on the implementation of hr 3218, the harry veterans assistance act of 2017 this bill was designed or signed into law on august 16th, 2017 and a great example of what congress can do with we put the American People and in this case our Veterans First and foremost in addition to the efforts of chairman row and other members of this committee, it was it result of the good efforts of many of our vsos. Two of whom are joined with us on the panel, student veterans of america. This was the first major improvement to the gi bill since 2011 and brought forth by many members of this house. To serve either in uniform or along side their active duty spouse or p
Six of which are muslim majority countries. The court issued an order allowing the ban to take full effect pending appeals before the third and fourth and ninth circuit courts of appeals. This is two hours. The United States Fourth Circuit court of appeals. All those having business draw night a nigh and give their attention. God save the United States and this Honorable Court. May it please the court. As the injunction strongly signals, the proclamation is fundamentally different than the prior executive order. The proclamation reflects a multiagency worldwide review engagement and recommendation process and its substantive findings are eight countries have inadequate information share practices or other risk factors that undermine the visa vetting system and warranted and free restrictions to protect this nation until they do so. In light of the fact that the standards for stay and standards for preliminary injunction are essentially the same, would you tell me what you think the Sup