Everybody all set . Good. We made a lot of progress over the past seven years on our economy, unemployment is down, deficits are down, gas prices are down, job creation, wages, the rate of americans with Health Coverage are all up. So as i said at the state of the union, america is as strongly positioned as any country on earth to take advantage of the opportunities of the 21st century. But what were aware of is we all have a lot of work to do. Not only to try to maintain momentum but to go at some of the structural issues and problems that may be impeding people from making progress, getting opportunity and living the kind of lives for themselves and their children that we all want for every american. The budget that were releasing today reflects my priorities. And the priorities that i believe will help advance security and prosperity in america for many years to come. These are proposals reflected in the budget that work for us and not against us. It adheres to last years bipartisan
These things until congress is propelled to do the right thingh lets put a process in place, beginning with budget reform, s how we do the budget, and strutheral changes here to pushn this body to do what everyone outside this body says needs to be done. In the days ahead when were spending more on interest than r national defense, this body should hang its head in shame. St should fix it so that never happens. And we can get on top of our debt and our deficit with a straightforward process that gets us back to work. With that, mr. President , i yield back. Wednesday on capitol hill, janel yellen testifies on the state of the economy, live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspa cspan3. The zika virus with centers for Disease Control and prevention and National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases director. Thats at 1 00 p. M. Eastern also on cspan3. After releasing his 165 page budget proposal, president obama talked about the increased investments in Cyber Security. Lets take a l
[cheers] the road to the white house for the president ial candidates continues in South Carolina not inner the republicans this week but for the democrats. And joining us from columbia, South Carolina is andy shain political reporter for the state newspaper. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you very having me. Looking at the schedule Hillary Clinton will be there tomorrow and wednesday. Senator sanders not back until friday. Give us a sense where this race is among these two democrats. Andy secretary lynnton is holding a large lead about 24 clinton is holding a large lead about 24 points. Shes held a very large lead over senator sanders really since hes entered the race. The main reason why its not been close is the africanamerican vote. South carolina more than half of our voters are africanamerican. Hillary clinton is very popular. She holds a 21 advantage over senator sanders among the africanamerican vote. This is a little bit of a residual from the 2008 primary when s
Is it with people that dont understand and i plead to these people to open their eyes, open their ears, all right . Bernie sanders has got the right idea. I dont want to hear about the republicans this and the republicans that. What we need to do is were america. We need to have health dr case for all. Its very important. We dont have healthcare for all. If you go in the hospital can we afford health care for all . Caller did you hear what i said, greta. If we dont have healthcare for all, the ones that dont have it, the hospital aint going to turn them away. Who pays for that, we all pay for it. Whats point in going through all this . And these drug companies, what hypocrites, putting 5,000 increase on the drugs. They ought to be shot. Well, i dont know if they ought to be shot. But hes got a good point in terms of the high cost and the rising cost. Its drowning a lot of people. Its very hard to overcome. When you talk about can we aforit . Right now people are taking money out of the
Generating 46 million in proceeds. Beyond our brick and mortar infrastructure is our Information Technology infrastructure in which the government and the Global Economy depends. Reliable i. T. Is vital to all of the services the government provides. However, many agencies are not able to effectively have i. T. Infrastructure, emission writ call systems due to large upfront Capital Investment needs and increasing share of costs that maintaining these older systems occupy in technology budgets. To address these issues, the budget includes requests to establish a 3. 1 billion Information Technology fund, which would be used to retire and modernize legacy and Information Technology systems to improve Cyber Security and the delivery of services as well as reduce costs. In closing, gsa has made significant progress in fulfilling our mission to delivery the best value and Real Estate Acquisition and Technology Services to government and the American People. The president s fy2017 request wil