Science and public policy. To the extent it is possible, should be research similarly separated from government then you would not find Climate Science in particular being a factionridden orthodoxy enforcing political movement, but rather the quest for knowledge. Steve mnuchin. The objectives are simplified personal taxes, create middle income tax cuts to spur the economy and make our business taxes competitive. Former ambassador to afghanistan. Clearly, we have to work with the afghans to stabilize the situation against a taliban onslaught and move ahead with a political process. It is going to have to include pakistan. Attorney general Jeff Sessions on trance member, were a gang will find you. We will devastate your networks, we will starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks and sees your profits. We will not concede a single block or streetcorner to your vicious tactics. Programs are available at cspan. Org, on our homepage and by searching the video library. Cspans washington
Leadership role of the Problem Solvers Caucus. What is the Problem Solvers Caucus . Guest thank you for having me on today. The Problem Solvers Caucus is 22 democrats and 22 republicans that are trying to find Common Ground where we can solve problems. We sent a letter to the president and said we would like to work with the one tax reform and infrastructure. We were meeting with secretary and secretary nugent to talk about we were interested in working together with these issues and we put together a proposal that we would support a claim funding bill to keep the government opened this week. S in there, writer just a claim spending bill. We are tied trying to become an alternative to say, lets solve some problems and try and make things better. Host what are some victories you can point to . Guest there are no victories at this stage. The only victories we have are that there are people spending time with each other. One of the problems i have been in congress for 100 days. Am a forme
Phone lines are open. Andcrats, republicans, independents. You can also catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. Should the u. S. Toughen drug sentencing . You can call it now. The headline from the reporting on this, attorney general Jeff Sessions charts course back to long drug sentences. The trumpet era of Drug Enforcement has officially arrived, and it sounds like the old days. The message came on friday in the form of a memo from ag Jeff Sessions to all federal prosecutors, stop seeking leniency and start seeking the toughest sentence as possible. We are seeing an increase in Violent Crimes in our cities, particularly in baltimore, chicago, memphis, and milwaukee and many others. The murder rate has surged 10 nationwide. Largest increase in murder since 1968. We know that drugs and crime go handinhand, they just do, the facts prove it. Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business. If you want to collect a drug d
The section of the bill . The gentleman from hawaii. Mr. Chairman, i have [inaudible] the clerk will distribute the amendment. Without objection the amendment is considered as read. Is the gentlelady having trouble with remarkable . I think the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. What i will be doing is ill be offering the amendment and then withdrawing it because i do not have at the end to come because they do not have the requisite waiver. However come having said that, i would like to present the animate and withdraw it at the conclusion. So 171 seeks basically a specific war memorial at pearl harbor hawaii. Mr. Chair, this is a very unique situation in that there is a rear admiral retired livening of lloyd who served in world war ii as a submarine officer aboard the uss under the command of John S Mccain junior, father of john mccain the third. And he advocated for many years the creation of the pacific war memorial at pearl harbor. In hi
Officers to Communications Technicians to officer carrying the nuclear football. Time, those people are spending money, meals at the resort, parking at the resort, golf carts to follow the president around at the resort. Maybe even rooms at the resort. Because the president refused to the vest himself of his business interests, that money is left to be held at his property of the first place. And thats how like a conflict of interest. This is not just a hypothetical. Meetings party been held that maralago. Since february, i have been tried to figure out whether department of defense dollars are finding their way to the president s pocket through government expenditures at trump properties. I asked secretary mattis and deford earlier this month. Although we have not been provided definitive answers, pentagon officials have not ruled out that the president is profiting on taxpayer funds. This amendment would prohibit the department of defense from paying expenses at property owned or ope