Calling being present, the subcommittee on health labor and pensions will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays subcommittee hearing on the financial challenges facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and more importantly the impact to workers and retirees, George Miller was a proud liberal lion of this committee. While we very often disagreed, the years that i served with him on this committee, i admired his commitment to ensuring americans have the ability to retire with dignity. In 2014, he worked with john kline, then our chairman, to try to solve a real problem. A retirement system on the brink of collapse. They put politics aside, worked with employers and labor unions and negotiated a set of reforms to the multiemployer Pension System in order to provide benefits for millions of workers. President obama signed this bipartisan approach into law in 2014. The law was based on the premise that the Plan Trustees who have a legal and moral obligation to pensioners
Nicole strong talks about President Trumps decision to shrink the size host good morning. It is washington journal. The Supreme Court and folks today as it hears arguments concerning that colorado bigger that refused to bake a cake for a gay couples wedding. Many are lined up outside of the court hopeful to become spectators of the argument. You can hear the arguments on cspan. Org. A new survey which looks at the media. Take a look at how republicans and democrats and Media Coverage of President Trump. We will present some of those results. We are interested in hearing from you. Heres how you can let us know. You can post thoughts on Media Coverage of President Trump and you can go to our facebook page. That isfind the survey done for republicans and democrats just to present you a little bit of the survey. It says this he is a coauthor of the study. Another author join us on the phone to talk about the results and the findings is from princeton university. Good morning. Guest good to
Few weeks. Including federal spending, tax reform and negotiations over the daca program. If he is with Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. Good afternoon everyone. This week on the Florida Senate will be going through the process of going to conference on tax reform. As you already know, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, ron and i have a president on the way forward on the spending issue. What we anticipate is a two week cr and december 22 which should give us room to talk about a larger understanding about how we are going to come over the b and other provisions that will be part of the year and spending measure. That is the agenda for us for the weekend with that i will go to senator cornyn. I know our democratic colleagues have been talking about their desire to find a solution for the recipients of daca. Deferred action for childhood arrivals. We have indicated to them led by the Judiciary Committee this simply does not advance the interest of these Daca Recipients to try and fo
Told me to tell you. To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him thats church hill. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man. Michael jordan was unreasonable enough to think that he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. Jesus christ was unreasonable enough to think through him being lifted up, all men could be forgiven for their sins. Barack obama was unreasonable enough to think he could do a good job for black folks, but he failed, but i digress. Donald trump and steve bannon are two of the most unreasonable people in the world. Steve bannon is unreasonable enough to think that the black vote, the black business community, the the latino, asian business community, has value. This guy is busy as heck all over the world,
More African Americans involved in the republican party. So, im going to introduce to you guys your speaker, but my friend. Some of you have heard me ask this in the past. There are a lot of new folks here. How many of you all consider yourselves reasonable people . Most of you all. You all are the wrong people. [ laughter ] how many of you all are familiar with George Bernard shaw, the british play right . Yeah, i had breakfast with him this morning, and heres what he told me to tell you. To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him thats church hill. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man. Michael jordan was unreasonable enough to think that he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. Jesus christ was unreasonable enough