Have live members of congress who will speak. I thank you for joining us. We have another halfdozen senators and representatives with record remark we will play once we are done. This is the 20 eighth edition of the congressional pics and follows two days after the Congressional Budget Office, and 854 billion, the record was 234 billion in the 864 billion would be the sixthlargest annual deficit. Since the supposedly earmarked moratorium, members of congress have set a record for the amount of spending according to citizens against government waste cry to which we develop back in 1991 with the bipartisan congressional pork busters coalition. The amount spent was 15. 9 billion, a 3. 0 increase in fiscal year 2019. The numbers may adopt a little bit from 282, two to extend for, decrease of 2. 8 . Since this league in 1991, cagw has identified 111,417 earmarks costing taxpayers 375. 7 billion so yes, those little projects due at up over time. The increase in porkbarrel spending occurred b
In one of my earliest conversation with him i said who among your or my colleagues should we go about trying to get involved . And he gave us three names, and two of those three names are joni ernst and ron johnson. We are grateful, but i also want you, your honor the legacy of dr. Coburn on your participation today. Joni, senator ernst, but start with you. Open comments. Senator johnson will then go to you and opened up for questions if this time are many. Thanks for joining us. [inaudible] a great champion and a wonderful college to work on these issues. Just starting of course you mentioned senator coburn because you really did pave the way when it came to waste cutting efforts within our federal government. He was great support of the commissioner and so we do want to honor him for that. Hes been an inspiration for so many of us. But i know several of you will remember that when i first ran for office i did that make a squeal sound. This is not easy. [inaudible] in the swamp. For e
Communities back at home. In tennessee our city from one corner to another they are getting back to that daily routine. Many of the businesses were able to improvise their way through the early o weeks of lockdown ad now they are finding what they are calling their new normal, the new process. Some of them received emergency loans. Others became one of the more than 80,000 Small Businesses and selfemployed workers who were able to take advantage of the paycheck protection program. But no matter how hard they work or how smart their plans are, we noted in thknow that in the ende going to lose a lot of our favorite neighborhood stops. Its really tough out there. Some of those businesses are already gone and that is going to happen in spite of the unprecedented investment that the federal government working with our state and local government has made into our business and healthcare sectors making certain that people are able to stay afloat and bridging from that rescue to a Business Res
Doctor coburn. Nonetheless the leadership and efforts to eliminate government waste and overreach continues to be an inspiration to me and to many others. You cannot find waste in any part of the federal budget, and its what i like toda call legendary. Hetake for example the shrimp oa treadmill and of course there was the bridge to nowhere. Every federal agency in washington feared the notoriety of the annual report of government access to key lead the fight that ended congressional earmarks that are known as these projects in white letters of credit for creating new government programs, doctor coburn took on the thankless job of trying to unravel the duplicate event overlapping program and redundant inefficient democracy. Ithe Government Accountability office with the gao. I think the head of the gao said it best and they will for a long time. Its making the government more efficient in other important ways. There are ten different agencies with 23 different overlapping fragmented def
Senator angus king and congressman Mike Gallagher. If i lived further north congressman al gore would be my member of congress. We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Spaulding who ill introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we