Friday on cspan2 and cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house will be in order. For 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress. The white house. The supreme court. And Public Policy events from washington d. C. And around the country. You can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1978. Cspan is brought by the local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a hearing on Agriculture Research and the status of the implementation of the 2018 farm bill. We hear about relocating parts of the Agriculture Department to the kansas city region. This hearing was held by the Senate Agriculture committee. Good morning. I call this meeting to order. Over two years ago we kicked off the 2018 farm bill, and that whole process was by holding a hearing at Kansas State University of our Land Grant Institution. A few months later there was a hearing in this room. What we heard from the officials representatives fro
Priorities for the 2018 farm bill. The needs are certainly great. Every day our producers encounter extreme and unpredictable weather and pests to name a few. Researches and institutions tasked with these challenges are directed to do so with minimal federal resources and an aging infrastructure. Crafting the agriculture improvement act of and i along with members of this committee recognized that we had to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. With the enactment of the bill, the primary department of Agriculture Research education authorities were reauthorize z including the Agriculture Research and the National Institute of food and agriculture. Funds including the hatch act and the smith lever mccann tis sten nis and evans allen were extended and competitive Grant Programs were included to support Research Facilities and equipment improvements. Provisions were included to bring incompetent to 1890 and 1994 institutions. The farm and Ra
It is a tax credit that people with low incomes receive as a kind of bonus for working, the more they earn, the larger the tax credit up to a certain point. Then that, clinton and first Lady Hillary Clinton were engaged in a deeply divisive with congress and the American People in general that the future of the health care system. Clintons efforts to Reform Health care at the time failed, so the white house was occupied with health care at the time. And then in 1995, a new congress was inaugurated. This congress was controlled by republicans. That led to a year and a half of haggling between republicans and congress and the white house over what kind of welfare reform would ultimately be enacted. Eventually in the summer of 1996, almost 20 years ago to the day, clinton signed the welfare reform bill. That bill was signed in 1996. What were some of the key changes it made in the welfare system . Max i think the most important change is that welfare can no longer be taken for granted. Pe
That would i just poverty by increasing Economic Growth and wage growth and job creation . If you look at the data, we never recovered to normal since the last recession. We do not recover to normal levels of wage growth. What is the best way to address Economic Policy to get the economy growing again . What ideas does anyone have to adopt policy . Why dont we run down anybody anybody . Taxeed a reduction in the that is slowing a Economic Growth slowing Economic Growth. We may never return to levels of Economic Growth. We are not going to see the labor force increase significantly. Right now it is on immigration that is keeping our population even stable. I think we are not going to see increases. Michael, you talked about that already. Minorities have moved into the labor force, we are not considered again. Automationng toward as of the tools for growth and productivity. I think we may not return to the the 4 to 5 growth of the past. To the degree that we can, i think it is going to r
Ultimately allow residents to approve almost all forms of gambling in the state. 3 mandatory burnin courtesy denison bulletin review 3 investigators in denison are still trying to determine the cause of a weekend. Crews first responded to a fire at this home in the 15 hundred block of 1st avenue north in denison just after 6 30 saturday morning. They rescued two people from the home. 52 year old craig streck and 37 year old wendy waldemar. Waldemar later died of her injuries at Crawford County memorial hospital. Investigators from the Denison Police department, the Denison Fire Department and the Iowa State Fire Marshals Office are trying to figure out what started it. 3 3 today is traditionally the busiest day of the year for the u s postal serviceand this year, its even busier here in sioux city. Postmaster Marcus Schultze says people are sending more packages. With a 20 percent incrase in package shipments. He says to make the process of shipping presents easier on everyone. Theres