Between capitol hill and this white house . Rettaw is james cap and Melissa Boteach. Thank you both for being here. Melissa, let me begin with you. How do you define entitlement . Aest i define entitlement as basic Living Standards whether its retirement or health care or nutrition that if you are eligible for it, youre guaranteed to receive it. I think thats important because it sets a floor of income security under americans such that when we face the ups and downs of life whether its unemployment or a medical emergency, etc. That there is basic Living Standards to support us. With things like retirement, thats an inevitability for all of us. Host the question is who should be eligible for . It . Guest my definition is similar to its a benefit conferred by federal law. If you meet the eligibility criteria, then the benefit is conferred on you through several programs. I think thats generally the issue that were now talking about. Entitlement spending associated with that eligibility
Mitch mcconnell not quite so eager on that front. To get on the same page in terms of their agenda, but now they are definitely going into different directions. Host paul ryan sounds like he thinks its doable and Mitch Mcconnells response to the question was not so doable basically. They said in interviews last year at this time that we have to look at our entitlement programs. We have to look at the drivers of the spending and the deb t. This is not new for him but new in the context of this new Republican Congress and legislative agenda. Weve asked Mitch Mcconnell repeatedly about those comments following the speakers remarks and he said, look, issues like entitlement reform and welfare reform have to be bipartisan. First of all, democrats its difficult to see if democrats will be in a bipartisan mood especially on those issues. We are talking about health care here. At his ear and press conference, Mitch Mcconnell was talking about look at Social Security reforms of the 1980s betwee
We also want to thank barnes noble for allowing us to be here with all of you. John obrien is the founder, chairman ceo of operation hope, the largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing on Financial Inclusion and empowerment, serving over 3. 6 million youth and adults since 1982. He is also the chairman and ceo of the frank Group Ventures and the promised homes company, the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental homes in the United States. In addition to that, he was recently named by american magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year and hes also served the last five United States president s has a counseling, as a counselor and advisor for all of them. We are very excited to have him this afternoon and we look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller the memo. Without further ado i would like to invite and introduce all of you too chairman, founder, ceo john obrien at this time, and
Congress when the house and Senate Return to work today on capitol hill. Give us a call. Democrats 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. Good tuesday morning. You can start calling in now and let us know what your top priority is for congress. Briefing by the attorney general. Its happening at 11 00. We will be covering on cspan. The press release says the attorney general will not be taking questions following his briefing. We will see what happens at 11 00 today. Until then we will talk about the various issues on congresss plate. From thee headline wall street journal today. Congress returns to tense session. Trump administration is asking 7. 8 5 billion to begin paying for the recovery from Hurricane Harvey with the houseboat scheduled first fore vote scheduled wednesday. The story goes on to talk about funding for the Childrens Health insurance and federal Flood Insurance programs which both expire on septemb
All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Rohrabacher, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. And i ask permission to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Rohrabacher mr. Speaker, on his recent trip to asia, President Trump reminded us and our International Trading partners that our commercial agreements must be honest, fair and reciprocal. This admonition with this admonition he called on our asian friends to build automobile plants that would employ American Workers. Three cheers for him doing that. The United States already has experienced the benefits and the liabilities of foreigncontrolled multinational Automobile Companies manufacturing in our country. These c