[banging gavel] rules committee will come to order. And good afternoon. And welcome to another fun day at the rules committee. Today we have an exciting panel the Financial Services, the chairman from dallas, texas, as well as the gentlewoman, my dear friend, ms. Waters from los angeles and were delighted youre here. The rules committee today will be considering hr 3971. The Community Institution mortgage relief act of 2017 and hr 477 the Small Business merger, acquis igdss sales and brokeerage act and House Resolution act which will be the second part of the hearing today, the continued appropriations act of 2018. Brokers provide Necessary Services for small, private Companies Looking to merge and or to be acquired. But brokers can face substantial appliance costs associated with a onesize fits all regulatory scheme costs that ultimately once again get passed down to Small Private Companies and puts them in need of not only the services but having to pay those bills. It helps alleviat
Can i alert my colleagues that are here to introduce individuals normally we would turn to you and let you do that. But this meeting is has some more controversy than most hearings have so this is the way were going to handle it. Im going to make an Opening Statement, a little longer than usual. Senator feinstein will make a statement thats longer than usual. Then because of the two states that are involved, and for different reasons, but coming to the same conclusion, normally we dont have members speak, but i felt i ought to give the courtesy to both senator kennedy and senator said he wanted to speak about the controversy and his nominee. Then im going to turn to senator franken and senator franken will have up to five minutes s that okay . Youre going to introduce people, but i would like to get the controversial statements out of the way first. That makes sense. Okay. Congratulations to all the nominees and to your families and everybodys welcome at the committee. Two weeks ago, i
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Countries, many times with no family, no connections, sometimes with no knowledge of the language thats spoken there. They believe they were americans. I think they should have a chance to become americans in the full sense of the law. Ive come to the floor over the years after introducing the dream act and urged my colleagues to do something. Im not alone. Its interesting the coalition thats come together behind this issue. Over 75 of the American People think of congress, of democrats and republicans, should come together and pass the dream act. 75 of americans believe that. 60 of the people who voted for President Trump believe that. We have governors of both Political Parties urging us to do something urgently to help. 11 of them democrats and republicans sent a letter to Congress Calling on us to pass the daca legislation. Democratic governors from minnesota, montana, pennsylvania and North Carolina. Republican governors from nevada, massachusetts, vermont and utah and alaskas ind
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Dr. Collins, thank you very much for taking time with us today. You are the 16th director of the nih. You are the only person who was appointed by two different president s, initially by president obama and subsequently by President Trump. As a person who codiscovered the human genome, was it harder to discover the human genome or be appointed by two different president s . Dr. Collins i guess both of those had certain challenges associated. I did not expect to still be in this position after january 2017 because i knew about the history too. Nih directors appointed by the president , virtually always have turned over when there is a new president. Somehow they made a mistake here, i guess, and kept me on. David