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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Senate Finance Committee Explores Tax Reform Challenges 20170719

The committee will come to order. Welcome to our first hearing of the day. We discussed the ongoing effort to reform our tax code. We have a distinguished panel of experts to help shed some light on the issues surrounding tax reform. I look forward to a productive discussion and appreciate your attendance. In 1984 resident reagan called for reform of the tax code. He laid out three main goals for tax reform. Fairness, efficiency and simplicity. Those three goals are as relevant today as they were a generation ago. American competitiveness is essential in todays Global Economy we must consider whats happening outside our borders. Addressing tax policy or legislation is very easy to find oneself. I think we would do well to keep focus and frequently remind ourselves of these basic principles. I will repeat them. Fairness, efficiency, simplicity and american competitiveness. The Tax ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Senate Finance Committee Explores Tax Reform Challenges 20170719

The committee will come to order. Welcome to our first hearing of the day. We discussed the ongoing effort to reform our tax code. We have a distinguished panel of experts to help shed some light on the issues surrounding tax reform. I look forward to a productive discussion and appreciate your attendance. In 1984 resident reagan called for reform of the tax code. He laid out three main goals for tax reform. Fairness, efficiency and simplicity. Those three goals are as relevant today as they were a generation ago. American competitiveness is essential in todays Global Economy we must consider whats happening outside our borders. Addressing tax policy or legislation is very easy to find oneself. I think we would do well to keep focus and frequently remind ourselves of these basic principles. I will repeat them. Fairness, efficiency, simplicity and american competitiveness. The Tax ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Politics And Public Policy Today 20151014

Law the way it was before the lrb decision. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the panel of witnesses and thank you each of you for coming and after which each senator will have five minutes of questions. Last week i met a man named aslum kind, hes an immigrant from pakistan who started out as a dishwasher at churchs chicken and who today has become a very successful owner of churchs chicken franchises. He talked about achieving the American Dream. He said it was possible because of our nations, quote, Free Enterprise entrepreneurial spirit unquote. On august 27 the nlrb released a decision that threatens to steal that American Dream from owners of the nations 785,000 franchise businesses and millions of contractors. I ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20141226

Its been wonderful being with you again, lucinda. Spent thank you so much, dan. You are amazing. You are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you, for coming. [applause] you are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. First lets just start with your name and the title of the book. Anne wilcox, with p. J. Wilcox. The name of the book at west point west point 41 the class that went to war and shaped america. How did you come across this project is . My husband and i were working with the general on his memoir and he invited us to 73 union at west point. He was in the class of 1941, which was the last class to graduate before the u. S. Entered world war ii. We went to the reunion and we start hearing stories of other officers that was classmates that were just astounding stories of closing the bulge in the bow of the bulge, and other historic incidents in world war ii they went on to the korean war and vie ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140505

The term zero tolerance has been used as a pejorative term to criticize broken windows, and appropriately so. Broken windows wasnt zero tolerance. Zero tolerance, first of all, implies a zealotry about you will have no discretion. And the second thing is, it says you dont have any discretion which is exactly what we want to avoid which sets up a high arrest thing. But let me just talk about, zero tolerance can be a useful tool at times, at particular locations around particular problems. But you have to be very specific about that. Think, for example, of just a very simple example, school buses. We simply understand that the risks of people passing school buses is so great and the consequence is so great that we dont want any discretion about that. We want to send out a message you pass a school bus thats discharging or getting children, youre in deep, deep trouble. So and i could give you other examples of that. So zero tolerance is antithetical to the whole approach of broken windows ....

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