We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor
Without objections. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings and sanctimony and one of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spending it offensively and with transparency and that brings up with todays hearing which is entitled the tenant in the Trump Administrations oversight and the International Hotel and you can tell from the title guy were going to be in investigating an unprecedented tuition and the houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel. Since President Trump has declined to confess from his businesses, hes essentially acting as both landlord and the ten it. Before i was elected to congress i spent over three decades Teaching College students about American Government politics. In those classrooms we, had serious discussions about the role of the legislature if the executive branch with legal and ethical standards and thats exactly what we had
inaudible without objections. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings and sanctimony and one of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spending it offensively and with transparency and that brings up with todays hearing which is entitled the tenant in the Trump Administrations oversight and the International Hotel and you can tell from the title guy were going to be in investigating an unprecedented tuition and the houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel. Since President Trump has declined to confess from his businesses, hes essentially acting as both landlord and the ten it. Before i was elected to congress i spent over three decades Teaching College students about American Government politics. In those classrooms we, had serious discussions about the role of the legislature if the executive branch with legal and ethical standards and thats exactly wh
World something really big happened on monday. And that was there was agreement to actually increase the cpp. So we had a change in government last october. That was a positive on enhancing the cpp. Frankly, ontario would rather do something nationally with the other provinces than do things on their own. So the between ontario and the federal government and doing some further work, there was actually agreement on monday to do two things with respect to the canada pension plan. One was to increase the benefit, and number two is to increase the amount of income thats going to be covered by the benefit. So its a big deal in canada right up there with stabilizing the cpp in the 1990s. So theres a lot of detail to be worked out as to okay, exactly you get down to the bottom line what does it all mean in terms of implementation. A long window on implementation, starts 2019. Sevenyear window to implement the whole thing. That got agreement thats what got agreement from the hesitant provinces
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