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would be allowed to run without a budget. the biggest economy in the world is operating without a budget all too often? i should be a shocker right there. it is a sign we need to fix the process. but even only do get it done, the appropriations bills and what they are that is the passing of the funding bills that fund our discretionary portion of the budget, one third of the budget. and you do have bills for different pieces of that. two thirds of the budget is on the automatic pilot, social security and medicare, they don t go through the appropriations process. even we do have a budget we don t get the final bills done. thethey and that is opportunity for the authorizer s to look at how we are spending our money. look at what programs are working. figuring out which bills are the priority. if you skip over the process, we don t think about what direction we want to be going in. host: we have matters of the fiscal budget with maya macguineas. if you want to ask que ....
something similar, that they aren t driving aren t drawing those lines. both sides seem to have come off that very big sticking point. the costes us with payment sharing issue not being finalized the way the wall has, but it is one of those issues that look like we are getting to a resolution. still other issues hanging out there. host: with regard to the negotiation, who is at the table? who are the key people you are watching? guest: one of the things that schumer said is that they wanted to get the president out of the negotiations. he said president trump and his team weren t particularly helpful, in particular with offering the wall demand late last week. now that trump is out, it is ,ssentially the top members democrat and republican on the house appropriations committee, who are the most involved in writing the deal. obviously the leadership is involved, as well. host: the funding of the wall issue is a big development. there have been talk of lawmakers trying ....
the committee meets his way to receive testimony on you as policy ends strategy in the asia-pacific region. i am pleased to welcome our panel of expert witnesses come all with deep knowledge and experience in the region. the senior adviser and korea chair at the center for strategic and international studies. aaron friedberg who is the professor of politics and international affairs at princeton university. and the former principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for asia pacific security irs and senior fellow am having trouble with my enunciation. strategic affairs at the endowment for international peace, an old friend of the committee. america s interest in asia-pacific region are deep and enduring, that is why for the past 70 years we have worked with our allies and partners to up hold a rules-based order based on principles of free peoples and free markets, open skies, theen resolution of disputes. the challenges are mounting. thehey threaten not just nat ....
good afternoon. i would like to start off today by having the secretary of takence discussion action last night with respect to canadian softwood lumber. it was an action that talks about what we are doing to make sure we are fighting for industries here at home. without further a do, i want to bring up secretary wilbur ross. the action we took last night is actually the culmination of a couple of decades of disputes between the united states and canada. what has provoked the dispute is the following. in canada, the forests are owned by the individual per provinces and each of the provinces set the charge for the loggers to use when they are taking trees down. in the u.s., it is all open market, it is all market-based prices. subsidize thees cutting down of lumber. sts technical term being umpage and that allows them to charge a subsidized low price at the u.s. border. we have determined preliminarily those problems vary from one province to the other, in some cases ....
will come to order. we thank all of those for being here. in today s hearing, we ll examine the crisis in libya. i would like to thank our witnesses for being on the committee for this important issue. libya remains on the brink of civil war. like many of its neighbors, they failed to transition into a table representative democracy following arab spring. sadly, the libyan people have paid the price. fighting militias has weakened government institutions and weak tight end economy and is posing a substantial risk to the u.s. and our allies. fighting that provided an environment for terrorist groups like isis. we ve had some successes but the conditions allowing extremists to thrive remain. i think many of us agree that the libyan political agreement needs to be altered as the current government lacks the ability to govern the entire country but that is only the beginning. until they come under some type of central political control, no government will be able to provide ....