Morning. Thank you, mr. Chair. Yes, sir. I want to thank you for your patience. I will recognize you for your fiveminute openings. Mr. Cummings is coming. He graciously told me to go ahead and start. From my left to right, mr. Robert goldencough. Mr. David pounder, director of Information Technology Management Issues at the Government Accountability office. Ms. Carol rice, department of Commerce Office of inspector general. Ms. Gupta, leader on civil rights. I think all of you have testified before. Green means go, yellow means run through the light. Yellow is speed up, get through it as quick as you can. And red, youre going to get stopped. I wont stop you right at five minutes because its really important. But your Opening Statement is part of the record. So with that, mr. Goldenkoff. Chairman gowdy, Ranking Member cummings and the rest of the committee, in recent years we have identified a number of operational, management and other challenges that raise serious concerns about the b
Trumps meeting with manufacturing executives today, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer briefed reporters. One of the main topics was former National Security advisor Michael Flynn request for immunity to testify before congress about the truck campaigns ties to russia. Mr. Spicer good afternoon. To catch, i want everyone up wasnt able to make the briefing last night on the theutive orders on executive orders the president is going to be signing this afternoon could the first direct the department of commerce and the office of u. S. Trade representative to examine every form of trade of these in a nonreciprocal practice that are currently contributing to the United States large and persistent trade deficits, the largest in a major nation in 2016, at 500 billion. Within 90 days, the department of commerce and the u. S. Trade representative will submit a comprehensive report to the president on the causes of our unduly large trade deficit. It is the first time in modern history that
The markets are rebalancing. Lets see if the traders wind up agreing. Chinese leader is going to maralago in florida. Oining us now is kevin cirelli. Kevin last week he was tweeting it would be a difficult meeting and then he tweets there will be a lot of great things coming out. Here is he headed . Kevin north korea saying if china wont handle north korea then the u. S. Will have to do it alone. Two things, National Security as well as trade policy are the top two items on the agenda for the summit in florida for later this week. Of course President Trump has tough talk for china on the campaign trail saying they were currency manipulators and saying they havent gone that far yet in his administration but did of course last week call for the reviews and executive orders with Foreign Countries to see which countries are taking advantage of the United States, whether or not china makes that list remains to be seen. David kevin, give us the perspective from the president s view, what is
The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 362 and the nays are 45. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Fitzpatrick, to suspend the rules h. R. 5606 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. To clerk h. R. 5606, a bill facilitate to assist in the fighting of terrorist activities and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the spe
Nothing more than pick among winners and losers by region and industry. At its core, its the purest of Wealth Distribution programs. My amendment would eliminate funding for the e. D. A. , totaling 247 million. S bied on current levels, this will save over 2. 5 billion over the next decade. Even though i ran two Small Businesses for 16 years, i had never heard of the Economic Development administration before coming to congress. I suspect many of my colleagues are similarly situated. So first let me describe what the e. D. A. Does. It takes dollars from across the country. That money comes to washington, from the e. D. A. Takes about 20 of it off the top. Thats cost of the administrationive Administrative Burden of running the Economic Development administration. It then asks companies and communities to apply for free money from the federal government to renovate a Movie Theater or bill a new industrial park. While many of these projects are not necessarily bad, some are ridiculous. T