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Relate to each other and to our constituents and for the people of america. So, johnny, i have been honored and privileged to serve with you. It will always be one of the greatest honors in my life to have been able to serve in this body with you. I wish you and your family nothing but the best in the fewer and i hope that you will continue to contact me during the Football Games and throughout so that he woo can commiserate so that we can commiserate, the good, bad, and ugly about georgia football. I appreciate you. Thank good youve been here. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from colorado. Mr. Gardner mr. President , i yield to our tremendous colleague from georgia, senator isakson. Thank you. Mr. President , i want to agree with me colleague from alabama, senator jones. He hasnt been here as long as some of my other colleagues have been. But i think its fair to say that when senator jones and i have a colleague who is departing or the presiding officer has
Natural resources committee. At 8 30 a. M. , we talk to virginia congressman Gerald Connolly, member of the oversight and Reform Committee and the Foreign Affairs committee. President morning trump at the center of the latest clash between congress and the white house. Tensions escalated over congressional access to the complaint, which involves an unspecified promise made to a foreign head of state. We begin the washington journal this morning getting your thoughts on the latest controversy and what it means for relations between executives and legislative branches of governments. Give us a call, we want to hear from you. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also text us this morning. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. That number, 2027488003. You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good morning to you this friday morning, you can start callin
Hudson. I am the director of the center for political military knowledge. Today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the Nuclear Security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the Arms Control Association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. I want to welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier if people can silence any cell phones you might have, that would be very helpful. The work we have been doing with the association, we collaborated with two organizations the last year and doing three events on the hill congressional briefings on Nuclear Threats and tools of the trade, encountering the threat and the global Nuclear Security architecture. The report and presentations we gave in congress, the Macarthur Foundation. The agenda for today, we have 3 presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional Nuclear
Fiscal rules. Many on this committee have suggested establishing longterm debt to gdp targets. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. At our hearing last week, there was talk about a revenue estimating committee. We dont even address how much revenue were going to have to work with. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. Most important, such targets could encourage congress to focus less on near term spending battles and more on longterm Fiscal Health of our country. Another area ive been concerned with is how we budget for disasters. I note that according to the witness testimony, since 2005, federal funding for Disaster Assistance has tototalled at let 450 billion. While we regularly appropriate funding for Femas Disaster Relief Fund as part of the annual appropriations process, according to the congressional are provided for supplemental appropria