Consider the nomination of mr. David cotter to serve as assistant secretary of treasury for tax policy. Mr. Cotter, welcome to the finance committee. We appreciate your willingness to appear before us today. We also appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity. And im sure that the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost on any member of this committee. Tax reform has been a major focus of our committee for some time now and we are grateful to have you here to discuss your thoughts on these matters. On a number of occasions, i stated my view that president ial leadership will be a key component to any successful tax reform effort. Just the last week i quoted president obama in a speech on the senate familiar back in 2012. He said things like, quote, our current Corporate Tax system is outdated, unfair and inefficient, unquote. The problem was that president obama never really got around to truly leading out on tax reform. I expect mo
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie
That the secretary of defense has ordered the pentagon to let women serve besides men on the. Ront lines of battle that experiment is under the defense secretarys order. We will come back to that story throughout this first 45 minutes of the washington journal. Our phone lines are open to you. Also open is our twitter and facebook page. You can follow the conversation on facebook at facebook. Com face facebook outcome cspan. We want to talk about this morning. Like i said, we have a special line for active and retired military. I especially want to hear your thoughts on that. Some active and retired military members were interviewed last wate in in knoxville tennessee. Interviewed was u. S. Air force veteran ashley oughts. She was a utilitys apprentice doing Water Purification there. That is one of the veterans interviewed for that story on start with john in hot springs, North Carolina. John, good morning. Thanks, he made a lot of good points in your previous intro and came to fiscal
This is the cbs weekend news. Quijano good evening, im Elaine Quijano. This is our western edition. It is a busy week ahead in washington after a two week break congress will be back in session facing a friday deadline for a possible Government Shutdown. The showdown comes as a new poll out today shows President Trumps Approval Ratings at record lows. While those who voted for mr. Trump remain satisfied with his performance. Next saturday marks the official 100th day of the Trump Administration and our chief washington correspondent John Dickerson will be sitting down with the president , Errol Barnett has more from the white house. You will be interviewing President Trump on his 100th day. What are you most curious about . Im curious about what the president has actually learned in office. Reporter chief washington correspondent and face the nation host John Dickerson will be with President Trump next weekend as he reaches the 100 day milestone. The president can be incredibly blunt.
Those uneasy with grievance politics are either giving in or giving up the fight. The Republican Party is now the party of donald trump. What does that mean for steve bannon . Is he the president s hench man, his gatekeeper, his commisar of trumpdom. He has declared war on mainstream republicans especially mitch mcconnell. Lets watch. Mitch mcconnell and this permanent Political Class is the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in this country. For mitch mccome and warren baker and karl rove and steven law, all the instruments that tried to destroy judge moore and his family. Your day of reckoning is coming. We are declaring war on the republican establishment. That does not back the agenda that donald trump ran on and the president of the united states. Its a new game in town. Were going to cut off the oxygen to mitch mcconnell. Mitch mcconnells biggest asset is the money. Were going to make it the biggest liability because were going after these guys tooth and nail. Ther