On wednesday, members of the house came to the floor to debate the 2018 republican Budget Proposal which was unveiled this week. This is just over 45 minutes. Ecognized. Mrs. Black thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield myself as much time as i may consume. The chair the gentlewoman is recognized. Mrs. Black i thank the gentleman. I do want to just begin this next section by making a brief comment on my good friend from kentucky, who has been using some information off of forbes. As he responds to our speakers. I just want to say, i went out to look at forbes, to see what was on forbes while we were on this brief intermission. And found this article that was just in forbes, just the day before yesterday. That does say g. O. P. Tax framework is a pay raise for middle class families. I encourage people to take a look at this because it actually does some scenarios for what we know at this point in time. However i do want to say that what has been put out is a framework and it doesnt really hav
Bill that would allow Small Businesses to raise capital. Theyll finish up work today on a bill dealing with hydroelectric power. To the house floor now. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in orer. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Jeff Williams, Faith Community church, janesville, welcome wisconsin. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, your word declares you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations and from everlasting to everlasting, you are god. Your sovereignty when juxtaposed with our humanity humbles us and causes us to seek your face. When beginning his rule king solomon prayed for you to grant him a discerning heart to govern your people and distinguish between right and wrong. Grant that same discernment in this chamber today. I pray for these who have been entrusted with the response to believe the govern this great people that they may adhere to the principles and quicks this country was founded upon. Bl
Means temperatures are warming today. Outside right now, blue skies over the golden gate and temperatures in the low 50s for most of us. 49 right now in livermore and 53 concord and 51 for San Francisco and san jose and santa rosa at this hour. Yesterday very windy. Today, as those winds die down we still do have some breezy conditions along the coast but overall a cool start with much calmer winds in most locations. Temperatures today will increase back to actually a bit above average for this time of year, were talking 70s for some folks inland and then mild, staying mild through the week ahead or at least through the first half of the week ahead and we start to cool to the latter half of the workweek. Today, sunshine and great day to get outdoors in Mountain View for the a la carte art festival. Temperatures there low 70s today. A mild sunday for you. Your full forecast coming up in just a bit and also how warm well get this week and when well cool. For years republicans have been p
[inaudible conversations] c good afternoon everyone. We had secretary tom price and continued our discussions of the way forward on health care. As all of you know because i have reported weekly for weeks now we have been in intense discussions with all republican senators both in working groups that all members were free to come to if they chose to and in the larger launches that we have on tuesday, wednesday and thursday. I expect to have a discussion draft on thursday and we will go to the bill obviously once we get the cbo scored. Likely next week. So we have been waiting for her democratic colleagues to join us as part of this rescue mission to protect the millions of people for whom obamacare has been a disaster with premiums going up 105 since 2013. Many people have deductibles that render their insurance essentially unusable so you would think ordinarily they would want to work with us in a bipartisan way to try to help these people who are hurting as a result of the failures o
[inaudible conversations] c good afternoon everyone. We had secretary tom price and continued our discussions of the way forward on health care. As all of you know because i have reported weekly for weeks now we have been in intense discussions with all republican senators both in working groups that all members were free to come to if they chose to and in the larger launches that we have on tuesday, wednesday and thursday. I expect to have a discussion draft on thursday and we will go to the bill obviously once we get the cbo scored. Likely next week. So we have been waiting for her democratic colleagues to join us as part of this rescue mission to protect the millions of people for whom obamacare has been a disaster with premiums going up 105 since 2013. Many people have deductibles that render their insurance essentially unusable so you would think ordinarily they would want to work with us in a bipartisan way to try to help these people who are hurting as a result of the failures o