Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep
It had a countercyclical role and, very importantly, the rigorous evidence shows food stamps raises the nutritional quality of poor children. That this a clear fact when you look at the evaluation evidence on that. And those children [inaudible] so, therefore, a rise in food stamps somehow proving that obama has been a failure is simply another falsehood, in my view. The earned income tax credit. The report does have a positive paragraph or two on the earned income tax credit, then it talks a lot about the fraud and the irs, we need to be much stricter combating the fraud. I have no problem with that except we have one problem, the irs has been so demonized by House Republicans in the last six or eight years and funding so dramatically cut that its hard to give them another Unfunded Mandate to do this work. The juxtaposition of those comments strikes me a little bit. Theres a lot written about the marginal tax rates, you know im going to need a little more time. Im sorry, robert. The n
While Congress Stays out in the district. Yorks a tweet from new congresswoman louise slaughter. I had a wonderful time meeting with medical students at the university of rochester to talk about Health Issues facing congress. Michigan senator gary peters jumping into lake here on to view some of the wrecked ships. We will play the video. There he goes. Aving into lake huron in wetsuit. A couple had led from politico. State departments order to review 15,000 Clinton Emails for potential release. The article says the federal judge today ordered the state department to review for potential release of nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed documents related to Hillary Clintons use of a personal email server. Preaching another headache for the democratic nominee. Creating another headache for the democratic nominee. Another headline, donald trump flipflopping on immigration. His surrogates pushed back against the idea that the republican president ial nominee is softening his hardline positio
Groups. You will get the people that are looking for the handout coming into the office with far less frequency. That enables you to focus your energies on those in need of aid. It also means there is less abuse of the taxpayer. There we go. In welfare reform, we basically had two goals. The first was to establish work requirements, not just to a game aid to families with dependent children, but also work requirements for food stamps. Secondly, and most importantly, to deal with the problem of out of wedlock childbearing and increase the number of children born inside marriage. Those were important. I think we made some modest progress on both of those fronts. Certainly not everything we could have done. This is going to be a very familiar chart. You saw one version of this. This is the temporary assistance with needy family caseload. This goes back to the time of the korean war. This is essentially the same data he was presenting. What we can see is that for a 55 year period, that red
Seniors, trying to figure out how to pay for their prescription drugs or put oil in their tank, so there is certainly quite the range as far as interest around the district. Host you are also the only jewish republican member of the house. Is that significant, in your opinion, and how . Rep. Lee zeldin there are issues that i care very deeply about. You speak up, and you talk about who are americas friends, and who our enemies are, what our Foreign Policy should be as relates to defeating isis. Isis happens to be about 18 miles from the Syrian Border with israel. How is our approach with syria and iraq and afghanistan, and, of course, the Nuclear Talks the rising tide of antisemitism around the world, including right here in the United States, and this is starting to become more prevalent on college campuses, and around the world where some cemeteries are being converted to all muslim cemeteries without even any indication as to what they will do with jewish remains. Maybe a person lis