Thats the wrong approach. And so just fundamentally this is a difference in policy, its a difference in goal, apparently its a difference in assessment of what mirks military strong and will continue to make it strong. So for those reasons, i have to strongly oppose this amendment. I yield im sorry, i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. The gentleman from South Carolina is recognized. Mr. Norman this is more liberal gibberish. 1. 4 billion. Tell these young people behind me, you tell them instead of building ships, instead of building airplanes, instead of protecting cyber security, youre going to really pay for transgender operations . Hogwash. You try to make that case to anybody in this room. And they would laugh its so serious they wouldnt laugh. Let me tell you other things im sick and tired of. Feelings. Talk to the military gold star mothers who have lost their childr
Finally, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce our first moderator, the great Bob Schieffer. As all of you know, bob is the cbs news chief washington correspondent and the awardwinning host of face the nation. Bob made some news of his own earlier this month when he announced he was stepping down from face the nation. Im hoping we will all help change his mind before lunch today. Bob has been a reporter for more than half a century and is has virtually won every award in broadcast journalism during his august career. Including 8 emmy awards. Please give me a big round of applause for Bob Schieffer and our panelists. [applause] bob i want to tell you, i announced last week that i was going to retire after 46 years at cbs news. 58 years since i got my first job in journalism. I think for that reason alone i an appropriate moderator to talk am about how medicare got started. Next week, i am going down and signing up for part b. [laughter] bob i would also say this. You know when i annou
We thought it would be important to look at the complicated early history of medicare and how difficult it was for previous administrations to enact legislation that so many of us now take for granted. Besides myself, our first panelist includes lynda bird johnson robb, the eldest daughter of president and mrs. Johnson. Lynda is the former chairman of the board for reading is fundamental, the nations largest to childrens literary organization. And she serves on the board of the lbj foundation. She is also the former first lady of virginia and another proud alumnus of the university of texas in austin. , i might mention too her husband, former senator and former governor chuck robb is here. Linda will be joined by larry levinson, deputies special counsel to larry johnson. Larry helped shape a comprehensive domestic legislative agenda which included medicare, the safe streets act, and Landmark Education and civil rights measures. He is a harvard law graduate and lawyer in private practic
He knew each and every member. He knew what they needed. He knew what they didnt want anybody to know. The part that i find just wonder russ is how in a day could he do what he did and how did he come to know so much about each and every member . You nailed it. He had this encyclopedic knowledge of not only the legislative process, but of the people around it. Hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. He could read you. He knew it moerveated you. He knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. He got that. And he used it. He exploited it. Theres an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. And you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. Lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. There was no doubt who was applying it. Johnson was the master of that and he used a combination of flattery or threatening or whateve
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez it looks like the Trump Administration will give 1. 2 Million Immigrants who have documents and turn them into undocumented immigrants. They have work permits. Pay their full share of taxes and covered by u. S. Labor laws and they are not undercutting the wages while being the livelihood of native born american workers. They are documented workers in the u. S. And have been here for more than two decades. Nevertheless, the more than 400,000 people