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Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. President trump is promising action on tax reform and health care. In an interview taped yesterday and broadcast today on cbs face the nation, the president said the revenue losses from his plan to reduce personal and Corporate Tax rates will be offset by economic growth, better trade deals, and he seemed to suggest a new tax on imports. We have countries where if we make a product, ....
To the rescue. Thank you for having me. My pleasure to have you with us. Before we talk about the 20th anniversary of the shootdown of the brothers to the rescue planes, we have to address president obamas announcement this past week that he will be traveling to cuba on march 21st and 22nd. Congresswoman illleana roslehtinen roslehtinen went on to say, it is a slap in the face to the memory of the brothers the rescue pilots, three u. S. Citizens and one u. S. Resident who were murdered by the castro regime and those who fled the castro oppression to see air force one land in havana. Your t toughts on that, one month from today. First of all, i thank Ileana Roslehtinen for having remembered us when most everybody has forgotten of what appened that day. This plan of president obama i disgusting. It is something that it is like going to shake the handss with assassins. These people were terrorists, are terrorists. That was an act ....
Would the administration give back a naval base . That issue is not on the table would the i dont it could be on our table. Would you object . I dont know the answer to that. Let me go to mr. Smith. We have the act that doesnt allow us to deal with Certain Properties seized by americans. You have travel, credit cards, et cetera. How do you plan to make sure american travellers arent confiscated from americans or otherwise violating the cuban solidarity. That act says you cant provide a loan to further transactions about a confiscated propertiment doesnt say you cant stay at a hotel or does the Credit Card Company extend the loan when you use a credit card to pay for a hotel stay at a confiscated property . A credit card may extend a loan to the traveller. So you are extending a loan to facilitate staying at the hotel, thats in conformity with the act . We have the ac ....
Record that you would never be okay with the egregious Human Rights Violations taking place around the world in the lgbt community. And there is a fundamental difference between marriage, which many people have a difference around. But i know that there is no difference around lgbt rights and the violence and opposing the violence against lgbt people. So thank you for that. Todays hearing on human rights in cuba in the context of president obamas recent announcement. I said yesterday in our faern Foreign Affairs committee that sometimes in talking about cuba it is difficult because my colleagues, and two of my colleagues that are on the other side of the aisle right now in this hearing have Family History and personal situations that make it very difficult if one does have a difference of opinion. I want to one ....
It is however, as i said, better than the alternative in that it would at least give those in 2014 who have operated on the expectation of getting the credit the assurance that theyll get it. My hope, mr. Speaker, is that come next december we wont be here again considering another tax extender bill to keep the economy from collapsing. It is my hope, mr. Speaker, that the republican majority and the democratic minority can Work Together to affect responsible, fiscally sound tax reform which will help grow our economy and give the Business Community and our people the confidence they need to have to grow our economy. And to participate effectively in making america better. Mr. Speaker, again in closing, i want to congratulate mr. Camp. Because i think he did bring forth a bill that could have engendered that responsible debate that we needed. A fiscally sound proposal, maki ....