Social security is my lifeline. Is my lifeline to remaining an independent person and being able to live my life, happily. Those of us who have worked all our lives and paid into Social Security expect Social Security to be there because we paid into it. Not a gift. We earned it. Its Household Finances and it goes into the checkbook and its use for every day Living Expenses. It will have a Significant Impact on our life because we want to run her house and does well is to do other things in retirement. That would be a serious cut in our income. Please welcome are chief executive officer joanne jenkins. [applause] cemented morning and welcome to this bipartisan discussion about the future of Social Security. We are honored today to hear from to congressional leaders who have put forth ideas to save and protect Social Security. Republican senator dell cassidy from louisiana and democratic congressman john lawson who represents the First District of connecticut. As a lookout over this roo
Hello. Mrs. Obama these are big girl chairs, arent they . Shonda they are very big girl chairs. [cheering] mrs. Shonda they are very big of these people. I know, ladies [cheering] and a few good men as well. Whats up . [laughter] shonda i thought we would sit and have a conversation. We should just chat. Ive brought some guidelines because i know we an hour, and we want to be useful with our hour. So, you are very you are married to a very nice man. Mrs. Obama that guy. We are huge and talk about you. You have heard the bio, but this is Michelle Robinson obama. For the last three years, she has been serving the country. Before you are in the white lady, you were a successful attorney as well as dean, administrator, primary breadwinner of your household. Shonda she is brilliant, powerful, impactful, successful. What was it like to make that sacrifice to give that up . Mrs. Obama dean, administrator,y breadwinner of your household. That is a good question. Actually, that is when i am tak
Other. Its a communications rule, were not supposed to be saying exactly what were going to do before we go in and listen to one anothers views. The cspan bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. We recently stopped in baton rouge, louisiana, asking folks whats the most important issue in their state. The number one issue facing my district continues to be flood recovery. In baton rouge we had a historic flood in 2016 and my district was heavily impacted. My citizens in my district right now are forced to deal with issues regarding sba loans. The federal government considers those loans to be a duplication of benefits. Were having trouble getting those families the dollars to recover because with our state run program they have to deduct the amount they received through the sba loans. Right now, our recovery has been stalled because of this issue. We are working with our congressional delegation, but, again, its a tough issue in our community. The most important sta
Im not really that surprised. We have a lot of differences. They are weak on crime, illegal immigration, they want the illegal folks to come into the border and a lot of problems are being caused. We have stepped into a large extent as much as you can without the wall. Which we are going to get. They come in for this meeting in before this Missile Launch, they have been weak on military in terms of spending. Theyre very hard to do that. Militaries always seconds appeared military to me as number one. Will not be here without powerful military. General mattis can testify. The other thing they want tax increases and we will major tax decreases. They decided not to show up. I have been all talk and there have been no action. And now, it is even worse. No it is not even talk. So theyre not showing up for the meeting, i will say this. In light of the Missile Launch probably will be here fairly quickly or at least discussions will start taking place fairly quickly. This is been buses traveli
He took questions from members of the Senate Banking committee about his overall philosophy on Monetary Policy and the role of the fed chair. Senator mike crapo chairs the committee. And the committee will come to order for the hearing. [gavel pound] this morning we will consider the nomination for the chairman of the Federal Reserve system. The chairman system. Ederal reserve governor powell, welcome and congratulations on your nomination. I see friends and emily behind you and i welcome them here as well. Governor powell has had an accomplished public and private career in financial services. He served as an assistant secretary and undersecretary secretary of the treasury under george h. W. Bush, where he was responsible for policy on Financial Institutions and the treasury debt market among other areas. Firsthand experience in Investment Banking and was a partner of the Carlyle Group before being appointed to serve on the board of governors and 2012. During his years of service and