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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20151028

Ive always favored closing guantanamo for a variety of reasons. Yet we still havent got a plan from you. Not only not a plan, until i asked you about it specifically, there was no communication. After coming to my office and saying you are going to give me that plan, and i said we needed it, we got nothing. Not an update, not a briefing on what was going on. So we put in language in president , and the voices his strong objection to guantanamo. Finally, this issue of whether we are protecting those people who we are asking to fight isis,t bashar assad and isnt it true that weve dropped munitions, general dunford, to a group of people who we are supporting in syria . General dunford it is true, senator. Theme we going to protect from russian air attack . General dunford senator, we have the authority. We have the capability and we have options. Is it true that the russians are already attacking them . The ones we dropped munitions to. General dunford the russians have not attacked the o ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20151028

Ms. Pelosi i think elections are always about the future. So whatever it is that somebody might be unhappy about, they want to see what is there is absolutely no question that as we look to the future we have to see a path to take this to ending a lot of the inequality in our system. Mr. Sesno is that what this is about . Anger over inequality . Ms. Pelosi i think its anger over the fact that paychecks have not increased for decades. The purchasing power of middle class paychecks has not increased. The aspirations, hopes people have for their children, their education, their families, the Pension Security of parents so they are freer to invest in their children, the security of Retirement Security of seniors so that parents can look to their kids rather than having to take care all connected. Let me just say this. In 2008 americas middle class was deeply scarred by wha ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20151031

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, education secretary arne duncan on the results of a study on standardized testing. Then, house numbers paying tribute to outgoing speaker, john boehner. After that, nancy pelosi on problems in congress, and the importance of women in politics. On monday, education secretary arne duncan participated in a pound discussion on improving the effectiveness of standardized testing. Panelists analyzed data from a new report. This is just over one hour. Hour. I am the executive director and i want to thank you very much for being here this monday morning. We are going to go ahead and get started because i am sorry to say i can say that we will begin wrapping up this conference at about 10 30 p. M. We have been asked to meet with the presi ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20151029

Fully cooperating with this committee in the regulation of paid tax return preparers . Im happy to commit to both of those positions. We fully intend to use the 230 regulatory framework. In fact, if we were given the authority to require minimum qualifications for prepares, we would run it the same way we set up the program in 2010, which was under section 230, the regulation 230, so we have no intention of expanding that or changing it. The legislation youre talking about would simply make clear we have the authority to run the program as it was originally set up so there will be no surprises. People will no exactly what it looks like because thats what we did for almost a year. Thank you, senator wyden. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I appreciate you pointing out this question of the tax preparers because this is another area you and i have worked on in a bipartisan fashion with all our colleagues. On the question of 501 c4 rules because this is an area where theres been spirited ....

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