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[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] the committee will come to order. Before we get started i want to offer our deepest condolences to those impacted by yesterdays tragic shooting. Our hearts go out to the victims and their loved ones. Please know you are in our prayers. Its our honor to welcomes elimination to testify on the 2019 Budget Proposal for the Treasury Department. We appreciate your time and look for to testimony. The annual hearing play...

Morrow. The book cost 8. 95 plus shipping and handling. To get your copy go to cspan. Org landmark cases. Yesterday treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin testified before the house ways and Means Committee regarding the president s 2019 budget request for his agency. On most of the questions from lawmakers focus on the budget and tax reform related matters, the secretary was asked about his thoughts on gun violence after 17 people were killed in a shooting in parkland, florida. The treasury secretar...

Tariff bills. The underwood tariff in 1916, tariff rates rose much higher under those bills than smoot hawley, but all of those bills represented how congress and the president set trade policy, through completely changing the tariff act, which is really kind of a dinosaur these days. We stopped doing that with the reciprocal trade agreements when fdr was president and looked as reciprocity as part of trade and that then became improved under the trade expansion act of 1962 and then even better ...

Reporters he is open to a pathway to citizenship for the socalled dreamers. Return . L it cost him in the white house is set to release their immigration plan on monday. If itats must decide is something they can live with. Let me start with immigration. Do you agree President Trump is softening his tone . Sen cardin i think the president has made things more difficult. He started by creating this prices crisis by putting the state of the dreamers last september that require deportation in march...

Us. The other imminent threat is giving up a piece of the grid. And giving Law Enforcement the tools of intelligence, the single greatest asset we need have and also giving them the electronic tools, i dont think we do nearly the job we should be doing in terms of protecting against cyber attacks. Weve seen just last week what happens when supposedly the chinese have now hacked into the personnel records of upwards of 20 million government employees. The one positive out of all of that, it is th...

That they developed more easily to their allies but they will be able to import from russia and china the technology they need for icbms or surface to air weapons and so forth. Ambassador burns. There is no question the iranians were trying to split the p5 in the last week of the negotiations with this proposal. Point one. There is no way we could have accepted this, so i was trying to dive through the details coming over here, if we can maintain the u. N. Weapons and embargoes for five to eight...

Maryland. I am dwayne brown with nasas office of communication. We have an astronaut and associate administrator at nasa head quarters, alan stern, and Alice Bowman Mission Operations manager at john hopkins applied physics laboratory. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, pluto as never seen before. Three, two one. [applause] now we have remarks from dr. John grunsfeld . It has been an incredible voyage. I know many of you have been participating the last few days but what it all comes down to is an...

Are the largest jurisdiction. The overwhelming number have indicated a willingness to work with us. Chairman goodlatte of the 276 socalled sanctuary cities, where they have probably taken a position to not cooperate with lester, criminal aliens were released by those communities onto the streets of their communities and of this country. And in the short time since those 8000 were released, they have already committed more than 1900 new crimes. Why wouldnt you mandate influence, whatever it might...

If this wasnt in front of me and ready for signature, we would end up having projects all across the country that would be frozen after mid. On the other hand, we have now made it a habit where instead of fiveyear funding plans for transportation and instead of longterm approaches where we can actually strategize on what are the most important infrastructure projects, how are they getting paid for, providing certainty to government norors and mayors and localities about how they are going to app...

Evening. Tonight on the communicators. Democratic representative diana degat from colorado and jim lanjman from rhode island on internet privacy and how to combat recent data breaches. We have seen attack after attack, the most recent attack, of course, on the office of personnel management, but also in private industry. Target, home depot, so many other prives corporations have had problems. So what we realized is we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers, but what we need to do is thin...