Committee. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Mr. Tillerson, mr. Secretary, we appreciate you being here. Were having a little bit of a discussion about the timing issue. We do have a lot of other things happening today, and i would really like to finish this in one round. So what i think im going to do without i think what well do, senator cardin, if it is okay with you, lets put six minutes on the clock. If we need to have a second round for some reason we will. Im open to discussion about that right now if you wish. I think six minutes sounds fair on the first round. I dont want to preclude a member on either side that believes they need additional time for a second round from having that second round, but i would encourage our members to try to be efficient on the use of their time. So i want to begin by saying that last night about 10 20 we finished negotiating a russia bill to be attached to the iran bill, and we were able to gavel in the senate and have Senate Mccon
Last week the senate Farris Bryant committee hosted former assistant treasury secretaries to discuss the decisions and challenges involved in crafting tax legislation. Officials from the clinton, bush and Obama Administration answered questions and made their recommendations for how best to achieve successful lasting tax policy. This is two hours. The committee will come to order. We will discuss the ongoing efforts to reform our nations tax code. We have a distinguished panel of bipartisan experts before us today to help shed light on issues surrounding tax reform. I look forward to a productive discussion and appreciate your attendance. We are here a bit earlier than our normal meeting times. In 1984 president reagan called for a reform of the tax code. He made that three made goals for tax reform, fairness, efficiency and simplicity. Those three goals are relevant today as they were a generation ago. For our current efforts i would add a fourth goal, american competitiveness. This g
Last week the senate Farris Bryant committee hosted former assistant treasury secretaries to discuss the decisions and challenges involved in crafting tax legislation. Officials from the clinton, bush and Obama Administration answered questions and made their recommendations for how best to achieve successful lasting tax policy. This is two hours. The committee will come to order. We will discuss the ongoing efforts to reform our nations tax code. We have a distinguished panel of bipartisan experts before us today to help shed light on issues surrounding tax reform. I look forward to a productive discussion and appreciate your attendance. We are here a bit earlier than our normal meeting times. In 1984 president reagan called for a reform of the tax code. He made that three made goals for tax reform, fairness, efficiency and simplicity. Those three goals are relevant today as they were a generation ago. For our current efforts i would add a fourth goal, american competitiveness. This g
They miscalculated the capabilities. President trump vowed to confront north korea during his recent visit to poland. Joining a me now is a david sanger, National Security correspondent for the the new york times. He wrote this story experts say north korea could have a missile reach u. S. By next year. What changed . David a couple of things have changed here in the shortterm thing is what you mentioned, which is, they conducted this test. It was done and a high parabola, 1700 miles and came down. It didnt go far in distance, but anything that knows anything about Missile Technology knows that flattening it out isnt hard. Decided not toy do that, because the reaction if you drop one of these rings off the coast of l. A. Or something is going to be a lot greater than if you do this high parabola test. The test was actually more useful to them, because of what they need to figure out is can they make a warhead reenter the atmosphere and not burn up here to that is an issue that took us
They miscalculated the capabilities. President trump vowed to confront north korea during his recent visit to poland. Joining a me now is a david sanger, National Security correspondent for the the new york times. He wrote this story experts say north korea could have a missile reach u. S. By next year. What changed . David a couple of things have changed here in the shortterm thing is what you mentioned, which is, they conducted this test. It was done and a high parabola, 1700 miles and came down. It didnt go far in distance, but anything that knows anything about Missile Technology knows that flattening it out isnt hard. Decided not toy do that, because the reaction if you drop one of these rings off the coast of l. A. Or something is going to be a lot greater than if you do this high parabola test. The test was actually more useful to them, because of what they need to figure out is can they make a warhead reenter the atmosphere and not burn up here to that is an issue that took us