Desired the options are to inlower benefits by 25 . Increase revenues by about onethird it gave us one more year and this years report has taken us five more years out to 2028. The listens for this dramatic extension is we have had continuing ever since 2010 declining numbers of application. This is not just for Social Security but also for ssi. It is really quite remarkable. We are studying hard all of the reasons for this. In addition we have had continuing lower disability incidence rate for the percentage of people that could be receiving disability or having fewer people starting to receive. We have had declining numbers of beneficiaries under the di Program Since 2013. So what we are doing this year for our projections is accepting the reality of what happened and projecting out from that on a more gradual basis. What we have done is still maintained the incidence rates by the end of the ten year period of the short range from jeks period. Well have to monitor what happens. We ha
Desired the options are to inlower benefits by 25 . Increase revenues by about onethird it gave us one more year and this years report has taken us five more years out to 2028. The listens for this dramatic extension is we have had continuing ever since 2010 declining numbers of application. This is not just for Social Security but also for ssi. It is really quite remarkable. We are studying hard all of the reasons for this. In addition we have had continuing lower disability incidence rate for the percentage of people that could be receiving disability or having fewer people starting to receive. We have had declining numbers of beneficiaries under the di Program Since 2013. So what we are doing this year for our projections is accepting the reality of what happened and projecting out from that on a more gradual basis. What we have done is still maintained the incidence rates by the end of the ten year period of the short range from jeks period. Well have to monitor what happens. We ha
After a lot of soul searching this congressional interview available on our website cspan. Org. We will interrupt it for live coverage of Calista Gingrich for ambassador to the vatican. Mrs. Calistal. Gingrich is the president s nominee to be ambassador to the vatican. Mr. George edward glass is the nominee to be the u. S. Ambassador to portugal. And carl c. Rich to be secretary of state for counselor affairs. I want to congratulate the nominees and thank you for your willingness to serve. We have congressman rooney here supporting mrs. Gingrich. Congressman rooney was the ambassador to the holy sea during president bushs term. The senior senator from oregon, ron widen and an esteemed member of this committee, senator portman from ohio. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your courtesy. As senator portman knows, we are right in the middle of debating tax reform, i know a topic of great interest to many senators here. Im trying to help out chairman hatch. I will make this a filibuster free oppo
If its true what sparked the change . Mr. Engel what i did was put in a bill which mirrored to a word the exact bill passed by the United States senate, 982. Mitch mcconnell voted for it. The Republican Leadership in the senate voted for it and so even though there are certain things that perhaps i would have liked to have tweaked a little bit or changed, i thought the best way, the cleanest way was to take that bill that the senate passed, put it in as my bill, hope any pass it in the house, send it to the senate and get a bill which would have sanctions on russia, sanction on russia for interspearing interfering in our leches, sanctions on iran for terrorism and ballistic missiles. This is something everybody claims they want. So all of a sudden were hearing this bill isnt good enough. There has to be certain kinds of changes made. We dont want to play games. So i think what the leader was saying what nancy was say was that if the republicans were serious, and they said, well if you
Was held by the heritage foundation. Welcome to those of you joining us, on our website or in house. We ask for a courtesy check to ee that our various mobile devices have been turned off. For those of you online can ask questions at any time by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Mr. Burton, before joining heritage, served as general counsel of the Small Business association, hes been chief Financial Officer and general counsel for the alliance for retirement prosperity and was a partner at the arfwuss group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please welcome me in welcoming david burton. David. David thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president obama and was sworn in in august of 2013. He was dez egg nated by President Trump to be acting chairman of the commission and served in that capacity if january 23 of this year to may 4, when his term and his term expires