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Day, ill come back up and take your questions. Thank you. I thought it might be best to read the president s statement. Since his inauguration, the Trump Administration has called on venezuelans to respect venezuelas constitution, respect the role and authority of the constitution in the established national assembly. Hold free and fair elections. Address the humanitarian needs of the venezuelan people, release political prisoners, and stop oppressing its great people. To heedme has refused this...

[inaudible conversations] one [inaudible conversations] mr. Thune good morning. Welcome to todays hearing on oversight of the fcc. I should point out since this committee has jurisdiction over sports. Last night, the South Dakota State University jackrabbits plunged their ticket to the tournament by winning the Summer League tournament. I am getting gaveled down by someone. [laughter] last time we met, a lot exchanged since then with the new fcc chairman with several members of this committee. T...

Nomination judge neil gorsuch. Well hear from the former law partner and some former law clerks live at noon eastern here on cspan3. Federal chair joined clyburn and Michael Oreilly at a Senate Oversight hearing. Net neutrality and wireless Broadband Access. This was first appearance on capitol hill since becoming head of the fcc. This is just under 3 hours. Good morning. Welcome to todays hearing on oversight on the federal communications commission. I should point out since this committee has ...

Discussion. Thank you very much. Judge neil gorsuch, President Trumps pick has his his confirmation hearing coming up. Beginning march 20th with opening statements, the next day will be questioning of the nominee himself by outside groups and witnesses. Live starting on the 20thth check cspan. Org for coverage plans. Judge gorsuch was born in denver in 1967 and went to Harukyo Nomura lard law school before being appointed to the bench. Anyone working at any hedge fund who involved in short term ...

Democratic forces could be a partner, to which you could send ammunition . Col. Warren i saw some press reporting about the Syrian Democratic coalition. Know who the members of the coalition are. Is, if different ethnic groups are coalescing around this common enemy called isil, that is a good thing. I dont have details on this newly formedoup or umbrella organization. Was only announced i guess publicly yesterday. I dont know. What i do know is anytime subgroups coalesce around this isil, andmy...

Cost of tax reductions. The alternative minimum tax is 28 . If your tax rate was lowered to 25 . You still have to pay 28 . That is correct. For incomes between to london thousand dollars and 500,000, the effective tax rate is 35 . You hit the 35 rate and incomes fire lower than the income levels at which you would hit the 35 rate and regular tax. Why do they call it a patch . It is a one time year by year patch to stop the broad expansion. You could ask why they call it a cliff. They have discu...

Here are the figures, when you look at it. Oecd started after world war ii. You could at least tell what the revenue was. We did know what the gdp was. No. And we are now, all governments, spending 42 of the gdp. And we want to make any effort to stop that . Or are we discussing to say it has never stopped before . I think the earlier Social Security, not fully implemented. There was no medicare. It has been pretty stable since 1980. It goes up and down with the business cycle, but it is pretty ...

Businesses and the middle class struggling to pay for Health Insurance, what does this mean . When we implement the exchange, we are going to pick up 400 million in federal subsidies to help poor and middleclass families get reimbursements from the fact youre not getting before. That is a big win for the state of vermont. If we all make it work and then let the states be laboratories for change, once you do not go below those basic threshold, we all know we need health care. This bill allows us ...

He set ray were you all did. He gave a number of scenarios of what that would look like. You have the ability to go after both sides. You can go after more than one actor. With over 18 indictments, it is not a record that gives a lot of hope of any consequence. Be, should weld be looking at an ad hoc tribunal . Similar to what were trying to get off the ground with syria. Rose, you mentioned targeted intervention toward protecting. Omen affickingark law in tr greg stevens and i learned quite hor...

The work that was done during that tsunami in 2004 by crs. It is great to know that you were there making sure that happen because otherwise it would have been far worse than it actually was. I would like introduce ms. Madeleine rose is an advocacy advisor for mercycorps an aid agency. She leads mercycorps portfolios on subsaharan youth programs, counterterrorism, and humanitarian access, countering violent extremism and atrocity prevention. She has also worked for the committee on National Legi...