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House ways and Means Committee chair kevin brady talked about tax policy and possible legislation from congressional republicans. Good afternoon, cpac. Are you ready to tear this tax code up by its roots . Im kevin brady. Im chairman of the ways and Means Committee. Its an honor to be here with you today. First i want to thank you for bringing us republican President Donald Trump and a unified Republican Congress this year and as chairman of the committee we are all in with our new president on ...

Call of the best alternatives. This deal is not perfect. I think we can all acknowledge that including those who worked on it. It is a heck a lot better than going to war with iran or trying to pursue an end less path of sanctions and their program races ahead towards them having the capability of having multiple bonds of weapons grave uranium or plutonium. That means whether cuba or paris, theyre always going to be subjected to scrutiny and debate. I think what we have to do is have the courage...

With an answer, okay . Which one is best, david . Well, youre wrong. The stapler is not best. Jack, which one is best . I like wrong again. It is the the right answer is the binder clip. The binder clip is in my opinion the best. All right . I will admit if i had a 100 page document to fasten, the bientder clip would be best, stapler is not going to do the job very well. On the other hand, if i want to fasten a receipt to a note, maybe i need the paper clip. In effect, i think im coming around t...

Asa assurance that is not the case. And this morning secretary kerry was on tv acting like that was the case. I felt reassured yesterday. This morning it was seen we were going to do that. So i would like your response. I think you know there is bipartisan support for new sanctions authority in response to irans repeated Ballistic Missile launches. I think the repeated ballisic it missile launches and the desire to purchase weapons from russia prove an increase push back if necessary. I hope you...

Then it said it planned to accept a floor of 85,000 refugees and at least 100,000 next year. Once here with Refugee Status those individuals can claim any job and collect any federal welfare benefit. Recent statistics from the department of health and Human Services office of Refugee Resettlement indicate that 75 of refugees receive food stamps and more than half receive Free Health Care and cash benefits. For refugees from the middle east the numbers are even higher. More than 90 of recent midd...

Thats right. 200 years ago this year Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem, the defense of ft. Mchenry, and set it to a british tune, and together they form our National Anthem, the starspangled banner. Here at the National Museum of American History, we explore americas history through collections, research and public outreach. We help people understand the past to better make sense of the present and to shape a more humane future. Were hoping that our program will be able to do much of t...

Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream fa...

With university of michigan president Mark Schlissell, including the cost of college, admissions policies, academic standards, research and athletics. Cspan has been on a tour of big ten colleges these past few weeks and along the way, we have been talking with University President s about Higher Education issues. This morning we take our viewers to ann arbor, michigan, where university of michigan president Mark Schlissell joins us. Having seen both sides of the education system, the private sc...

You strive harder and you work hard that you will be able to get ahead no matter what race, gender, creed, or where you come from. Inner city or out of inner city. Wednesday, a look at poverty and working families. Thats at 9 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night, nativeamerican history. Then on saturday, live all day coverage from the National Book festival science pavilion. Saturday evening from bbc scott land, a debate on scott lands upcoming ziks on whet...

The battlefields are quiet and even alluring today. It is the notion that the men who fought here believed in something truly worth suffering and dying for. That draws us to this place. For each of us has we leave from here this evening we depart with the sacred responsibility to remember those who fell here and to ponder each for ourselves how we can properly honor those sack river ices and the legacy of what happened here. To them we owe a great debt. Two years ago we concluded each of our sev...