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[inaudible conversations] c good morning. The hearing on agriculture in the state of the Rural Committee will come to order. Bow our heads please. Dear heavenly father we come before you increase to first of all say thank you. We thank you for so Many Blessings as you bestow upon us, many of which we dont even know on this occasion we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry and that your blessings, upon her new secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. Dear heavenly father, finally we t...

Birthday in march, the reality of spending more than 1500 nights away from my family over eight years hit me harder than it had before. Representative chaffetz was first elected in 2009. Agriculture secretary sonny purdue testified before congress for the first time yesterday since taking office. He briefed members of the housing a which you are committee on the role of farming, on rural economies throughout the United States. This hearing runs about three and a half hours. Good morning, the hea...

Subcommittee meeting is 1 45. Id hilike to call the meetg to order. I would like to thank our witnesses. First of all, its early. One thing thats true about washington, d. C. Theres uncertainty around us. Because of other meetings scheduled and planned we asked for you to come early, and i do appreciate it. And it shows you in the interest of our colleagues, that theyre here this early. So thats great. No matter first of all, weve got folks from as far away as alaska and close as pennsylvania. N...

Subcommittee meeting is 1 45. Id hilike to call the meetg to order. I would like to thank our witnesses. First of all, its early. One thing thats true about washington, d. C. Theres uncertainty around us. Because of other meetings scheduled and planned we asked for you to come early, and i do appreciate it. And it shows you in the interest of our colleagues, that theyre here this early. So thats great. No matter first of all, weve got folks from as far away as alaska and close as pennsylvania. N...

In illinoisillinois illinois ca tennessee recently testified. Id like to hall kacall the to order and thank our witnesses for joining today. I know its early. The one thing thats certain about us in washington d. C. Is that theres uncertainty around us, so because of other meetings scheduled and planned, we ask for you to come early. And i personally appreciate it. It shows you the interest of our colleagues that theyre here this early. So thats great. No matter how many miles youve first of all...

Bannon and donald trump and the republicans on this fcc roll back on access to the free press. Thank you again very much. Thank you all for being here. And stay woke [ cheers and applause ] thank you, congresswoman. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. That is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Later today on cspan3, canadas National Defense minister talks about his countrys defense polic...

Make it easier for the department of Veterans Affairs to fire, demote or suspend employees. Final passage scheduled for 6 1. Later in the week the senator heitkamp legislation to expand sanctions on iran, targeting people who work on irans illicit missile program. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, the question occurs on the elwood nomination. Mr. Alexander i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears ...

Insurance market. The remarks made at a motoring Club Rotary Club in kentucky shows a shift from the legislator. He raised the idea last week that they wanted to turn to the democrats. This is the first time he has explicitly raised the prospect of shoring of the Affordable Care act. Mitch mcconnell who pledged to eradicate the law known as obamacare root and branch, raised the prospect of working with democrats after a measure he had crafted behind closed doors. It would jettison the requiremen...

Insurance market. The remarks made at a motoring Club Rotary Club in kentucky shows a shift from the legislator. He raised the idea last week that they wanted to turn to the democrats. This is the first time he has explicitly raised the prospect of shoring of the Affordable Care act. Mitch mcconnell who pledged to eradicate the law known as obamacare root and branch, raised the prospect of working with democrats after a measure he had crafted behind closed doors. It would jettison the requiremen...

Funding level . Problematic changes mr. Pai we have not made any decisions on that score. Were trying to make sure the program works. Mr. Markey you wont make a commitment you wont reduce the funding . Mr. Pai were studying ways to improve mr. Markey ms. Rosenworcel, will you do that . Ms. Rosenworcel it is a successful one and i believe the changes put in place in 2015 have been successful. They have reached schools and students in every state across this country. Mr. Markey mr. Carr, will you ...