Addiction. Looiid like to say good morning. We originally scheduled this for 10 00 a. M. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is jamie. I help guideline the committee here at the club. On behalf of the 3,000 members of the press club and our president i want to welcome you here today and welcome our guests. Before we get into introductions of our speakers, i havent really done this before. I chaired the Headliners Committee for the past couple years prior to when we made it part of the news maker committee before we made it the Headliners Committee. I never really talked about the process of how we select something to be either a news maker or a headliner. It seems like before we had the hurricanes and the earthquakes, the National Disaster we were talking about was the Opioid Crisis. As the counter goes t wasnt th it wasnt that long ago. We thought it would be important this particular week when we thought congress would be dealing with the budget to talk about this. Because ho
They are meaning in new jersey to discuss the transition process. Some reports suggest mitt romney is being considered for a cabinet position. President obama is in peru are the last stop on his overseas trip before leaving office. He will meet with students in lima, peru. Looking ahead tomorrow, the president holds a News Conference at the economic summer and economic summit before coming back to the u. S. We are asking students to participate in the studentcam documentary competition by telling us what is the most our nextsue for president , donald trump, and congress to address in 27 team. The competition is open to all students six through 12. They can work alone or in a group of up to three to produce a documentary on the topic selected. A grand prize of 5,000 go to the student or team with the best entry. 100,000 in prizes will be shared between 150 students and 53 teachers. The deadline is january 20, 2017, inauguration day. For more information go to studentcam. Org. Vermont se
As some of you heard me say, some guest my have to depart earlier. Chairman walden is here, and rob simms. This is chairman waldens fourth visit and thank you for coming back and bringing mr. Simms with you. I will talk about representative waldens family coming by wagon train in 1845 in order to get as many questions. That is it for the biographical portion and now to the ground rules. We are on the record, no live bloging, tweeting, no filing of any kind while the breck breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to the guest. It is likely we will beending well before the 9 30 usual stop time. To help you resist the selfie urge we will email pictures to the reporters after the breakfast. If you would like to ask a question do the traditional thing and send a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will call on one and all in the time we have available. We will start with letting the guests make opening comments and set the stage and go to questions after that. Thank you for coming. A
In federal change was a violation of the law and the Supreme Court didnt agree with that. But we are larrying it over and over again. It turns out it was a good program, i can personally testify to that, when it was implemented there were delays because it is very complicated in implementing these complicated laws. They said it was quote wise unquote to do this. I think these charges of overreach reflect the reflection of this administration demonizing the act. It is reason to believe the executive branch acted appropriately in executing the law. My republican colleagues have been examining this for two years. Todays hearing is the filing of a lawsuit questioning the constituti constituti constitution constitutionality of the program. It follows interviews with 13 current and government officials from four federal agencies. My question is congress has a wealth of tools. Have they used their legislative authority to review this. I think the fact that Congress Republicans have taken no s
Its legitimate but what i tell you is we are always look in the rearview mirror. The snapshot in time shows are members in strong shape and voters in the district Hillary Clinton worse off than donald trump. What happens between now and november we are going to be watching and adjusting. Will go next to washington examiner. Mr. Chairman you touched on the rnc and the job they are doing on the ground in various swing states in different areas but there has been a lot of talk about the Trump Campaign and how they are forced to pick up the slack in many ways operationally speaking with the ground game and the Trump Campaign how would the rnc basically served in the Trump Campaign congressionally when it comes to resources and money . So again Reince Priebus has done a great job. Started early address the issues started early, addressed the that needed to be addressed at the rnc going back several years. In terms of funding compare that to the dnc. One is done really well and one is broke.