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Between capitol hill and this white house . Rettaw is james cap and Melissa Boteach. Thank you both for being here. Melissa, let me begin with you. How do you define entitlement . Aest i define entitlement as basic Living Standards whether its retirement or health care or nutrition that if you are eligible for it, youre guaranteed to receive it. I think thats important because it sets a floor of income security under americans such that when we face the ups and downs of life whether its unemploy...

Cost. As weve gone along. But that is phase two, correct . Yeah. That is part of phase two. Remember, phase one was to do the initial planning which we have done. I think weve brought to you what is the, we felt, the appropriate size and that was based on high rate treatment if we wanted to move in that direction to reduce the amount of volume so we can treat more and that was really the indication of the size. And then, you know, as part of phase two, if we want to move into construction, we wi...

Go to cspan. Org. Click the series tab. Take you live to the floor of the house gaveling in for legislative business in just a moment. 15 bills on the agenda, including a resolution of support for proteverts in iran. Most of the bills today dealing with Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, we give you thanks for giving us another year. At the beginning o...

Having an open house saturday january 20th between 10 00 and 2 00 targeted to the residents of the villages. Those sha that have benefits under the thr rs and will be open to all residents. At the end of november we traveled with ticd to washington, d. C. To meet with the department of labor regarding access to easements to property that improved the communications weve been having with them and resulted in the agreement on the consent calendar today. We continue to work on temporary and permane...

His passing. I was actually travelling in the south of china in the region where his parents had come from. Its also the area where my husband was born. So we were travelling in that area when we heard about his passing. We were so shocked and so grieved because he was a friend of mine for many years. Over three decades. He actually officiated at my daughters wedding and so he is greatly missed. I think that in this era of time when there is so much political grand standing, its really rare to e...

Witnesses today, and ill save the introductions. I know there are a couple introductions that will be made from up here. This morning well go ahead with our Opening Statements, myself and senator cardin, and then were honored to have both the chairman and the Ranking Member of the whole committee here. So senator barrasso, senator carper, and then i understand senator cardin, you have an introduction to make also. Yes. All right. Well do that. Lets recognize first senator carper, because hes goi...

[applause] thank you. Kim reynolds became governor of iowa when the previous Governor Terry branstad resigned in may upon becoming ambassador to china. Governor reynolds delivered her first state of the state address last week. She talked about rewriting the state tax code, healthcare and education. From the state capital in des moines, this is 45 minutes. [applause] governor reynolds. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Lieutenant governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative lea...

Surveillance reauthorization, 6038 was the vote. The 60th vote was needed to announce that bill. Also on capitol hill, a number of hearings we covered, a rather lengthy one on Homeland Security. A routine oversight hearing with Kiersten Nielsen kirstjen nielsen. Testified before the judiciary subcommittee on this issue. And also talked with a number of senators about the recent changes in daca and immigration. Here is what she had to say with some senator amy klobuchar. Listening to your answers...

About writing iowas tax code, the Opioid Epidemic and education. Her speech is 45 minutes. Governor ren solds . [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Lieutenant governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leaders, senators and representatives, justices and judges, elected official, officials, distinguished guest, family, friends and my fellow iowans. Its an honor to be here today as your 43rd governor and to deliver my first condition of the state address. [ applause ] wow w...

Senate on cspan2. Were also streaming live online at cspan. Org and on the free cspan radio app. And welcome to las vegas. This is the communicators on cspan. We are on location for the next couple of weeks. Were at the ces, the Consumer Electronics show. Its one of the largest trade shows in america, and were going to show you some of the interviews we did with tech leaders and some of the latest technology. This is the communicators on cspan. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] host ...