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Afternoon eastern time and later, pending action in the house on the g. O. P. Tax bill, the senate would then take up the measure. Youre watching live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, fill us with reverence for you. Help us to remember that you are the one from whom we borrow our heartbeats. You continue to be the source of our peace and t...

Entire fiscal year with a total of 664 billion for the department of defense. This includes important emergency funding for Missile Defense activities. And as we all know, our troops and commanders must have the resources that they need, and in especially Uncertain Times and especially at a time of the holidays. This legislation will allow them to continue to advance peace with the resolve of superior fire power and professionalism across the globe. The legislation reauthorizes and extends fundi...

Economic houses in place. Theres seeing property is the biggest threat. You may have seen a glimpse of what is to come in 2018 and the treasuries market with that yields surge we saw today. A lot of nervous investors around how much the yield curve has flattened in the face of more positive economic data. I want to bring up this chart really quickly, which shows how much a yield curve has flattened. It is headed toward that in version, usually points to an imminent recession most times. We heard...

Mr. Portman mr. President , i want to talk tonight about a once in a Generation Opportunity we have in this senate tonight to help middleclass families, to help grow our economy, and im going to talk about the facts. Im not going to be making stuff up. Im going to talk about the real middleclass tax cuts that are in this legislation. Im going to show you charts that indicate not just what kind of tax relief is going to be there for you and your family, but whos going to pay, where the burden is....

The rules committee will come to water and thank you very much for joining us. We said we would be here at 3 00 and we made it. We are having a lot of fun. The committee will be considering the hr amended that will to verily extend federal funding until january 19, 2018. Fundsegislation fully National Defense programs for the entire fiscal year. Billion for the department of billion for the department of defense. This includes important emergency funding for missile activities. And as we all kno...

Hatch hatch he has an interesting mr. Hatch he has an interesting way of trying to get his point of view across. It shouldnt b done here in this august body. The senate will soon vote on h. R. 1, the tax cuts and jobs act. Ive waited a long time to give this final statement in support of tax reform legislation. As you know, mr. President , ive been in the senate for a little while. Ive been party to a number of major legislative achievements like the passage of the americans with disabilities ac...

Mr. President , we stand today on the precipice of the most Sweeping Change to the nations tax system in over 30 years. This is a historical moment as this distinguished body begins final consideration of tax cuts and jobs act, tax reform that will help boost americas economy, create more jobs and leave more money in peoples paychecks. At the last time we considered tax reform similar to this magnitude was 1986. To help remind us how much our country, its economy and the people have changed sinc...

We have with me today Brenda Lawrence and jackie spear were also leaders in the and kathy castor who was a very prominent member of the Energy Commerce committee from florida. Well, christmas time is here and why republicans are giving ultra wealthy folks and big corporations extravagant presents in the ways of billions of dollars, they are putting coal in the stockings of everybody else. In that regard we are here to talk about the Childrens Health Insurance Program, also known as chip, that pr...

For moving reconciliation legislation. So theres something known as the byrd rule where the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that three provisions, two related to some education tax issues as well as striking the short title of the bill, those provisions were not ruled in order on this reconciliation legislation, so they had to scrub that of the bill, bring it back to the house, vote for it. Its really nothing more than a forn formality. House leadership has proven they have the votes to pass. All o...

Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to post thoughts on us, and you can find us on facebook as well. Here are some headlines looking at last nights effort. Congress on the brink of tax overhaul, that is how the wall street journal laid it out this , and the gop tax rate for Corporate Tax now at 21 as part of that new package. Washington times, when bill, three wins for republicans. Not only highlighting the tax cut plan, but what it does for the individual mandate ends...