Our nations tax system and relief the tax burden on american taxpayers with the focus on middle class families. Todays markup is the combination of the years long work. Almost every member of our former almost every member has participated in this process. Our former chairman senator max bacchus was engaged in this effort as was his counterpart on the republican side. Ranking member senator widen has done a lot of work on this effort others who have served on this committee, and moej t most of those who are now on the committee have done a great deal of work to advance tax reform, i want to thank all of my colleagues for their work. I have more to say about members contributions in the coming days, id like to take a few moments to talk about some of the highlights in the bill that will be before us today and this week. This legislation will provide much needed tax relief to American Workers and families. It reduces rates across the board, particularly for those in the middle class, who
Improvement over existing therapies. This is based on the successful breakthrough designation created by congress back in 20 is 12. This has worked and accelerated oncology drug reviews by more than two years. In short h. R. 4374 addresses the access to the newest available products by expanding the circumstances under which emergency use authorizations can be issued and by establishing a pathway to full approval of products at the secretary of defense requests. Policies were bipartisan and developed with input from the administration and authorizing committees in the house and the senate. C. B. O. Has indicated that h. R. 4374 will have no impact on direct spending or revenue. So, mr. Speaker, this is not only a good bill but an important bill for our men and women in uniform and i urge my colleagues to support h. R. 4374. And i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. Today we are mr. Pallone today we are talking about authorizing emergency uses
Row lit fest starting saturday at 11 a. M. Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Treasury secretary steven mooun mnuchin defended trumps 2018 budget request for his department on capitol hill. He appeared before the house weighs and means committee. He once again called on congress to raise the debt ceiling before leaving for their august recess. This is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] [ inaudible conversations ] the committee will come to order. Good afternoon. And thank all for joining us today. Our committee is honored to welcome treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin to testify on President Trumps fiscal year 2018 Budget Proposals for the te Treasury Department. Annual hearing with the treasury secretary on the president s budget plays an incredible role in our world. It helps set the stage for collaboration between congress, the white house, and the Treasury Department. Todays conversation will help us identify in advance efforts to grow our economy, create jobs, and increase american
The committee will come to order. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining us today. Our committee is honored to welcome treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin to testify on President Trumps budget procedural for t proposal for the Treasury Department. Our annual hearing with the treasury secretary on the president s budget plays an incredibly Important Role in our work, setting the stage for collaboration between the white house and the Treasury Department. It will help us identify in advance efforts to grow our economy, create jobs, and increase american safety. Todays conversation will help encourage a constructive, open dialogue focused on challenges facing our businesses, workers, our communities, and our country as a whole. Reading through President Trumps fiscal year 2018 Budget Proposal, its a Welcome Change to see that this budget, unlike the obama budget of the past eight years, balances in the next decade. The president s proposals take muchneeded action, grow our economy, cr
Economic condition and possible fed actions in the future. You look like nervous. Im much more nervous, like yeah. Yeah. At work it will be eight or nine days away, but it can happen any time. I hope so. Im better than that. Lets talk about schedules. The committee will come to order without objection and they declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous material to the chair for inclusion in the record. The hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony and the board of governors on the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. Since we last convened to take chair yellens on Monetary Policy, headline remains low as does inflation, but the headline Unemployment Rate still rests too much on an incredibly low Labor Participation rate and regrettably high disability payment Participation Rate.