Order. Without 0, all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record, subject to length limitation and the rules. We immediate today to examine the fiasco surrounding the Trump Administrations decision to invoke Emergency Authority under the arms expert control act. And abuse of authority in my view and ram led to 8 billion in arms sales to gulf countries. Well hear testimony from assistant secretary of state for plate political clarke cooper. Thank you for appearing before us today. Welcome to members of the and can the press and thank you to your friends on cspan who are broughting this important proceeding. Before i recognize myself for opening stam i want to just say to the member isll be heavy with the gavel because we want to get in as many people asking questions as possible. So, the five minutes will be pretty hard and fast. Instead of let it go for six or seven minutes. If ask people to please speak within the fiveminute recognized per
Against that corruption appearance while at the same time allowing an individual to contribute to however many house candidates he wants to contribute to . I mean, the concern is you have somebody who is very interested, say, in environmental regulation, and very interested in gun control. The current system, the way the antiaggregation system works, is hes got to choose. Is he going to express his belief in environmental regulation by donating to more than nine people there . Or is he going to choose the gun control issue . So, mr. Chief justice, i want to make two different points in response to that question. The first is that restricting transfers would have a bearing on the circumvention problem. It wouldnt eliminate all circumvention risk, but would have a bearing on that problem. But there is a more fundamental problem here. Its a problem analogous to the one that was at issue with soft money in mcconnell, which is the very fact of delivering the 3. 6 million check to the whoeve
Improvement in that the guard. Would be ao brackets further simplification. But youre right that we have software now and most people use turbotax and Something Like that. That is not the biggest sort source of complexity. Biggest source is the stuff is mrs. Have to put up with current that is arcane stuff like how many right off for your investments. Over other complexity for individuals, the credits they received, the earned income tax very little understanding of that by the recipients. Fraud in that of program as a result. Qwest should it be maintained yaks . Guest should it be maintained . Guest no. There is 11 billion a year due to improper payments. You make changes to it as far as businesses and how they are tax . The complexity there is many fold. Labor cost in businesses, they write is off immediately. Expenses,investment equipment, machines, computers, must be written off in years and decades. This is complex. I do not really think the fraud is driven by complexity. There is
Business in just two weeks. Item one on the agenda avoiding a government slutdohut. Well have a live report. Americas news headquarters live from the Nations Capital starts right now. We begin this hour with a fox news exclusive. A court in doha, qatar, overturning a ruling against an american couple who had been accused of starving their daughter to death there. The ruling clearing matthew and grace hong to leave the country. But immigration officials confiscating their passports now trapping them at the airport in doha as we speak. Matthew hong joins us live by phone from the airport. Matthew, how long have you been at the airport, tell us how long you have been held here. Weve been at the airport for the last nine hours. This morning the court declared us my wife and i for the first time innocent of all charges and allowed us to go declared that were permitted to go home to the United States. Were looking forward to going home to being with our son. However, as we came to the airpor
Robert W. Goodrich, son of Warren Osgood Goodrich and Martha Rosamund Wood, beloved husband, father, brother, and grandfather, died on Saturday morning, March 25, 2017, at the age of 82. Born in Randolph, Vermont and raised in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, he spent much of his early life in the woods around his home. At […]