Of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, yi end end visible, with liberty and justice for all. I want you to know im here because i work for you. Yay [ applause ] and im not here to lecture at you. My hope is that we all learn something from each other tonight. Theres some other people who work for you that i want to introduce to you. Theyre all people who work in the district, in the, in pennsylvania, in the 17th Congressional District. And i want you to get to know who they are a little bit, in case you ever need to call upon them for help. Starting with my district director, mr. Bob morgan. [ applause ] now bob is also an Economic Development specialist. And when i first learned about what it is to be a member of congress, i learned that there are no more earmarks, and well talk about that in a little bit, but what that means is you need Economic Development specialists to help local municipal
Rosa devoted her career to fighting for working families. Shes fought and i know because i fought alongside her for part of that time for raising the minimum wage, giving employees access to sick days and allowing workers to take family and medical leave. Shes been passionate on issues of equal pay for equal work. Shes been fighting recently tooth and nail to protect the aca for fair trade. I will tell you some of you may not know about rosa is if she has your cell phone number, shell call you. Nutrition and ge getting to the point to have days conversation, shes been working on this issue of child allowance or at least fully refundable tax credit which is pretty equivalent for many years. She is not a newcomer to this debate. And, in fact, people may not know this. Its a great little trivia point for those in the child allowance world is that thanks to rosa the Congress Actually voted on an amendment in 2003. Im old enough to remember on a fully refundable Child Tax Credit and the ame
Acted upon the recommendation of mr. Rosenstine and mr. Sessions with whom he had met on monday evening, who then put their recommendations in writing. He said that he had made up his mind to fire mr. Comey before those gentlemen had met, number one. And number two, that he was basically not following their recommendations. He was acting on his own, so that raises some questions. The question of turmoil in the ranks of the fbi, something that has been raised several times and the president raised right there, was knocked down today on capitol hill by acting director mccabe who said that mr. Comey had the very strong support of the majority of the rank in file at the fbi. He certainly painted a very different picture of that. Reasonable minds obviously can disagree and from where the president the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general sat they may have come to different conclusions on that but certainly that would be another sort of series of questions that i expect youll hea
Shes fought and i know because i fought alongside her for part of that time for raising the minimum wage, giving employees access to sick days and allowing workers to take family and medical leave. Shes been passionate on issues of equal pay for equal work. Shes been fighting recently tooth and nail to protect the aca for fair trade. I will tell you some of you may not know about rosa is if she has your cell phone number, shell call you. Nutrition and ge getting to the point to have days conversation, shes been working on this issue of child allowance or at least fully refundable tax credit which is pretty equivalent for many years. She is not a newcomer to this debate. And, in fact, people may not know this. Its a great little trivia point for those in the child allowance world is that thanks to rosa the Congress Actually voted on an amendment in 2003. Im old enough to remember on a fully refundable Child Tax Credit and the amendment failed. But that was the only time to my knowledge
Watch afterwards on cspan 2s book tv. Tom price recently testified before the Senate Finance committee about the president s 2018 budget request for his department. Lawmakers also asked about the current state of the Health Care Law and proposed cuts to medicaid. This hearing runs just over two hours. The committee will come to order. Were going to first listen to the distinguished senator from oregon who has to go to another Committee Hearing so well show that deference to him. I welcome everybody to this mornings hearing on the president s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 with specific attention to the department of health and Human Services. But let me i want to thank secretary price for being here. These hearings are an annual event for the finance committee and, secretary price, since this is your first time around, ill just warn you that these hearings can be a little grueling. Of course, you already know that. Im grateful for the president and that the president and hhs are