He was questioned by House Budget Committee members related to Economic Growth and Government Spending. This is just over two hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome on the congressional hearing on the offices budget and outlook. I want to thank everyone for being here this morning. Were holding this hearing today to discuss the congressional budget offices economic out look which gives us a look at our spending, National Debt and how the economy is going to perform over the next decade. It forms the cornerstone of the work we do here at the House Budget Committee and i want that thank for their hard work and would also like to welcome director hall. I do appreciate you taking the time to testify today and look forward to your insight as we discuss this report. The discussion we will have today is a serious one because as cbo indicate we face economic challenges. Deficits are beginning to rise and Economic Growth continues to be sub par. Legacies of the last Administration Polic
Agree more. We hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. I want to thank you mr. President , and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. With that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i suggest the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination. Executive office of the president , michael p. Botticelli of the District Of Columbia to be director of the National Drug control policy. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Hatch i notice the absence of a quorum. T
An audit revealed more than 57,000 veterans on too long waiting lists to be scheduled for medical appointments and in addition to that there are other veterans seeking care at va who were never even added to these wait lists. This is clearly unacceptable and must be dealt with immediately. I couldnt agree mor with senator mccain when he said on the senate floor in the debate, and i quote, if theres a definition of emergency, i would say that this legislation fits that. It is an emergency. It is an emergency what is happening to our veterans and the men and women who have served the country and we need to pass the legislation and get it to conference with the house as soon as possible. End of quote from senator mccain and i fully concur with what he said. Veterans in this country must get quality care in a timely manner and we need to provide the funding the va needs to accomplish that goal and to do it as expeditious a manner as possible. The simple truth of the manner is the va needs
First. Anyone of you. So, isils incursion expanded the conflict. A border that iraq does not recognize and has very little meaning given the fact that violence is spanning the border. It will take some pressure off of assad because the forces fighting in iraq are not fighting in syria. It could mean that the other jihadist groups in syria are going to make inroads into isil territory in syria, which, by some accounts they already have. Dynamics,ll have some but it wont change the fundamental dynamic of the syrian conflict, which is, you have a government under bashar assad who is trying to retain control. It is fighting in opposition that is largely. Extreme. I would love to find that mythical moderate secular opposition in syria, but i am afraid one really does not exist, at least not in large numbers. Itterms of turkeys role, will be very interesting to see what happens in the kurdish region. Turkey and the pkk have come to some court of some sort of agreement recently, which is nice
And i think that has caused huge problems in the ability to build coalitions to move things forward. Tune in six months, and ill lay out the whole thing. Thanks for doing this, sir. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Thanks everybody. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] were learning today that one of the people suspected of laying a key role in the 2012 benghazi attacks is currently in the u. S. The suspect was captured by the military two weeks ago in a town does outside of benghazi, libya. The Justice Department has charged the suspect with recharges and in connection with attack thatsulate killed four americans. He is being held in washington, d. C. According to government officials. An arraignment expected today, rarer admiral john kirby smoke about the suspect and the charges against him in yesterdays pentagon briefing. Here is some of what he had to say. Allegations from intelligence and special opera