Of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by majorities and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocate between the parties and no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other other than the majority and majorities and leaders for morning minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Abraham, for five minutes. Mr. Abraham thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to share with you an inspiring story about a Community Rallying to honor one of our nations heroes. On september 12, this year, Thomas Edward hunter passed away at the wonderful age of 93. He was the world war ii veteran who served in normandy and fought with our troops to liberate europe from the nazis. Unfortunately, mr
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to baltimore and online viewer around the world good morning and welcome. Im dean of the John Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public Health. Want to extend a special welcome from president president bill clinton [and several pile simake Elijah Cummings and. Id like to extend an especially warm welcome to senator Barbara Mccosky whom we are now proud to call one of our own. Thank you so much for being here. We are authorized work with the Clinton Foundation to bring you this submit on americas Opioid Epidemic. This is a National Crisis that demands involvement from all levels of government, public and private organizations, as well as from individual citizens. Nearly 100 every day done every day near hi 100 die from opioid overdose. Over the past 15 years the death rate from opiode overdose has tripled. The causes are complex. Millions with chronic noncancer pain are prescribe opioids instead of safer alternatives, heroin is more available and increase leg cont
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Buy timewarner a big power lunch begins right now. Welcome to power lunch, im melissa lee. Were just off session lows but stocks have accelerated losses here in the afternoon. Worst day in nearly three months stocks pushing lower following new details of the new Senate Tax Plan including a possible delay in Corporate Tax cuts. For all the details we have, lets head to john harwood in washington john the senates got a problem, their budget reconciliation rule allows them only to reducethis tax bill as we have seen emerge in the house, is going to cost more than that in the shortterm and also raise the deficit in the longterm. Also not allowed under senate rules. So what the senate is trying to do is make adjustments both to get the votes and also to meet the rules, one of those judgm t adjustments is going to be raising the Corporate Tax rate going from 25 to 15 . From what i understand, the senate will not delay immediate expensing, which is likely to be the stimulus part of this bill
Health care, decreased wait times and modernize the va i. T. System. Good morning here today were pleased to welcome back our good friend dr. David shulkin, the new secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs. The last time you appeared before our committee you were v under sector for health. Now youve been kicked upstairsp after a Unanimous Senate confirmation vote, we become unanimous and that says a lot in this political environment so congratulations. We come with your background i know you a great background inph philadelphia. I just learned you certainly bring a lot of experience to the job. Although im sure these days the challenges are very daunting for you. We realize this ring is a bit unusual. Ua rather than a typical budgeting where you have at this time of year we are limited tod discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget mentors that omb sent to the hill in march. The two page entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities or plan