Some committee on economic public buildings in Emergency Management will come to order. I asked that your consent that the chairman be authorized to declare a recess at any time in todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. Consent that members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions without objection so ordered. Members wish to insert document into the amendment email it to documents ti at mail. House. Love. Recognizing himself with the purposes of an Opening Statement for five minutes. I want to thank our witness, is it deeann . The administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency for being here today. We are focusing on the current state of the readiness response and recovery. The core mission is to help people before during and afterng disasters. Unfortunately, they have added layers of bureaucracy and adopted political agendas which have impacted how it delivers on its core mission. The Biden Administration i
Scan the q. R. Code to listen. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Were funded by these Television Companies and more, including comcast. You think this is just a Community Center . No, its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with thousands of Community Centers with lists so lowncome students can have everything ey need. And comcast supports cspan, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Host were back this morning with mark goldwine, senior policy director for the committee for a responsible federal budget here to talk about u. S. Deficit and federal spending. Mark, lets begin with defining deficit versus debt. Do that and then tell us the difference. Guest thanks so much for having me this morning. The deficit is how much we borrow each were and the debt is how much we owe. Its the sum of all of our past deficits. If you think of a credit card, the deficit is how much youve added to the credit card bill in 2023. The debt is how much you owe total. Host where are we a
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] host good morning it is monday september 18, with eight working days left until the government funding expires the House Republicans have crafted a proposal to keep the government running 30 days while they work out a larger measure. With a razor thin majority in the house this doesnt appear to have inform republican support. We will get your take on the spending negotiations in the first 90 minutes of washington journal. Democrats democrats. 2027488000, republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Or 2027488003 or post on facebook. Com cspan or x with the handle cspanwj. We will get to your takes but first last night a deal was announced between the hard tpraoeupltd caucus in the house and moderate colleagues the main street caucus. There are about 70 main street caucus members republicans and 40 conservative Freedom Caucus. The two sides were negotiating on a way to avoid a Government Shutdown. These are some provisions i
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[inaudible conversations] please come to order. We are holding the first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individuals Health Insurance market for 2018. How to help the 18 million americans and the individual Insurance Market to give an idea of how many people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate on the committee. To come to. Weve got senators there so that is remarkable interest. We will each have an Opening Statement and then introduced the five witnesses. After the testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask witnessewitnesses questions andl do it in five minute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senator nearly one quarter of the members of the senate and that includes senators with the widest divergence of views and has a republican majority of only one. Working together the last two years, weve been able to agree on big steps, big issues about which we have b