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Coverage right here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, 24, ngton, d. C. , september 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Ofned, nancy pelosi, speaker the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore order of thehe house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and mino...

Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This co...

Focused on the stale Campaign Pledge from 2008. The president would spend the remaining months to defeat isil but he should work with us to prepare the mistakes he is ju leaving behind. Just about every detainee that could be released from the secured detention facility has already been released. Some have already returned to the fight just as we feared. Some have taken more innocent b American Life according the Obama Administration. The bottom line is the people remaining are among the worst o...

Deficits in the out years. I remember our Health Care Costs coming back under control. I learned that the projections of the balanced budget within ten years which would be six years from now. Do you have no recollection of those . Payware that kennedy is projections. Cbo doesnt do projections of resolutions only of bills that are being considered and under the current law. On the estimates weve done sometimes they are putting the assembly of them as the bottom line for the resolution that doesn...

Enforcement matter in the european union, based on a theory that goes beyond international rules, well allow you to file a lawsuit here and collect the money back. In fact, you can auction off the embassy of the country that sues you. We could do a lot to make it clear that were tired of this onesided debate in which we demand and they give a live, and we give a little more. Because they are threatening to hurt our industry. Its the wrong approach. We need to get much more tough minded. If i cou...

Selfinterest and they are dressing it up in a Data Protection guys, and the only thing that i have ever discovered that they understand is the threat of retaliation, if they go beyond the legal bounds that they have set. That are set by International Trade law. And the u. S. And the u. S. Congress has been reluctant to stand up for companies and say, if you get hit with a case, an enforcement matter in the european union, based on a theory that goes beyond international rules, well allow you to ...

Through. And im still trying to figure out how these savings are going to be passed on to consumers and of course to taxpayers who put up so much of the money that funds the Medicare Program. So mr. Well ask all three of our professors. Explain to me how somehow these costs, particularly medical costs, because so many of the inversions thus far are medical, explain to me how or even if because youve done some scholarship on this, dr. Desai. Hows this going to benefit the American Consumer and th...

Embrace it. The less the leaders in congress recognize publicly that this is an important issue its not going to happen because theyre going to have people pushing back real hard so its got to be a public effort. They have to be armed with a push from the president and the white house to say this is important. So id like to see the whole National Security apparatus from the president , nfc on down, making this top priority in all the conversations. Tom, you had mentioned the role of the congress...

Tougher provision on search and seizure. So Law Enforcement people are very practical. To give a general answer to it you would have to be specific place by place. Would it overwhelm the state is that what youre talking about . No. As a general matter, we ought to defer to the states. One of the previous witnesses said in ascertaining, when you go through the list of things that you ought to consider, the differential in penalties was not on their list of things that were legitimate to consider....

These are are three different studies the first one by doj the other one involved the same person but with different methodologies used and thats why the different numbers. I see but that does not indicate that there was no growth in the number of there was growth but actually it may or may not have been 300. Its more. It was more than that. Well, okay. All right. Well, so thats a modest assessment. 3300 as of 98. That was 300 more than in 1983. Between 1998 and 2008, that ten year period saw a ...