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So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. ...

We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings a...

Seat, despite the fact wert a jju investments in infrastructure create jobs now and make us stronger in the future. This committee has not held a hearing on this topic in the last four pd discussions with the chairman, we can Reach Agreement quickly on Holding Hearings on the financing of major infrastructure legislation as discussed. Tax reform as you say must be a central focus of this committee. Democrats believe that reforming the tax code should not be centered on right cuts at the; very to...

Of production to the best of their abilityx x focus onkrnn striping awaydtbn interferences for productivity growth. What kind of policies are wc they. Trade ii policies are a great opportunity right now. The tpp and estimates in my testimony suggest this could increase gdp by 200 billion if fully h. 4himplemented. This has been historically a spur ofifqhy trade growth. We saw a tremendous boom in trade technologies. To get that done, you do have to2onn give the president trade promotion tax refo...

85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can sta...

Anyone who would like to answer it, did the commission find they the current lack of a Retirement Program similar to that, recommended by the commission, that that is having the absence of a plan like that, right now, is having an impact on recruiting and retention . Currently we dont have a retirement system in place in the military that provides any benefits for those who serve for less than 20 years. Is that impacting recruiting . Senator lee thank you for the question. When we looked, we too...

Much for the question. Wendy spent a lot of time talking about that very issue that you raised in your question, and as we thought through all the transition assistant kind of challenges that a Service Member faces when theyre transitioning out we took all of that into consideration, and im going to ask commissioner Chris Kearney to talk to the specifics of that. Thank you mr. Chairman. Once again, the colleague to my right, when we took into consideration retirement and we did know harm of one ...

Its entirety. 2. 6 trillion is medicare, medicaid, Social Security and interest on the debt. Interest on the debt by the way is scheduled to approach 1 trillion within a tenyear period of time, within the budget window. All of that money we cant use for something else. So 3. 6 is the big number and 2. 6 is what we spent for the debt and right around a trillion for Everything Else. So when you think about the federal government and you think about roads and energy and education and National Defen...

That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people,...

The undersecretary can do better justice than i can. There are classified and unclassified elements to it. I would say we are talking about pretty far down the road. Not as an alternative to the joint Strike Fighter but what follows the joint Strike Fighter i dont think there is a conflict between it. I was mr. Kendalls battle buddy. You know what he says. It is be on fighter aircraft. It is how to dominate in air combat. There is a whole list of things about driving and developing technology fo...