System. This is about two hours. Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to the ways and means subcommittee on tax policy, our hearing on how tax reform will simplify our broken tax code and help individuals and families. Before we get started with Opening Statements and so forth, id like to yield to the chairman of the ways and Means Committee, congressman kevin brady for the purposes of introducing a distinguished witness who is before us today. Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Chairman rossman, thank you for your leadership of the tax committee. Thank you for leading hearings like this that allow america to have the conversation about creating a bolder, fair, flatter and more pro growth tax code. I want to thank all our witnesses for being here today, but i want to give a special welcome to our friend, my friend, chairman bill archer, former leader of this committee and a longtime mentor of me personally. Chairman archer, thank you for being here to share your insight and your experience o
System. This is about two hours. Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to the ways and means subcommittee on tax policy, our hearing on how tax reform will simplify our broken tax code and help individuals and families. Before we get started with Opening Statements and so forth, id like to yield to the chairman of the ways and Means Committee, congressman kevin brady for the purposes of introducing a distinguished witness who is before us today. Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Chairman rossman, thank you for your leadership of the tax committee. Thank you for leading hearings like this that allow america to have the conversation about creating a bolder, fair, flatter and more pro growth tax code. I want to thank all our witnesses for being here today, but i want to give a special welcome to our friend, my friend, chairman bill archer, former leader of this committee and a longtime mentor of me personally. Chairman archer, thank you for being here to share your insight and your experience o
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36 in philadelphia. Feels like 39 in allentown. 35 in wilmington. Close to 40 degrees in millville. Satellite and radar we have a little bit of cloud cover this morning all this beginning to thin out now, with High Pressure sliding in, from west to east across the keystone state this afternoon, that she that shoulde us with a lot of the this, a lot of bright blue later on. Dismissening sun for the mummers sun for the mummers parade. High of 47, very comfortable high for january. Were not talking about blue skies, when i come back, but rain in the sevenday forecast. Philadelphia police are trying to determine if the driver who struck and killed a 71yearold man early this morning was driving under the influence. The action cam was at the scene in olney section of the city. A Mercury Sable dlirch driven by a 25yearold man hit the veteran dragging him for a block killing him. The scene out here is rather grizzly. In addition to the front grill and headlights from the striking vehicle, we h
Will talk panelists about today. Everyone agrees America Needs to improve the efficiency of the infrastructure investments. President trump has talked about reason the cost of highly buildings so we would get more and better highways. Think that is possible. Privatization and publicprivate partnership. For example, three decades since Margaret Thatcher in britain, which has launched a global revolution in airport management. Half of europe passes airports are private. Donald trump called u. S. Airports owned by the government third world. What is donald trump going to do about that . We will see. I hope they look at International Reform trends and adopt some of these reform styles here in the United States for infrastructure. Our panel survey will discuss with trump may do and can do with infrastructure reform. In my own writing on of theructure, on all speakers today, i would encourage you to go to the website of the Institution Representative here today to learn more about infrastruc