Five minutes to give an opening statement. Its our first hearing of the new year, this committee has had an incredibly productive last year, passing 45 recommendations focused on making congress more effective and efficient so that they can better serve the American People and i am proud of what we have conceived and accomplished with this committee so far and what weve accomplished together. Every member of this committee has been fully engaged, the work has taken time to consider the work in the mandate, and really working consider the colleagues. Finding Collaborative Solutions to the challenges this institution faces. Successful institutions what you are talking up businesses or organizations or governments, depends on people who are invested in the work they are doing. And that is fundamental. Invite successful institutions invest in their cells, their employees, their infrastructure, and the overall Work Environment and experience. They think can plan with an eye towards the futu
First issue so we can get to the chairman. First let me calls ways and means to order and before hour hearing the annual budget for fiscal year 2021 in accordance with the requirements of 301d of the congressional budget act of 1974 and house rules x clause 4f. Members will find a copy of the letter to the Budget Committee in front of them. Youve also received the same in advance of todays notice. Let me thank Ranking Member brady for working with me on this matter so that we are able to submit a concensus document to the Budget Committee that reflects the priorities of the ways and Means Committee as a whole. Without objection, the views and estimates will be considered as read and open for amendment at any point. And if there are no amendments, i will now recognize mr. Thompson for the purpose of offering a motion. Mr. Chairman, i move that the committee favorably report the committees annual budget views and estimates letter for 2021 to the committee on budget. All those in favor of
City county task force on opiates that was done across the u. S. We had 20 elected officials at the city and county levels, intensity officials intent county officials. The mayor of little rock, arkansas, it was a cochair on the city side and i was a cochair on the county side. Youll be hearing from one of those Panel Members today when greg speaks. But our work that was done, seems like ages ago. Well be talking about that. I want to thank those of you here in person as well as those f you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream and a special thank you to a. R. C. For your partnership. What we do in county government is all about partnerships. We partner with each other. We partner with various agencies especially great partners like aoc, we are thankful for that. This event is the culmination of a year Long Partnership to strengthen the local response on the opiate epidemic across the 13state region. A. R. C. Is a unique federal, state and local partnersh
Political correctness thats crippling our culture and shutting down serious debate. Hes 50 fax will spark. The conversations that will begin to finally undo decades of damage from disinformation and liberal mythmaking. Gi can you elaborate . Sure. Starting this book, i realized that for decades, there have been policies that have just not worked, whether it be in the areas of education or immigration or hot contemporary political things about Climate Change, policies put in place that has not actually helped fix they issues that they were intended to and they made americans lives far worse off. In researching this book, i found scores of data are particularly from gallup, American Voters for decades now and the answers have been overwhelming. American people simply dont trust the media by a margin of 70 to tell them the truth about some of the political policies have created. Another 60 dont trust politicians to tell the truth about those issues as well. So researching the problems hav
Regular camera crew, but to have cspan with us this evening. And we are also Live Streaming facebook page,c and any of you who want to find them later, you can go to our page, and will upload it on youtube. Is that correct . So, again, im sharon pratt. On the founding director of the is it due to politics, policy, and history which is housed here at the university of the District Of Columbia. We were launched up january of last year. And we have sort of the same kind of focus as do other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus as well on the and by so this city, doing, the history of this country, because we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton, there is a song that says, in the room where it happened, and we are what happened. [laughter] washington, d. C. So, while we have topics that are contemporary, we always try to sort of drill down on that topic to talk about its historical origins, and that is