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Good afternoon, everyone, thank you for being here. As you know, today we have the presentation of the president s budget. For todays briefing, as part of the presentation, i have the director of the office of budget, Sylvia Burwell and jason furman, and Cecilia Munoz, the director of the policy and gene sperling, the director of the economic council. Each guest has an Opening Statement and we will take questions related to budget matters. I will try to direct traffic in that question and answer...

The Quality Health care that american hospitals have been providing and hopefully continue to provide. Thank you for letting me come this morning. Thank you, all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] okay, our next speaker is cms administrator in the obama administration. I now would like to introduce someone whom many of us know and consider a dear friend for many years. She may have the most challenging job in washington. Theres an 800 billion dollar agency, and Insurance Coverage for roughly ...

Dad, thank you for always being there with us. Please stay at our sides forever. And to all of japanese people and my little brother in japan [ speaking japanese ] never, never, never forget. This is my prayer. [ applause a and our cousin, paul, who would have been a grandfather for the first time this year. Paul would have done a great job with his granddaughter, danielle jean, and my uncle, too, john monihan, who our family hasnt been the same the past 13 years, but we carry on with his spirit...

Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see t...

Senator shelby is on his way from voting, and the official part of the hearing will begin shortly. I just wanted to go over two things. One, as you all know, today is the hearing on the supplemental request submitted by the administration to cover the unexpected and unanticipated needs of the significant number of unaccompanied children coming to our border. I want those who follow our committee so very closely to know that on tuesday we will be marking up the defense appropriations subcommittee...

Coming back, the children, the children accompanied by their parents and the unaccompanied adults. Were doing that. Were dramatically reducing the time it takes for that to happen and were asking for the Additional Resources to my department and to the department of justice to turn these people around quicker including the children. So were asking for that and in terms of the change in law as i said a moment ago, were asking and this will be in a separate submission for the ability to treat unac...

And you always had a sense of injustice happening all around you. Stockton, california, i was raised as another Agricultural Community just like bakersfield is so you had a lot of the same dynamics going on there. A lot of people of color did warm work and so it was always like trying to denigrate the people who did farm work and making them feel like they were lesser individuals and that kind of dynamic sort of permeated the whole community. Started in 1942 i believe when we went into the car a...

Plan every weekday listen to a recap of todays events at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on washington today. You can hear audio of the fifth networks beginning sundays at noon eastern. Cspan on audio radio now. Long distance and phone charges may apply. Members of congress are returning to washington for a four week session before the august recess. Up next, from washington journal, a look whats ahead on capitol hill. This is 40 minutes. Provider. Washington journal continues. Host joining us now to discuss...

Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in ...

Thanks for being our guest. Let me introduce our reporters. Bob cusack is the managing editor of the hill and neil lesniewski. Lets go right to obamacare. This is the issue that is facing the gop. Why do you think republicans can do this . Before republicans have funded obamacare. The election did not fix much. Change much. It may have only have democratic control. For the last three or four years republicans were all elected on the promise to get rid of obamacare and have relied on someone else...