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It is 10 00 and good morning, everyone. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the budgets hearing on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office. This hearing will focus on Cbos Organizational and operational structure. It is the first of five hearings that the Committee Plans to hold regarding oversight of the congressional budget. The goal of todays hearing is to learn more about cbo, which was created as part of the congressional budget and impoundment act of 1974. For decades, this agencys primary function and duty has been to assist congress in the federal budget ma...

For later broadcast in case youe wondering about all the equipment, and at the end of the conversation, well have a questionandanswer period where you can ask the speakers anything you like, although please wait for the microphone once youve been called upon by one of the speakers so the audience at home can hear you. Also to help with that please turn off your cell phone. No, really do it, because itll ring otherwise, i promise you. Okay. On with the show. Tonight our guests are adrian chen who is a new yorkbased writer whose work has appeared in wired, new York Magazine and the New York Time...

Been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. It came ashore late friday northeast of Corpus Christi as a category four hurricane. It has caused catastrophic flooding in texas. A lot of people are frustrated and dont understand why we are seeing trucks unfortunately, those trucks can only go so far. And hopefully today, we will get to the rest of you. Up on us. t give none of us are going to give up. Mark the houston mayor added that nearly 6000 people have moved into city shelters. Major airports out texas in south texas has reopened. Corpus Christi International today. Service harvey made land for as...

Who have prior health issues, and, their, theyre still going to be covered, i dont take that away here. But im wondering if the pinch some of these hospitals are feeling doing with the possibility theyre going to bear a disproportionate share of those costs, maybe as they should. Im not here to judge. Stuart fair point, neil. Im sure if you ask a democrat you will figure out the answer on that one. Neil i like way you said that is a fair point. That is figure of speech. Neil. All right. That could be an interesting wrinkle here. It is sort of like the healthy, versus unhealthy, those with prio...

Senators come to the floor to talk about the budget resolution and tax reform. We would hear from senators merkley and murray and later senator jack reed of maryland. Our nation was founded on a principle encapsulated in the first most important words of the constitution we the people. Our founders wanted us to have a nation that didnt work for the powerful and privileged but for the people by the people and for the people as president lincoln so eloquently described the nation mocks by hand for the privileged i am for the people. Tomorrow a bill this coming to the floor that couldnt be more o...