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Consider a twoweek government funding extension while negotiations continue on federal spending past december 22. Current Spending Authority runs out friday night. Also changes to the Small Business Merger Acquisition. Live coverage here on cspan. T. Today, we remember the lives lost at pearl harbor and the young men and woman who served today. In these troubled times of fires, floods, terror attacks, mass chootings, help us to rely on your strength to envision and build a stronger, more secure america. Give us more visionaries like father Edward Flanagan who founded on december 12, 100 years ago. He was an irish immigrant who lived the American Dream and taught us all that the troubled child can grow up to be a useful citizen if given half the chance. He saw the best in the kids that others rejected as useless. Help us. Especially each of our representatives to see the best in those that have different political or social views so we can together build an america that enables and call
And you need these programs. No. I didnt say i had to have these programs. What i said was these programs work to help people who are in struggling situations. If a person loses their job and they become unemployed thats not your situation. How about yours . Okay, my situation is that i have been what is your job . Right now i work with Young Children at a recreation center. My job is to make sure that they are doing their home work after school programs, making sure that the building is taken care of, that is my job. My husband works at a and whats your pay . My pay is 10. 88 an hour. Your husband i saw from your written testimony works at a Grocery Store and thats full time as well . Yes. My job is full time, but my job is also limited. Im a Seasonal Employee so i work for six months with my job. And is that by choice so you can spend more time with your kids in the other six months . Have you tried to get other employment . Ive tried to find a lot of employment but due to Health Iss
Is. When youre filling out an application for an employer some of these questions are asked repeatedly what is your felon status . What is your misdemeanor status . So i think we would have to reevaluate how in essence we are getting to the point that the business would accrue that credit. Thank you, time has expired. Gentlelady from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. Thank you so much, mr. Chairman. Let me make an Opening Statement just given that last exchange between one of our colleagues and mrs. Gainesturner with regard to dependency. Just recently and friday well work on another tax extender where apparently we are going to extend 614 billion in tax extenders on a permanent make them permanent and put businesses on a permanent welfare. These bills the latest, the bonus depreciation, was temporary in nature to stimulate the economy. As you remember, targeted temporary and timely was what we tried to do to stimulate the economy but yet they want to add 287 billion to the def
Purchases, weve asked those questions and the answer has been yes, we think inflation stabilized, and well gradually move up, and yes, we think the labor market will continue to improve and we have cut and we use the term measured pace or 10 billion a meeting. Now our forecast is that for the next that we will continue to see those conditions. I think the evidence we are seeing is consistent with that. If we continue to see progress in the labor market, as i expect, and inflation stabilizing or moving up to toward 2 , we would continue on the course we are in. As i mentioned, purchases would cease after october, but if there would be some very significant change in the outlook we see between now and october, so that we lost confidence that the labor market will improve, for some reason, or that inflation would move back up to 2 , then we would have to rethink that plan. That is the plan. Excuse me. Let me ask you a question. Im running out of time here, about the labor market. Because