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We have a vote at 1030 a. M. In order to allow more centers time to ask their questions, agreed brown and i have to submit our Opening Statements for the record. Witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple minutes each. To ask theim going senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questions. First we receive testimony from ,he honorable Sigal Mandelker and following her we will hear testimony from ms. Susan thorton. Without anything further, lets proceed. Please proceed. Mandelker i am honored to appear before you to discuss our strategy to combat t...

If by chance a fire alarm goes off we have two exits from this building, exit areas are behind you and behind me, and depending on where the alarm is going off, well direct you which way you should be going. This series would not be possible without the support of city and at t sponsored the networking breck nas. I want to thank citi for the voices of women and National Security and International Business so id specifically like to offer kristen, the federal Government Affairs at citi. Please welcome me in welcoming kristen. [applause] hi, good morning, everybody, thank you, kathleen and thank...

The energy committee. Wednesday before the Senate Banking committee and we will over both of those hearings live over on cspan 3. Cufollow it online at cspan. Org on the free cspan radio app. That will about do it for this mornings [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] eventcer several live coming up today. A President Trump announces the National Association of manufacturers. The 6 trillion tax cut plan. That is at 11 30. Ryan zinke he ta...

On that they wanted to see a tax plan, which includes those reconciliation instructions that allow them to move the tax bill through with only republican support in the senate. So that backing from the Freedom Caucus is a critical element to this. What obstacles does the space next week in the house . Think it faces many obstacles at this point in time. We have been talking with conservatives and republicans and the Freedom Caucus, and both groups seem to be on board at this point in time. We are moving the budget resolution forward. Some more moderate members have 203 billion in mandatory spe...

Puerto rico. Obviously you are in touch with people on the island. What are your biggest concerns as we speak this morning . Responses been a little slow out of the gates, so to speak. We should have declared the whole island in emergency situation with no electricity, half the households have running water, and you can see the images of people leaving the island in shifts, trying to get to the airport. It is a desperate situation. The army should have been sent a long time ago, and i hope it is not too late to prevent a deepening of this entire crisis. I just hope that we react much faster, w...