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Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to...

The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Kenneth Codner, great baptist church, bellefonte, pennsylvania. The chaplain please bow with me in prayer. Heavenly father, i am humbled to be able to stand before you on behalf of this assembly here today. Lord, we are sinners, deserving none of your favor. But, father, i come to you in the merit of the lord and savior, jesus christ, who washed me from my sins in his shed blood. Father, we are aware more than any of the bitterness and bitter divisiveness throughout this room and across...

Call it the thud or the lead sled. It was the f105 thunder chief, and during the veietnam war, it was a workhorse. Im oliver north and this is war stories. Between 1961 and 73, over 3,000 aircraft like this one were shot down or destroyed in southeast asia. 1968, the last year of Rolling Thunder and 652 men piloting these planes lost their lives. From march of 65 to october of 68, air force navy and marine airmen dropped nearly a half million tons of bombs. Rolling thunder was far from a triumph. As youll see and hear, orders straight from the white house forced the men flying these missions t...

Why facebook wants to collect your nude photos. I think that will grab your attention. Talk about your status update. We begin with a shift from President Trump. Hes no longer blaming china for the unfair trade deals he bitterly condemned on the campaign trail. Instead while standing side by side with chinas president he publicly declared that his predecessors in the white house are at fault. Karen travers has the latest from beijing. Karen. Reporter good morning, diane and kendis. President trump says he and chinas president xi have a great chemistry and great relationship and today he let ch...

2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Post on twitter, cspanwj. You can also post on our Facebook Page. Find that at facebook. Com cspan. The hill newspaper looks at its website, takes a look at tax Reform Efforts on the senate side, expected to be released today. The writers say that tax writers in the senate are expected to eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes in their legislation. Thats a break with House Republicans, who have proposed keeping it in place for property taxes up to 10,000. It also says that Senate Republicans are also expected to increase the t...