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Entire fiscal year with a total of 664 billion for the department of defense. This includes important emergency funding for Missile Defense activities. And as we all know, our troops and commanders must have the resources that they need, and in especially Uncertain Times and especially at a time of the holidays. This legislation will allow them to continue to advance peace with the resolve of superior fire power and professionalism across the globe. The legislation reauthorizes and extends funding for the c. H. I. P. Program, for five years, something that is very important to me, not only bei...

Mr. Brady when we started this, we believed america could leapfrog to the best place on the planet for the next new job and the next new business. Today we achieved those goals. As we go forward, i want american taxpayers to think of three days to dates and keep them in mind. New years day, america will have a new tax code for a new era of american prosperity. In february, on february 1, look at your paychecks. Because youll see the tax relief we delivered today. On april 15, you will for the last time file your taxes under this horrible, terrible tax code that were putting behind us for the A...

Live for. We have chad pergram with the latest on capitol hill. How are you . Neil very good. The house has started final debate on the tweaked version of the senate bill. They had to pull things out to match budgetary rules in the senate before we passed it in the wee hours of the morning. The house had to be in alignment. When they made the changes the house bill and senate bill did not sync up. We will have in 20 minutes, what will be the final, final vote for the tax bill. Then it will be shipped to the white house. The question is when President Trump will sign it. Neil i was asking you t...

Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefits to our nations seniors. We must remove immediately the threat that an automatic reduction in the p...

Hurting from hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria, and who will be spending christmas not in their homes but in a hotel or with family and friends or in temporary housing. All across these regions, there are houses, businesses, schools, churches, Community Establishments that still need to be rebuilt, and they are waiting, counting on our help. It is wrong. Indeed, its maddening to those in the affected regions that the senate is not taking up legislation today to give them what they need to continue to rebuild and recover. In my home state, theres no doubting that texas gulf coast communities s...