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Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself...

Hours. And i want to thank all of you for fighting for what youre fighting for. In this country over the last 40 years, weve seen in economic mobility for 90 of the American People. We have the greatest income inequality we have had since 1928. 160 families that are the top. 1 in america control as much wealth as the bottom 90 , which is 200 million 290 million americans. Thats why the budget you put out today is so important. Let me tell you something, youre hitting the target right where it needs to be hit. Because its 2001 in washington, we have spent 5 trillion on tax cuts, almost all of w...

Years, weve seen in economic mobility for 90 of the American People. We have the greatest income inequality we have had since 1928. 160 families that are the top. 1 in america control as much wealth as the bottom 90 , which is 200 million 290 million americans. Thats why the budget you put out today is so important. Let me tell you something, youre hitting the target right where it needs to be hit. Because its 2001 in washington, we have spent 5 trillion on tax cuts, almost all of which have gone to the wealthiest people in america. We spent 5. 6 trillion on wars in the middle east. Thats almo...

Were about to begin now. I want to thank all you for being here, i want to thank the Poor Peoples Campaign for moving the schedule because my airplane was delayed by 2 1 2 hours. And i want to thank all of you for fighting for what youre fighting for. In this country over the last 40 years, weve seen in economic mobility for 90 of the American People. We have the greatest income inequality we have had since 1928. 160 families that are the top. 1 in america control as much wealth as the bottom 90 , which is 200 million 290 million americans. Thats why the budget you put out today is so importan...

Representative eric swal well. Were about to begin now. I want to thank all you for being here, i want to thank the Poor Peoples Campaign for moving the schedule because my airplane was delayed by 2 1 2 hours. And i want to thank all of you for fighting for what youre fighting for. In this country over the last 40 years, weve seen in economic mobility for 90 of the American People. We have the greatest income inequality we have had since 1928. 160 families that are the top. 1 in america control as much wealth as the bottom 90 , which is 200 million 290 million americans. Thats why the budget y...