Look on those who joined us on our heritage. Org website as well as those joining us on the cspan network. For those in house we ask the courtesy to see the mobile devices have been silenced or turned off to avoid any unnecessary distractions. For those online youre welcome to send questions or, at any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Will post the program on the heritage homepage for your future reference following the presentation straight. Leading our discussion i want from our guest is fred rico, fred is a policy analyst for defense budgeting in the center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation. Please welcome fred. [applause] think everyone for making the time to come here in this first day of congress being back into which i assume is busy for everyone. First, i will introduce her guest and then explain that if youre here by accident and dont know what this is, i will give you a twominute introduction to make sure the audience knows as well while talking of the
Congress support donald trump . Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. We will get to those calls and a minute. Twitter orto facebook. Paul ryan addressed reporters yesterday. This is what he had to say. [video clip] to pretend we are unified without actually unifying, we go into the fall at half strength. We need a real unification of our party, after a tough primary, that will take effort. We are committed to putting that effort in. I want to be part of that process so we are at strength. Afford to lose this election to Hillary Clinton, to keep the obama agenda going. We have to go through the effort and process of unifying. You have been vocal on your history of policy. Need to hear from him to endorse him . Werese are conversations going to have. I do not know him. Inet him once in person 2012. We had a good conversation in march. We need to get to know each other. We are enjoying the fact we have a chance to meet with him. The speaker of the house wall also meet with
This, 95 to 100 , with great reason. Mr. Cooper. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I admire you, gentlemen, for your service to the nation and your work particularly since you are having to operate an irrational budget environment. Almost none of your predecessors have ever had to do that. When we have a house of representatives that refuses to even open discussions with the senate on a budget for america. Our media environment, many folks back home are unaware of this. Theyre mad at congress in general. They dont understand that one house of congress is unwilling to talk to another house of congress about having a budget for america. Somehow we have gotten in our heads especially the younger members its okay for the house to have a budget and senate to have a separate budget. Never the two shall meet. Were supposed to have a budget for america. This committee and markup of it my amendment voted overwhelmingly by voice to give the pentagon flexibility to address the mo defensing need. When a re
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has two proposed projects for the Mason Street Bridge and on Tuesday night, those ideas were presented to the public.