he is sitting on the stanford campus where he has an office, but he writes a lot out of his home. there is a lot to read if people are interested in reading a lot of your works, you are books. mr. sowell: thank you for having thank you for much for joining us. me. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q-and-a.org. >> and live now to the floor of the u.s. house here on c-span.

the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. march 27, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable jeff denham to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2:00 p.m. today.

>> all heartwrenching and even now impossible to forget.

>> agriculture secretary nominee, sonny perdue. >> farmers are really struggling to be profitable. hold on. many times even the best farmers are not able to produce a product even with the best production capability they may have. i think trade is really the answer. >> msnbc chris matthews at the first amendment awards dinner. >> the truth contained in hard news, the truth that arrives on the front page or straight news broadcast. that's what contains the politicians. that's what stops the overreach in power, that's what the country takes seriously. and that's what matters this hour, this week, this time in our lives. >> treasury secretary steve mnuchin on comprehensive tax reform. >> the goals of tax reform, which are about creating a middle income tax cut, about creating personal tax simplification and making u.s. businesses competitive, where we have a very high business

tax rate and worldwide income, we're able to take the tax code and redesign things. >> pfizer c.e.o. ian reed on pharmaceutical costs. >> no one's using our medicines in the exchanges because the exchanges don't provide them access. i think we do need to reform the health care the way it's delivered. and the consequences will be with patience. >> and e.p.a. administrator, scott pruitt, on environmental policies. >> there are exciting things going on with respect to clean coal technology across the globe. there are exciting things going on in the nuclear space. but not here. most of that's happening in europe, presently, because of the disincentives we put into play here in this country with respect to nuclear. if you care about some of these environmental concerns, nuclear ought to be in the mix. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org on our homepage and by searching the video lie brarery. -- library.

>> vice president mike pence traveled to west virginia this past weekend to meet with small business owners. he said president trump is the best friend american small business will ever have. he did not mention the health care bill that failed in congress the day before. he was joined in west virginia by linda mcmahon, head of the small business administration. >> wow, what a great crowd. thank you so much for coming out on this saturday afternoon. ron and nancy, i can't thank you enough for having us and giving vice president pence, myself, an opportunity first to have listened to some of the concerns that many of the small businesses in the community have. and then to let you know a little bit what we'd like to do about them. i was incredibly flattered and honored when at the time president-elect donald trump asked me to take on this position