chair crapo: mr. kennedy, if confirmed, will have the opportunity to deliver much-needed change to our nation's health care system. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic and has been a leading advocate for health care transparency both for patients and for taxpayers. mr. kennedy has also clearly responded to our questions during the rigorous due diligence process and his hearing also and in the course of answering over 900 questions for the record that were asked by members of this committee. in response to members of the committee, mr. kennedy has even amended his ethics agreement, going beyond what is required by the government office. mr. kennedy has proven his commitment to the role of secretary of the hhs. and i will vote in favor is the nomination-- of his nomination. i strongly encourage my colleagues on both sides of the altar do the same. with that i reckon eyes are ranking member senator wyden for his remarks. sen. wyden: thank you very much, mr. chairman

chair crapo: thank you. senator cantwell is next but until she returns i will move on down the list and that would be senator cornyn. senator cornyn: welcome to you and your family and congratulations. i appreciate senator grassley raising the issue of the office of refugee resettlement within the offices of health and human services. i think this may surprise people, but that is actually the responsibility of hhs, the office of resettlement relocation. under the previous administration as senator grassley alluded, there were roughly 500,000 children, unaccompanied minors place with sponsors in the interior of the united states. the previous administration took the position that it was not the federal government's responsibility once these children were placed with these sponsors, but the new york times and a series of investigative stories pointed out that tens of thousands of these children when they tried to follow-up and find out how they were doing, whether they were going to school, whether they were b

chair crapo: thank you. do you know of any reason, personal or otherwise, that would in any way prevent you from fully and honorably discharging the responsibilitie of the office to which you have been nominated? mr. kennedy: no i do not. chair crapo: do you a without reservation to respond to any reasonable summons to appear and testify before any duly constituted committee of congress if you are confirmed? mr. kennedy: yes, i do. chair crapo: and finally do you commit to providing a prompt response in writing to any ques addressed to you by any senator of this committee? mr. kennedy: yes i do. chair crapo: thank yo kennedy and before you begin if you would like to you may introduce your wife and childre mr. kennedy: yes. my wife is he my daughter kitt kennedy, my son, bobby kennedy. his wife, amaryllis fox kennedy and my nephew jackson heinz is here, too. chair crapo: we welcome you all. mr. kennedy: thank you mr. chairman. chairman crapo, ranking member wyden and members of this distinguished committee, i

chair crapo: thank. moving to digital trade, we lost ground during the last administration because we turned our back on digital trade rules, including promoting data flows combating force to technology transfer, and promoting nondiscrimination. a number of jurisdictions including the european union and south korea utilized that opportunity to advance measures that target u.s. technology companies with special requirements or taxes while exempting their domestic companies or even chinese companies. do you agree that ensuring u.s. technological leadership means that we need to confront these types of measures? mr. greer: yes, chairman, i strongly believe we need to do that. again, this is an area where the united states is very competitive. i understand that we are having a domestic conversation about how to regulate digital trade and technology companies, etc. my view is that is where the conversation should be happening and we should not outsource it to the european union, brazil or anywhere else and th

crapo's policy baseline to keep the george w. bush tax cuts in place.called it a permanent baseline, it was a policy baseline, they should do the same thing now, obama was a smart fellow, we have exhausted that, you are american hero, a great service record, a west point grad. couple things on this mr. wesley hunt. recruitment in month of january, is at a 15 year high. what do you make of this. >> shocking. it is amazing what you see with a president that believes in america. imagine this, only about changing how we feel and the motive about what it means to make america great again this is good, a reason why there are 20 million people that have entered illegally, and people want to be here, because we're in an amazing country, i have young people that are willing to fight for trump and fight for america first, what has been missing. someone that searched in combat, that served 20 years ago in baghdad, i loved seeing young people reinvigorated to want to serve, it happened in the last two months, amazing. >> probably not peaked yet, my hunch your fello

it's in the weeds and gop mike crapo's policy baseline, which argues the making the popular tax cuts permanent, have not yet nor will in the future cause a loss of revenues. spending that right away. they should get spending down to scott bessent's 3% of gdp deficits and lower debt to gdp ratio and laffer curve growth dividend from tax cuts will be huge. that's what history always shows. there's another reason why the gop should make all the trump tax cuts permanent. the president wants it. he was elected partly on the tax cut promise, and as white house spot karoline leavitt says today, the tax priorities of mr. let's go down. make the 2017 tax cuts permanent and no tax on tips, no tax on seniors, no tax on overtime pay. tax cuts for made in america products, yes, and then eliminate special tax breaks for billionaires, including sports team owners with a carried interest loophole on investment. white, browns, asian, women, male. that's what e lekked him. republicans in the house and the senate must not stand in president trump's way. and that's the riff. i am graced here onset to ha

chair crapo: i congratulate you on your nomination.the earliest dates the finance committee has helped a committee for the u.s. tr. your timely responses to questions from both sides of the aisle expedited the process. mr. greer is nominated by the president for an important job. our negotiator must report to congress, which means he reports to the finance committee. this week attention fell on president trump's executive orders to help secure our borders from illegal immigration and infantile smuggling. i strongly support securing wars and fighting fentanyl trafficking. the borders rely on emergency economic powers act and concerned drug policy and border security. the president, not the u.s. tr, invokes them. the department of homeland security, not the u.s. tr is responsible for securing borders. i am securing briefings on these orders and customs and border protection will brief the committee on this matter today. what the president has done that is different is to bring tariffs into the discussion about border security. ustr is am

k crapo calls it current policy -- in 2012, they extendied george w. bush tax cuts with same policy argument, aume bush tax cutting would continue, not expire, there s no deficit impact, mr. cre crapoo, therefore they should not score tax otheise, whole federal system will be l like a pin ball machine on permanent tilt. anyway, republicans should work hard, treduce unnecessary counter productive federal spending, shrink the size and scope of government, if they let the tax cuts expire, they will find themselves with a bad economy and higher deficits at same time. it is lose-lose. mr. trump said we should never get tired of winning. let's start winning by extending trump tax cuts maybe growing the economy by 3% or 4% calm it blue collar boom. that is the riff. i went on too long. anyway, to my friend. joining us for his first interview, since joining the administration, as u.s. secretary treasury, mr. scott bessent. secretary scott bessent, like that sound secretary bessent. >> thank you, larry. larry: we appreciate it. you thought about this flap that

and one of the big fighters so far has been senator mike crapo of idaho and arguing in you're extending current law, you're not raising taxes and not lowering taxes and there's no $4 trillion deficit. if the tax bill is not extended, you'll have a $4 trillion tax hike. that overtime will make the budget gap even worse. mr. crapo calls it current policy and hopes the republicans fight to officially change budget rules and there's precedent. in 2012, congress and president obama extended george w. bush tax cuts and using the same current policy argument. assume the bush tax cuts would continue and not expire and there was no deficit impact. cbo doesn't increase spending and hiking deficit and scoring tax increases and it would be like a pinball on tilt and higher taxes and higher spending and even higher deficits. they should work hard to reduce unnecessary counter productive federal spending and shrink the size and scope of government but letting tax cuts expire and finding themselves with a bad economy and higher deficits. it's a lose lose. mr. trump said we should never get tired of wi

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kennedy advanced out of committee vote was 14, 13 idaho republican senator mike crapo says kennedy will bring needed change to americans health care. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic. democrats like oregon's ron wyden say his views on vaccines are dangerous peddling these conspiracy theories the nation's chief health officer. it's going to be deadly director of national intelligence pick tulsi gabbard also got the green light in committee. both she and kennedy next face full senate votes. other nominees expected to face scrutiny include education secretary pick and former wwe ceo linda mcmahon, maryland democratic senator chris van hollen said he doesn't think she's qualified. i'm trying to figure out what her background has in education and you need to search far and wide. and i can tell you after you do that, you're not going to find anything. the senate has not yet scheduled a hearing for mcmahon in washington. i'm maggie beer, temple. >> back here in the bay talking about all that rain that has been causing headaches across local airports. t

we're in lock step on this, and when we why in the speak's office we had senator crapo and others on conference calls and we're moving this together and working hard together and i think that's what the most important issue is here that we're moving this together, not one side or the other, and then hoping somebody else comes along. mike: you mentioned your colleagues in the united states senate. obviously, the senate spending a whole lot of time confirming and vetting the trump cabinet. i'm curious what your observations are in terms of those who have been confirmed and those still to be confirmed to the trump cabinet? >> well, again, i think what's important about these folks, they're wanting to get the dei wokeness that the biden misfits put in place whether our military or transportation or, you in, fbi, doj, the list going on and i think that's what you're seeing time and time again, you're seeing corporations across the country removing their dei wokeness for the majority of them. you're seeing universities do that, getting back to actually educating students how to be engineer

chair graham: senator crapo. never mind. senator johnson. sen. johnson: thanks for being here again. i hope this is one of many appearances before this committee. when you appeared before the homeland security committee, we didn't want to spend a lot of time on spending. i want to focus on revenue. i want to talk in general. if you take a look at federal outlays averages over the decades, in the 1960's, we spent a .2% on average, 1970's, 21.5%. 1990's, 19.5%. 2010 to 2019, 21%. this year, we are right around 21% of gdp federal spending. what would be a goal for this administration? we talked about getting to a pre-pandemic level of spending. last five years, we've averaged $6.5 trillion. what is an appropriate percentage of gdp for federal spending? mr. vought: this is a great question. we have not set a fiscal goal yet for this administration but i think trying to get back to historical levels of outlays is one of those important first steps to begin to find out ways to be able to not set records as a percentage of gdp. whether that is spending,

both my friend mike crapo me on the other side we got $12 million for cdfi's. we started the cdfi caucus which about a safe bipartisan way for members, 12 and 12. i appreciate when we had the meeting. you talk to cdfi in dallas that it helped work to acquire the building working with the church. can you speak for a moment to about the valley of cdfi's and how we can further expand the vital role they play? the clerk: mr. paul, aye. the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, no. mr. welch, aye. the clerk: mr. coons, no. mr. curtis, aye. the clerk: mr. young, aye. the clerk: mr. husted, aye. ms. slotkin, no. the clerk: mr. booker, no. mr. risch, aye. the clerk: mr. cramer, aye. the clerk: mr. durbin, no. that trailer park i grew up in a national still stands. those people are hurting. they don't have affordable housing. one of the reasons they don't is because government tries to keep on regulating themselves out at any path of ownership. we keep on talking about throwing more money at it and we repeatedly discount the money we're providing because we are rewarding state and lo

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crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator although suspend. the clerk: mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate ismented during a vote. the senator will suspend. the clerk: mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during vote. the senator will suspend e -- suspend. the clerk: mr. hawley. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the clerk: mr. hawley. mr. hickenlooper. the presiding officer: pursuant too rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator will suspend. the clerk: ms. hirono. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator will suspend. the clerk: mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. the presiding officer: pursuant to rule 12, no debate is perm

yesterday, and i caught up with the chairman of the senate finance committee, mike crapo, who indicated that he has been talking to senators to try to advance this nomination. >> have you. >> have you spoken to senator cassidy about this. >> to all the senators. >> about it? >> and i'm. >> not. >> discussing what the senators. >> say to. >> me. >> but what would you say your level of confidence is ahead of tomorrow? >> once again, i'm. >> not going. >> to tell you how i predict votes. >> do you think how do you think he did at the hearing last week, especially when it came to the issue of vaccines? >> i think he. >> answered all the questions very. >> well. >> even he, cassidy seemed to be troubled by it because of his issue about vaccines specifically. did you have any. >> to ask him about that? >> but you didn't have any issues? >> i don't. >> know gotland. >> so as you heard from the chairman of the committee, they're not predicting the outcome, perhaps because it is unclear what bill cassidy ultimately will do because jake, if he were to vote no on this committee tomorrow, that woul

. >> manu, quickly over to you, because i think i just saw chairman mike crapo sit down. looks like we're going to get started shortly. the pressure here, the political pressure there is, as karoline leavitt laid out, a movement behind kennedy and his nomination. what are you hearing on the hill on that front? >> yeah, no question about it. there would be significant blowback for any member who breaks ranks, particularly one who could scuttle and cabinet nominee. a lot of republican senators and democratic senators. they don't like to step out of line with their president of their own party, particularly when it comes to these issues. they like to vote. if they vote no, it's usually in a group which will make it incredibly difficult for bill cassidy to step away from the rest of his party as they're trying to push this nomination forward. that's in committee. and the floor. there are several other republican senators who have not said how they will ultimately vote on the senate floor. phil, one other thing we need to watch out for this afternoon is the nomination of tulsi

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs.fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. plan is to help the wealthy get wealthier tax giveaways families paying the bill. how massive giveaways going to be paid for? slashing services to families and families try to get on their feet so they can thrive and get to the middle-class. great betrayal. today we will consider russell the office of management and the budget really the place fo

here is how we think things will play out -- first we will hear from committee chair mike crapo of idahoocrat ron wyden of oregon. each expected to speak for five minutes. then the vote. then there will be statements from any other members of the committee who wish to speak. one lawmaker we could hear from his senator bill cassidy. now, last week the louisiana republican said he was struggling with the nominee's reticence to publicly support vaccines despite the overwhelming evidence that they are safe and effective. republicans' one-vote edge in the finance committee means senator cassidy could ultimately keep rfk, jr., from getting a favorable recommendation from the panel should all the democrats vote against waiting for chairman crapo to gavel in the session. while watching live coverage -- you are watching live coverage on c-span.

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mrs. gillibrand. i'm honored to be sitting here to be nominated for the next sector of the v.a. i want to think my friend kevin cramer for the kind introduction. i appreciate his work and your work as well. i thank him for that. i would like to thank president trump for his nomination and his willingness to have not on the veterans of this country. i'm privileged today and appreciate the chairman and ring them mentioning my family because i would not view without them. my wife of 36 years is with me lisa. i have my son copeland, his wife your guide my son cameron and his fiancÉe. and then on the one of the quizzes altogether and that is jordan. she is our daughter. also on the public is watching what no of the list of a didn't mention, my 86-year-old 86-year-old father who spent 31 years as a as a georgia ste trooper. bad, i'm here because of you and mom. and i love you. america's greatest nation on earth. its grace nation i believe because of ma

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. the clerk: mr. daines. thank you, i had the opportunity to meet with almost all of you and i greatly appreciate that pretty i'm grateful to president trump when it is committee for your consideration to be the any seventh attorney general of the united states. i would not be here without my family. in big bear with me, for just a moment, a lot of made a very long trip and around the mall down so i don't forget anyone predict my beautiful mother, retired kindergarten teacher would not be here without my month rest of the week ago it was 12 years since we lost my dad to leukemia for like 12 days. my amazing husband john, it is to incredible girls, colin infinitely pretty colin is a senior university of florida next month i think all of you in this committee will be very happy to know the family is in cybersecurity. there's a third who's traveling abroad and we shouldn't be here in my amazing father-in-law, david and my sister, beth my brother-in-law home with my knees to my nephews and if you just raise your