then, in 1962, walter heller saw his chance. economy sputtered in '62 and i pushed hard for a tax cut. the treasury resisted a big tax cut. i wanted a down payment in '62 to make sure we didn't fall into a recession and go ahead in '63. he didn't buy that. in '62, he bought the idea of an across-the-boards tax cut. every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create new jobs and new salaries. these can create other jobs and salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding american economy. although kennedy agreed with him, heller had galbraith to contend with. every now and then his shadow would fall across the white house when he'd come home to report from india. the president would say, "galbraith's been lobbying against your tax cut." i had access to the president and expressed myself with some vigor that if we passed tax cuts they would become too popular with conservatives and they would be taken up by conservatives at the cost to the expenditures that were needed on behalf of needy pe

senator heller? >> mr. chairman, thank you. and i appreciate the opportunity to have this discussion. i want to thank also the secretary for being here. but i do want to raise a point of order listening to the discussion that you had with the ranking member, and also with senator cornyn. and i guess i'm a little confused, again, as a newer member of this panel, am i limited in the scope of questioning that i can ask witnesses? >> no, there's no limitation. there may be some questions raised from time to time but no limitations. >> it was my understanding that if it's a speculative question, based on the ranking member's comments speculative questions are for the judiciary committee or for some other committee other than this? >> i think these questions were proper. >> mr. chairman, just on this point. i think it is somewhat ironic that senators filed a brief challenging the law on what i considered to be completely unfounded grounds, and then demand that the secretary explain how she plans to avert the disaster that will occur

here is richard heller, host of the richard heller show. handing it over to you guys. people should be vaccinated. where we disagree, i don't think the president should tell you what to put in your body regardless of what it is, we can run on the list if we need to do much talk about vaccines. >> thank you for having me. sometimes you need a big brother. >> if people bring their kids to the public school or the disney world or other places, all of the other kids are sort of screwed. you decided that your moral imperative is above the and now you screwed all over the other kids. so i think it's why you need the government to say we have a level standard. kennedy: some kids don't accept that. some parents don't accept that. they don't accept that the data has failed, they don't think that the government should tell them what to put in their kids bodies. i agree with them. i will fight for freedom to the death. >> and so okay, if they want to homeschool their kids and make sure that their kids don't have any social life, that's fine. but that's not necessarily true with h

. >> attorney peter heller says, that's what was in the bag clifford dumped, drugs.ty? he had a dirty history. >> he did. he did. and they knew that. >> clifford also owned a pawn shop in the miami area. according to his lawyer, clifford's drug running career ended when lynne disappeared. he wanted to turn his life around. he had a little boy to take care of. >> i now pronounce you husband and wife. >> and he would take care of christian with his new bride. a year and a half after lynne disappeared, clifford and janet married. alan gold, with a waist long braid, was there too. the investigators never really go away. you're putting together your new life with this man, and yet, you've gotta deal with all that stuff. after the first couple of years, the first two years, it really disappeared. >> as the case receded from the public eye, cifford and janet friend focused on raising young christian. does he remember his mother? >> i never wanted him to forget who his mother was. so, i always made sure that he had pictures of his mother in his room. and he was allowed to as

walter heller chaired kennedy's council of economic advisors.ennedy was our first keynesian president. it isn't that others hadn't done some keynesian things but kennedy did it in an avowed and perceptive way. he was very cautious at first. he finally saw a more liberal approach was needed to stimulate the economy. it took the form of a massive tax cut proposed in i962. this net reduction in tax liabilities of $10 billion will increase the purchasing power of american families and business enterprises in every tax bracket. but john f. kennedy didn't live to see his programs enacted. instead, on that fateful november day lyndon baines johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the united states. johnson pursued kennedy's economic proposals and pushed the tax plan through congress. how well did it work? perfectly. business week, which isn't exactly a liberal pro-kennedy publication, said it probably was the most successful tax cut in history. it came out of the textbooks. it went back into the textbooks as the fiscal measure that came closer to

now, the obama administration's goal to take this away reminds me of a quote from joseph heller. mankind is resilient. the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. hmm. if way back when when this was channeled, we knew these homes would be destroyed because of that land loss, maybe we wouldn't have done it. but now it becomes acceptable to take that money away and to allow these families to continue to be adversely affected. by the way, it's not just an irate senator. let me read a quote from the environmental defense fund national wildlife federation national audubon society and the lake pontchartrain foundation they are disappointed by the budgets proposed version of critically needed and currently dedicated funding for coastal louisiana and the mississippi river delta. this proposed budget undercuts the administration's previous commitments to restore critical economic infrastructure and ecosystems in the mississippi river delta where we are losing 16 square miles of critical wetlands every year, a preventable coastal erosion crisis. these are the en

a pair of engravings contributing to just of heller senior -- and josef senior depicted of martha washingtonn an image in full uniform with the smoke of battle over charlestown, massachusetts behind. peale was going to have to up his game and he did. by 1780, he had produced his own three-quarter length military portrait of washington. based on a new painting from life produced for the supreme executive council of pennsylvania. with a flag, canon, and a view of princeton and the background and research -- in reference the painting was a popular and inspiring image of the leader. and a good candidate for peale's second attempt at a mess attend. -- mezzotint. depend this subject with grace dignity and confidence. as a print and portrait, it is unfulfilled among the early graphic entrance -- of the george was. peale would produce his third mezzotint, to mark a series of engravings at his own portrait including prince of lafayette franklin, and reverend joseph gilmore, he finished for -- 4 mezzotints and sent a set to washington. he still had to prepare his own plate and do some printing and the

senator heller? >> mr. chairman, thank you. and i appreciate the opportunity to have this discussion. i want to thank also the secretary for being here. but i do want to raise a point of order, listening to the discussion that you had with the ranking member, and also with senator cornyn. and i guess i'm a little confused, again, as a newer member of this panel, am i limited in the scope of questioning that i can ask witnesses? >> no, there's no limitation. there may be some questions raised from time to time, but no limitations. >> it was my understanding that if it's a speculative question, based on the ranking member's comments, speculative questions are for the judiciary committee, or for some other committee other than this? >> i think these questions were proper. >> mr. chairman, just on this point. i think it is somewhat ironic that senators filed a brief challenging the law on what i considered to be completely unfounded grounds, and then demand that the secretary explain how she plans to avert the disaster that will oc

the stars involved and with me lexi gwenn who plays heller keller and also the actress that plays annie sullivan. what's the hardest part about playing someone so well-known like helen keller. >> i guess the hardest part is you can't -- you cannot know what she's thinking because helen, she does whatever she wants. she doesn't know that -- she doesn't know that sitting at a table and eating she doesn't know that's the right thing to do. she doesn't know what to do. >> simple things most of us would know at those ages. >> yes. >> did you know much about helen keller before you started the play and did research about her life? >> well, when i was told i was going to be playing helen keller i did a lot of research on her life. she did a lot of amazing things. she was on broadway. she was a very good public speaker. so yeah, she's an amazing person. >> that's pretty amazing. >> playing annie sullivan is really a choice role. ann bancroft won an academy award and tony for playing her in the broadway play. how difficult does it make it so many of us in my generation grew up watching the movie

all democrats voted to block the legislation along with dean heller. funding for the homeland security department runs out on friday. coming up on the "the communicators," a look at the consumer electronic show in las vegas. and then jay johnson talks about funding for his agency. and a whitehouse task force looks at police and tactic policy. >> c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> and now on your screen the calls to the las vegas convention center. home of ces international, the annual trade show. this is the largest trade show in the world and we are on location. we will look at the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policy makes as well. now we want to introduce you to austin. he is with the ericsson corporation. senior senior vice president group technology officer. i want to make the statement that ericsson is not the consumer product corporation that it was a few years

visit ncicap.org] >> tonight, a discussion of heller and clinton and her roles as first lady and secretary of state might give clues the potential -- about a potential 22016 campaign. one of the speakers is jonathan alter. here is a look. >> when she was just out of arkansas on with to arkansas to take control of ill clinton -- of bill clinton's unsuccessful campaign, she took charge. one of the reasons she is respected in the military and among a lot of her colleagues is that she knowscampaign, she took charge. one of the how to take charge of a situation. i remember i first saw it in 1992 when bill clinton was under pressure for having dodged the draft and try to get in the national guard and then the gennifer flowers business. i remember being backstage at an event that clinton was taking part in. it was a television interview right in the heat of the new hampshire campaign. i cannot remember the specifics, but i just remember hillary clinton was totally in charge. and she was going to take control of the situation. even worse with lewinsky, later on. both cases, she just put the person

i think heller's clinton's challenge is she will be tied more to this next election to the policies of barack obama than the policies of her husband bill clinton. as first lady she didn't have an official policy role in the white house. in the obama white house she ran the state department. she was secretary of state. she set the table for our relationships with other countries and i asked mike was democratic friends and yes i have a few. i've asked him this question they can answer. i say name a country on this planet with whom we have a better relationship now than we did when the obama administration took office in january 2009 and guess what? nobody can give me a name of one country, none. i think that's going to be a problem for her and even though the left goes when you mention things like ben gowdy i still think that is heartburn for hillary clinton. >> host: and what do you expect democrats to do with a war on women especially if hillary clinton is the nominee? how would you handle that inevitability from the last? >> guest: i hope that's the best weapon the left has because of

. >> senator heller. >> mr. chairman, think you. i look forward to the continuation of this particular hearing. mr. secretary, thank you for taking time. i want to follow up briefly on what my colleague from south dakota question. obviously bring from the that we have similar concerns and problems with some of these small family farms and ranches. in my state there's over 230,000 small businesses. it's my understanding, and correct me if i'm wrong, generally no tax would be do on small family businesses and those old. can you clarify to me what that business threshold would be? define what a small business is. >> senator there is a provision in our proposal that would exempt very small businesses truly small businesses spend what is the threshold? >> the threshold is million dollars. it's in the threshold and it was designed ease the burden on family businesses, the mom-and-pop stores. i think that for larger businesses that are still medium-sized the 15 year provision that i described for a working business is way to take the incid

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democratic senators and republican senator dean heller of nevada voted not to advance the bill. all other republicans voted in favor. senator barbara boxer of california did not vote. >>> on the other side of the capitol today, house speaker john boehner and minority leader nancy pelosi held news briefings for reporters. up next here on c-span2 a few minutes from each briefing. first, congresswoman pelosi on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's upcoming address to congress, and then speak or boehner on the use of -- speaker boehner on the use of military force against isis. >> you said to be leaving the option of boycotting open. >> i don't think anybody should use the word "t boycott. ". >> well, not attend. >> this is not, i mean, people are here doing their work, they're trying to pass legislation, they're meeting with their constituents and the rest. it's not a high priority item for them. so if you want to invite a head of state and have that invitation shared by your other leaders, because that's usually how it is, how house and senate, democrat and republican work

motion to begin the debate field yesterday 53-47 with democrats voting against it with senator dean hellert might develop today. senator susan collins republican of maine floated a compromise that would flow to the difference between the two sides entitled an amendment that would allow the president's 2012 executive action creating creating the deep hurt action for childhood arrival program to continue while reversing the immigration workers. the president unveiled in november. quote, i filed my amendment to showing committed to bringing an alternative to the bill bill and i hope democrats will look at that and some of them will reach a different conclusion she said of the democratic filibuster blocking the debate. again today the senate will try for a third time to improve funding for the department of homeland security. that begins when lawmakers gaveled the next 10:30 eastern. here's a look at some of the db. cornyn mr. leading up to devote beginning the vote beginning with senator cornyn, blun t and schumer. >> yesterday our friends across the aisle blocked by filibusters funding a $40

senator dean heller voted no, and so did mitch mcconnell for procedural reasons only. the legislation would have blocks the president's executive order on immigration. president obama has said he will veto the legislation if it reaches his desk. you can follow the senate right now on c-span2. tomorrow on "washington journal," donna edwards looks at the 2016 budget and then john fleming discusses his membership in the freedom caucus, designed to challenge the republican study group and we will take your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. friday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> here are some of our featured programs on the c-span networks. on book tv saturday night at 10:00, toby harnden on the british efforts to stop the taliban and advance in afghanistan while awaiting u.s. marines. and sunday at 10:00, the senior editor on the torture report and why his company decided to publish it. and on c-span3 interviews with former korean war pow's. and an army sergeant captured by the chinese and held until 1953 and just after 9:00, a look back at selma and the votin

just like you would if they said i need this time off to attend a religious conversion which was in heller. >> how does the employers say we have a policy of no beards whatever do you have a problem with that? why does it have to be phrase could you do it? just they do have the problem with that and are you willing to do it? >> i think what title vii is about and what the court recognizes is the actual accommodation back and forth is a flexible process designed to be collaborative. so there is no fixed rules you have to phrase it this way or phrase it that way. the point is to initiate a dialogue and i think had that happened here than we would be talking about a different point in the process about whether there was a reasonable accommodation and whether could be done without undue hardship. that dialogue never happened here and that is the problem with the cases we see it. >> the respondents said you switch series midstream. you started out with the refusal to accommodate and then you abandoned it. >> that is not correct justice ginsburg. from the very beginning our theory has been that

i want to go back to a question you heard from senator thune and senator heller as it relates to the inheritance tax. i started a small business a number of years ago, and grew that business from zero accounts, no cash to being worth some real money from my perspective. let's say that business ends up being worth $2 million. i know there is $1 million threshold that if you're a small business owner you don't pay taxes, or inheritance on that. so i passed that business on to my nonexistent child. $2 million value. what's the tax that's owed? >> well, senator, we do have the $1 million -- >> the first million is gone. >> i'm sorry, are you asking about the estate tax or -- >> stepped-up basis. >> for stepped-up basis, we have $1 million exemption. >> yes. >> then we also have -- >> over 15 years. >> and the payment period. >> yes. >> and it would be taxed at the rate of the individual's income. so if they were not earning a lot, they would pay a very low rate. if they were earning more, they would pay a higher rate. >> a couple hundred thousand dollars likely? >> over 15 years. >> righ

. >> senator heller? >> mr. chairman, thank you. it's my wish to follow up on some of your questions senator warner's questions and senator rounds' question i want to thank everybody for being here. thank for spending time with us. bouncing back between a couple committees here, so i want to make sure i ask the right committees the right questions. having said that and i think the theme here is if the number of financial institutions in this country has shrunk to the lower level since the great depression, i know some of the statistics have already been discussed, but we once had 18,000 banks, and today we have less than 7,000. in my home state of nevada there's about a dozen community banks left. that's less than half of what there were five years ago. the last bank closure occurred june of 2013. there are only 19 credit unions left in the state, serving nearly 340,000 members. 31% of nevadaens are everyone banked or underbanked which is the highest in the country. for the fdic, is this a concern or a statistic? >> it is a concern.

dean heller was the loan out right gop no. mitch mcconnell switched to know. tweets from senators rand paul. he tweets republicans in the senate are racing intense pressure from media insiders to just pass something and move on. they senate still in session and you can follow the senate on c-span [applause] -- c-span2. president obama spoke to the nation's governors who were in town for their annual meeting. we will show you all his comments tonight here at 8 p.m. eastern. tonight, waste industry executives at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. talking about their companies in the technology in which the internet, mobile phones, and the cloud operate. >> we talk about the network society and that is a society where everything that can benefit from having a connection would actually have one. we put a vision forward in 2009 in barcelona in the trade show going on there with the 50 billion connected devices in the air 2020 which has caught on very well and that opened many people's minds that the mobile industry is not limited to the smart phone devices

. >> senator heller. >> mr. chairman thank you. thanks for holding this hearing. i want to begin by thanking our distinguished guests for being here today. as a relatively new member of the senate and a new member of this committee, it's great to get this historical perspective. so, thank you very much for taking time. mr. chairman, i historical perspective. thank you for being committed to this effort. i know it is not going to be easy but it is good to see that there is real work, real work moving forward. i appreciate your seven priorities and i share those with you. look forward to getting that done to done. to our witnesses, the further you get out here in left field the further afield get our questions. but boert ofth of you started from where i am today so there is hope for the future. i want to move to five years ago and the bowles-simpson proposal. did either of you testify or have any opportunity to haveny input on that particular proposal? >> i did not. i was not called as a witness. i followed it very carefully in the press but i was not a witness befo

let me go back to the heller quote, an atrocity a week ago is acceptable now. this is an environmental atrocity and now you're saying let's revisit. i tell you these families don't think he cares. why should these families think he cares about them? >> madam chairman, may i respond? sir, we are balancing the assets of all americans and they can be for the benefit of americans that are greatly impacted. we do have billions of dollars going into gulf coast restoration, as you know. in large measure because of the very unfortunate oil spill. >> that is an unrelated incident. that goes to florida that is unrelated from this 40 -- no 80-year process, totally unrelated. >> and if i may, sir i've mississippi river -- whatever it is -- the beaches began to ecrete. and i saw it down there with the chandelier islands and so on. >> and this is mrgo. this is not at all adequate for that >> i understand that sir. my point is what has happened there has taken many years and it's been the result largely of how we have channelized the mississippi river, as you brought out in y

. >> thank you senator heller. senator schumer. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you, secretary lew. i want to applaud the good work you and the president and all your crew have done on the budget. i think it's focused on the middle class is really excellent. i think your efforts to find some common ground and yet stay true to your principles, you thread the needle extremely w i was very impressed with the pudget and i thank you for your hard work. on that budget obviously, one of the things you're focused on we are all focused on is infrastructure. one of the ways you talk about paying for it is the one-time 14% tax on previously untaxed gore ribbon income that comes pack. i'm very interested in that idea, or some variation of it. i think it makes a great deal of sense, something i have opinion talking about for a while and i think you have done -- refine it had in a much pert way than just about anybody else has. here is my question. do you believe it is feasible to consider the toll charge deemed repeat repatriation by itself or in coordinati

in the previous post all democrats and republicans dean heller of nevada have voted not to move ahead with the bill. the house finishes up worked for the week today taking up a bill on small business. live coverage of the house is on c-span, and now live to the senate floor. . the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. s eternal god, who transforms common days into transfiguring and redemocrat alternative moments, may we honor -- and redemptive moments may we honor your name. make our lawmakers great enough for these momentous times, as they seek to live worthy of your great name. may your precepts keep them from life's pitfalls, guiding them through the darkness to a safe haven. cleanse the fountains of their hearts from all that defiles, so that they may be fit vessels to be used for your glory. lord, because of your unfailing love we're determined to walk on the path you choose. let your peace be within them, as your spirit inspires us to glorify you in their thoughts, words, an

secretary heller mentioned it. we had jurisdiction.he committee that has to figure out how to pay for these improvements, but we very much need. i'm intrigued by what the president has proposed. i'm not an advocate of repatriated money. if we essentially repatriate money every 10 years companies continue money parked overseas and totally lowered again and get a free pass. i don't think that's a very good idea. the administrations idea is intriguing. i think it will be difficult to achieve. but i am interested in exploring that with you and my colleagues. over the last six months i've talked with everybody on this committee and a lot of the republicans in the senate and in the halls what do you think we should do for transportation funding? they've got a number of interesting ideas i just want to mention them today. one of those is 3 cents or 4 cents a year. it is basically the bare-bones approach that gives us $100 billion a year, which is the minimum of the 60 billion a year, 100 billion over six years. back in idea talking to my repu

those senators include senator dean heller of nevada, senator mark kirk of illinois, senator jeff flake of arizona senator john mccain of arizona senator lindsey graham of south carolina and senator ron johnson of wisconsin. mr. president, we need eight more republican senators, eight more who will come forward and say we need a clean appropriation bill and we need to pass it now. if eight republican senators today will say that, then we can move forward and pass this bill, we can fund this department and stop this gamesmanship. and if the leaders then want to move to a debate on immigration so be it. but let's have eight more republicans join those who have stepped forward so far to make this a reality. i don't understand, frankly the thinking of many of the republicans who oppose the president's approach to immigration. here's what it comes down to. if the president used every penny given to him by congress to deport those who were undocumented in the united states he could reach we think, about 4% of those who are eligible for deportation 4%. what the president has said is let me foc