WH: Remarks by President Trump and Representative Steve Scalise in Meeting with the U.S. House Deputy Whip Team

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, everybody, and Mike Pence is going to be here in a few minutes.  We miss Mike when he's not around.
So I want to thank the members of the House Deputy Whip team.  It will be very important over the next number of months.  We have a great team and we're going to have a lot of victories, a lot of wins, but we have a great team.
Together, we're going to do incredible things for the great citizens of our country.  As I said during my joint address to Congress -- and I think you mostly liked that, right?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/07/remarks-president-trump-and-representative-steve-scalise-meeting-us

More news from the White House:

President Donald J. Trump Proclaims March 5 through March 11, 2017, as National Consumer Protection Week
The economic strength and vitality of our Nation is directly linked to our consumers' confidence in the integrity and security of their personal information and the robust protection of their privacy.  As an increasing number of transactions and activities occur online, the safety of vital consumer information is increasingly at risk.  The American people deserve freedom from unscrupulous actors who perpetrate identity theft, abuse personal information, or engage in fraud.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-march-5-through-march-11-2017

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security
SUBJECT:  Implementing Immediate Heightened Screening and Vetting of Applications for Visas and Other Immigration Benefits, Ensuring Enforcement of All Laws for Entry into the United States, and Increasing Transparency among Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government and for the American People
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/memorandum-secretary-state-attorney-general-secretary-homeland-security

Related story:
Dept of Homeland Security: Statement by Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly on President's Executive Order Signed Today
“Fourteen years ago on March 1, 2003, DHS was established. We did so as a nation because we needed to rethink our approach to homeland security. Many will recall the conclusions we reached then; that we needed to overcome a “lack of imagination” with regard to the threats we faced, and, second, that we needed to overcome our collective inability to take the dots of intelligence and arrange them into a more comprehensive picture of the threats posed to America and our way of life.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/03/06/statement-secretary-homeland-security-john-kelly-presidents-executive-order-signed



NEWS NOTEBOOK:
Kilmer & Heck speak out against President Trump’s Draft Proposal for EPA that Slashes Investments in Puget Sound by 93 Percent
Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Denny Heck (WA-10), co-founders of the Puget Sound Recovery Caucus, spoke out against a draft plan from the Trump Administration that would slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget for Puget Sound cleanup by 93 percent to $2 million. (press release dated March 3rd)
https://kilmer.house.gov/news/press-releases/kilmer-and-heck-speak-out-against-president-trumps-draft-proposal-for-epa-that-slashes-investments-in-puget-sound-by-93-percent-

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