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Weekends and in the summer, but limited resources mean we cannot provide a backpack to every kid who needs one. We also looked into mobile summer feeding programs but our Rural Communities are so small and far apart the time requirement of having a kid eat a full meal before going to the next location thats required is cost prohibitive. Waiving it to allow Program Models in hard to reach models will address these barriers and significantly expand the number of children we reach. Finally, the sum...

Secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, both testified before the committee. And i have Great Respect for both of them. I asked them if after a decade in afghanistan keeping troops in afghanistan for nine more years would even make a difference. Last year in his politico article and i quote the title was down the opium rathole, roger says, and i quote, if you spent 13 years pounding money down the rathole with little to show for it yo...

Straw poll and got out pretty early on in the race. It is a big fundraising opportunity and the chairman talked about the importance of having it. It was interesting to hear him say that is not necessarily the direction its not necessarily going to give us direction as to who will come out on top. Steven finally, to both of you if you look at february, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, it is conceivable that you have four different winners in each of those states. Caitlin i think there are a few diff...

Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. East...

Guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. They will have to decide what the scope is. How much we want to fight off and shoe as part of these negotiations. That will be one of the early decisions we try and reach. The good news is that we hope that our republican colleagues have learned the right lesson from the debacle we just went through, unnecessary pain. It did not have to be that way. We are hoping that our colleagues will put...

No one really knows what the impact of that will be, but from a financial standpoint, im eager going to see a lot of businesses do that, and it will change the whole framework of health care in the United States. Recognizing people going to a 30 hour week . Upthere are people growing to only a certain amount of employees, and others reduce the hours. There was a story on the news in ogle the city about a man who was building a storm shelter. We had a terrible storm in may of last year, so hit a ...

And mental endurance. A rare november tornado out break across the midwest, dozens of deadly twisters ripped through the region unleashing powerful winds that demolished entire neighbors and good morning and welcome to al jazeera, im stephanie s i and this is normally snow season in the midwest but a weather system triggered unseasonable thunderstorms and tornados across 12 state and the worst was felt in illinois, Officials Say six people are dead, most in the central part of the state. The sto...

Reflected in the contract approved by the board of supervisors, sha is here today to discuss this finding. Good morning, chairman breed, supervisors, dave corto, director of contracts for human services. Though we agree with the findings that our contract was silent about the closure on holid holidays, we did negotiate with the contractor early on that we would account for these hours by assigning straight time for those times. The holiday time was clearly not in the rate negotiated. We purposel...

The audit had findings and most were agreed but one significant finding that i would like to discuss. Because of the value of this contract, approved by the board of supervisors. The contract has expired and sha has entered in a contract with the same vendor, requiring guards mart to provide for services. However as approved by the board, it does not require sha to pay guard marts for Security Services in other departments, and due to cancel of buildings closed for city holiday. As a result sha ...

Board, it does not require sha to pay guard marts for Security Services in other departments, and due to cancel of buildings closed for city holiday. As a result sha paid Security Services that it did not need or receive at cost of 600,000 for the contract fiveyear term. And you see on the slide how sha came to that figure. Paying for 11 holidays for 12 guards for five years. Sha agreed in earlier negotiation meetings to pay for the holidays. However this agreement is not reflected in the contra...