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There are hundreds or thousands of folks from your states involved as well. What i want to do is talk briefly about the threat which is a very real threat. I take it seriously and i know all who are here will take it seriously as well, and that threat is why i support the basic pillars of the president s fourpoint Initiative Announced two wednesdays ago. Im going to talk about that, the president s four points briefly. But whatever want to dig into with, i hope you will see my passion coming thr...

Mike, president obama forceful in his statement today. Saying he feels very strongly about it, that this is an issue that is front and center. We talked about this a little bit before, but it is instructive when you consider the chaos and our colleague is standing there the after math of the violent events the unrest that has led so so much almost anarchy and a crisis and you compare that to the tran quality and the sunny rose garden as he stood next to a ward loader but obviously the president ...

Accountability from the department of Veterans Affairs. If the allegations are untrue, its dishonorable, disgraceful and i will not tolerate it. President obamas sometimes angry comments coming after he met with eric shinseki, and others. Afterwards jobs and maybe even eric shinsekis were on the line. I said to rick and to him today i want to see, you know, what the results of the reports are, and theres going be accountability. Reports emerged from the phoenix v. A. Of staffers cooking the book...

Enough money, so they didnt have it. And yet theyve got this huge football field, you know . So i guess my question is how do we encourage, not only encourage the students to get interested in lieu of an active Human Exploration Program beyond low earth orbit, how do we bring that apollolike interest in s. T. E. M. That apollo generated kind of on autopilot, basically . You know, it just happened because everybody was interested in the program. Young students wanted to get involved in engineerin...

Completion happens before the student never enrolls in college. Two issues from the Texas College success or lack of success. The first is growing latino demography. There is also the case12 Public Schools where latinos comprise the majority of all Public School students. Problems not that there is a growing latino demography, the problem is the growth in High School Graduates has not translated to enrollment in colleges and universities. With black students, its slightly different but no less i...

Told the Armed Services committee that the basic the most important fact in this strategy of defeating isis is to give some moderate sunni tribes to join the coalition against isis. On october 53 new plants in iraq in syria pledged allegiance to isis, which tells us that the tribes so far do not seem to be betting on the United States or its allies. Then, so many reports and criticism against the Syrian Opposition, the tribes, we call them cops. Theyre not up to the fight. So the question is, ho...

About campus sexual assaults and how they are investigated and prosecuted. This week on the washington journal, we kicked off our monthlong series of interviews with University President s as part of our cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning joining us on the cspan bus at the campus of the university of nebraska in lincoln is the interim president dr. James linder. Thank you, sir for being with us. Let us begin with the size of the university of nebraska lincoln and also the cost. Well, ...

Better agricultural techniques throughout the state and throughout the world. And this is part of the food, fuel, and Water Initiative that i mentioned earlier. The scope of a Land Grant Institution has certainly increased. So in 1902 the Medical Center joined the system. So the activities have grown as Society Needs have increased, but we still focus on agriculture as one of the Core Missions at the university of nebraska, lincoln, and actually our agricultural programs showed the second highes...

National counsel to the romney for president campaigns and i wont get into it, but he has had a profound effect in our electoral system. You changed america, not in a way that i liked but amazing with what you did. And we would ask each of our witnesses to limit their statements to five minutes and additional statements. Without objection, additional remarks, without objection, will be read into the record. Senator schumer, senator roberts, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity...

What weve learned, adjusted tsa security measures, and are continually evaluating whether more is necessary. Also within the last 48 hours, in response to a very different type of hazard, fema has delivered 95 generators to the state of pennsylvania, where several hundred thousand people are without power due to the snow and cold weather. In the Homeland Security world, no news is good news, and no news is often the result of the hard work, vigilance, and dedication of people within our governme...