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Interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 every weekend, 48 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Joel simon come executive director of the committee to protect journalists, and author of the new censorship talks with a target a journalist by governments around the world including the u. S. Government. During this event mr. Simon is in conversation with Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the associated press. Good evening, every...

Has two ends and the churchs teachings on this and clear for many years. But the flourishing of the person here and now as a citizen of this world and their eternal and as a citizen of the world to come and so the mission and the vision of our schools we try to keep that very much within our minds because it matters to the children in front of us. That is what makes our schools different. [applause] im going to assume that is the same mission as the Charter Schools. What makes the Charter School...

That is why we sent you to grow america act last year and why we will send you a new and improved grow america act this year. We certainly know that the grow america act is not the only approach to solving the infrastructure and mobility challenges of the future. We look forward to fully engaging this committee and with others on both sides of the aisle to chart this path together. But we believe there are some essential principles that any bill must have. First were going to need a substantiall...

Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all ...

Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to ident...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak c...

Could get a green light to produce something make something, move forward with a project in the United States of america pretty quickly. Now were ranked 41st in the world in the dealing with Construction Permit category by the world bank. Were getting worse. Other countries are Getting Better. Germany, Something Like number eight. South korea is Something Like number 12. And capital is flowing to different places around the world and not coming here because of the time it takes to permit somethi...

Profession, the number one way to be satisfied personally and also to have a great future, whatever that future is, is just to do a fantastic job of whats in front of you. If you dont do that you can kiss any of that future goodbye. So im squus trying to do a great job with whats in front of me now. I think i might know the answer. The former hud secretary is now governor of his state. Any chance of you following a similar career path . Thanks for the question. Maybe we have some texans out ther...

She decided to undergo radical surgery. A groundbreaking procedure called deep brain stimulation. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. Think about all the miracles science has wrought us, lives that were thought to be doomed. Restoring health. And now there is thought that surgery can change our minds. We look at deep brain stimulation as a way to treat psychiatric disorders. We followed a woman who thought she had lost her life. Now we look at unanticipated questions and consequences. Youre oka...

Ms. Fewer mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Norton polluting ms. Wynns dr. Murase. 7 is thank you very much. clapping. the next item on the agenda did Board Members proposals no one tonight and following that is item j request to speak regarding general matters i have 5 speaker cards again one minute im sorry, i have 8 speakers on this item again one minute per person let me call the names calling names please come forward to the podium. Good evening president of the school board and commission...