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Living with no shelter, barely any food, barely any water. We know now that the aid is starting to get in. A route has been cleared to tacloban and the relief effort is very slowly ramping up. But for the last week, this must have been the most unbearable hell for the people will call this city home. Y, theg out at the ba ocean now seems calm and beautiful. What a difference it must have been one week ago. I have been speaking to the mayor of tacloban. He was caught up in this typhoon washed ove...

Nine percent, hitting a sixmonth low. The selloff comes after expenses rose 23 in the first quarter, limiting amazons profit. The ceo is pouring cash into the business for shipping and services, including media content, a new prime entry business, and cloud business. Microsoft takeover of nokia handset is official. The deal was completed today, seven months after the 7. 5 billion purchase was announced. May beal price slightly higher. Thousands of employees are transferring to microsoft as part ...

Children is a joke. It is against the constitution. The border should be shut down 100 . I do not care we have every military take on the border. If that is what it takes, that is what it takes. But going back to the election, he says, the gentleman who won the election, he said point blank if it was not for the Grassroots Tea Party people, he would not have had a chance. And he went in with the least amount of money. Here is one thing as a campaign slogan, i believe i want to see somebody say t...

Dial in the arrangements in which Henry Kissinger reached effectively in the early 1970s. Which was a strategic accommodation between washington and beijing based on a common strategic between the soviet union. And the subsequent unfolding of what then become modernizing china, as well. Have we reached a new point at which that fundamental access has changed. I think personally that the shanghai meeting represents the culmination of the forces which have been in work for quite some time in the c...

Health initiatives, and they were very effective. One last thing, weve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it . The medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we dont have the whats the word . They go out of the state residency. And so we dont have those slots. What ca...

We never heard another briefing on that matter. And so when we passed that law, we felt that we did it for a good reason. The law didnt just state that we would be given a notice. It required that the department would provide numerous pieces of critical information, including how the risk posed by the detainee had been substantially mitigated, how the transfer is in the National Security interest of the United States, an assessment of the capacity, willingness, and past practices of the receivin...

Constitutional perfection . Despite a clear provision in the law he cant do that . This president faced a Service Member in peril in activity and exercised a constitutional duty and authority to recover that Service Member. In circumstances in which it was the judgment of the policy, the leading policy makers of this country, that the circumstances were not going to permit the 30day notification. Thats a very concrete response to what was a very compelling situation. I understand that youre sayi...

I am deeply honored today to appear as president obamas nominee to be the United States ambassador to the republic of barack. I am grateful to the president and secretary for their confidence in me. If confirmed, i will work closely with you to advance u. S. Goals in iraq. Alec four to building an excellent work of my predecessor and friend who is with us today. I am also delighted to share this battle with dana smith, a valued colleague of many years. With your permission, i would like to intro...

Well, i happen to have in my hand, mr. Speaker, the testimony from then Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke, february 9, 2011. Mr. Speaker, you wont remember february 9, 2011, here in the chamber but that was my first month on the job. Id just gotten sworn in. Theyd just given me the voting card for for the seventh district of georgia, im sitting in the committee and here comes Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke, to talk to me, just a freshman here in congress, about Economic Policy and how...

Has been putting out a lot of the wait time data as part of being very transparent about this. There has been concern that at the facility level they may not be looking at exactly the same data that we were releasing. We wanted to be very careful that we didnt have facility or Network Directors appear to be misleading their congressionals by saying, well, this is where we are and then having this National Data release Say Something different. So there was a caution put out to wait until we had d...