The nuclear discussions are wednesday from imposed deadline. And in South Carolina, the debate continues about the Confederate Flag and its presence on the state grounds. Here is how to join the conversation. Democrats call 202748 8000 republicans call 202 748 8001. Post your thoughts on twitter and facebook. We will get to your calls shortly. The front page today is filled with flags. The American Flag and the Confederate Flag there. The Confederate Flags last stand at the South Carolina statehouse. Whether or not that flag will remain on state ground, and on the front page of the museum the museum as the u. S. Womens soccer team won against japan. Another flag is being waived prominently in greece as a defeat of the european financial package. Greek voters rejected a bailout deal, that is the headline. The next steps are unclear as people gathered to celebrate 61 of the voters had said no to a deal that would have imposed greater austerity measures. The no votes carried virtually eve
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Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. And this committee is continuing its effort to highlight our nations infrastructure needs. As i stated infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. In personal meetings i have met with members of this committee, both sides of the aisle, and i will tell you that infrastructure is always listed as a top priority. It is a priority because it is a driver of the nations economy and it impacts every community. This committee has a long history of working together in a bipartisan way on infrastructure issues. I want to continue that tradition. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has sweeping jurisdiction over our nations infrastructure. Our last hearing focused on highways and roads and the needs of rural water systems, all of which within this committees purview. Recent natural weather events in the last month in california and in other western stat
National debt . It is we the people so the National Debt is our debt. What percentage or our personallyprivately owned debt different than the percentage of National Debt. Host take us through the definitions here. Guest the National Debt refers to when referring to the governments budget. There are Consumer Debt measures out there and the Federal Reserve bank keeps track of that. You spend things on your credit card and they show up in Consumer Spending but another set of statistics address that issue and measure that. The financing is different than the spending which is what we measure. Host we have been talking about reports from the bea, how are businesses going to use the reports in the coming weeks, months and years . Guest i dont know if they will use the data to make realtime decisions. In some ways it is just informative to tell us how we got to where we are today. There is a two year lag for the most part. Business tends to be operating in a realtime bases. There is a lot fo
Industry and funded by your local cable and satellite carriers. A look at whats ahead tonight on cspan 3. Next the center for Immigration Studies, about unaccompanied immigrant children. Later a program on minority stuf stinlts and Higher Education, followed by Cyber Security issues. Next a look at how one city in america is dealing with immigrant children, placed there by the federal government. The main speaker is republican mayor Judith Kennedy of na ma. She talks about efforts to provide undocumented children and education and health services. The centers for Immigration Studies hosted this hourlong event. Good morning, and my name is mark corcoran, we wanted to host an event that puts some context and some real life numbers and real life acts on to the fallout of what were seeing and have been seeing now u for a while in the border surge of Central Americans, especially coming across south texas. And what what we have seen really bears out the observation a that every state is now