Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process but with a highway bill thats spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill shuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this, so here we go, he tells the house rules committee. Why did it take so long and what is the current deadline . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the diffi
Respects it achieves the house goals. To shorten the time it takes to conclude education over federal we requiredecisions, litigants to present the substance of claims during their administrative reviews. The senate text 12 short in the third key respect. The Senate Language includes many important steps towards this goal, but multiple loopholes open the door for agencies to extend administrative deadlines without and and without standards. Byoffer to fix this problem establishing firm checks and balances through which the prevente director of owe can extensions. Bipartisan and has worked very closely with the white house. We would all like this to move a forward. The house version has already passed through the house and has been carefully negotiated with all parties and is ready to go. The other amendment i would like to call to your attention is this. Into deals with language to simply give states that are included in the interstate 73 and thent avenue i opportunity to band together
The president says the nuclear deal marks a new relationship with the world. Chinas former security chief is charged with corruption. Its been another day of intense warfare in yemen, the Coalition Forces led by saudi arabia surrounded Houthi Rebels inside the city of aden. We have more details in the Daily Briefing a short while aago. Translator when the houthis reached president ial palace yesterday, our fighters from the Popular Resistance committees alongside loyal armed forces stood up to them. We dropped assistance and by the grace of god this shifted the balance of power on the ground. The result is the houthi militias and fighters retreated inside the president ial palace and other areas under their control. Theyre cornered in aden and were dealing with them. We have laid a total type one siege around aden preventing any logistics and military supplies to be provided to them. Well operate until aden is under our control. Hes talking about the fact the houthis he believes are su
Lets again in yemen where the Saudiled Coalition is bombing houthis around the airport. They are dropping air bombs to antihouthi fighters. The airstrikes began a week ago. Lets take you through whats been happening. On monday the saudi did imposed a and a half blockade to prevent the houthi did from rearming. An airstrike that same day sot displaced persons camp in northern yemen killed at least 29 people including more than a dozen children. Thursday houthi fighters took over president s hadis palace in aden. Now the howuthis have retreated after more saudiled airstrikes. Here is the latest. Reporter the battle for aden is raging. Fighters loyal to president mansuur hadi are struggling to cope. We are the southern youth resistance in adden confronting the houthis. We urge the coalition to parachute troops on the ground because the strikes from the air and sea wont be enough. There must be forces on the ground. The people here are under bombardment. There are deaths and families remai
The president s response has been what are the other options. Thats not a reasonable goal. Hes telling the country that that approach would lead to another war in the middle east. The republicans counter that is not what happen. They want tougher sanctions on iran and then iran will capitulate and give up its nuclear facilities. What were hear something that they dont trust that iran will live up to the deal. They dont think that the inspections are tough enough. They dont like that they will be able to maintain some of their centerfuges in storage and they dont like some of the facilities will be remain open in some form or fashion. They found a lot not to like about this deal. All right thanks so much. Patty culhane there. Well look at whether nigerias new president is the right man to tackle the threat posed by boko haram. Going home at last after years of being forced to work as fishermen without pay. Well have all the details still ahead in sport. The final line up for the the mia