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Chesapeake Bay Foundation has Environmental Education centers on smith island and tangier island. Inhabited islands in the mid bay. Residents of smith and tangier are losing their homes. They are losing their island. Day after day, week after week, losing their home. On a property in the chesapeake Bay Foundation, in just the last 25 years we have lost an entire pine forest, several dozen acres, several hundred trees to sea level, bay level rise. Ive submitted my testimony, but let me just summa...

Strong handle. I want to ask secretary lew and secretary kerry about the consequences of Congress Voting down this deal. I heard senator rischs frustration the frustration made by the administration theres no choice. In fact, i hear you to say the very opposite. I hear to you say this is not, in fact, a referendum on this deal. This is a choice between two set of consequences. A set of consequences that flow forward if we approve the deal and then a different set of consequences that flow forwar...

Sanctuary cities act, and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia reserves. The gentleman from michigan is recognized. Mr. Conyers madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans recognized. Mr. Conyers members of the congress, i rise in strong opposition to h. R. 3009, the enforce the law for sanctuary cities act. This thoroughly flawed measure is a blatant attempt by the most of the majority to inser...

Anywhere, people want to be able to test as quickly as possible to determine if the substance is anthrax or not. A large number of labs like to have this capability. I would like to add one thing. Because this was relieved to be inactivated, we were not intending to actually use laboratory staff. We were trying to grow new partners in technology. For that reason, they were trying to show that new technologies for detection and diagnostics against anthrax worked. We sent them an material to show ...

With him. Our two reporters will be asking questions. Rachael of politico. And daniel. Daniel your first. Daniel as we mentioned, the process seemed stalled. It has been widely reported that an amendment was brought up i democrats, three amendments in fact. Can you just take us inside what happened on tuesday night through the end of that week, when the interior appropriations bill was pulled from the floor . Rep. Rogers the amendments that the democrats offered caused a number of our members to...

Come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. And we look forward to a fulsome hearing. I want to thank those, also in attendance. I know there was a little bit of an outbreak prior to us convene convening. We thank you for being here. We do hope youll respect that now the meetings in order. Outbursts of any kind are unwarranted and will respect the democratic process that is taking place here. So, again, we thank you for beg being here. We also thank you for your courtesy a...

Iranian Foreign Policy . Theres a strong case to make that thats the case. Rouhani was elected based on the fact that it was allowed to come to power by the Supreme Leader based on the fact that he would get the sanctions relief, get the nuclear agreement. Hes going to have tremendous credibility now and be leverage. We have parliamentary elections in iran next march. It will be an interesting time in terms of the sanctions relief calendar that richard just laid out to see if the pragmatic facti...

Third time. This is your third book. I want you to tell us about your father and his storytelling. Robert my father was the single greatest storyteller i have ever known. He owned his own motorcycle chains and lubricants business when we were young. But he functioned as its sole traveling salesman. He was on the road for nine or 10 months out of the year by car. We grew up feeling like we knew him. My dad would call me out of school. Sometimes for weeks at a time can you imagine such a dream for...

His work as a journalist and author. Brian robert kurson, author of pirate hunters, here for the third time. This is your third book. Before we talk about pirate hunters, i want you to tell us about your father and his storytelling. Robert my father was the single greatest storyteller i have ever known. He owned his own motorcycle paints and lubricants business when we were young. Sometimes he had decent years, sometimes he didnt. But he functioned as its sole traveling salesman. So he was on th...

Tonight, on sbrent privacy Cyber Security issues and how to comball recent data breaches. Weve seen attack after attack the most on the office of Personnel Management but also in private industry. Target home depot. So many other private corporations have had customer information stolen. And so what weve realized is is we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information on to web sites. Ri...