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Continues now. Michael capuano is a democrat from massachusetts. He serves as the Ranking Member on the housing and insurance committee. Well get to those issues in just a minute. Congressman, i do know if you heard of for segment on washington journal. We had attorney general holder say he wanted to reduce times for people are guilty of drug crimes. Been a supporter of mandatory minimums. I do think we should have mandatory guidelines that require a clear and unequivocal explanation as to why t...

The level of the attention in both houses of congress and id like to see what your responses. Congressman the unit as an air force reserve will be leaving. The intent is to take this c130 j. s and put them in little rock arkansas. General jackson would tell you there is a problem with recruiting in that area in his reserve unit. He would also tell you is this it before every decision we are making right now hurts. They have to did downsize as well. This move would save them 23 million a year. It...

Discussion we have had about setting half of our programs because that is all we can afford. Madame secretary, the fiscal 2014 private the air force for modifying the avionics modernization program. Are you aware of that . I am. Are you aware that congress has appropriated funds for amp, not just authorize but appropriated funds in fiscal year 2012 . Yes, i was. Year 2014 andl 2013 . Yes. These funds are not being obligated. We are authorizing, preventing the programs for being canceled, and we ...

If adopted, this amendment would lower by two levels the base Offense Levels associated with various drug one of these involved in drug craft thing in Drug Trafficking crimes. Reduceould modestly guideline penalties will keep in t. E guidelines consisten this straightforward adjustment to sentencing ranges, while measured in scope, would nonetheless send a strong message about the fairness of our criminal justice system. It would help to rein in federal prison spending while focusing limited res...

Country grew a whopping 22. 6 million jobs. And he left Office Running an nual surplus of under 128 billion projected to grow into the trillions. Then under the eight years of president bush we added only 1. 2 million jobs. What a stark difference. And the Budget Surplus was turned into an annual 1. 4 trillion deficit. When president Obama Took Office, our economy was shedding over 800,000 jobs a month, and the Bush Administration administration left office with in worst job creation record 75 y...

Radical idea and a Strong Community partnership. In the recovery after the 89 earthquake and the 1990 and 1991 recession, San Francisco was facing tough times and at that time the city had a bold vision to demolish the embarcadero freeway and replace it with a surface boulevard but that wasnt good enough because we needed to serve the heart of china town so mayor willy brown and rose pack struck a brilliant compromise to agree to demolish the embarcadero freeway but build a subway into the heart...

To be a low see and feinstein and meeting with the congressional committee. Norman went on that treat or reverend fong. Sorry. And even 20 years ago, speaker a low sew and feinstein moved this project. China town needs this lifeline. But beyond the tremendous economic benefits of central subway will have, i want to share one impact that people outside of our community see. Several years back when tan and i were doing outreach on this street, there was one merchant who pointed out something i wil...

Good afternoon, thank you everyone for coming. My name is jeffrey come lin and im San Franciscos director of transportation. And im so grateful to have the secretary, the speaker and the mayor here to celebrate our progress on the central subway. We are joined by local community and im grateful to all of you in the local community who who have put up with years of construction and disruption here in the heart of china town but we promise it is going to be worth it. As we sit here i want to actio...

Through statewide leadership positions. And the state director and north carolina. Come downstairdownstair s to the table on the second floor and talk to us. There are 124 legislative districts in South Carolina. Im trying to put what we call a district captain. Many of my district captains, some of them are here with me. We are going to put one in every district and drivers will. We were the first day state to introduce its application on december 3. Virginia follow this, florida followed us an...

Sure what you mean. I went to capitol hill to give a speech to the heritage foundation, yes. Would you consider that activity to be an ancillary function of the department . Congressman, i had no other way to get to a speech that i had committed to give before the shut down. Thank you. The speech involved the topic of rifra and the comemory of rifra. When you were acting attorney general, the Attorney Generals Office did issue guidance on federal law for religious liberty, the guidance involved ...