Like economic development. I know we are not going to agree on every issue tonight, but i want to go to washington to find common ground. We are facing some tough problems right now with the pandemic, the economy, with health care, and with education. The way to get to the best solution is to do it together. Moderator senator, 60 questions for you seconds for you . Ms. Millermeeks i would like to thank the cedar rapids gazette. , am Mariannette Millermeeks my father was a Master Sergeant in the air force, my mother had gotten a ged. No one in my family had been College Educated though they valued education. Burnt in a16, i was kitchen fire and in that hospitalization, i had an epiphany about my future. I was going to become a doctors i left home at 16, got a job, and rolled in san antonio junior college, enlisted at 18 and worked and went to school until i got a degree in nursing, masters in education, and was able to go to medical school and i came to iowa to do my residency in ophtha
We will come to order. Todays hearing will focus on the reauthorization of the fast act, the nations current surface transportation bill that expires on september 30. We will hear the priorities of key Public Transportation stakeholders. A longterm reauthorization bill is critical to providing the certainty of stability that transit agencies, cities andos d to make responsible transportation lighting decisions. Public transportation plays a key role in our nations economy there are over 400 30,000 workers employed and Public Transportation in the United States. Transit provides approximately 33 million trips every day. Taking Many Americans to and from work, school and medical appointments. Not just in big urban cities, but also small areas. We have found ourselves with yet another reauthorization where the Highway Trust Fund is a most significant issue that needs to be addressed. In order to advance a comprehensive longterm reauthorization bill. While this committee does not have juri
Today secretary of state john kerry talked about u. S. Policy in the middle east. He focused on the israelipalestinian conflict and the syrian civil war. From the carting the endowment washington d. C. This is 45 minutes. Thank you all, very much. [applause]. Bill, thanks. Thanks so much for welcoming me to your new home. I very touched to hear the comments from bills caliber because as you know, he really was the state department premier career diplomat. Now that you have been away almost a year i know you are missing all of the travel, the Early Morning meetings, the latenight calls, and you are just dying to return, right . But all kidding aside, ladies and gentlemen, the door to the state department for bill burns is always open. From pres. Obama to the entire security team, to me, to the secretary of state there is no better diplomat, no one who could be better led by then the Carnegie Foundation of peace then by bill burns. Please join me everybody for same thank you for a remark
Happen. Saudi arabia. Something of a patching over, where do you see things between . I wish i were in that room where they at the Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting where they kissed and made of. They have told us that this thing is no. We have resolved their differences. The feud is over. I will you wish that i could believe that. You objectively examine the roots of the dispute, especially between the parties and the saudis this thing is far from over. The main issues that they disagreed on i still there. Just issuing a statement. Things are okay now. Support for the muslim brotherhood. He knows what they will concede on. The fact of the matter is that they still have a very different strategic path from the saudis and from the uae. Geography and economics, and a very different situation. A range of issues. The dispute. A fierce regional struggle. Negotiations, intriguing for me. What are you negotiating about. Nothing territorial. Government negotiations. Of course the eastern pro
Crowley think about that . Well find out. For him to just leave us like that, it was a very big betrayal. At best, a deserter, and at worst, a traitor. Also ahead. Whats holding up the investigation into Sergeant Bowe bergdahls conduct . It should have been completed a long time ago. Now charges of coverup are seeping out. Is it legal is on the case. Caution, you are about to enter the nospin zone. Factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly, thanks for watching us tonight. Bombing the terrorists in syria, that is the topic of this nights talking points memo. Last night u. S. Started bombing in the wartorn country of syria the president said this. Overall effort will take time. There will be challenges ahead, but were going to do whats necessary to take the fight to this terrorist group, for the security of the country and the region and for the entire world. Thanks, god bless our troops, god bless america. But what took so long . On june 16, talking points yoe pined this way. I fully