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Good morning, everybody. I am pleased to be able to hold this nomination hearing for two very outstanding nominees. Rod reosenstein and rachel brand. They have been nominated for two very important senior positions in the department of justice. Deputy attorney general and associate attorney general. The deputies attorney general who was the second in command at the department oversees the day to day operations. The associate attorney general oversees the departments civil litigation departments....

Flames are affecting the morning commute . Thats right. We are looking at live pictures from sky fox on the left and this is video on the right of the fire earlier. The townhomes you see on the left were adjacent to the fire. This is macarthur boulevard near 580 as gasia mentioned. Earlier in the morning flames were clearly visable. Most of us who got to work early could see the fire from miles away. These are pictures showing the firefighters working on the townhomes that were exposed to the fi...

Care in pinellas park. This stems from some sort of drug deal. Theyre sorting through the pieces of information, trying to figure out what happened here. But we know the mother of that child will face charges for making a false report as well as her boyfriend. And the driver of that car that ended up crashing will also face charges. And as i mentioned, the chief says this is just bogus. Were still trying to get the details together. But it other than that, i cant give any exexplanation for the r...

And what with our research and development, we are going to continue to do our work to be able to understand what we need to do to be able to resort forests and address the insect and disease outbreaks and continue our work to be able to find ways to expand current markets and develop new markets or would to be able to make use of the biomass that has to be removed from the landscapes to restore the healthy forest. We also provide an adequate level of Fire Suppression to deal with fires to suppr...

In terms of favorable and unfavorable opinions same thing well see here in terms of the opinions of most hispanics tend to favor the democratic party, and you would think well game over. We dont need to discuss this any further. Well, not exactly. Because weve seen how different candidates have done very well in different races, and i have given just three, three hispanic republicans that have done well in their respective states. Actually Governor Martinez and sandoval are extremely popular in ...

To make it easier for young people like the ymca to move through the current permit process and open the doors to hundreds of young people and organizations. So despite the good points, there are gaps in the budget request. We should work to address these so we can do more to Work Together on recreational access, Small Businesses in my state that rely on recreation in our economy are confused about some of the priorities in the budget. For example, the Forest Service is proposing to cut road mai...

Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Veteran suicide continue to be a national epidemic. Veterans are estimated to have a suicide rate thats 50 higher than those who did not serve in the military. Major driver of sued rates is the incidence of post Traumatic Stress among our veterans. According to the department of veterans affairs, between 11 and 20 of those who served in operatiOperation Iraqi freedomr enduring freedom suffer from pts. Veterans with pts m...

We continue to watch for amtrak indications that core alqaeda is, in fact, engaged in plotting activities aimed and i can someone. Bubeyond human weve also been watching alqaedas Affiliate Networks and individuals and syria who may be looking to get extra operations against the west a potentially the homeland. But we got some very public successes in terms of a disrupting some individuals involved in plotting from syria, there is cody ford be done in the work continues. Or third area of or third...

Come under attack by the russians. That is clear. Secretary carter absolutely true. But they have been placed in areas which for many reasons have not been subject to aerial attacks. Secretary carter they are fighting isil. The russians are not. Even though they said they were. But the go back. Let me go back. It has shifted to train individual units to the i sil fight to providing some training to the leader and then some support. This is another aspect of approach which i would like to clarify...

Good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on u. S. Strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. Before i proceed, id like to remind our witnesses this committees rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and id like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. The tragic loss last week of Master Sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 ...