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Do they want more or less of a Police Presence . They complain more about the actions of the police or inactions of the police . Sheriff clark they ask for more. They complain about both and i think that is human nature. A want safer neighborhoods. They know they will have to have policing in these high crime areas to get that done. It is situational. They complain about slow calls for service responses. Things like that which can have an effect on a persons trust in their lawenforcement agency....

Minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from florida is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Brown thank you mr. Speaker. Here we go again passing another extension and failing in our duties to provide a world class Transportation System. Transportation program is much too critical to our economy to be delayed any longer. Unfortunately, the Republican Leadership in washington continues its long running failure to fund Surface Transportation Infrastructure programs. Just last week House Republ...

The speaker pro tempore on this vote the chair on this vote, the yeas are 234, the nays are 18. The amendment is adopt the Unfinished Business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 8 printed in part a of house report 114120 by the gentleman from california, mr. Lowenthal, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 8 printed in house report report 114120, offered b...

Aabusing its dominance in web charges. Filing charges against the company. I want said googles methods cheats consumers and competitors. Our preliminary view in the segment of objection is that in its general internet search result google artificially favors its own Comparison Shopping service and that this constitutes an abuse. That case could cost the tech firm billions in fines, maybe even force google to make changes to its Business Model. And it is drawing comparisons to the antitrust case ...

During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at...

That is live at 12 25 eastern time on cspan2. Here is some of the featured program for this president s day weekend on the cspan networks. On booktv saturday morning at 9 00 live coverage of the savannah book festival, nonfiction authors and books on topics like the disappearance of michael rockefeller, a British Company of the elephants in world war ii and four women spies during the civil war and at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards former Senior Adviser for president Obama David Axelrod on his...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the ent...

Jordan and lebanon than inside of syria. You would see an implosion. Massive malnutrition rates, mortality rates through the roof. Most of the deaths now unfortunately are because of the war. We would probably see in terms of social indicators a much larger humanitarian catastrophe without aid. And i might add, obviously if possible we want to get our assistance to people in their homes so they dont have to flee. They need to be able to flee if they feel they have to. But it is better to get it ...

Cultivate the alienation, and that festers. They themselves arecriminals, gangsters, thugs on the farthest fringes of the faith they claim to represent. Yet they prey on disaffected young people without jobs or even a sense of belonging of where they were born. And they exploit social media to bolster their ranks and make fear go viral. Extremists have a strategy for hate. We need a comprehensive strategy for harmony, reintegration and peace. Second, preventing violent extremism and promoting hu...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have ...