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[ room noise ] [ room noise ] so the House Rules Committee taking a break here. When members return, this meeting will continue live on our companion network cspan 2. On the house floor votes are currently under way. Members are voting on two bills including one that aims to prevent suicides among veterans. The measure requires an annual thirdparty review of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention programs at the png and veteran affairs department. Thats live now on cspan. And in the senate today t...

Screeria nigeria. Then the u. N. Secretarygeneral talks about priorityies for the u. N. In the new year. The u. S. Naval academy recently hosted a debate on the role of Air Contractors carriers in u. S. National security environments. Two retired Navy Officers looked at whether the vessels were the most effective and efficient Maritime Defense strategy for the u. S. Military. This is just over an hour. Food good evening. Im c. C. Felker. On behalf of superintendent vice admiral ted carr, i want ...

Dollences to the family of the brave family killed by isil. Together with jordan we mourn the loss of a hero that that galvanized the nation and the world. I hope this heinous crime helps us put in place what thus far has been lacking, comprehensive strategy to achieve goal to degrade and destroy isil. Let there be no doubt we still do not have a viable strategy to counter isil. And if you are not winning in war, you are losing. America has no greater ally in the fight against terrorism than jor...

Right way. Host richard talks about medical marijuana. You may have other issues. Keep calling with those as we take a few minutes to talk about secret service. It was at the white house where the White House Press spokesperson josh earnest talked about the issue of the resignation and also talked about when the white house learned about that Armed Security guard, the Armed Security contractor who rode in an elevator with president obama. I can tell you that the white house first learned of that...

I had everybody ready. We couldnt secure landing rights in a neighboring country, unfortunately, our patient died. So i have been an outspoken coordinationhe effort, in working with the local neighboring countries and working with the state department and department of defense, to make certain that while were taking care of the folks in this crisis, that were also not forgetting about havebody else who may not ebola, who has another urgent case, and making certain that coordinating our effort wh...

Clear that online voting and evoting could become a larger part of the political process in the United States and in other participatory democracies if the security is in place, and i think that is the key element of a. We believe this is a nonpartisan issue and endeavor, so our focus today is to highlight the new era in Digital Democracy is possible if we can get the security questions right and create trustworthy platforms. Online voting is among those transformative technologies like the smar...

Wood of passed a bill with the minority of the republican caucus. This really point out the difference between how house election work. House collections work district by district. Republican majority is builton white congressional districts. On a National Election the chosen by a statewide, so coming out of 2012 the speaker of the house was quite worried about the prison obama won 39 of white ith voters. Voters not need white because he won 80 of minority voters. And for the leader of the Repub...

Includes 900 billion in subsidies over 10 years for major commercial health insurance. The union health plans are not eligible, and they are being frozen out of that market by the government picking winners and losers. It is a mistake. Question. T what policy should the federal government pursued to improve our nations economy . Governmentsederal responsibility for growing alsomic disparity, and including an increase in the minimum wage. Thank you. The mostion touches on important comment of his...

A communist in their parliament in ukraine. So we have that problem at the same time as the others youre addressing. What do you think about our european strength as it is right now . Are we adequate . Are we becoming inadequate . I think that our strength in europe is our alliance with nato and the political solidarity that that represents, which is very important when it comes to the Baltic States and also the response in ukraine, which while not a nato nation is certainly a european nation an...

I think we need to do both and can do more in the way of securing fiscal materials and the wherewithal with Nuclear Weapons and also biological weapons around the world. And i also believe that the United States needs a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent, because as much as we would like to see Nuclear Weapons and other weapons of mass destruction rid from the earth, that doesnt look like its something thats going to happen soon and its important that the american deterrent that we prov...