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Supervisors i really appreciate it and also hanging the men and women of San Francisco Fire Department they did a good job. Thank you. clapping. thank you supervisor breed our next accomodation will be provide by our 8th district colleague supervisor wiener. Thank you, mr. President and today, im honoring an out going member of our city family wells lawson. Come on up. Colleagues, i know many of you know and have worked with wells over time. Im sure youre aware of wells was with the Redevelopmen...

It will be his first are to russia since the conflict and ukraine began at his second trip since taking office. They will meet in the resort town of sochi. Today in washington, d. C. , the Atlantic Council is holding a conversation on gas prices and the oil prices and fracking. Live coverage of that discussion gets underway at 3 00 today right here on cspan. On cspan 2 at 3 00, the u. S. Senate gavels in for general speeches, and later discusses the release of u. S. Citizens in iran. Tomorrow, w...

Capedoned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org to defense news. I am Vago Muradian reporting from the air show outside london. I will interview the chief of the air forcen the worlds oldest independent air force and a look at how u. K. Firms exported 22 billion worth of defense and sesecurity products last year. Britain has one of the worlds most capable and globally deployed militarys. It has invested in the joint Strike Fighter and typhoon, new transport and tanker planes as w...

Reasons i voted for the training and equiping measures that have been implemented but my frustration is that as you also have observed there is a huge gap between the goals and missions that weve outlined for the United States and the actual action that were undertaking the train and equip activities are way behind what we might have hoped by this point and theres no clear timetable for really achieving the level of capability that we expected or hoped. I hope this has been a very sobering morni...

Soldiers thoughts on closing gitmo. I have no doubt that closing this jeopardizes the safety and security of the United States and our citizens abroad. If the success or the failure of the mission at gitmo is based on the number of attacks against the United States after 9 11, im confident everyone in this room would join me in judging the mission has been successful. Intelligence collection and National Security have been strengthened as a result of gitmo and america remains a safer place thank...

Suggestions. One of them fundamentally altered the core of that document. Wwor they were trying to grapple with how the dynamic works and how does the structure play out. Those are complicated issues for people to understand. Its one thing to turn around comments on am radio as much as we love it. For Something Like dynamic reserve pricing to understand how it works and affects your ability is something terribly different. The only thing i have to conclude when i see Something Like that happen w...

Based on sfaemfamily alone integratets got to be based on sommer it and family contribution. That has to be dealt with as well. Yet you have 12 to 20 Million People in this country that have lived here for more than a decade, otherwise havent violated the laws. I get all that. What ive learned is you cant even have a conversation about that until people believe and know not just believe but its proven to them that futile Legal Immigration will be controlled. That is the single biggest lesson of ...

And keeping what were about, which is welcoming people from all over the world and assimilating them into this unique experiment in pluralism and democracy. But you dont do that by encouraging illegal behavior. You dont do that by degrading sovereignty. And you dont do that by strokes of the pen in a quiet office. That is not leadership. And then for the third Part National defense and what we talked about here. People are confused right now. Theyre concerned. We have very strong isolationist tr...

Pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, you are compassionate and merciful. We give you thanks for giving us another day. This morning the house welcomes the Prime Minister of israel. May he find a welcome here and may the partnership of our two countries continue into a future of Mutual Respect and security among the commun...

Now the Justice Department is investigating the death of a man injured while in Police Custody. The Saudiled Coalition launched new airstrikes in yemen despite an announcement that the air campaign is over. Fighter jets struck houthi targets hours of the a a new phase in the campaign was announced, one folk cubed on negotiations. The humanitarian toll is devastating. Since fighting escalated last month, 944 deaths, 3500 injured and another 150,000 people displaced. We have a report from the saud...