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Mr. Pipes good morning, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our douglas auditorium. We want to welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org website on all these occasions and remind our inhouse guests to be so kind to check your mobile devices to see if they are silent or turned off. And of course for those watching online, you are welcome to send comments or questions at any time. Email speaker heritage. Org. Following the initial presentation, my colleague jim phillips will lead. Veteran ...

Today there will be nominations and senate will look at the president s pick for the Labor Relations board and awaiting action in epa nomination for assistant administrator of the air and radiation office. Now to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God, our father, help our lawmakers this day to do your work faithfully and well. Prepare them to...

Glooinchtsds. Certainly there could be a future statute, mr. E whether theres sunset clause or a reexamination. Thats kind of a coverage of the domestic legal basis for using force that i look at as a military lawyer when i advise my cliebtsds. We also pay very close attention to the use of force within the conflict itself. What we would call yugs use in bellow. Irts not just what law gets you into conflict in the first place or aut rihorizes you to be in conflict in the first place. But also, w...

Just on the lr when the people snap back at the companies, and the companies shoot them, and then they attack the person, because, policy, and which your show has covered, no one is talking about, but, how the police are violating the Constitutional Rights of minorities and, thats part of the issue, and, when i put it, these people call in, and, i would like you to ask them, what do they know about stop and frisk, do they think its right for the police to do this . Youll see why, if theres so mu...

Especially if Hillary Clinton is part of this in the nomination. How would you handle that inevitability . I would hope that that is the best weapon that the left has because if it is we might as well start getting the inaugural ball planned. Because that has proven to fall so short, thats a great example of how this message just brings so hollow. Intelligent thoughtful strong women know that they are not helpless features. My daughter knows that, my daughter monos back, all the women that i sur...

Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you ...

The tea as a is a new creation of that but obviously there was a coast guard before that. The secret service and interaction with the coast guard and the coast guard provided, and the department of Homeland Security. My sense is the cooperation is enhanced with in the same agency. I would like to add the panels conclusion is we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform. For those issues we didnt think moving from one agency to another would address any of the issues we identif...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome secretary of state john kerry. [applause] am pleased to share with you and i think all of you know this anyway, that the threat posed by violent extremism has been a top priority for president obama from the day that he became commanderinchief. A very few months after he took office he spoke to the university in cairo and stated clearly that on his watch, the United States would relentlessly confront violent extremist pose a grave threat to our security becau...

We never said we would send forces to stop them. It makes it harder for putin to in continue aggression. Europe does not support the supply of weapons. Europe did not support when we put missiles into europe in the 1980s during the cold war. And they came along with neuron strong American Leadership here it if we had it, we have a better chance of outcome. Thank you. Two questions from the audience. Raise your hand if you are in favor of arming ukraine. Ok, and if you changed your mind, keep you...

House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentlem...