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Suits against and that happened time and time again. I asked the office how much has been spent and they wouldnt give me the figure. Anytime the any time the legislator asks for the figures on the Appropriations Committee thats wrong. We should receive those numbers so we can do a better job. But the point of the budget this year. We were given a 7. 2 billion budget bill at 10 a. M. In the morning on the last friday of the session and the first vote was that 12 32 and a half years later when the...

But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily...

Boca raton, florida, newlyelected governors discussed their campaigns and their political agendas. The panel is made up of governorselect from arizona, massachusetts, maryland, texas and arkansas. Theyre joined by new jersey governor and rga chair Chris Christie and former mississippi Governor Haley barbour. This is an hour. Ms. We started this year, we had a daunting task ahead of us. We had a pretty difficult map. We were defending 32 of the 36 22 of the 36 races including 19 incumbents in nin...

Put another level of protection there. I want you to do to hops until theres a connection. We are not authorized now to follow the string as we used to be able to do. In terms of the metadata of those are probably the biggest changes we have dealt with. In addition we have provided broad guidance in the form of an unclassified document that the government has generated which in a very public unclassified way outlines the general principles we want to make sure we apply in conducting intelligence...

Because on the ground does matter in these campaigns. So my fifth point here is, guys, we have a long ways to go. In critical terms, we are well, were five weeks out, four and a half weeks out from the election. Thats several political lifetimes. A lot of stuff can happen, this race the senate is not yet decided. You know, i think it may change a couple of times between now and election day. And dont take, you know, dont take to heart all these, everything saying, gee, republicans have that enth...

Stable lead. I would say organized labor is doing much more effectively in michigan. I would put a finger on the scale for democrats in michigan, and finally, jeanne shaheen, there are some conflicting calls with most showing her head by half a dozen points. There may be some closure there, but i still think she has a measurable advantage. If republicans need one, it needs to be iowa or colorado. If they simply get republican states voting republican, they dont need to win any swing states, or, ...

And im looking forward to this because im tired of listening to myself. I guess between the two of them, for close to 70 years neil and i go back 30 odd years. These are folks i have enjoyed being with and love watching their work. They are two great pros and two great people. Let me do a nutshell of where i am and then i want to get neil and stan and talk about what they are seeing out there. If you go back to the early part of last year, there were two competing scenarios two theories of what ...

Republicans push to get even more conservative bills through and the rsc would be where a lot of those folks are. But all along we heard the senate has been the bottleneck in all of this. So whats the excuse going to be if legislation doesnt pass . I think you heard people say this is harry reids fault and i think youre going to hear that even more. Nothings changed. You still by and large need 60 votes and harry reid still is very good at blocking legislation. And also you have the fact that th...

Two competing scenarios, two sort of theories of what the 2014 mid term elections could be about. One theory was some of the challenges problems facing the Republican Party in 2012 would just sort of flow on into 2014. The other was that this would be a classic mid term election referendum on the incumbent president and with all that that entails. So two competing directions and it could have really gone either way. In terms of challenges facing the Republican Party some of them were with key vo...

Saudiled Coalition Bombing houthis. They have toppled the yemeni government. We begin this hour in washington with a confusing and an alarming day for thousands of people. A power line failure this afternoon at the white house and state department and wide swath of the capital region. People were trapped in elevator as parts of the metro station went dark and art museums were evacuated. The officials are confident this was all a result of an electrical transmission accident but yet it put a lot ...