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Next, a Senate Hearing on u. S. Preparedness for biological threats. Then Gina Mccarthy talks about the clean water act and the clean power plan. After that, new mexico governor sus Susanna Martinez gives her state of the state address. Now a house hearing on the nations preparedness for biological threats. It comes following the release of recommendations from a special panel on biodefense. This is just over two hours. Good morning. We will begin this hearing. We will have votes in a couple hou...

[inaudible conversations] good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on the posture of the u. S. Central command, Africa Command of special Operations Command in the context of our review on oversight of the fiscal year 2017 Defense Budget. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses general austen general rodrigues and general votel. We thank each of you for dedicated for decades of distinguished service and for your leadership of our men and women in uniform...

The general has just said and i would add one additional point which i think that the big lesson that we are learning out of this is the area between normal state competition and open warfare and i think that in my view this is an area in which russia is engaging and area is another example and Eastern Europe is another example and the ukraine is another example. They are challenging the open warfare, challenging influence and also the interest of many of our allies as well. So for those of us w...

The speaker pro tempore th house lle order. Prer today will be offered by our chaplain, father conroye. Father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. We ask your blessing upon this peoples house as we are in the beginning days of this new congress. Encompass with your power all the walls of this building, truly assembled to the world of unalienable rights and the freedom of people. Guide and protect your elected servants in government and all w...

Time for bills to pass before january 15th and a funding level for fiscal year 15 so that we avoid another dysfunctional, unrealistic budget and appropriations process in just a few months. As noted in the letter if our appropriations chairs. There is also bipartisan demand for us to end the sequester. As mr. Rogers has said, sequestration, and i quote, is unrealistic, ill conceived, discretionary cuts must be brought to an end. As cbo has repeatedly noted the sequester will cost our economy an ...

Remove the magnet from illegal immigration in five or 10 down years down the road you are dealing with the same thing. With the aflcio and some unions and leftleaning groups opposed to expanding the Guestworker Program i worry that the blanket pathways to citizenship or legal status where the want to call it and leave the guestworker part out of it and we dont solve any problem and gave politics are just as bad for us in the next 10 years. Quite frankly dont trust congress so if congress cant ma...

This is a serious problem and one largely under the radar screen. Recent studies by the gao common pleas of the Federal Reserve and by the private company ill estimate there is a sizable amount of leakage from Retirement Savings, most significantly to cash distributions to change jobs. Moreover, Fidelity Investments in the Boston Research group provided 55 of a preretirement distribution from their defined contribution savings plan later regret having done so. The reality is plans to sell avery ...

Secretary of defense for the state of israel . I will take your answer off the air. Host that was part of the discussion yesterday. Guest absolutely. There was a lot of time spent on israel yesterday. It is a huge foreignpolicy issue for the. They happen to be in the middle of an environment that is unsettled and without clear paths forward. It is a core interest of the United States. Again, it is a scenario where politicians feel strongly and American Voters feel extremely strongly. There were ...

Outlooks and prerogatives that reflects a way that reflects more the grass roots and not so much the gun manufacturers or Big Industries or the manufacturers . First, i reject the claim that there is any guncontrol legislation that will be passed the will be popular among our supporters. What it will do is energize our base. Our base is extremely focused on what is going on in congress. They are extremely passionate and have a lot of energy. They will generate a higher level of interest in the 2...

We put together a segment for you folks. Hope you enjoy it and find it entertaining and informational. A few moments with new York City Comptroller Eliot Spitzer. Take it away, eliot. Huge, enormous, massive, nuts, bigger, bigger, too big, thrust, it goes deeper than a that, a stick is a rhinoceros. I think hes on to something. Is that how were starting the show this morning . My god. It is wednesday wednesday, july 10th, as you look at an empty summertime square. With us on set Mike Barnicle, f...