Say that certainty is needed by states to repair the nations infrastructure. We want to return to you turn to all of you and say what are your infrastructure needs. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country dial in 202 7488000. Mountain specific dial 202 7488001. If you want to join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. Com. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open and we will begin with the Washington Times. The highway funding bill stuck in limbo as the august recess quickly approaches. Kevin mccarthy shut the bill to a sixmonth bill. Saying even if the other changer gets it done chamber gets it done this week it would be impossible for history is to study a thousand page deal before the house leaves thursday night. The majority leader announced that his side are a past a fivemonth road bill and last night they introduced a threemonth extension. Senate negotiators barreled forward anyway saying that congresss reliance on shortterm patches has passed
You plan to get us off the bottom . Mr. Hefenger i start with the fact that everyone rose raise their hand and took an oath of office. How many people in this country do that . Im sure their eyes were open. They knew it was not the most popular job in the country. But they said i want to be the face of security for the traveling public. That is where morale starts. What is where does morale fail after that . I go right back to the mission and my dedication to the coast guard told me it starts with the mission. And then you have to talk about that mission. And you have to train to that mission. And you have to measure that mission area. When i come to work, i know i want to know that i am being given the tools and the training to do it and they are backing me up when i have to make decisions. I think there is a lot of training to that and there is a Workforce Engagement needs. Representative thompson people who apply do not have to go back. Now we are hearing, when they tried to get rec
Its the washington journal for july 30th for our next hour we turn to president ial politics. Particularly interested in hearing from you in our top issues. Jeb bush has been talking about spending and Hillary Clinton has been suggesting changes to capital gain and donald trump talked about immigration. Maybe there are top issues for you and maybe there are others. Heres your chance to let you know. 2027488000 for republicans and 20274880002 and you can also post to any of our social Media Channels on twitter and facebook or an email. Jeb bush cast himself as an evangelist of the Republican Party and a Campaign Stop after Campaign Stop he spreads his arms wide and say, we have to campaign with this and not angry posture another democratic block is different story but bush will try anyway when he speaks friday to the annual conference. National urban league of civil rights group. Maybe they reflect issues important to you. Maybe there are others that the candidates should be talking abo
Produce oil in iran, so they invested that billion dollars, so they are performing under that contract, they are producing x barrels a day, and they did that after the sanctions were lifted, could they continue under that contract or not . Mr. Nephew my understanding is no. At the moment the snapback is triggered the b. P. Staff and whatever financing is still going on or Technical Assistance going on has to be stopped. The United States government will now not sanction them for having built the plant in the first place. Senator corker you agree with that . Chairman zarate im not sure. Its a question how it gets interpreted. This can be affected by the nature of the snapback if there is a tailored snapback, this could be impacted by the nature of the contract itself. There could be special purpose vehicles created to contend with this provision to ensure the continuity of the actions. I think you could have parties at the u. N. , permanent five, arguing that as long as the continued ac
This weekend were joined by comcast to learn more about the literary life and history of augusta, georgia. We are sitting here in the Augustine Museum of history, and about 10 years ago a decision was made to do a military display, a Permanent Military display to honor jimmy dyess. When it did my research on the book i went to over 9000 Carnegie Medal recipients. The 3500 or so medal of honor recipient since the civil war. And it turns out hes the only person ever to earn both awards. He would almost for sure said he did not deserve. You may point out to somebody else who was more heroic than he was. He was very humble. He never talked about the Carnegie Medal. One in a in the people who knew them when it is the book a long time ago, people know me well. I said what about the Carnegie Medal . He was 19. He didnt we think about it. I have a lot of recipients of the years of the medal of honor foundation. Most of them will tell you i didnt deserve this medal. It should have been given to