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Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. T...

Limited to football. The calls are piling up on capitol hill now for Veterans Affair secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. Its clear that the va has ill served our nations veterans for some time and that this poor treatment became even more alarming and more tragic lately. Accountability for this starts at the very top. Shinseki and other va leaders have been facing tough questions about a coverup. Lisa stark is in washington for us. If you would, walk us through the report that is seemingly confir...

Inspector general began to review this matter. We now find that even mr. Cummings who had made certain 2012cts at irs in august, again, the question before us is contempt against lois lerner. She was given the opportunity to come before us and she came before us the first time in may. That is less than a year ago. And she refused to cooperate and testify. We gave her another opportunity just weeks ago to come back and to testify. Interviewedime, we over 30 witnesses. Almost every one of them, an...

Circumstances like this is follow the best leads. A landslide victory for the chief sisi. He has won the president ial election. An amphibian invasion. We meet the toad that could spell disaster for madagascars unique environment. Lets begin with breaking news from ukraine where a military helicopter has been shot down apparently by rebels in sloviansk. Journalists saw the helicopter explode. A pro Russian Group says its holding four that went missing. The men are safe and will be released soon....

Con roy. Conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Ternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We pause now in your presence and acknowledge our dependence on you. We ask your blessing upon the men and women of this, the peoples house, who have returned to their stations here on capitol hill. As the new session begins, help them and indeed help us all to obey your law, to do your will and to walk in your way. Grant that they might be good in thought, gracious in word, generous in deed a...

Constitutional perfection . Despite a clear provision in the law he cant do that . This president faced a Service Member in peril in activity and exercised a constitutional duty and authority to recover that Service Member. In circumstances in which it was the judgment of the policy, the leading policy makers of this country, that the circumstances were not going to permit the 30day notification. Thats a very concrete response to what was a very compelling situation. I understand that youre sayi...

Good morning, everybody. Time to givee some you a quick update about the situation in iraq. Meetingy, i convened a with my National Security discuss the situation there and this morning i received an update from my team. Days wevest several seen significant gains made by organizationrist that operates in both iraq and in syria. A terroristof offensive, Iraqi Security forces have proven unable to defend a which hascities allowed the terrorists to overrun part of iraqs territory danger to iraqa an...

Ago they built the fence. There was violence and drugs. Afterwards, both sides of the border are prospering. The lawlessness ended at that time and we have done better. Have you . Just ask you this. You did not say in her testimony today and nothing i have seen in your recording states is a clear message to the world i must not come illegally to america. Have you said that any time recently . I have told my staff we need to consider all options to deal with this situation. I rule nothing out tha...

President obama met with congressional leaders to discuss the crisis in iraq hours after iraq asked for assistance. Iraqi has officially asked for the help of the United States. According to the strategic Framework Agreement between iraq and the United States to help in the air raids against the strategic targets for such groups in order to break the psychological situation that exists and to help the Iraqi Military forces to eliminate the danger of these groups positioning themselves and hunker...

To you can watch all of this later at our program schedule. We are taking you live now to a hearing getting under way on capitol hill that is ted poe of texas. He chairs one of the subcommittees of house Foreign Affairs, 1 of the 2 looking into the Prisoner Exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl which occurred on may 31st, a former commander of special forces in afghanistan will testify, as will an Army Specialist who served with Sergeant Bergdahl. Lets hope that the bergdahl negotiators are n...