A motorcade ride that many say breaks the code that 19 protocols and britain struggle to coltan influx of migrants crossing over from france is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast and. Im sara kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prizes kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the fields of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of. Harvey j. Alter Michael Hotel and charles am rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a tickler sick. If it can see this year with the corona virus pandemic highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world and well have more on this in just a moment with our colleague Derek Williams from d. W. Science but 1st lets take a look at a situation in the United States there are mixed messages coming from washin
book that year and confederate goliath earned the prestigious award for civil war history given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. let s give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] rod: thank you. rod: thank you. it is a pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. and i appreciate that. before i begin, if you don t mind, i d like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelor s degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [laughter] rod: so he was accepted, enrolled in a distant prestigious school of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. now, the professor was notoriously irascible, he came in after the ex
Glad youre here and appearing before this committee today to discuss your departments fiscal 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your department. I think the proposed cuts of 2. 3 billion are about onefifth of the departments operating level. Certainly while i appreciate and many of us appreciate the departments prioritizing limited resources and making decisions to realign programs, the fundamental question is really what you choose to cut and whether you can possibly look at that number and make an argument as to why that much of your previous budget should be cut this year. Its not the first time these kinds of cuts have come in the department. Last year president obama proposed about the same level of cuts, though he proposed somehow these programs would lean heavily on new mandatory spending for the budget caps in the law then. Of course, those budget caps are in the law still. Instead of making difficult decisions, it w
Glad youre here and appearing before this committee today to discuss your departments fiscal 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your department. I think the proposed cuts of 2. 3 billion are about onefifth of the departments operating level. Certainly while i appreciate and many of us appreciate the departments prioritizing limited resources and making decisions to realign programs, the fundamental question is really what you choose to cut and whether you can possibly look at that number and make an argument as to why that much of your previous budget should be cut this year. Its not the first time these kinds of cuts have come in the department. Last year president obama proposed about the same level of cuts, though he proposed somehow these programs would lean heavily on new mandatory spending for the budget caps in the law then. Of course, those budget caps are in the law still. Instead of making difficult decisions, it w
What is being called the iiic summit which includes leaders from Central Europe the baltic states. He is expected to meet with the president s of poland and croatia. Then he goes to germany for the g 20 summit where he is expected to have his first facetoface meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Other leaders attending the g 20 include chancellor Angela Merkel of germany, president of china and Prime Minister of japan. Now labor secretary Alexander Acosta testifies about the president s budget request for his department. Missouri senator roy blunt, chairs the Senate Subcommittee hearing. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, education and related agencies will come to order. First of all good morning secretary acosta. Were glad youre here and appearing before this committee today to discuss your departments fiscal year 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your department. I think the propo