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I am awfully happy to welcome the of plot back thank you. All of you to this gathering and this event. Stephen ambrose once said that hed been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, 19441945, had become teachers. He made the obvious link, which partly needs explication before audience like this but consider the chronology. If you were a 20 year old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924. You are now 90, and if you have become a professor or teacher, you probably have ...

End of next year. Our White House Correspondent Mike Viqueira is in washington. What else can we expect to hear from the president today . Reporter we can look at today as the third in the threeact play. The president had the surprise visit in the heart of afghanistan over the memorial day weekend on sunday there addressing the troops. Some of the 32,000 left there now after a peak of 100,000 at the time of president obamas surge way back in 2011. Then we saw the president yesterday, another sur...

I hereby appoint the honorable frank r. Wolf to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, 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 le...

Pictures show the overwhelming scale of destruction after 50 days of conflict with israel. Tributes are paid to joan rivers, the pioneer comedian whos died at the age of 81. Hello. Welcome. Western nations are poised to impose tougher sanctions on russia over the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Its one of the issues discussed by World Leaders at a nato summit in south wales. From there we report live. Reporter welcome to the nato summit, day two. New port in wales is where theyre hoping to hear pos...

Engaging in ethnically charged revenge attacks. We see that report and ask, whose job is it to step in and stop the spiral . That is coming up right after the news. Let us say hello. These are the headlines. No nation should sit should possess Nuclear Weapons, said irans president , as tehran and washington year up for the highest level talks in more than 30 years. Judges in the hague uphold Charles Taylors 50 year sentence for war crimes. The former liberian president denies helping rebels in s...

Next, a constitution about the Global Economic outlook from the wall street journals annual cfo network conference. Panelists include the chair of the White House Council of economic advisers and the world banks chief economist. This is about 30 minutes. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thanks to you both for being here. During the session were going to ask for your participation on a couple of questions so, please, get ready for some morning calisthenics. Beyond the painful, long recovery the...

E employees for tax exempt status. According to a 2013 letter to this committee this would be back when he were still there, the Internal Revenue service went to extraordinary length to cooperate with congress. The letter explains that the irs quote, protects the taxpayers specific information in them as required by law. Is that correct and if so, did you have a role in setting up that process . I had a role in advising and helping the people who were engaged in that process. Thank you. Mr. Chai...

His book, your strength is not a panacea. It will not e limb nate the need of military action. Thank you. We now continue to elicit remarks. Hi. Good morning, everyone. Thanks so much to the american prospect for putting this on, including me. Its a real privilege to be a part of this event. All of the panelists and participants, some of them are very familiar. I was asked to address americas role of the middle east post iraq and afghanistan. With the goal maintaining military stability. Id say ...

Protection of the fraud and abuse within the irs. Pretty big distinction. So let go down with some of those poiwers because the fbi i involved in criminal investigations and the Inspector General is involved in internal investigations. The Inspector General does not have the act to compel people to testify outside the irs is that correct. I believe thats correct. The fbi does, correct . Yes. Yes. So when the Inspector General undertakes an investigation of the irs, they are only going to be able...

The cftc has already done. I urge my colleagues to support the commonsense amendment. Lets just do whats reflected here. I thank the gentleman for his input and yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from new jersey your time is expired. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment off...