Constitution of our country. I believe our conferees should have an opportunity to go in there and do the right thing to protect the people of america through the funding of the department of Homeland Security and to do the right thing to defend the constitution of our country. By defeating this motion and Going Forward with the conference, we give the process a chance to work. And to work well in both of those regards. So i respect the people on the other side who think we should just give in. But i dont think we should just give in. Because i dont think the American People want us to just give in. I think the American People want us to do our work. To make sure we protect our country by appropriately funding the department of Homeland Security. But that we also defend our protect our country by defending the constitution of the United States. I believe the actions taken by the president are unconstitutional. A judge has stayed those actions because hes got some legal issues with them
240,000 per month during the first half of last year to 2880,000 per month during the second half and employment rose 260,000 in january. In addition, longterm unemployment has declined substantially. Fewer workers are reporting that they can find only parttime work when they would prefer fulltime employment and the pace of quits, often regarded as a barbarometer has recovered to its prerecession level. The Labor Force Participation rate is lower than most estimates of its trend and wage growth remains sluggish, suggesting that some weakness persists. In short, considerable progress has been achieved in the recovery of the labor market but room for further improvement remains. At the same time that the labor market situation has improved, domestic spending and production have been increasing at a solid rate. Real Gross Domestic Product estimated to have increased at 3. 75 at the annual rate. G. D. P. Growth is not anticipated to be sustained at that pace, it is expected to be Strong En
Host any thoughts . Guest i say this is easily resolved. I think the one thing to be careful of is the difference between sort of partisan decisions and ones that come from different judicial philosophies or ideologies, when you think partisan, you think im going to vote as any republican or democrat would do. I believe that there are a lot of cases at the Supreme Court and we can point to numerous examples that do not follow that traditional breakdown between party lines. And i think a good sample would be coming this term about recess appointments. Here is an issue that will affect whoever the sitting president has come at a sitting president is not currently a democrat. But of course in a future election and maybe the republicans that win an election, therefore the decision that they announce it in the court will be a rule about the perspective power to make these recess appointments regardless of the party of the presidency. What you will see in that decision is the core grappling
The committee will come to order. We meet today to consider two of president obamas nominees in the Intelligence Committee. Mrs. Caroline dianne krass, nominee to be the general counsel of the cia, and ambassador Daniel Bennett smith, nominee to be assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. As we would say, inr. Welcome to you both, and to the family and friends with you today. I also understand that senator bennett will be introducing ms. Krass and should arrive shortly from another hearing. When he does come in, i will give him the opportunity to make his remarks, and then we will go back to whatever we are doing. We have received answers to our prehearing questions from both nominees, and those can be found on the committees website for anyone whos interested. And we look towaforward to hear both of your opening statements. This committee has the jurisdiction over all nominees requiring Senate Confirmation within the Intelligence Community, and we try to move that p
Contributions to the Intelligence Community analysis over the years, but i do have concns about whether i do have concerns if it is doing enough independent analysis, especially with terrorist attacks on u. S. Facilities overseas. I hope that he will be at the forefront of intelligence issues that concern the policymakers on matters involved in the state department. We have many embassies and missions and consulates that frankly, as we have found, they are no doubt unsecured. And i know that that is not directly under you in this position, but its an issue that we are looking at with your experience. And ca has worked with covert action that is vital to National Security and it carries risks, especially with the leaks of classified information. As you noted in your responses to the committees questions, unauthorized disclosures and requests for information can compromise sources and damage our relationships with one partners and decrease the effectiveness of intelligence activities. An