This is news life a. Top story one of our top stories turkey has started a military offensive in Northern Syria strikes are being carried out on the border reports from the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces say there is a huge panic amongst the people before the strikes president announced the offensive into tweets the Turkish Armed forces together with the Syrian National army Just Launched operation peace spring against the p. K. K y p g and terrorists in Northern Syria our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across the southern border and to bring peace to the area operation peace spring will neutralize terrorist threats against turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone facilitating the return of Syrian Refugees to their homes we will preserve syrias territorial integrity and liberate local communities from terrorists. Lets bring in your. Foreign policy spokesman for the conservative party is in the German Parliament we just heard in that tweet that
Experts testify before a House Oversight and government reform subcommittee on whistleblower protections. Witnesses discuss the benefits and shortcomings of a 2012 whistleblower law. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee on Government Operations will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I will defer at this time to the Ranking Member of the subcommittee for an Opening Statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I know mr. Meadows will be here shortly. Federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse are in the front lines in the effort to ensure that our government functions efficiently and effectively. This committee has a long history of strong bipartisan support for those whistleblowers and i want to thank the chairman, mr. Immediameadows fo holding todays hearing. Whistleblower protection is rooted in Civil Service protections. Due process and meritbased hiring and promotion free of discrimination, retaliati
Experts testify before a House Oversight and government reform subcommittee on whistleblower protections. Witnesses discuss the benefits and shortcomings of a 2012 whistleblower law. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee on Government Operations will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I will defer at this time to the Ranking Member of the subcommittee for an Opening Statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I know mr. Meadows will be here shortly. Federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse are in the front lines in the effort to ensure that our government functions efficiently and effectively. This committee has a long history of strong bipartisan support for those whistleblowers and i want to thank the chairman, mr. Immediameadows fo holding todays hearing. Whistleblower protection is rooted in Civil Service protections. Due process and meritbased hiring and promotion free of discrimination, retaliati
Ranking member of subcommittee for Opening Statement. Thank you, there chairman. And i know mr. Meadows will be here shortly. Federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse are in the front lines in the effort to ensure that our government functions efficiently and effectively. This committee has a long history of strong bipartisan support for those whistleblowers and i want to thank the chairman, mr. Meadows, for holding todays hearing. Whistleblower protection is rooted in Civil Service protections. Due process and meritbased hiring and promotion free of discrimination, retaliation and political influence form the bedrock of the very whistleblower protections we are concerned about and have been for a long time on this commit even subcommittee. Five years ago, the bipartisan whistleblower protection enhancement act of 2012 significantly strengthened the rights of federal employees who disclose waste, fraud and abuse. This legislation marks substantial progress but a
Thats what kept us going. Thank you so much. Thank you cspan always so kind. God bless you, my brother. That was afterwards book fs Signature Program in which authors of the latest and nonfiction bookser interviewed. Watch past programs at booktv. Org. Now a reair of an afterwards program. Former missouri senator John Dan Don Furth looks at the role religion can play in partisan politics. Interviewed by tim hutchinson. So good to see you and i want to congratulate you on your new book, the relevance of religion, how faithful people can change politics. I have to say i enjoyed working on this book, and i hope people enjoy reading it. I look forward to visiting with you about and it hopefully creating a little interest because i think its certainly a worthy read. So you write in the prologue, when politics is broken, we should fix it. And you describe religion and religious people as a gift of politics and that religion puts politics in its proper place, and someone who has lived a littl