Said, to participate in the formal economy is vast, both for the economy itself and its growth but also for the impact it has on their families and their communities. Research shows time and time again that women reinvest all the money that they make back into the home and into the Wider Community, so it makes Good Business sense to help women participate. As for the foundation, what we have tried to do is to work with small and mediumsized entrepreneurs in developing countries and in particular in africa, the middle east, and asia to help them expand and grow their business partly by giving them capacity training, partly by giving them opportunities for mentoring, and particularly by harnessing the power of technology. And i think one of the ways weve done that the most successfully is by not trying to do it all ourselves but by partnering with others, thats other nonprofit associations working in this area and also with the private sector and with government, and a great example of t
Was the jv team. Clearly wrong. I think that is wrong as well there it i think it is a major varsity team. If you want to use those kinds of monitors. I have seen nothing that compares with its viciousness. Intelligencen the committee now since before 9 11 and i have watched this evolution of nonstate actors into world terror. Very carefully and closely. Groups really the first that has the wherewithal in terms of financing, the fighting structure,terms of a heavy equipment, heavy explosives, the ability to move quickly. They crossed the border into iraq before we even knew it happened. People whoa group of are extraordinarily dangerous. Withnator Dianne Feinstein her view on meet the press this morning. The Washington Post writes a different take about it, with the headline dan pfeiffer said the president will continue to move at his own speed to respond to these crises regardless of criticism. There is no timetable for solving these problems that will meet the cable news cycle speed.
Not there. I we are developing and promised the principal sponsors of this law that we are going to develop a plan to get to 100 not have the we do resources. Congress has not given us the resources. We are developing that. I would like to see us get to a higher percentage of what is deans scanned what is being scanned right now. I look at what comes into the country and the method we have for screening it all, and it is pretty sophisticated. So i take away from that a pretty good story. Ok, yes, sir. Last question. On ebola. We are now screening at five airports. Do we have the capability to deal with this, and do we have contingencies if things get worse . We very definitely in this country have the ability to deal with the ebola virus. Every time there has been an outbreak of ebola in the world, it has been defeated. Here in the United States, we have the best health care, doctors, infrastructure, hospitals. It is a treatable disease if it is caught in time and you receive the right
Its entirety. 2. 6 trillion is medicare, medicaid, Social Security and interest on the debt. Interest on the debt by the way is scheduled to approach 1 trillion within a tenyear period of time, within the budget window. All of that money we cant use for something else. So 3. 6 is the big number and 2. 6 is what we spent for the debt and right around a trillion for Everything Else. So when you think about the federal government and you think about roads and energy and education and National Defense and all of the kinds of things legislative branch and commerce, Everything Else except for medicare, medicaid and Social Security and interest on the debt, you are all a bright audience and you know weve had deficits of greater than a trillion for the laxt six years which means you can do away with the entire government with the exception of medicare, medicaid and Social Security. And if you get rid of everything, in those four years we wouldnt even balance the budget. So that is the magnitud
House and Senate Republicans are in hershey pennsylvania, for their congressional retreat, and john boehner joined Mitch Mcconnell who announced that joni ernst will deliver the republican response to the president s address on tuesday. Here is more on that now. Senator joni ernst for our side this year. She is a perfect choice. Americans voted for change, and the senator will explain what the new Congress Plans to do and what it is already doing to return focus to the concerns of the middle class and away from demands of the political class. Ernst has dedicated her life to iowa and her country, serving in the military, the national guard, for more than 20 years, and has deployed overseas. She is focused on growing an economy and expanding the middle class. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, speaker, and leader also. I am truly humbled and honored to have this opportunity to deliver the republican address. And it is a long way from red oak to washington, d. C. And growing up on a