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Hourlong event. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am the Wilson Centers vice senior vice president. Event, whichdays is another in our ongoing books of wilson series that marks the publication of new books by fellows of the Wilson Center. James reston is a Wilson Center global fellow. [indiscernible] i believe so is it . I was once at an event Henry Kissinger was speaking at and the chair said can everyone hear me . And from the side, Henry Kissinger said, by definition, the people who canno...

Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under c...

I introduced a bill that reforms the the act to provide greater congressional oversight and to protect against the throat of Nuclear Proliferation. When the president says it is this will deal or go to war there is another option. Lets not forget about the agreement that was withdrawn by the Bush Administration in 2008 because the president could not certify that russia was not providing nuclear and advanced nuclear advanced weapons. Iran can buy Nuclear Missile ap weapons from the russians. Nex...

Did you have a sense at all of whether the cabinet secretaries were speaking to the whole house in their briefing, or maybe just to the concerns of a crosssection of democrats who would be the ones to protect the white house . It was a classified discussion of a very important treaty. I dont see any other motives except to exploited in the way that would encourage us to vote for. Was there any part of the briefing that was contentious or disrespectful . One of your colleagues says john kerry was...

I gave them my Insurance Information and they came back and they said, we dont know. I would like to know how common that is and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs. I might add, i had at the time a high deductible, so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part d, when i noted it in the biography, mr. White was involved with in 2003, has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the...

The fdic has the history in being able to do that. Clearly were in far better shape than we were. Of all the economies around the world the one thats doing the best is ours. It wasnt a miracle. It was because of hard work that we put in place here that allowed us to arent there unintended consequences such as the issues of market liquidity, for example . I do want to comment on one aspect of hansling. I was amazed to read i wish i had his ability to say ridiculous thing and be unphased by the po...

Again, there was still no mention of a Hospital Systemwide shutdown. And finally at the hearing on june 25th itself there was no mention of a Hospital System shutdown coming in august. Mr. Secretary, im disappointed about the slow, painstaking revelation of this crisis by the department thats led by you. I understand their excuses as to why we are in it this position, however, somebody somewhere took their eye off the ball. Just as congress established a cap on spending for the denver project th...

The senate was in session on sunday. They did authorize the export import bank. By now, current funding for transportation projects is set to expire by the end of the week without congressional action. You can watch the senate live on cspan2. Coming next, Robert Mcdonald testifies before the house of Veterans Affairs Committee Full top been question and answer with robert gordon. At 7 00, washington journal is live with this mornings headlines. Robert mcdonald warned that a 2. 5 billion budget s...

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