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Has made a number of public comments. We held a hearing, many members, republican and democrat, were present on the question of fragile states. He is, i think, appropriately highlighting that the cost of restabilizing countries like libya, syria, iraq and continuing to hold together countries like nigeria and pakistan is going to be substantial. And we need to engage in a bipartisan and thoughtful way in advancing why it is in americas interests to prevent the collapse of even more larger and po...

[inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Thank you all for joining us today. I just want to take the opportunity remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching online, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Hosting the program is lindsey burke. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and empowering families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsey. Great, ...

In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is t...

The 114th congress, i stated that my top Emergency Management priority was pursuing life saving and cost reducing disaster legislation and launching a Public Policy debate about the costs of disasters in terms of both the loss of property and human life. We follow that hearing with several round tables to help us understand what disasters cost this country, who pays those costs and whether the problem is Getting Better or worse. Early last year, Ranking Member carson and i introduced the fema fo...

With great aplum and not even worry aplomb and not even worry about it this doesnt save us the 340 billion which is what we ought to do, what this amendment does is say, dont spend it on further constructing his useless well, not useless but totally expensive facility, dont waste the money on this boondoggle. And we can spend the money on maybe what the department of energy thinks we ought to do, to dilute and dispose. Or maybe build a fast reactor, which weve had in the past and which russia is...

Account was 36 million below the president s budget request in the bill brought to the floor and amendments already passed by the house have resulted in further cuts to the departmental administration. Federal salaries for the Nuclear Security administration are 30 million below this president s request. The funding levels in this bill send a clear message about growth in the federal work force requiring an automatic 5 cut across the board is a step too far and as i said it is not good governmen...

, david jolly was first elected in 2014. With a reelection bid only six months away, he said he was shocked to hear from party elders in the next six months he needed to raise 2 million for the in february, he introduced the stop act which would handle members of congress from personally asking for money. Representative nolan was one of the first two back sat. He was elected to congress in 2013. He says he hardly recognized the institution because of the amount of time members spent dialing for ...

The Republican Convention, can donald trump unify a divided party . Woodruff good evening and welcome to our special pbs p newshour coverage of the Republican National convention in cleveland, ohio. Im judy woodruff. Dr ifill im gwenn ifill. Were joined from our regular contributors, mark shields and david brooks. Vi woodruff also with us, nprs laura along with amy cook from the political report. Down on the floor, we have newshour correspondents Lisa Desjardins and nprs susan davis. Ifill tonig...

Folks for sfgtv for the broadcast, clerk. Please be sure that all devices are silenced, items acted on today will appear on june 7 board of supervisors agenda. Please read the first item. To discuss the codes for Motor Vehicle tracking systems and all Motor Vehicles by the city. Thank you, this item is brought to us by supervisor yee, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin, morning, everybody, the item we are talking about is telematics, and this is a technology that has gps along with capa...

[gavel] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors, i am the share of the committee, aaron peskin, and joined by supervisor yee, and sitting in for member london breed is comptis, and i want to thank the folks for sfgtv for the broadcast, clerk. Please be sure that all devices are silenced, items acted on today will appear on june 7 board of supervisors agenda. Please read the first item. To discuss the codes for Motor Vehic...