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Epa administrator scott pruitt answered questions about his agencys budget request. It calls for major cuts and a reduction in the workforce of nearly 4000 employees. This hearing was held by a House Appropriations subcommittee. It ran just over two hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning. Good morning. Today we continue to keep all those affected by yesterdays events, including steve scalise, in our thoughts and prayers. We applaud the Capitol Police in being the first line of def...

Well come to order. Without objection, the chair has authorized to declare recess of the committee at anytime. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing entitled bolstering cybersecurity. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. I want to welcomethe witnesses here today and elcome chairman smith, Oversight Subcommittee Research and Technology Ranking member lipinski, our expert witnesses and members of the audience. Oversight subcommittee research and Technology Ranking mem...

About cause and effect. History matters. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Up next the acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley testified on president trumps 2018 navy budget request. Hes joined by the chief of Naval Operations John Richardson and marine corps commandant. This is just over two hours. Senator mccain good morning. I want to thank each of our witnesses for they distinguished service to the nation as well as the say alreadies say alreadies, marines and civilians they l...

Tale of two cities. We have high schools that for the last 20 years have won the academic decathlon, and others that are dropout factories. Unfortunately that is determined by zip code. The poor communities where 98 of the kids are in poverty are somehow not giving the same level of certified teachers and books and support they need in those schools. Let me go to use since it is the Second Largest School District in the country, with 600,000 kids. District in the country with 6000 kids, what to ...

Tale of two cities. We have high schools that for the last 20 years have won the academic decathlon, and others that are dropout factories. Unfortunately that is determined by zip code. The poor communities where 98 of the kids are in poverty are somehow not giving the same level of certified teachers and books and support they need in those schools. Let me go to use since it is the Second Largest School District in the country, with 600,000 kids. District in the country with 6000 kids, what to ...

U. S. Businesses. They are the engine of the economy. Reporter americas 28 million Small Businesses are truly the backbone of the economy. Accounting for more than half of all u. S. Sales, according to the Small Business administration. Theyve also created 66 of all net new jobs since the 1970s and thats created some 8 million new jobs since 1990. But running a Small Business is no easy task. Just ask tamara kennedy. She started as a secretary for a franchisee and eventually bought one of her ow...

Disparagement provision placed be placed on speech itself. It has historically been much more tied to First Amendment values, to the incentivizeation of Free Expression. Part of that seems to me to ignore the fact that we have a culture in which we had tshirts and logos and rock bands and so forth are expressing the point of view they are using the market to express views. I mean certainly disparagement wouldnt work with copyright. Thats a powerful important Government Program. Ret melet me say ...

Well talk about some more temperatures in 7 minutes. Mike has an alert. Its hot. My alerts are in your forecast and other issues. Metal debris in the roadway. Overall, the Speed Sensors look great right now and seeing difficult slowing southbound 880 off the Castro Valley wide and heading to 92. Right seeing the build for traffic also a report of metal debris in the middle of the roadway. If anybody hits that, could be an issue for all lanes and tracking that. Chp says whatever it is, its all cl...

Telecommunication policy conference in washington at the National Press club. Thats where fcc chair pie was joined by Administration Officials and leaders. Well show you about three hours of this conference and well start with the discussion on the future of the internet. Okay. Well, everyone is so quiet that i think we should get started. That was really that was really good. Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation, and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth ...

Maintaining an effective cyber tourity posture is important remain vigilant. Too often when we hear about the importance of Cyber Security we are left without concrete steps to take to ensure our positions position against emerging threats. One of the goals today is to learn about tangible measures the government can take to its i. T. Systems to defend against new and emerging threats including novel and sophisticated rent somewhere threats. The specific focus will be the wannacry ran somewhere ...