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The ambassador wants a bigger latrine in his office, or we want 50 consular windows instead of five. That changes all the time. I mean, we saw it here today. It changed with Papua New Guinea. You had a plan to do something, all of a sudden the department says, no, we need more, for whatever reason. Theres right sizing that goes on constantly within the department. Theres the muchpublicized but im not sure how much its occurring, the pivot to asia. What does that mean for those embassies in asia ...

Please raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Let the record reflect the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Please take your seats, ladies. Thats a formality we have to engage in you. Why dont we begin. Heather, why dont we begin with you and move this way. Thank you. Chairman ryan, Ranking Member van holland, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to spea...

And a discussion about mexico opening its oil and gas industry to foreign investment. At a House Budget Committee hearing advocates for the poor discussed what governments and charities are doing to raise people out of poverty and how they can be more economically selfsufficient. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin chairs this two hour hearing. Committee will come to order. A number of our members on our side aisle will be a little late our conference is still ongoing but in the interest of time ...

Well, we started in 2002. Initially, the girls, we were engaged in Child Rights Movement and we were meeting different women leaders. We were six or seven young girls and all of the age range was from 1416. So when we saw no women or girl leadership in a civil society, as well, some of the organizations that claim to work for womens rights, but there is no representation. Mostly, the women and girls were either the receptionist or the material level but not at the decisionmaking. So we started w...

Enforce it or do you ignore it . I think thats the bottom line. My time is expired but let me say once again, i thank you an your staff for the process you are going through. It is invaluable to our countrys veterans and to the agency. Senator, thank you very much. Senator tester. I want to thank you, too, for your work and your professionalism. It is very helpful to us so thank you for your work. Your investigations, whether phoenix or the other 93 facilities, is focused on scheduling. Correct ...

He has been on the floor for 5. 5 hours. We will show you some of his speech over the next couple of hours. You can continue to watch it on cspan two. We have put up a poll. Speech ond cruzs defunding obamacare. Here is the poll. Do you support ted cruz as he speaks in the u. S. Senate to defund Health Care Law . 1225 are in support voting against 394. We will also give you a choice chance to weigh in on twitter. Were also looking at some of the congressional reporters. This could be a late nigh...

He has been joined by other senators. We see here that you talk republican mike lee. We will look in on this for a few minutes. I hope that we will reflect from time to time on that we have all taken an oath to uphold this document, this do hundred nt written byume wise men 200something document written by wise men. Did extent that we respect the knowledge of this document, we follow it. To the extent that we defend it. To the extent that we consider it not just the responsibility of the judicia...

Hospital readmissions and that changed and that the lower hospital recommissions is driving the lower part. We are seeing dramatic reductions in per capita spending for the part dmp side, primarily a shift from brands to generics and kind of. Undamental, kind of pipeline lower part a and part d are driving the overall slowdown. Think that phenomenal experience for the medicare program. Part b is continuing to rise, which may make sense as hospitals shift care from the inpatient side to lower cos...

National strike against endless austerity. The top stories and latest developments. This be is the weekly here on rt. Western states are eager to gain a loophole for unilateral action against syria and dont care enough about peaceful efforts to resolve the syrian conflict. Well, thats the impression the Russian Foreign minister says hes gained after several weeks of a diplomatic effort to avoid strikes. Two weeks ago it seemed like the United States are ready to essentially strike syria. Then th...

Like for example, his endorsement in the speech of Marriage Equality. It was a big moment in the speech, right . Because no president had ever talked about gay people before, ever before in any inaugural address. It was also a landmark thing for this president , who did not publicly support samesex marriage rights until well into his time being president. But there it was right in the inaugural address, calling for narn Marriage Equality. Right there in the inaugural address. That is freaking li...