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Although we are still have much in the thick of the crisis. The bill for Hurricane Harvey is at a staggering 160 bi. Thats a quarter of our Defense Budget and that could be the starter path for the biggest, most of expensive storage in history. Hurricane katrina cost 109 billion. And there is bad blood stirring in congress over Hurricane Sandy flooding. Northeast legislators promise retribution is not on the docket. If the sandy package was bogged down with porky projects, lawmakers have a time ...

Secretary rick perry. A former Texas Governor also made the trip. President trump is pledging 1 million in disaster aid for victims of the hurricane. That is according to White House Press secretary sarah sanders. Trump arrived in texas to witness the destruction and visit with victims. The pentagon has begun to deploying additional troops to afghanistan. Defense secretary jim mattis said members of congress will be briefed before details are made public. Mattis did not give exact number of the ...

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The long going standoff and says the only way to solve the crisis is for the u. S. And south korea to stop joint military exercises, which it called a rehearsal for war. President trump is losing another white house aide. Insiders say it could be the most damaging. Keith schiller is leaving. He was director of oval office regulations. He was once mr. Trumps bodyguard and closest confidant. Senate colleagues welcomed back john mccain in washington. The six term arizona senator had been receiving ...

Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats...

He hurt those he claimed he was trying to help. What most of sickening about the situation is not the uncertainty and cruelty. But then president obama made the wrong turn at the fork in the road. He went down socialism street and made an illegal uturn with daca in 2012 just in time for his reelection. He newt circumvention and keenly that wand waving was illegal. Here he is in 2011. Sometimes when i talk to immigration advocates, they wish i could just by Pass Congress and change the law myself...

The Senate Passed the aid bill for Hurricane Harvey, the 15. 3 billion is nearly twice as much as President Trump requested, including raising the debt ceiling for three months under a deal democrats made with the president. Three people familiar with the matter say the white house is considering at least six candidates on the growing list of nominees to succeed fed chair janet yellen after the wall street journal reported wednesday that President Trump is unlikely to choose his top economic adv...

[applause] so i would like to start with governor kaine and congressman hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good morning tom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we tho...

Hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good morning tom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we thought there would still be a terrorist threat. We were smart enough to pr...

With the backlog forhose of drawing applyingor benefits. The challenges faces, since i have been chairman we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future social secuty benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or...