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Dividing his country along sectarian lines. South sudans president signed a peace deal aimed at ending two years of violence. He signed the agreement in the capital. But hes expressed reservations whether it will end his countrys civil war. The u. N. Security council threatened immediate action if he failed to agree to the deal. The peace accord includes a new powersharing agreement. And it opens the way for rebel fighters to be reintegrated into the army. Both sides agreed to a cease fire and e...

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Of criticism for targeting these programs that provide billions of dollars in federal funding for Public School programs. At the se time, he proposed a investment in School Choice, which is the next spansion the expansion of Charter Schools and private schools, even choice among private Public Schools. Some of the programs targeted that stirred up a lot of controversy included more than 2 billion for teacher training and classroom reduction. It is a Popular Program. Studies about this program ha...

Conversation with him live sunday at noon eastern on book tvs in depth on cspan2. Detroit news reported this week that some faculty and students at Michigan State University Want the schools president to rescind an invitation for education secretary betsy devos to speak at the grand opening of the universitys grand rapids at Research Center later this month. They say she has an enemy of Public Education. Secretary devos is scheduled to speak september 20. How to fund education, the Education Dep...

Emergency food aid over 2 billion annually. Sadly, despite the generosity there are shortfalls from what is needed due to other nations not fully meeting the challenge. And next years deliberations we have an opportunity to do more with having, without having to spend more money. Half of which must be shipped according to cargo preference rules. These restrictions result in spending as little as 35 to 40 cents on the dollar on food. Let me say this one more time. Because of these ridiculous requ...

Quorum call mr. Merkley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Merkley i ask that the quorum call be lifted. Without objection. Mr. Merkley i ask that my intern sara finley be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Merkley thank you very much. Mr. President , i am coming to the floor to talk about the challenge we have with forest fires that have been raging in the west, from montana and idaho and washi...

Activity, their words, not mine, or practicing alternate gender identity, you may be denied admissions f this school which obviously is approved to discriminate against lgbt students in indiana, in f. Indiana applied for this federal funding, will you stand up that this school be open to all students . Thank you for your question with regard broadly to School Choice and its actually kind of narrow. I have one minute left. And i would like to refer back to your question about the comment about im...

You must have wondered, as i did, whether there was anything a private citizen could do about a problem so big. That is why we decided to study the situation. The results are published in this book. We call it freedom of the american road, simply because we americans always have liked plenty of elbow room freedom to come and , go as we please in this great country of ours. The first thing we found was that you cannot talk about highways without talking about traffic and safe driving, too. We fou...

You must have wondered, as i did, whether there was anything a private citizen could do about a problem so big. That is why we decided to study the situation. The results are published in this book. We call it freedom of the american road, simply because we americans always have liked plenty of elbow room freedom to come and , go as we please in this great country of ours. The first thing we found was that you cannot talk about highways without talking about traffic and safe driving, too. We fou...

They played a slide show of the little victims and just various pictures of them and they were just so tiny, and it was so sad. And i remember seeing a teacher start to cry and i remember seeing a little kid next to her just grab her happened and squeeze it her hand and squeeze it. It was just one of those moments that you just never forget. Thank you. [applause] youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. And this ...