Those are committed serious crimes and completed their prison sentences. Special lies this morning for those with felony convictions in your past. We want to hear your stories special lines. 2027488000. For those who work in correction, 2027488001. Is your number. A line for Law Enforcement 2027488002. A line for all others, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media, twitter cspanwj, on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Good Tuesday Morning to you. We are talking about prison reentry programs. We sit a visit. This comes in the wake of the white house announcing its effort to promote this week as National Reentry week. President obama over the weekend laid out his plans for a National Reentry with some of the efforts of his administration is pushing in his weekly address. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] president obama every year, 600,00 people are released from prison. We need to ensure they are prepared to become productive, contribute and members of their famili
And now live to london for british punishes question time. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite you for to station via twitter using hashtag pmqs. Prior to question time members are finishing up a business. And now live to the floor of the british house of commons. If you look at the cash flow, as you know were working hard in place like somalia to make sure they can still be made by families back to the relatives in somalia. Shes quite right to say one of the best thing we do is get competition in the market so people have more choice. Stewart andrew. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Can my right honorable friend and form the house to work our department is doing on behavior change in those areas affected by ebola . Does she have an assessment . Socalled social mobilization is being key to bearing down on the transmission rate. We now extend credi
Anyone who would like to answer it, did the commission find they the current lack of a Retirement Program similar to that, recommended by the commission, that that is having the absence of a plan like that, right now, is having an impact on recruiting and retention . Currently we dont have a retirement system in place in the military that provides any benefits for those who serve for less than 20 years. Is that impacting recruiting . Senator lee thank you for the question. When we looked, we took a very strategical approach to support an allvolunteer force for the future. And to design that we structured the program for how we might make a recommendation to modernize the current retirement system. The recommendations that we provided within we are absolutely convinced theyre the right set of recommendations here on having a blended retirement plan, and because it does two things. It supports the retention needs by the services, and it also supports the recruiting challenges that the se
Executive order on immigration. Talking about the possibility of the u. S. Sending arms to ukrainian forces. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday, david brooks, columnist for the new york times, on writing an article and awards he gives that at the end of your. The sydney awards are given to the best magazine essay of the year and they can be journals like the new yorker or the atlantic. If they come around out around that christmas week, and the idea is to step back and not read tweets, even newspaper articles, but to step back and have the time to read something deeper and something longer. It is to celebrate those longer pieces. I do believe magazines change history. The new republic, until its recent destruction was the most influential political magazine of the 20th century, changed history. It created a voice for new liberalism. It gave it a voice. Sunday night at 8
Welcome everyone here today. This is a very exciting day. Im e. J. Dion, a senior fellow here at brookings, as you know, brookings likes to be in the middle of the great debates in our country. This is going to be a year, i think, of really fundamental debates about the future or about what happens to growth and is it shared. We might actually get around to arguing about what should our government spend money on and how are we going to pay for it . Weve had crises, rather than having real arguments about that in the past few years. Its an honor for me to introduce [inaudible] join us today. She has proudly represented californias 12th district for the past 27 years. Ill continue with the introduction, but i want to say a couple of things. First of all please silence your cell phones. Tweet up a storm if you want, but silence your cell phones. To tweet, its pelosi at pelosi at brookings. We will be circulate cards for you to answer your questions and im going to dry to ask as many of th