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Way to cut spending. The question is no longer whether sequestration should be replaced, but how. As every member of this Conference Committee knows, both the house and Senate Budget call for changes to the budget control act and replace sequestration in different wales. The house budget fully replaces the defense cut, lists the b. C. A. Cap, and pays for that by cutting from key domestic vements investments. The Senate Budget pays for that with an equal mix of spending cuts and revenue caused b...

Turned 100 and it looks every day its age. It is a broken, in efficient mass. Mess. It is time to bring it into the 21st century. Im committed to tax reform. And loopholesffs for us to close in the meantime without jeopardizing the goals of comprehensive tax reform. My hope is that this conference and put our feet in both cant , for tax reform and against tax ripoffs. Ood place to start incentives that Push Companies to move jobs overseas. Second is medicare. The future for medicare is better ca...

[captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] all right now. This is my go ahead and have a seat, guys. This is the 115th, by our count, Community Dinner that i have held since i first start running for the senate back now, what, seven years ago. We do them steadily. We have kind of got routine down. Everybody gets something to eat. I speak very briefly and then it is just a discussion. If you a question, if you have a ...

It. You do not have the same director or deputy there have multiple people. People under investigation right now. There will be laws. If you look at the Financial Services bill that has gone through appropriations. Not only is the irs defunded for but they have cut the budget. I think the same thing needs to happen with the possible examination of the nsa. But i do not think we ought to immediately toss out a program until we think about it and look at it, you know, and the Homeland Security peo...

And hydeas story. The 15yearold girl who has become a powerful force in the battle against gun violence. Good evening. Folks in many parts of the northeast will be talking about this one for years to come. The winter storm of 2013. A deadly blizzard that halted millions in their tracks, and left others along the coast fleeing to higher ground. Tonight at least nine deaths are being attributed to the storm. More than half a million homes and businesses are without power. Crews are removing strand...

We hear all this talk about minimumwage as relates to young workers. The fact of the matter is the average age of minimumwage employees is 35 years old. And they have the least one show. So this is all about lifting households, women, children above the poverty level. I would hope that the congress, our republican friends would join us in passing the bill raising the minimum wage. With that and would like to yield to the vice chair of our caucus. Desperately searching for a job and have now been...

Allow their employees to be able to help out as poll workers on election day and then to have sufficient training. Your report also talked about importance of access the information in languages other than english, including outlets in other languages, outreach to nonenglish media outlets, bilingual poll workers. I know weve made some effort in minnesota with voters with asian and Pacific Islander groups, and why our efforts so important . Want to stress, that the broader theme that the commissi...

Galleries that are watching their behavior adequately, they stay on even long after theyve become ineffective and not noteworthy to the court anymore. There are all these dangers of how you keep that focus and how you keep that task properly done. Make the case for why you all should be the oversight in the context of those dangers. I think we have not suggested that we should be the oversight for the because i know some have suggested that we be the body to appoint the members, a pool of specia...

Well, i have been going around to different states, and i have been looking at whats going on state by state. I have been to seven states already. I want to mention two tonight. Just got back from New Hampshire, the most recent trip. What is going on in New Hampshire . New hampshire, as many people know, has a big ski industry. It is a Winter Holiday destination, a winter vacation and tourism destination. And skiing is a big part of that. I met with the guy who runs the cranmore ski mountain. Th...