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I think you would have been here. And we had to subpoena you in order to get you to come here. Mr. Pummill, you obviously were subpoenaed because miss hickey left her position, and i suspect that we may invite her to appear before us at a later date. But with that, if there are no further questions, we are now in recess. Coming up tonight remarks from president obama on the keystone xl pipeline and his administrations decision to reject the request from a Canadian Company to build it. He spoke e...

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Recently, maybe you could hold a hearing on its progress. I would welcome that. Giving alcome me in warm welcome to Veterans Affairs secretary robert donald. [applause] Robert Mcdonald thank you so much. War, the ymcal has been a friend of veterans. Forerunner of the g. I. Bill. Today i am pleased to announce the v. A. And the ymca has agreed by furthering our partnership. This makes it easier for v. A. Facilities and ymcas to help in Service Members to connect resources they need. To you and th...

Legislation did not go anywhere either. And to us, that was a bare minimum. Criticism from the Civil Rights Community and the Voting Rights community. We narrowed the bill until we excluded the states that were engaged, my state of being one of them. We were not covered. Alabama, where all of this started, is not going to be covered. What we did was we decided to use what the Supreme Court asked us to use it in a way that would and to state if you dont have any intentions to be mischievous, you ...

Badges in airports. There has been some concerned that security of the bad population. It should be a trusted population. How do you determine whether they are to be trusted . What safeguards do you put in place, inc. Think there is work to be done there. Im encouraged by secretary johnsons reach, earlier this year prior to my confirmation, he asked the Aviation Security thatory Committee Members advised the department and the administrator, they took a hard look and came up with 28 recommendati...

Before it dies in space. This is Al Jazeera America. Good evening, im michael each in new york. Efforts to build the keystone excel pipeline took a step forward today. The house approved the construction of the pipeline from canada to mexico. Its up in the air. Senator Mary Landrieu said that she can round up enough of her democratic colleagues to see passage of the bill tuesday of next week, but there is a question if the head count is really there. Now democratic leadership is allowing this vo...

The Bipartisan Policy Center and the Concord Coalition all offering their views. Live coverage on cspan2. The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in the case balancing federal whistleblower protections against National Security. The case involves robert maclean, a u. S. Air marshal fired for telling a reporter that the tsa canceled missions on commercial flights that required marshals to stay overnight. His supervisor told him that the cancellations were to save money, believing the tsa a...

Now witnessing is the result of of that. 20 cornered civil war and we in are sure that a, there we know whos, b, they are and c we can find them and support them and they will c they will set up a jeffersonian democracy when this done. I met with the head of the political wing of the free in in army two years ago tannable. Talked about an open pluralistic syria in which everyone would participate. It was heartening to hear him. Then i asked him when were you last in syria. He said not for awhile...

That should be put in front of american citizens host ok. Guest there is no question we have limited resources. In many of these count these challenges, in dealing with isil or frankly russian aggression in eastern europe, the question is what is the cost of not acting . Often, by sitting back and not acting, we encourage further aggression. Both our allies and enemies are watching. There are times, of course, out of moral authority and doing what is right, america steps i steps up. But the on t...

Annexation of territory to enlarge his already substantial power, and the borders of the nation that he rules. The russian president seems intent on restoring russia to a prominence that a generation of russians dreamt of since the fall of the soviet union. Putins imperialism in Eastern Europe is more evident by the day unchecked by president obama saved by rhetoric only. Mr. Obama is a man surrounded by conflict internationally and at home. Just more than a week after a disasterous midterm elec...