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At 202 7488003. You can join the conversation by texting us at that same number, also going to twitter cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. The acting defense secretary outlined the president s decision yesterday. [video clip] by january 15, 2021, our forces, their size and afghanistan will be 2500. Iraq will alsoin be 2500 by that date. With ouronsistent established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People. It does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Moreove...

Chief of staff. Before that i held a number of different positions with another member and with two committees. Being the chief of staff of the speaker is very much like drinking out of a fire hose everyday. We had two years under president bush. Then two years under president obama. During that time we covered everything from the financial collapse to the passage of health care and stimulus and the after effects of the financial meltdown. The last two years we lost the majority so we were in th...

What do you think is a a statef the Republican Party after november 3 . Its frightening. Its an election we had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out and yet republicans seem pretty happy generally with the outcome not because he lost the because on ballot they did so well. Theres a lot ofal expectation that afterxp this election if te polls right and it would be a blowout for democrats, that the be a lot of grappling with in the party about what it stands for and what the f...

Two distinguished cochairs of our policy and communications committee. Clark. As katherine we had a very robust discussion at the caucus this morning on a few different topics. There will be a resolution of ruleproval related to a that has been proffered by the department of education and secretary of Education Betsy Devos that would restrict the ability of individual americans who have been defrauded as it relates to their pursuit for. Igher education there is 1. 5 trillion of student debt in t...

Icon of the 1970s, he died just a short time ago in a Florida Hospital at the age of 67. The musician and actor have been hospitalized for several days with organ failure. This after he announced his diagnosis with dimentia earlier this year. And David Cassidy was best known, of course, for his role in the 70s hit show the Partridge Family where he played older brother. So many watched that as kids and his family provided a statement that read, in part, david died surrounded by those he loved wi...

Icon of the 1970s, he died just a short time ago in a Florida Hospital at the age of 67. The musician and actor have been hospitalized for several days with organ failure. This after he announced his diagnosis with dimentia earlier this year. And David Cassidy was best known, of course, for his role in the 70s hit show the Partridge Family where he played older brother. So many watched that as kids and his family provided a statement that read, in part, david died surrounded by those he loved wi...