Lets get some first word news, hopefully good news of vonnie quinn. Vonnie i will do my best. The leaders of the armed group occupied in oregon have been arrested in a violent standoff. It were headed to a Community Meeting whenever stop by fbi agents. Shooting broke out, one of the protesters was killed, another was wounded. Secretary of state john kerry faced a hard sell in beijing today trying to get china to support sanctions on north korea after the nuclear test last month. China has been reluctant to anything that would destabilize the regime. Donald trump said he is been treated unfairly by fox news and will not be in the debate. Instead, he will be at a fundraiser for veterans. New 24 hours a day covered by more than women hundred 50 news peers around the world. Lets check in on market stuff. Matt some breaking news, United Technologies is that with some numbers that beat on the bottom line. Dollarssed by a billion on sales. 14. 3 billion with the Quarterly Sales figure put out
Longterm. Unfortunately because of the shortterm thinking that reigned supreme in this question of sustainability hasnt really come up at all. As i said before for all the money the International Community is spending on the Afghan Government to build the judiciary, the parliament to build capacity worldwide money is also going to warlords and strongmen. The u. S. Taxpayer dollars are still going to warlords and strongmen around the country and thats bad in and of itself but its also bad because it ensures continued weakness of the Afghan Government. So adjusting that will be the other aspect of the thing that the u. S. Should do. The last question im left here. You spoke about growing your beard out in getting a motorcycle and going and actually meeting with the taliban warlord. Can you speak a little more about that and were you ever afraid for your life at any point . Well you know, in 2008 in 2009 it was different than it is today. At the time the taliban headache coherent command
[inaudible conversations] calling to order the subcommittee of vacations and technology. Good morning and welcome to first hearing of the 114 congress. I can think of no issue within our jurisdiction thats more important to consider at this time in the future of the internet and our responsibility as legislators to set internet policy for the country. Thats why we have put forward draft legislation to provide consumers the protections they deserve while not choking off investment and innovation. We have shared this draft out with both sides of allen made it available probably invited our Witnesses Today to give us their views on this draft proposal and i thank all of our witnesses for their participation. With a very important choice to make between letting three very smart and capable but on elected people at the fcc the Majority Commission uses statute written for another era to cobble together regulatory scheme and undoubtedly will end up in court for years in litigation providing n
Fiscal problem that is much more severe. So i think the discussions of the dynamic scoring cannot let it us slip into a place where we look the other way and theres a highrisk that some of the decisions we make will leave behind a big fiscal mess. Ive had the misfortune of inheriting fiscal messes and taken great pride in cleaning them up and i think we have to be careful and not create those problems. You spoke approvingly of the ryan murray spending bill that helps us avoid the shutdown but that build left in place some caps on domestic and defense appropriations in 2011. Are you comfortable with a the level of those taxes . I never thought the caps were in the right place. I think we have a tremendously important need in this country that are both on the defense and nondefense side that will lead to a stronger economy and a stronger nation if we have the room to invest sensibly. In the context of the conversation about these kinds of issues there will have to be further discussion a
Ladies and gentlemen there is one more lost child. Im sorry, shes over here to my right, your left. Shes 9 years old from north dakota. Shes looking for her parents. If you see anyone, theyre right over here by the gate. We continue to cover the u. S. Conference of mayors winter meeting underare way way in washington. President obama addresses the group this afternoon. Thats coming up 4 45 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan. All this month were covering state of the state speeches and governors inaugurations, which you can see at cspan. Org. Tonight, well bring you some of the speeches beginning at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Including republican governor nathan deal, in georgia. Larry hogan, the governor of maryland. Tom wolf of pennsylvania. And new mexico governor suzanna mar tee hes in martinez. Thats 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Org 2. Andrew keen, author of internet is not the onser eranswer on how the public is being used for profit. People went to work for factories. The