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The funding does not come from congress. It comes from transfers. This is 600 million without congressional oversight over the agencies fund. Congressional oversight is a constitutional function. This agency has proven it is not a good steward for expenses. A prime example, the cost overruns of the headquarters currently. Inspector general estimated a cost overrun of that renovation. Current estimates put it at 600 per foot. That is more per square foot than the cost to build the bellagio casino...

I was able to declare victory for all the work that i put in. At that point we had a 5 trillion budget surplus. At the same time, i had become a military reformer. I was a part of one of the early Reform Efforts of spare parts. I was involved with procurement reform all of my career. I was even involved in the way in which the pentagon operated. You might remember that services werent very independent with each other. In the war in lebanon our marines could be on the beach and see a navy ship in...

Senator voice vote unless there is an objection. Those in favor say aye. Opposed. Accepted. Senator staben nows will be next and changed her amendment and ask that to be next. Senator sanders are you waiting . Senator stabenow we made a small change. If you would like to senator small change. See if we can comply with that. Longterm spending. Senator i hope we have that continued bipartisan spirit that information is a good thing if we are going to solve a problem we have to define it properly a...

Morgan stanley rose this month. The comity seeing a gain in equity revenue. General electric saw its stock fall the most in seven months. The company failed to deliver a profit market margin. Quarterreport first adjusted earnings that rose 16 5. 42 billion billion. Reject did ak has takeover bid from mens wearhouse. Thank you. President obama today proposed changes that are intended to strike a better balance between National Security requirements and civil liberty protections, as well as you to...

Break the dysfunction, at least to an extent. Flood insurance. Infrastructure. You know, everybody in that congress has railroads and roads and airports and schools. Theyre all decaying. Metro north. And the amtrak line that im willing to bet a lot of folks here rode today is a 20th century track. 50, 70 years old in some places. And your train going home is going to break down, is going to stop just like last thursday night in the new haven line, people were stranded out on the tracks in one of...

That people who have a job arent living in poverty. The overwhelming majority of americans support a minimum wage. We should make sure that we create manufacturing opportunities so we can make things in america again. President obamas established two manufacturing hubs already and proposed four more last night. But acknowledged that we can actually kick that into even higher gear if republicans are willing to work with him on actually passing legislation to do that. But at the end of the day, we...

Senator, thank you for joining us. Senator rob portman of ohio. Well get right to it. You have been in washington for some time since the 1990s and worked in the two bush white housees and former house member and been a senator since 2010, how would you say this beats ranks to other state of the unions over the years . Where does this rank . The president as he always does, but there were no big proposals and it was kind of the me an ambivolent speech. The state of the union is going great and h...

From the center for strategic and international studies. Its just under an hour. I really appreciate the working relationship i have with dr. Hamre and with csis. Dr. Hamre mentioned my desire to learn more about issues. Nobody has been more helpful on that than john. Theyve been very generous with their time working with me and my staff as we puzzle through difficult and challenging National Security issues. And what i want to talk about this morning is sort of how we continue to proceed with o...

Of 2014. From you what ar you would Like Washington to do or not do. Talk about the debt limit and the house senate with or the white house the Affordable Care act and the between the 14 elections but we framed it. And 14 i want washing to you fill in the blank from there. 202585threat 882 for 2025853882 for independents. About 1300 comments since we can d it yesterday and you send us email to. Journal cspan. Org. Year. Orning and happy new facebook had over 1300 comments on this question since ...

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was vie...