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Agreements. Two days ago i spoke about the portion of this only wit omnibul that funds the department of state and foreign operations. But i also note and i can say this as the most Senior Member of the Appropriations Committee the bill also provides funding for many vital domestic programs that have suffered some very painful cuts in recent years. It provides increased funding for Public Health including mental health. Its going to increase the National Institutes of Health Budget by a billion ...

Bowlessimpson proposal. Erskine bowles saying the gop offer does not represent the plan, he says both sides are kind of far away from it at this point and that its now up to negotiators to figure out where the middle ground is today. Bowles said that the mid point that i used back in this is where we were last year. So used the mid point of the negotiations, but its in longer the mid point i guess. He also said he is a testimony, but he has separated himself from the administration by saying tha...

That involves behavioral change. We have an epidemic of obesity and type two diabetes. That is absolutely critical. Health and health care are related. Keeping people healthier longer is absolutely critical. We let this slide folks moved to the city, they walk less, they have access to fast food. The obesity epidemic is following the growth of gdp around the world and the developing nations. Smoking is a huge issue in our country. Host what is your personal reaction when you see the advertisemen...

In the pacific islands, had an opportunity to hear a story and witness a video of this elder who was standing in the pacific ocean, up to his waist, and he had his children next to him, and they were probably up to about here. They were standing in the pacific ocean. As the lens zoomed back, they were visiting their elders in their graveyard. Their graveyard has been in the same place since time in memorial. And now because of Climate Change, two times a day that graveyard is covered up by the p...

The issue is important and there is a general agreement on the solution around high skilled immigration. The problem is is the politics and the economy and jobs have been prumped by the politics of immigration. I think there are four paths. One could be the pass the senate not be taken up in the senate. There is a lottery that would flult raising the overall level of immigration. If there was an agreement to include that that bill could be passed. A second option which is what the president has ...

Talk about the tom offensive led joint tonight here in the studio but many of whom is a member of parliament and assistance to Health Advice for the National Financial commission has sent a thank you for being with us also here is the sometimes of under funding and at war with us as well. Also in the channel founder of vocal our opponents and its an ongoing Vice President of the janus who you think women should eat to live you for being with us. First of all flow together to bake and then some a...

Investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. The think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy . If we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the Housing Market . We are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding . I think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the...

Moscow are obviously watching the situation very carefully on that epicenter of resistance after a night of street battles between protesters. The pictures are amazing. Theyre throwing stones, clubs, molitov cocktails, all of them trying to hold their grounds in those hours but being slowly pushed back this morning by riot police themselves using flash bangs or stun grenades and water cann cannons. Much of the square, more than half of it, while some protesters seem to have taken refuge behind r...

Quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Reid are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Reid i ask consent that it be withdrawn. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that if cloture is invoked on executive calendar number 456, Alejandro Mayorkas to be deputy secretary of homeland security, all but one hour of postcloture time be yielded back. That when the senate convenes on friday, the senate resume consideration of the mayorkas nomination w...

Why are you engaged in this work . Are you engaged . We are really excited about this project. We have joined women to promote and advance. It opens a number of possibilities for us. How can we use these Digital Technologies and learn fm them to change education on our alone campus. What weighs will we see based on the experience of these mass courses. How can that transform in cambridge and boston. Secondly, we see it as a way to get harvard ideas and harvard teaching out to a broader world and...