Thinking of some of you might be in retail or restaurant saint unemployment is 5 do i need to theres a halfmillion people up there that say they want to job but maybe have looked maybe i can tap into that the new be willing to take the 10 and our job as opposed to me having to go to 11 i can get the worker from the restaurant next door. Steve is calling from texas. I steve. I started working in 72. I worked for over 20 years before i ever had to file for unemployment. That was a nearly 90s. I will work probably another 10 years after that before i had to get into unemployment again. Why calling in and out or anything but when these construction on the boilermaker. The Union Boilermaker that. Is a war on ial think the war on anyone that does work for a living and these numbers i think they need out of four of five and that five. So many people are so discouraged. Hearing crockett theres a pipeline. The come in in great jobs. Thats 600 employees of their own. Its a small town theres no i
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 the entire organization for your enduring help to veterans. The benevolent protection of alex has been friends to too. Ans for a long time, the hospitals they built in boston in 1918 was a forerunner of todays v. A. Medical centers. Committed, the elks 4 million over a fouryear. Over a fouryear time span to help and veterans homelessness. Paul, thank you and the elks across this great country for your generosity and loyalty to our nation. [applause] the ymca, the elks these are Strategic Partnersh
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 shouldnt be worried about it. Do have any sense of where the new speaker stands on this . Have there been any discussions as an ally . Be seen the chairman as opposed to this idea across the board. Me speak or will shift the powers to the chairmanship. Howd do you get over that hurdle . Maybe they have spoken with him. I have not. I have not spoken to speaker ryan about this. I can tell you restoration tuesday is about educating the American People, informing the American People about this issue
That they currently exist in, were just going to have weaker product delivered later. I think we need to have some reform as the next round. And i think theres enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. Well, i thank you for that. And you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. And i agree with you. Just flatout reductions is just the first step. You have to its a little bit like sequestration in that its a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. Finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. Weve made some reforms. Were putting the Service Chiefs more involved. You are aware. But it still seems to go on. And every time we really need something, we use that expedited process, which we used for
Massive drop in users and revenue. Lift is trying to provoke car pooling with a new feature called lift line and matches riders who are going to the same area and offers them a discount of up to 60 to share a ride. The cofounder john zimmer joins us to share all about it. Our lead story, google and barnes noble are worried about competition from amazon so the companies are teaming up with the aim of swiping some customers away from the e commerce giant. Starting today, barnes noble will offer sameday deliveries from local stores through google shopping express. Right now the service is only available here in the bay area, west l. A. , and manhattan. The news coming a day after amazon expanded its own Sameday Service to a total of 10 cities. Our editor at large joins us along with a partner from s. K. Ventures, a former equities analyst and contributing bloomberg editor, with us from san diego. Paul, could this really get customers from amazon or is it a hail mary . I think its wacky. I