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The speaker the house will be in order. Prayer will be offered by our chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Dear god we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions and difficult times, with many forces and interests demanding their attention. In these days give wisdom to all the members, especially as they consider the most serious matter of engaging in military activity. Bless as wel...

Especially to those most in need. Show your mercy to the weakest among us, the children, the poor, the elderly, the homeless. And on this national day of prayer, may all your people be mindful among us. Send your spirit upon the members of this peoples house that they might be inspired to do what theyre able, to care for those whom you have favored from biblical times, the powerless and most vulnerable. Bless us this day and every day. May that is done be for your honor and glory, amen. The spea...

All officers isnt a question of if, it is a question of when. Reporter police started using body cameras at the end of october. They are meant to provide transparency and act as a witness in the he said she said situations. Police have a new Crime Fighting tool. I wear it down here. Reporter it is not a gun. It is an extra eye watching the streets. A month ago all officers started wearing body cameras. The cameras help us provide a more transparent record. Reporter from b. A. R. T. Station to wa...

Militarizing Law Enforcement act does. And that is to stop that flow. And return control of the process of accusation of acquisition back into the hands of civilian authority. Thats the first thing that we need to do. And the second thing with need to do isening sure a good analysis of the personnel that we have doing the Law Enforcement, because as i said, if you have been to a war zone, the statistics show that many of those who return from the battle suffer from posttraumatic stress and other...

Time. Placing an employee on openended paid vacation as reward for bad behavior instead of removing them. Next, hr 571, the Veterans Affairs retaliation prevention act would improve the process for whistleblowers within the department to report waste fraud, and abuse, to correct problems at the lowest level in the agency possible. Perhaps more portly it would expand accountability of supervisors who would seek to retaliate against employees who report wrongdoing. Also, require the v. A. To under...

Strategy, the pivot, the military girding of that is largely the u. S. Navy and the central that makes much sense if the navy is stable in size or growing because otherwise you have 60 of a smaller force that may be less than 50 of the old force and if you do the math, sequestration is roughly at the crossover point. In other words, it would force a reduced fleet size if it was to stay over longterm, which would be in the range of lets say 240, 250 ships, maybe less and 60 of that is no improvem...

Screeria nigeria. Briefing. And later epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy testifies on her agencys 2016 budget request. Next treasury secretary jack lew and John Koskinen testify on the 2016 budget request for the Treasury Department. They also discuss cybersecurity, tax fraud, Taxpayer Services, and Small Businesses. This runs just under two hours. The subcommittee on Financial Services and general government will come to order. Good afternoon. The subcommittee as i said, will come to order. Today ...

I couldnt afford insurance. When i first started my business business so when i first started my so when i first started my business i couldnt afford Health Insurance for myself or my employees but thanks to the Health Care Law and Small Businessfriendly provisions by qualified for the Small Business tax credit which helps me to obtain Health Insurance for my family and by employers as well as myself. Affordable care act is one of the key components that helps my business grow. In fact we grew b...

Whistleblowers, an extension of nonmedical employee probationary periods and requirement that gao conduct a study of the a time space, and resources devoted to labor union activities. I encourage those of you today if you have not already research this legislation, please do so. We would welcome your support of these crucial pieces of legislation. I look forward to hearing from each of you today, and the groups that you represent. I now yield five minutes to the senator from georgia, my good fri...

Attack takes place in our own country. This president by the way his former secretary of state let us down in this regard. We will hear from hillary clinton, from an emilys list gala, and we will hear from jeb bush in iowa, speaking at a fundraiser for david young today at 6 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. The Senate Appropriations Committee Held a hearing on tuesday to review the president s budget request for the Treasury Department. Jack lew and john cost them and discussed why additional spe...