The words from time to time the president of the United States should give a message to congress on the state of the union and recommendations of programs that he thinks should be followed. George washington began that practice of giving a state of the Union Message to congress when the First Congress met, but washington went in person to the congress, went to the Senate Chamber and delivered a speech that had a series of recommendations, relatively short speech, but in those days before there were Standing Committees of congress they actually used to cut the state of the Union Message up into paragraphs and created a who can committees to address each one of the issues that the president suggested. Washington and adams, john adams, his Vice President who became president , followed that practice and so they created this sort of idea that the time to time was an annual message. In fact, for years it was known as the annual message. It didnt become known as the state of the Union Messag
Professor of history at rice university. We found this piece in politico. They ask a bunch of history professors which president had the best last year in office. Who do you think had the best final years in office . Bill clinton did not have a bad at last year in the sense that the economy started getting so strong that we were able to, by the time he left office, we were able to balance the budget and have a surplus. He was able to survive the lewinsky scandal, people almost wishing he was running for a third term. Unfortunately, the Vice President did not realize he still had the magic in him and distanced himself from him because of the moral impropriety. It hurt al think gore. He could have won the election if he wrapped his arms around bill clinton. I would give him the last year nod. Usually these last years are tough on president s. Harry trumans last year, he run for reelection because he had a 27 Approval Rating and nobody wanted much to do with him. Consumed by be a non, alm
And effective government that serves the people. We have to ensure that every taxpayer dollar is spent responsibly. We do that by conducting oversight of the executive branch and examine Government Programs and policies that affect every american. Mr. Cummings and i, and our predecessors here at the committee, didnt invent the concept of this oversight of the executive branch. It comes from the constitution, and comes from the need to be responsive as we represent the people of the United States of america. Today, we will hear from a group of senior legislative liasons from five different agencies, all with the troublesome track records when cooperating with request for information. I and sympathetic to the idea that they get bombarded from so many different committees. Not only in the house, but in the senate as well. It is a large task, agencies so massive and so big, spending billions upon billions of dollars. Department of Homeland Security has been invited to discuss a request rel
Son or daughter you set out to be at one point in life. They hope that can be created for you within your family again. People arege that not going to give up on you or throw you away. That hasere is so much been discussed here today about ingostdetox med thats help folks get back. Compliant,one is on how do you engage them said they see there is an incentive for themselves to be compliant. How do you do that . Dr. Peirce . Dr. Peirce i think families can do that. Because i think one of the things they can do as they can insist the patients goat to treatment. They cannot refuse to give a support a family would give. We call that enabling. Tough love. If you give money to someone who has an active addiction you are more likely to see the addiction than treatment. So, and understanding about the availability of treatment, the insistence that treatment is necessary and as someone lives they need to return, and continued monitoring. In the context of all that love and care, it can go towar
If you are a working journalist, you are no longer the necessity. You are really a threat. That has prevented a number of people from going into places where the ultimate violence is a daily occurrence. Delphine we just published a report on monday describing how isis and boko haram in nigeria are restricting the access of journalists, controlling the media, developing their own media and how actually journalists become targets and violence becomes a message, especially violence against journalists. We published a kind of commandment towards isis and journalists. One of the first commendments is that journalists will rise against the Islamic State are considered soldiers. Enemy soldiers. Robert it was proposed in the pentagon, identify journalist is potentially combatants because of the potential not to write on the script. That was withdrawn. Somebody proposed that with any report on how the u. S. Developed its own Media Relations guidelines. That is a lot, there is no intention of ha