Page 28 - Urgent Task News Today

[inaudible conversations] call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order. We thank our witnesses for being here. I look forward to your testimony. As much of the world concentrates on the ice is a threat and instability in the middle east the Committee Takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the United States and other partners to counter extremism in the Subsaharan Africa area. Longterm development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. Even with large...

I also want to address my concerns about the administrations 3 billion pledge to the Green Climate fund. The American Public does not support paying their hardearned taxpayer dollars into a slush fund that spends billions of International Climate change programs in developing nations to address the impacts of extreme weather. The need for spending our natural disasters is down historically while other International Priorities have increased. According to the 2014 annual Global Climate and catast...

For austria as well as the osce mission that you and i had a chance to talk about all are housed in vienna. So youre part of a Diplomatic Team that we have in a critically important place where major decisions are being made. Obviously the focus today is very much on the responsibilities and the implementation of the iran agreement by the iaea and as we talked privately and ill repeat now and as i pointed out to ambassador shannon, your openness with us is critically important and appreciate the...

Someone they know they can trust in those areas. Id say thats both for christians and yazidis. They also arent seeking the same refugee protection because theyre outside of that. You mention trafficking. Not only is there an issue of trafficking of women but because of the vulnerability of the refugees, children are much more susceptible. The parents go out doing things, they leave children behind for someone to take care of and we find more cases children being abused, which is heartbreaking. I...

Know, these individuals have arrived in europe. Thats not to diminish the significance of the challenge. In providing for the needs of these individuals and making sure that it doesnt, or at least minimally disrupts the good order in those countries and the daytoday life of the citizens. But to diminish or ignore the humanity of these individuals fleeing a desperate situation, fleeing terrible violence in their home country is something that, that im glad that only a small minority of people hav...

Information officer at the pentagon on cybersecurity. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week had a confirmation hearing. Tennessee senator bob corker chaired the hearing. Its an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Senate Foreign Relations committee is meeting this morning for a confirmation hearing on nominations, including state Department Counselor Thomas Shannon, to be undersecretary of state for Political Affairs. If confirmed by the senate, he ...

That means there are more american families, moms, dads, children, whose lives have been changed forever. That means theres another community stunned with grief, and communities across the country forced to relieve their own anguish, and parents across the country who are scared because they know it might have been their families or their children. I have been to roseburg, oregon. They are really good people there. I want to thank all the First Responders whose bravery likely saved some lives to...

Families do not have their checks expire, forcing them to redo many of those screenings, when individual parts of the test expire while theyre waiting for other parts to be completed. And third, keeping families updated about their status. Frequently a large familys resettlement will be delayed because a Single Family member is waiting to be approved. Those are common sense straightforward methods of reforming the screening process so that it takes weeks, not years to reach conclusion. And i thi...

The Supreme Court dealt with it. It was called mulberry versus madison. Basically he said probably deserves some remedy. But the remedy that congress has provided for this goes beyond the power of congress. The authority of congress. Court was quite a strike down that law. This is something the court had never done before. Declaring an act of congress unconstitutional. That its in the night at 8 00 eastern. On monday, as the Supreme Court starts a new term, cspan premieres its new series. On the...

People of poverty rates by age, the elderly are 10 , the working years folks, 13. 5 and under 18, 20 1 in the poverty arena. Coverage let me find the right chart, significant drop and this is the real headline for this report. Significant drop in the number of uninsured in the United States. Much. You both very thank you everybody for watching and joining in the conversation. Coming up in about three hours, governor gary herbert will talk about his initiative to highlight efforts by the nations ...