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Continues now. Michael capuano is a democrat from massachusetts. He serves as the Ranking Member on the housing and insurance committee. Well get to those issues in just a minute. Congressman, i do know if you heard of for segment on washington journal. We had attorney general holder say he wanted to reduce times for people are guilty of drug crimes. Been a supporter of mandatory minimums. I do think we should have mandatory guidelines that require a clear and unequivocal explanation as to why they wouldnt be followed if they are not followed. I dont like mandatory minimums. It take away the c...

The level of the attention in both houses of congress and id like to see what your responses. Congressman the unit as an air force reserve will be leaving. The intent is to take this c130 j. s and put them in little rock arkansas. General jackson would tell you there is a problem with recruiting in that area in his reserve unit. He would also tell you is this it before every decision we are making right now hurts. They have to did downsize as well. This move would save them 23 million a year. It would save them about 600 oddities because of the wing that leaves. It allows them to save a 10 mil...

Discussion we have had about setting half of our programs because that is all we can afford. Madame secretary, the fiscal 2014 private the air force for modifying the avionics modernization program. Are you aware of that . I am. Are you aware that congress has appropriated funds for amp, not just authorize but appropriated funds in fiscal year 2012 . Yes, i was. Year 2014 andl 2013 . Yes. These funds are not being obligated. We are authorizing, preventing the programs for being canceled, and we are programming the funds and in each case there not being obligated. Do you see this as the way the...

If adopted, this amendment would lower by two levels the base Offense Levels associated with various drug one of these involved in drug craft thing in Drug Trafficking crimes. Reduceould modestly guideline penalties will keep in t. E guidelines consisten this straightforward adjustment to sentencing ranges, while measured in scope, would nonetheless send a strong message about the fairness of our criminal justice system. It would help to rein in federal prison spending while focusing limited resources on the most serious threats to public safety. Zoe want to talk about with you this morning as...

Country grew a whopping 22. 6 million jobs. And he left Office Running an nual surplus of under 128 billion projected to grow into the trillions. Then under the eight years of president bush we added only 1. 2 million jobs. What a stark difference. And the Budget Surplus was turned into an annual 1. 4 trillion deficit. When president Obama Took Office, our economy was shedding over 800,000 jobs a month, and the Bush Administration administration left office with in worst job creation record 75 years. Nevertheless in the five years since prom took office, we have created president Obama Took Of...