Republican committee as many of you know has been an influential center of conservative thinking and policies for years. Scholars often work with the committee on major issues. I intensified for the committee and size them on issues concerning Food Security and policy and weve had our china scholars. The emerging young leadership of the conservative movement in the United States and we are very pleased to have the outgoing chairman mike johnson of louisiana and incoming chairman of indiana. Mike johnson from louisiana and jim banks from indiana. Im going to do a quick introduction of them and ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. We will put them up on the chat box although i do have a bunch of my own questions as well the chairman elect and representative is in his second term representing the Third District of indiana covering the Northeast Corner of the state including fort wayne. Representative banks serves on the Armed Services committee, the Labor Committee
Their priority. Republican committee as many of you know has been an influential center of conservative thinking and policies for years. Scholars often work with the committee on major issues. I intensified for the committee and size them on issues concerning Food Security and policy and weve had our china scholars. The emerging young leadership of the conservative movement in the United States and we are very pleased to have the outgoing chairman mike johnson of louisiana and incoming chairman of indiana. Mike johnson from louisiana and jim banks from indiana. Im going to do a quick introduction of them and ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. We will put them up on the chat box although i do have a bunch of my own questions as well the chairman elect and representative is in his second term representing the Third District of indiana covering the Northeast Corner of the state including fort wayne. Representative banks serves on the Armed Services committee, the
Nonstarter . Host were three days out from a potential Government Shutdown and the house and senate are on separate tracks. Republicans in the house and senate are not on the same page. We will spend our first hour in your take on this spending debate. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independent, 202 7488002. We also want to hear from federal workers at 202 7488003. You can also text us. Lets hear a little more from the leaders. The senate moves to bring up a continuing resolution, estop gap measure that would keep the government open so they can conclude just continue negotiating. The stopgap measure in the senate includes funding for ukraine and disaster relief. You heard from the speaker in the house, that is a nonstarter. Here he is yesterday with more about what House Republicans want to see in any continuing resolution. Is the plan eight nonstarter . I dont see it. You told them you would not do anything without the border. Does that mean you consider ukraine ho
Vago welcome to defense news. And navy times investigation about how unknown warnings changed the way the navy operates. But first, president obama went to the pentagon to discuss how best to fan to fight isi critics want more u. S. Troops to take a more direct role in fightingng isis, a move opposed by senior u u. S. Military leaders. The policy battle comes as the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff issued new National Military strategies markedly different than the one issued four years ago. In that document the dod sought to transition out of iraq and afghanistan into an era of rerelative stability. The new documents hes a campaign against nationstates an violent extremists. Joing us are our guguests. Gentlemen, welcome to the program. Andy, let me start with you. Talk to us a little bit abobout how markedly different this document is from the last one. The president of the United States just a couple of years ago was talking about getting off an eternal war footing. Tel
Again to an impossibly distant 2015. , the year that film comes to mind as i think about the changes we are seeing in how seniors approach work and retirement, the topic of todays hearing. For most of the past century, seniors have been withdrawing as americansforce came to view retirement as a time of uninterrupted rest and leisure that could last for decades. Ofthe year 2000, only 32 werecans age 55 and older still working, and the average age of retirement had dropped to just 63, but the babyboom generation has reversed this trend. Today, 40 of workers 55 and older remain in the workforce, a ratio not seen since the eisenhower administration. Remainingoomers are in the workforce longer for many reasons, but one leading reason is the need for Financial Security. Many americans today dont have the resources they need to live comfortably and retirement without working. It used to be said that Retirement Security was a threelegged stool, the first leg being an employerprovided pension,