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The house and senate are returning from the july 4th recess. On the house agenda, the Defense Authorization bill, setting pentagon programs and policies for the next year. We were joined by a capitol Hill Reporter for details. Joe gould is congressional reporter with defense news. What does the Defense Authorization bill and whats in the version the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . Sure. The House Armed Services passed its national Defense Authorization act for 2018 earlier sorry, late last month. And what it is is the bill the annual defense policy bill. It gets reconciled with the senate versio ....
Loopholes exploited by criminals, gang members, drug dealers, killers, terrorists. Ms13 is a prime target. Bad people, and weve got many of them out already. You know, were pretty much at the 50 mark. Were getting them out as fast as we can get them out. Were freeing up towns. Actually libertying towns if you can believe we have to do that in the United States of america. But were doing it and were doing it fast. Also with us today are congressman peter king, another friend, lou barletta. Wheres lou . Lou, another friend. So youre running for governor . Look behind you, lou. You can make a big announcement. Lou barletta, an early supporter. Thank you, lou. And david young. Tomorrow the house will vote on the no sanctuary for criminals act. Its been in the works for a long time. People have wanted it, bob, for a long time. But we were able to get this process going, and i hope youre going to be successful. Youll be successful tomorr ....
Replaced . Rick it certainly needs to be repaired for certain. Anytime you and act legislation of this magnitude over a period of seven years or so, there are things that need to be corrected. Even when it was enacted people knew from the day he was enacted they would need to have changes. You think about medicare and medicaid, how many times it has since 1965 how many times its been amended and changed. So its certainly is in need of repair. Wholesale repeal of it, we have concerns in that regard. Anna are the bills that are being considered, the house passed one, the senate is working on, do those go anywhere near repairing some of those pieces that you would like to see fixed . Rick the senate bill perhaps goes in the direction of dealing with private market stabilization and dealing with the costsharing reduction issue, which i think would address some of the instability we see in the Exchange Part of the insurance market. That ....
Cars and create other issues for us. We didnt have that this time. We had that figured out. So anyway, it was, something that i think was the right thing to do from a safety standpoint for our employees and for customers. Worse, you know, worst thing we could have done have people out there, a to get them to think they could travel in a storm like that as we knew at the time. B, then have to rescue them. We were pulling resources away from getting system up and running. That was the decision. I think it was the right decision to make. Staying with safety issue, there are a lot of times you get into the metro system and see very crowded platform, when youre, games, gallery plays or something like, but issues when it comes down to construction inside of the stations where only few feet between falling of the edge. Do you have any plans to try to address that for safety concerns, passengers trying to walk through stations . In the short term, one of the things were doing, were basically w ....
Center. It involves eating only fruits from fruit sources, drinking from bottled water and washing your hands in chlorine solution virtually everywhere you go. You go through your day at the , end of the day every time you come back into the compound at the end of the day where wherever youre going to get your temperature taken again to ensure that you stay ebola free. Will the u. S. Military personnel have zmapp or other experimental drugs on the ground . Im not aware there will be any zmapp available on the ground. The equipment will be issued to them depending on their level of expected exposure. For the vast majority of people that will include gloves, boots, a suit. Obviously for the medical personnel would be more along the way for lines for the Health Care Providers. Doctor lurie, in 2005 the Bush Administration proposed a rule change that would allow the c ....