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Conservation, creates millions of jobs right here at home, makes us more Energy Secure and Energy Independent and works with our friends, not our enemies. And i think we can get it done. Ive been around here long enough to know that things arent easy but i refuse to be cynical, i refuse to be, you know, woe is me, the world is coming to an end, which i hear a lot around here. I think theres a lot of positive things going on in our country today. The economy is improving. In north dakota, your state, i think you have zero unemployme unemployment. I think we come in second at about 2 unemploymen...

The revenue side. So we have to, i believe, address that, and i would hope that when we come up with this specific bill that well send it to you and your organizations and that you would then indicate to us whether you can support these kind of alternatives to sequestration. I happen to agree with senator king who phrased it earlier today, it may have been senator cain, but one of the two of you have talked about the fact that we talk a lot about getting sequestration. Whether or not you could right now, but indicate which of these proposed changes in these personnel accounts are the most prob...

Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organization spends 99 of its money on one effort and only 1 on the other effort, on what basis do we foc...

Wideranging sanctions. Thats coming as the g7 summit in brussels for which russia was excluded for the first time in six years and was taking place. And on capitol hill, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looked at the political situation in ukraine following last months elections. Thats coming up next on cspan2. Also today a bipartisan agreement was reached in the senate on a bill that aims to address some of the problems that the va medical facilities. And president obamas pick to head the department of health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell was approved by the senate 78 to 1724 republ...