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Think, central to the next chapter in this transition. I just wanted to comment on that. The second question as it relates to afghanistan is one that senator boxer raised and her work on this has been exemplary, on women and girls and in particular, i have a an amendment that we got through the National Defense authorization act which would require both state and defense to file a report on the efforts to promote the security of afghan women and girls just by way of itemization monitoring and responding to changes in womens security that will be part of the report. Secondly, improving gender s...

Current funding is between 2007 and 2008 levels. Additionally, my amendment still allows for more than 10. 5 billion to go to the i. R. S. In this time where we have over 17 trillion in debt, and a deficit this year exceeding 50 billion, this is a modest reduction at best. Again, this amendment only makes a 3 reduction to bring the appropriations in line with the 2007 appropriations. More directly than financial consideration or condition of the country is the fact that this agency has shown contempt for the american taxpayer. It has ignored congress and ignored subpoenas. It has stonewalled a...

Today we issued a report on the review of the special initiative to process the rating claims pending over two years. As i said in my oral statement vba used to process, a new process they put in place to issue provisional claims. What we found was those provisional claims in spite of not having a final decision were taken out of the backlog. What happened then was vba lost control over some of those claims so that they didnt get worked in a priority basis. We felt that had vba used its interim rating process, it had all the tools it needed to keep the integrity of the data of claim and to pro...

Hill. There is extraordinary developments unfolding on the house floor by democrats who are doing this sit in. Im going to bring in Michelle Kaczynski in a moment for new information we just gotten. It says around midnight theyre going to come back for a procedural vote to end the legislative business for the day. Usually a voice vote. But expected it will be a role call, a role call vote after that, they will adjourn for the night. Typically the lights are turned off when the house add adjourns, cameras will turn off as well. It is unclear still if democrats will stay on the floor. Though it ...

With mexico. A lot happening today. Good morning. It is wednesday, march 28. We begin with the latest in the crisis with north korea. As the widely suspected kim jungun visited china on sunday and left early wednesday local time, it is believed to be kims first foreign trip since he rose to power back in 2011. His father and grandfather both made several visits to china which is easily north koreas closest and most important ally. According to Chinese State media, the, quote, unofficial visit came on the invitation of president xi jinping and the two leaders held talks at the great hall of the...