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With significant bipartisan climate legislation. And after 2010, you see that heartbeat of bipartisan activity flatline. If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billionaire money, to bombard our politics. And what people often think about that is that, oh, they all came in and they beat up the democrats on behalf of the republicans. And this is a partisan thing. But ive heard over and over from republican colleagues, what are you complaining about . They are spending more money against us and they are spending against you. And there have been times i believe when actually the unaccountable anonymous dark money that Citizens United unleashed was being spent more in republican primaries and against republicans than it was against democrats. That i think has suppressed debate, and have a corrosive effect on our politics, what was for many,
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First. Anyone of you. So, isils incursion expanded the conflict. A border that iraq does not recognize and has very little meaning given the fact that violence is spanning the border. It will take some pressure off of assad because the forces fighting in iraq are not fighting in syria. It could mean that the other jihadist groups in syria are going to make inroads into isil territory in syria, which, by some accounts they already have. Dynamics,ll have some but it wont change the fundamental dynamic of the syrian conflict, which is, you have a government under bashar assad who is trying to retain control. It is fighting in opposition that is largely. Extreme. I would love to find that mythical moderate secular opposition in syria, but i am afraid one really does not exist, at least not in large numbers. Itterms of turkeys role, will be very interesting to see what happens in the kurdish region. Turkey and the pkk have come to some court of some sort of agreement recently, which is nice
Admitted v. A. Needed an dditional 975 million for 2005 and 2 billion more for 2006. Even when v. A. Accurately indicates its needs, omb passed back a lower number in the final budget. Thats why dav and our partners have testified over the past decade that v. A. s medical care and construction budgets were inadequate. In the prior 10 years the funding provided for medical care was more than 7. 8 billion less than what they recommended. For next year we project it will be 2 billion less than needed. Heres what the Congressional Budget Office said in a recent report. And current law for 2015 cbos base line projections for 2016 v. A. s appropriations for health care are not projected to keep pace with growth in the Patient Population or growth in per capita spending for health care. Meaning that waiting times will tend to increase. In addition, over the 10 years of funding appropriated for construction has been about 9 billion less than what was needed. And thats based on v. A. s own inte