U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of Columbia. I apologize. I have a cold so im suffering through a cold. So i appreciate you being here. I want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. We are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and thats wildfires. This is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. As a former mayor myself i know firsthand how important
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem
Good evening. Simply put, it was a shock today, when we learned that the general who symbolized the discipline and honor of the american military, the man entrusted with the vital secrets of the cia, general David Petraeus, resigned, citing an extramarital affair. The first cia director in history to resign this way. And the story is still breaking. So, we go straight to abcs Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent, martha raddatz. Right now. Martha . Reporter diane, ive known David Petraeus for close to a decade and this news is truly stunning. There is no one in the military who was view ed as more disciplined and, frankly, more concerned with his own image and own career. But the seriousness of having a cia director involved in an extramarital affair cannot be overplayed. As cia director, petraeus held all of the nations secrets, but was keeping a big one of his own. Today, in a statement to cia employees, the man considered a National Hero by some acknowledged the affair and what he c
Because fewer folks were participating in the work force. Okay, guys. Go at it. Jared, you first. Whats your take on these new numbers and the fact that if youre looking at it, the share of working adults havent budged in the labor force really much at all. Well, first of all, i really like the way you say jobs report friday. I mean, you just make it sound fun. You got to sell it, jared. You know . I hear you. Its a report that ive described as kind of symptomatic of an economy thats stuck in maybe second gear, Something Like that. Were far away from going backwards, so were reliably not looking at recession, but were not growing fast enough to quickly absorb the slack thats still left over from the great depression. And in that sense, if you think about how fast the economys growing in gdp terms, its between 1 and 2 . This is the kind of report youd expect. 162,000 jobs, if you average out over the past few months, were kind of in a 175, 200,000 range per month. Thats fast enough to s
Across the country with a quinnipiac poll in key states showing Hillary Clinton in the lead and all of them. Shes ahead of donald trump in colorado by 10 points. Itis closer in iowa where it leads trump 7 to 44 percent and in virginia she is ahead by 12 points. 5238 percent, a 12 point spread for Hillary Clinton. This as the university of Virginia Center for politics crystal ball math shows that for the first time lori clinton has racked up more than the 270 electoral votes candidate needs in order to win the white house. When you factor in the states that are safely in her column and those that are skewing likely democratic, and if you add the states that are leaving democrats, her electoral vote total swells 348. Donald trump though does have some pickup opportunities. Your to break down these numbers for us the man with the crystal ball, larry seminole, director for the center of politics at the university of virginia. Important to remind everybody this is a snapshot in time. You sa