Later a look at the International Response to the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Wednesday the Senate Banking Committee Held a hearing on freddie mac, fannie mae and the state of the Housing Mortgage industry. Congressman mel watt took the updated members on new efforts to assist homeowners. This is 90 minutes. I call this hearing, your honor, welcome back to the committee. Since this is likely my last hearing regarding gses i would like to encourage my colleagues to for the past three years, we and our staff have spent count less hours wrestling with the possible solutions and pittal falls. Some options are not practical, while others are too it logical, yet we still need to find a solution. The enterprises remain trapped today. Fhfa continues to perform the dual role of both regulating and rating the business of the largest entities in the Mortgage Market. This is not sustainable. And there is no consensus in Congress Regarding how to move forward. All the while, the credit box remai
Like you were at some of these meetings where some of these things were discussed no, the nsa was there, i just got the tapes. Im sorry. So we dont have a public listing, per se, but in the first phase of power africa, we did very carefully, through a rigorous interagency process, discuss which would be the six focus countries. And the factors that you describe are, indeed, many of the things that we looked at, to try to assess who would be the good partners. And we will go through a similar process as we think about the expansion. One of the ones that i theres plenty to say about all of them, but one of the ones that ill just spend a moment on is the host countrys commitment. Because as some of the other testimony alluded to, if youre trying to have viable electric utilities, if youre trying to solve some of the problems that are private sector, investors have encountered, in trying to do viable deals, youve got to have a commitment to do things differently. So that was a very one of
Get the turks and the turks wont do it unless we go after assad. So are we getting sucked deeper and deeper, and back to the original question, what should we do, jim . Well, i mean, i think theres no doubt that isis eventually will be driven out of the Population Centers in iraq or at least lose control of them. I mean, they may go underground but they will lose control because theyre a minority of the sunni population which is a minority of the iraqi population, and so the kurds and the shia between them with whatever marginal help they get from the sunnis are eventually going to retake that territory with our assistance, and i dont think that means that you have to put american infantry on the ground. There are boots on the ground. There will be forward observers and advisers and some of them may get killed, but thats a different level of engagement. The real question is syria. I mean, this group emerged out of syria. Many of them are iraqis, but essentially emerged out of syria. It
He been able to pitch in the big leagues before segregation was ended by jackie robinson. He pitched five years. Age 47 he won a game. The Sports Writer it is his birthday, they say whats it feel like being 47 in the bigs pitching in he said, boys, thats not the way i look add it. He said i look at it this way. How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are . Im 42. [ laughter ] im 42. Look. [ applause ] my wife whos a fulltime professor, right now in the classroom. Teaches 15 credits. No help. She does it you know, no t. A. And she has an expression. She said, joe any countries going to out produce us out compete us. You know it and i know it. By the way of all the things to get in your cities ill bet one of the top of the list is a university in the middle of the city. A Community College in the middle of your city. An Education Institution that attracted new people in the middle of your city. And so heres the deal. We think we think that you should be in a position, america
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. Each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and majority whip minority whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, madam speaker. Today is rural toillet day. The concept make children giggle, some adults blush, and others want to change the subject. But the title is designed to address this serious subject directly. No one can afford to be squeamish, make jokes, or change the subject about the fundamental issue of adequate sanitation. Because 2. 5 billion people live without it. Causing about 700,000 premature deaths each year and its getting worse. We made some progress, but the number living without access has increased