Again, we are live here on this friday morning at the center for strategic and international studies. Well hear from paul kuzuk. He is expected to talk blt coast guards mission and the effect the economy is having on that mission. No legislative business in the house for today. There will be be a brief pro forma session today. The session is in and lawmakers will be gathering in about half an hour to the debate about the keystone pipeline. The house passed its measure on the vote earlier this week. You can see that at 9 30 eastern. House republicans continuing their retreat in hershey pennsylvania. Senate democrats held a meeting in baltimore with president obama yesterday. Today the president is back here in washington. He is meeting with british Prime Minister dave cameron. That meeting is set for 11 05 eastern today, and afterwards the two will hold a press conference at 12 20. Following the joint press conference, well open the phone line for your reaction. Well also look aa your t
This month, cspan presents a debate on what makes america great, evolution and genetically modified foods, issue spotlight with indepth looks at veterans, irs oversight, Student Loan Debt , and campus sexual assault. It perspective on issues including global warming, voting rights, fighting infectious disease, and food safety. Find our tv schedule one week in advance at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook or follow us on twitter. A discussion on Cyber Security. How agencies are responding to threats with new technologies. Deputyhe speakers is the secretary for Cyber Security and emergency communications. This is an hour and a half. I want to thank our guests for coming in. This is one of the best lineups weve had since i joined five years ago. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming in this morning. I want to move briefly through the introductions so we can let each of them speak and have time at th
To the poor economy during this downturn . Do you worry about increasing the amount . Of course. I am always worried about it. Sometimes, i have nightmares about it, which i shouldnt, but it is something that im trying to put a dollar in a piggy bank every day just to make sure that i can at least put 50 towards that or at least towards the interest that is accumulating. It is definitely something that is worrying me. I hope to get through it as soon as i can. I just want to say that loan forgiveness is one part of how we need to respond to this staggering student debt issue. She is facing a worrisome amount , if you but imagine want to go on through college and med school and become a physician, and we desperately need more primary care physicians, the amount of debt involved. We are going to have to look at the types of Public Service and work that we want people to be able to afford to do. We want teachers to be able to afford to have a good standard of living and not be crippled wi
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Grateful to be among the company of so many accomplished men and women across the country. I like our chances. Given how unpopular congress is in the approval ratings, would it be a mistake for the party to nominate someone in washington now . Would be a mistake for our party to continue to look to washington, d. C. As the place where we are going to solve many of the intractable problems facing our country. It is less about where the leadership emerges from than it is about the focus. To some extent, our party in the last quarter century has become as washingtoncentric as the democratic party. Inmy short tenure here message to our party, my message to policy leaders on capitol hill is very simple. Regain theicans senate and when republicans regained the white house in 2016, it will not be enough to simply cut Government Spending in washington. I think it is incumbent on our party to promote policies that can permanently reduce the size and scope of the federal government and restore t