At 1230 eastern on cspan. Vice president mike pence is in israel meeting with benjamin netanyahu. In jerusalem he addressed lawmakers in parliament and announce the new embassy would be open before the end of 2019. Protesters briefly interrupted the session. This is 30 minutes. [applause] members, prime minister, justices of the Supreme Court, citizens of israel. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] please mr. Vice president , i apologize. It is deeply humbling for me too stand behind this vibrant democracy [applause] [applause] to have a great honor to address this group, first Vice President of the United States to be afforded that privilege. Here, in jerusalem, the capital of the state of israel. [applause] i bring greetings from a leader whos done more to bring our two countries closer together than any president in the past seven years. The 45th president of the United States of america, President Donald Trump. [applau
First of all, let me thank you all for joining us this afternoon as the Congressional Black Caucus announces to the country couple of things. One of the things, the Congressional Black Caucus voted overwhelmingly to a pose this continuing resolution to Fund Government we are receiving from the senate. It is not a decision we reached lightly. This congress, the Republican House, the republican senate, and the republican resident has failed this country. The fact that their incompetence prevents them from coming together within their own ranks to pass a longterm spending bill is wreaking havoc on American Families and in countless ways. As we looked at continuing to weeks at a time instead of passing a longterm spending bill from september to fund the government, it is causing problems in our military. And true patriots will do what hurtal mattis said, do not our military by funding government weeks at a time. Today what we will layout for you is how this c. R. Fails American Families. R
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Were now going to move on from a series of questions. Ill start with you if i can. Many stakeholders who work with the corps of engineers have comment and complained a little bit about the process it follows from identifying a Water Resources problem to implementing a solution and can be long costly delays. For example, in the arid west, there are many water supply challenges that havent yet been solved such as removing sediment from reservoirs to providing more water supply capacity and effectively managing multiwater supply needs such as flood Risk Management, drinking water, irrigation, all from a single reservoir. So as a result, the water supply is becoming scarce and more expensive. Can you please share in any thoughts you might have to improve the corpss processes so that the water resource projects are operated more efficiently. Thank you, senator. We actually have a number of suggestion, but in the interests of time, im going to limit it to two. First improve the governmental