Qualified sources about what the president is up to while spending team up there. [inaudible] in terms of the familys travel schedule, well have to get you Additional Details when that travel begins. Gosh, there will be some briefings on the vineyard . Well i dont have the schedule to lay out for you in terms of what the briefings will look like but between the president S National Security adviser, deputy National Security adviser and Principle Deputy press secretary we÷g8c keep you well informed. With that i hope you get a chance to take a break while the president is away as well, and well do a briefing in here in a couple of weeks. Thanks, everybody. We posted a question on our Facebook Page asking for your thoughts of president obamas authorization of targeted strikes in iraq. Go to facebook. Com cspan and join in the conversation. Cspan2s booktv this weekend. Tonight at eight eastern with books on marriage equality, the obamas versus the clintons and the autobiography of former
United states. A quick followup on africa. Ways and means has pointed out that there could be a problem between the u. S. And africa u. S. And the event e. U. If the u. S. Begins to get preferences in the african market. You chose a different path. Two quick questions. One, will you have some flexibility so you dont harm u. S. Exports and, two, have you given any thought to a common origin rule perhaps being part of epa where excuse me being part of ttip where the u. S. Recking nices african inputs the recognizes african inputs the same as export to the u. S. And vice versa so this wouldnt promote african participation in the Global Supply chain. And the third very quick is on g. I. S some are concerned youre use r using the lisbon agreement to make some progress. Perhaps that should be better left for the negotiation of the ttip in terms of this very controversial issue of geographical indications. Thank you very much. Thank you. That was a lot of questions. On tpa we are, of course,
Good to see you again. Thank you so much. Thank you. Look forward to be being here. [ inaudible ]. [ speaking spanish ]. Senator, very nice to meet you. [ inaudible ]. Small world. Very small. One more. Good morning, senator. Read your book. Big fan. Thank you. Can i get a picture here . How are you . Good. Which way . This way . Right here . Great. Thank you. Looking forward to hearing you. Thanks so much. Here . Right here. I got an extra egg. Senator, its good to see you again. Are you sitting there . Right next to madam speaker. The purpose of why were here today of course is to hear from the junior senator from that very warm state of florida, marco rubio. We truly had hoped that the senator might bring some of that Florida Weather with him but unfortunately, we are stuck with the new england cold and the snow. The senator is someone you may know. Hes the son of cuban immigrants. He was born and raised in miami. He had started his career in Public Service in the late 1990s, not lo
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Fourth tiers, that has already begun to happen. And major contractors have said that the furloughs were triggered because the Defense Contract Management Agency was furloughed. And so the contract inspectors, some of the technical inspectors, werent there. And also that some of the government facilities had not opened up, some of of the governmentowned contractor operated facilities but even the most of the civilians are back at work and some companies are still gone ahead and furloughed or laid folks off. Why is this the case, that this is where companies are trying to bank savings for the future that they understand that deep defense cuts are companying or driven by what is happening . I think it is a combination of both. But what youre really seeing is the result of uncertainty. With unpredictability and uncertainty in the market, sue more conservative tism. It is a cascade effect. Where you saw it in week one, and you see it at the second tiers in week three and third and fourth ti