Terrorist attack, the groups i meet with hate isil. In their view isil has hijacked their religion. It occupies no part of the islamic faith. And they do suffer discrimination. So when i meet with muslim communities about helping us in our Homeland Security efforts im also very much in listening mode when it comes to their issues with profiling at airports, our immigration laws, with building bridges, i think we need to go to the next level in helping them develop the counter message to isil. But what are they telling you when you listen . What they tell me is that our government should not be at war with islam. And that isil that the Islamic State is not islam and its not a state. Its a terrorist organization. That is claiming the banner of a religion that occupies Something Like one quarter of the worlds population. And that it is a religion of peace and brotherhood and they want people to understand that. Ive gone to meetings of Muslim Community leaders, for example, in northern vir
But was unable to send a ct, representative. Epa instead they submitted testimony and we have their testimony before us. Instead i ask it be entered into the record. And i also want to welcome to o. The committee senator bennett nd who will be here momentarily ano will be joining us not as a who member of the committee but as t member of the senate who will also be able to participate in this Committee Hearing. He will be here shortly. Mittee h in the interest of time, i wille withhold my Opening Statement the congressmans district tip includes silverton and north tet where the spill occurred. Mr. Tipton was elected to represent this area in november 2010. Orado wh congressman, your perspective i. Invaluable. We appreciate your service and look forward to your statement. Welcome, congressman tipton. He thank you, senator gardner. Extend my thanks to chairman vitter for convening todays my issues. When it comes to the impacts sse were going to be feeling in Southwestern Colorado but in
Understanding of their hometown economies and hear firsthand from their customers about why they visit the area. So planning governments judgment with their ontheground knowledge stands to hurt the economic harm already done to this area. We should see solutions to address these problems in the hands of the folks on the ground who have been working to solve these problems for years. The Good Samaritan approach i have been broaching, please be able to see both our senators from the state of colorado here who join with us in that concept of being able to address the problem and make sure were achieving a positive result, and i appreciate that support as one of the possible solutions as opposed to superfund designation. The animas river is a significant source of revenue in Southwestern Colorado and beyond, especially in the tourism season. This avoidable spill will have a significant impact, a longterm impact, and were working with state, local and federal officials to gather information
Published in 1906. A year after his bought his ranch property. The valley of the moon was published while he was living here. Jack london claimed that he worked two hours a day writing thousand words a day before breakfast. But i think a lot of his time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty ranch so it could be a model and that took a lot of his time. See all of our programs saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. And a house Science Space Technology hearing. Discussing the potential of life on other planets and the recent discovery of liquid water on mars. Lamar smith chairs this hour and 40 minute hearing. Science space and technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is ordered to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, astrobiology and the search for life beyond earth in the neck decade. Let me make a couple of announcements. One is to say we expect more
Suspect opened fire on another man here along park avenue. Its unclear if that man was also armed. He was shot in the thigh, and ran to a nearby store for help. Meanwhile, two housing officers came upon the suspect outside the whitman houses. At some point, Police Say One of the officers opened fire. The suspect was wounded in the shoulder, but its unclear at this point if he was shot by that officer or during the earlier incident. Noise going off. So that was it. Five gunshots . Could have been. Reporter now the shooting suspect who was shot in the shoulder, he was taken to bellevue hospital. Hes expected to be okay. And so is the man hes accused of shooting. Police say the investigation into this shooting will continue late into the night here. In pork green, checkey beckford, news 4 tonight. A suicidal woman jumped from a threestory building and it was near the corner of first avenue. Natalie passca rala spoke to people who ran to help. Natalie . Reporter chuck, just a horrible scen