shot. nonetheless he made it here and been a fantastic member of parliament standing up for his constituents. in wales since the election 22,000 more small business. employment in wales going up by 52,000. unemployment coming down private sector growth. we see real recovery in wales. it needs my honourable friend back here standing up for his constituents and for wales in the house of commons. i have here, mr. speaker, a cutting from a york crest on the 24th of april 2010. which says and i quote. david cameron last night dismissed claims the tory was put up the mps in the election november, last november. why should the public believe promises he makes at this coming election? i have given the strangest possible answer. this time in government, we know what needs to be done. we know the changes and the truth is, both sides of this house have voted for a 30 billion-pound adjustment. the labour front bench voted for it too. we have set out what needs to happen with departme
resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. the bureau of prisons now takes up almost two-thirds of the department s budget. that s really untenable and unsustainable. so i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. but we but that we need to use that tool effectively. senator blumenthal? thanks, mr. chairman. at the outset i d like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. yates nomination. without objection. and i d also like to include a number of letters, i referred to them earlier, from colleagues, law enforcement officials, officials in georgia, in support of that nomination. without objection those are included. thank you, mr. chairman. let me just ask you about olc opinions, ms. yates. it s been a tradition common to, i think, most recent ad
conversation. it could lead to collaboration and better results for our cities and our country. so thank you all very much. thank you. thanks for that ending. thanks everyone for participating. [applause] hillary clinton obviously part of this discussion here at the center for american progress. this is questions continuing over e-mails she sent during her tenure as secretary of state. the house committee on benghazi revealing yesterday the server that contained those e-mails was wiped clean. the committee learned of this from a clinton attorney after requesting the server be turned over to a third party as part of that investigation into the 2012 benghazi consulate attack in libya. it s not certain when the server was erased though benghazi committee chair trey goudie suggested it was sometime after october 2014, when the state department asked for secretary clinton to turn offer her public records. the republican national committee, meanwhile releasing a statement today
too close for comfort - a commercial jet nearly collides with a drone. i put in so many applications. the difficult job of trying to find work in a tough economy. what happened in nigeria was not an isolated incident. it is a story we see every day as girls around the world risk their lives to pursue their ambitions. that s first lady michelle obama demanding justice for the hundreds of missing school girls. good morning to you and welcome to al jazeera america. live from new york city, i m morgan radford. the first lady delivered the presidential address in place of president obama and used the opportunity to condemn the kidnappings by boko haram. it started as a mother s day tribute but transitioned to an abduction sparking international outrage. my husband and i are outraged and heart broken over the kidnapping of more than 200 nigan girls from a school dormitory in the middle of the night. this unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group. ground men
boomers. sh the following day we were sent to fetch waumpt that s when we water. that s when we seized the opportunity and bolted. when they shot at us, we took the chance and god helped us arrive in chibok two days later a girl tells a story of her escape from the boko haram kidnappers. listening in horror are the grief-stricken girls in captivity still. all demand the government do more to bring them home. nigeria s military is on the defensive, and is denying report that it was warned hours before fighters snatched the 276 students. u.s. personnel arrived in nigeria to find the school girls. more now from abuja. reporter: the nigerian military broke its silence, issuing a statement trying to exonerate soldiers that they had advanced warning, but failed to act accordingly. the military said what they received were calls for reinforcement once the boko haram attack was under way, that it had to dispatch reinforcements to more than 120km away in a rugged and difficult
and his partner. growing old in america - we look at the tough issues facing seniors. we are hours away from voting on a referendum in parts of eastern ukraine. the question at hand - whether to ses seed. many call the vote illegitimate, some saying it may be the only way to bring peace to the region. earlier today firefighters worked to put out flames burning from the deadly fighting. up to 20 were killed when ukranian troops clashed with separatists. in the middle of the violence, officials say they ll proceed with sunday s referendum. paul brennan reports. reporter: it looks like an election with ballot boxes and voting booths being assembled. 1500 polling stations have been promised in donetsk and luhansk. there are no international observers. the voters register is out of date and there s abundant opportunity for electoral fraud. nevertheless, the man overseeing it says it s too late to stop now. my task is to give every resident an opportunity to vote. and info
seeing none, public is closed. item nine, adjournment. we are adjourned, thank you. welcome to city hall. thank you for joining us. thank you for coming out. i want to thank members of the board of supervisors. i want to thank them for being here in this joint recognition of our commissioners and members of 14 different bodies that will be appointed today to committees and commissions. i want to thank all the friends and family for joining us. let me say how excited i am this past week, i have been watching a certain convention. next week, we will have an even more exciting convention to watch. it is of course, in the spirit of the expected national, regional, and state elections we are preparing for. it is also a reminder of the importance of our civic duty and all the different departments we have created. public engagement is extremely important to the way we run government in san francisco. it has always been about public engagement. we need the last bodies come a d
according to the uber liberal new york times donald trump s keynote address last week was designed to terrify voters the irresponsible rhetoric of our president who has used the pulpit of the presidency that divide us by race and color has made america a more dangerous environment than, frankly, i have ever seen. the problems we face now, poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad, will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place. president obama does not buy mr. trump s observations. he paints optimistic picture. it s also important for the american people to remember that our crime rate in this country is much lower than it was in the 80 s or the 90 s or when i first took office. that immigration rates are substantially lower than they were when ronald reagan was president. that as serious as these terrorist attacks are. the fact of the matter is that the american people are significantly more safe n
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