Wednesday morning a house subcommittee hears from attorney general Loretta Lynch on the justice departments 2017 budget request. Thats live at 10 30 a. M. On cspan 3. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson returns to capitol hill to talk about his departments Budget Proposal for the 2017 year and the Senate Homeland security subcommittee hearing live tomorrow on cspan 3 at 2 15 p. M. Eastern. I am trying still to decide which candidate to support. Im trying to decide between the governors who have executive experience or some of the other candidates like ted cruz and marco rubio. The most important issue to me is national service. There are more than 5 million Young Americans that are ready to step forward and serve t country for a year with americans like the peace corps and youth build. Veterans affair secretary Robert Mcdonald will testify outcan loined the budget request for his department. He was followed by a panel of veteran Services Organization representatives with their take
Two lanes of the outer loop reopened an hour ago. We dont know what caused a train train to stall this afternoon. More than 1500 passengers were stuck on the train for more than an hour. They walked off of the train to another one and to the rosalyn platform. No one hurt and no fire or smoke. New information on the man accused of hitting and killing Police Officer noah. The Attorney Says his client has agreed to plead guilty and could face up to ten years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. He admitted to smoking pot pot and taking xanax behind the wheel. A plea hearing is scheduled for next month. A woman in loudoun county. Police had been on the hundred for emily king. The fight with the 26yearold ended with her shooting him in the stomach. The victim is expected to survive. A family has sued a Prince Georges County facility over the death of their loved one. Reuben bibbs died after wondering away from a picnic. His body was found 22 days later, an autopsy found he essentially froz
Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This will not be the first time i heard most of this information. We had that meeting before. It will be the first time a lot of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. This is a critical there are a critical number of decisions we will have to make to make my va work. The new veterans choice work and make sure that va does what it does best well bu
Of rights, its important. They cannot be taken from an individual. These are natural rights. An unalienable rights. Eq un they werent given to us by the government. Its an important thing to remember. We must be engaged to help all people. Particularly the fifth and sixth amendment. Thats why it says the fifth amendment, weve got to make sure before we take anyones life, liberty or property, you have to have a due process of law. The sixth amendment guarantees the right to defense counsel. We need to remember that as we work in the coming months to try to fix the system thats not working now. And i dont need to go4l into the over criminalization issue. Youve heard it here today. Youll hear more of the impact it has on everybody across the board. And i want to talk just briefly about why did we come to the table . Why Coke Industries . Heres the story. Many years ago, our employees met with the texas tate environmental regulator, disclosed inaccurate report filed and that we were out of
Talking to the folks who have been helped recently in cleveland, a guy named melvin in and out of the system five or six times. Obviously, he had a tough time holding a job, has an addiction problem, hes been clear now for four years. Because of the Second Chance act, he not only had the opportunity to get some help, but, also, job training, hes got a full time job. Hes a supervisor in a kitchen. Most important thing of all, he has a home. And in his home, he has a daughter who he had washington has played a key role in the last ten years of privilege bringing up the awareness and helping to leverage a lot more activity at the local level. Often, this is going to be addressed in a successful way at the community level. And i dont mean a state level, i mean, like, the district. People understanding that this is not just about saving taxpayer money from incarceration, which it is. And republicans take note, in is about fiscal conservative. Its not just about pure crimes in the neighborho