Congressional leaders will be heading to the white house this afternoon. Theyre meeting with president obama about keeping the government funded. The current budget year runs out at the end of this mop. The Government Faces a shutdown if they cant agree on a spending bill. Senate negotiators have been working on a threemonth extension of current spending levels. The white house meeting is scheduled for 4 00 eastern and well bring you any reaction that follows. Congress returns this afternoon for legislative business on the house agenda this week, legislation preventing the transfer of guantanamo detainees into the u. S. , expanding the authority of the Veterans Affairs department to fire or demote employees for misconduct and proposed impeachment of irs commissioner. The senate will resume consideration of water projects authorization bill with a procedural vote later in the day. Off the floor, negotiations continue on a deal to fund the government past a september 30th deadline. The h
To b to c to d to e, on up through all the various iterations, you dont have to rebuild the Network Every time you do that. Thats one of the things thats taken into consideration as youre doing standard. Yes, sir . Thank you, sir. David mccabe from the hill. Im looking a the next couple months and it seems like im sorry, youre what . A the next couple months. It seems like there may be a point where youre fighting contentious battles. The set top box item lifeline and almost certainly a privacy ruling for isps. I wonder how you expect to handle the challenge of fighting on kind of three different fronts and also whether you are concerned at all that that might make it harder to get consensus among the five of you on less controversial atim tells . So, again, i think the reality comes down to the fact that there is, roughly 9 0 of the time theres consensus. All you get to see is the fun stuff. I was interested during the Media Coverage of Justice Scalias death that one of his quotes was
To get assad out of power. We also need a knew aumf giving the president what he needs to defend isis. Turn to ukraine, its fighting again intensifies, we cannot take our eye off the ball. Ukraines top priority should be rooting out corruption and reform, we need to support these efforts, we need to work with ukraine. We need to be a partner of ukraine, a stronger, more prosperous ukraine stands a better chance of turning putin back. Speaking of putin, we need to let him know we will never acquiese to his position on crimea. Any talk of sanctions relief for russia is premature, so long as ukraine doesnt control its own eastern border. We must do more to counter russian propaganda, we feel very strong about the fact that people in the russian language sometimes only hear on the air what putin wants them to hear. They get a very unbalanced view. We need to move in there and make sure they get a balanced view. Let me applaud president obama for what hes done over the last year. We should
The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
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