However, these hardworking federal employees should not be asked to carry even more of this burden. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and i yield back the balance of my time. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. The gentleman from california. Mr. Issa mr. Speaker, i know my friend from virginia means well, but once again he talks about a lack of accomplishment. Apparently he has not looked at the work that the clerks did. He hasnt done the work that the Congressional Budget Office or the Government Accountability office. Those are all funded and yet we had an 11 reduction in spending. So in fact when we talk about the hardworking men and women of the government, this branch has found a way to reduce spending by over 11 in spite of the hardworking men, not just here on the floor and in our offices, but the Government Accountability office and the c. B. O. And others. With that i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. Connell
College of charleston recently . College each year selects a book that it gives to all freshmen at this as a shared reading assignment. Summer. That this past groupwas a conservative that was concerned about the a gay theme. It had they raised some concerns. It came off well. There were no protests or anything. February, the state Budget Writing Committee cut the 62,000s budget by which was the cost of the College Reading program. Another college upstate cut that schools budget as well for a reading assignment. There was a lot of outrage over this. They looked at what else they were going to do with this book, because they usually do more Group Reading assignments and use the books throughout the year messaging tool. They thought about this play. There was an offbroadway play going on. They couldnt do the play this themselves. Some people at the college had connections with the crew for the Theater Company in new york. Volunteered to come to play, funand do the home, which was a pulitz
This looming Government Shutdown. M kratz can call in this morning democrats can call in at we are talking a possible Government Shutdown tonight at midnight. We are taking your calls and comments this morning. We want to show you some headlines on the subject on most every major newspaper today. Heres the front page of the Financial Times to the frontyou page of the hartford current closed quote current ord and in the Tampa Bay Times front page of the Washington Post close take the Washington Post and finally the front page of todays usa today we are going to take you through the latest today. Questionsincludes 66 about the Government Shutdown, a full page dedicated to questions about the shutdown. One of those questions, when will the shutdown begin . Most federal workers will report to work on tuesday but unless they are deemed essential they will work no longer than four hours before being furloughed. The question is how may times has the Government Shutdowns since 1977 . We will t
Brothers bailout, and that caused the government bailouts of the big banks and helped to create the too big to fail phrase that we have come to know. We will take a look at the debate later in the show. It is monday, september 16, 5 00 p. M. In washington, d. C. , and you are watching rt. Gunshots rang out at the d. C. Navy yard in washington, d. C. , with at least urging People Killed at the Systems Command headquarters, including adc Police Officer and another Law Enforcement officer plus alleged shooter aaron alexis. The navy yard was established back in 1799 and is the oldest operation. It is responsible for weapons development, among other functions. There are about 16,000 civilian and military employees that work in the complex, with 3000 employees in that specific building, and it is about 2. 2 million square feet of office space in total. President obama addressed the tragedy in his speech today. We have had another mass shooting, and today, it happened in a military installati
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