Healthcare while at the same time again reducing costs. That task force and its finding will be discussed at the february meeting in washington. Governors are taking a variety of different leads on this issue. His entire state of the state address to the issue of drug abuse including the abuse of Prescription Drugs and how it leads to more serious concerns about heroin addiction. If you have not read his state of the state, i would advise you to do so. Its remarkable. This nations infrastructure provides the skeletal structure that connects us to one another. We talk about infrastructure but you only think about highways, transit systems that connect people and places. Infrastructure is more than surface transportation. It includes utility systems that connects us to power and water, schools, public buildings that connect us to opportunity and participation. A states emerge from the economic downturn, its critical we work with our partners to rebuild and invest in roads, rail, bridges,
Tweet, so, send us a cspanwj, or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan or email cspan. Org. Anne gearan of the Washington Post joins us on the phone. Frontpage story with her colleague adam goldman. It is the headline shared by many newspapers this morning, saying that the report says this attack was preventable. Why did they come to that conclusion . Guest well, first of all, thank you for having me, pleasure to be here. The report is broadly consistent with several reports that we have seen about what happened in it goesi to date, but into more detail and sheds light on the way that the cia, which had one of the compounds that was attacked, and the state department, which has a betterknown compound, really failed to talk to one another and to understand one anothers strengths and vulnerabilities in the weeks leading up to the attack. Thee coincided with what cia and other intelligence aencies rightly fingered as considerable rise in the numbers and potency of islamic militants
A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i come to the floor today to talk about the damage obamacare is doing to the struggling economy. Now after months of unrelenting coverage of obamacares many problems and after fridays release of decembers dismal jobs report, im sure democrats here in the senate would prefer that we talk about almost anything else. After all, when you have held most of the power in washington here for the last five years, you dont want to mention the fact that your main legacy is a sluggish economy and a disastrous train wreck of a health care program. This past friday, we found out that december marked the weakest month of job growth since january of 2011. The economy added just 74,000 jobs in december, less than half of the monthly job growth needed for a real recovery
It was on the minds of some of the Founding Fathers. On september 5, 1787, at the constitutional convention, they were discussing the public land related authorities in the constitution, including the authority that has now been included in whats often referred to as the enclave clause, article 1, 78 clause 17. Wufl delegates to the one of the delegates, elbridge garrett, a delegate from massachusetts stood before the convention and made an astute observation. There gary said this power, that is the power of congress over federal public lands might be made use of to enslave any particular state by buying up its territory and that the strong holds proposed would be a means of aweing the state into undue obedience into the general government. Close quote. Then as now wise observes often came from the state of massachusetts. Then as now, we have a grave risk associated with the fact that when the federal government owns this much land, the federal government has this much power and it was
My mother came from a large rural family, got married when she was 13. Host from where . Guest rural tennessee. She and my father moved to detroit. It was a factory worker. Sumners later she discovered he was bigamist. She had the responsibility of the poll with only a third grade education of trying to raise us. Host how many of you were there country me and my brother. I was the dummy. Thats what everybody called me. Host a nurse or jeanette and you were the dummy. Thats what ive been wanting to get too. How did you get from being the dummy to neurosurgeon transferred my mother, any success ive had, ive to contribute to god and my mother. Shes always seeking wisdom and came up with the idea of opening your eyes and looking around you. She noticed the homes she claimed people didnt watch a lot of tv, no offense. And they read a lot of books. She looked at where we lived, look at where they live and so it clicked in her mind, if i can get my voice to stop look at tv all along and start