Arctic nation. I wont go through the list of what other nations have in terms of their assets, but lets suffice it to say that our neighbors to the east in russia have over 30 icebreakers. Our neighbors to the excuse me our neighbors to well, it depends which way youre going around the globe. But our canadian friends the icebreaker capacity that they have are six. But its not just the arctic nations that have arctic capacity through their icebreakers its nations like china. Mr. President , think how far away china is from the arctic. India is considering building an ice breaker. Think how far away they are. It begs the question, why as an arctic nation are we not stepping up . So i am a he challenging my so im challenging my colleagues, think broader. I invited all members of the United States senate to join the arctic caucus and understand what it means for you and your respective states, the benefits but also the obligations. So i look forward to the discussion on the issue of how we
Continues. Host Fiscal Health of states is the topic for the next 45 minutes and we are joined by two state treasuries. Jim mcintyre, Washington State treasurer. Along with david miller, who was the Tennessee State treasurer. Mr. Lillard, i want to begin with what do state treasurer is due . Guest theyre usually the chief Financial Officers of their state and they managed hundreds of billions of dollars for State Governments and local governments entities throughout the United States, including Pension Funds. They play a very Important Role in Fiscal Health. Host how do you go about doing your job . Guest a sickly investing monday investing money and offering programs to citizens of that they can use in their state like that. Host jim mcintyre, who do you report to in your job . I elected, pointed, how does it work . Guest im elected by the voters every four years and we have nine statewide elected officials in Washington State. Other states have fewer, but we are very active and i rep
House. Lets begin with the decision to retain troop levels in afghanistan. Democratyou can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or journal cspan. Org. Lets show you a friend pages of the pages. Obama the slow troop withdrawal from afghanistan. The u. S. Will maintain current levels. Two will be out by 2000 troops will be out by 2017. What are your thoughts on this . The phone lines are open. Lets hear a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] president obama you cannot minimize the sacrifices that our military families make. Some folks will be rotating that for a few extra months. We are moving the drawdown pays over to the bright for several in part to compensate for the linkengthy time it took for government formation. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help Afghan Security forces succeed. So we do not have to go back. So we do not have to respond in an emergency because terrorist activities are being launched out of afghanistan. We
The victim is the wife here, supposedly. And by taking away his livelihood, half of that money is her money. Any previous dating experience where there was violence, if this is a onetime ,hing or something went wrong maybe counseling or intervention or find out what happened. Not that it excuses anything what so we have a full understanding. That was eric and california. We keep getting your thoughts. We have 15 minutes left to do so. News, on capitol hill, congress is readying a continual resolution to keep the government funded past september 30 when the fiscal year ends in the new fiscal year ends. It continues through current spending levels and addresses the Ebola Outbreak and extends import bank due june 30, 2015. Theres a lot of debate about that. The house is expected to debate the resolution on thursday. News, Sean Sullivan has the peace. Representative lost to the iraq ulton. Teran seth mo becoming just the fourth sitting member of congress to fall in a primary this year. The
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