Eric the president made it clear about the billing his constitutional requirements. There are no caveats. Exemptions include for election years for the presence last term in office. So i acknowledge your skepticism here, because we do know this is a republican congress. This is a Republican Party leadership that shut down the government in 2013, that brought us to the brink of defunding the department of Homeland Security just last year, and just last week announced they will not even have a hearing on the president s budget, but i also want to point out that this is not the first time that republicans have come out with a lot of bluster only to have reality set in. Republicans have threatened to keep sequesterlevel funding for the government. They have threatened to not raise the debt limit. They have threatened to not reauthorize the import export bank, and they threatened to up ease the deal with iran. They tried to play politics, but ultimately, they were not able to back up their
State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. It was the first act that he did. That weve been leaving and millions and millions of federal dollars on the table. States, highway funds, why do they invest in highways before they invest in Higher Education . Why do they invest in medicaid before they invest in Higher Education . Why did land grant universities get created . Federal government gave lands under Partnership States would have to do following things which would create the greatest Public University system in the world which result
By the way. [laughter] that was when we talked last july. You can add a new other agencies to the list now. Va and dhs. You want me to do it . Go for it. So va problem statement in a nutshell, we are creating disabled veterans at pace that we cant absorb in the rest of the system. We have been doing that for 1012 years or so. You can probably guess what they are. And its been overwhelming the rest of the system since then and backlog of disability claims at one point was 600,000 or so, that was that highwatermark was hit around march 2014, if i remember correctly. Just a few months before we came on the scene. The delayed disability claims in the case of the va very often mean a lapse in treatment which could be physical therapy for a new amputee. Hearing losses is incredibly common and Mental Health issues are incredibly common. Untreated posttraumatic stress and depression is not only a lifethreatening situation for the veteran but around the veteran as well. This is, if you follow t
Today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis . In many of us are well aware of the everexpanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with 1. 3 trillion worth of student ebt. One in four of the borrowers is either in delinquency or default. Last years graduating class had an average of 35,000 in student ebt. Those are striking numbers. The Obama Administration recently announced two policy changes and president ial candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. Todays speakers are two leading voices on student debt. Rohit chopra was recently named special adviser to the u. S. Department of education. He previously served as the assistant director of the Consumer Financial protection bureau. He led that agencys work on behalf of students and young consumers. The secretary of treasury named im as the agencies First Student loan ombudsman. He has frequently te
French muslims in british muslims need to more forcefully condemn terrorism, benefit from that solidarity that is created. A couple of books i have read from women, i cant think of her last name. She was part of the Dutch Parliament for a while. These two authors i am thinking very vividly describe what it is like for women in islamic ,ountries, general mutilation all of that, really tough to read, and i think the start of an underground group of women that are tuning into this then extrapolate to islam broadly, and i think that has not been, at least im not aware of it being countered or if it could be countered. Women the attacks against by how harshly islam in their expense treats women. I should say i am not an expert in islam abroad. Cases, suchf many as saudi arabia and iran, where there is clear evidence of discrimination against women. It is also worth noting that many of the heads of state in the world are muslim women. Certainly one hears of these egregious, particular he amo