Southern lawmakers in particular in a tough spot on the record on if they supported the flag by graves. The story quoting republican representative jody hice of georges saying this morning he plans to support the amendment. The amendment that is coming to the floor simply codifies existing law that has been in place for five years that allows the states to recognize historical significance on dates of their choosing while at the same time recognizing sensitivities that many have with the flag. While some republicans spoke about the Confederate Flag issue it was mostly the house to make rest that spoke on the floor. In a news briefing about it. Here is that briefing. Nancy pelosi good afternoon. Today we had action on the floor. I presented a privilege resolution that would have captured the action put forth two weeks ago. It was referred to the committee on House Administration never to be heard from again. That is intolerable. I put forth mr. Thompsons similar resolution and that was
For a long period of time focused on arabic and palestinian, visavis, the israeli. Now, at least you have got three, the palestinian, israel confrontation still there. We have the gulf region and the east coast and the west coast. They are opposing each other. The third one is about the traps significance. Started from tunisia, now to many countries. So the missions are changing. And the United States meeps areans are changing. Secondly the mekchanisms, the ways of dealing with the complex situation are changing as well. For instance, the United States used to rely very much on the socalled quartet which excluded china from that. Now, with this Iranian Nuclear issue, we Work Together for p5 plus 1. This also shows china wants to play a role. Although the United States still is the first fiddle and china is the third one. The second one is the europeans but we are learning. We are still in internship to have a digression. You have your American University in beirut for more than 100 yea
Back of this. They decided not to go with the hawks. Hes always been on the precipice, he decided to stay with the pack. Despite that, because of the fact we have a majority talking about stimulus over the next few months, a reduction of stimulus over the next few months, sterling is big. It has been reasonably well bit coming into today. Not news that the bank of england is saying that the market is underpricing the future Interest Rate rises. Once again, reiterating that line. Why do you think that is . Will the bank of england followthrough on the kinds of things its talking about now in a few months . Guy everyone i talked to says rates are rational right now. We have an 80 probability that the bank of england will deliver a hike in february. 50 in november. The bank will execute on a hike fairly soon. Everyone says that kind of makes sense, but then you have a whole conversation about why its never going to happen and the bank of england is not going to be in any hurry within the
They talk about the personal experience raising children with down syndrome. The cochairs also testified along with medical experts, advocates and individuals with the syndrome of how research can lead to breakthroughs. His hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. [inaudible] will convene a meeting chairman will join us for a few minutes. The delicate members waiting period before we start i want to recognize my friend from arkansas. Thank you and i would like to disclose that sometime around 11 00 oclock i have to depart early for previously scheduled meeting. Want to take a moment to recognize a lady in the audience today and each one of my colleagues have been provided a glossy bio. But for the benefit of the audience for hearing purposes to recognize Mary Lorraine foreman and shes in the back. Mary is a freshman at the university of arkansas. [applause] we dont have to call box today but given our record we probably shouldnt be calling the hawks right now. That said, as information pro
Between salary level and teacher effectiveness. Does anybody want to defend that . There is no relationship between the expenditure of 80 of what we spend and effectiveness of teachers. Randy . I mean what i want of course theres a relationship. I mean, i wont speak for who is an amazing superintendent in des moines, but theres much evidence that there is relationship between the experience of teachers and the stability of schools and frankly part of what were trying to do in schools that are struggling is how do we nurture and secure Great Teachers to stay at those schools. So, obviously, there is both on a macro and a micro way, there are real both correlations here and things like that. I think what my colleague was saying is that the dollarfordollar piece that the that the department is proposing doesnt get you doesnt get you to the equity issues that you have spent your life, senator, fighting for. And you as well. And what im saying is whether the department, you know, ends up wi