Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to the brookings institution. Before i begin my remarks, i would just like to say on behalf of the institution that we are thinking every moment about the challenges that australia is facing, with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way, and they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen, president of the brookings institution. We are very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. We are very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. He is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the Defense Department and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate and after
So, hello, everyone, and welcome to fields farm on such a snowy sunday. But were here to welcome to all of you and welcome to senator harris for coming. We really appreciate this. Im nancy and i am the democratic chair. As you know, i ran for office and failed and then ran for school board but im going to keep it up because i never g got i know about discrimination. When i was in eighth grade, we moved fr ed from iowa and th kress cal, iowa. Its wellknown for basketball. We did the petitions and we had 1,000 signatures and guess what the school board said. No girls basketball. So we had no girls sports until after title 9. I have a sister whos eight years younger than i am. Shes in the Wisconsin University Athletic Hall of fame. And that was because of discrimination, i didnt have that opportunity. I also was a farmers wife and i went to sign up our farm with usda and guess what. Usda said no, you cant sign it up. Doesnt make any difference if your name is on the mortgage. It doesnt ma
Many voters feel about the government. This runs about an hour and 45 minutes. Sen cruz good ever good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking you all for attending, and thanking senator hirono for working with me and my staff to convene this hearing and bring these witnesses together. The topic before us is one, i believe, of great importance the need for term limits for members of congress so that we can begin to fix what is broken here in washington politics. Before i introduce our first panel, id like to explain why we organized todays hearing. In the 2016 election, the American People made a resounding call to drain the swamp that is modern washington. And sadly this is a bipartisan problem. The American People have lost confidence in washington, and especially in congress. Enmeshed in backroom deals and broken promises, our capital has too often become a political playground for the powerful and the wellconnected, for members of the permanent Political Class looking to accumulate mor
So lucky nobody was seriously hurt here. Take a look at the first 4 traffic alert. Germantown 270 before germantown road the left lane is blocked by this crash. Tractortrailer into a mur Montgomery County Police Cruiser who went into another Police Cruiser. Luckily, nobody was closed. The ramp is shut down because of this accident. Eigan mcgrath is on the way and we are se delays southbound. This worries me because of how important 270 is early in the morning for so many of our viewe a. Inner loop outer loop looking nice and clear. Nothing to worry about. Good morning, chuck. Good morning, melissa. Friday forecast time. Wow. Mother nature really going to be treating us with great care for our friday and your weekend plans. Not too hot and not too humid. No real rain chance anywhere from the mountains to the beaches for your weekend traveling plans. Temperatures now have fallen into the upper 50s from o winchester t front royal to harrisonburg to warrenton, ni virgia. Still in the low s
Of the illness since may 1st, and three workplace cafeterias are part of that investigation, including two of them in mclean. One in the capital one building and the other in the valo park buildinpe ple most often get infected by ingesting contaminated food or water. Right now theres not a known source for e outbreak. Wendy . Thanks, erika. Were signature on top of the latest developments of the arrest of 16 active doubty ton, rs at camp pn california. They are accused of smuggling people over the border from mexico. Todays arrests ste om an investigation that began earlier this month when two camp pend telebased marines were arrested after Border Patrol agents caught undocumented immigrants jumping in their car near the border. The undocumented immigrants told investigators they had paid the marines 8,000 to take them to los angeles. As nbcs Courtney Kube explains, theres still Unanswered Questions about the marines who were arrested today. What we dont know athis point is whether thi