Schools, our communities, children and families must be safe. I respectfully ask my colleagues to make this issue of violence a priority and to support our nations leadership as they work through resolving this challenge which should not be difficult. If we compromise and keep focusing on saving lives. Madam chair, i pledge to support you and to support all my other colleagues with the Congressional Black Caucus to make a difficult task safe and to protect the lives of our children and families from gun fire and a culture of violence. Ms. Fudge i thank the gentlelady from ohio for participating. We certainly know how difficult this is going to be as we move forward, but im pleased. Thank you so much. I yield to the gentleman from new jersey who has joined our caucus. Representative donald payne junior. Pain pain mr. Speaker, let me mr. Payne let me begin by thanking my chairwoman, fudge for anchoring this evenings special order on the culture of violence. Coming together to address unv
That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy, but it would make it manageable so it doesnt crowd out the investments we need to make in people and education and job training and science and medical research all the things that help us grow. Now, step by step, weve made progress towards that goal. Over the past two years, ive signed into law about 1. 4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago, i signed into law more than 600 billion in new revenue by making sure the wealthiest americans begin to pay their fair share. When you add the money that well save in Interest Payments on the debt, all together that adds up to a total of about 2. 5 trillion in deficit reduction over the past two years not counting the 400 billion already saved from winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. So weve made progress. We are moving towards our ultimate goal of getting to a 4 trillion reduction. And there will be more deficit reduction when congres
Truck lot. Thats where espn reporter Britt Mchenry memorably lost her cool on a security camera. Im in the news sweetheart. I [ bleep ] this place. Do you feel good about your job . I could be a College Dropout and do the same thing . Because i have a brain and you dont. Maybe if i was missing some teeth, they would hire me. Oh like yours . They look so stunning. Because im on television and youre in a [ bleep ] trailer, honey. Lose some weight baby girl. Mchenry later apologized on twitter saying she will learn from this mistake. Her oneweek suspension will end in a few days. Lets begin with Brian Williams and that puppy. Because that might sound funny, but this nbc crisis is really reaching a boiling point. A new boss is in charge at nbc news he took over two weeks ago and everyone in the tv business is wondering what hes going to do about williams and the nbc nightly news and when hes going to do it. Williams six month suspension for embellishing his story about an Iraq War Mission
Good evening. And we begin tonight with that midair scare, an Emergency Landing after a flight took off from chicagos ohare airport. A passenger losing consciousness. The pilots fearing there could be an issue with cabin pressure, declaring an emergency, descending fast, dropping, as i mentioned, 27,000 feet in just minutes. Tonight, the rattled passengers here, and why pilots acted so quickly. Abcs gio benitez leading us off. Reporter tonight, a midair scare for 75 passengers. Skywest flight 5622 from chicago to hartford, connecticut, took off at 9 31 this morning. But just 40 minutes into the flight, with the plane at 37,000 feet, a passenger becomes ill. The pilot, concerned the illness could be due to a pressurization issue, took no chances. Even though there were no cockpit warnings or oxygen masks dropping, he made a steep and fast descent, almost 27,000 feet in just ate minuteeight minutes. Passengers on board concerned, calling it a nose dive. They asked us to tighten our seatb
Isis strategy. The week got off to a rocky start after joint chiefs chairman dempsey told the panel that he wouldnt rule out advising the president to use Ground Forces in the fight if necessary. A comment that send the administration scrambling. President obama doubling down on his no boots on the ground promise. As youre commander in chief, i will not commit you and rest of the armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. Joining the panel this week, deputy editor, Dan Henninger and Brett Stevens and washington columnist, kim strassele. Lets start with you, are the generals and Martin Dempsey wasnt the only one who spoke out, are they sending the president a message that they want the ability to use Ground Troops if need be . Well former marine general said, you never tell your enemies what you will what you will not do. They are also saying that given the extent of isis control from western syria all the way into iraq, its going to be hard to do this through air power alone.