Yet in standing alone, israel will know that we will be defending many, many others. s israels Prime Minister comments come days after a phone call between president obama and the iranian president rhani, the highest level u. S. Iran contact in decades. The death toll from a more than in sudan hasckdown reportedly topped 170. The International Federation for human rights says hundreds have been wounded and more than 800 have been arrested since a cut to get subsidies sparked to mr. Nations last month. Their current unrest is said to be the worst incidents urban areas during bashirs 24 year rule. Tens of thousands of people rallied in mexico city to mark the 45th anniversary of the massacre of student demonstrators. On october 2, 1960 eight, just days before mexico city hosted the olympics, Government Forces opened fire on protesters in the plaza de las tres culturas. The exact death toll remains unknown, but human rights activists say as many as 350 people were killed. To date, no one
We can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty and unease from our businesses and from the American People. And wall street was ready for tonights deal, stocks soared even before the votes were taken. Just about an hour ago the house passed a bill to increase the debt limit and provide enough funding to end the 16day Government Shutdown. The house vote followed an 8118 vote in the senate. The legislation permits the u. S. Treasury to borrow through february 7th, and it funds the government until january 15th. More than 2 million federal workers will now receive back pay. Lets start with Mike Viqueira who is at the white house. Mike, how much of a victory is this for the president . Reporter well, its a big victory. And i think that from any objective standard you can see the president held type lock stop with the creme cats i cremn the house and senate. And republicans were divided and the result has been laid bear for everyone to see over the course of the last 48 hours or so. Its a s
Caller specifically i should have addressed the 58 million a year that we pay for foreign aid. That 50 billion would pay out each year secured or Fire Protection so that our citizens there, people who key figure with them host you agree, jim . Is is a drop in the bucket when we are talking about this . Guest you know, it is billions and billions of dollars. The budget is very small. Moreover, i am not an expert in this area, but i am of the view that the amount of money that is being spent trying to position the United States have influence in the world and bring about the values that we have in this country, i am not really a big fan of saying that foreign aid needs to go. Host unfortunately it is time to go, but thank you so much James Capretta for joining us. Since 1901, the joint Congressional Committee Congressional Committee on a macro ceremonies has been responsible for the planning execution of the inauguration of the president of the u. S. Capitol. We are glad you are all here
This week on q a, yuval levin. Yuval levin, your wikipedia site has in the second sentence, he has been called, quote, probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the obama era. Whats that mean . Thats a very good question. I wonder by whom. I think its jonathan chait. Ok. Well then probably, in the course of criticizing me for something or other, but i guess what it means you know an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events and practical questions to deeper currents, theoretical or philosophical currents. There are narrower definitions. You know paul johnson, the Great British historian, wrote a book called intellectuals in the 80s in which he said that an intellectual in politics is actually a person who tries to remake the world in the image of some theory he has. In that sense, there probably is no such thing as a conservative intellectual, but i think if you take a broader view of it and a notion that an intellectual tries to connect theory a
The hearing will come to order. Hearing of thest year for our subcommittee. Welcome to all the subcommittee members. Glad to have you back. A warm welcome to our subcommittees newest member. He is not here yet. He will be down at the end. We look forward to having him work with us. Today the subcommittee will hear from two panels. We will hear about the activities and operations of the Internal Revenue service. Commissioner. Irs welcome to you, sir. We appreciate your return to the service and thank for taking thank you for taking on this task. George have russell and nina olsen. We appreciate the careful and constant oversight of the irs. We have not heard in some time from ms. Olsen, so we are especially eager to hear from her. As a matter of house keeping, i will be following the five minute rules for that members. I do not plan on cutting anyone off in the middle of their sentence, but if everyone could keep their questions and comments for when we get to that part of the program,