It ever coming up for a vote. Marylanders deserve the transparency to know how their elected leaders vote every time the state takes a bigger share of their hardearned tax dollars. This is a regressive tax that hurts struggling maryland families and our most vulnerable and which adds to the cost of almost everything. These automatic tax increases should be pealed and we will submit legislation repealed and we will submit legislation to do so. This initial tax relief package is just the starting point in the process of rebuilding our states economy. And of course tax relief is only a part of the solution. We have other important initiatives as well. Including number 7. Improving transportation. Over the last several years moneys for local road improvements have been slashed by up to 96 . Our administration is committed to restoring the money that was taken from the Transportation Trust fund and to making sure that it never happens again. Today [applause] today i am pleased to announce t
Iraq, Eastern Europe and the pacific. For more about the confirmation process, we spoke with leo shane earlier today. Host leo shane covers congress for the military times. How is he regarded . A lot of members of the Armed Services Committee Said they did not see this as a focus on his credentials. They see this hearing is more of a chance to criticize obama on a number of National Security issues. It sounded like chairman mccain and Ashton Carter, the nominee, were in agreement and terms of getting rid of the sequester, the Pentagon Spending caps. How will they go about doing that . That is the big question. You heard senator mccain. They said they will hammer that this year, the mandatory spending cuts expected to go into effect in fiscal 2016. They are concerned that that can cripple the military. But as of now, we havent seen much of an alternative land, just a bunch of thomas is that they need to get rid of this. The military absolutely needs to have that money. We heard more of
Xl oil pipeline. The senate back tomorrow at 3 00 a. M. Eastern to be director of the National Drug control policy set for 5 30. It is likely the senate will try to move forward again on the Homeland Security department. Democrats blocked debate on the bill three times. Language that the president will take executive actions on immigration. They could also vote with defense secretary nominee ashton carter. The Committee Held its confirmation hearing last week. Answered questions about sequestration cuts, the u. S. Fight against isis, and the ukraine. This part of the hearing, you will hear mr. Carters opening statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Reid. Thank you all. D members of this committee. Thank you all. Thank you for inviting me to appear before you as president obamas nominee to be secretary of defense. Im honored by his trust and confidence and also by the prospect of serving once again the troops, and the country that i love so much. If confirmed, i will take the
Technology anymore to make a television . Guest yes. Well, most televisions right now are computers. I mean, there are tvs in this booth that are ten cores processers, and all the integrated functionality for the web, streaming stuff. 4k is a huge thing, so those are the big buzzword 4g and old sets. Host i see behind us it says 8k. Guest yeah, were already beyond 4k now. These are basically, prototypes. Theres one sharp tv of thats coming out thats going to be simulated 8k, but what were talking about is stepped up in resolution. You think about it as the jump from standard testify in addition to High Definition this is four times the resolution of High Definition. So its Crystal Clear, its sort of the next wave, and this is the first year more and more people might start buying 4k tvs. Host mr. Moynihan, a couple of years ago 3d tv was the big talk. Guest yeah. Host but that doesnt seem to have gone anywhere. Guest it did not. A lot of 3d tvs were sold because most tvs have 3d featur
Helping them fight for their own freedom in the sense that we are giving the military aid . Are we still talking about that or actually doing that . In the last 14 months we have provided over 108 million in Security Assistance. I can you do a rundown of what would be included in that, but it would it would be things like medications equipment emergency medical, those kind of things. We will look at what more we can do. That is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . No, sir. Why not . They want to defend themselves. As i said we have continued to look at other request from the ukrainians on the lethal side, but note decisions have been made no decisions have been made. So the russians arent each in ukraine, besides being in crimea, which i dont think they will ever try to leave crimea and other nations are very concerned they are next in the russian aggression. I meeting with some ambassadors today. I meeting with some ambassadors today. What is our policy on russian agg