Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Today independent vermont senator Bernie Sanders Ranking Member of the budget committee, outlines his ideas on the economy and the middle class and his legislative priorities. Live coverage at 10 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Treasury secretary jack lew testified thursday before the Senate Finance committee on the president s 2016 budget request. He discusses many of the proposals in the 4 trillion plan along with other related topics. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order to. Todays hearing is on president obamas budget for fiscal year 2016. I i want to thank secretary lou for appearing before secretary lew for appearing before us today. And im not going to sugar coat anything. Instead,
Said they were leading to im going to interrupt you a second because i know you have a flight to catch. I want to Say Something before you leave. This is the news of today. Dissidents arrested for protests near Cuban National assembly. This morning so much has changed. A group of 12 dissidents were arrested as they tried to stage a protest near the havana headquarters of the cuban regimes national assembly. The dissidents part of the orlando the civil resistance front took out a sign, demanding the elimination of castros draconian laws. That ever wonderful social dangerousness. And the ratification of the u. N. Human rights covenants. Their whereabouts remain unknown. In stark contrast this release says cuban democracy activists atunis, and theyre both leaders of this group are freely and openly testifying before the u. S. House of representatives in washington, d. C. This morning. What a contrast. Berta, you have to hop on a plane and i know you will be marching with the ladies in whi
Live at the National Press club. Jill stein was in 2012 president ial candidate for the green party. She is expected to announce her intentions again for 2016. Coming up shortly. The room fairly full with reporters. We will have it live here on cspan. First, a number of events we covering. At 1 00 this afternoon, we will hear from the National Security advisor laying out the president s National Security strategy. Again, that is at 1 00. She will be at the brookings institution. President obama this afternoon is in indianapolis in a town hall meeting at a school. That is at 2 00 eastern. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Thank you for local media. People from the activist community and the green party community. And people watching live now on cspan. I am serving as the press representative today. We have two speakers who will speak before dr. Jill stein. I will get in to introducing the first. The program will consist of two speakers, comments from jill stein, and a questi
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