Cause the long until next year coast along until next year. Ms. Swain as a passing legislation and fund it through the traffic fund and find it later on . Ms. Caygle what they do next week is moving the date. They are reauthorizing the policy. With thenot dealing next shortterm funding extension and that has not attracted the same kind of fireworks as when they move a funding bill. Ms. Swain it is sounding like the next six weeks is like the six weeks we just finished. A lot of wrangling over spending and interparty working with republicans. A calendar of chaos. Ms. Swain we look forward. Thank you for joining newsmakers. Mr. House thank you. Ms. Caygle thank you. I stay in the wings and dont come out very often so that this quite unusual. I want to thank you for your support and planning this wonderful evening for me. Thanks to the young people for this great welcome. She was the first republican first lady to address a national convention. She traveled more widely than any first lady
Opinions about that. I think the thing that i would observe is that there is one fundamental question that has the answer before you can consider a whole range of other technical questions, and the irst is about her own desire and commitment to running the kind of campaign that we all know take a significant personal toll. Life on the campaign trail is arduous, and it is a difficult ienge that is true of have fun at the existence of some republican candidates occasionally but this is true thatose candidates, too, they spent a long time away from their families, spend a lot of thaton the road, in cities in which their day and is rather late and start rather early. That is difficult. It is why it is important for a bunch of personal questions to be answered before you start considering a range of other things. Another thing i would say that i think is also important and i think this is something that the Vice President has considered as well which is that those kinds of questions are far
Think about the fact that the average employee at the department of education makes 103,000 per year and the average teacher makes 50,000. People keep telling we have a money problem in education. I think we have a priority problem. We are supposed to spend 700 billion annually on education. We can do better. We should demand better. The second part of the choice act, kids with special needs deserve to maximize their individual potential. Everyone in america deserves to understand their own potential. What we say is that if you cannot get in the education your child needs in your zip code, you should make the idea portable just like we have School Choice for honor roll kids, we should allow the same thing for kids with special needs. A great story is a young lady, at the time she was five years old and going to kindergarten and she had down syndrome, rachel lewis. Doing pretty well in mainstream classes. The teachers got uncomfortable with her being with other students and tried to pus
Got started off we started off bad. But this time and the last time these bombs were dropping, these smart bombs that 8 to 10 million a day, why cant iraq pay for that . Do you know what iraq is paying for and what its not for . G its not clear. They are buying u. S. Systems. Late theyve been planning to buy a lot of u. S. Equipment. That got slowed down at the end with the transition in power and there. Ent of late, though, youre seeing a themf the weapons sales to start to increase again or announcements of them increase. To theyre expected increase. And theyll be paying for that with mostly their own money. When Congress Returns next they adjourn and bring the gavel down on the 113th congress, what do they need to address when it comes to the pentagonsing budget . The pentagon would love congress to strike a major them to approve, you know, and get rid of sequestration. They neediately, what is they need an appropriations bill for 2015. Operating on are continuing resolution, which
On how the u. S. Government waste billions of taxpayer dollars on the war on terror. He was the only u. S. Trycials that he came, that to investigate to the money the u. S. Sent to iraq. There are just different estimates. 11 billion of the roughly 20 billion that they sent to iraq was unaccounted for. What the investigators found was nearly 2 billion in cash, in 100 bills, was stolen after it was flown from anders air force base to baghdad by powerful iraqis. It was being hidden in a book or bunker in rural lebanon. Q a. Nday night on cspans it ann. Whod, recently retired as White House Correspondent rick correspondent. House white correspondentsassociation hosted a panel. The moderator is christi parsons. This is about the minutes. 50 minutes. Our panelists are here. We are starting early. That is the way we roll. We have a lot to do. I want to make sure we get a full discussion. And i feel sure well leave with a lot more to say, but we have plans for another meeting. So stay tuned f