Recent talks to the pope in rome. I think it should be discussed. It should be considered, especially since we know what happened in iraq with the christian community. Fiona . I would actually just want to say to fyodor that it actually is discussed here, but he gets back to what dr. Brzezinski was a saying about a nonsectarian tone to the debate. The u. S. Does not want to take sides in this conflict. As we look about in the balkans, if you think back to the 1990s, various European Countries in particular of standing with historic coreligion, the idea that catholic portions of europe were standing with the coops and others, the serbs because of old religious orders. I think we have all learned from that, so that was not completely accurate depiction of the 1990s that we have to be extraordinarily careful. We are all skirting around the proper ways or the ways of describing a very complex situation. The u. S. Does not want to be seen in the middle of a sectarian conflict. It gets to th
Characterization of this as entirely budget driven . If it were entirely budget driven we would have accepted the levels of sequestration. As this hearing continues you can watch it online at cspan. Org and later in our program schedule. The house is gaveling for legislative work including a bill suspending the individual mandate penalty under the Affordable Care act. Live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. As the world observes the tensions mounting within ukraine and venezuela, may we all know well the crippling effects of ideological divides. When a shared sense of National Unity might bring greater hope and possible solution to serious political problems. Send, o god, your healing grace upon those torn nations and upon t
We strongly believe that if every member of congress would take even a few minutes to speak personally with unemployed workers, there would not be any question at all about the need to extend the federal ui program. More than anything else, they want a job. But finding work remains very difficult in an economy that still has one point 5 million fewer jobs than before the recession started six years ago. We have never had anything close to such a sustained job deficit after any recent downturn. It has been said in opposition to an extension that the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program was adopted for extraordinary circumstances that are disappearing. No. No. These extraordinary circumstances continue, as indicated in the report issued just this morning by president obamas council of economic advisers. It highlights that the current longterm Unemployment Rate is at least twice as high as it was at the expiration of every previous extended ui benefit program. The extraordi
Good evening, im jim axelrod and this is a western edition of the newscast. One million woke up without 1. 3 million americans woke up this morning without this Unemployment Benefits and several million more could lose theirs over the course of the next year. The federal Program Designed to help the longterm unemployed has expired and anyone who has been collecting unemployment for more than 26 weeks will be affected. California now has the highest number of people in that category, 220,000. Nevada, illinois, pennsylvania, connecticut, new york, new jersey, and massachusetts, also have much higher than average numbers of people out of work for that long. Jeff pegues tells us what the outlook is for those adjusting to this new unemployment reality. Reporter twoyearold sophia lowe knows how to make her parents mary and terry smile. The family hasnt had a lot to celebrate this year. Mary has been out of work for ten months, relying on a weekly unemployment benefit of 362 dollars. It ended
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