Since the start of this campaign, only one network is taking you on the road to the white house. From the early announcements in the policy speeches to the candidates visiting diners in iowa and New Hampshire and, of course, the campaign rallies. All right, copy that. The republican race has now narrowed. The democratic race has sharpened. We will stay in carolina with the big democratic primary this saturday and then we move on to the multistate primaries and caucuses in early and mid march. This race is just getting underway. ,ou can follow it all here online at cspan. Org, and of course on cspan radio. And we are back with the National Governors association hosting its winter meeting in washington. Coming up in a moment or two, talked about education policy. Hear fromors will Teresa Sullivan and Lamar Alexander, who had a huge role in passing the every Student Succeeds act. We expect this event to begin shortly. Our live coverage is here on cspan. Would you join us by being seated,
This is just under two hours. I guess i will say first, it is a little humbling and honestly intimidating to follow president bush, but our job is to spend just 10 minutes talking about the collective and collaborative action that has brought us to today. A recap of where we have been relative to implement relative to employment, and what may lie ahead, challenges and opportunities both for our transitioning Service Members and their families, but also for the Employer Community that has been so supportive of this effort. Only because you expect it from me, do i have a grass with a bunch of data and things behind me, but im not going to talk to that and only use it as a way to suggest that we really have accomplished an awful lot over the last 57 years, in particular. Of the private sector and our partners in the Public Sector have made a Significant Impact on the vocational situation of veterans. We have learned a lot in the context of doing this work. Through the coalitions that we h
Employment and where there are still challenges to overcome. We will hear from members of our military and their families. Youll hear about their struggles and their triumphs, as they navigate the transitions to civilian life. We will get a first look at a road map created by the Bush Institute and hiring our heroes. The roadmap serves as a guide or the men and women of our military as they seek meaningful, longterm employment as civilians. We know that securing military meaningful, longterm employment and experiencing a Successful Transition from military to civilian life, go handinhand. Our fellow citizens have answered the call to support our veterans and military families with opportunity. Over the past five years, over 2000 businesses were part of the coalitions in this room, hiring our heroes, the hundred thousand job coalition, led by j. P. Morgan chase, blackstone, as well as organizations like bank of america, have committed to hiring veterans. Our government partners at the v
Tonight, on the communicators, republican revisited it from tennessee marsha blackburn, vice chair of the energy and commerce committee, talks about Cyber Security and data breach legislation. She is joined by the tech reporter for the wall street journal. As individuals becomes addicted to these breaches, they have come to realize it is not if you have your data breach, it is when is your data going to be breached. Standard andral exercising some productive preemption and setting up a framework of time they companies have to conduct that information consumers andrm set penalties for enforcement, those are appropriate steps that should be taken, and they are the steps that are covered in Data Security legislation that we have worked on. Tonight, at 8 00 eastern, on the communicators on cspan2. A signature feature of booktv is our allday coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country with top nonfiction authors. Here is our schedule beginning this weekend. We will be in na
We are going to have a great conference. This morning, we heard a anthemul version of our by katie huffman. Her credits and awards are far too numerous to list here. She has starred on stage and television. She is best known for her role as ula in the smash hit the producers, and she remains one of broadways bright stars. But she is also a passionate advocate for veterans. When i called katie and asked her to come share her talent with us here today and i told her what you all were up to, if myaid, and i quote, little boys can help in any way, of course i will be there. After you heard her this morning, we all know she doesnt have a little voice. But katy wanted to be here, and ladies and gentlemen, ooa purrington,n please welcome back to the stage my friend, miss katie huffman. [applause] music plays] nine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored he has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift sw