it has been a very busy weekend on capitol hill over the treaty, a and, of course, do not ask, do not tell. david has more. after a legislative victory on the tax bill and on repealing the do not ask, do not tell bill, president obama has his eyes on a prize, possibly the biggest. it is about the safety and security of the united states of america. even so, the proposed arms- control treaty with russia would be another factor in mr. obama s hat. do democrats have enough votes for the passage? i believe we do. republicans believe it could restrict our ability to develop an anti-missile defense. i have decided i cannot support the treaty. i think the provisions are inadequate, and i do worry about the missile-defense implications. this was a flawed process and a flawed treaty. sums spent saturday celebrating the repeal of do not ask, do not tell. it is a great day for the country, a great day for history. for the first time, gays and lesbians will be able to
been prevented if the child had been in a child restraint system. the long-term fatality rate in aviation has decreased dramatically since 1994. the faa does everything it can to encourage and promote the use of child restraint doses. when the rules for child restraint was originally written years ago, it was not appropriate to require a restaurant because there were not effective restraints for children under the age of 2. at the time, the regulations under the age of 2 at the time the regulations were originally written. but now they have some that are approved to be used to be safe in aircraft. in 1992, they re required carriers to allow the use of a child restraint device on an airplane. we conducted a study at the faa federal medical unit. in 1998, the a they did publish an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to receive public comment on requiring child restraint of aircraft. but, at that time, we did not require any military changes. in order to encourage innovation
obama will talk about new goals to expand trade. and then, james mcnerney. later, the surgeon general s report on the effect of tobacco smoke. find great holiday gifts for the c-span fannie your life at our c-span store. available online at c-span.org /shop. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] the men who began their tenure as friends ended up as scorpions. find the complete schedule at booktv.org. before meeting with his export council today, president obama announced new goals for doubling of exports over five years. he also told reporters that failure to pass this agreement with republicans on tax cuts would limit job growth. this is about 10 minutes. welcome. everybody have a seat. good morning, everybody. thank you for coming together to help us figure out how we will sell stuff around the world. i want to thank the members of congress who are here and i want to thank jim and ursula as t
involvement, or military s involvement in curtailing the level of corruption with the security forces in afghanistan? any news to report on that? there is, senator, actually. in fact, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and i have pushed at general mcchrystal s request the establishment of a task force, led by two-star navy admil wh in fact, she was the joint contracting command, iraq commander when i was the commander in iraq, now she has one more star. she is going to head a task force that will go in and augment the contracting command that helps in iraq. that oversees this effort in iraq or in afghanistan. and then gets at who are not only the subcontractors, but the subcontractors to the subcontractors. literally, where is the money going? and is it all above board? and that s a hugely important component of dealing, again, with corruption issues, dealing with warlordism and a variety of other challenges that cause issues for afghanistan. because as you know,
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