That had 333 recommendations for reform to the Grant Programs at fema. Howev however, only found four permanent changes in which these recommendations came forward. Despite reform over a fiveyear period, little in the way of reform appears to have occurred. We had a hearing on this in 2013 in which we went through some of the various forms of waste occurring at fema. Even since that hearing, we still continue to have problems. 280,000 was recently spent for a bear cat Armored Vehicle in dover. We complained of a 600,000 bear cat Armored Vehicle for keen. I guess New Hampshire is ready for the next invasion. We also found recently or the inspectors have found 1. 7 million for unused radios and generators and 174,000 for unused radios in d. C. This is since we last meant to talk about waste. Every dollar wasted makes a difference two taxpayers. Right now, fema is more than 20 billion in debt because of the Flood Insurance program. Disaster spending often far outpaces the annual Funding C
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A lot of us have been advocating for a long time that the two leaders of this government project that theyre working together and with the internal dynamics and as we say it is unlikely to have been. But there are some things regarding Strategic Communication and People Like Us point out not of government itself. What have we done and what are we attempting to do . And a lot of the frustration with this government is that it doesnt understand that sense of crisis and those uncertainties. That is what helps to power the opposition that there is a lot of politicians that are not so good but they are in the opposition and government that seems even worse. Picking up on a good point that not acknowledging the crisis that it faces of lot of president can do and quite frankly there isnt that many options but there are two issues one is out of president can strengthen the eyes of the International Community and also nearly in the eyes of his own government. To strengthen the position in the b
And, indeed, today i hope and believe that we will get this done and then we can turn to that nomination. But there are others on the perhaps too many to name senator warner, senator heitkamp and others on the democratic side, there are those on the republican side, senator collins comes to mind, and others whove worked so hard and so relentlessly and with such determination to get us where we are today. So we need to get this over the finish line so we can move on to other business. Mr. President , i have 11 than consent requests for the committees to meet during todays session of the senate. Theyve been approved, these requests have been approved by the majority and minority leaders. Id ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn and id note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call a senator the senator from indiana.
Very violent movement. And this is also not just a sunni phenomenon. Many of the clerics emphasized the islamic awakening. Theres always been this feeling among sunnis and shia that theres a need for a islamic era that would unify the shia and sunni that would be an islamic awakening. Unfornlttunately that has not happened and weve seen a period of secatrianism thats completely escalated the violence in the middle east. So this need for some sort of islamic awakening has always been the dream, as you explained. But unfortunately as a result of the arab uprising. As a result of for a quest for identity, for unity, for dignity, unfortunately these two communities within the islamic tradition have not come together. So the question i would like to start with should i start with you. Start your question. Ill go from there. The question i wanted to ask is what do you think it is about morocco thats been able to succeed and achieve the progress both of you have outlined that we havent seen i