He spent keeping himself on tainted and logging and other kinds of things. When you look at the transition from leon panetta and asking what kind of person you would have in their, eventually to deal with what will be a shrinking defense budget, i think chuck hagel seemed a very obvious choice. I basically thought that is where the president was going to go early on. Host this is a the news from the New York Times. The war and against hagel and republicans called him in the piecer based on what he said in iraq. He voted for the war but turned against it. Easer sings very strong. Guest he voted for it and then had criticism of how it was being carried out. When you talk about the secretary defense, the most important thing that happened during the war is the surge. He voted against the surge. He called the worst mistake since vietnam. We know in terms of the military, strategy and the search worked. It was very successful. When youre talking about putting somebody in the secretary of de
What fox you have on the roll of film, television, and video games in this ongoing debate . What responsibility, if any, to those groups have to change or put restrictions on their products . Give us a call on the democratic line. For democrats, 2025853880. For republicans, 2025853881. For independents, 2025853882. And if you are outside the United States, 2025853883. You can catch up with us on all of your favorite social media sites. Or you can email us, journal c span. Org. I want to start with a story from the Washington Times of. Films and videogames get short shrift in gun violence review. Host we want to get your take today on what you think those meaningful solution should be, specifically for the film, television, and video game industry. Were already getting comments on the facebook gave this morning. I want to read a few of those now. Meaningful solution we will take your calls this morning in the first 45 minutes, but first want to play you a segment from the state of the u
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Denham, an chairman schuster laid the groundwork in 2006 when his postkarina reform act authorized fema to conduct a number of recovery programs. Costs of dramatically reduced, projects were completed faster and the process was more efficient. Without making permanent the debris removal program, the taxpayer could pay six times the cost of debris removal and it could take much longer. The individuals and households Pilot Program incorporated in this bill would reduce costs by a similar amount and make temporary Housing Available faster. In hearing after hearing before our committee experts, fema and the Inspector Generals Office have all testified communities will be rebuilt faster and taxpayers will save hundreds of millions of dollars with this bill. We know the current process is broken and we finally know how to fix it but we have to change the law by march or it will be too late to apply lessons to Sandy Recovery. Its been nearly eight years since Hurricane Katrina and there are s
Thought of it in those terms. I had approached this job where every day is a new opportunity, and yesterday was yesterday and today is a new day. I never thought of in the idea of how long i had been. That started me thinking, and my sons started thinking about, why dont you come home . We started having a family conversation. Where is the district . The east side of san and to theay, interior of california. It used to go quite a ways into the interior. You have been chairman of a couple committees. What are those . Chairman of the Natural Resources committee in the house, house education and labor committee, and a subcommittee on children, youth and families a number of years ago the tip oneill created. Go back to the days your father was in politics. What was he like . Voice in a big california politics. He was one of the founders of the California Democratic committee, the left wing of the democratic party, and very involved in education, very involved in our community. I saw the go