Debut of the serious film, rosewater. Theres sometimes a misperception, i think, of satire, that it is clownish in the sense no disrespect to clowns but that its baggy pants. Its not. Its a way of expressing ideas and synthesize information that you truly believe in, just using the tools of satire. Mark sheds and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the long delayed and much fought over keystone xl pipeline is back on Congress Todo list. It won a new vote of support today in the u. S. House, and headed for the senate, pro
Coming up on cspan2 the House Armed Services Committee Works on the Defense Budget for next year. And we will take you live to the senate where work continued on a bill that would require the Obama Administration to submit any Nuclear Agreement with iran to congress for review. A government report alleges Homeland Security official while serving as head of the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services gave special access to the visa program. Today he testifies before the house Homeland Security committee to answer questions about political favoritism. See it live starting at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Ray mabus discusses the navys future amid budget challenges and evolving threats overseas today. You can see his remarks in the National Press club live at 1 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. 150 years ago this weekend a greedy nation gathered along the route of abraham lincolns funeral train as it made its way from washington, d. C. To his final resting place in springfield, illinois. This sund
Support this amendment so that we can get to what would be right and be a better Retirement Program and will accommodate all those members, and i ask for your support of mr. Gibsons amendment. Thank you, mr. Chairman and i yield back my time. Gentleman from virginia, mr. Forbes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Id like to yield my time to the chairman. I thank the gentleman from virginia. I certainly appreciate the comments made, and we all have the same goal which is to try to come up with a program that will allow us to recruit and retain the best and brightest. The commission spent over two years trying to come up with that program and presented it in their commissions report. We had multiple hearings in the military personnel subcommittee. We had a full hearing from the commissioners here for the entire group. Understanding its going to cause confusion alongst those that are currently serving. Those who are currently serving are not affected by the change. Its prospective. If they want to
Anc, in order to deliver not just a transfer of power that offered the prospect of peace for all the people of south africa. Mandela once notably said, this is not about moving from white domination to black domination. There must be no domination of either community. He was an extraordinary man in not only believing that but practising it with every fibre of his being. As we look today at the lessons of mandelas extraordinary life and incredible achievements, at his contribution not just to south africa, which goes without saying, but to the wider world and at why he has become such an iconic figure, two factors stand out. First, he is perhaps the best example we have had in the past 100 years of how political leaders, by force of personality, transform themselves from politicians into statesman can by their sheer personal effort change the world and make what was impossible possible and then deliver it. He is not the only one who has done so. We should not think of him as unique. Gor
Sheriff deputies charged with the hills in Los Angeles County eighteen Sheriff Deputies are being accused of abuse of local residents. Now it looks like the jailers might end up being jailed and souths an in depth look at a fifth grader michelle a fan its easy its summer time ive wanted to be seen on your day that we are watching our tea. Mom and lawmakers that come to an agreement on the latest version of the nba or the National Defense authorization bill. But the clock ticking down until the house and turns for the holidays this friday meters of the senate and House Armed Services committees work the deal to move forward with a bill that will fund the us military next year. The twenty fourteen bill will optimize five hundred and fifty two billion dollars in National Defense planning and nearly eighty one billion for overseas contingency operations. Yesterday i attended a press conference in which the leaders of those committees expressed confidence that the bill would be passed into