Gilmore and officials with the Government Accountability office. The report highlights Government Programs and agencies that may be vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, and mismanagement. This is just over 90 minutes. The committee on Homeland Security, somebody on oversight and management and efficiency, will come to order. The purpose of this hearing is to examine the efficiency of this department of home and security and how widely the are spending taxpayer dollars. Let me begin by extending a warm welcome to the other members of the subcommittee. I am looking forward to working with the Ranking Members as we both share a commitment to u. S. Border security and ensuring our board agents ensuring our Border Agents receive the support they need to protect homeland. Also look forward to a strong bipartisan cooperation in helping to make the department of home as security as efficient and effective as possible. I would also like to introduce our new freshmen majority members. We have m
With you. I have gotten to know many of you during the course of some very difficult weeks, and your courage and love for each other and your communities shines through every single day and we could not be more blessed and grateful for your loved ones who gave everything they had on behalf of our kids. As we await the president , lets go to our panel. Mark glaze is director of mayors against illegal guns and karen finney is former dn C Communications director and also an msnbc political analyst. Good day to you both. Mark, i want to talk about some of the points that the president is expected to make in a moment, but first lets talk about that rebuttal by the great Wayne Lapierre. Whats most amazing is that it did not at all mirror his barely concealed nativism which was on display in an editorial release that day. Hurricanes tornadoes, riots, terrorists, gangs, lone criminals, these are perils we are sure to face, not just maybe. Its not paranoia to buy a gun. Its survival. Its respon
They deserve a vote. They deserve a vote. Gabby giffords deserves a vote. The families of newtown deserve a vote. The families of aurora deserve a vote. The family of oak creek and tucson and blacksburg and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence, they deserve a simple vote. Moving moment. We start with michael crowley, Deputy Washington Bureau chief, all over this along with their cover story. Were going to talk about the pope, well talk about the president. The nation for the most part wants gun control, supports the president s initiative on this but it seems almost impassable through congress. How does the president negotiate this where the nation wants it but then the elected officials are mostly saying, no, were not going for it. To some degree you have a structural issue and ive talked about it and you guys talk about it all the time. Theres not much can you do about it. Because of gerrymandering, you have a lot of members of congress who are primarily worrie
Sieveness. In the end, the governor said she did what she had to do. After weighing all of the arguments, i have vetoed senate bill 1062 moments ago. Reporter it was the news so many had hoped to hear. I am absolutely thrilled. Happiness. Its about time. I knew she was going to do it. Reporter arizonas governor vetoes the bill. I call them like i see them, despite the cheers or the boos from the crowd. Reporter the governor says the bill was broadly worded with the potential to create more problems than it could solve. I not heard of one example where Business Owners religious liberty had been vie litted. Reporter the reaction as passionate as the days of protesting that catapulted this bill into the national spotlight. We did this. We did this. Reporter some of the nations most prominent lawmakers and businesses joining the fight. And the nfl was watching closely as the Super Bowl Committee expressed concerns. She didnt want to be known as the governor who lost the super bowl. Reporte
John mccain, who served the country so admirably, has become an angry fellow from dawn until dusk taking an occasional break to remember who he is and saying enough of this when his new allies get out of hand. When ted cruz starts attacking the loyalty to america of one of mccains fellow vietnam vets, a combat vet at that. The viciousness is something we havent seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness, attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even though hagel wasnt even in the government when benghazi happened. Sick stuff. And it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obamas popularity. The better he looks, the worse these characters, inhofe, cruz, mccain, and Lindsey Graham, are determined to look. Did you notice the smile on John Boehners face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union . If you did, youre imagining things. So afraid of th