Thanks everybody for being here. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] tonight the communicators visits middle east Broadcasting Network including other u. S. Sponsored broadcast news. We spoke with the president of the middle east broadcast network. Fran myers, producer and the digital managing editor of raise your voice about how they share Democratic Values that would not otherwise be exposed to a wider spectrum. We have been on air for 12 years and i think the audience has come to learn its not propaganda. We do try to be balanced but we also provide topics and we cover topics and information that is not really available. There arent enough people telling the stories of how difficult it is to be a woman and a girl child. How many stories have we done on child marriages. I cant count. You cant do enough because really in the middle east theyre not telling that story because its too close to home. There was a campaign we launched in september 2015
Under barack obama and Hillary Clinton defense spending is on track to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since the end of world war ii. We currently have the Smallest Army since 1940. The navy is among the smallest it has been since 1915. It is 100 years ago. The air force is the smallest it has been since 1947. When Ronald Reagan left office the navy had 592 ships. When barack Obama Took Office it had 285 ships. Today, the navy has just 276 ships. The average air force aircraft is 27 years old. We have secondgeneration b52 bombers their fathers. The same plane they are flying right now. This is not the United States. Our army has been shrinking rapidly. From 553,000 soldiers in 2009 to 479,000 soldiers today. Some decrease. You want to make it smaller. In 2009 our marine corps had 202,000 active marines. Today it is 182,000. Our ship count is below the minimum of 308 that the navy says is needed to execute its current michigans at a minimal level. President obama plan
Longer be operating in New Hampshire, in the exchange over just the first two quarters of this year alone. This move will leave 11,581s individuals in the Granite State looking for new held plans. Political reports, that one arizona county is poised to become an obama care ghosttown because no one can afford to sell them. That leaves 9700 people, in all ob arizona, although, with the no anticipations. Q. Millions need relief. Heres the action thats needed. They need immediate relief from the cost of Health Insurance and a lack of options the exchanges. We should do that, by giving states more flexibility, to give individuals and their families options to purchase lower cost private health plans outside ofn obamacare and we should do that now. I intend to offer this legislation that would provide that relief. Thats only to deal with the emergency of next year, of 2017 second, we need big structural change, in order to avoid a near collapse of our nations healtht insurance market. If the
Lets hear it. [applause] hello everyone how are you ladies and gentlemen we are gathered here in this great sovereign state to talk about the faith of the countrys banks, the Federal Reserve. We hope to discover whether the Federal Reserve kept its promise to provide a healthy economy system, full employment, stable and a lender of last resort or is it responsible for the series of the banking crisis and loss of purchasing power of the inflation in average citizen is this economy more stable or is it less stable because of the existence and did and did the fed exacerbate the crisis of 2008 or keep it from getting worse . Are we better off without the fed and if so what shall we replace it with, shall we go back to the classical standard of gold, and can i have been a plus for the classical Gold Standard . [applause] we hope to find out the answers to this most important issue and representing the defense today professor is the cofounder and coeditor of the american prospect magazine an
Flair blessing of peace in our lives and in our world. Our fervent prayer, o god is that people will learn to live together in reconciliation and espect, so that the terrors of war and dictatorial abuse will be no more. Bless all the peacemakers of our world. Play may your eternal spirit be with them and with us always and may your special bless being on the members of the assembly and the important, sometimes difficult work they are given to do. Give them wisdom and charity that they might Work Together for the common good. May all that is done this day in the peoples house be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approve. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from alifornia. Mr. Hunter. Mr. Hunter i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it