Contest, into the convention and general election. That of course, is what this seminar will focus on. Withrocess, the politics the candidates and their campaign, and the policies. Houseth to the white still depends on 270 Electoral College votes. Many of you have probably seen the website, 270 to win. That, are interested in what is the path to victory in the white house . Today,270 votes, as of january 4, 217 of those are viewed as safely democratic. That means that the democratic candidate needs to get 53 more votes. If you think, essay states could could the safe states change, let me tell you what the safe states are. The republicans have 191. California, 55 votes. New york state, 29 votes. Votes. S, 20 michigan, 16. New jersey, 14. Washington, 12. Massachusetts, 11. Maryland 10, oregon seven, connecticut seven. That gets us to 191. Four. Maine, three, anddc, hawaii, four. Once you get to 17, how do you get to 270 . Votes. Ennsylvania is 20 florida is 29. Ohio is 18. 217, a candid
This robust growth has come despite budget cuts in real terms. It is also come despite basic problems with the governments structure over voa and its sister entities. The idea behind it was laudable. To create a fire wall protecting the independence of the journalism from interference by policymakers. But ask yourself this question. How can nine busy people run a large, complex collection of companies as a part time activity . The bbg has had difficulty sometimes playing an effective executive Decision Making role. It has not helped that the white house and the senate have opted bbg chairman jeff shell and the current board understand the structural problem and what to do with it. They rightly want to get out of the business of running u. S. International broadcasting month to month. The bbgs recent appointment of a full time executive officer for u. S. International media is an Excellent First step in my view because whats needed is a full time professional boss. But john lancing, the
Us such that moms and dads and aunts and uncles and grandparents and look at families and say these kids, adults have more of a tendency to become addicted to drugs and alcohol or not . I dont want to say theres a profile but certainly a Family History of Substance Use disorder, whether its alcoholism, which is so common, its still the most common form of Substance Use disorder, can predispose subsequent generations. Early experiment agent with things as such as cigarettes can be a suggestion that an individual is acting on some maybe buy logic or genetic impulse to alter ones state of mind. Beyond that, its kind of it could happen to anybody. Is there any genetic mapping thats taking place, maybe dr. Compton you want to dig into, such that it helps folks make sure that they know that they have a higher or lower t tendency to have this problem in life, sir . We have not unravelled again n again ngenetic disorders. Some tobacco addiction. We havent solved that when it comes to opioid ad
To have two men killed. And a miraculous rescue at sea for this fisherman. He survived for two days before being spotted. A warm welcome to the program. The head of the u. N. Mission nighting ebola in west africa has told the bbc he doesnt yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease. He says more help is urgently needed. He praised contributions from britain, which opened a new ebola center in sierra leone on wednesday. He also said that the United States, china, and cuba had all sent significant numbers of soldiers or medics, but he says its still not enough. Talking to our International Development correspondent mark doyle, whos been giving me this update. The essence of what the u. N. Boss here the essence of what he says is that he doesnt yet have enough resources from the International Community to defeat the disease. He says its working as hard as it can. Has some resources but he doesnt have enough medical workers, enough infrastructure, resources and so on to
I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith, tyrone woods, Glenn Doherty and ambassador Chris Stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. Fire, violence, the weaponry of war. I want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. Not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through