House in philadelphia. Each week, we visit museums, archives and tis hotorque place. Every day of the year except december 25th. The tour of the United States and around the world take a short boat ride from either Lower Manhattan or energy to visit the statue of liberty and ellis island. Up next, we visit ed the landmak to learn the story behind the gift from vance unveiled in 1886 after 21 years of planning, fund raising and construction. Welcome to statue of liberty. Im from jacksonville, florida. Folks, i have a great job. Ive been working with the National Parks Service Since 1999. Ive been all over the United States. Then i went to jacksonville for Caroline National memorial and the outer banks in north carolina. Ed ott our nations First National seashore. Cape hatteras. Ive been working here for about seven years now. We want protect these special places. We want to repair future swren rations, thats our goal. Folks, here we are at the statue of liberty, our nations most famous
Reporter with defense news. What does the Defense Authorization bill and what is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . The House Armed Services passed it, the national Defense Authorization act for 2018 earlier or late last month, and what it is, is the bill the annual defense policy bill. It gets reconciled with the senate version. In this case they authorized about 696 billion in defense budgeting and related policy provisions for the pentagon. So thats 696 billion figure though, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . Well, thats a huge question. The budget cap for defense in this case is a number, it is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending cap is a change in the law and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate. 60 votes in the senate takes sena Senate Democrats. So what we know is that Senate Democrats have leverage in this deal, that theyre likely to press for more o
House in philadelphia. Each week, we visit museums, archives and tis hotorque place. Every day of the year except december 25th. The tour of the United States and around the world take a short boat ride from either Lower Manhattan or energy to visit the statue of liberty and ellis island. Up next, we visit ed the landmak to learn the story behind the gift from vance unveiled in 1886 after 21 years of planning, fund raising and construction. Welcome to statue of liberty. Im from jacksonville, florida. Folks, i have a great job. Ive been working with the National Parks Service Since 1999. Ive been all over the United States. Then i went to jacksonville for Caroline National memorial and the outer banks in north carolina. Ed ott our nations First National seashore. Cape hatteras. Ive been working here for about seven years now. We want protect these special places. We want to repair future swren rations, thats our goal. Folks, here we are at the statue of liberty, our nations most famous
Reporter with defense news. What does the Defense Authorization bill and what is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . The House Armed Services passed it, the national Defense Authorization act for 2018 earlier or late last month, and what it is, is the bill the annual defense policy bill. It gets reconciled with the senate version. In this case they authorized about 696 billion in defense budgeting and related policy provisions for the pentagon. So thats 696 billion figure though, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . Well, thats a huge question. The budget cap for defense in this case is a number, it is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending cap is a change in the law and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate. 60 votes in the senate takes sena Senate Democrats. So what we know is that Senate Democrats have leverage in this deal, that theyre likely to press for more o
Joe gould is congressional reporter with defense news. What is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . In this case they authorized about 56 billion in funding and 696 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. At 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . That is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the number is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending caps is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we know is that if Senate Democrats have leverage, they are likely to press for more on the nondefense budget which is likely to lower the defense side of the budget. Thats 596 billion number we are talking about is likely to come down. Lets go to investments, what does this bill called for in terms of ships and planes . What we have heard from the white