Cspan, created by americas cae companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host steven ran roque l, what is a u. S. Chief Information Officer do . Guest well, the u. S. Chief Information Officer wears a few hats. One is sets the budget for the technology span of the executive branch, so it covers all the agencies of government and the department of defense to think about and form late the president s budget every year and do that. The second thing is through the egovernment act that we have in the u. S. , the u. S. Chief Information Officer has the ability to set policy, Statutory Authority to set policy government wide with. So thinking about, you know, visionary view of Technology Use in government and driving that forward as part of the, part of the, what we do. And then the third is and this is really under this administration the u. S. Chief Information Officer, a title and role created by president obama acts as an adviser to the president a
Bri a little bit too much of a literary analogy there. Good morning. Its a huge week as becky said, especially for the summer. Well look at the markets. The s p, dow and nasdaq indicating a slight drop, but folks, its early. The beginning of a big week. Well check oil. Oil prices this morning not doing a whole lot as well. We are seeing wti crude come down to 57 cents to 101. 52. All the hard commodities, brent, crude, heating all, they are all slightly lower this morning. The tenyear treasury yield is favorable if you are a borrower. If youre looking to buy a house, the tenyear yield is down but the tenyear note is down 2. 5 . The Mortgage Rates should remain low. Were seeing a slight move higher in euro dollar, 1. 3435. And we are seeing the price of and ounce of gold up 1 to 1304 this week. It will be a big month in geopolitical. I think it stands to note that you guys know with all the stuff going on geo politically, its a good time for companies to come out with something you dont
Mention the endangered species reform act, people say, just putting some controls and limiting it, that youre antispecies, antienvironment. What were talking about here, just like all the things in life are updated from time to time, this needs to be updated. Im pleased to work on this working group together with the chairman and others to bring about some sensible reforms. And the reason we do this is because farmers, ranchers, folks back home, farm bureaus, have been hit with lawsuits and i appreciate what the gentleman just said, its lawsuits, not science, that seem to be pressuring some of the some of this along. In 2007 they entered into an agreement with fish and wildlife that added a thousand species. But no one affected were allowed to participate. I have another bill, sue and settle that would have taken care of that, we passed it out of this house. It was said earlier when you take the e. S. A. You dont take a meat cleaver approach. I think the problem is not a meat cleaver a
Amber vinson, the second nurse is being treated in atlanta. Who is this mystery man wearing no protective gear. The plane she was flying on is being de contaminacontaminat questions on whether the cdc has done enough to contain this virus. Hurricane gonzalo is expected to hit bermuda tomorrow, and in the pacific ana is expected to strengthen as it hits hawaii. The dow is just tanking on us. The broadbased selloff. Everything is for sale. The dow plunged 460 points and snapped back. It ended the day at 163 points. We have an extremely peculiar situation. Governor rick scott didnt take the podium for five minutes because Charlie Crist had a fan. Are we going to talk about an electric fan or education. An avalanche killed some in nepal. 200 fear ed. All that a horrifying crash caught on dash cam video. Amazingly the driver survived. It tosses that guy across the net. And all that matters. 25 years has ended. The royals are going to the world series. All right. Where are you going to be pa
This campaign will say that 55 , that 1. 6 million votes is a substantial vote for Scottish Independence and the future of this country. Reporter about the result comes at a cost, london is prepared to reduce its influence in favor of giving up some of its powers. And we will live in scotland reflecting on how the vote and its effect on our traveling south of the border and could transform the fortune politically of the entire United Kingdom. In other news u. N. Declares ebola a threat to security as sierrealeon is declaring a problem. And then we have a grand slam champion at the age of 32. Welcome to the program, in the last few weeks the opinion poll said it would be close and reference of the referendum would have created a crisis in london and the final was 40 wanted to break away but 55 wanted to stay. Only because big concessions were offered in the final few days of campaigning. Lets talk to july mcdonald live here and a clear win for the no campaign, what does the result tell