Hearing yesterday. You can take place by phone, if you are a republican call 2027488001, if a democrat call 2027488000, independent call 2027488002. If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media, our to her handle is http twitter. Com cspanwj. Or you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. It is frontpage news just about everywhere. Here is a sampling. The Washington Post, back in the benghazi hotseat. Her fromjust of different times in the day. Grilling,ndles panels the 2016 president ial race silently looms large. De financial times, clinton efiant in republican interrogation over benghazi. Another set of photos of the secretary at different points making different types of gestures throughout the day. Times, she is engaged in an intense session. Little new is revealed, that is the New York Times. A couple more before we get to your calls. Onnton pins responsibility stevens, this the front page. Plenty of the fireworks, but no spoken gun. Piece of Hillary Clinton responding t
Please remain standing as the chaplain of the United States senate dr. Barry black gives the invocation. Let us pray. Sovereign god, your glory fills the skies. Triumph over the shades of night. Lord, thank you for this congressional Gold Medal Ceremony that commemorates the brief lives of four exemplary young women, casualties in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on september 15th, 1963. May their deaths on a day that they came to church to worship you remind us of the senseless and deranged nature of evil motivating us to remember that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. We praise you that their tragic deaths helped arouse the conscience of a nation, bring g ing deliverance and freedom to the oppressed. Inspire us, oh, god, to honor the memories of addy, denise, carol and cynthia by refusing to become weary in doing what is right, knowing that a productive harvest is as certain as the dawning of the springtime upon a cold, dead land
This forum on u. S. Customs and Border Protection. And this event is being broadcast live by cspan. And as many of you may know customs and Border Protection is the largest federal Law Enforcement agency and also it provides the second largest revenue collecting source for the federal government. On a typical day, cbp seizes over 10,000 pounds of drugs, 650,000 dollars in undeclared or illicit currency, and 3. 4 million of products with intellectual property right violations. So needless to say this agency is working very hard to safeguard americas borders while also enhancing legitimate trade and commerce. Our feature speaker today is commissioner gil kerlikowske. Hes going to discuss his insights from his first year of leading this agency. Hes also going to look at some of the highlights in terms of his vision for moving forward. The agency has put out a new vision and strategy 2020 document that lays out what the agency would like to do in the future. The commissioner was nominated
Screeria nigeria. Eric can for and health and human secretary kathleen sebelius. Whistle blowers from the Veterans Department spoke about retaliation used against them for reporting wrongdoing. Employees told members of the House Veterans Affairs subcommittee that they faced demotions and public embarrassment for their actions. U. S. Special counsel carolyn learner was also a witness and spoke about the number of whistleblower protection claims. This hearing is two hours. Good afternoon. I would like to ask unanimous consent that the admiral seeing no objection additionally i would like to ask unanimous consent that three statements be entered into the hearing record two from whistleblowers. Hearing no objection, so order. The hearing will focus on the department of defense im sorry. Within the department of Veterans Affairs particularly, the types and levels of retaliation that they experienced when reporting problems. It will serve as a follow up to the hearing conducted by the commi
A morning news show that includes interviews, features and banter among hosts. All the way to the very end. He did one at midnight in michigan or wisconsin, i cant remember which state, pushing all the way through. He says hes going to campaign for the gop six or seven days a week ahead of the midterms all the way to the finish line. Listen to the president. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week when were 60 days out and ill be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race. And we think were going to bring them over the line. And youve seen a series of tweets recently in contested primaries where theyre putting their finger on the sail saying this sour guy or gal who can win in november. Putting more than a finger. Look at the two significant races we talked about one was martha robie in alabama, she was kricritical of President Trump n 2016. And now the president weighing in, game changer in alabama. And in georgia youve got brian kemp