Tremendous job he is doing in arkansas and were grateful to have her on board and like i said were pleased that youre here and all that you represent. Thank you. Thank you, senator boseman. Were going to start with you, ali. Im going to follow the direction of senator carper and take your short name, all right . You are recognized. Chairman and house Ranking Member boxer and members of the committee my name is ali mirzakhalili, delawares director of air quality. I thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I would like to share with you delawares view of the respective roles and responsibilities of the epa, state and the u. S. Congress with respect to complying with various environmental statutes and associated regulatory actions to protect Public Health and environment. The Clean Air Act has been a huge success, preventing literally hundreds of thousands of premature deaths as well as averting millions of incidents and mobility. The Health Benefits associated with the Clean Air A
A reminder, well have live coverage of mrs. Reagans funeral from the president ial library in simi valley friday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. White house spokesman josh earnest took reporters questions about the Supreme Court vacancy, last nights president ial primary and this is a one hour portion of todays briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I do not have anything off the top so we can go straight to questions. Darlene, would you like to start . Do you have anything to add to your reports that u. S. Special forces are questioning the head of the Islamic State units trying to develop Nuclear Weapons . Unfortunately, i do not. Ive seen those reports. At this point im still constrained im still constrained by some Operational Security concerns from answering them. You do know there are u. S. Military forces that are on the ground in iraq that are part of these forces that are dedicated to carrying out raids, collecting intelligence and where possible getting access to high value targets, but
Government shutdowns over the debt ceiling. Obama said the bill invests in the economy and National Security calling it a great Bipartisan Legislation obama president obama what we now see is a budget that reflects our values, that grows our economy, creates jobs, keeps america safe its going to strengthen the middle class by investing in critical areas like education and job training, basic research. Jessica rae the National Debt limit until march 15th, 2017. Jessica rae the university of iowas new president has started his job on campus. And was met with protests. Protestors chanting jessica rae the iowa board of regents selected Bruce Harreld on september 3rd to replace sally mason. Harrelds background is in business, not in education administration. And thats led to scrutiny from faculty and gathered on the pentacrest to call for Bruce Harreld to resign. But harreld made it pretty clear thats not going to happen. Bruce harreld says, it comes with the territory, ive been part of the
Students cheering cheers and chants from students celebrating. The resignation of university of missouri president , tim wolfe. sot maya stewart, junior 12 22 45ish its really about just getting fairness, not just about tim wolfe resigning, but its about getting equal rights. sot josh mcclellan, 12 25 20ish and it really makes me, as a student, just glad to know i could affect something if needed to. Wolfe. Announcing he is stepping down. sot tim wolfe my motivation in comes from love. His decision following student protests. Faculty walkouts and even Football Players and their coach refusing to take the field until wolfe resigned. sot tim wolfe 11 19 06 we got frustrated with each other. skip to . And that is why i stand before you today and i take full responsibility for this frustration and i take full responsibility for inaction that has occurred. Wolfe had come under fire for his alleged mishandling of a series of racial incidents on campus. Including reports of students being cal
Show at seaworld in San Diego Park, yore out of luck. Seaworld is ending all killer whale shows in san diego. This comes after attendance at the San Diego Park dropped and seaworld faced animal cruelty claims, after the 2013 documentary blackfish, aired. At an investor conference, seaworld announceceit will phase out the shows by t t end of 2016. And it will debut a new orca experience with a strong conservation message in 2017. Now the ceo of sea world is speaking about the changes. Theres a lot of factors and i think we have to see how it all plays out. Its going to be focused more on the natural setting, Natural Environment and also the natural behaviors of the whale and it will have a strong conservation message. Jessica rae there is no word on if the shows will also end at seaworlds otherer parks. Jessica rae the santee sioux tribe of flandreau south watched their recent progress marijuana lounge go up in smoke over the weekend the tribe decided to put a hold on their operation. S