How they coped with their losses. This program is part of the friends of the National World ii veterans conference is conference and is over one hour. Good morning and thank you for coming. A great opportunity for all of us to learn to some of the greatest resources to world war ii that we have. Session two, is connected with American World war ii orphans network. I am the morning anchor karen washington d. C. In this is my first exposure to this network, so i am interested in trying to learn with you. I am also an education reporter, too. So i can infuse that in some of my reporting. I learned today by doing research and talking to our panel here that 183,000 children were left fatherless as a result of world war ii. These folks are among them. Joining us on the panel this morning, we will start on the other side. , an is bob meake industrial engineer and serving as a staff member of the congressional person and senator. Next to bob is nancy craig. And i hope i pronounce the rest of t
Winter tor museum. Wonderful. Well it is exciting to be here today. This really grew from just an idea that lisa had to maybe just do a little talk on flag day and then we realized that in fact there were three flags being stored here and one in the collection of the museum of the American Revolution two that are the property of an anonymous, very generous owner and lender who has consented to have them on display for this afternoon. So this is an extraordinary opportunity. Im not sure there is anywhere else on the planet why you can stand in the room and be in the presence of three banners of liberty from the American Revolution. So congratulations to all of you for not going to the beach this weekend or not mowing the grass in the hot weather and choosing to come and sit in the dark with me for about np hour. I would like to start actually with an exercise to get you to think about the role that flags play and the images you have in your minds eye about the American Revolution. And s
Well also hear from the heads of foreign aid organizations including former British Foreign secretary david millband. This is an hour and 45 minutes. This hearing is an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for attending. Today marks the sixth anver anniversa anniversary, using that word guardedly, of the Syrian Civil War causing the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet since world war ii. There are many, many issues regarding the conflict and today we are going to explore some of those. A few we will talk about is the food shortage in syria, and the substantial starvation and deprivation that occurred there. Turkey has revoked the permit for certain humanitarian ngos to distribute food there. Education is a big issue for everyone in the world. With six years of this war, there is an entire generation that is going to be deprived on the educational front. There is a number of issues regarding that and we ar
A distribution affected, as well. Sunday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on after words. Washington journal continues. Host our first guest of the morning, representative tom garrett from virginia. He is a member of the freedom caucus. Good morning to you. Guest good morning. And also a member of the educational workforce committee. Host on top of the things, a freshman. Tell us how you got here. Guest the reason im on three we areees is because trying to find the best opportunity we can find to give back with whatever talent and opportunities present themselves. Host a little bit about your background . Guest military veteran. After that, went to law school, served as a prosecutor, state, federal, local. Host according to the Washington Post, one of the things you are encountering is the repeal and replacement bill from the republicans, the Washington Post saying that you are one of the republicans who have questions about this. Guest at least for off the top of my head. There are some go
Part in a discussion about the Childrens Health Insurance Program. The program is up for reauthorization in congress this year. This is 40 minutes. Starting the panel, we have the president and ceo of the Childrens Hospital association, the president of the American Action for him and a former director we were joking about the cbo scores and withstanding criticism and so forth and we also have the former director of the Medicaid Services and bill, the favorite of reporters everywhere, the Bipartisan Policy Center very helpful and also a former director of the Senate Budget committee thank you. Thank you for coming. We appreciate everyone being here today. When we planned the conference we thought we would be a little further along in the discussion of the Childrens Health Insurance Program reauthorization. We thought there would be conversations going along. There have been a few private conversations but not as we might have expected all those many months ago. When you think of Childr