St century challenges. Its the inside story welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez and this is inside story. Service in this countrys armed forces moved from a mass experience to a rare one. The shift to an all volunteer military made uniform service a matter of personal desire rather than the nations broad based needs. Every president from Harry Trueman to George Hw Bush served in the military. A big percentage of men elected to the house and senate for decades had some form of military experience. Now only a tiny percentage join the military and are strangers to vast numbers of civilians. While a tiny does 100 of the fighting and dying in combat, the kinds of wars the country fought over meant multiple deployments in combat areas, reservists heading over seas for multiple tours and injuries that would have killed people in earlier wars, amputations, newer neurological damage. It became commonplace to thank vets and in the place of your own service, no praise was too high. Veterans di
Good cheers than the serious 21 st century challenges. Its the inside story welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez and this is inside story. Service in this countrys armed forces moved from a mass experience to a rare one. The shift to an all volunteer military made uniform service a matter of personal desire rather than the nations broad based needs. Every president from Harry Trueman to George Hw Bush served in the military. A big percentage of men elected to the house and senate for decades had some form of military experience. Now only a tiny percentage join the military and are strangers to vast numbers of civilians. While a tiny does 100 of the fighting and dying in combat, the kinds of wars the country fought over meant multiple deployments in combat areas, reservists heading over seas for multiple tours and injuries that would have killed people in earlier wars, amputations, newer neurological damage. It became commonplace to thank vets and in the place of your high. Veterans d
Frustrated. They do not want to live in the middle of a skim scene. San francisco residents trying to catch a bus were greeted by crime tape with bullets shattering the glass at the shelter. The two men were shot. It was a reminder this morning of the violence that plagues this neighborhood. The neighbor, mission, is from daylight to dark, in day it is okay but after dark, you do not want to be caught here. The two men are in stable condition, 35yearold was shot in the foot and a 54yearold in the chest. Police are looking into whether it was gangrelated and who was the target. Even if the attack was personality had an impact on the public. I pull the blinds open and i look up and i see this huge hole. A bullet pierce add window of the Dentist Office locationed across the stress from the shooting. It was unsettling this morning. I was afraid. My heart goes out to this community out here who has to deal with this type of incident. Row better to is trying to stop the violence in the missi
Are Health Hazards. Lets look at current conditions. Weve got sunny skies and hot weather across the bay area. Heres a look at High Temperatures so far. 103 degrees in antioch. Oakland airport at 94 degrees. Set a new record here for this date. 95 here. Other numerous locations in the mid to upper 90s. We have a heat advisory in effect today and tomorrow for the entire bay area from 11 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. I mentioned Health Hazards earlier associated with this heat. And we have poor air quality which is compounding the problem we have. Air quality projection for the next few days. Tomorrow will be as well. Its quite likely thursday and friday will be also as no improvement is expected until the weekend. We do expect a little bit of a letup by the weekend. Certainly the triple digit heat. Ill give you a look at the longer range forecast in just a few minutes. All right, thank you. You know its hot when spencer ditches the tie. Normally the tie is part of the outfit. But we continue o
Data security, the way the virtual marketplace is used, and the way our constituents want to have a tool box to protect, as i call it, their virtual you online. So, we appreciate your time, your willingness to be with us this morning, and i yield back to the chair of the committee. Yield back. Gentleman from texas mr. Barton want to use some of that time . Thank you mr. Chairman. Ive served on this committee since 1986. Ive served with three of the four former chairman, mr. Wiley preceded me. Weve had some agreements, weve had some disagreements. So its good to have all four of you gentlemen here today. When i was chairman of the full committee, back in 1996, my commutety introduced a bill we call the coke bill, the communication opportunity promotion enhancement act of 2006. It dealt with national franchising, Net Neutrality, public educational and governmental access, e911 and what we now call void. It passed the house 321101, but it didnt come up for a vote in the senate. I voted fo