Sent us and email, journal cspan. Org. An article from a couple days ago. Of americans said they were following the 2014 midterm elections very closely. Than half the number that said they were tracking the ebola virus, 36 , or u. S. Irstrikes against isis less than the 21 of the people paying attention to the secret service. Most people do not care about midterm elections. Like, at all. The cillizza in washington post. Hard for any story to be the of fracturedrld media consumption. They will be lots of Media Coverage in the final months. Is likely to increase. For most people, the midterms are a nonevent. Heres the hill. An underfunded independent has tern decelerate upside down turned the senate rate upside down. He told the hill that if elected, hed be a friend of obama in the senate. Surging in the race. Thats a little bit from the south Dakota Senate race. We want your point of view on election 2014. Ed in frederick, maryland. Are you paying attention . Caller im looking at the ec
Depravity for the white house stuart usama bin laden was wealthy. Of fort hood butcher had a job if i recall. He was a major in the army. Do you think the guy in copenhagen this last weekend when he pulled the trigger trying to kill a cartoonist, was he screaming jobs, jobs jobs . He was screaming stuart ralph peters 12 hours ago responding to the Obama Administrations suggested we could kill isis but give them jobs. Watch out. The colonel will be here in three minutes from now. Watch out. Lets deal with the markets. It is wednesday morning. The dow industrials holding to the guillotine thousand level. We are within striking distance with alltime highs for the dow. The s p is a little lower today but it reached 2100 yesterday. That is an alltime high. As for the nasdaq, closing in on 5,000, 100 points away almost back to dot. Com bubble levels. Mary kissel, wall street journal editorial board. Any similarity between nasdaq now and nasdaq 1999 . Tech bubble tend to start when you have r
We have seen indicators of how they are advancing nuclear capabilities. And then within their missile force, they have more than several hundred Ballistic Missiles. The predominance of those are close range and short range missiles that affect or influence the peninsula. They have also deployed both medium and intermedia range that influence the region, and of course the development of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile has impact here and Homeland Security in the United States. They have not slow down at this. We have seen as you have seen, this past year they demonstrated their capabilities. They conducted testing. They had more missiledefense and launches in 2014 and they had in the previous five years together. Each of these being in violation of the unsc. We have been taking steps both in material capability, in terms of our missiledefense, to counter that. As well as work with the republic of korea and their Ballistic Missile defense. They just recently funded an upgrade to t
Adm. Locklear gen. Scaparrotti primarily in terms of proliferation security, we have a Proliferation Security Initiative that is global in nature and multinational. That is an important key because we have to bring in and deal with other nations to provide intelligence and forces that may help us in interdiction, etc. And continue our training in that regard, which we do. And terms of the nations that i think we have to be concerned about, i prefer to answer that actually for the record in a classified document instead of here the open form if i could. Sen. Ayotte i appreciate that. I also wanted to follow up, admiral lockley are admiral lockley are, tooear, in light of chinas military buildup, what is your assessment of the current balance of military capabilities in the Taiwan Strait between the pla and taiwan . And where does taiwan have an advantage and where is the pla advantage . What concerns are you hearing from the taiwanese . And what platforms, weapons, assistance and traini
Examine child nutrition programs and then a hearing on Nuclear Waste and then a trade between the United States and mexico. At a Senate Hearing on child nutrition witnesses talked about how school meals effect the health of children. Debby stabenow chairs the agriculture committee. This is an hour and a half. Well, good morning. The Committee Meeting will come to order. We are pleased you are here. I want to welcome everyone to the committees first hearing as we begin to reauthorize Childhood Nutrition Programs. These conversations couldnt come at a more critical time. 16 million children dont have enough to eat in this country. At the same time, Childhood Obesity rates have tripled over the past 30 years. Something is wrong with this picture. These are not just a threat to the health of americas young people they are a threat to the future of the National Security. For generations the u. S. Military has depended on the strength and courage of Young Americans to form the worlds most el