[ room noise ] [ room noise ] so the House Rules Committee taking a break here. When members return, this meeting will continue live on our companion network cspan 2. On the house floor votes are currently under way. Members are voting on two bills including one that aims to prevent suicides among veterans. The measure requires an annual thirdparty review of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention programs at the png and veteran affairs department. Thats live now on cspan. And in the senate today there was a procedural vote on a bill authorizing construction of the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. The vote was 6332. Which was enough to limit debate and advance the bill for a vote on final passage at a later time. As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan 2. Here are a few of the comments weve recently received on the 114th congress. The thing that really needs to happen is going back to what the incomeing majority said, is they need to get back to regular order. If they go back and pass
Screeria nigeria. Then the u. N. Secretarygeneral talks about priorityies for the u. N. In the new year. The u. S. Naval academy recently hosted a debate on the role of Air Contractors carriers in u. S. National security environments. Two retired Navy Officers looked at whether the vessels were the most effective and efficient Maritime Defense strategy for the u. S. Military. This is just over an hour. Food good evening. Im c. C. Felker. On behalf of superintendent vice admiral ted carr, i want to welcome those flag officers and navy senior civilian leaders escaped the beltway to join us our distinguish faculty in the indianapolis economy, and most of all our midshipmen, who are the real reason were here tonight. Id like to recognize Lieutenant Commander claude bareby for respond forring this event. Hes continued the transformation of the Naval Academy museum to a more active educational medium for the midshipmen. Tonights debate is representative of his energy and imagination. Id also
With his capabilities. Many of us in Higher Education understood that as a challenge to us as well. I was wondering what Higher Education do to be more supportive and useful to you in your mission . Thank you. Thank you, doug. Coming from an institution like George Washington as i look at academia, i count on us having lots of dialogue associated with deterrence at large. Across the Broad Spectrum that i talked about, from the various areas. Nuclear, space cyberspace, but this business also of extremist organizations who would love to have in their hands a weapons of mass destruction, for example. And then talking about the art of deterrence and what do things can we have in the tool bag . Perhaps some of them are not so new, but to make sure they are being gone about as we go forward. Also, in our nation has a whole the education spectrum particularly in cyberspace. Everybody uses it in a big way but the vulnerabilities associated with things. I could go around and ask everybody to ra
December 7th as a take a look outside from our mount tam cam. Will begin this morning with news out of japan were strong earthquake jolted the northeastern part of the country. A 7. 3 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean around 5 18 p. M. Local time. That is around midnight here in San Francisco. The u. S g s says the are quick stroke about 200 mi. Off the coast of japan. The epicenter was about 6 mi. Beneath the seabed. Buildings in tokyos way for several minutes. There were reports of at least two people injured. Pish japans real logical at sea has with it is not rewarded for the countrys northeastern coast. According to the sun on the information center. A destructive pacific wise and non is not expected. The quick off the coast of north is in japan is the same region but was hit by the masses are quick as a nominee in march to about 11. For the after known mostly sunny conditions slightly warmer highs in yesterdays. Partly cloudy and cool into the evening hours. Taking
Born. Why some are questioning the babys plan to sail around the world i am a Yankee Doodle dandy. Looking back at a legend of the silver screen, the life, the legacy and the many loves of actor Mickey Rooney. I am stiff knee sy. Officials announce they have a strong lead in the several for missing malaysian flight 370. An australian ship as picked up a pulse signal not far from where a chinese ship heard signals the day before. Officials believe it could be coming from the planes blacks box but it could take it days to confirm that. It will disappeared nearly a month ago. Officials are hopeful this will lead them to the missing jet. We are john buyerica. We know the batteries on these black boxes could go out any day now. This is why searchers have launched the most intensive hunt yet with more than a dozenships from multiple countries. These picks have narrowed the search. The southernmost area is where the kind easy picked up two pings on saturday. A day later and 350 miles north of