The gentleman for his response, mr. Speaker. The question was yes we want to get people back to work. Everybody wants to get people back to work. There is no doubt about that. Hopefully, we would be at full employment. One defines that whether three percent or four percent unemployment which would be transition employment or unemployment. We want everybody back to work. The issue is if we dont get everybody back to work, 192,000 new jobs this past month that is good but not good enough. Is why we have continuing 6. 7 unemployment. My question to the majority assume forif argument that the letter to which he refers is accurate. I dont accept that premise but accepting that premise but the minute with the majority leader be amenable to rather than do what the senate does making a retrospective so that the 3. 5 months that wouldve gone from january 1 or december 29, i suppose, of last year to today and paying that back. Simply extending for five months while people continue to look for em
Individual of 123,000 all the way up to about 3. 5 million if you look at the amounts an individual can contribute to and party,didates committees, combined. A major influx of big money into the political process. Our organization has estimated about 1 billion to political spending in the next election. And is that a good thing, a bad thing, a neutral thing . Think its i think its disaster for our democracy. Why . We already had a system in which the wealthiest few are able to exert so much more elected systemr and our elected representatives than the rest of us and a like this just makes a bad situation worse. Donald mcgahn, do you agree opinion . No, i dont. Why . Upon a fewed assumption that i dont think are necessarily true. First, the idea that theres going to automatically be 1 billion of new money in elections is frankly, with all respect, ridiculous. People in this country can spend on their owney independent of candidates already. This has been the case for years going back to
Always taking advantage of that. Thanks and thanks for the opportunity to speak about the amazing young people that, as the president and ceo of student veterans of america, that i get to represent. And so to start with a little bit of background on student veterans of america or sva, started six years ago on 20 campuses because when student vets were transitioning they saw that the College Environment or higher ed was not prepared for student vets. We were older, we were much more mature. We had a different world view than just coming out of high school than say the traditional student. And so these vets met in chicago and we started on 20 campuses six years ago and today we are on more than is,000 campuses representing those 1,000 chapters with more than 400,000 student vets being serviced by our policy, our advocacy and the work we do in delivering programs. I was very fortunate to be helped by general pace and katy who is here with wall street war fighters and i had a personal sitd
At this point, crews are still dousing the home with water. If you take a look at sky 7 hd video, you can see what it looked like when flames were really going. They were jumping 020 feet off of the roof. This all started as a grass fire, firefighters tell me, that is according to the gilroy Fire Department. They say they got the call at 1 37, and found the fire spread from grass into the attic of the home. One man in his 50s or 60s was safely evacuateed and not injured. However, a chicken coop did go up in flames, firefighters had to import water and tankers so we ran out. At one point, brought in a helicopter to do bucket drops and hand stretched a line over to a nearby subdivision a quarter mile away to hook up to a hydrant. With water complications, you mentioned the meet. Its 100 degrees here, so cal fire brought in extra crews and have been rotating them out the good news is that at this point the fire is mainly under control. But they do expect to be here for several more hours,
And across the country as the Investigation Continues into what exactly what happened there. Mike tobin is in kenosha. The mother of jacob blake has been praying for the healing of her son and of this nation. The head of the legal team said jacob blake was a victim of deliberate indifference. Kenosha braces for another night of violence. [gunfire]. Escalating tension with police in riot gear. Violent demonstrators throwing bottles. On the second night of violence in kenosha, wisconsin, which ignited sunday after police shot jacob blake who witnesses say appeared to be unarmed. They shot my son 7 times. [crying]. 7 times. Like he didnt matter. The family of blake represented by ben crump. They say the 29yearold is paralyzed from the waist down. It will take a miracle for jacob blake jr. To ever walk again. Blakes 3 young sons inside the car at the time. New cellphone video shows more moments of confrontation before police shot blake. What you wont see is Police Body Cam video. Body came