The future years defense programs or Defense Budget for fiscal year 2016 . Thanks. For the u. S. . Yeah, for the u. S. , yeah. You want to do it or so im sure it will. I dont, i dont know how. Im not, im not a u. S. Defense expert. I know that there are certainly people in the pentagon and at the various regional that are thinking about russia, that havent been thinking about russia for a while. So im sure that will translate into force structure and where in planning and so forth. It is far to early to tell, you know. There are certainly no numbers anywhere yet so. Is the mic on . My name is leo. Vice president of George Washington university and also a ukrainianamerican. I want to first of all compliment the panel. This is really very impressive and formidable panel and especially professor dubovyk. He should run for Political Office given passionately he spoke about the situation in ukraine. Question for each of the panelists. Yes or no answer. What is your educated guess about russ
Billion. Yesterday, we talked with republicans only in the first hour of washington journal about the debt ceiling vote. Today, we turn to democrats to get your thoughts on the 2014 agenda. What should be the parties priority . If you live in the eastern part of the country, dial we will get to your thoughts about priorities for democrats in 2014. Joining us on the phone is emma staff reportera for roll call, joining us phone to talk about House Democrats leaving washington for their annual retreat. Where are you, exactly . Where are the democrats meeting . And what is on the agenda . Guest we are in cambridge, maryland where the snow has turned to freezing rain. And we are at the reporters are camped out at the holiday inn houses down the road, but democrats and their guests are out at the Hyatt Regency on the chesapeake bay. The theme of the retreat is strengthening opportunity. They are going to be holding a series of symposiums, breakout sessions. They are going to give speeches th
That we are considering tonight, now would encourage the remaining states to work on passing and enacting similar legislation. This will bill creates treatment programs administered by the department of health and Human Services with states that meet certain requirements that are in the bill. Food allergies affect 9. 9 million children. This legislation is especially important because 25 of individuals who are injected with an epipen dont know they have allergies that warrant the use of epinephrine. No student experiencing a severe allergy reooks should lose their life because there was no medicine present signed to them. The passage of this bill will save lives of countless students across our great country who live with severe allergies. I commend the bills author, my steny from maryland, hoyer, who has worked on this legislation for three years and for congressman phil roe for their bipartisan work. At this time, if its appropriate, i would like to yield such time as he may consume
We start tonight with news here at home. Central commands twitter and youtube accounts were hacked. How does that make you feel . The group described themselves as the cyber caliphate. The group warned of cyber jihad. They also posted Contact Information for a number of military officers. Pentagon Officials Say the twitter and youtube accounts were not classified and none of the Contact Information was classified. One official said this is clearlyclear ly clearly embarrassing but not a security threat. The hacking comes as president obama is pushing congress to act on cyber security. Earlier today, the president was out pushing a series of new bills to protect americans from hackers. Today im focusing on how we can better protect American Consumers from Identity Theft and ensure our privacy, including for our children at school. And then tomorrow at the department of homeland security, ill focus on how we can work with the private sector to better defend ourselves against cyberattacks.
Worker the opportunity to earn seven days of paid sick leave. That is the right thing to do. And everyone in this congress who still refuses to raise minimum wage i say this. If you believe you can work full time and support a family on less than 16,000 a year, try it. Then, the war on terrorism. There is plenty of condemnation of our foreign policy, condemning the quote, bluster and rash decisions of years past, today, no mention of al qaeda. Or islamic extremism. No mention. And despite a day of reports the country of yemen which he said is an example of his own successful policy appears now tonight to be falling to terrorists the president seemed to suggest we now have the upper hand in the terror war. We are 15 years into this new century. 15 years of a dawn with terror touching our shores. And unfolded with a new generation fighting two long, costly wars that saw a vicious recession spread across the nation and world. It has been and still is, a hard time for many. But tonight, we