I dont know how i got on that tangent, tangent, but it needed to be said. As much as anybody else. See. In our own area we have aman who feeds the state department and is just one of them who is endorsed [inaudible] and who is voted for by all our friends and neighbors. Nobody says anything. We all say its barack husain obama. No its Chris Van Hollen too and the people who vote for him. Its our friends and. [inaudible] the people that vote straight obama van hollen, and you cannot talk to them. And the reason they get away with that is because we still treat em like friends and neighbors. We think thats a legitimate point of view. That is not a legitimate point of view [inaudible] andik we dont [inaudible] did you have a question . Any more questions . Yeah, i have a question. Number three at in the records about attacking computers are attacking the Us State Department i know that isis but can you speak to wear those come from . Great questions but with isis the cyberjihad these are g
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room washington, d. C. April 13 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The work of the congress resumes after time spent by millions of americans celebrating High Holy Days and spring comes to our nations capital. It is the season of hope. In this chamber where the peoples house gathers we pause to offer you gratitude for the gift of this good land on which we live and for this great nation which you have inspired and in developing so many years. Continue to inspire the American People that through the difficulties of these days we might keep liberty and justice
Hello and welcome to update news. Im amanda del castillo and im bentli bejan. Thanks for joining us. Update news has learned that over half of the emergency telephones. With a direct connection to police are out of order. And at this point no one in charge of this Vital Network of blue light poles can tell us when theyll be fixed. Tim vantress is following the story. Hes on campus for more, tim . These blue lights have been around for over a decade, providing instant contact with the police in case something goes wrong. But now. About one out of every two of these lifelines are not working. This is just one of the 12 blue light phones on campus. That are not working. Upd works with campus staff to monitor the 23 blue lights to keep them up and running. But Media Relations director Pat Lopes Harris says the poles are aging and they take beating from wet weather. Over time, there is definitely wear and tear, there is definitely changes in technology. Our campus has tried very hard to kee
Stories. Im going each panellest briefly. Well start with questions. Nicole goodwin all the way down at the end, enlisted in the u. S. Army in 2001. She served as a supply specialist and was deployed in iraq in july of 2003 for five 1 2 months. When nicole returned to the bronx was one of the first Homeless Veterans of iraq war and featured in the document, when i came home as well as many news programs. She lives in new york city and raising her daughter and wrying poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She graduated college in 2000 one with a ba in english in creative writing an anthropology teresa fazio, next to nicole, grew up in white plains, new york. She served as a Marine Corps Communications officer from 2002 to 2006. Deploying once to iraq. She is writing a memoir about deployment relationship and its aftermath. Teresa published her work in New York Times at war blog and read her writing at the Kennedy Center in washington, d. C. She lives and works in new york city ing rebecca hari
Schools heats up after mayor bill de blasio blocks three schools from using spreads space. We will speak with steve barr. Suspendsern university the Group Students for justice in pakistan palestine. We will get the latest on a Hunger Strike inside of a detention prison in washington state. Im hoping we can get support from all of the people that are listening. Hear. Believe what you life here is not easy. We work for four hours, five hours, just one dollar. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has called for releasing the torture report at the heart of a dispute between its author, the Senate Intelligence committee, and its subject, the cia. Panel chair Dianne Feinstein has openly accused the cia of spying on Senate Staffers and seizing material from their computers as part of an effort to undermine the exhaustive report on the agencys torture and rendition program. The report has yet to be