It was during the speech that he spoke about societys role in lowering crime. In our first 45 minutes, we want to hear from you. Your thoughts if society has a role in reducing crime. You may agree with the president or not. Call us up and express your thoughts this morning. In rural areas 202 7488000. In suburban areas 202 7488001. If you are a member of Law Enforcement and you want to give your thoughts on the role call us at 202 7488003. The front page of the starledger paper out of new jersey highlights the trip to kansas yesterday am specifically spelling out details. Highlighting the fact that the president counted touted the headquarters in a meeting with Police Officers and young city residents. He listed some statistics. Violent crime in camden down 20 . Murder down 47 , drug markets cut 55 and 911 response times down to five minutes. The city tracked in a downward spiral with candid and its people facing big challenges. Camden and its people facing big challenges. The preside
Price, higher taxes. An example of that recently is the Affordable Care act, which was supposed to help level the Playing Field for small businesses. And weve seen there that higher prices, less innovation, higher taxes. My question to you and a question i get asked in iowa often, mr. Wheel gentlemen, what steps is the fcc going to take to ensure that the internet remains vibrant innovative, and open when history once again has shown us when the heavy hand of the federal government gets involved in a free and vibrant market bad things happen. Thank you. First of all, id like to identify with you as one entrepreneur to another. I too have been a small businessman. Ive started half a dozen companies. Some worked. Some didnt. That happens. You understand that experience as well im sure. And for the decade before i took this job i was a venture capitalist who was invest inging in early stage internet protocolbased companies. And so i know both personally from my own entrepreneurial experie
Screeria nigeria. And later the House Budget Committee works on its 2016 federal Budget Proposal. President obama signed an executive order that sets a goal to cut the Carbon Emissions by 40 over the next ten years. White house Senior Adviser brian dee briefed reporters on the executive action today. Later press secretary josh ernest addressed events in the middle east including recent comments from israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a palestinian state. This portion of the briefing runs about 25 minutes. Thanks. Ill just be brief about the announcement that the president made today and then happy to take questions, if youve got them. We just returned from the department of energy. The president signed an executive order, which sets a new goal for the federal government to reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions by 40 over the next decade. Thats in comparison to 2008 levels. The executive order also commits the government to increasing the share of electricity that the federal go
Handson experience in some case wes businesses who are partnering with the Community College and now that High School Student has gotten a head start on moving into the career and theyre also saving money in the process. If its a student who wants to go to a fouryear university but they dont have the money to say, come right away to Cleveland State, even though Cleveland State is a pretty good place relative to a lot of other schools. Go to a Community College first, but make sure that theyre getting up front the kind of counseling that they need so that theyre taking the credits that are transferable in the fields that they need so that theyre not wasting time in the Community College taking out pell grants and loans and then they get to the fouryear university and then they have to start all over again. In each of these cases by us linking businesses, fouryear institutions Community Colleges, high schools we can create a series of pathways of success and it can be life long and the g
Appropriate role for congress is to consider what is that right ecisio combination between leadership, management and resources and nt lik makee a responsible decision. Not rush to judgment like the democrats did last wednesday and then play politics with what is a national tragedy. I think its samehameful that they did that and hopefully cooler heads will prevail and well gton make responsible decisions. Ye theres aar piece in the priva Washington Times about the privatization of amtrak. Yo should that u happen . Ing of i would like to see amtrak privatized. I dont know that were there yet. You have to go back to theiv beginning of amtrak. The reason we have amtrak is in ics of p 1970 private rail service was completely failing. The financial model, the economics of private rail Service Given the interstate highway system and the growth of airlines, by 1970 the private b rail system was collapsing. It was a bailout. Amtrak was a bailout. F the act that Congress Passed and nixon signed