Into the overseas contingency account, which this Committee Said last year was against the budget process, was at abuse to the process. This is a lot of mealymouthed words to justify a run around the budget process area im glad the Senate Republicans in their budget today, they dont play these games. They take the president s level. They take the joint chiefss level. This is a lot of running around. It is going to undermine the integrity of this body. This doesnt send any message of certainty to our troops. In fact, it tells our troops their republican colleagues are totally uncertain and undecided about how to meet our basic commitments. The president s budget does it in a straightforward way. We should too. [applause] clerk the gentleman chairman price the gentleman yells back. Rep. Blackburn i thank you, mr. Chairman. The world is a dangerous place. We talk about that in this amendment. It is imperative that we lay out a way to work through the sequestration. This is something the p
I hereby appoint the honorable Cresent Hardy to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from the list submitted by the majority and minority leaders for the morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Amidst the troubling picture coming out of the israeli elections, there was some good news from the middle east for a change. The Israeli Government announced that it would double the amount of water it sells to gaza from five million to 10 million cubic fe
She was very excited. My name is hellen and welcome to cleveland. We love this city, hard working city and hard working county. So thank you for coming. I have a twopart question. First, who is in your bracket . I wasnt that creative. I think kentucky is going to take it. But you know i had the one in i havent won since my first year in office. Clearly im not spending as much time watching College Basketball as i once did. So i wasnt necessarily wouldnt necessarily take my bracket and copy it. Although i expect im not the only person picking kentucky. I have, too. The second part of my question is since youve been in office, what has surprised you the most . Thats an interesting question. Whats surprised me the most. Ill start by saying what has not surprised me. Im not surprised by that desensey and determination and grit and resilience and hard work of the American People and the fact that they are not as divided as washington would seem to reflect. Because i travel around the countr
Reporter we have new details of that incident about the u. S. Reaper drone that was fired on by the iranians on thursday. A senior u. S. Official tells me just minutes after the first distress call went out from the tanker at 6 12 a. M. Local time, the u. S. Military moved an unmanned mq9 reaper drone over the tanker. The drone alived at 6 20 a. M arrived at 6 20 a. M. Local time. At i 6 45 a. M. Local time, prior to the Second Attack on the second tanker, a missile was fired at the u. S. Drone on station over the au pair. Thats a norwegian flagship. It missed. U. S. Officials have assessed it was a modified sa7 surface to air missile fired from irans mainland. It was fired after the u. S. Drone arrived on station to assist the norwegian tanker. Separately, weve learned from u. S. Officials that an american mq9 drone was also shot down over yemen by Iranianbacked Houthi rebels in recent days. The British Government has issued a statement blaming irans revolutionary guard corps for the
Beto orourke on the case he is making to africanamerican voters in South Carolina. New Horror Stories from americas growing and unprecedented migrant detention camps. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today we learned the president of the United States has taken the drastic step of accusing his own formal white House Counsel of perjury. We know the charge of making false statements to officials is something that trump is keenly aware of because people have been convicted or pleaded guilty to this crime including trumps First National security adviser, his campaign chairman, his Deputy Campaign chairman, a Trump Campaign Foreign Policy adviser and of course trumps longtime personal lawyer and fixer. In an interview with abc trump accused don mcgahn former white House Counsel of lying to Robert Mueller about trumps request for mcgahn to fire the special counsel. No special counsel should have ever been appointed. You know why . Because there was no crim