The ambassador wants a bigger latrine in his office, or we want 50 consular windows instead of five. That changes all the time. I mean, we saw it here today. It changed with Papua New Guinea. You had a plan to do something, all of a sudden the department says, no, we need more, for whatever reason. Theres right sizing that goes on constantly within the department. Theres the muchpublicized but im not sure how much its occurring, the pivot to asia. What does that mean for those embassies in asia . More people. Well, you know, five years from now it might be a pivot somewhere else. I dont know that were ever going to reach the perfect solution to say that we could build something thats good today and it will be good even ten years from now. Thank you. And mr. Chairman, i think the point that your research and what water hearing today is all about is that as you standardize and drive down the cost per square foot, the ability to build that few extra square feet and the flexibility is inhe
Please raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Let the record reflect the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Please take your seats, ladies. Thats a formality we have to engage in you. Why dont we begin. Heather, why dont we begin with you and move this way. Thank you. Chairman ryan, Ranking Member van holland, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Heather Reynolds and im president ceo of catholic chair tizz ft. Worth. Let me get right to my main point. Poverty is complex and often cyclical. Poor parents have poor children, and poor children often become poor parents. The cycle continues unless it is broken. Case management is the critical element in moving someone from government dependency to selfsufficiency. That is why we believe that Case Management has got to be an integral part of the conversation on how we re
And a discussion about mexico opening its oil and gas industry to foreign investment. At a House Budget Committee hearing advocates for the poor discussed what governments and charities are doing to raise people out of poverty and how they can be more economically selfsufficient. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin chairs this two hour hearing. Committee will come to order. A number of our members on our side aisle will be a little late our conference is still ongoing but in the interest of time i want to get started. Welcome everybody. Good to see you. A great full capacity crowd. This is our fifth hearing on the war on poverty. Over the past year weve heard from a number of voice, policy voices, Community Groups and today well hear from people in the middle. People in the privatesector who work with the Public Sector. People who coordinate state programs with private charity. Were also going to hear from an especially important voice, miss tianna gainesturner. I was happy to meet tian
Well, we started in 2002. Initially, the girls, we were engaged in Child Rights Movement and we were meeting different women leaders. We were six or seven young girls and all of the age range was from 1416. So when we saw no women or girl leadership in a civil society, as well, some of the organizations that claim to work for womens rights, but there is no representation. Mostly, the women and girls were either the receptionist or the material level but not at the decisionmaking. So we started work with the young girls. First, we volunteered because all of us had no experience working in an organization working for womens rights. So we volunteered with other women who were already working on womens rights. We volunteered with them for a few years and then we started our own work and started to work empowering young women in the communities. Your organization is expanding from pakistan to afghanistan. A different set of issues, a different set of culture, a different set of challenges.
Relationship with president obama, and her own president ial aspirations. And date with destiny . Hes ready to run. Hes ready to rock n roll. Were track side as California Chrome makes his final preparations at the Belmont Stakes and his shot at the first triple crown in 36 years today, friday, june 6th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. This is an important day in world history. Its not an overstatement to say this generation of soldiers who stormed those beaches at normandy saved the world. Thats right. It is our top story today, those events marking the 70th anniversary of the greatest military invasion in history. President obama and other World Leaders taking part in an emotional gathering in normandy this morning. Nbcs Brian Williams and tom brokaw are there. Well talk to them coming up. But well begin with nbc National Correspondent