Republican convention. As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, congressman ben lujan is in charge of democrats efforts to win back a majority in the house of representatives. He spoke about the dcccs history and the effect that donald trump is having on house races. From the National Press club in washington, this is an hour. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. My name is thomas burr. Im the washington correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and the 109th president of the National Press club. Id like to welcome our guest today, congressman Ben Ray Lujan, chairman of the Democratic Campaign committee. The National Press club has hosted nearly every president since our founding in 1908. I should note weve had a lot more visit in modern times from our friends in the legislative branch, including a good couple dozen house and Senate Members in the last couple of years. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Im going to turn the microphone over to bob wiener from our
Experience with i. T. Was that it was boondoggle after boondoggle and a tremendous waste of taxpayers money spent on incompetent private contractors who never seem to be able to get things right. And im wondering if you could comment and perhaps its better now, and what impact this has on the current sense of trust among Public Officials regarding their sure. So i would say the failures are just as bad or worse in terms of government contracting, i. T. , healthcare. Gov and the electronic records archive, expensive yearlong projects that largely failed, with healthcare. Gov until it was rescued, big, massive failures. Whats changing is there are a number of people that have identified tractable, fixable problems with the contracting and the i. T. Contracting system, and so if you look at the u. S. Digital service or at 18f, these are new governmentled groups of people that are trying to change the way the government buys technology and to change the way the government builds technology
Sandra today mark it is final day of 2016 primary season. Voters heading to the poll in washington, d. C. And we could see Bernie Sanders formerly drop his bid for the white house. A scary moment caught on camera. This video showing a car crash that rolled over a pickup truck. People blame security lines for missing flights, well, one person is doing a look at legal fight and battle coming up. I guess a few f us thought about doing that sometimes. The social media giant wants you to download the new app. Turning to markets this morning. Global economic fear persist in upcoming british to leave the euro zone. Nikkei and hang seng and kospi all to the downside. Latest polling showing the lead side is in the lead. But the big story for markets there bonds, the yield on the tenyear german boone deeply in negative territory for the First Time Ever. And here in the u. S. Looking at lower markets as well. U. S. Stock market futures are down right now pointing to a lower open. A few hours from
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