Seated while the Vice President leaves. On behalf of brookings, and myself, thank you so much for coming by. Thank you. Congratulations. [applause] president , house and senate leadership, and remarks about funding the government passed september 30. First, president obama speaks to reporters in the Briefing Room followed by remarks from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell and majority leader harry reid. Then, members comment to send the senate will funding the Government Back to the house. First from Senate Democratic leaders then republican senators ted cruz, marco rubio, and mike lee. The senate today voted along party lines to remove the language from the house passed to fund the government through november 15. After the vote, president obama and saidreporters plans to delay the healthcare law would not happen. The president begins by announcing he spoke on the phone with the iranian president. This is about 15 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Before i discuss the situation i
Party. In brazil for todays world cup kickoff. The Program Helping troubled teens get off the street and learn the tools to make a brand new life. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im richelle carey. Im stephanie sy. There is concern that iraqs military is crumbling in the face of an alqaeda inspired group. The islam like state of iraq is expanding its power base. The fighters have toppled three northern cities in the past 48 hours and now taking aim at baghdad. Fighting between isil and army forces has been going on since tuesday. A half Million People ever fled the city. The target is the shia led government. This is just the latest round of fighting against isil and wont be the last. We dont have the numbers tothey dont have the numbers to take the city. They are considering possible air strikes against isil. President obama campaigned on ending the war in iraq. He did so in 2011 and 2012, campaigned on the fact that he did end that war. American officials are loathe to g
Commercial industrial, when they go through major renovation or any new construction of commercial industry and broke it down, restaurants, medical offices, et cetera. That is what we did, but requirements we kept the same at this point. So the same table, same requirements. They have been doing that since, i guess, those requirements were in place in the late 1990s or early 2000. So we havent made any changes and that is why i did not address that. Thank you, commissioner moore. I am very interested and very supportive of this particular legislation. What i would like to ask and perhaps you are already doing it, i see diagrams of bike racks, which reflect more of the traditional approach to bike racks and a significant amount of theft, which is happening. I hope sfmta and yourself and the Bicycle Coalition will strongly investigate which types of bike racks and which types of locks provide the largest security . I just recently read an article where the Police Department themselves tr
We wish that we werent once again watching this brinksmanship and this fiscal cliff resurface again. Be rated movie when we saw it the first time it doesnt look any better as a rerun it doesnt look any better as a rerun. Democrats believe we should be focusing as elected representatives of the people on strengthening the middle class. Helping our economy grow more jobs. Because if we dont have a strong middle class, we may as well turn off the lights. Were not going to create those jobs. Were not going to continue to be a leader in the world if we dont focus like a laser beam on creating middleclass jobs and helping grow the middle class so that they can buy that home, they can send their kids to college. For the life of me, i dont think any of us understand how shutting down our government and stopping services to the middle class, to that soldiers family, to that veteran who has come home, to that senior who relies on that meals on wheels lunch, how shutting the doors of government w
Work in a copyright and content industries. I hope you can work to make sure that the agents that are dedicated at the enforcement with the support of the subcommittee, in fact, continue to focus and work on iprelated cases and not other matters. And i can commit to that. I agree with bob miller that this work is very, very important. The engine of america is our creativity, and you can make it different in protecting the fruits of that creativity through blocking some of these people up. That work is going to continue. Thank you to. Of the gentleman would yield for one second. Part of my colleague he admitted that he had some difficulty. We are talking about United States citizens, no matter what the circumstances. They have certain rights that attend to how they can be questioned and under what circumstances. The Public Safety is perception. Theyre is a differential. An american citizen has to be what rights they have. And so, you know, different. You mentioned on the battlefield, yo