Strategy to be more dp ortwoyear conversation and 71 tomany conversations so we can shift away from the stodgy, old media to the new media. Watch the communicators every monday night on cspan2. Railamerica brings you archival films that help bring you todays issues. Reel america. First impression of damascus is the square and center of the city. Our opinion soon changes as we step away. Inhabitants, many are muslims. There are many places of worship. Only toest is open not the worshipers but to the nonworshiper as well. All must remove shoes before entering. Damascus is a hot and dry city. They many vendors of cool sweet water do a thriving business. They clap their little glass bowls to make their presence known. Grill, tidbitsr are served. Perhaps not sanitary, but no doubt to the damascus, and the lishs. Appearance of the people, they have little demand. Syrian oranges are delicious and inexpensive. Weight. Ld by a dozen large ones cost only a few pennies. Headdresses, which remind
And effective government that serves the people. We have to ensure that every taxpayer dollar is spent responsibly. We do that by conducting oversight of the executive branch and examine Government Programs and policies that affect every american. Mr. Cummings and i, and our predecessors here at the committee, didnt invent the concept of this oversight of the executive branch. It comes from the constitution, and comes from the need to be responsive as we represent the people of the United States of america. Today, we will hear from a group of senior legislative liasons from five different agencies, all with the troublesome track records when cooperating with request for information. I and sympathetic to the idea that they get bombarded from so many different committees. Not only in the house, but in the senate as well. It is a large task, agencies so massive and so big, spending billions upon billions of dollars. Department of Homeland Security has been invited to discuss a request rel
J edgar hoover. Two images come to mind. The first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. Targeting communists and leftists. Using his files to get his way with politicians. Image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. One of those is verifiable. The other is not. An irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. They capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. The fbis preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. The fact of the matter is we dont know. We cannot know what his sexuality was. Unless were willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. Not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi targeted gays fo
Entities. Host what kind of technologies does the bbg or voice of america, any of these entities, use . Guest well, all broadcasts, media platforms, everything from radio to tv, but increasingly digital platforms, social media as we expand around the world. Any way we can reach an audience and have influence with that audience is important, and well use it. Host who can listen to voa . Radio marti . Guest well, radio marti is on the island of cuba. Vice of america is throughout Central Africa voice of america is throughout central afghanistan, afghanistan, asia, indonesia. Its really a global media platform. Host and what kind of news is reported on these channels . Guest well, voice of america has a mission to tell americas story around the world. But to be clear, all of the bbg entities, including voice of america, are engaged in professional journalism. And our daily 3,000 journalists around the world that are working every day to tell stories whether it be inside of a country as a
Im delighted to be here for the wall street journal. Ill be talking with Gina Mccarthy, the administrator of the epa today. Well hear a few words from the administrator to begin with. Then were going to talk for ten or 15 minutes. Then i would like to turn it over to questions and answers from you. Thats always the most interesting part, i think, for any of these gatherings at the council. We have a few members of the press in the back. I will be diligent in getting to you as well. Dont be offended at all if i lean a little bit more toward the members in picking them first to ask their questions, but well try to get everybodys questions answered. I think were just at a fascinating moment in the environmental discussion and debate. The paris conference was at a minimum quite notable. Many say historic. Some say a little bit more controversial in issues of implementation that still need to be resolved. But fascinating no matter how you look at it. Gina mccarthy will be here to explain to