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Our goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications for the positions that youve respectfully been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written responses which you all will have. As youll see, mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university. He was commissioned as an infantry officer, he has a masters in National Security studies and a graduate of the Naval College of staff. Began his military career as a infantry man in the army and served in the district of col n Columbia National guard. He served with the fifth special forces group. He participated in combat operations in afghanistan and iraq. Upon retiring from the army in 2014, he worked as a defense contractor before serving as the special assistant to the president and senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security council. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for special operations and for combat
National association of latino officials, Arturo Vargas discusses issues important to latino voters. Then later tim phillips discusses his groups role in campaign 2020. This is the washington journal for july 24. The house is expected to come in at 9 00. New York Democratic congresswoman because youre cortez and other democratic colleagues took to the floor of the house yesterday to discuss the issues of sexism and harassing comments. The congresswoman calling it a cultural issue. In light of that, in our first hour, we want to hear your calls about what you think on sexism particular lay in politics. You can let us know on the phone lines. For women it is 202 7488000. For men it is 202 7488001. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. You can also post on our Facebook Page. What occurred on the house floor yesterday, the Washington Times writes this saying it was the representative responding on the house floor on thursday to representative ted yohos comments about her arguing th
And Commerce Committees on the Coronavirus Relief bill. At a 30, more with representative a member of the Small Business committee. Host this is a wash we will get your reaction to the house voting to remove several statues of confederate historical figures from the u. S. Capitol around. Some republicans joining the democrats in passing this legislation. Heres how you can let us know your thoughts on yesterdays action. If you support removing the statues, call us at 2027488000 , if you oppose it, 2027488001 is the number to call. If you want to text us, you can do so at 2027488003. You can post on twitter or facebook. A breakdown of what occurred yesterday saying a bipartisan vote gave the buildings architect 2 million in four months to complete the job of removing the statues in question braden it past the house by a 305113 vote. Inmainly targets 12 statues century hall the memorialized confederate leaders. While the removal while the chief justices bust does not remove the historical
Craig my name is craig hall. I basically consider myself an amateur military historian. I do various impressions. This impression here today is to represent the contribution of the soviet union as an ally of the americans and the british, to helping them win world war ii. We have to give equal credit to our allies. Some would say, we couldnt have done it by ourselves, but the point is people ask me why do i do this impression. I think because the reason is that we need to tell the story about the eastern front. If you dont understand what happened on the eastern front, you dont understand world war ii. The soviets made a significant contribution to winning that war. Now, for example, what i normally do is, on my display on the table over here, i have a National Geographic magazine dated may, 1944. The first article in it has to do with the liberation of the ukraine. The point being, the significance of that is that, of course, one month later, we had dday. And the point the relationshi