Violence and harassment complaints. We must do more to protect students and equip universitys to prerespond appropriately to Sexual Assault on campus. This amendment will allow more institutions of Higher Education to implement comprehensive, coordinated responses to Sexual Violence through the Campus Grant Program. The Campus Grant Program was created by the violence against women act of 2005 and reauthorized by the violence against women reauthorization of 2013, a bill which i worked hard to help pass. Increasing funding to this Vital Program representance important step in empowering victims of Sexual Assault and protecting men and women on College Campuses in arizona and across the country. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. And before i close, i want to thank che chairman of the appropriations committee, mr. Rogers, and the chairman of the commerce, justice, science appropriations committee, mr. Wolf and Ranking Member mr. Fattah for working with me on this issue. Fin
Woodruff plus, from music rehearsals, to gardening classes. How some seniors are choosing to stay active by returning to their alma maters. Retirement communities like oak hammock, with ties to universities are a growing part of the american scene. Estimates are that there are fewer than 100 of them right now, but those numbers are growing. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. United healthcare, online at uhc. Com. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the death toll kept
Woodruff plus, from music rehearsals, to gardening classes. How some seniors are choosing to stay active by returning to their alma maters. Retirement communities like oak hammock, with ties to universities are a growing part of the american scene. Estimates are that there are fewer than 100 of them right now, but those numbers are growing. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. United healthcare, online at uhc. Com. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the death toll kept
End of next year. Our White House Correspondent Mike Viqueira is in washington. What else can we expect to hear from the president today . Reporter we can look at today as the third in the threeact play. The president had the surprise visit in the heart of afghanistan over the memorial day weekend on sunday there addressing the troops. Some of the 32,000 left there now after a peak of 100,000 at the time of president obamas surge way back in 2011. Then we saw the president yesterday, another surprise appearance frankly in the rose garden where he put some flesh on the bones of something he announced long ago, and that was his goal to remove all american combat troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year. What was new . The number that will be left in that residual force you just described by the end of the year, 9800, by the end of next year half that pament and by the end of 2016 a normal embassy force with security personnel of course around him. But then today whats being bille
I hereby appoint the honorable frank r. Wolf to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer, for five minutes. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to pay tribute to an extraordinary life, to an extraordinary individual, to a dear and good friend of mine for many, many years. The el Raymond Lewis was librarian emeritus, the last and lon