Host we are talking now with leo shane, Capitol Hill Bureau chief of the military times. Thend us first about what senate is up to now. Is their big policy measure that sets the priorities and focus of the budget next year. We have a wide range of things in here. We have military pay raise, bonuses, troop levels, a wide ange of issues for the defense on capitol hill. Host how different is the senate bill . Almost 700 billion. We saw the house version is slightly less. All of these have a base Defense Budget well over 650 billion, which is what sequestration caps on us at. One of the things that has to be resolved is how to pay for this. So far we havent seen anything. Democrats say this is a great exercise, but it is ridiculous. We are not getting anywhere with this bill because if we were to pass this, we would see budget cuts across the board. They have not really presented a path on how this will become loaw. Host the senate was in session last week on this bill what are some of the
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Revolution, they believed in the power of prayer to god, and thats why they prayed during that time, but they wanted much to have the chance to worship as they chose. Be they muslim, hindu. But especially judeochristian beliefs where jews and christians had traditionally suffered so much persecution. They wanted the chance for people to worship as they please or not worship, but they knew to make that possible had he had to they had to pray to god. Thats why we are observing once again tomorrow the National Prayer breakfast where our president will speak, where we will have a fantastic testimony from one of the great leaders in our country who earlier in his life, when his life was going astray, dropped to his knees and prayed for help and got it. Well hear about that tomorrow. But if we dont know the history of this country, if we dont know the dream of the founders, if we dont understand the constitution, then we lose it. And people need to understand when there is a global jee hasis