the only one that is truly sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm s way and care for them and their families when they return home, and when they don t. it s an obligation that unites americans, brings us together, make sure the women and men who were willing to lay down their lives for us in the very best to return. i want to acknowledge we are making progress in key areas, like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress to deliver healthcare services and benefits to veterans and the survivors impacted by toxic exposures. don t know how many americans and service members may have died because of what they are exposed to on the battlefield. toxic smoke from burn pits, burn pits that incinerated the waste of war, hazardous material, jet fuel, so much more. we have a duty to do right by them, and i m determined to make sure that our brave service families and members that served alongside them do not wait
Hearts we werent going to kill them. That was training. That kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. John mccain was tortured. What they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other Prisoner Of War Sites in North Vietnam was torture. Weve never done that kind of thing. Never condoned it. Some of our allies may have done it but we department. The bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, theyre going to stay illegal until Congress Changes it. Neil when i hear the president said as he did today in this Press Conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his Defense Secretary, what did you make of that . Well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year youre fired. If he doesnt like that the
secretary of defense wont do it i know these mean well. I know jim mattis very well. He was not going to issue that kind of order and he has the authority to issue though orders. Hes not going to do it. Into if the pre
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One topic of conversation at the MBAH conference is the quote making the rounds, “Marry the house, date the rate,” a nightmare for capital markets and servicing groups engineering hedging programs. On a larger scale, no central bank wants to engineer a recession, of course, but the press seems consumed with the idea of a recession in 2023 or 2024… which would mean a) we’ll hear about it for another year or two while many lenders are just trying to survive, and b) it would probably lead to lower rates. Household balance sheets are currently still in fine shape. Corporate balance sheets are as well since many companies that issue debt regularly refinanced their outstanding debt during the last few years, lowering their obligations. just like millions of homeowners did around the nation. What isn’t as good is the daily operating budgets, especially for companies whose only income is residential lending. The implied year-end Fed funds target is now around
support multiple time over and talking about voting rights in the past. 16 republicans right now that supported voting rights in the pass. as the president said, strom thurmond did in the 80s. that s the point that he made. it s important for everybody to understand his view is that he would put his record of standing up for the history of the senate, the institution of the senate, the rules of the senate up against anyone s. democrat, republican, republican, anyone serving today and before then. his view is there are times in history, now is one of them, where you can t allow the protection of process protecting people s fundamental rights. that is an argument that he made today to the caucus. what happens now with the legislation? well, leader schumer has obviously conveyed what his plan and path forward is. i think members are going to have an opportunity to vote and decide and determine what side