Serves no purpose. Seems to me its deeply flawed. We violated who we were. We should hold ourselves accountable. Death of a palestinian minister. After clashes with the israeli troops in the west bank. Between the palestinians and the israelis. Our times person of the year. This story had been uncovered at critical periods of time. Nasas rover the curiosity link on mars. Potentially long enough to sustain life. Malala yousafzai. Gets the nobel prize for Senate Intelligence committees report on the cias brutal attacks. Called the report poorly done. While the cia had done things in the Interrogation Program that should not have happened they argued the program led to the capture of senior al qaeda operatives, disrupted terrorist plots and prevented mass terrorist attacks, and played an Important Role in the hunt for osama bin laden. All points specifically rejected in the Committee Report but supported by current cia director john brennan. At the White House Press secretary josh earnest
How do they do that . The first question goes to Katherine Archuleta. You say there are 8. 3 . I just wonder what levels are you talking about . Can you split it up, please . Are the administrative . Are the management level, midlevel . What are those numbers coming from . Lets get an answer to that question. I broke it out, the 8. 3 is governmentwide, and the 4. 1 is the management level. So what grade and above . Management, the ses level which would be a just system goes up to 15 and the next levels, include the ses. So the ses is the 4. 1. 4. 1 . And a followup question, as far as hiring practices, sometimes i have applied so many times going to u. S. A. Jobs, honestly hundreds of times, but sometimes i get an email into the you are qualified and so on, blah, blah, blah, but at the end. Comes a veteran and takes over my position. I understand that its, you know, with all due respect to veterans that i just want to understand the rationale of placing veterans for the finalist. So, t
She is coming. A little late. New mexicos first district. We will have her seat at the end. Thank you for being here today. We really appreciate it. I am lucky to be surrounded by intelligent and wonderful women, as i have always been in my life. Why dont i start with a brief introduction round. We will go in order. If you would like to start with a brief introduction about our topic today, latino leadership in congress. Hello, everybody. But are known as grace. And have been in california many years and have inn on city council and now congress. It has been a long battle. All of you must understand, it is not easy for us to be sitting here. We have earned our way. We have had saddles and have been lucky enough to have men support us but understand we have brains and can use them. Unfortunately, we still have a battle and there is still a Glass Ceiling. There is still the ability for us to not have the support we should have on issues that are really critical to us. Not only immigratio
And dont say a word until you know who you are talking to. I wont say much tonight because i dont know you that well but i know you have an interest in the topic of the day extraordinarily important to all of us and i want to encourage all of you to pick up this book that we are introducing him. Ive traveled as i said all over the United States many times. But theres one state in particular that you just cant get past. Its always stood out. Its way down south but among all the states those are the friendliest people in the whole country. There is no getting around even when it even when i was a student at Duke University we would go to South Carolina to buy fireworks and they were always friendly to us. That might have changed nowadays but the important part is the people. The people were always hospitable and each which way. You couldnt imagine more friendly people even those of the opposite political persuasion. They would hope they could change your mind that in but in our family of
Committee, answering questions on the targeted killing program and his role as counterterrorism advisor to president bush. The confirmation hearing was interrupted several times by protesters. They were forced to reset for several minutes to clear the room. [captions Copyright Nationalcable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed bynational captioning institute] police. Will the Capitol Police now come in and clear the room. All signs out. [indiscernible] if the Capitol Police will clear the room, please. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] please clear the room. [indiscernible] please clear the room. [indiscernible] all right, i think we should clear the entire room and then let people back in. What do you think . We need more capital police. Yeah, lets [indiscernible] ok, we will try and start. [indiscernible] i am going to began this hearing, and let me say right up front that the process is that people are respectful, that they do not share, they do not have this, they do not show