By 2003, 3000 people. You can see the proportion. Side. As the economic a Significant Impact on the country in relation to health care, education, social work. It has a decade of dictatorship. The present government has slow decisionmaking. It is a manifestation of countries new democracy. It is not the most effective system because there is no opposition party. All of the parties have his editions in cabinets and in parliament. You have to get the buyin of everybody for any system for any declaration to put in place. A very adverse dictatorship in dictators usually create regulations and procedures to suit the wishes and needs of the dictator, not of the society. That is the key issue. We will talk about that later. To transform the democratic process, you have to go through a very painful process. You cant just people dont adopt democracy like they can adopt a new fashion or a new dress or any new sport. No, it is a much more fundamental it impacts your core belief in the society, co
The appropriations debate and with regard to Defense Authorization moving ahead. Two other issues we are following, one is Homeland Security grants. Were still working off a system built 10 years ago. We need to move to system 2. 0 or 3. 0 and get more sophisticated about the grant funding. The last one would be veterans. A lot of folks are coming back from the theater about how do you get them employed. The government is famous for silos. Governors have been taking the lead in saying we need to work ,o break down these silos combine data and information so we can best help and assist our veterans. , further Committee Members the governor only session, our chair asked us to look at the issues which we will follow up on. Governor snyder, anything else youd like to add . Thank you for your leadership. Its been great. I want to thank the representatives from the red cross. I appreciate all the wonderful work you do. Thank you for your service and all your colleagues. The guard is somethin
Theks the hush falls over the hush falls over the room. We will start. Our guest today is douglas Congressional Budget Office director. This is his fifth visit to our room. Of the cbo inctor january, two thousand nine and brings an impressive background assignments. His master masters and doctorate in economics are from harvard. Our guest taught at harvard, and was on the staff of the council of economic advisers and the Federal Reserve board and served as the assistant deputy treasury secretary for policy. He was senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program it at bookings. Ritual recitation of mechanical details, as always, we are on the record. Please, no live blogging or tweeting or other means of filing while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo with the session and, except that our friends at cspan have agreed not to air video of this session until one hour after the breakfast is over to give reporters in the room a chance to file. Finally, if you would like to ask a qu
Lowest names you can think of. Which they did. He was a very honorable man, and he hated that his name was being used in a way that wasnt being honorable to he or his family. The United States government and all governments frown upon this because, okay, youre disturbing their ability to fight a war, youre also disturbing their commerce. And semmes countered with that. He said he was doing nothing that hadnt been done before, especially by the United States. During the war of 1812 and especially during the american revolution. We didnt have a fleet during the american revolution. And there were people, since the government could not bay pay these people, they made them, the if you will, privateer, private individuals who would go out and stop commerce or disrupt the british fleet. And thats exactly what they did. This weekend learn about the rich history and literary life of mobile, alabama. Saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 and sunday at two on cspan3. Coming up today at 12 15 easter
Taking questions. That includes dr. Anthony fauci, the new cdc director dr. Richelle walensky and Top White House covid official jeff zients. There are very Big Questions before them this morning. Well look for those updates. The most pressing really remains, of course, the rollout of the vaccines. When and how more americans will be able to get the shots. On that, President Biden made big promises yesterday, announcing the u. S. Purchased an additional 200 million doses of the pfizer and Moderna Vaccines which the Administration Says will be enough to vaccinate most americans by the end of the summer. More immediately, the white house says, that shipments will be going out to states and increasing by 16 starting next week. That is the good news in the face of the very bad. January is already the deadliest month of the pandemic so far. The virus has killed nearly 80,000 americans since the new year began. Its truly remarkable when you think of the scope of this pandemic and its impact.