It is scheduled for noon eastern. Remarks from the governor. Watch it here on cspan. Chat. Tweet using the the Election Administration examining ways upon improving the voting process. Jay carney met with reporters at 1 00 eastern. That will be live on cspan. I do see myself as a person trying to understand my family. Came to me when i was having a lecturer at the u. S. Air force academy in spring. An air force officer have lots of chats with me. He told me he was a liberal. He wanted to correct any correction i may have had. Strange, radical fundamentalists. Favor ofme he was in this. People come to the country they should learn the nature of language. ,o i said i quite agree everyone should learn spanish. Settlement of the United States from a hispanic perspective. This is part of book tv this weekend on cspan two. On life, you will have time to weigh in on the liberty commitment. And click on book love. Stephen breyer said it is not a matter of if but when camera should be allowed i
Issues going on inside russia. Some things going on inside russia are quite problematic. One oftin the reasons why he is most popular is because russians are experiencing a time of prosperity. Level of abouta four percent growth, which is ok, but not where they wanted to be. His Economic Growth has fallen close to zero. One 1. 3 . Then it was close to zero. The sense that he brought prosperity to russia if the you are go badly, then disgruntled, and people are looking around, and they are saying, actually, this guy, things are not going so well economically right now in russia. The if there is a dip in oil price, which is so important for the russian economy, then they start another scenario where his leadership is really under much more pressure than one would have imagined. Of focusingelement on the successful russia. Come to russia, and see with the new russia is like. It is completely different than what the Old Soviet Union was like. This is not your fathers buick. This is the new
2,600 homes came from our own facilities. Gsa is also working to improve our partners understanding of their energy use as directed in the december 2013 president memorandum on federal leadership on energy management, gsa is partnering with the department of energy and epa to prepare a Green Button Initiative that will increase our partners ability to reduce energy consumption, reduce greenhouse emissions and meet sustainability goals. Taken together these efforts have led to a significant reduction in the energy use intensity. In fy 2013, gsa reduced energy usage per square foot by 20. 8 ahead of statutory targets. Since 2011 these reductions saved 192. 7 million in avoided costs. Also in fy 2013, gsa achieved an approximately 50 reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions, exceeding our 2020 target. This amount of energy we no longer use is enough to power over 60,000 homes for one year. Gsa is also preparing for the potential impacts of Climate Change as part of the president s Climate Ac
The actual time the debt ceiling was going to become a real threat. The treasury secretary said it was february 7. He just reiterated that in a letter sent yesterday. February 7 as the day they want to have this nailed it down. You probably will have congress arguing about it through february. I am not sure they will come up with a deal right away. Republicans want something out of it. Leadsant something that to a more fiscally responsible government. Democrat think this is something that should not be negotiated. Agree on a path forward. It makes it hard to conceive of a deal happening quickly when they get back. I think we will see some fighting. Is novembers election going to be about fiscal or social issues or accommodation . Is a fiscal issue. Republicans counted as one. Health care is a fiscal issue. Republicans count it as one. We are seeing tv advertising referencing obamacare. That is it. They will try to sing a one note him. One reason they do not want any roadblocks as they
Once you get into philanthropy a little bit, there is a lot of it. There are a lot of causes. How does the veterans piece of this fit in . The colonel that used to work for me started the dixon center here in town. He is focused on these kinds of issues. I dont think there is anybody in the country that knows more about this space then he does per se. It is that consolidation that we see. I will give you a specific example. We convened a group that focused on scholarships for kids, for military kids. 30 or 40e organizations there. There were some organizations that couldnt figure out how to get a scholarship. There were some organizations that had nothing but fellowships and didnt have the money to get it. Of these people. How do we get them to Work Together . That was the idea. You can do that in education, health care, employment, all of those kind of things. I think leaders in the community and these charitable organizations need to figure out how to help us get to some consolidated