Go to facebook and you can also send us an email. We will get to your thoughts here in just a minute. Politics onalk thanksgiving today, and if so, what debates will you plan to be having . Your are a couple of tweets for you from members of congress. We will begin with the speaker of the house. He said this just before thanks , just beforeis out the giving, Obama Administration releases plans for 3415 new regulations. To the hill newspaper about irs employees getting bonuses. Story, thanksgiving, moved up aup fdr week and set up a political firestorm. Are you going to talk politics this thanksgiving . That is our question to all of you this morning. If so, what debates do you plan on having today . The numbers are on the screen. The lines are open, so start dialing in. Also, another story from politico this morning that the house gop could respond in immigration next week. Is this one of the debates you could be having with your family today . The house leadership is reserving time on
I think we need to do both and can do more in the way of securing fiscal materials and the wherewithal with Nuclear Weapons and also biological weapons around the world. And i also believe that the United States needs a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent, because as much as we would like to see Nuclear Weapons and other weapons of mass destruction rid from the earth, that doesnt look like its something thats going to happen soon and its important that the american deterrent that we provide to our own country, but also to friends and allies who rely upon him is safe, secure and reliable. I think we need to do both and can do both. You wrote an article last year for Foreign Affairs and you talked about two lessons from iraq and afghanistan. First, that the pentagon was not prepared to fight a nontraditional enemy and, second, that the length of those wars was underestimated. There was little incentive to pursue acquisitions tailored to the specific fights. Can you talk about how
Iraq, Eastern Europe and the pacific. For more about the confirmation process, we spoke with leo shane earlier today. Host leo shane covers congress for the military times. How is he regarded . A lot of members of the Armed Services Committee Said they did not see this as a focus on his credentials. They see this hearing is more of a chance to criticize obama on a number of National Security issues. It sounded like chairman mccain and Ashton Carter, the nominee, were in agreement and terms of getting rid of the sequester, the Pentagon Spending caps. How will they go about doing that . That is the big question. You heard senator mccain. They said they will hammer that this year, the mandatory spending cuts expected to go into effect in fiscal 2016. They are concerned that that can cripple the military. But as of now, we havent seen much of an alternative land, just a bunch of thomas is that they need to get rid of this. The military absolutely needs to have that money. We heard more of
Xl oil pipeline. The senate back tomorrow at 3 00 a. M. Eastern to be director of the National Drug control policy set for 5 30. It is likely the senate will try to move forward again on the Homeland Security department. Democrats blocked debate on the bill three times. Language that the president will take executive actions on immigration. They could also vote with defense secretary nominee ashton carter. The Committee Held its confirmation hearing last week. Answered questions about sequestration cuts, the u. S. Fight against isis, and the ukraine. This part of the hearing, you will hear mr. Carters opening statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Reid. Thank you all. D members of this committee. Thank you all. Thank you for inviting me to appear before you as president obamas nominee to be secretary of defense. Im honored by his trust and confidence and also by the prospect of serving once again the troops, and the country that i love so much. If confirmed, i will take the
Stuck in traffic and cant get home in time for dinner with her kids. And in the very worst cases cases like we saw yesterday on amtrak it might very well mean a love one is lost. Congress looks at this like an academic exercise, numbers on a page to score points or balance a budget make an argument about which are worthy of support. That is not the real world. In the real world, the choices we make have an impact on peoples lives, on their incomes, it has impact on our nations ability to compete. On americas ability to leave the economy globally in the world. We in congress are failing to recognize the realworld impacts on the choices we make about transportation infrastructure. We have a passenger railroad that expired in 2013. We have a Highway Trust Fund on the brink of insolvency with no plans to fix it. We have an outdated Aviation System that we refuse to adequately fund. We have failed to upgrade the available technologies that can reduce the number of failures. We have appropri