Let us pray. Dear chaplain conroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. May they be led by your spirit in the decisions they make. May they possess your power as they steady themselves amid the pressures of persistent problems. May their faith in you deliver from them wear them down. All this week and through the week may they do their best to find solutions to pressing issues facing our nation. Please, hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nations of earth. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rul
Getting things up and rung. I appreciate it. From my i hear constituents is not good. I hear so many stories of rebuild,nts who cant who havent gotten money. Theres so much red tape that theirannot possibly find way through. So i want to ask each of you tape thats of red concern me that hopefully you can give me the road forward so let my constituents know that relief is possible. Secretary donovan, this one seems very difficult. A number of my constituents were that becauseearn they accepted Small Business administration loans that they now ineligible for cdbg funding. I understand the need to make duplication in getting federal benefits and we want to protect against fraud, but and that is absolutely critical to the integrity of this program. But is there any distinction grantsn be made between and loans under the duplication of benefits regulations . And under the current federal regulations what are the options for sandy affected homeowners whoaccepted sba loans but believe they ar
Rise on the wealthiest households while protecting the vast majority of americans from tax hikes set to hit in january. Welcome to the saturday edition of and the washington journal. For the first 45 minutes of the program we are going to be talking about senate negotiating a fiscal clifts deal, what has been going on on that half of the capital. See what they are talking about and how things are going. We want to get your input and your part of the conversation. You can reach out to us on twitter. Facebook, facebook. Com cspan. And you can send us an email. This is more from the article, the lead story in the washington post. They ride, the development marked a breakthrough after weeks of paralysis. Joining us by phone is one of the authors of that article, and, laurie, welcome to the program. Tell us, what kind of a deal did the president offered . What is new in the negotiations among the senators and between the senators and the white house . Caller there does not appear to be anyt
Ill get that. As the dishes in ukraine are struggling to overcome their differences and form a new government. On tuesday the abandoned plans to vote on National Unity coalition delaying the decision until thursday mommy while ukraine needs cash and it means its a leap of fifteen billion dollar aid package from russia has been suspended lawmakers are now asking the west to fill that gap as the economy hurdles toward the fall. Eu Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton was in ukraine on tuesday she said that europe would be willing to help with Short Term Fund it was a warmer union between Catherine Ashton and you can listen to. After meeting with other leading politicians the eu Foreign Policy chief held talks with the former Prime Minister who was released from prison only days ago. He tries to help ukraine but not unconditionally and he doesnt want to ignore russia we know and understand the strong trade links that exist with gusto and strong things that need to face discussion. We als
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