The governor has made a significant investment in our demolition because we have a track record internationally recognized Elimination Program that people will see slowly pushing back on those years of disinvestment. At a jump in there for a second . When you have people who are overtime dispersed over a wide area, there is some blogs with very few inhabited units and for those of you not familiar with ultimate, theres a lot of room housing. Sometimes you will have 20 or 30 homes in only two of them were three of them are still inhabited. We call it snaggle tooth. Our goal is to relocate the family where they want to be and put them in no worse condition than they with now. A lot of times what happens is if theres going to be development in the area, we can move them from one house to the next, but house thats in a occupied block, you know, something that works for them and we work i will just say, it slows down the progress but makes for Better Development when you take the time to tr
Of the Homeland Security Committee Chairman michael mccaul. Chairman mccaul son of a world war ii veteran is currently serving his sixth term representing texas tenth district which covers from austin to houston. In january hell enter his fourth year as the chairman of the house Homeland Security committee. This committee has oversight of the department of Homeland Security ensuring its able to carry out its core mission of protecting the American People from terrorist attack. He also serves on the committee of Foreign Affairs working to our National Security abroad. Under the chairmans leadership, the committee has made quite the mark during the 114th congress. This year the committee has passed 55 bills, 25 of which came from freshman members. 40 bills have passed the house, almost half from freshmen. And seven bills have become law. All told, it accounts for 10 of public law this year. This is the result of the leadership and teamwork of chairman mccaul and his committee. He also es
History. It is a privilege to introduce the chairman of the Homeland Security committee, michael mccaul. He is currently serving his isth term representing texas as sixth district. His committee has oversight over the department of Homeland Security ensuring that it carries out its core mission of protecting the American People from terrorist attacks. Under the chairmans leadership, the Homeland Security committee has made quite the mark. This year, the committee has passed 55 bills. Seven bills have become law. All told, it accounts for 10 of public law this year. He also established a Bipartisan Task force on combating foreign fighter travel, the findings of which have brought improvements to our National Security and those of our allies. Securityo on the cyber. Aucus he is responsible for creating the hope act, which was signed by the president became law in october 2012, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to create new treatments for pediatric cancer patients. Chairma
But i submit to legalism. What i want to talk about is the world that robert kagan and Bret Stephens once that is undergirded by American Power and i think that is the world we all believe has been vastly beneficial for the United States, for canada but for by and large the whole world. It allowed the transformation i talked about are not in america. The question is what is made that possible . I would argue the image you should think about is Franklin Roosevelt after winning decisively in world war ii. Decides he wants to create the United Nations an institution which all countries would be represented and try to make a systematic and institutionalized effort to produce a new kind of Global Politics in which other countries are respected, their voices heard and that is really what the United States has at its core been trying to do since 1945. Its not really because the United States has gone into lots of third world countries and intervened and beaten up people and killed leaders tha
Camp from michigan. Hes retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and were going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. But when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said lets see if we can get the Corporate Income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Well, thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to