Dont have enough human powerwer there. E. People are still waiting to get the supplies they need, and to step over two weeks out. The federal response was underwhelming to say the least. Host as far as the ability to get supplies outcome is aes strictly a federal cause or other issues within the state itself on the island itself that couldve been tended to better leading up to the storm . Guest were talking about major challenges. Roads are blocked. The truck drives, many of them are still being with her own catastrophes at home. Now were talk about no cellobls phone service so its hard to commicommittee. Theres no streetlights so its hard to drive at night. It takes not only Major Military trucks but also helicopters. The type of infrastructure and equipment that most state let alone puerto rico has before hand. A lot of this shouldve beentic. Anticipated. Host using fema shouldve had decent pizza place before it . Guest or at least get them within day one, two or three. We saw obviou
Facebook page. The president announced he will head to las vegas to visit with families and First Responders there. The white house yesterday offering words of condolence and comfort. [video clip] mr. Trump hundreds of our fellow citizens are mourning the loss of a brother, child, sister. We cannot imagine their pain, their loss. To the families of the victims, we are praying for you, and we are here for you. We ask god to help see you through this very dark period. Scripture teaches us the lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. We seek comfort in those words for we know that god lives in the hearts of those who grieve. To the wounded who are now recovering and hospitals, we are praying for your full and speedy recovery and pledge to you our support from this day forward. Host that was at the white house. On capitol hill, there were calls from House Minority leader nancy pelosi to take a look at legislation dealing with gun measures, in fact formi
Parks service. Were here to talk about the service at its history and also learn more about the special house and people who lived here and how its being preserved by the National Parks service. Were joined by robert stanton. Biez, the former site manager here at arlington house. Obviously a park service employee. Hes also oversees a year long renovation of the estate. Let me start with the story of how the National Park service began. As the National Park service was authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president woodrow wilson, august 25, 1916. There we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park service today. And that legislation came about through the stellar efforts of many conservationists and civil leaders throughout the country. Was it at all controversial at the time it was signed into law . It was in the sense there was sort of a misunderstanding in terms of some of the constraints that may be imposed by having one federal agency to ad minister our N
Consumer protection in financial peril that is an independent industry cannot be fired by the president it is not subject to the appropriations power as they are taking a number of actions that are outside of the public visibility for instance they are gathering financial records or creditcard records of hundreds of millions of americans with no discussion that than i could find and knows scrutiny or accountability for what these agencies are doing because you can see they are independent they are not part of the administration but on the other side you have the federal Communications Commission with neutrality it is widely reported in a cave out of the ftc and was directed by the president may be the president should direct the ftc but then there has to be some ownership of that. So there is a lot of examples of domestic overreach and not even owning that bennett hiding behind the various structures of bureaucratic independence which i think is quite troubling. I do think the problem
Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i