Rosenkranz, then president of you may call the cable and his Business Partner with the first Cable Operators to agree to support the idea of cspan. At that time, only about 90 of 19 ican homes were wired of American Homes were wired for cable. He passed away this week and wrote a check for 25,000. With that money, cspan created the infrastructure to send out cable televisions first live views of the u. S. House of representatives. On march 19, 1979, the something theirlion homes served by hundred 50 cable systems. 350 cable systems. Let the public understand what goes on in washington and how to deal with it. Above all, the mission here has been just that at cspan. We are proud of that. He steered the Nonprofit Network through its initial challenging years and continue to serve on cspans board of directors until his death. Most recently in the role of chairman emeritus. Believe the nation can only benefit from more exposure to our political process. To educate and inform our people bot
Other things, that he was unfit for presidency. On president obama, whether you agree or disagree. For republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Facebook. Heres the headline from the Financial Times this morning talking about that exchange that took place at the white house yesterday. Obama brands trump unfit for presidency. This happened during a meeting between obama and the singaporean Prime Minister. Heres what president obama had to say about donald trump. [video clip] , thedent obama yes republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week. He keeps on proving it. That he would attack that had madeily such extraordinary sacrifices on , the factour country that he doesnt have basic knowledge around Critical Issues in europe, in the middle east, in asia, means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job. Host if you agree or disagree with those statements, let us know what you think. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats.
Testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals that we issued subpoenas to where danny pomo personal deputy undersecretary for benefits, diana rubin is director of the philadelphia Regional Office, ms. Kimberly grace director of the st. Paul Regional Office, mr. Robert mckendrick director of the Los Angeles Regional Office, mr. Antoine waller director of the baltimore Regional Office. We learned at our last hearing the ig report lays out the alleged abuse of vas relocation permanent change of station programs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money and now ms. Rubin sent ms. Gray said apparently in a properly use their positions of authority to put their own personal and financial benefits ahead of veterans, taxpayers and their subordinates. As the saying goes a pictures worth a thousand words a lets start with a map and describe in the simplest terms what tonights hearing is all about. You can look at the screen appear. Initially ms. Graves and
Dont fare much better. Of the 20 companies which spend the most on lobbying in washington according to figures by opensecrets. Org, only google is on the list, spending 50 million on influence in washington much the nation a association of realtors spends twice that. And kind of pretty sure that Julie Samuels is a lobbyist though. Her organization, engine, prefers to say it supports the growth of technology, entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis is and an advocacy. Let me introduce John Schwartz of usa today, mick hall efram of fortune. Are you or are you not a lobbyist . For starters there is a Legal Definition of lobbyist and i am not one. Okay. Register as a lobbyist. You have to say i am a lobbyist. Correct. We will get to why an undocumented lobbyist . Well, i work in at vo cassie. I work in at vo cassie. We will get to the difference in a second. When one registers as lobbyist, what does that mean that youre not . What is the difference that my understanding
And other minority groups. Host we are asking if you have questions about what is happening in iraq right now, specifically the efforts of the kurdish people, we are joined for the 35 minutes or so by the head of the Regional Government for the kurds in d. C. U. S. ,re outside the the curtis tend government held kurdistans dan Regional Government, what are they asking right now . Guest we are confronted with a lot of challenges right now. Verse, you mentioned the military and crisis. We have a population of about 5. 3 million. About 1. 5 million. Theyre coming in the tens of thousands, if not the hundreds of thousands. This has been a huge burden under the leadership in providing for and assisting these refugees. On top of this, we have not received a single penny that we are entitled to from baghdad as a result of the oil revenues. Us 9 billion. There has not been a single penny that has come since the beginning of this year. Without revenue coming in, we try to upset and making up fo