Years. Now it has come to a functional standstill. As noncontroversial nominations some of which were approved out of the committee by overwhelming votes, the majority of republicans, majority of democrats, they languished on the executive calendar. Now our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did their best to slow the pace of confirmations when the senate was under democratic leadership. And now theyre sluggishly moving nominations under a senate they control. And, mr. President its culminated in the irresponsible partisan blockade of president Obamas Supreme Court pick. Lets talk about some real numbers here. More than a year into this new congress more than a year into this new congress the Republican Leadership has allowed only 17 judges to be confirmed. Okay . How many months do we have here . We have 12 in the last year of this congress. We now have, were in the end of april, so thats four. And so thats 16 months. Its one a month. Now let me show you the contrast. And id sa
Americas northern triangltrian recognition of acute challenges these countries face. U. S. Assistance through the strategy complements the investments northern triangle governments are making through their own development plan, the alliance for prosperity. They plan to spend 2. 6 billion this year on their own plan. Continued u. S. Support will be vital to colombias success as it seeks to implement a peace accord. Our partnership with mexico remains an important priority for the United States, and includes a range of issues that benefit both countries, including trade and investment, energy and security. The merritt initiative continues to provide the framework for our bilateral Security Cooperation at both forward and state levels. Our request also includes a central democracy assistance for cuba and venezuela, where the United States will continue to provide assistance that advances universal human rights and supports vibrant civil societies. Promotions of democratic principals and h
The tea as a is a new creation of that but obviously there was a coast guard before that. The secret service and interaction with the coast guard and the coast guard provided, and the department of Homeland Security. My sense is the cooperation is enhanced with in the same agency. I would like to add the panels conclusion is we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform. For those issues we didnt think moving from one agency to another would address any of the issues we identified and so while we understand that was a serious debate, the focus needed to be solving the problems we had. If i could say one interesting piece on treasury was being an older guy, i remember well a lot of discussions treasury officials, wall street guys, finance guys dont understand the Enforcement Mission well, and wherever we are you think it is somewhere else. I believe it was correct to say at that point of the director of the secret service reported u. N. Assistant secretary or undersecr
Blizzard. But in fact it wasnt snowinging this is how intense the air pollution was. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight, the president today joined the wave of criticism that has greeted the rocky rollout of online efforts to get people to sign up for health insurance. He conceded the federal web site central to the process has failed to deliver. From the outset health care. Gov has been plagued with problems within hour after hour after hour of just trying to find the answer to the que
Snowinging this is how intense the air pollution was. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight, the president today joined the wave of criticism that has greeted the rocky rollout of online efforts to get people to sign up for health insurance. He conceded the federal web site central to the process has failed to deliver. From the outset health care. Gov has been plagued with problems within hour after hour after hour of just trying to find the answer to the question where am i going to have