This morning, were asking our viewers to weigh in. How important is it to you as you consider your choices this Election Year and you consider increased trade to be an threat to the a u. S. Economy. Give us a call. Phone lines are open. Democrats can call 2027488000, republicans, 2027488001, independents, 2027488002. Up with us onatch social media and twitter cspanwj or facebook at facebook. Com cspan. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Were talking about the issue of trade on the campaign trail. Thoughts andr your comments. Heres the latest gallop polling numbers on how americans feel about the issue on Foreign Trade. The majority of americans see Foreign Trade as an opportunity for economic growth. 34 see trade as a threat to the economy. The numbers have been in that way in that balance since about opinions americans about Foreign Trade, more it as ns started seeing an opportunity than a threat. Gallup a chart in the polling numbers in 2012. You can see the numbers over the years r
Turkey is prepping again for elections on november 1st. The Wilson Center is the host of this event this afternoon, and thatll be live at three here on cspan2. Also coming up shortly on our companion network, cspan, democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders will be speaking at liberty university, and that will be in lynchburg, virginia, the same place republican senator ted cruz announced his president ial candidacy. Senator sanders will be speaking at the con convocation, thatll start at 10 30 eastern. Youll be able to see it live on cspan, and following that we will open our phone lines to get your calls and reaction. Also coming up tonight at 8 30 weve got a hearing examining the security of the u. S. mexico border with officials from the state department and Border Control agencies. Heres a quick preview. To increase security, rule of law and justice in mexico is going to be a longterm battle. I think that we have, we can see what has happened in colombia and the ty
Incident, how would the preventive controls rule that we have just passed have made a potential significant difference in the risk of that disease . So thats an unusual case in many respects. In part because of the vast scale of the damage that it did and the thousands of products that had to be recalled because this firm was selling not only Peanut Butter in bulk but peanut ingredients that went out into thousands of processed foods. It was a catastrophic event for the food system. It also involved intentional conduct by the owner and operator of that facility and well publicized subsequent criminal prosecution and conviction. You know, the the what this will do even in that situation is provide a much stronger basis for inspectors when they go in to facilities to not be reliant just on looking around at the facility conditions and with no access to the records of the facility, now well have a much stronger ability as investigators to go into facilities and make assessments of the sys
Families with Student Loans but also things like Early Childhood education, head start programs, pell grants, all those things can end up being adversely affected. And this is just one thing i would ask everybody to consider. When you hear budget debates i know your eyes kind of glaze over. But the federal budget, thats really where we express our values and a lot of times people say, well, we should cut Government Spending because theres all this waste. But, in fact, the vast majority of Government Spending is for Social Security its for medicare, its for medicaid, its for helping vulnerable populations and its for defense. And not a lot is left over for helping middleclass families, for example, send their kids to college or to save. And if you had this ceiling, this artificial cap without taking into account a growing population and more young people going into college then you end up with a situation in which fewer people are getting help. Thats why its important to lift this artif
Congress. We start this morning with president obama yesterday at fort hood at the Memorial Service there following the mass shooting last week. We want to hear from veterans role is the what government playing in your postwar transition . Ears is how we will divide the lines. Iraqi and afghanistan vets, call us at 20258538 80. Veterans of other wars, 2025853881. Conversationthis at facebook. Com cspan. Heres what president obama had to say yesterday in fort hood, talking about the countrys returning veterans. [video clip] we must honor the men by keeping our troops safe, not an open battle but here as well. We can never eliminate every risk, but as a nation, we can do more. To help counsel those with , to keepalth issues firearms out of the hands of those who are having such deep difficulties. Muste military, we do everything we can to spare others this pain. By doingonor these men more to care for our fellow americans living with until illness, civilian and military. Today four ameri