Vo advisory teams on the ground, joint tactical Forward Air Controllers and other groups. These are small numbers of highly trained professionals. They would make all of the difference going out there with iraqi forces, be they peshmerga, National Guard or awakening sunni or the iraqi army, the nine brigades forming. Theres a huge difference between how these people perform and other conflicts perform when you have american advisers with them and how they perform without them. We dont have the luxury of having them perform in an inaccurate way. That needs to be done right now. And i dont understand why the administration is dragging its heels when it hears from dempsey, hears from others this is something that should be and is being contemplated. Thats it. A. Mbassador ford, your three recommendations for president obama. The first would be within the region itself to prioritize. I think most everyone would agree that syria and iraq are probably the two highest priorities because of th
Positive solutions to save and strengthen and secure medicare, medicaid and social security. And i cant wait to have our new members on the Budget Committee sink their teeth into these wonderful issues that are so important to solve if were going to get our fiscal house in order and create an economy that will thrive and grow. Third, i think that we have on the conservative side, we have either ignored or put on the back burner come back in, everyone grab their seats. Well begin our next session. We are excited to have congressman jeff duncan talk about his xpand act and the broader topic of energy across the country. I know senator demint is particularly excited the South Carolinaen on stage. I think you all know that jeff duncan has been a consistent conservative voice since coming to washington in 2010. That really, really important year of 2010. That class was really huge because it was a tea party surge sent here to washington to reform washington. And well hear later this afterno
85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can start cutting, the better. Where exactly should they start . Repealing obama care has to be their First Priority simply because 44 of the growth in sbiltsment spending is driven by the health care law. So if we are to rein in growing spending and debt obama care is where we need to start. This needs to be combined with reforms to Medicare Medicaid, and Social Security. During this process, lawmakers should be guided by focusing benefits on those individuals with the greatest need and delivering tho
Had been released, the question with respect to folks who had been released was on what grounds were they ror d, paroled, were they deported, what is the legal circumstance in which they found themselves. It created a great deal of fear for our clients because they did not know how to reach their attorneys to tell them that they were being transferred or once they were in a few facility, they didnt know how to reach them. And it obviously interferes with the legal representation that were giving our clients. I know you probably dont know the answer to all the transferees, but do you have any idea why some of the transfers were happening . These particular transfers were happening because they were winding down artesia. They were closing artesia, and the currently detained population had to be moved, some of them had hearings that were scheduled for the weeks during which the transfers were going to be happening, and so we were able to negotiate a pace for those transfers that would all
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