Initial request will be in the neighborhood of 6 billion. Members of congress are expected to approve that weekly. Do you have quickly. Do you have a sense of what they expect the total price tag to be . Guest last night the White House Office of management and budget sent out a letter, and what they are asking for is 7. 85 billion immediately. Most of that is for fema to replenish the Disaster Relief fund. Some good reporting from my colleagues, fema is burning through their disaster might have a stunning rate. Money added stunning disaster money at a stunning rate. The white house is expecting a longer resolution on spending. They also want to . 7 billion in cr. Their official and unofficial ask in the neighborhood of 14. 5 billion coming in the next week or so. These things are always tricky. I think the initial 7. 8, i think the white house will get that. We have not heard much so far. The key thing to look for is to go back and look at the Hurricane Sandy relief bill that became r
And it could result in lives lost unless we have enforceable rules and regulations that protect the traveling public, not just the folks who may be behind the wheel but also passengers in vehicles out on the roads today. Driving continues to be one of the deadliest activities. The reason the framework issued yesterday concerned me so greatly is that it depends on voluntary selfassessment by the industry as opposed to mandatory rules. It was termed by one report even less burdensome than the voluntary one issued under the obama administration. The net effect would be to leave enforcement virtually toothless. So i am putting to you the question, to all of the witnesses here today, isnt it necessary to have mandatory rules and regulations enforced by the government, by the department of transportation or some enforcer to protect the traveling public . I think thats absolutely true. There has to be weve seen too many examples of and thats one of our concerns, is whether or not theres going
Which a therapeutic is not exist does not exist. In most cases, the need for learning is quite acute. How many be accommodated when be how can the need accommodated when the humanitarian need is so great . That point, the leaders of the team finished the report ofently of a on the topic implemented crisis during the epidemic. I will turn over the podium to the cochair team, who is dr. Jerry kirsch, currently professor at boston university, and he is also managing a very important and exciting institution that has been created there where one can do research on emerging and dangerous diseases. This institutional desperately need any United States, and he is working hard. He and his copresenter, david peters, will be talking for about 15 minutes each, and then we will welcome dr. Carrie hesher from a humanitarian group who did more to save ebola lives than any other single group during the Ebola Outbreaks us then jeremy who is with from the ecb who supported the United States efforts to
Them. How do you start making changes to appeal to a new group of voters moving forward that think very differently from the parents and grandparents without alienating those parents and grandparents upon whose votes you rely on your base to win elections right now . I think that is one of the growing pains in the Republican Party that i will be fascinating to see how they handle that over the next, maybe not few years, but definitely next decade, decade and a half. The current iteration of the Republican Party i dont think would be a viable party in 20 years. Town hall. Com guy benson and other political commentators debating the future of the republican and democratic party. From the World Affairs conference discussion, we will have that tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Join us tomorrow morning for a discussion about troops in afghanistan with blackwater he will discuss his proposal to outsource the war and is but administration is considering to privatize large portion of the missi
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