Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know the most critical thing was congress didnt give us any slack and i dont think they shouldve let me pass the bill a couple of months later and said you get these things done in six months and these then 12 months and these in 18 months. It took an awful lot of work an awful or portability an awful or portability than we were able to meet up with deadlines. If we had a shutdown the middle of that there is no way we could have done it a luck its just a lot of extra work and if you were to take a busi
The third step that the u. S. Could help with is the finalization of the provisional constitution. Which deeply ambiguous contradictory in many ways. I think the three steps can be a strong starting point. Its unrealistic to expect that. Well have a clearer picture three years from now. Thank you. Well, i mean, as we know here in the United States federalism remains extremely contentious issue even in the halt halls. In places far away especially when they dont have formal links with these local administrations or they are in very hostile relationships with them as they have been with juba land. The important point that people need to recognize is that alshabaab benefits from these types of agreements and benefits from these tensions and one of the biggest problems we have in the juba land is well juba land is somewhat or stable and it is arguably less of a safe haven for alshabaab the fact that juba land is being dominated by a single allows alshabaab to recruit from minority clans wh
Civil rights. In her postwhite house years she served as a delegate to the United Nations, and president harry truman called her the first lady of the world. Tonight well explore the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt on first ladies influence and image at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan3 as well as cspan radio. Cspans student cam video competition asks, whats the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014 . Make a 57 minute documentary showing varying points of view, and be sure to include cspan video. The we hes has a grand prize of 5,000, and this year weve doubled the number of winners and total prizes. Entries are due by january 20, 2014. Need more information . Visit studentcam. Org. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, the federal government reopened after 16 days during this current shutdown, and this week on the communicators a round table discussion on the effect of that
You were chief of staff during the last shutdown in 19951996. What was that like . It was really tough. It was very hard and required us to do a lot of planning prior and cleanup. My favorite story if i can tell you the story from it. Iere was a group of asians think indonesian who came to visit reed hundt and i. They had to walk up eight flights of stairs because he elevate elevator was not work. They were out of breath and they said, what the heck is going on . Reed said the legislative branch decided to shut off the executive branch. They started laughing. They said not country it is the opposite. A message. Lly is the world thinks were crazy when we do things like this. The market things we are crazy. It has a longterm effect on the economy which is very negative. 38harold furchtgottroth, employees of the fcc were considered essential for this past shutdown. Lostdoes the work that got in this 16 days . There were several activities that the commission does that was not done. 1700 o
And foreclose shures were mounting. When president came into office our economy was shrinking at an. 3 annual rate. The American People fought their way back from the brink. Cause of our nations resill resilience, we have seen our deficit shrink. Businesses have added more than two million jobs over the last year alone. Manufacturing has expanded while to Housing Market continues improve. At the same time our deficits are half what they were a few years ago. Even though progress has been made, our economy is not erforming at full steam. The pace of growth in hiring has ot been consistent enough, and the Government Shutdown and the debt ceiling impasse were examples of that brinksmanship. A manufactured crisis, but a crisis nonetheless. Even though we do not know the full exfent of the damage, we know it slowed Economic Growth and job creation in this quarter. What we should learn from this searing experience is that washington politics should not hurt workers and our economy nor be use