To start to do with the rise for the power of unions. Still to this day there is a real reduction, theres been a a real reduction over the intervening 40 years or so for more speed is well step away from this to take you live to the u. S. Senate where today members will be voting on the confirmation of the u. S. Ambassador to the southeastern asian nation. This week senators are working on a fiveyear reauthorization for the federal Aviation Administration ahead of the friday deadline. That legislation would increase the number of air Traffic Controllers and require the faa to use new technology to design to prevent collisions on runways. Live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, known to us in countless ways, thank you for answering when we call. Lord, we turn to you that in your light we might see light. Illuminate the minds of our lawmakers regarding how to solve the difficul
Policy. It was emerrill rogers not that long ago said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ad infinitum in classified settings for the entire ten years i was on the Intelligence Community and we could never get consensus to move to the next place on what that cyber offensive is. And by the way just as a personal note i just saw that the Administration Says theyre going to make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. And candidly im not too excited about what its going to be. We havent crossed that threshold to bring everybody in a room and try to work through this problem. I would long answer to your question, but i dont believe they have the right to go extraterritorial to protect what they perceive to be a threat at that point. Thats fantastic. Thank you, thank you so much. We can get a hand for the speakers. Thats just great. You can see how we can make many hou
Technologies and the new commandant of the u. S. Coast guard, and a discussion at the Hudson Institute about cybersecurity. Today the Senate Small Business Committee Held a hearing on Disaster Relief for Small Businesses. It focused on changes made since Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast ten years ago. The senate began its district work period yesterday. This is an hour. Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome. Thanks very much for joining me here today for this discussion roundtable about a very important ongoing challenge in relation to Disaster Recovery. Natural disasters are obviously indiscriminate and sweeping. With this roundtable, i hope to highlight the improvements made in Disaster Recovery efforts in the last decade, discuss continuing challenges that local, federal, and state officials still face, and have a conversation about Disaster Mitigation and response. This is, as you know, the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Were going to acknowledge that in just a couple
See the l through z applicants who were unable to make their schedule days which were wednesday and thursday of next week. Those applying for dsnap must go to a specified site for the parents where they resided during the disaster to receive benefits if they were eligible. If you are receiving snap benefits and live in f1 flood impacted area benefits will automatically be added to your ebt card. You do not need and should not go to the dsnap location in that instance. If you registered in a previous disaster you are already in the system. You do not need to register again, what you do need to go to the site on your appointed day and when you do, your information will be updated. In the coming days, you will also see an awful lot of fema activity going on in your communities and in your parishes. Disaster assistance teams are on the ground and will be in your neighborhoods to help you register and access fema services. These Disaster Assistance will be wearing fema badges and it is impo
My inspiration was the idea that i wanted to explain how totalitarianism happens. We do know the story of the cold war. We know that the documents we have seen the archives and described relationships between roosevelt, stalin and truman and we know the main events from our point of view. What i wanted to do was show from a different angle, from the ground up, what did it feel like to be one of the people who were subjected to this system and how did people make choices in that system and how did they react . Its interesting that one of the things that has happened since 1989 is the regional used to call at Eastern Europe has become very differentiated. These countries no longer have much in common with one another except the common memory of communist occupation. Russian president Vladimir Putin this week gave his first eight of the nation speech since being reelected. His nationwide address is a little less than an hour and a half. Translator of the Federation Council just a few mont