Shot. Nonetheless he made it here and been a fantastic member of Parliament Standing up for his constituents. In wales since the election 22,000 more small business. Employment in wales going up by 52,000. Unemployment coming down private sector growth. We see Real Recovery in wales. It needs my honourable friend back here standing up for his constituents and for wales in the house of commons. I have here, mr. Speaker, a cutting from a york crest on the 24th of april 2010. Which says and i quote. David cameron last night dismissed claims the tory was put up the mps in the election november, last november. Why should the public believe promises he makes at this coming election . I have given the strangest possible answer. This time in government, we know what needs to be done. We know the changes and the truth is, both sides of this house have voted for a 30 billionpound adjustment. The labour front bench voted for it too. We have set out what needs to happen with departmental spending
Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. Yates nomination. Without objection. And id also like to include a number of letters, i referred to them earlier, from colleagues, Law Enforcement officials, officials in georgia, in support of that nomination. Without objection those are included. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me just ask you about olc opinions, ms. Yates. Its been a tradition common to, i think, most recent administrations that olc opinion
That fbi can do . There isnt a magic bullet. It is, to us, it is about a full court press making sure that we are that we have sources where we need them to be, that we have the capability, both the know how and Technical Capability to play in the online space where theyre meeting and recruiting and radicalizing and were closely connected to state and local partners. Theyre far more likely to hear about a guy leaving a community and going to syria and were connected with our intelligence partners and foreign partners who are trip wires for us. What happened with that guy is the egyptians spotted him when he was sent back from turkey, alerted us, then were able to lay hands on him. Let me switch completely to the Prescription Drug problem. Which has been devastating in my part of the state and the country. Particularly oxycontin. But now that were beginning to make a dent in the pill mills, closing them down in florida, and georgia and other places, and finally getting fda to change the
Conversation. It could lead to collaboration and better results for our cities and our country. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Thanks for that ending. Thanks everyone for participating. [applause] Hillary Clinton obviously part of this discussion here at the center for american progress. This is questions continuing over emails she sent during her tenure as secretary of state. The House Committee on benghazi revealing yesterday the server that contained those emails was wiped clean. The committee learned of this from a clinton attorney after requesting the server be turned over to a third party as part of that investigation into the 2012 benghazi consulate attack in libya. Its not certain when the server was erased though Benghazi Committee chair trey goudie suggested it was sometime after october 2014, when the state department asked for secretary clinton to turn offer her public records. The Republican National committee, meanwhile releasing a Statement Today about ms. Clinto
Competing bills to reopen the government. Theres one catch. Both of those bills are widely expected to catch as the situation gets more serious for those 800,000 federal workers set to go the without their second paycheck on friday. My landlord has made it very clear i have a week to pay or im going to be evicted. I live paycheck to paycheck like many other americans do. Right now its dire need. Weve got a lot to get through with our team to break it all down. I want to start with where things stand this morning. We are about 24 hours from that senate floor showdown. Two dueling bills brought forward, one by republicans that would reopen the government in exchange for 5. 7 billion in border wall money and temporary protection for some immigrants. Separately, the senate will also vote on a democratic shortterm bill that does not include wall money. It would reopen the government till february 8th. Both bills need the support of 60 senators to advance to a final vote. That is probably no