A purana also ahead rebuilding iraq kuwait pledges two billion dollars to help the country recover from the devastation of war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says nothing will come of the police recommendation that he be indicted on corruption charges. What we have seen so far is cruel and barbaric to top it off they have the gall to blame the media the United Nations steps up the pressure on myanmars government over the russian crisis. Began in south africa where police have raided the home of a prominent business family with toys to president jacob zuma and arrested one person the roads around the home of the gulf the family in johannesburg have been sealed for the area designated a crime scene where president zuma is under investigation of alleged corruption linked to the family hes accused of being influenced by the group those to make government decisions and cabinet appointments zuma and some of his family members along with the gupta is being investigated on charges
Elizabeth prada also ahead. Rebuilding iraq kuwait pledges two billion dollars to help the country to cover from the years of conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says nothing will come of a police recommendation that he be indicted on corruption charges plus. What we have seen so far is cruel and barbaric to top it off they have the gall to blame the media. The United Nations steps up the pressure on young must government over the crisis. We began to in south africa where police have raided the home of a prominent business family with toews to president jacob zuma and arrested three people the roads around the home of the family in johannesburg have been sealed off of the area designated a crime scene. President zuma is under investigation of alleged corruption linked to the family lets get more on this now our correspondent found in the minutes joining us live from johannesburg what more can you tell us about whats happening around the cop the family home and father. E
Pension had enough money. Account and by this clearly this reporter is not saying this is every business where everyone in the retirement industry. I would be interested and start you, mr. Mr. Baker and biggs. How serious is this problem of siphoning dollars from pension ofds to finance, the kind wheeling and dealing that was described and specific kind of instances. Effortnd of enforcement could be put in place to deal with this . This really looks to me like it is way over the line if not looting of private Pension Funds is pretty serious financial misconduct and should not be tolerated. We will start with mr. Baker and then mr. Biggs. I do think it is a serious problem. I do not think that explains the issue in terms of workers facing in adequate retirements. You have a number of instances where certainly people were violating the intent of the law. Ite money is in a pension, is supposed to stay in the pension. She gives several accounts in which companies were able to pull money fr
The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Mr. Levin mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Levin mr. President , the bill that we are about to vote on is a good bill. Its the product of a an extensive bipartisan, bicameral agreement between the Armed Services committees of the senate and the house of representatives. We have passed a defense bill every year for the last 51 years. This bill deserves to be the 52nd, because like our previous bills, it does the right thing for our troops, their families and our nations security. It passed the house with a vote of 35069, and it deserves an equally strong bipartisan vote in the senate tonight. Now, yesterday, i praised the members of our committee, and i also noted the amazing work of our staff, and im not going to repeat that. This bill is not a Christmas Gift to our troops and their families, authorizing funding for our t