Half. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. To those oflcome you who are watching online and to viewers on cspan. I am seth cropsey. A senior fellow here at hudson. Welcome to our conference on chinas recent actions that aim to establish their own order in the Taiwan Strait. As you will hear in greater detail from our panel this morning, china unilaterally changed the status quo of aviation routes in the taiwan week of thee first share. Changes were made despite agreements between taiwan and china that were reached in 2008 in 2015. And again consultationd any change in aviation routes. Is part of an larger, brighter pattern of chinese revocation in the region. Broader pattern of chinese revocation in the region. China had a ship go our. During chinese jets have circled taiwan nearly wants per month. The is consistent with chinese policy that seeks to enjoy the benefits of an International World order for the purpose of replacing out world order with one of their own making. For example, c
Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert Alan Mcdonald of ohio to be secretary. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 12 30 will be equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Sanders madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, i rise today in strong support of the nomination of Robert Mcdonald to serve as secretary of the Veterans Affairs administration. Madam president , i also want to thank majority leader reid for moving this important nomination forward as quickly as it has, and i hope very much that later this afternoon, with a very strong vote, the u. S. Senate will vote to confirm Robert Mcdonald as secretary of the v. A. Madam president , before i talk about mr. Mcmcdonalds qualifications, i did want to take a moment to express my sincere thanks to generic shinseki for his dedicated service to our nation, first as a soldier and then as head of the v. A. , working ti
The screen. Sign up for the American History tv newsletter today and be sure to watch American History tv every saturday or any time online at cspan. Org history. Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today. Its my honor to be with you. Today well be talking about world war ii on americas doorstep. I represent noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric association. This system encompasses more than 600,000 square miles of marine and great lakes waters from Washington State to the florida keys and from the huron to american samoa. We represent the sanctuary off the coast of North Carolina, which you can see here with the arrow. Heres some other representations of our sanctuary, but we are located about 16 miles off the coast of cape hatteras, North Carolina. And were in 230 feet of water where the labrador and gulf stream currents collide. Not only is it casualties and only a dozen wounded. That evening the u. S. S. Monitor arrives in Hampton Roads after coming from new yor
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I think you pretty much took my entire speech when he mentioned the word cbo. Unfortunately, i think it is, i think this is something both sides of the aisle, this is something bipartisan we kind of struggled with right now is we are kind of living in an arrow cliff. It is one cliff after the other after the other. The debt ceiling or the sequester or the sgr cliff. Does congressional staffers, im sure debbie can attest to, we are constantly living in his temporary environment because we have to. That is unfortunate your we would all like to take some time and do a deep dive into deep policy thinking and try to think of transformational ideas that can transform everything, but when we kind of walking to work reality hits us. We have a job to do. We have to take of the thing that is the most pressing on the front end, and, unfortunately, thats kind of the environment we are living in. And it was a very interesting panel, especially the last one, where i was hearing, theres Nothing Bette