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recess until the third week of august. this is a look at that briefing with senate republican leaders. . [inaudible conversation] [laughter] i m always in the back. thank you for being here today. we will be very briefin our opening comments . i m beta purdue from georgia and we got seven people here today, actually people who will actually make comments and answer your questions. we re here to talk about whether we sent to leadership last week and basically this , the message is clear. you ve seen the letter is that we are willing to forgo some or all of the august work. because we ve got some very important issues that we have got to get back home. at the first of the year, the major priorities this year, one was healthcare, one was regulation, one was the supreme court. we re moving on but most of those but right now even if we get through healthcare in the next week, between now and the end of the fiscal year we only have 31 working days left and we had the deb ....
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tower. we talk to michael morell, former acting direct are and deputy director of the cianess what the president said was that he and his associates were actually the targets of surveillance, that the surveillance was targeted on them. that s what he said. and the president of the united states, personally approved it. which is ridiculous. presidents don t approve things like that. that is what he said. this collection based on the chairman s own words was not targeted at any u.s. person, it was targeted at a foreign national and there was u.s. person information incidentally collected. that s why that incidentally collected is so important. rose: and we conclude with author kati marton, her book is true believe he, stalin s last american spy. he had given up a lucrative a promising career as a diplomat in the state department. he betrayed his country, and his own family didn t know that he was an agent. and he was a product of that time in washington, much like to ....
[captioning sponsored by viewers like you] these breads are made by one of the most famous bakeries in the san francisco area, the acme bakery. and they supply the breads for chez panisse alice waters famous restaurant. and what s so special about them, steve? it s sort of unique in that it s built, unlike most yeast breads over a period of stages in three different starters starting from a little piece of old dough. and you start out with about this much. julia: good, well let s start in on it. steve: okay, so we ve got a little piece of dough which has fermented for quite a while. we chop it up into little bits. this piece will go about the size of a small walnut. yeah, or a large cherry. mm-hmm. and then we re going to use just under a quarter-cup of fairly warm water. sort of blood temperature. so we ve added just under a quarter cup of water and then we re going to add a little flour. it s a good idea, i think, for anyone if they re going to go into pastry and bre ....
331 of these counties are represented by republicans. and 18 are split between the two parties. from that impersistent poverty should matter to all of us, regardless of party, geography, or race and ethnicity. in early 2009 when we were putting to the the recovery act, i proposed language to require at least 10% of funds in rural development account to be directed to projects in these persistent poverty counties. this requirement was enacted in law. in light of the definition of persistent poverty counties having at least 20% poverty rates over 30 years, this position became known as the 10-20-30 initiative. this provision bore dividends, as economic development projects proliferated in persistent poverty counties across the country. the recovery act funded a total of 4,655 projects in persistent poverty counties totalling $1.7 billion. i saw firsthand the positive effects of these efforts in my congressional district. projects were undertaken that would have otherwise ....