Is 202 hat line 7488001. We also welcome your comments on twitter. Tweet us cspanwj. Post your comments on facebook. We are talking about the federal Death Penalty being reinstated by the department of justice effective as of thursday. The executions set to begin in december of this year. The Justice Department plans to restart Capital Punishment after long hiatus. The attorney general william barr ordered the euro of presence to schedule executions for five inmates on death row. Each was convicted of murdering children among others. Owe it to the victims and their families to carry out the sentence imposed by our Justice System. They write that by diving into the Death Penalty debate, the Trump Administration is pushing back against the countrys recent trend of declining executions. More on the washington post. One of the authors of that piece, mark berman, is on the phone with us this morning. What was behind the administrations decision to reinstate the federal Death Penalty . Guest
Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g
Test. Captioning performed by vitac with Glacier National park totaling 131 million and yellowstone National Park which we share with wyoming, i think the senators of wyoming say its more than a share, they have most of it in wyoming, that backlog is growing close to 600 million. I wouldnt be surprised if that number perhaps goes up even higher. If left unchecked there will be impacts in our Outdoor Economy, there will be impacts to our gateway communities like gardner, like cook city and like others. Thankfully congress is working together and taking action again with this bipartisan restore our parks act, and im grateful Ranking Member on the subcommittee angus king and i and the rest of the committee are working in a truly bipartisan fashion to put legislation forward that would bring a solution to this problem. I hope we can pass this out of committee soon and ultimately send this to President Trumps desk. But its going to take more than just one to fix this issue. Mr. Cameron, Yel
Between the metering lights and treasure island. However, its off on the shoulder. So its not causing any significant delays. Keeping an eye on it. Thats an eye how quiet it has been today. We have managed to stay out of the red out of the central valley. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin, 43 minutes. Southbound 680 dublin to mission bul vafd, 16 minutes. Same drive time on northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino. A 1. 5 billion surplus is how much the California University system stashed away hidden from the public and officials. Meanwhile tuition nearly doubled in that time. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield live in hayward. Good morning, amy. Reporter looking at twitter, i see a lot out of rage. What about students drowning from Student Loans. Some saying i want a refound. This is from a state audit that found the california state University System has a surplus of 1. 5 billion, this money set aside while the system has raised tuition, raised parking and even lobbied the state for more
Election. Ask ladies and gentlemen think governor of the great state of West Virginia the honorable jim justice. [applause] [applause] [applause] okay, sit down you all look like youre getting tired. [laughter] you have got to clap a lot tonight. I will get to the meat and potatoes in just a Second Period but i want to thank you credit want to thank you from all of us. All of my family in every way for all of the years and all of the time we have spent together. Bickering at times but hopefully loving each other in the end. An absolutely loving West Virginia it that matter what. Now, if i could make some incredible introductions here. It is just this. I would like to introduce my family. Especially kathy he has to put up with me all of the time. And please give it kathy and jill and jay a big round of applause, please. [applause] [applause] okay. The members of my cabinet and i really do not see need going through each secretary but in thinking about it maybe i should. Because of all t