[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will do a little bit of the front end and hopefully will take care of the business quickly and i know people have other meanings and it will move to the hearing itself. We think our witnesses for allowing us to do this and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today ander we will movea number of nominations and Foreign Service officer led and will also take up as 1928, multilateral act of 2017. I want to think senator coons for his leadership and hard work on this bill. L. I want to also recognize isaacson, rubio, young, cain and merkley for their contributions to thisct bipartisan important legislation for the committee. This bill will establish a process for conducting injected reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding, the authorities after review. Eleven years. Through this process we will be able to evaluate their performance
The poor, elderly, and most of our liberal in our society pursed first. At a time when indiana is doing all it can to grow its economy the epa proposal proposed that it will slow our economic progress in raise peoples utility bills. In indiana, we are obviously concerned about the Economic Impact of the proposed rules on business and consumers, but we have also filed that he one pages of technical comments. We want to make sure the rule does not result in unintended consequences such as reduced reliability resulting in ground outs. Or not yet having all the necessary infrastructure in place to convert from coal to natural gas. For purposes of due diligence, indiana is evaluating all available responses to the proposed regulations from submitting estate plan to participating in original approach, or simply refusing to apply at all. However, the fact that this misguided policy will affect hoosiers and other people in this country while actually increasing the worldwide level of the very
Freedom information act, and they do not try to point any exemptions for National Security or classification reasons, it would be an unprecedented event as far as i know. The state department is incredibly aggressive. All agencies of the federal bureaucracy are incredibly aggressive impacting information that could be classified. The notion that the secretary of state, in the course of her duties, could write 55,000 pages or receive 55,000 pages of email and not one ioda of it is classified, would be very difficult for me or for anyone who is somebody with the freedom of information act to believe. I am confident it will be an interesting thing because the state department, as they process request, will have to decide they will look at an email and say, this is classified but if they try to read acted as such, they are making a liar out of the Hillary Clinton defenders. It will be interesting to see how they perceive when they hit that conundrum, but i would be shocked if there is not
Are speaking french to fight terrorists. Good morning from washington, its friday, january 25th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im luke russert in for mr. Chuck todd. Vice President Joe Biden is taking the White House Campaign to end violence into virginia this morning, a state known for its progun tradition. Biden will hold a roundtable discussion in richmond, with experts who worked on gun safety after the 2007 shooting at virginia tech. Virginias history of protecting pro gun rights legislation has been sustained under both democratic and republican governors. But state lawmakers have been debating a bill that would require private sellers to conduct criminal background checks on buyers at gun shows. And an Online Google plus hangout sponsored by the white house on thursday, biden tried to emphasize background check legislation while downplaying the importance of a new assault weapons ban. More people out there get shot with a glock, that has a that has cartridges that you can hav
More . I mean, you want to make fun of i dont ever make fun of playing. I like my politicians who play. And who have cameras around when they do. What did you learn today, sam . You picked your clothes by number. I have no idea. The sweater collection could probably use an upgrade. This is number 47 right here, by the way. This is the hollywood business sweater, right . Thats right i learned about super fierce sri lankan women fighter, and Victor Garber is wonderful, and my neighbor. Which is great. If its way too early, harold, what time is it . Its time for morning joe. But coming up next is my man, chuck todd on the daily rundown. No, luke. Luke russert taking it to the streets, Vice President biden heads into virginia to make the case for new gun law. Can a campaignstyle push Pressure Congress to get something done. Forewarned on the bayou. Louisiana governor bobby jindal has tough talk for his party about whats wrong and how to avoid being stupid. Thats his word, by the way. And a