Female Republican members of the House express their disapproval over the new breast cancer screening guidelines released from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says Major Nidal Hasan’s attack on Fort Hood Army Base earlier this month was the “most destructive terrorist attack on America since 2001.” (0:30)
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says that, based on his understanding of the definition of terrorism, Major Nidal Hasan was committing a terrorist act when he went on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army Base earlier this month. (0:21)
By Meagan Wiseley – University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) Wednesday called the shootings carried out by Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood Army Base earlier this month the “most destructive terrorist attack on America since 2001.”
Lieberman said the Senate Homeland Security Committee will begin an investigation into the shootings to determine if they could have been avoided.
“We are interested in getting the facts and correcting the system so that our government can provide the best homeland security possible for the American people,” Lieberman said during an afternoon press conference, “At the completion of the investigation the committee will issue a report and recommendations.”
Lieberman said the investigation will focus on answering two specific questions: did the Federal Government know information concerning Major Hasan that could have prevented the attack on Fort Hood, and, how does this incident affect the government’s understanding and enforcement of “home grown Islamic terrorism” in the U.S.?
A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on the Fort Hood attacks was initially scheduled for Wednesday, but has been postponed until the following day.
“Our hearing tomorrow will begin with a focus on what we know on the public record about the Fort Hood attack and Nidal Hasan,” Lieberman added.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has a responsibility to determine if the Federal Government had information that could have prevented the shootings at Fort Hood. (0:22)
House Intelligence Committee Ranking member Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) says he wants a wide-ranging investigation involving Congress, the White House and the National Security Council to look into what happened at Fort Hood earlier this month.
Deepti Choubey, Deputy Director of the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the START Follow-On Treaty is a “modest arms control measure” and hopes it is ratified by the U.S. Senate before the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference, which takes place in Vienna next May. (0:29)
Deepti Choubey, Deputy Director of the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, says President Barack Obama’s leadership on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament has the potential to be a “game changer, but no touchdown’s have been scored yet.” (0:17)
By Meagan Wiseley – University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service
Deepti Choubey, Deputy Director of the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said Monday that the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is not likely to be presented to the U.S. Senate for ratification before the Non Proliferation Treaty Conference which takes place in Austria next May.
“Certainly CTBT, I don’t see being ratified unless there is a massive reorientation in the administration’s political strategy about how to get it done…I think that’s one issue we can put to the side for this upcoming review conference,” Choubey said.
Adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1996, the CTBT bans all nuclear explosions on Earth, regardless of whether or not they are conducted for civilian or military purposes. Several UN members, including the U.S. signed the treaty, but as of this year, the U.S. Senate has yet to ratify it.
Choubey said she has high hopes for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty Follow-On (START), calling it a “modest arms control measure.” In July of this year, both U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev signed the treaty, which aims to reduce and limit global strategic offensive arms to the range of 500-1100 by 2016.
However, Choubey warned that if the Senate does not ratify the CTBT by 2015 there will be a “negative impact” on the other members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan says that his department is trying to make a positive difference in the way teachers influence the lives of their students. He says his department’s new Race to the Top educational reform competition will allow this to happen. (0:16)
