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The presiding officer under the previous order, all postcloture time on the motion to proceed to house joint resolution 19 is expired and the question occurs on the motion to proceed. All votes in favor say aye. All opposed. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 471, Senate Joint Resolution 19, proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to ...

That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisi...

Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National committee. Thanks so much for being with us. You were injured at a softball game. Is everything ok . Raised over 150,000 for the coalition, i pulled my hamstring in the process but it took one for the team. A couple solid base hits before i went down. I will be back in the game next year. [laughter] were glad you are doing well. Lets start with a rock ira q. Conditions have been deteriorating, the president announcing he is sending in 300 special for...

But with respect to title vii, of course, its still the case that that employers with 15 or fewer people are not subject to that law, and thats 80 of the employers in the country. And if you run the math, thats its at least 80 thats its going to be somewhere between 10 million and 22 Million People who are not within the coverage. No one would say that because the coverage is incomplete in that respect, that title vii enforcing title vii doesnt advance those were decisions those were decisions t...

Trying to get that resolved. That is a major contributing your to the deteriorating situation. There will still be military personnel in harms way. How did the democrats sell that to the American People that we are sending American People back to iraq, a war we said were going to get out of . We have troops are protecting and the american embassy, and so the additional troops to enhance the protection was important. It is a measured response, we have to make sure that we are protecting our Natio...

Is, if we are better at providing highquality and timely care, thats going to affect veterans coming to the v. A. They will come to us more if they can get care more timely. So having a bottomup planning approach and working with our Medical Center leadership and our Network Leadership to give us a bottom up operating plan of what their financial requirement is in the out years will also help us be better prepared to adjust for where were succeeding and when we succeed. And someone said that wev...

Well, the grandfathering is not a decision that congress made, is it . Well, the way in which its implemented is a decision that the agency has made, thats true. But even with respect to the Preventive Services, i dont think anyone would say that theres not a compelling interest in advancing Colorectal Cancer screening and immunizations and the things that the Preventive Services provisions provide in addition to contraceptive coverage. I just think this a compelling interest under any understan...

Gratitude that we thank you for the privilege of being called americans. With humility, let us realize the responsibility this privilege entails. Let your presence in us be the light that causes this nation to shine bright in the world. Grant your favor, wisdom and protection to our troops here and abroad. Place within our leaders and representatives here in the house and senate. May our president be guided by your truth and our differences let us seek you first. Please give each of us in this p...

Is doing to address the issue and the proposals in congress as a potential solution. That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working throug...

Those folks in the unions, those folks that are taking care of us and the getting things out, getting medicine,ic it aing care of first class mail and all of those things so i appreciate your service. I appreciate the fact that you have stepped up to be able to help lead an organization that desperately needs some help, that congress has for two decades pounded on postmasters on why they are not doing reforms and why we havent found more efficiencies. You stepped into this role and have taken lo...