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Raqaa who has been at the forefront of the issue and Jack Goldsmith senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford which means he has to decent educational institutions covered. And jay and its always great to see jane. We see jane in the cnn green room but also the field as well. Senator kaine i wonder if i can begin with you. This is an issue that splits both parties and you see the president now oddly presenting pursuing aumf as an olive branch to their site but knowing there some gop th...

Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. The senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i come to the floor today to talk about zero dark 30. Not the movie, but a report on the movie. The report was supposed to tell us how the movies producers obtained topsecret information from the federal government. But the report never took us there, the department of defens...

Identifying areas for improvement, identifying areas for managerial improvement. The problem is that those improvements rarely get made. And to the extent that congressional action is necessary to make some of these changes, theres so much else to do. Theres very little glory in eliminating a program especially if people face layoffs. Theres even less glory in that. So to some extent its not that we dont know where to cut that we dont know which programs work and which ones dont. We do have some...

Debate that. You know, weve had the for 52 Consecutive Years and this is going to be the 5rd consecutive 53rd Consecutive Year weve been able to pass it. But it seems each year its always hard to do. Because at the last minute, there are always other people that want to get things in the bill that were not there. But you have to keep in mind, and i want to say in defense to the bigfour approach to this, we came down we passed this bill. We passed it out of the Senate Armed Services committee on ...

Addressed this issue. Inocating an amicus role certain cases at the discretion of the court. That seems to me like a reasonable way to increase Public Confidence in the work of the court. The work of the court is necessarily classified, much of it. It is not a secret court. We know the court exists. We know who is on it. It does operate much of the time in a classified environment because information being presented is classified. One weighed to build additional trust is to have an amicus role. ...

Here because i know we are pressed for time and i only have a brief set of comments to make. I would do this more in the spirit of ginning up the discussion rather than making a formal presentation. My copanelists have done a good job framing the issue and i agree with their perspective. Want to do is to say which military steps i think are needed right now against isil. This is not to suggest this is a complete answer to the question or subject of the panel today. My colleagues have done a much...

The weapons. It became lucky. Obama issued a redline challenge. They brokered a deal in which syria gave up chemical weapons. They can still use chlorine gas and other things not classified officially as weapons. They are terrible and brutal. The Syrian Civil War led to serious not having chemical weapons. Ub. It makes the regime more tolerable from an israeli point of view. As for the alternative, there is a phrase going around they are at the fence. Israel holds most of the golan heights. Rebe...

The relentless and often intense efforts by judy and scott, the partners and associates and staff of gilbert llp law firm, that is where we are right now, they made me take the jacket off. Kim reeser of capitol hill their efforts have been inconceivable. Senator Patrick Leahy of vermont has been instrumental in shepherding the arrival of this day. I want to thank members of congress from all sides of the aisle. Senators chris van hollen, barbara lee, and numerous others who spoke up or visited m...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As we meditate on all the blessings of life, we especially pray for the blessing of peace in our lives and in our world. Our fervent prayer, o god is that people will learn to live together in reconciliation and respect so that the terrors of war and violence will be no more. As you have created each person, we p...

And a very good tuesday morning, im dan kloeffler. Im brandi hitt. We begin with the u. S. Taking a dramatic step forward in the fight against islamic militants in syria. The Associated Press saying surveillance flights have begun indicating air strikes could be next inside the wartorn country. A significant step toward military action in syria. This morning, president obama has authorized surveillance flights over the country in what could be a warmup for air strikes against isis, the Jihadist ...