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Deadly effects of that poison can be seen in the sickness and disabilities that have affected millions of people and the feeling of shame they have induced in some american vets. I grew up thinking america did everything good. I came to vietnam and i realized, we killed actually six Million People the u. S. Cannot acs the morality or the immore immorality of what we did here. Vietnam today is more peaceful and prosperous than 5 decades but the human consequences of its long war with america are ...

Jeff, good morning. Caller bobby jindal do not back out because of politics. Out because once he seen what common core was all tryingnothing more than why dont you ask these people on your panel to give you the document that they ask all the questions of their students. Just ask them for that document and i guarantee you that she will be able to get it. They are not allowed to. One other thing. If they come out with a new law that says that money follows the ill guarantee now that our Education ...

[inaudible conversations] next day here in looking how veterans are transitioning to civilian life. In a washington journal segment on the destruction of chemical weapons and later a discussion about brain injuries and the elderly. A lot of people dont know how difficult it is. I dont know one person may be in this room that can juggle the things me and my husband have to juggle every single day with having three children on medical disabilities going back and forth to work sometimes maybe havin...

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These are things that are not kind of accidentally detrimental to the political participation and people of color. We still have the struggles ahead of us. But it also is just simply the reality. Is it then that do we need to change attitudes first and the structural change, or do we have to go directly to changing structures and have attitudes change afterwards . I guess thats a question for all of you. I would go as is structures and change the structure. I mean, i think that the polling these...

[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for joining us today by an executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress and im thrilled youre here with us today. Whitman of all races make up 18point 5 of the United States congress. Women of color makeup and abysmal 4. 5 of congress. These numbers exist in direct contradiction to the fact that women make up half of the population and are more likely to vote than the male counterparts. We will hear about t...

Thats producing results even today in nanotechnology. In 2011 we got 900 million for an extension. And just a couple of weeks ago we passed a bill bipartisan, went onto the senate, and being an appropriator i can make sure that that bill that will create excellence in research, like down the line, once it passes the process, i will be there to be able to repair to have that in the valley. Just like it did for the u. S. Patent office. On top of that we passed a data bill, the data act that requir...

The presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 96, the nays are 1. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having voted if the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Mr. Durbin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from illinois. Mr. Durbin i ask unanimous consent i be permitted to speak as if in morning business for up to 10 minutes, following my remarks that senator warren be served for two researched for two minutes and senator landrieu recognized to speak for up to 10 m...

They were trying to show you hear stories about hagel. Hes lazy. Come on. Theyre trying to demean him. And at the Staff Meetings he agreed with kerry and general dempsey. If they were right, why not . In other words, some people who got to say, got have my opinion, whether or not it whether or not its agrees or disagrees elm think were trying to show theyre shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like we were surprised by isil. Oh, general clap...

And hope it is not a hook. It is meant to be nice. I am enormously impressed. Two points. Your operators dont like lawyers. I used to be part of the aba and the most impressive members were the generals and the world doesnt know it. The world thinks of the United States as a colossus, a bit of a road. Any idea how long bound we are . Maybe we should be talking about that. I tried to take opportunities to speak at places and to share. We care passionately about the law. We care passionately about...