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Of federal appropriations from the National Park service. We recently spent be several hundred thousand dollars repairing their or sewer system, we do ongoing safety and food inspections, trash removal and road maintenance. So we had to evaluate in the case of claude moore, in the case of dozens of these, of whether or not we would be in violation of the antideficiency act by allowing these to continue to operate. So if you may, let me just say we took the closure date on october 1, and then we ...

With money running over it. Its more of a gradual slope, but we have to stop the downward slope that were on. Its important that we do that. And this is a body that can do that. Congress can do that. We do a war of words around here, this protecting the rich sticks. I dont know of anybody thats trying to protect the rich. The problem comes into the definition of rich. Thats a hard one to explain. And any attempt that looks like that goes back to the sticky word rich, which nobody is trying to pr...

Good afternoon. Were now going to start the first afternoon session. And the topic, again, is theirst foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. Were pleased to have as witnesses james baker whoshave formerly with the department of Justice Office of intelligence and policy review, judge james carr, whos senior federal judge with the United States District Court of the Northern District of ohio and formerly a judge from 20022008 and marc civillingier zwillinger who is a former doj attorney in the c...

Mr. Cardin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin i ask unanimous consent the floor privileges be granted to elise medical mellinger for the dwraition of Senate Consideration of h. R. 3304, the National Defense authorization act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin let me first comment about the National Defense authorization act. It...

Workers there every day every shift. There are some large facilities and you see the nexus working really well together. Whether it is the helpline and cleveland connecting to the facilities or the line in houston went to the Major Medical providing that nexus to the transportation option is important. But the transit providers have to look at the functioning alternatives and it cannot just be rail. You have to look at the bus on the shoulder and the lanes that are changeable so we can do the tr...

The political system. Its difficult to see a way without a constitutional change. And so theyve done lasting damage to it, and i hope that we will see some change. Do i think thats going to happen . Im not going to bet the ranch on it. [inaudible] im executive director of great teaching llc. In an era where it seems, it would seem that Union Membership would grow very fast, its not. Whats the mentality out there that is holding them back . And how do you intend on battling at . First of all, you...

The way advanced appropriations work. I support that and the frustration i have here is the billion dollars we spent. Last year about this time chairman remembers this very well, where we couldnt have an integrated Electronic Health record where the va and dod we flushed a billion dollars and still cant make it work. Thats something that i think this is my sixth year here. I cannot understand in todays technology why a veteran Service Member cant lead and electronically transfer their record. It...

In a house that is owned by an fbi informant. Then his wife was pregnant in yemen. So he caught her calder fairly often. The nsa was eavesdropping and everything in that house, everything going in and coming out. So what happened was that the cia wanted information from that house. It wanted to say, well, give us the transcripts, give us with these people saying. The nsa would not give the cia and the information that they were picking up from the house. They went up three times asking senior of...

Much like the Michigan Senate last week, along party lines the house approved righttowork legislation which prohibits unions from requiring members to pay dus. Without hesitation earlier this evening, Governor Snyder signed the bill into law. There is a simple reason that laws like the one signed earlier are bad policy and bad economics. Theres nothing wrong with a tough negotiation between a governor and labor unions or between a ceo and his workers. Economic reality has to drive such negotiati...

Eviscerating the pouf of the unions. Michigan today became the 24th state to enact socalled righttowork laws. Much like the Michigan Senate last week, along party lines the house approved righttowork legislation which prohibits unions from requiring members to pay dus. Without hesitation earlier this evening, Governor Snyder signed the bill into law. There is a simple reason that laws like the one signed earlier are bad policy and bad economics. Theres nothing wrong with a tough negotiation betw...