Decades ago, and thats the prohibition of discrimination in housing based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability and family status. Its the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act was in many ways the culmination of the legislative fight for civil rights in the 1960s. It was the first effective federal law guarding against discrimination in the sale and the rental of housing in the United States and for nearly 50 years, it has been employed to assure that every american can choose where to live free from discrimination and the immoral and unconstitutional consequences of residential segregation. Weve come a long way since the 1960s, but we are by no means all of the way there. Today discrimination is still a reality in housing markets all across the country. There are cases in every single state of landlords misrepresenting the availability of housing or outright refusing to sell or rent to certain protected individuals or groups of people. There are othe
In grateful praise to you, use us for your glory. Touch our senators. Lift them from valleys of pessimism as you fill them with your abiding hope. Prepare them to receive your best gifts, helping them to remember that you are able to do more than they can ask or imagine. Thank you that you are the beginner of our yesterdays, the mystery of our today, and the hope for our tomorrows. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell when washington democrats passed obamacare over the objections of the American People, they were confident americans would soon warm up to this new law, but more than five years later the American People continue to oppose th
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From klru, austin, texas hari sreenivasan. Good evening thanks for joining us, we begin tonight with some good news, sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with good news. Word from the World Health Organization that liberia is now officially free of ebola. The report touched off celebratory dancing today in the capital city of monrovia. Liberia has now gone 42 days without a new case of ebola being detected twice the length of the incubation period. Nearly 5,000 of the 11,000 who died of the disease since march of 2014 were liberian. The disease is still present in the neighboring countries of sierra leone and guinea. A weapons breakthrough for north k