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Guests. Among them, congressman tony coelho, who has been a longtime champion of the rights of the disabled. Let me also recognize ann cody, representing the u. S. On three paralympic teams. She was also nominated to be the Vice President of the International Paralympic committee. She understands it is not just enough to make the stadium accessible. You need to make surrounding restaurants and businesses accessible, and we thank you for being here or your advocacy as well. I also want to recogni...

Thats barn by phillips reporting for us. And now james is over at the United Nations headquarters, james, and you heard what barnby was saying about the u. K. Possibly going to the u. N. Security council, what are you hearing from your end on that . Well i think it is fair to say they kept this one very close to their chest. Normally we get whispers of these things going on. Trying to prepare these things there was no mention of this in all our calls in the last 24 hours. It is Important Develop...

The committee on agriculture passed out a bipartisan bill in the last congress and it was never brought before my republican friends. This year the Committee Also passed out a bipartisan bill that was brought to this floor. It could have and should have been passed with a bipartisan vote. Not because i agreed with all of it, but because it was appropriate to have a bill to go to conference with on this important subject. Our republican friends added three amendments which we harmful to clearly t...

Life through reading. New editor of the New York Times broke review and has been redesigned and is debuting september 8. Thank you for your time. Thanks so much. Up next on book tv dina cappiello. This week environmental are rare paul sagan. Our gambol over its future. The yale historian analyzes the 30yearold wager between an economist and biologist over the longterm effects of depleting Natural Resources and examines the opposing perspectives at the heart of the clamans is debate. The program ...

Support for Economic Growth and job creation. The u. S. Economy continues to be hampered by the lingering effects of the financial crisis on its productive potential and by a number of headwinds that hindered cyclical adjustment of the economy. The Federal Reserve is doing its part by providing accommodative Monetary Policy to promote a Stronger Economic recovery in the context of price stability. As i said before, while Monetary Policy can help to support economic recovery, it is by no means a ...

Quorum call reid mr. President i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel Robert Stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e. Salas. 606 with the exception of Brigadier Gen...

That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy, but it would make it manageable so it doesnt crowd out the investments we need to make in people and education and job training and science and medical research all the things that help us grow. Now, step by step, weve made progress towards that goal. Over the past two years, ive signed into law about 1. 4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago, i signed into law more than 600 billion in new reven...

Country stronger and made the world better. Ive had the privilege to work with chairman hall for nearly four years to ensure america obtained human space flight. The budget of 2010 threatened to stop that, he used all his tools of Public Service to help him win the battle. Here are a couple of those tools he had, neil armstrong, tom stafford, part of a Bipartisan Coalition to put the United States on a path to go into orbit. As a boy who grew up within a mile and a half of the Johnson Space cent...

Corrupt activity is al qaeda. This is an incorrect notion that has even planted itself in certain quarters of the United States congress. And i think it is well worth keeping in mind that for many, many, many years, ten, to be precise, there has been a network of strong connections between the Syrian Regime and al qaeda in iraq, connections originally used to facilitate the movement of these characters through syria in to iraq, connections which i strongly suspect still exist. With that i want t...

Newspapers this morning with reports that both sides are likely to agree to criminal background checks, but an assault weapons ban might be harder to pass through congress. President obama said the vast majority of americans agree with the proposal. Your thoughts . For democrats, 2025853880. For republicans, 2025853881. For independents, 2025853882. Also, on social media, twitter. Com cspanwj. Or post your comment question on facebook. And you can email us as well, journal cspan. Org. President ...