Sanction. It must approve that relationship. Theyre two different questions. Mr. Verrilli it is different, i agree. And i, and it leads to the second thing i think that the that the lawrence catalyzed for our society, was it put gay and lesbian couples, gay and lesbian people, in a position for the first time in our history to be able to lay claim to the abiding promise of the 14th amendment in a way that was just impossible when they were marginalized and ostracized. And youre right, mr. Chief justice, this is about equal participation, participation on equal terms in a stateconferred a stateconferred status, a state institution. That is different than lawrence, but i do think that what lawrence has allowed us to see is that the justifications for excluding gay and lesbian couples from equal participation in this Institution Just hold up. And i do think and the court has raised this question about whether what we are talking about here is a is a fundamental change in the nature of mar
Last week that recruiting is even a problem now because of this issue. Susan thanks to both of you for your time. Tonight on cspans q a, Washington Post reporter walter on the situation in the middle east and the 2003 invasion of iraq. I think one of the things the bush and administration Bush Administration and history has proved it. We look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. You can go back to vietnam which is a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly, but we have a history of trying to think other people are like us and what our standards. The world is different. Particularly in the middle east, it is totally different. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and s pacific on cspans q a. Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on cspan twos book tv. That is the spring on cspan two loss book tv. The Supreme Court heard to or arguments on tuesday on the constitutionality of samesex marriage. The first question that came before th
Sustaining forces. But its no time to rest on our laurels. We have many others pressed that now is the time to keep the progress going, keep moving forward and not to expect the trend will continue, but to get ahead of it and keep moving down the path. I think from our good, certainly after the economic downturn, we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs and medicine. Do we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The unchecked prediction as to be 25 of gdp by 2025. Now is the time to impact occurs. Although lucena moderation in growth were recently, we have seen a spike again. So i agree it is time to really focus after as part of the implementation of the Affordable Care to really focus on cost. Agreement on the send . Yes, i think so. One of the concerns be seen as slowing the rate of growth in that occur in particular, we have allowed vb programmers in the medicare system right now. 65, 66 years old relatively low utilizers at the population as a whole. 15 years or not, baby bo
First 45 minutes, reaction to the decision to hear two cases regarding gay marriage. One with the defense of marriage act and the other looking at proposition 8. The first 45 minutes, if you want to weigh in on the decision of the Supreme Court, here is how you can do so. The numbers if you want to send us a tweet here is the front page of the oakland tribune. That is the setting for one of the cases the justices will hear. It gives a little bit of the text put into place when it was signed into law. This is part of section 7. And determining the ruling regulation of the bureau and agencies of the United States, the word marriage means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the words bouse refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife. One of looking at a state militia and the other looking at a federal issue, two cases, and a decision expected by june. If you want to wait and, the numbers are on your screen. If you want to weig
400,000 children are in the foster care system, and theres great improvements in terms of reducing the numbers of children in foster care, and increasing the number of children who find permanent and loving homes. We should acknowledge and be proud of the advances that have been made, particularly the focus on supporting youth as they age out of the system. The fact of the matter is majority of foster care parents are loving and supportive individuals who open their hearts and their homes. Foster care patients can be the better angels among us, and they deserve to be recognized for incredible difference they make in the world every day, but far too many children dont have that benefit. Even for those incredible chance is protecting young people in foster care from the threats of the outside world is a very big challenge. Statistics tell us that foster children are especially vulnerable to those who seek to exploit children. As congressman pallson has told us. The National Center for ex