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Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere an...

Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the rec...

Its a draft memoir. This is the first time its been made public. Narrator and evidence of how hightech spies accessed the terrorists communications but still didnt stop the attack. What role did the program play in stopping headley . None. Narrator tonight frontline and Propublica Investigate an american terrorist. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provid...

Its a draft memoir. This is the first time its been made public. Narrator and evidence of how hightech spies accessed the terrorists communications but still didnt stop the attack. What role did the program play in stopping headley . None. Narrator tonight frontline and Propublica Investigate an american terrorist. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provid...

Chuck grassley we will start with you. Itwe will have our Opening Statements. The constitution recognizes us as equal. I was going to call on you first because you are the Senior Member here today. It you have been a respected member of the house of representatives and you know miss yates. Hope you will start. John lewis thank you very much. I am delighted and pleased to be here. I am on a to be here with my friend from the georgia delegation. We are introducing the United States attorney for th...

This is real money. Thats our big concern. As i said, we continue to work with mr. Emerson to see if we can find something that works for lenders like him but that dont fuel the increasing cost of Title Insurance which is too high for home buyers. Recently i met with a group of missouri bankers who came to my office after they had been to visit some representatives over in their building and my bankers were talking about things that were talking about this morning. Qm rule. They were told by the...

President . Guest host we are here with is that the president will breach the spirit of reform while only making minor, incremental changes. Biggeriving the decisions back to congress. Host what are those incremental decisions . Guest he could place new limits on the collection of phone data. That was the most controversial program. That would be around the edges. He will not shift the collection of this data to telecoms. He will introduce new privacy protections. Course, another one of the most...

Technology which basically speeds up the natural composting process to a 21 and a batch cycle, so after about 48 hours, it begins producing methane gas and all of the bye gases. And after 21 days, all you have left is an agricultural quality compost, and all of that gas that is collected is transformed into either electricity or cng fuel, so it is a completely closed loop cycle that we have, and we just celebrated the grand opening of our project in san jose, which is 1. 6 megawatts of electrici...

In 1917, there was no cloture rule at all. The senate functioned entirely by unanimous consent. So how did the senate overcome the determined opposition of 11 isolationist senators who refused to give consent to president wilson to arm ships . Senator walsh made clear that the senate would exercise its Constitutional Authority to reform its practices by a majority vote. I think the majority leader deserves more respect. The senate is not in order and the senate will be in order. The senator from...

In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation ...