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But in the stand your ground case that now we are all very well aware of, i think it goes back to what we spoke about earlier. And that is the pressure. Guess what . If people started to make phone calls and putting the pressure on, it would be different. And then that would help encourage you as a legislator help encourage Law Enforcement to speak out. Because now they are not alone. As long as youre going behind and whispering and say hey, im with you. But, you know, what . Every day we are lo...

Our piper we had the last few years has injured his hand. I do not know if he will be able to continue. What i thought ray did a magnificent job. If he can continue with us, great. And we will have two more scottish piper is a little bit later. If they want to come back, i will be glad for them to. He will hear them later. You will hear them later. Anyway, i do want to make note of the people that have helped us a lot in this service. The arlington people that have been over backwards. We have a...

Can understand, Everybody Knows they are brazilians. Thank you. I would like to remind you of something which this was the last event of our program this year, and im grateful to ambassador shannon and the others for being here and have helped participate in this. This sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of chico mendez. Chico mendez was not known in brazil when he was killed. Today mendez is honored in brazil at the National Institute for studies, policymaking in the amazon, ...

The obamas are spending christmas in hawaii. We will begin on the issue of the u. S. Allegation to the sochi Olympic Games and get your comments. It is sunday morning, december 22. Welcome to washington journal. Our phone lines are open. The numbers are on your screen. Host this is the question. Using the olympics to address social issues. You can also send us a tweet. Here is how we posted it on our twitter page should the president use the olympics to address social issues . Here is the story ...

From you that we need to take steps to lessen the damage of the supreme courts hatch act so im pleased to announce my colleagues in Indian Affairs have issued a final rule to do just that. They issued it yesterday and that will help with Greater Transparency to make sure that lands will be taken into trust for housing schools and businesses that we want to continue to work with you to ask things like that. Next the Land Buyback Program and the historic cobell. We want to implement that in a smar...

Would not be permissible under the rules. If thats true why would they need the antidiscrimination rule . I think what it does is it basically is the price discrimination. The charge will be zero. And you have to may not deviate from that. Then they want to say explicitly just to put a cherry on top with respect to the transmission of traffic, you cant favor some traffic over other. There shall be no favoritism which is a fundamental element of common carrier regular plains property big against ...

Functionality bugs so high Priority Issues and User Experience and thats actually being pursued very aggressively. Of course, as well, finally there is a bunch of work under way to keep the software at least processed so you can fix the issues faster and faster at the growing clip. You have qssi brought in as the project to manage the effort. Its all moving in at increasing speed. How are we going to address the problem mr. Langford had getting on the website where he hit the enter button and it...

Communication that he may be pleased to make. The gentleman from virginia, mr. Cantor, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. Pelosi. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from washington rise . Mrs. Mcmorris rodgers mr. Speaker, by direction on the republican conference, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk House Resolution 6, resolved that following named members be and are hereby elec...

Executive Infrastructure Club which brings together companies and key u. S. Decision makers at the federal and local levels who have informal roundtable discussions. It allows a dialogue in order for us to sort of share our best practice and Lessons Learned over time. And when i speak to my counter parts in the d. O. T. And those on the hill, its very clear that we have had the same challenges that were always very happy to share those experiences. So thank you very much for the opportunity to e...

Cost our country 600,000 jobs . Yes. Moving discretionary funding backed up to the original cast and not having the sequester take effect. And that would take a half a point away from gross to mustek product . By the end of 2014. Florida, thein types of jobs we are talking about, we have seen some very harmful impact. Our premier Cancer Research center in tampa, before the sequester, they had 120 researchers working to find a cure for cancer. They are down to 100. The air force base is one of ou...