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Thank you for the great introduction. Welcome, everyone to this great book fair now in its 30th year. [applause] doris goodwin, its so wonderful to have you here. Welcome to miami. This is our premier cultural event. Great to have you her. If books about president. It was started by Theodore Roosevelt, known as teddy. How did he start the progressive era . What propelled him to act . What were his successes that are still with us today . We did call him teddy even though he didnt like the name t...

A volcanic tsunami in the philippines sent thousands fleeing their homes and others defying evacuation those. Russian and syrian warplanes have resumed attacks on the last rebel held province of these 21 civilians have been killed in the ad lib in recent days thats despite a ceasefire that was supposed to have begun on sunday the White Helmets rescue group has recorded more than a dozen violations of the cease fire aljazeera scatty lopez hayat reports the damage caused by one of several air stri...

Conscience to vote with us to break this partys filibuster of Homeland Security funding and help us protect american democracy. Now, mr. President , i would ask unanimous consent that the motion to proceed to h. R. 240 be agreed to and that it be in order for the managers or their december knees to offer amendments in alternating fashion with the majority manager of his diss ig knee being designee being authorized to is there objection . Mr. President . Reserving the right to object. Mr. Preside...

The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate ontinue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer i arrived at my office this morning to a politico on the front page head line blumenauers death panel bill lives on. Its actually a terrific article by...

Before 1978, surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes was conducted by the president without Court Approval, and the courts have consistently said that the president has authority to undertake such surveillance without Court Approval, where the target is a foreign intelligence threats. , but fisao abuses was created as a compromise between branches to enable that surveillance, but to involve article three courts in the review and approval, and congress, the oversight, creating the intellig...

Leader frist threaten to this kind of event. At the end, who has prevailed combine the compromise was reached. The agreement was we would not filibuster federal judges unless federal extraordinary circumstances existed. That is the way that was settled. With regard to the nominations now, news of extraordinary circumstances. We should not go quietly when the president makes a recess appointment. We object to these people being confined after the court held it it was illegal. They should not have...

Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules ...

Free enterprise is you end up sometimes with a few companies that are enormously successful, like apple or microsoft, samsung, they control too much of the market. We need government to decide what is fair and what should be the market share. You also have these inequities that i just talked about. And then you have those people for one reason or another, theyre good people and we need to help them out, not just abandon them. Years of their life . So hot, the market has changed but theyre good p...

There is no reason why Members of Congress cannot raise theirperformance measures on key domestic policy issues, many of whichhave already made some progress through the legislative process.Over the past few weeks, Members have shown exceptional resolve ona number of controversial issues. If they maintain this pace, theycould easily complete the needed work.