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I hereby appoint the honorable scott r. Tipton to act as speaker pro tempore on this dafmente day. Signed, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour, each member other than the majority and mino...

Cant get where you want to go. Got to pay for a taxi to get home now. Reporter still no more specific information as to what caused that pause in service. It was restored around 4 00 p. M. Im mac king, fox 5 news. Steve American Airlines says it has fixed the computer outage that grounded flights in three cities. American and American Eagle flights coming in and out of chicago, dallas and miami were stopped for nearly two hours problem. The airline later said it fixed a connectivity issue. No wo...

See which convicted child molesters are going to be recidivists. Most of them are. And im not willing to take the risk that our kids should be left alone with people like that. We have a National Sex Offender registry for a reason because these people recognize the danger that extends past their time of incarceration. Parents need to know about that and thats why we have this national registry, and schools need to avoid the danger. To be clear mr. President im not suggesting that a convicted chi...

Tonight. So far the white house has had no response to that federal judges ruling today. Also today in that botched election in North Carolina that has resulted in there being no member of congress seated from that district, we now know how we are going to get somebody seated from that district. The state elections board today unanimously ordered that a new election must be run there from scratch. Also today, lawyers for the president s longtime adviser roger stone put mr. Stone on the stand to ...

How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than wh...

These opinions were released by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Journey of the e-Courts

I am so very pleased to report on that the latest issue of the  Federal Sentencing Reporter is now available online here.  This issue is titled "Making Sense of Sentencing Data" and it has a number of terrific articles from an array of authors examining sentencing data issues from a number of perspectives.  I highly encourage everyone to check out the full issue, and here is a list of the original articles in this FSR issue: Deciphering Data by Steven L. Chanenson & Douglas A. Berman Mappin...

Trying to arrange a meeting between the candidate and putin. >> there are reports you shut down when he proposed this meeting with clinton. is that correct? >> push back, i pushed back against his seg suggestion i thought may have been impropers. it was reported three people since contradicted the account in interviews with robert mueller in congress. if sessions really did encourage papadopoulos to final hackd hac e-mails, that would be a major agreement. he pleaded guilty to lying at the fbi a...