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This would be the case where the court has immediate political impact in terms of appointees. It does. There are a lot of eyes on this case, a lot of friend of the court briefs filed because if the court had taken a certain direction with its final decision that could invalidate literally hundreds of decisions and board appointments. Lets take a look at the oral argument, the case nlrb v. Canning. We would argument first this morning in case 121281, the National Labor Relations Board v. Noel can...

Mr. Reid i ask that following the list of nominations at the desk, the last of which is the cloture motion on the biggs nomination, calendar number 1147, senate resume legislative session and the senate proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment, h. R. 83. If cloture is not ip voked, upon thures yielding back of tiernlg the senate concur can an amendment concur can amendment with withdrawn and the senate proceed to vote on t...

Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote sph if not, the yeas are 5, the nays are 38. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the noings the motion to ip voke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisio...

You can also make a comment via social media http twitter. Com cspanwj at. You can also send an email. Record of a 3 of political independence 43 of political independence. Democrats continue to hold a modest edge over republicans 30 226 . Since 2008, the percentage of political independence has steadily climbed from 35 to the current 43 . The recent rise has come at the expense of both parties, but more along democrats than republicans over the last six years. Democratic identification has fall...

As speaker pro tempore on this 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 rec m fm stsuitd the mari my lea f mni hr te. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each mber the mari a mory leaderanmi w limit tfi mut, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes t...

Heavy rain into the bay area through tuesday into wednesday also prompting a chance of an isolated scattered thunderstorms very windy conditions as well. Possible thunderstorm thursday friday and saturday before partial clearing on sunday. Check the wind shield wipers and what else. Starting on a rough note. A number of incidents came in within the last ten minutes so ill quickly break them down. First if you are traveling in oakland westbound 1 at 580 an accident involving a couple cars accordi...

Lake merritt and the telegraph corridor officers have followed hundreds of protesters and there have been arrests. After 00 in oakland, after 8 00 in oakland, a large group were surrounded at the cafe at telegraph and 29th. The business doors opened and dozens filed inside, leaving only the police and a few protesters outside. We have Live Team Coverage of the millions march protest here at ktvus Debora Villalon is in San Francisco, but let car with cara liu in oakland. Reporter we have seen qui...

Of the provisions that block president obamas executive order on immigration. The senate is expected to move the measure forward this week after three failed attempts over the last month. The National Governors Association Winter meeting expected to continue momentarily. Hearing from secretary jeh johnson. He will be discussing Cyber Security efforts at the state and federal level. Secretary johnson is there after appearing on the sunday morning talk shows. Funding for his department set to run ...

Developed drone. Military officials announced earlier in the month that the unmanned craft successfully testfired rockets. Members of special antiterror units marched in front of foreign diplomats. Pakistan authorities announced that their armed forces have killed more than 2,000 islamic militants in massive operations since last june. These follow an attack on an airport in the largest city of karachi. The extremists have retaliated. Theyve killed numerous civilians in attacks at tourist destin...

Developed drone. Military officials announced earlier in the month that the unmanned craft successfully testfired rockets. Members of special antiterror units marched in front of foreign diplomats. Pakistan authorities announced that their armed forces have killed more than 2,000 islamic militants in massive operations since last june. These follow an attack on an airport in the largest city of karachi. The extremists have retaliated. Theyve killed numerous civilians in attacks at tourist destin...