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Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but cr...

Place. We gather at that breakfast for prayer, and to share some time with each other every wednesday morning. Just as were doing this morning. With people from so many different states, different countries, background faiths and beliefs. Wee remind this morning of journey, the journey of faith were all on. We believe that faith is a exist, a gift that were blessed by today and expressed gratitude. Senator wicker. [applause] thank you, bob. The Senate Prayer breakfast dates back to world war ii ...

Concept of the militia is that it is everybody or virtually everybody in the body politic. One of the more recent discussions of the militia concept i found in the d. C. Heller case, an individual Second Amendment case, however there was some dicta in there discussing the militia in its collective sense, and in there, the Supreme Court stated that unlike armies and navies, the militia is assumed by article 1 to already be in existence. Although the militia consists of all able bodied men the fed...

Stick is worth pointing up the irony you are where i used to live band the be you will live in one year . Guest we will see about that. I did say in my book there is only one address of all of washington never had any interest to move to and i think he probably know which one that maybe. Host we will talk about 2016 but lets talk about your book and explain the title. Guest god, guns grits, and gravy it is not a recipe book. [laughter] there are three a major cultural bulbuls the york and washin...

United states roughly about 75 of traumatic brain injuries. It is a brain injury. There is damage to the brain. Theres a discussion about whether its permanent or temporary. In the military the rate is 77 . So it turns out that youth sports are a good model for also looking at concussion in terms of the military. In fact, most of the military concussions occur in situations most like they do with the rest of america. Some certainly occur in theater, but the majority occur outside of theater, in ...

And how best to go about changing our game to reflect that. So thats how we ended up adding creating a unified concussion protocol and returntoplay protocol for our sideline. Thats how we ended up with additional concussion experts on the sideline. This is based on the advice of outsiders who tell us this is the best way to handle your players, this is the best way to treat the game, and if you want a culture of safety, this is what you would do. We followed their advice strictly and meet with t...

The Intelligence Community to try to increase the amount of transparency about what that community does but thats running against the culture of that community and its a challenge because there are legitimate security reasons you dont blab about what you do but i do think that the lessons the last two years are that to the extent to a much greater extent than in the past the Intelligence Community would benefit from Greater Transparency about what its doing and why. Which is easy to say and hard...

To be our last question. Hi. Hows the reseptember economic struggles impacted how states align with federal support and ability of the federal government toates align with fe support and ability of the federal government to give support . So here is the bottom line. There is a lot of downward pressure economically at all levels of government. And so, states and their political subdivisions, we have seen an increase in request for federal assistance, both inside and outside of the disaster declar...

Central to the origins, conduct, and end of the cold war. For those of you whose appetite is whetted simply by all of this, theres copies of henrys most recent book on world order, available for a reasonable price outside. He and i will have a conversation for a bit, and then well open it up to you, our members. And theres one other reason that im so glad to have henry here. Id like to think that the way he in some ways got his start was in this institution sixty years ago, when he was the rappo...