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Signaling the need for urgent action so that we can combat the s we face inrisk this country. President obama has long recognized the urgency of this challenge. , in a speech at Georgetown University on a sweltering hot day, the president launched his Climate Action land. Cutting Carbon Pollution in, preparing our communities for changes in climate that are already ongoing and leading International Efforts to address the challenge. One year later, a lot has happened in executing on the commitmen...

Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today...

Have been for years. So when we talk about Mental Health and is pleased to offer that so Insurance Companies have to provide the same copays and the same premiums in the same coverage, we dont do that in the community. So we were very, very hard. We brought together a huge coalition of those to how this is a major priority. 22 veterans committing suicide today. Both of them in the Community Come in needing in the community. They end up having people in jail a lot to his services, families. When ...

November. I was just in south america about a month ago to lay out the roadmap and how we are dealing with this. I just sent this morning one of our Deputy Assistant secretaries to iceland for a conference the next two days. This is critically important that we Pay Attention to this. Bottom line is, with all the crises of the moment, and thats part of my job, to manage immediate crisis, we also cannot lose sight of the strategic longerterm challenges that face our country either. And this is one...

Masks do not apply because they dont fit the president s mood or his political interests. Yet again the president whose oath calls on him to uphold the law ignores it. The nevada governor called this indoor rally reckless and selfish and the president s supporters insist they have every right to be there and they are not fools. If i thought i was a risk are, i wouldnt be here. Im not an idiot and neither are these people. They have enough wherewithal to realize whether or not they are putting an...

Dont want to talk like you about law and order. Violent crime. Are you in favor o law and order. Im in favor of law order. What did he is disastrous. He treated the black community about as bad as anybody in this country. You call them super predators and im letting people out of jail now. Snowt shout it shout it out loud. Steve there was a lot of interrupting and shouting last night. Today is wednesday, september 30th, 2020. So perhaps the more appropriate song would be wake me when september e...

I was 24 years old. While most of my friends spent their summer at the jersey shore, i sat in a shot, steamy courtroom and watched in horror and disbelief as the man who murdered my husband tried to turn the courtroom into a political stage where he could spew his hate and contempt for this country and our justice system. At the moment my husbands bloodstained shirt was displayed by the evidence handler, Mumia Abujamal smirked at me, demonstrating his contempt for Law Enforcement. Thankfully a r...

Thank you for watching another addition of washington journal comes your way at 7 00. We take you to the house of representatives. Order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 29, 2022. I hereby appoint the honorable lucille roybalallard to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chap...

Least information. Everyone will respond accordingly as individuals, but to somehow suggest the transference of that information is not appropriate or because it makes us uncomfortable to me reminds us of much of the world around sex up until quite recently as a reproductive tool to gain pleasure from sex was to make a woman is immoral. We craft entire societies around binding womens ability to operate in the world because sex was not about pleasure. Theres a lot in this space and i want to appl...

Disaster. Max baucus is calling for major changes in the program now in enrollment numbers for the firs few days of the obamacare rollout are dramatically disappointing for the administration. The white house has been telling us for months that millions of americans have been visiting health care. Gov, but Thehouse Oversight Committee released internal notes from meetings that show only six people in total successfully enrolled on the first day enrolled. Obamacare is a train wreck that has becom...