accomplished, the job hasn t been completed. you haven t fulfilled the promises that were made ten years ago in front of jackson square where you said we would have an equitable recovery. it s not an equitable recovery, melissa, when in 2013 nearly 50,000 new orleans public school students were suspended out of school. we had less than 50% students in school. tracie, you mentioned the moment in front of jackson square, a moment burned into the minds of many people who are new orleanians. let s take a listen to president bush standing there on september 15th and what he said, the promise that he made at that time. there s also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. it has roots in racial discrimination which cut off generations from the opportunity
the second amendment and the constitution says something that it doesn t say. now it might say that in the future. it might. and then i ll be the first to say, those are protected second amendment rights but scalia, right now, says they are not. right it s all right there. he may be wrong on the facts, but the truth is if you go back to the politics of it, he s on the right side for the time being of the vote. he s on the right side of how this is going to play out. it squeaked out of the judiciary committee on 10-8 vote and if it goes through she will not get republicans to sign on an assault weapons ban and won t get some democrats to do it and it won t clear the house. the fact remains throughout this debate expedite what happened in aurora and newtown there may not be an assault weapons ban and not a background check with 90% of the country agree with. this is the debate we are having on that committee but the national debate remains this probably won t get through.
supreme court oral arguments on march 26th and 27th. in the columbus dispatch today senator portman says his son came to him in 2011 and said he was gay. wasn t something he chose but he wanted his parents to know that. senator portman said he had always been against gay marriage because of his faith and tradition but this caused him to rethink it and he is proud of will and the way he handled it. he said it allows me to think of this from a new perspective that is a dad and wants his son to have the same opportunities his brother and sister have. joe, back to rand paul for a second. right. early on in his senate career, some people said he was a little fringy perhaps. but over the last couple of months, i guess beginning with the filibuster the last couple of weeks, he has staked out a middle position that a lot of republicans like. well, you know, he is, again, for conservatives like myself and george will and others that
that is undemocratic. governor? let s put it in perspective. you brought in pontiac and flynn. we have an elected mayor working with the emergency manager. the city councils are still giving input so still a process going on involve those elected officials and i hope to see happen in detroit and i was proud to have mayor bing with us yesterday. he is supportive of this process. it s not about excludeing people it s about team work and how do we solve the problems together and bring more resources and tools to the table because, in detroit, the job hasn t gotten done turning around the city and 50 years in the making. this isn t a recent problem. let s have positive way with solutions and solve the problem and give better services to those citizens. they deserve is it. kevin, how do you plan to manage this and navigate it as well as put plans in place in a city hurting as much as detroit?
out of there. we go on to the next. o reilly s father was also a iron worker who helped build the original. he took a fall doing what i do now connecting. and he was actually ultimately paralyzed from that fall. i worked on tower 7 before he passed away. i mean, i made him proud about shepard: the job hasn t changed much since their fathers worked on the twin towers nor since iron workers first rested on the beemtion of the empire state building. they are constructing this sky scraper two stories at a time. whenever they move up, they begin raising the interior core. they then bring in the perimeter columns and secure them with connecting beams. finally they add the framing which will support each floor. it s dangerous work. i mean, with us, we are look a team so it rarely happens that any of us get hurt. but accidents do happen around