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Say something. Thank you very much. I am having pleased to support this resolution, for roma she was one of the first persons to reach out to me when i came to San Francisco. She has had a eye on womans rights and issues and i applaud her for that and admire her for her service. Thank you. I would like to just congratulate roma guy and she is so deserving and lets say that someone said that she was a giant, i want to say tiny but mighty, because she is, she is so persist ant and that is a lesson...

Aljazeera goes undercover to expose the illegal jade trade in asia, why the country that produces the most of it only reports a fraction of the money it makes. Happy thanksgiving, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im richelle carey. Theres a sense of normalcy in ferguson, missouri this morning. It was a different story on the other side of the country. These are pictures whether dozen were arrested during a protest there last night. In st. Louis, Police Arrested several people who s...

National debt . It is we the people so the National Debt is our debt. What percentage or our personallyprivately owned debt different than the percentage of National Debt. Host take us through the definitions here. Guest the National Debt refers to when referring to the governments budget. There are Consumer Debt measures out there and the Federal Reserve bank keeps track of that. You spend things on your credit card and they show up in Consumer Spending but another set of statistics address tha...

Trauma risks. They are asking to prevent players from being stuck paying sports related medical expenses. They are asking that Graduation Rates increase. They are asking that Educational Opportunities for student athletes in Good Standing be protected. They are asking that universities be prohibited from using a permanent injury suffered during athletics as a reason to reduce or eliminate a scholarship. They are asking to establish and enforce uniform safety guidelines in all sports to help prev...

Carl levin and representative ralph hall. This thanksgiving week cspan is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. Watch the interviews through thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Much as weve accomplished in 36 years i dont want to look back at that so much as to look forward to the next couple of months. In the next couple of months theres a couple of things i would like to do. One is to get my Defense Authorization bill passed. This is an annual effort, a major effort involving lar...

85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can sta...

A live look at the Martin Luther at the Martin Luther king junior memorial on in washington, d. C. The holiday was signed into law by Ronald Reagan and was celebrated by all states inure to thousand. Crowds gathered her early this morning for a reef laying ceremony and remarks from jeh johnson. We will show you battle ceremony this evening at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Today at 12 30 p. M. , coverage of the annual National Action network rockfest honoring Martin Luther king jr. Which will feature the r...

Service providers, with all of us working together accomplishing more than the best of us working alone. As we seek to move from demonstration the legislation, we cannot forget separation. After the doors of opportunity are opened for access, we must make sure that we have the skills to walk through it. Unfortunately, many of very many of our young people are not prepared and that is on us. As we renew access to equity, it equals a better america. Access plus equity equals a more perfect union. ...

But first, a shocking new report finds nearly nearly 4000 black men, women and children were lynched between 1877 and 1950 a far higher total than previously known. Horrific and terrifying, and we dont talk about it. We put markers about the confederacy if one of the courthouses, but we dont say a word about the thousands of people that were lynched on courthouse lawns. We will speak to attorney Bryan Stevenson of the equal Justice Initiative in alabama, and then we will stay in alabama to speak...

For the third year in a row, the philippines is being hit by a deadly typhoon as the United Nations hosts its annual Climate Summit. More than 90 people have already died. We will speak to lidy nacpil, a leading filipino climate activist. Then saleemul huq of bangladesh and how peru has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmental activists. It is a risk of life or death for us. If i stand in front of the loggers to represent my community and say to them, sir, you ha...