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The president pro tempore are there other senators wishing to vote . If not, by the vote of 57yeas and 43 nays, the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Patricia Ann Millett is. Mr. Reid i that all votes for the Supreme Court is by majority vote. The president pro tempore under the rule the. Mr. Reid i appeal the rule. Mr. Mcconnell parliamentary inquiry. The presiding officer is it correct under the bipartisan provisions of s. Res. 15 adopted earlier this year that postcloture debate t...

U. S. Prison. The times square bomber is in a new york prison is in a u. S. Prison. We have tried and convicted terrorist master minds in u. S. Considerate courts in my own district. Others are being held at guantanamo without any prospect of a trial. Ever since magna carta, we have denied the government the power to imprison and punish people on mere accusation. Just because the government labels someone a terrorist doesnt make him one. The government must be asked to prove the accusation in co...

Health initiatives, and they were very effective. One last thing, weve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it . The medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we dont have the whats the word . They go out of the state residency. And so we dont have those slots. What ca...

Has been putting out a lot of the wait time data as part of being very transparent about this. There has been concern that at the facility level they may not be looking at exactly the same data that we were releasing. We wanted to be very careful that we didnt have facility or Network Directors appear to be misleading their congressionals by saying, well, this is where we are and then having this National Data release Say Something different. So there was a caution put out to wait until we had d...

Rights abuses against the citizens of venezuela and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, and the gentleman from texas, mr. Castro, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on this bill. The speaker pro ...

Workers as defense related factories wind down production. It is to allocate an additional 10 million to the office of economic adjustment from the general operations and Maintenance Fund. The office of economic adjustment helps communities across america when a factory shuts down. Over the last decade of war, middleclass factory workers have stepped up to the plate to make sure our troops on the battlefield have the weapons and equipment they needed as we transition away from two long wars and ...

These two dual roles cause real problems for american standards and hence for American Technology and american companies. Ts unfortunate that nist, which is supposed to be an arbiter of national technology, was effectively used to propagate defective encryption standards. And this amendment, i think, will help correct that. It is important that we keep high standards and that everyone knows it. This is an important amendment. I thank the gentleman for offering it and aalso and i also appreciate ...

Government or state than have ever come to a conference or state, so we were asking a lot of newport, but the local police and all those involved responded magnificencely. Here, here. [inaudible] my right honorable friend agrees a response to isil has to be global with the ambition of securing peace in the long term, and the response has also to include religious leaders because its not to exaggerate the facts to say the traditional Christian Communities of the levant are more threatened with ex...

Basically you go back to the geneva conventions about protection in all its aspects and this goes particular for installations like hospitals and schools. Not at a stage where we can take that second step. We have just made initial what i quotednder to you and we will take it from there. On the possible protection of [indiscernible] civiliansprotecting with our own staff. There are people sleeping in the same schools. Several Staff Members were killed, correct . People, butost six this for us is...

Itself. Please do not let them put our livelihoods on the chopping block for their own political gain. This is from southwest coast products, a texas business. Id also like to read a letter from the Greater Houston Partnership. The Greater Houston Partnership is the preeminent chamber of commerce this my area. It is called the partnership because we do things differently in texas. And the partnership is also joined in this letter by a good many other entities that i shall name after having read ...