The mind-blowing science behind how our brains shape reality
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The mind-blowing science behind how our brains shape reality
There is a classic
Monty Python sketch in which a customer, played by John Cleese, enters a pet shop to buy a cat. The dodgy shopkeeper, played by Michael Palin, whips out a terrier instead and offers to convert the dog surgically into a cat, a budgie, or a fish.
March 17, 2021 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosted President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Taoiseach Micheál Martin of Ireland, for the virtual Annual Friends of Ireland Celebration. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Hello. As Speaker of the House, it is my honor to welcome so many friends, colleagues and leaders from Ireland and Northern Ireland to this virtual Friends of Ireland celebration!
A generation ago, two Irish Americans – President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill – began the special, bipartisan Friends of Ireland luncheon. The next year, they were joined by Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald – hence a tradition was born.
“I’m sorry Mr. Bezos won’t join our hearing on income and wealth inequality,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders
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“As the wealthiest person on earth, I’d love to hear his reasoning as to why he is vigorously opposing a union organizing effort at Amazon which would improve wages and benefits for struggling workers,” said Sanders, who publicly invited Bezos to attend earlier this month.
An Amazon spokesperson told The Hill that Bezos is “unable to attend the hearing.” They did not immediately respond to follow-up questions about the reasons for his absence.
Bezos’s absence from Wednesday’s hearing comes as Amazon faces increasing scrutiny from Congress, both over its market power and concerns that it did not sufficiently protect its employees from the coronavirus pandemic. The CEO testified before Congress for the first time last summer after previously having relied on senior executives to be his presence in Washington.
William Jason FIELDS, Congress, KY (1874-1954) FIELDS William Jason , a Representative from Kentucky; born in Willard, Carter County, Ky.,
December 29, 1874; attended the public schools, and the University of Kentucky at Lexington;
studied law; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also in the real estate business at Olive Hill,
Ky.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1911, to December 11, 1923, when he resigned, having been elected Governor;
Governor of Kentucky from December 1923 to December 1927; returned to Olive Hill and was
admitted to the bar in 1927; Commonwealth s attorney for the thirty-seventh judicial district of
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 17, 2021) – Yesterday, the Arkansas Senate passed a bill that would create a mechanism to review presidential executive orders and end state cooperation with enforcement of certain EOs determined to violate the U.S. Constitution. This process could set the stage to nullify some executive orders, but without further action, will have no practical impact in the state.
Sen. Trent Garner (R-ElDorado), along with 43 fellow Republicans, introduced Senate Bill 469 (SB469) on March 4. Under the proposed law, the Joint Budget Committee (during the legislative session) or the Legislative Council (during the interim)
may “review an executive order issued by the President of the United States that has not been affirmed by a vote of the United States Congress and signed into law as prescribed by the United States Constitution.” The review process is complex and would involve an appropriate standing committee in the legislature along with the state attorney gen