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the presiding officer: does any senator wish to vote or change their vote? if not, on the schumer amendment number 3483, it is not agreed to. 42 aye, 54 nay. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, i rise today to urge my colleagues in the house of representatives to pass the legislation we passed here in the senate a few weeks ago called the comprehensive addiction and recovery act, or cara. we passed it on march 10. that was 27 days ago, almost a month. every day we lose about 120 americans, they say, to drug overdoses. that means during that time period, those 27 days, we ve lost about 3,240 additional americans who we represent to substance abuse and death from heroin and prescription drug overdoses. since 2007, drug overdoses have killed more people in ohio than any other cause of accidental death, surpassing car accidents. it s probably true nationally now as well. addiction is treatable, but n ....
important. a matter of who is occupying that ninth seat in the supreme court. it has to do with how we as a thecracy operate, and particular authority that a court has to bring in order for work.mocracy to that was a really long answer. [laughter] others will not be as long. [laughter] let me ask you about that, mr. president. this point?et to you hear sometimes that the problem is the supreme court has into political issues, and so of course it gets inmeshed in politics. court has been controversial almost from the jeffersonansom the attack on the martial courts. and we haven t had this before. so do you have an explanation what it is that i think there are a variety of explanations. important to it s underscore what you just said. all i don t have you law students all of you law students, i think just from reading cases you will that there s politics in legal rulings. make decisions about right, wrong, what are the rules governing our society, et cetera, tha ....
could they do that? it is just not going to happen. so it was easy for me. so you have this urban legend of accountability that permeates the book. if you walk into the concourse with george h. w. bush and you look to the left we have the first line of defense. to be in a space and nobody else is allowed to be in. i was doing a briefing downtown and then to talk about global situations. in said on a scale between one and and how would you rate the cia and said keep in mind we don t do 8310 if you were there they re asking the department of commerce the questions. [laughter] that is what i try. because what actually happens inside cia or nsa real people extraordinary asked to do extraordinary things. i want to ask somebody who goes the extra mile so charlie wilson from the house appropriations we wouldn t have gotten that without him not breaking any laws for the subcommittee of defense with the directors flexibility together with their real flexibility that made it po ....
hundreds of thousands of rakes especially yazidis. up to 25,000 children are in dire need of humanitarian aid. it spread more rapidly. the ebola outbreak is spreading. hackers allegedly stealing 1 billion user names and passwords. rowstta meeting with a comet. we re on the comet. this guy flipped and became trapped in the gap. rallied to free his leg. ladies and gentlemen that is teamwork! we begin with questions over how long peace will last in the middle east. as we fleer the end of a three we near the end of a three day ceasefire. israel has agreed to extend it under its current terms but hamas has not it will negotiators in egypt trying to deal with competing and potentially irreconcilable demands from either side. on wednesday, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israelis are safer now than before the fighting began. he vigorously defended the attack on gaza saying it was needed. israel deeply regrets every civilian casualty. ever ....
rocket just meters away. hundreds of thousands of rakes especially yazidis. up to 25,000 children are in dire need of humanitarian aid. it spread more rapidly. the ebola outbreak is spreading. hackers allegedly stealing 1 billion user names and passwords. rowstta meeting with a comet. we re on the comet. this guy flipped and became trapped in the gap. rallied to free his leg. ladies and gentlemen that is teamwork! we begin with questions over how long peace will last in the middle east. as we fleer the end of a three we near the end of a three day ceasefire. israel has agreed to extend it under its current terms but hamas has not it will negotiators in egypt trying to deal with competing and potentially irreconcilable demands from either side. on wednesday, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israelis are safer now than before the fighting began. he vigorously defended the attack on gaza saying it was needed. israel deeply regrets ever ....