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And whether you are black or white, if you get arrested and charged with a felony crime for doing some things that the last three president s of the United States admitted to doing, if you are arrested for that, tried and convicted and i say tried because with hesitancy because the majority of them are plea bargains as the president knows, if you get convicted of that felony offense for that nonviolent drug offense, the collateral consequences to your life are horrendous. We now live in a nation where the chat rail consequences are profound. The collateral consequences are profund. Time behind...

And the question here is, who is eligible, who has what it takes to control the areas that this International Campaign is going to liberate from isis . Definitely it is the assad regime, because as i said, or 16 months the moderate rebels were desperate, and doesnt enjoy any kind of support, either we are talking about weapons or training or financial support. So unfortunately, the people in syria now are not optimistic when they think about this war against terrorism in their country and in iraq, because they think at the end of the day it will help the regime. My last point is, is it a lost ...

The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 16. The nomination is confidence. Is confirmed. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the grigsby nomination. Who yields time . Mr. Leahy madam president . Madam president . The presiding officer the senator vermont. Mr. Leahy madam president , on the griggsby nomination, i have a statement which i will include in the record as though read, and i yield back all time. The presiding officer without object...

Insulin pumps. And the 30hour workweek provision which is forcing employers to cut workers hours and wages in order to afford obamacaremandated health care costs. We will also work to repeal the Health Care Laws individual mandate. The federal government should not be in the business of forcing americans to buy a governmentapproved Health Insurance product. Finally, republicans will tackle some of the big challenges that need to be addressed if were going to put our country back on a path to longterm prosperity. We want to make our nations costly and inefficient tax code fair and simpler for f...

And her offices conduct. She has since responded claiming that she is not responsible for any mismanagement of the dcps project and that she committed no criminal conduct. Like i said, that may very well be the case, and i hope it is. But the specter of an Ongoing Investigation still hangs over her nomination. Therefore, i do not believe the senate should proceed toward quirnlg her until this toward confirming her until this matter is resolved. I want to be fair to her, but this is an important problem that needs to be resolved. I want to make one thing clear. This is about more than just mism...