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Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right fr...

Because they are earned in the view of these people, rightly or wrongly. To a significant degree, wrongly. And significantly antielitist, that theres a wisdom in the collective that the elites often are combating. He wrote, and i thought this was quite a remarkable statement, the tea party is jacksonian american aroused, angry, and above all fearful backed by the new american demography that threatens its interests and scorns its values. They view obama as a sort of, having a conscious strategy of Building Political support by increasing americas dependence on government, and they i in polls o...

Americans dont like that fight. Regardless of whether they agree or not. You got that. You got a government thats earned distrust of the American People, and thats what the pop pewist uprising is about. People are fearful of the government. The most damaging thing taken place in the last year is not the fight over the budget, but the nsa controversy, the irs controversy, all that, which is not only been dismissed by the government, but defended by the president saying that, well, thats just them. I didnt do that. Nebraskas been punished for these things, and people are beginning to become afra...

Traditions, how do you resolve the differences in what role does the difference between the traditions play in assessing the original meaning of the constitution . Well, like Justice Clarence thomas i take the view that the declaration of independence has relevance to the interpretation of the constitution. I know thats a controversial issue that many of my colleagues would exclude the declaration of this not having anything to do with the interpreting any of the bill of rights or whatever. And i take it from the description in the declaration, some of which i quoted that these are principles ...

An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in add...