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Up. the amendment that would process -- that process would clear for a house floor or senate floor vote. the bill would cut some drug-related mandatory minimums in half and apply recent reductions in to people serving time on old charges. the aclu calls this the most significant piece of criminal justice reform to make it to the senate floor in several years. and for the first time last year, attorney general eric holder also endorsed this bill, which we discussed in our interview last week. and when the mark-up was done today, the senate judiciary committee passed this bill. not by a party li...

The bill would cut some drug-related mandatory minimums in half and apply recent reductions in to people serving time on old charges. the aclu calls this the most significant piece of criminal justice reform to make it to the senate flooer in several years. and for the first time last year, attorney general eric holder also endorsed this bill, which we discussed in our interview last week. and when the mark-up was done today, the senate judiciary kmiet tee passed this bill. not by a party line vote. by a vote of 13-5. and republican mike lee, to his credit, was out there working with mr. holde...

Is because before now, practically every car on every road in cuba aside from some russian ones, reflected the state policy that only automobiles that were in cuba before the revolution could be bought and sold among the citize citizens. given the revolution happened in 1959, that meant 1959 has been the end of the line in terms of cuban automobile availability until now. now, starting today, under these very, very slowly loosening restrictions on cuban live under the dictatorship, cuban citizens can now by new vehicles on the open market. at least theoretically they can do that because the av...

Committee this morning. he said they are working to craft a new authorization of the use of force, he and majority leader harry reid, what they are going to do is come up with something limited that addresses concerns about people who don't want american troops on the ground but not so narrow they lose votes from people like john mccain and lindsey graham. that's the tightrope they are going to begin walking today. >> casey, there's concern about this delay, that it may be giving assad time to build up his own military forces there. what do we know about the timing for a possible vote? >> at t...

Process. this authorization will go to the senate foreign relations committee for mark-up next week. >> inwrin in a broadway allowing for lots of marking up. the members of congress say we made it better. but don't you have to have an agreed-upon goal? senator paul, for instance, can say i'm against this because this is about regime change. i don't care what you say. how do you then make the case -- and i guess that's what the sarin gas revelation was about today. how do you make the case our goals are common? that's the challenge going forward not only persuading the congress to go along with...