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Mr. Blumenthal madam president , i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal thank you, madam president. This month we celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in roe v. Wade, a ruling that assured every woman her constitutional right to make her own decision about whether and when to have a child, based on her fundamental right to have her privacy protected. I had the honor to clerk for the author of roe v. Wade, Justice Harry blackmun, in 1974, shortly after that decision. And i can say that in that year few of us expected...

Tried to retrieve her cell phone from the tracks. The crowd heard from her friends and family. Reporter it was quite a crowd tonight. You can see the pink ribbons are tide, not just students, but teachers, and family from the community, all stunned by the loss of this girl who meant so much to so many. Grief is not a lesson many students have to face at school, but tonight, Martinez Junior High School pulled together, and shed tears for their classmate. 14yearold, jenna betty. Everyone loved jenna. Reporter a pastor asked everyone to send their strength and prayers to her parents and two siste...

About electric vehicles only. If we could accomplish the same goals with other technologies, then that out to be open to the marketplace and technologies can compete with one another to [inaudible conversations] achieve those goals. And the other comments on that question about what are the obstacles standing in the way, not electric cars but fuel cell, [inaudible conversations] anything other than gasoline or do you agree with what robert has said . A good baseline for that question, if any one of us or any other companies of competitors could figure that [inaudible conversations] solution ou...

Longterm unemployed across america. It has been a myth that has been put forth and those who seek to undermine this program that individuals who are receiving unemployment assistance who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more, simply are sitting home looking to collect a check without going out and actively searching for employment. Nothing can be further from the truth. The reality is, and this is connected to the dynamic around income inequality that we are discussing here today, is that for every 2. 8 million, 2. 9 million americans who are unemployed looking for a job, there is only one...

For citi, it has been an anchor. Part of that in terms of the work that many institutions have done has been supported by the Community Reinvestment act. As important as it is, sometimes it traps funds in geographies where it is needed, but we cannot go beyond that. Institutions go where and do that sort of investing more it is greatest need, not where there is just a regulatory incentive to do it. Housing has been a cornerstone of our work and secretary donovan, we worked with him on building innovation. One of the things about Community Development has been that it has been very siloed. Very...