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Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to re...

I really appreciate that question because actually when we develop caring across generations with those two demographic shifts in my. That there is enormous opportunity for us to think about how we are we being a whole new social contract in the fabric of our nation weeding and. And the truth is i want to go back to this point about multigenerational relationship and the imports of multigenerational relationships that help bridge a lot of the gaps. I think weve worked really hard in the campaign to think about people who are aging people with disabilities, the caregivers themselves whether the...

Everything up. They screwed up the Justice System and we will show compassion for those who have been left behind and incarcerated unfairly over time. I think youll find our message is going to resonate. When we show the other side has tried to do for poverty for 40 years hasnt worked. When we show the ability, the compassion and the plan to make things better, when we can be judged not on whether we care but on whether our policies work , we have always had the intellectual argument but then we win the emotional argument, we become a dominant force and we have what we have all been looking fo...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the entire middle east before all this took place. It is important but there are many groups we work with t...

This year. When will americas longest war ever end . We will go to kabul to speak with the peace activist and physician dr. Hakim and to kathy kelly of voices for creative nonviolence. She is just back from afghanistan. In another Louisiana Court has ruled Albert Woodfox of the angola 3 should be free. Enough,cause is noble you can carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. I thought my cause, then and now, was noble. Therefore, [indiscernible] bit,might bend a little they may even take my life, but they would never be able to break me. Former black panther Albert Woodfox has been more t...