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And hydeas story. The 15yearold girl who has become a powerful force in the battle against gun violence. Good evening. Folks in many parts of the northeast will be talking about this one for years to come. The winter storm of 2013. A deadly blizzard that halted millions in their tracks, and left others along the coast fleeing to higher ground. Tonight at least nine deaths are being attributed to the storm. More than half a million homes and businesses are without power. Crews are removing stranded cars from highways. And airports across the region are struggling to reopen. In all five states s...

We hear all this talk about minimumwage as relates to young workers. The fact of the matter is the average age of minimumwage employees is 35 years old. And they have the least one show. So this is all about lifting households, women, children above the poverty level. I would hope that the congress, our republican friends would join us in passing the bill raising the minimum wage. With that and would like to yield to the vice chair of our caucus. Desperately searching for a job and have now been denied insurance. What that really means to these individuals is as they continue to look for work ...

Allow their employees to be able to help out as poll workers on election day and then to have sufficient training. Your report also talked about importance of access the information in languages other than english, including outlets in other languages, outreach to nonenglish media outlets, bilingual poll workers. I know weve made some effort in minnesota with voters with asian and Pacific Islander groups, and why our efforts so important . Want to stress, that the broader theme that the commission struck, and i think its well within its charge, is improving the Voter Experience for language mi...

Galleries that are watching their behavior adequately, they stay on even long after theyve become ineffective and not noteworthy to the court anymore. There are all these dangers of how you keep that focus and how you keep that task properly done. Make the case for why you all should be the oversight in the context of those dangers. I think we have not suggested that we should be the oversight for the because i know some have suggested that we be the body to appoint the members, a pool of special advocates or appoint a special advocate. We intentionally did not recommend that in part because w...

Well, i have been going around to different states, and i have been looking at whats going on state by state. I have been to seven states already. I want to mention two tonight. Just got back from New Hampshire, the most recent trip. What is going on in New Hampshire . New hampshire, as many people know, has a big ski industry. It is a Winter Holiday destination, a winter vacation and tourism destination. And skiing is a big part of that. I met with the guy who runs the cranmore ski mountain. They have, i want to say, crippled, thereabouts, the number of snowmaking guns that they have on their...