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they will come together on a proposal that is big. it actually takes care of this problem. >> could they ever? >> i remain optimistic and hopeful. >> the consequences of failure are so serious. >> a small bipartisan group of senators including mark warner of virginia is working to extend this period on the senate floor, he spoke for 15 manse about the budget -- for 15 minutes about the budget. objection. mr. warner: mr. president, i rise today to add my voice to the debate that has been going on in this chamber about spending proposals and how we get through the balance of this curre...

do. you look what happened thursday on the floor where from one minute to the next it seemed like we are ping ponging between the dream act the immigration, don't ask don't tell, firefighters bill, tax cuts, i think every journalist knows in the closing days of any legislative session, state, local, national, you just have got to be ready for anything. tax cuts are obviously the priority. they're going to vote cloture at 3:00 p.m. monday. if they get cloture, the 30-hour clock is ticking. you're probably talking about a tuesday-wednesday vote. then the flood gates open. i wouldn't pr...

marriage. th is live coverage on c-spa >> good morning, again, mr. cooper. >> good morning again to you, as well, your honor. the people of california and americans brought the country are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the meaning, purposes, and definition of marriage. the issue is a momentous one, for it goes to the very nature of an ancient and ubiquitous social institution that is, in the words of the united states supreme court, fundamental to the very existence and survival of the human race. this court is presented with, in our submission, this fundamental que...

the mandate, can you discredit in general the skill set that you expect to focus on, lawyers or accountants -- accounts? and in what areas do you expect about the most people. you know, we have, we are often criticized for being an overbloated agency, and i take ception to that, not because i'm a lawyer but because we are inside a law enforcement agency. so our lawyers are very important to us and we also write a lot of rules and we do in the law. that said, there's a great need at the sec for our accountants the really critical to almost every division and every function we perform....

i have articulated here is that infertile couples are nonetheless allowed to marry, and that is true, no society has ever insisted that marriage produced children. but, your honor, the question becomes how would society draw that line? how would society do that? it would have to have orwellian measures designed to police fertility before marriage, orwellian measures designed to presumably an all marriages that are childless. those measures would undoubtedly by a constitutional rights of the individuals involved. we do not think that any less restrictive method could be, as a practica...