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In 2006 president bush signed the bill on the lawn of the white house with members of congress from both parties there in large numbers. We reaffirm our commitment to build that same type of coalition for the necessary legislative response to the Supreme Courts action. And we reaffirm our commitment o do that today. Hi, im Wade Henderson with the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights. I just want to acknowledge some of the leaders who are here today who joined in this really important and constructive meeting with the president. Theres cheryl, the president director council of the na...

The thing is, i dont know, maybe you could put out an opportunity to meet them. We are mainly preaching for people who like our message, but i hardly meet people the opposition. I dont know, maybe there are some people who are against too much like accessibility in the room here, but up until now, we have not met them. Back in my town, i meet them very often. One of the most, one of the best arguments concerns air quality and the problem of noise. Also, the numbers of young families not wanting to have their kids growing up in town and moving out. Theyre really looking at what arguments can yo...

Schools . Simply put, yes. We believe, from a policy standpoint, the growth in Charter Schools and the potential they offer for being able to offer innovative reforms or good. We think you often have a proliferation of different oversights and models of the state levels that make the subsequent overside more difficult. Our direct interaction is with the state entity and authorizing entity. Our work is with the states of verses with the schools and i think we share concerns that states to need need to do a better job in terms of exercising that oversight. How does the department create more tra...

Relief activities. We are proud of and believe we are wisely spending every penny of Hurricane Sandy relief fund has been appropriated. I will give the same amount of time to the Ranking Member. I would tell you when i drove over the nevada line up to lake tahoe a few weeks ago, i saw a brandnew sign that gave credit been put into the stimulants, and others the recovery act being put up two weeks ago, three weeks a day driving through the snow. Its amazing that the dollars being spent but every time theres a request for a cut theres no money and its overdue. This is one of the challenges we fa...

I hardly meet people the opposition. I dont know, maybe there are some people who are against too much like accessibility in the room here, but up until now, we have not met them. Back in my town, i meet them very often. One of the most, one of the best arguments concerns air quality and the problem of noise. Also, the numbers of young families not wanting to have their kids growing up in town and moving out. Theyre really looking at what arguments can you put forward to say we cannot continue the way that things are going. Think in copenhagen, the status of the car has changed. People are not...