And judicial nominees ending and ongoing dispute over nominations that had tied up most of the chamber this month. The most highprofile nomination was janet yellen for the federal reserve. The hearing will be held in january and the senate will vote confirmation of the deputy secretary of the department of homeland security, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue service, and a u. S. Allrict judge in florida this morning. Earlier on thursday, senators had been preparing for a rare weekend session as democrats and republicans were at loggerheads on when to help hold votes. Senate democrats were informed during their closed Party Meeting that they would be staying in washington through saturday. Republicans had sketched out a plan ensuring one of their members with stay on the floor to keep their eye on democrats. Six other executive branch nominees were pending, mostly deputy ands for state. That batch of nominees will be sent back to the white house because they were not cleared by t
Position finish. [inaudible] the fifth element is reasonableness. Everything you do in acting in selfdefense has to be that of a reasonable and prudent person, and you have to have actually yourself believed it was necessary to act in selfdefense. The five elements, innocence, imminence, proportionality, reasonableness [inaudible] what is stand your ground doing . All stand your ground does is take away one of those elements, the avoidance element. You no longer need to seek an avenue of retreat before you can act in this selfdefense. Whats left in place . Everything else. Innocence, imminence, reasonableness and proportionality are all still in place. Its not some mysterious mechanism the nra pus in plait. Put in place. Stand your ground is exactly the same as the oldfashioned selfdefense except for that one element of avoidance. So if you live in a stand your ground jurisdiction and you act in selfdefense, what do you still need to be able to prove . You were the innocent person, you
Mr. Petri i move to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 961. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1961, a bill to amend title 46, United States code to extend the exemption from the fire retardant materials requirement for vessels operating wiin the boundary line. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Petri and the gentleman from maryland, mr. Coupling cummings, each will control 20 minutes. Mr. Petri i ask that members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material on h. R. 1961 the speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Petri i yield myself such time as i may consume. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Petri h. R. 1961 renews the exemption for the delta queen from certain coast guard requirements adopted decades after the vessel was bill. The delta queen is a paddlewheel river boat and was built in 1926. It operated in california until 1947, then carried tourists up and down the mi
At the hands of a fellow officer. It took four months to reach the decision, and prosecutors announced theres no criminal charges, against the officer that fired the gun. Were live in the news room, what went wrong . Its the final report, and it describes how one officer shot another and why. Theres not enough evidence to file charges against him. It happened on january 21, at the apartment complex, and smith and mays, went to search, and smith went left, and mays went straight in the apartment. As mays was about to enter the bedroom, he saw a shadowy figure, and the gun was raised, and it was turning to me, and i saw a little bit of a hand. None of the officers knew of the floor plan to allow them to one oclock through the bedroom, and walk through to the bedroom, and thats why he fired one shot and killed smith. Immediately after the gun fire, several officers heard someone yell, im hit, and one said, was that tom . And they realized it was. They radioed friendly fire, and smith came
And preoccupied with that but on the other hand he also handed out packets to the journalists on events thats happening here on the ground. And portraying to them the governments side. The government in the past 24 hours has gone on a pr offensive. Theres been several statements from officials addressing the events of the last few days, all of them say they are fighting a war against terrorism and projecting this as a conflict for egypts future and stability not a political dispute but more interesting, the ambassador to washington came out with that statement that the Egyptian Government was trying or at least going to review the u. S. Aid and that certainly caught a lot of people here by surprise. In recent days the Egyptian Government has been trying to assert more of its sovereignty. Its one of the things its criticized for, over the years it was seen that it was somewhat of a lap dog on the u. S. Governments hand because the former regime of Hosni Mubarak was so closely allied to