Detainies from Guantanamo Bay for one soldier being held. Senator mccain expressed disagreement today. Disagreement and this puts future men and women in the military at great risk. These individuals were judged in Guantanamo Bay frequently that if they were released it would cause a great risk to the men and women serving on the battlefield. These individuals, as senator graham calls them the five fab, these individuals will be able to move around qutar and after one year they will be able to go back to afghanistan. 30 of those who left Guantanamo Bay have reentered the fight. These are wanted war criminals. One of them is supposedly guilty of murdering thousands of muslims. So this decision to bring sar sergeant home is illfounded, it is a mistake ilfounded and it is putting the lives of American Service men and women at risk and that is unacceptable to the American People to me. These were taliban leaders . They were members of al qaeda, too. They are listed as taliban leaders. They
Institutions subcommittee will get underway with a hearing that will look at the impact of high student Loan Interest rates and debt and the impact on the economy. Among those testifying today, the Financial Aid director a washington dc teacher will testify and others as well. At the subcommittees chairman will introduce legislation that would allow individuals without Student Loans to refinance at a lower Interest Rate being offered to new borrowers. This comes as fox business reports the numbers are startling. 1. 11 trillion in Student Loans outstanding. Of two toulon hearings we are covering today on the cspan network. The Senate Budget Committee Debt and you can call that getting underway right about now online at cspan. Org. Thank you all for joining us. One decade ago, we begin to see the warning signs of problems in the housing market. A few years later, we watched accommodation of wall street greed and attentive regulators inattentive regulators helping to destroy our economy.
E. P. A. s rulemaking process. Powerful regulatory laws must be jew did i schussly administered and only judiciously administered and only congress and not the e. P. A. Should decide such consequential changes for our energy supply, our economy, and our people. Anything less, i think, is unacceptable and could very well yield significant negative consequences for a wide variety of American Families and our businesses. With that, madam president , i thank you for your attention and the opportunity to discuss a very important issue around the country. With that, i yield the floor. Mr. Portman madam president . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman first id like to commend my colleague from alaska, who is the Ranking Member on the energy committee, for her hard work. She did mention the Energy Efficiency bill, that she strongly supports, and that is a more logical way to get at some of these issues. Madam president , id like to follow on to my conversation i was having
There were people able to preregister when they were 17 so they could vote at 18. If you ask the vast majority, did they like the early vote period, did they like the right to exercise their constitutional privilege, the answer would be resoundingly yes. And professor raskin, youve heard someone characterize the udall amendment were considering today as an effort to repeal the First Amendment. Now, i dont believe thats accurate, but i hear it in paid ads and others and i guess if some of the billionaires are going to profit by this pay for that enough time advertisements were americans may believe it. Youre a constitutional school lore. If this proposed constitutional amendment were to be ratified would it repeal the First Amendment . Of course not. The first thing we have to remark is that the Citizens United case did not endow a single individual with any right to speak that he or did did not have. All of the employees of the corporation, all of the members of the board, all of the e
President s. Starting with Arnold Reagan on the 40th anniversary and then bill clinton on the 50th anniversary and george w. Bush on the 60th anniversary. We will end with remarks by president obama on this years anniversary. Ons is American History tv cspan three. We are here to mark that day in history when the allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this competent continent inthis victory. Four long years under a shadow. Free nations had fallen. Jews cried out in the camps will stop millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in normandy, the rescue began. Here the allies stood and fought in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. We stand on a lonely slowly windswept point of the northern shore of france. The air was soft the air is soft. But 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men and the crack of gunfire and more of canons. Of june, 19he sixth 44, 225 rangers jumped off the Br