Pass senate bill 546 and housetd resolution 7659. H. R. 7659. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from texas, mr. Hunt, to suspend the rules and pass senate bill 546 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk senate 546, an act to amend the omnibus crime control and safe streets act of 1968 to authorize Law Enforcement agencies to use cops grants for recruitment activities, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcapt
I think we are handicapped in the way we proceed. And thats because the people that are selected to do the work, i know many people in town and in academia who could have been that additions to the negotiating team over the years and who were never asked and instead, we have people who were working on the Obama Administrations last effort and at the end of it, two of them gave an interview to a paper and said after the failure of the negotiations said we did not realize that the Israeli Government issuing new tenders for the new Housing Construction in the west bank would subvert the Peace Process or it was intended to subvert the Peace Process and we didnt realize the settlements involved the palestinian land. Wow most american undergraduates to study the subject note that the two very important people running the program for the Obama Administration said they didnt understand that. I dont know if thats what you call ignorance or willful ignorance im not sure which it is. [laughter] s
As president , but warning against taking them out on an arbitrary time line next year. The president announcing today that he would keep nearly 10,000 troops in the region until october 2016 and then cut back to 5,500 in early 2017. In a statement the majority leader said the decision to reduce troop numbers should be left to the next president. You can read more here at the washington examiner. Weve heard from the chair of the Armed Services committee, who released a statement saying given the troubling conditions on the ground in afghanistan and the other Security Problems in the region keeping 9,800 troops through at least 2016 is necessary for our security interests. You can also hear the president s announcement for yourself in its entirety and well have it at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time over on cspan. Known as the city of good neighborhoods, this weekend our cspan cities tour joined by Time Warner Cable explores the history and literary life of buffalo wrarks new york, on become tv
Clara barton during the civil war. Miss stiehm argues that she played a major role in playing for caring for soldiers during and after the war. This talk was hosted by Georgetown Public Library and it is about an hour. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for coming out this rainy day. I am the librarian here at the peabody room. A special collection of georgetown neighborhood history and it is part of the District Of Columbia Public Library special collections which consists of the washingtonian and black studies. Both of those are located at the Martin Luther king jr. Library. I would like to welcome miss jamie stiehm back. She has become one of our regulars here talking about a disparate group from American History. She is a syndicate columnist and contributor to usnews. Com, today she will speak about clara barton remarkable civil war humanitarian work. [applause] ms. Stiehm this is the Perfect Place to be speaking about civil war washington. The room itself takes us there. I am
Cable partners we will explore the history of the city of just over 250,000 residents. The zero short of lake erie and the niagara river, it was the western terminus of the area canal. A thriving commercial and industrial metropolis. Coming up we will explore some of the close president ial history as we look at grover here as mayor. In the assassination of William Mckinley. Will the site where theater roosevelt was sworn into office after mckinleys death. We are in the library of the wilcox home. It is not a big room but it was filled with approximately 50 people. He stood in the middle of the room. There is no photographic representation of the actual aringin swear morning ceremony. Camera on that time were on tripods. They were very awkward. Unfortunately one of the cameras was knocked into, fell to the ground, roosevelt being nervous about all of this basically asked the reporters and photographers to leave. Later we will you about the buffalo Civil Rights Movement is the homee of