At arlington. Officials said that under existing rules, they do not qualify. Next, the floor debate on the bill. I moved to suspend the rules as amended. Of the clerk will report the title of the bill. Floridaentleman from will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. All members will have five days with which to revise remarks or add extraneous material. Without objection. Yield myself time. Thank you. I rise to urge all members to. Upport this bill this bill was introduced by our , ensuringin arizona that activeduty designees including Women Air Force pilots are eligible for internment with full military honors at arlington military ceremony cemetery. They are members who served alongside the regular armed forces during world war i and world war ii. They were often located in combat zones where they risked their lives to protect the freedom that we should never take for granted. Their contributions to the effort were so vital that they had been granted the
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our program. Thank you for sharing our commitment to holocaust remembrance. [applause] [america the beautiful] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you can watch this event again later today on our website, www. Cspan. Org. This will mark the anniversary of the 1943 were soft ghetto uprising to protest deportations of jews who were there. Our road to the white house coverage continues today. Donald trump is in West Virginia and he will attend a rally in charleston, the state capital thislds its primary coming tuesday and we will have live coverage. Madam secretary, we proudly toe 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the United States. Former utah senator bob bennett passed away wednesday night. He was 82 years old. He had been fighting pancreatic cancer vermonts and he served three te
Michael your question is important. I leave the legislating to the congress they determine the best time to update the law. They have expressed in updating the statute since 1996. I leave it in their capable hands. The calendar has gotten away from them. But there is appetite to change some of the statute. I do find that the statute does provide a number of problems for the commission. We are taking advantage, the majority is, taking advantage of provisions in the statute interpreting them in ways that werent intended, reading words in or out that should not be done. So i have trouble with how the commission is interpreting the law and whether they are actually following the law. I dont believe they do and i have expressed my views on that point. Beyond that, i do think that modernizing the statute would be appropriate, but thats for congress to decide. Peter michaela llo riley, one of two republicans on the commission. And howard buskirk. [captions Copyright National cable satellite c
The only thing that the jury tells the judge is, we recommend life death by a vote of x versus y. Right, but they cant recommend death unless they find the aggravator, right . Well, no. No. As a matter of state law, thats not correct. They cant recommend death unless seven of them each believe that some aggravator is satisfied. All right. But the Florida Supreme Court and this is a this is another ring problem here. The Florida Supreme Court has recognized that where two aggravators are presented, it is impossible to know even if a simple majority agreed on a single aggravator. Well, thats a common feature, though, of jury deliberations. An aggravator is whether the murder is particularly heinous and it can be for for a number of factors. One, the victim is a juvenile, so maybe three jurors find that. Or an officer was also killed, or it was in the commission in the course of another felony. In a typical case, a finding that the murder was heinous, you have no idea whether the juror ju
I wanted to note. Number one, theres some photos of you with cigars, with cigar smoke. Long time cigar smoker . Theres the cigar picture right there. I like what i call ponies, peter. Small cigars. At one time i was smoking probably five or six cigars well, strike that. Three or four cigars a day. Now that changed to three or four cigars a week. Then finally i just said to heck with it. Part of the reason was the staff didnt like it. Some of my colleagues didnt like it. The chief of staff, i think, led the fight on that. What the heck . If it is annoying to them, i dont have to have a cigar in my mouth every day. Ive been free of cigar smoke probably in excess of five years. Congressman coble, youve worked on a couple of issues that may not strike your colleagues as positive, such as limiting congressional retirement, term limits, cola increases, being careful about cola increases. Have you gotten so pushback from your colleagues up here on capitol hill . When i came up here, i said i