A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. I want to speak about our immigration debate and my amendment in particular. But first let me say, you know, were going to find out just how serious our colleagues are about granting not just legal status to the dreamers, people who were brought here illegally when they were children and shouldnt be held accountable for that action, but the proposal that will be available for a vote later this week, will not just grant legal status but will grant a path to citizenship. It goes well beyond the Legal Executive order that president obama issued, and it will be available to far more people than those who took up president obamas ilLegal Executive order. It will be an extraordinary moment. I hope we are able to reach an agreement on this because i think
Ucla released a report earlier this year about challenges facing undocumented undergraduates get into the u. S. It is a survey of 900 undocumented undergraduates in 32 states who migrated from 55 countries. The coauthors joined a panel for a discussion about undocumented College Students in the u. S. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome you and for those of you who live in new york, you know this is a rare example of sunshine in the morning. And its not even freezing. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education policy. I was thinking about our session this morning and how when i started the institute about 12 years ago. I kept looking up a word policy in the dictionary and if you ever do that, you discover it is a difficult word. Its hard to get a good definition. That is appropriate because when we think of policy we have an image in our mind with the definition is in the dictionary. In fact one of the misun
Important enough for political signs to be up for just permissive for political determined to be a helpmate to her husband Andrew Johnson as he navigated an end to the civil war, reconstruction in the south and his own impeachment. First ladies, influence and image. Examining the public and private lives of the first ladies and their legacy. Sunday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan three. Up next, treasury secretary jack lew takes questions. Chaired by congressman jeb hensarling. The committee will come to order. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the annual testimony of the chairperson of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. When democrats 1st past the dodd frank act they claim the Financial Stability Oversight Council is one of the scoundrels. Stability Oversight Council. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. When democrats 1st past the dodd frank act they claim the Fina
Targeted, allie . Reporter no. That is still a mystery. At least to us at this point. We will show you where this happened. Grove way and an and tanglewood drive. They are on their second day of gathering evidence from inside the home. Family and friends are struggling to figure out why this happened. Everyone we have talked to described her as a kind and friendly person. It was neighbors who first noticed the flames shooting from the garage of this home on grove way in Castro Valley early tuesday morning. When firefighters arrived, they found the body of the 59year old woman who lived alone in the garage. Hours later, after an autopsy was performed, investigators discovered she did not die in the fire but that she was murdered and someone deliberately set the fire afterwards to cover up the crime. It is just so shocking. Just thinking about how or why it didnt make sense. Theyre just good people. Reporter the Coroners Office is not releasing the victims identity but she had long ties
Hospital but died. He did not drop and roll. He just panicked. He was probably in there, you know inmailing inhaling all the smoke. Reporter it was probably so intense the building collapsed into itself. They could not get inside. Thats bad. When the flames started to spread, neighbors were told to leave t adults and five children were displaced. They came banging on my door letting us know. There was a fire. We got out of the house and evacuated. And he was knocking on his neighbors doors to let them know about the fire. Everyone that couple out were sleeping and i was pounding on the door hard enough to get their attention. The Fire Department and neighbors say that this is a it is an abandoned house. There are several activities, drug addicts like they lived there. Investigators, police and the da will all investigate, were live in roxbury. Were following more breaking news. Police are searching for a suspect after a shoot out in brockton. A Family Member said a bullet went through