Nonetheless, outside counsels like this case. And yet there is one more approach being taken and this is by our indiana governor and Vice President ial candidate, mike pence who directed his voluntary agencies, the ones responsible for receiving and placing refugees in the states to withhold funds. So hes not going to allow them to get reimbursed by the federal government. Hes going to stop the flow of funds until he gets some Additional Information from the federal government. Threatening government in a sense. What made the news in this case was that one agency had our defend the process of placing the syrian family in indiana. Exodus ended up going to court against the direct to an indiana said this is a clear violation of the equal protection clause given that it is identifying people by National Origin and to refuse and are victims of refugees. Yet despite all of these legislative proposals and losses and threaten lawsuits, there is no amount of begging that i could find they woul
Congressional leaders will be heading to the white house this afternoon. Theyre meeting with president obama about keeping the government funded. The current budget year runs out at the end of this mop. The Government Faces a shutdown if they cant agree on a spending bill. Senate negotiators have been working on a threemonth extension of current spending levels. The white house meeting is scheduled for 4 00 eastern and well bring you any reaction that follows. Congress returns this afternoon for legislative business on the house agenda this week, legislation preventing the transfer of guantanamo detainees into the u. S. , expanding the authority of the Veterans Affairs department to fire or demote employees for misconduct and proposed impeachment of irs commissioner. The senate will resume consideration of water projects authorization bill with a procedural vote later in the day. Off the floor, negotiations continue on a deal to fund the government past a september 30th deadline. The h
Elusive, vast problem of memory and usable past. We have been talking about that for nearly two days already, havent we . I dont know if lois is still in the room. She is probably speaking down the hall. What an amazing talk that was for it what a beautifully written talk that was. I have to bring lois to yell in april and to yale in april into this again. I started last night with James Baldwin and i will do it again. Baldwin in his most famous publication, his most famous long essay said to accept ones past, ones history, is not the same thing as drowning in it. It is learning how to use it. An inventive and invented past can never be used. It cracks, crumbles under the pressures of life like play in a season of drought. When in doubt, you have to quote the poets. Learning how to use it. But not drown in it. Is that what we do with the past . Is that how you view the past . That what it means to have a sense of history . Whether that sense of the past and sense of history begins with
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