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Thoughts on the courts decision. The phone lines also send us a tweet or you can post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. You can also email us at [captioning performed by national captioning institute] journal cspan. Org. This from the Washington Times bang from the Washington Times that is in the Washington Times this morning. Heres the reaction from the hobby lobby cofounders yesterday. [video clip] the Supreme Court reaffirmed that america was founded on religious we are truly thankful for the decision that allowed us to continue our Family Business according to our principles. One of those principles is gratitude. We are the plea grateful to our employees, to our customers, to whomany many individuals support the word, action, and prayer. We thank god for his Many Blessings and ask for his continued grace to shine on our nation. Host the hobby lobby cofounders reacting to the decision ruling against the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care act. From usa today, here is th
Should be applied uniformly across all employers. Heres, respectfully, why i dont think that that works, which is i think the question whenever there are exemptions in the statute is to ask yourself, do the exemptions undermine the compelling interest that the government asserts. Theres nothing inconsistent with an interest in prohibiting employment discrimination to say were going to focus on the people who actually employ the most people and therefore can engage in the most discrimination. Its quite a different matter, and i dont think anybody would think that congress would pass a title vii that said, hey, as long as you have a preexisting discriminatory policy, youre allowed to keep it. That doesnt seem like it would be consistent. Counsel, your attorney, one of the attorneys below, on behalf of your clients admitted that the grandfathered policies werent going to be around very long because any change to an existing policy and he said these changes happen on a yearly basis. And we
Century gps technology. We think it will make the airspace more efficient and create more capacity and make the airspace cleaner that way. So whats interesting is that over the next year hopefully, once we get over this issue with the highway trust fund, the next big issue in transportation is going to be an faa reauthorization bill. And i think there are some issues in aviation that are on the table now about how we structure and how we finance and how we set the aviation sector up to compete in the 21st century economy that well have a chance to work with industry and work with other stakeholders to help resolve. But i think thats going to that period of time is going to allow all these issues to be laid bare in a much different dynamic and just in the budget season and im looking forward to having those conversations. But i will say welcome i think that conversation has to be more complicated if were still trying to deal with highways and transit next year. We need to get this done
Afghanistan approved it. No one has said that they are going to need to change it. President karzai has said he does not want to be the one who signs it. He is holding off on signing it until next year. It is a problem. There is no question about it. The substance is basically what both sides are comfortable with. Whether or not president karzai is spilling new ideas, i do not know. It does not sound like it. It is whether or not to get so someone to formally sign it. The hope is we will get it signed before the elections. The impasse is his refusal to sign. He wanted to renegotiate. He wanted to have the Afghanistan Taliban members released from guantanamo. He wants no more raids or bombing of afghan houses like the one that just happens. Is this rhetoric . Is it something we need to come to terms with . He also presented the agreement as is to the world journal. It was about two or three weeks ago. They approved it. He wont sign it. That. Nderstand he is saying some of the issues he