Meeting of the Us Commission on civil rights comes to order at 10 00 on august 18, 2017. A meeting takes place at Committee Headquarters at 1331 pennsylvania avenue northwest, washington dc. I am chair catherine lhamon. With me, commissioner gail meriot, commissioner Peter Kirsanow, say your name, commissioner David Gladney. Are you present . Thank you. In trouble already. Commissioner michael yaki. Im here. The Court Reporter is present, director, are you present . Im present. Meeting comes to order. Motion to approve the agenda for this business meeting . Second . Perfect. I was going to ask for amendments. I have a few to start us off. I would like to remove discussion on vote on lb gt employment determination, some commissioners requested additional time to review the report. I think staff for finalizing the report that we place on the agenda for next months meeting. Second, i would like to add consideration for statement titled the Us Commission on civil rights condemns the admini
Higher costs for Prescription Drugs, higher costs for preventative services, reduced benefits and a Medicare Program that would go bankrupt nearly ten years sooner. The Affordable Care act is working to help seniors with their expenses and keep the costs of health care down. We need to improve and build on the progress the law has made, not argue over tearing it down. Because this shouldnt be about politics. This should be about keeping the promise that we made to our seniors. Its about building on that promise, and i will continue to fight for them. Mr. President , i yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy thank you very much, mr. President. I appreciate my colleagues, senator warren, senator schumer and senator murray for joining us on the floor today. I think we will be joined by senator stabenow in a few moments. I appreciate them also being at an event we did yesterday in which we were kicking off the Affordable Car
I was 24 years old. While most of my friends spent their summer at the jersey shore, i sat in a shot, steamy courtroom and watched in horror and disbelief as the man who murdered my husband tried to turn the courtroom into a political stage where he could spew his hate and contempt for this country and our justice system. At the moment my husbands bloodstained shirt was displayed by the evidence handler, Mumia Abujamal smirked at me, demonstrating his contempt for Law Enforcement. Thankfully a racially mixed injury found him guilty. The following day they sentenced him to death for the brutal act he had committed. Thats when my second nightmare began. For three decades, my family and i endured appeal after appeal. Each rooted in lies, disportions, and allegations of civil rights violations. And year after year, judge after judge the conviction and sentence were unanimously upheld. Then 30 years after the fact, my family, society and i were denied justice when three Federal District cou
Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , this senate is a place where we make friends we have our differences on policy but we really are a senate family. And its just not that way with democrats who work here in the senate. Its also with republicans. When we work together, which we do outside the view of most of the public, we work well together. And one of the troubling things for me, as im sure it is all of us, when someone who is a part of the family leaves, and especially it applies when you feel so close to the Family Member thats leaving. Today the democratic cloakroom, the nerve center of the senate, and the entire Senate Community say goodbye to a dedicated staffer, tequia delgado. We congratulate her on her role as Member Relations advisor for the white house. After graduating from Southern Illinois university in C
Member of lpr 2011. I would much rather hear you speak than joe biden, so thank you. That bar is not very high. The real question is, from our perspective, from my perspective here out in the real world we hear about all of these investigations by the house and by the senate and all these hearings and all these hearings and all these hearings and nothing happens. At what point, what needs to take place to actually have an independent investigation on benghazi . Yeah. I think the answer is we are not going to get to the truth, real truth of benghazi anytime soon and there is two reasons for this. The first is the administration truly has something to hide. The first thing, i think what is indisputable or not perfectly provable in court of law, what is indisputable the entire response to benghazi was framed by the politics t was making sure that the president didnt look bad. That bass the first and most important thing they were concerned about and they never want to admit that. The seco