Alcoa your front row seat to washington anytime, anywhere. The house will be in order to make this year cspan celebrates 45 years of covering Congress Like no other. Since 1979, is been your primary source for capitol hill, providing balance unfilled coverage of government. Taking into when the policy debate is decided all of the support of americas cable company. Cspan, five years and counting, powered by cable. President biden has welcomed it canyon president william to the white house, in advance of thes date in his honor believers talk about Global Opportunities for partnership it limited help security and technology of this is about 40 minutes. Background sounds background sounds background sounds background sounds honor. The. Background sounds background sounds background sounds. Background sounds background sounds but honor guard. Background sounds background sounds background sounds background sounds honor guard. Background sounds honor. Inaudible the president of the republic
Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv
Reporter union city is a melting pot of latin american influence. Yet there is an intense hatred for the castros overcome with difficulty. I do hope this is a good chance for the the people of cuba to improve their lives and thats why i support the idea of, you know, ending the embargo. Reporter this second visit of a pope to cuba in the last two decades is seen by many as one more step to their liking. Hopefully, more opportunity for people to express themselves and those people there nee something to start thinking that there is something else. Reporter at this restaurant, the nostalgia for what refugees left behind is on display. Patrons come from all over and we found a nun from cuba who spoke to us through an interpreter. Translator this is what the people need to be able to see what its like and be able to open their hearts. Different world from the freewilling capitalism of america and deep down, many feel this way. Same people are still there, same castros. Still waiting. Repor
Will discuss progress made in the work to combat hiv. One of the speakers is dr. Anthony felty, the head of the allergy and Infectious Diseases department. It should get underway shortly here on cspan. Once again, we are waiting for the start of a program of Health Officials working to combat hiv. We would hear from dr. Anthony fauci, the head of the national of allergies and Infectious Diseases. In the meantime, the city press in africa is reporting that preparatory work is well underway to license an hiv vaccine in south africa. If all goes well, the followup trials are set to begin january, 2017, and could be used for general use by 2019. This was revealed by glenda gray at the hiv research for Prevention Conference that is taking place in cape town. Waiting for the start of this gathering of Health Officials, a discussion on progress made in creating a vaccine to combat hiv. All of the panelist, we understand, are in the room to ,y clipping dr. Anthony fauci head of the National In
Two different things. When you are looking at hearings, you will see more hearings in the senate that look like what you have been seeing in the house over the last several years. Administration officials being called from various departments and agencies to essentially get byed over the coals republican senators who are going to be chairman of these committees for the first time. You are going to see more critical hearings and hearings that are built around topics that are critical of the administration. In terms of legislation, you are probably going to see more markups and more consideration of bills at the Committee Level and when they come out of the last couple in the of years, bills of come out of committee and then sort of disappeared in a number of cases. What mcconnell is at least saying and what he said last coat newsnew conference that if a bill comes out on a bipartisan basis, somebody might actually see it on the floor. You also mentioned an open amendment process. How li