Thank you. We know what we need to do. We have a few minutes remaining and im wondering if any of you have some questions. Yes. Maybe say who you are and where you are from. That gentleman first and then you. Take it away. Games, i united with wanted to ask about judicial diversity. I was disappointed that the president did not nominate a percent color but i was disappointed and the legal background of the justices we have. All at the harvard or yale except for Justice Ginsburg and what the columbia. No one has any background in Immigration Law. As law school, is an elective. They dont have background in criminal defense or legal issues that must be boldface in the country. I wanted to hear your perspective on why is that . During the oral argument, i was infuriated that some of the progress of justices has zero clue about Immigration Law and most people do not even use the right terminology. That is an excellent question. Supremeshould the next Court Justices have in their Legal Expen
The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , april 4, 2016. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable bill cassidy, a senator from the state of louisiana, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed, orrin g. Hatch, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell id like to welcome our colleagues back from their state work periods. The senate has gotten a lot done under e new majority and will continue well continue our work today. But first i want to remember the daily sacrifice of our Capitol Police in light of the inciden
Learn new information, say, about Thomas Jefferson and d. N. A. And sally hemings, how you turn that ship around and say, you know what, guys, the father of our country, the author of our catechism. We hold these truths to be selfevident is the father of sallys children. Henry the way which we turn it around is by assuring Political Correctness and say this is the truth of the story. You may not like it. We are not going to be myth makers. We are not going to allied the bits of racial history. Michael you talk about some of the contrasting views within the black community. Its not a single narrative that can capture the complexity. Henry what every black person knows. Michael and Jackie Robinson supported nixon in 1960. Henry yeah. Michael and against paul robson. How much did he suffer for that . Henry well, lets go with the first point and then the suffering. I teach a course when i was an undergraduate at yale it was 19691973. So that was the height of the black arts movement, black
Anyone else want to give us a killer idea, maybe something that has already been mentioned once or twice . Maybe not . I think the improper payment act do not pay hold agencies accountable. When you are measuring that its going to hold them accountable to make it a priority. I also think electronic verification at the state level i think it has proven that those death reports are highly accurate and moving in that direction. I would agree with mr. Brune thats prudent and it would allow them to look at other verification processes that perhaps moves resources to those other areas and i go again to verification of family members and funeral homes. We look at some data of 82 corrections in 2012 and 13 and we pulled a small case sample 46 cases. 35 of those cases, those folks were in fact alive but what . 35 of the 45 pieces we looked at. They were erroneously placed in the file. When you look to the source of those reports it was family members and those are typically regarded as being hi
An Army Aviation Restructuring Initiative both of those combine to be 6 billion. If we dont get those reforms. Were going to have to find 6 billion, and find another half a billion for brac, thats who it costs every year for excess infrastructure. If we dont get those things, were going to have to find that money somewhere. Great thank you. For navy and marine corps, it is slowing down the growth of pay and compensation. Its we simply have to do that. We are at the point where were choosing between keeping people or getting them the tools that they need to do their job. And i think that the proposals that have been put forward are reasonable, theyre sound. And from talking to sailors and marines around the world they are the thing that concerns them the most is certainty. And the concern about sequester and whether they will have the tools to do the job that they joined the navy and marine corps to do. Congressman, in addition you heard me with the compensation reforms, i agree with br