on that. if you want to get involved in the conversation, the numbers are at the bottom of your screen dd host: and here s one of several articles that we ll be referring to this morning. this comes from the washington times with the headline americans will get heavier still. c.d.c. report predicts 42% of delults be obese by the year 2030. andre billups writes there s no sign of a truce of america s continuing battle of the bulge. a report projects that u.s. obesity rates now at 36% of the population will rise to 42% within two decades, bringing with it, a tab of more than half a trillion dollars in health care and related costs. the rise would top off at three times the national obesity rate in 1980. the country could save billons of dollars in health care costs in the coming decades simply by preventing further gains in average weight so we want to talk to you about the numbers being put out by the c.d.c. and the responsibility and who s going to help us out in trying
resolution that designated me forever and ever senate historian emeritus. so i did some research to find out since there has never been a senate historian emeritus, where is the office space, what about parking, what about an i.d. card. i m still doing the research, but it was a great honor and i will cherish it to my dying day. yeah, but they gave you something else. they also agreed to open the senate chamber galleries during the time that the senate is not in session. that has always been the case for 142 years until 9/11, and as one of the unfortunate consequences, of the many unfortunate consequences of 9/11, the galleries were closed when the senate was not in session. so, i had a quiet campaign to try to get that reversed. followed the historical pattern. and so apparently what they did as a gift was to agree to open the galleries during the month of august, turns out the house galleries are being closed for renovation during that month so it worked out very well,
there was no constitutional requirement or even permission to censure a president, but they did it anyway. and then in 1837, in january of 1837, when the democrats got a slight majority, tom has hart benton of missouri made it his life s work to get that censure, the word, you know it s not a word we use very often, expunged. they literally had the secretary of the senate come in and draw a nice straight black box over the original resolution as it appeared in the senate journal. and crossed a line through it, expunged by the order of the senate this january, whatever day, in 1837. then the democrats went off and had a huge party. i mean, this went to the fiber of who they were as a party. they were so excited, so happy, we and it was coming up on the last day of andrew jackson s term as president. so, this is a huge deal. did you ever make any senator mad over the last 34 years? once. can you tell us that story? no, i can t. actually, yeah, probably just once.
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