giffords. he came up and asked if he could talk to her and then he was barging through. 15 to 20 gun shots. some people running and screaming. it was gabriel giffords. 11 others also shot today, six people are dead. the victims were stuck behind the table set up for this event. investigators have the suspected shooter in custody. and there are other people that are injured. there are multiple people shot. okay. oh, my god. what police say is that shady looking gentleman was gerald loughner and the table that they re talking about is right over here. this is where he bothered through. congresswoman and the judge were standing right around there and this is where he shot them. but then he proceeded down the line shooting people at random. by the time the paramedics got here, jared loughner had been taken down but there railroad literally bodies strewn all across the ground here. colt jackson, aaron rodgers, and wes magnota were among the first medical responders
he wrote. the arizona daily star reported on january 20, 2011 and i quote, surveillance footage of the january 8 shooting campaign in s tucson showed the judge roll used his body as a shield to cover the wounded ron harper. bl roll took a bullet to the back and lost his life in the process. the judge is a hero in the county sheriff spiro of cheap -r the article states this as suspected gunman shot barbour, congresswoman giffords district director, almost simultaneouslyo roll moved barbour toward the ground and both crawled beneath thend table castor garr said, rl then got on top oftaga barbour. .. life, castagar said. mr. barber told the arizona daily star, that just gives me more admiration for the judge than i ever had. john roll was a dear, deman. mr. barber and judge roll had been friends for many years, dating back to their days as college students at the university of arizona. most recently they worked together with the arizona congressional delegation to secure fundi
in the lives lost 15 people. 200,000 of crude oil that ruptured in northern alaska. these are real incidents. what is most significant about the report is that it reveals the culture of undermining safety standards is not just an issue for bp but an epidemic feel you re facing the entire offshore drilling industry putting directly from the report the blowout was not the product decisions made by the rogue industry or government officials rather the root causes are systemic reform and with industry practices, government policies, the bipartisan commission s report only confirms that congress must take action, do our part to prevent the disasters like this from happening again. during the 111th congress this committee could work to develop safeguards would modernize safety and environmental protections for federal offshore programs. many expressed an interest to see the report before we move forward. we now have that report and as i hear from witnesses of the bipartisan commiss
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the presiding officer: the senator is recognized. mr. merkley: thank you, madam president. the reason i m rising to talk about rules is that we are at the start of a new two-year period for congress. this is the appropriate time to be considering how well the senate is working and whether we should amend the rules by which the senate functions. the last major debate over amending the rules was in 1975. the reason that there was a debate that particular year is that in 1973 and 1974 there were 44 filibusters, each eating up about a week of the senate s time. there was a tremendous amount of frustration over the dysfunction of the u.s. senate. so at the start of the congress that began in 1975, there was an enormous amount of debate, debate that went on for weeks, all kinds of motions. the spread sheet tracking them fills pages. in the end what this body, the u.s. senate, decided to do was to change the rule that requ