That nationwide the continues to see the effect break havoc in this country. What will you do to improve the voting and there it is again. I would like to see open primaries everywhere. Federal voting holidafederal vor registration in 18 years of age we have joel here to join us. You will hear it again. And the automatic voter registration. Lets start with the congressman on this money and if you can be specific on the primaries of the voting i think it is a great solution we should have been in the state of florida. I think republicans should embrace this because we can grow the party by embracing the conservative solutions that appeal to independents and those that are no Party Affiliations so i would say yes to the open primaries and on the other issue whatever makes the voting more accessible and successful so we have greater participation. Congressman. First i have to introduce legislation for this purpose as i indicated before it introduced more than any other member and i introd
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Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judicial nominations and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland hosted by the Edward Kennedy institute. This is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] good morning. On behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for the United States senate, i welcome all of to you the kennedy caucus room. For this timely and important discussion of the senates role, its advice and consent role in connection with the president s lifetime appointment of individu
Rates by a bigger than expected 50 basis points. Two president s, two messages. Barrack balm ball and Vladimir Putin hold discussions agreeing that the syrian conflict needs to end but disagree over the rule of the assad government. Lets remember how this started, assad reacted to peaceful protests by escalating repression and killing. We need to admit that nobody in reality is fighting islamic state. Good morning, everyone. Quick check on markets. Stoxx europe 600 is lower and one sector bouncing back today is basic resources and that is really driven by glencore. The stock was up by more than 5 . Well talk more about that during the trading session but too i want to show you what happened in the u. S. Markets overnight. We saw sharp, sharp falls once again. The dow off by 1. 9 . S p 500 off by 2. 5 and the nasdaq falling 3 . Lets look at european markets and how theyre doing. Xetra dax off by 0. 6 . One of the big determine nanlts of how the ftse is doing is glencore. We saw many of
I decided they were critical questions i wanted to get into about what was the meaning of smoking, its impact, as an american historian, i began to realize there was almost no aspect of 20thcentury american ,ife from advertising to film medicine and science, regulation politics, that in some way could not be encapsulated by investigating the history of smoking the cigarette century. The problem again how best to do that. I added a fifth question as i was getting near the end. So did smoking come to be popular in the course of the 20th century . Almost no one smokes cigarettes as recently as 1900. Cigarette consumption was 50 per capita per adult. In 1970, it was 4000. Its really a modern behavior although tobacco use would go into the earliest days of native in the americas. Those interested in how do you create a modern behavior around major industry and this became the focus of my early work. How do you go from no one smoking in 1900 to a majority of men smoking by mid century and ,