I know we have a very big debate going on, and everybody is torn asunder on the other issue of whether to keep the prosecution decisions and the chain of command for serious offenses, but on this one, limiting the scope of article 32, we have broad support, and i even have support, im proud to say, of chairman levin and senator inhofe has helped. We have a tremendous group of people who have who have helped us. We will have these proceedings presided over by a military lawyer, when possible. The proceedings are going to be recorded. We will prevent victims from being forced to testify in these proceedings. They can have alternative forms of testimony instead. So these are the basic commonsense reforms. And im very happy to say that with the strong support we have from so many on both sides of the aisle and with the support of chairman levin, i feel very positive, but to get this done, to stop this revictimmization of people who are just distraught by having been attacked and raped and
Many of these diseases are related to the handling of wild and Domestic Animals in food production, slaughterhouses. Presenting disease starts at the farm, which is where the inspections take place. Preventing animal infections at the farm level can reduce foodborne illnesses. For example, reducing the number of salmonella in farm chickens results in a 50 fewer incidents of people getting sick from the bacteria. Salmonella chicken herds it is fundamentally irresponsible for this body to be cutting the food safety and Inspection Service budget. God help us all if there is some widespread outbreak in this country where we dont have 3,000 deaths a year, we dont have 30,000 deaths a year but we have 300,000 deaths a year caused by poor food inspection standards. We must restore this money to the budget and i ask my colleagues to support this amendment. Thank you. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Does any member seek time in opposit
Kosovo polling station as tensions erupt over a crucial election. France condemns as revolting the murder of two french journalists in mali. A 20month rebel gone in the eastern democratic republic of congo, which made an existing refugee crisis worst could be closer to an end the the political leader to the m23 rebels declared a ceasefire. It seems that the call for a trues is so far truce is so far being ignored by his military wing. These are exclusive pictures rockets fired around m23 positions on congos border with rwanda. In the last week the rebels have been pushed out of a stripping of towns by congos army, bringing rwanda and uganda accused of supporting rebels and the conflict in a region rich in minerals. Malcolm webb has the latest. The Government Troops has been fighting with the m23 rebels on three hills close to the border with rwanda. If i hold up the microphone, you can maybe hear the sounds of rockets and bombs landing. The hill that you can see is one of the three hil
A day of reflection and hope. Pope benedict xvi planning to meet with the cardinals this morning. Good morning and welcome to a special edition of early start, im zoraida sambolin. Im john berman. Is it 4 00 a. M. In the east. Welcome to cnns live coverage of the popes last day on the throne of st. Peter. Just ten hours from now Pope Benedict xvi becomes pope emeritus. Hes not riding off into the sunset or helicopter just yet. At 5 00 a. M. Eastern, the pope meets with the cardinalss who will pick his replacement. Over 100 of them are expected to be on hand and the pontiff will spend a minute or two with each and every one of them. That should be fascinating. Then cardinal seodano will spea and the pope will make a few spontaneous remarks before leaving his residence one last time. This truly is a historic day, not only for a vatican that finds itself at a crossroads but for 1. 2 billion catholics awaiting a new spiritual leader and new direction. Cnns chief International Correspondent
Leaders essentially traveled en masse to israel for his funeral. And it all happened really, really quickly. The Prime Minister was killed on november 4th. The funeral was held two days later on november 6th. And the world essentially coalesced for the funeral. The u. S. Contingent for that funeral in 1995 was enormous. It included not only the current serving president , bill clinton, who was very close to rabin, but also former president jimmy carter and also former president george h. W. Bush, three president s traveling together on air force one for the funeral. There was also a big congressional delegation that went along, including the then speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich. And that trip to israel for the funeral of rabin in november of 1995, that trip, not the events that precipitated it, not the assassination, but the trip itself, specifically the flight, is in part how we got the 1995 shutdown of the federal government, which is the last Government Shutdown before the one w