The Supreme Court has ruled 72 in favor of the law that prritizes keeping native american adoptees within their ibe or family. It supportshe constitutionality of the 1978 indian Child Welfare act which is being challenged on the ground tt violated the equal protection clause. The case was argued before the court last november. This is about three hours and 15 nutes. We will hear arguments this morning in case 21376 and the consolidated cases. Thk you and may i please the court. Government, in 2020 there we over 11,000 nativrican children in state foster care. The indian Child Welfare act deprives indian children of thee the best intes of the child test. It replaces the test tube the hierarchy o the placement preferences that puts nonindian families at the bottom of the list. As the court explained, this fixed rates a federal policy of sending indian children to the dian community. The problem is that there are fewer than 2,000 native american foster homes. That means each year hundreds
Right general and cross type rules and effect, that means can jump any time you want. And i always appreciate it. All right, lets start out with george and budapest. There was a pattern here developing george every time the president of france, a menu of mcgraws, speaks to the economist. He causes a lot of mist yet. Okay. Any shatter is that, that claim that nato is completely locks that unit by because every time he speaks to the economists, he gets a lot of other nato members, important ones like b, u, k. It disagrees with him. So what did he say this time . The 2 major takeaways were um, and this is about the introduction of french troops or nato troops. Never really clear to me what the translator should make that clear, but he doesnt. Um, so nato troops are french troops with inter ukraine, if ukrainian lines were breaking. Well, they are breaking. Okay, so the 2nd one is if you give requests, so i have to read a request for assistance. I just have to wonder it is mister only have
Two more questions. In iraq, you recall off the top of your head granted the focus is about afghanistan the number of beds and desks built versus occupied . Do you have that number or is that something you can provide this committee . I think that is something we can provide. I hope its not a difficult ask. And i hope we can get it sooner than later. The last question on cyber security. Are you aware of any Network Disruptions or intrusions at the state department that have affected obo . Intrusions at the state we have had network intrusions. They have not affected any of our data bases. And o. B. O. Was not affected. They affected our emails but did not affect our data bases or systems. Is there any indication that any systems about embassies was compromised or hacked into . Im not aware of any information to that point. Nothing regarding your department . Not that i know of. We could go back and look and ask the appropriate people. But im not sure what youre referring to. Sir, throu
That we have all made. Yes, we will Work Together yes, but that will start late. Yes, we will Work Together but it will be next year. Yes, we Work Together but it will be in the spring. Yes, we will Work Together but we cant pass keystone unless we pass these 10 other things. Theres always going to be tomorrow. Theres always going to be 10 other things. Lets act today. Tomorrow. We can do this. We can do this. We can pass the Keystone Pipeline. And and to the frustration of the American People so they can rest next week and say oh, my gosh, the senators of the United States of america have years and they have brains and they have hearts and they heard what we said. And we can do this. And we have a bill that is on the calendar. Ive also passed a similar bill to my committee but im not even asking to pass the bill i passed my committee which i think is slightly better than the one on the calendar. We can all compromised. Im also a cosponsor of the bill, the lead sponsor of the bill cuts
Official is someone who is either elected or appointed by their party and runs for office as the candidate for their party or is appointed by someone who was elected as a candidate of their party. That is to say, the chief election official in most states is in that sense a partisan. This creates an inherent conflict of interest between the chief Election Officials responsibility to serve the interests of all voters to create a level Playing Field and that officials interest in serving his or her party and advancing through the ranks of his or her party. It is a problem that is, by the way, well recognized among other democratic countries, which is why the chief Election Authority in most countries enjoys some degree of insulation from partisan politics. This, however, is unfortunately a lesson that we in the United States have yet to learn. Next let me give a little bit of historical context. For most of this countrys history, racial minorities, most notably africanamericans, have bee