I accept the duty of leading this party to victory this year. [applause] and i thank you, i thank you from the bottom of my heart for placing at my side the man that last night you so wisely selected to be the next Vice President of the United States. [applause] i know i speak for each of you and all of you when i say he proved himself tonight in that great acceptance speech. [applause] and i speak for both of us when i tell you that from monday on he is going to be available for such speeches in all 50 states. [applause] we will try to lead you as we were led by that great champion of freedom, the man from independence, harry s. Truman. [applause] but the gladness of this high occasion cannot mask the sorrow which shares our hearts. So let us here tonight, each of us, all of us, rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Fitzgerald kennedy set aflame. [applause] and let none of us stop to rest until we have written into the law of the land all the s
And a brilliant lawyer who wrote for he did not work for pay but the general counsel he spotted what he said would be a determinative gender discrimination case. 1970 and the and the Supreme Court had never seen an gender classification. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of idaho. It was about a woman named sally lee who was divorced when her son was a tender years so sally got custody. When the boy became a teenager he now needs to be prepared for a a mans world so the father wanted him to live with him. The boy one day take out one of his fathers many rifles and killed himself. Sally wanted to be appointed administrator of his estate not because of monetary gain but for sentimental reasons. He had a guitar Record Collection a small bank account. That was it. Her former husband applied to the administrator. A couple of weeks later sally thought she would get the appointment because she applied 1st but the Probate Court judge said this leaves me know choice. Entitled to admini
Not there. I we are developing and promised the principal sponsors of this law that we are going to develop a plan to get to 100 not have the we do resources. Congress has not given us the resources. We are developing that. I would like to see us get to a higher percentage of what is deans scanned what is being scanned right now. I look at what comes into the country and the method we have for screening it all, and it is pretty sophisticated. So i take away from that a pretty good story. Ok, yes, sir. Last question. On ebola. We are now screening at five airports. Do we have the capability to deal with this, and do we have contingencies if things get worse . We very definitely in this country have the ability to deal with the ebola virus. Every time there has been an outbreak of ebola in the world, it has been defeated. Here in the United States, we have the best health care, doctors, infrastructure, hospitals. It is a treatable disease if it is caught in time and you receive the right
So large that we went upstairs because it was still too dangerously crowded. Reporter others growned as the empty train just went on without stopping. Delays impacted the green, orange, red, silver, and yellow lines. Metro blamed it on the cold weather cracking rails and disabling their old trains. We were stuck in between stations for a while. It took me an hour to get from Columbia Heights to here. Reporter a lot of the passengers are upset. Are you rethinking on how to cover quickly. Well any time we have an incident like this there are always opportunities to learn. We will be briefed after this incident and we will look for opportunities to learn from this one as well. Reporter metro is learning new technology to look for problems before they happen and that many of the prones problems will be resolved. What are the commissions like . We are now, very cozy. You know its a bad sign when you go in the parking lot and people are going in the other direction. Reporter metro says that
A lot of talk about jobs and this relationship this very bipartisan hearing we had. But i think there is a reason for that and that is that we cant get past the first hurdle how are we going to pay for it. It costs money. Rail, buses, ports, bridges, highways not free. So we are so hung up on trying to do the impossible fund all of those without money that we cant get to what the money will do. We are approaching the absolute deadline, may 31. The construction season is already here. Its 65 degrees in d. C. Today. I wonder if people even in Congress Know that very first bill, eisenhower bill in 1956 had a 13year authorization, because the republicans in the 1950s were attuned to how long it takes to do exactly the kinds of things, mr. Garamendi that your chart points to. And you need an authorization more than a few months or even a few years. 13year authorization. No wonder that those postworld war ii years were the very best years for the American Economy. The states simply cannot ma