[inaudible]0. On this vote the as are 50 the nazar 50. T the Vice President votes in the affirmative in the motion to proceed as agreed to. Mr. President. The senator from alaska. I youll back all republican time and relation to hj rest 43w the time is youll the back. Mr. President. The center from washington. Mr. President , this vote had to be held open in order to allow time for the Vice President pence to come down and break a tie. My colleagues and i came to the floor weeks ago to make clear that this harmful legislation should not come to the floor. Republicans did not listen to us. They did not listen to women across the country who made it clear that restricting womens access to the full range of are reproductive care iseep unacceptable. Of we are not going to give up. We are going to keep holding them accountable. Were going to keep making sure that womens voices are heard. Td i want to thank all of my colleagues who have already come and will continue to come today to the flo
And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outside of washington experts, as that is where i worked prior to coming to washington. I spent 19 years working in social Service Agencies in the state and city of new york and i have some idea of the dedication, hard and wisdom of people who work in peace programs, and i always love to be among them. So im very pleased to welcome and introduce to you the first panel which features three 3 mef communitybased organizations. First will be owed l. Cleveland the Administrative Officer for the Baptist Ch
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c
So the comebination of intelligence and law enforcemented is a big deal. We have to make sure that there are good mechanisms in place. If we know somebody is getting on a plane out of liguardia or dulles to fly over to ankora we need to recognize we know who they are, theyre being tracked and have the right visas. And turkey needs to know what theyre doing over there. Weve got to know why are you going there . Are you part of a Nongovernmental Organization . Are you part of a private organization . Or are you going e going there for some other ill gotten game. Let me ask this. Weve seen whats happening in yemen. Its collapsing before our eyes. Our u. S. Marines, the embassy staph. You see the chaos thats going on there. It was not long ago that this was one of our Foreign Policy successes in how we dealt want terrorism that we were in support of the government there, that our Counter Terrorism efforts was e were successful. A couple questions of the yoo u. S. Foreign policy. From my pe
Certainly since the last settlement or the last cease fire along the lines of the september principles was signed, and then broken that russias territorial control in the disputed Eastern Province has grown very considerably. Do that every three or four months pretty soon the amount of territory effectively under russian control will be p much more substantial. I think the worrisome aspects about the deal in mensk are the political questions below the level of the cease fire. When is means for autonomy and the Eastern Provinces. The two Eastern Provinces and what it might serve as a precedent from putins perspective for increased you tommy from kiev for other provinces that he considers in the russian sphere of influence. So i think this is an effort to gain a breather on the part of russia. I think it is satisfy to france and germany. They want a breather too, they have to figure out what to do with greece and the crisis in the euro and they dont see the United States playing a roll a