About immigrants. As they say to provide tonally sensitive messaging points to those members of the grand old party who just havent evolved disgurively on immigration. Some of the dos and donts are dont use phrases like illegals or aliens and never say anchorbaby. Instead, why not use undocumented immigrant when referring to those who are here without, well, documentation. And when addressing border security, dont ever say send them all back or electric fence. How about the enforcement of our borders. The hln is a group devoted the bringing more voters into the gop, is highlighting that the president broke his promise on the Immigration Reform in the first term, but they caution not to focus on amnesty, and to avoid at all costs president reagans Immigration Reform as an example that applies today, so it got me wondering when i heard senator john mccain getting straight to the point this week. How do you convince the republicans about the path to citizenship . Well, look, i will give y
Quorum call reid mr. President i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel Robert Stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e. Salas. 606 with the exception of Brigadier General john k. Kelk. And then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretarys desk in the air force and army. That the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legisla
Even if it had a storied history that was offending a sizable group of people, id think about changing it. But i dont want to detract from the wonderful redskins fans that are here. They love their team, and rightly so come it even though they have been having a tough time this year. Think all these mascots and team names related to native americans, native americans feel pretty strongly about it it i dont know whether our attachment to a particular name real, override the legitimate concerns that people have about these things. But, i dont have a stake in this in the sense of them not a part owner of any Football Team. And now we want to include you in the conversation about whether or not the Washington Redskins name should be changed. 202 is the area code. Native americans, we want to hear from you as well. Finally, for redskins fans, we have a line set aside, two 02 58538 83. Should the Washington Redskins . The d. C. Anged Council Passed a resolution asking redskins to change thei
Also, in many cases, they have their own initiatives. Oftentimes to help women and children. And what we want the first ladies from around the world to know is that they can also do that. There is a role for first ladies to have. To talk about especially womens issues and especially issues that have to do with children. We started this First Ladies Initiative and we began with first ladies from africa with a conference we hosted. Then we invited all of the african first ladies to a luncheon in new york when they were all there with their husbands for the United Nations general assembly. Many came, more came for that luncheon. We just talked about two programs after that luncheon was just to have a festive and friendly luncheon, but we had wendy who founded teach for america. She talked about teach for all of which is her international program. And then we had our daughter, barbara, talk about her nonprofit, Global Health court. Health core. She got the idea from teach for america. She
John whats up with detroit . Can this happen to your town . Thats our show tonight. And now john stossel. John detroit was once the richest city in america. I was three years old and. That was the 1950s. Now its the biggest u. S. City ever to declare bankruptcy. So what happened . Our guests tonight have some clues. First, fox News Reporter works in detroit and just wrote, detroit, an americanutopsy. An autopsy, one examines the dead body and tries to find out what killed him. Detroit isnt that exactly. What killed the trust . Would kill the charge, racial conflict of detroit. Slav kl detroit. Corruption children. It seems like that is what has become the american way because detroit is not alone. What is baltimore going to do, atlanta, l. A. John detroit is and worse shape. Worse politicians, morenions. The automaker collapsed. It was in the politicians fault. It was just the big three crashed. It wasll of them. One industry town. We were rich. We thought it would never end. Everybody