Will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else. If youre an athlete how do we treat you fairly without turning it all into minorleag
Five years to solve her crime. They thought they solved it. They got the wrong guys, and they convicted the wrong guys and sent them to prison. Sent one to death row. Ron williamson went to death row. He had never met deborah carter. And he spent 11 years in prison and was exonerated 10 years ago, 1999, almost 10 years exactly. But he spent a total of 12 years in prison for the murder of deborah carter, and he never met her. Host who was ron williamingson . Guest he was a man i never met, i never heard of him. He was one of the first big, notorious dna exonerations in the late 90. And i met him when i read his obituary. So i never got to see him, obviously. But he was a fascinating character. When he was younger, many people in his small corner of oklahoma thought ron was the next mickey mantle. And ron certainly thought so. He had a nice ego. And he was a second round draft pick in 1972 of the oakland as and went off to seek major league glory and thought he was going to make it. Neve
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 its one of the best things you can become. Right there. Thank you. If you become one in your neighborhood you get a 15 increase on average turnout for the president. We had 3,000 of those in 2016. Were on pace right now for 90,000 in 2020. Thats awesome. On top of that, we were about six, seven states strongly this time. Were in 17 states. Weve increased and doubled our budget pretty much of our ground operation across the country. Let me give you a great thing about expanding the map. There are several states last time we didnt win, new hampshire, minnesota, nevada, new mexico. If you look at new mexico and minnesota our budget for those two states was 25,000, one staffer, sent them to colorado because we didnt think we were going to win it. This time were talking about tens of millions more staff on the ground than the entire 2015 ground game and you already have them in those states fighting for it. We only lost minnesota b
Grieves for the court and they will take a vote at 1 45 eastern. Now, live coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of might and mercy, thank you for providing our lawmakers with opportunities for courageous and noble service. Inspire them to labor for your glory in all they say and do. Illuminate their minds with the light of your divine precepts. Equip our senators for their tasks that they may be physically fit, mentally alert, morally straight, and spiritually strong. Create in them the life of purity, honesty, and altruism that contributes solutions to the problems they face. May they work with perseverance and magnanimity for the new and better day toward which your divine intentions guide them. We pray in your faithful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
I say this all the time we have to fight for local journalism when we lament losing a Hardware Store or things that are big parts of the community the local newspaper is just as important. Joe mcnamara reports on the things that we care about. Our kids, our local teams and to celebrate that thank you to everybody for coming here. And she has shown tremendous bravery and what she has done for us. Not only has she lost her soulmate that she had the courage to step up and stand up against the nra. She has been subjected to horrible things but was brave enough to stay in there to say we need to talk about these issues. But these things that are happening in our community , its a thing for all of us to tackle whether red or blue when these horrible things happen in our communities, not picking out democrats or republican republicans, causing heartbreak and devastation stood up for us on this issue so i want to thank her for that. [applause] and i also want to say what it must have taken how