Here. It is interesting, the Faith Community has been a partner in response to hiv since the beginning of the epidemic both domestically and globally. So i think pet far was an out growth with faithbased organizations on the domestic side for a number of years. When we really began looking at the disproportionate impact of the epidemic in africa back in the late 1990s and early 2000, it was a lot our interest and a lot of the pressure that was brought to bear on the u. S. Government and policymakers was from faithbased organizations who were on the ground in africa seeing the devastation that was occurring on the continent. So theyve been a natural partner for us faithbased organizations and faith backers have been a natural partner with those of us working in the hiv and aids response from the beginning. So when we began to expand the global perspective to focus on hiv and to put this in perspective, working in the white house, with the global aids budget had been 125 million a year f
Soon be transformed into one filled with exotic animals. Pretty girls filling pretty costumes and that daring young man on the flying trapeze. It was a wonderful world, i know because i lad the good fortune to start my show Business Career in the circus. I was an arielist, one of the five marvelous ashtons. The marvelous was our own idea. Unfortunately, there hasnt been one of these circus parades for more years than some of us care to remember. So it was natural for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company to decide to recreate this wonderful bit of americana for milwaukees celebration of the fourth of july. These are the streets of milwaukee on the morning of july 4th. In a matter of hour, they will be the site of the biggest circus parade held anywhere anytime. But it takes a lot of work to bring a memory back to larger than life and the schitz people joined hands with a team of experts at the Circus World Museum. Wisconsin is known as the mother circuses, having been the birth place of m
Confederate flag. I strongly urge every member to stand with the citizens of all races and to remove this symbol of hatred from our National Park service. And with that i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Calvert i continue to reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. Ms. Mccollum mr. Chair i have the right to close. So i reserve my time until i close. The chair the gentlelady reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. The gentleman from california wish to reserve . Mr. Calvert i urge adoption of the amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. Ms. Mccollum i want to restate on june 25 what the National Park Service Director when he requested that Confederate Flag sales be removed from the National Park book stores
About the display of the flag in certain circumstances. In our next 45 minutes, we want to hear from you on where you draw the line when it comes to the display of the confederate battle flag or confederate symbols. Perhaps you think it should be kept from public land or maybe it should go further. Let us know what you think on two lines this morning if you live in the east, 202748 8000. If you live in a mountain or pacific time zones 202748 8001. If you want to post your thoughts on where you draw the line, you can post in our twitter page, on our facebook page, and if you want to send us an email on this topic, you can do so at journal cspan. Org. Usa today takes that question on where they draw the line when it comes to the use of confederate symbols. Its on their opinion page this morning. The editors write in part again, your thoughts this morning on the display of the Confederate Flag and the display of confederate symbols as well. Where do you draw the line when it comes to thos
Afghanistan, a taliban leader basically issued a letter asking them to back off. I think isis realizes it cannot replace the taliban as a major fighting force in afghanistan right now. The taliban is too established in the region. But, will they try to make common cause with the taliban . I think this is what sara was getting at. Will we see a merging together of the two . This would be very dangerous for the u. S. If the speakers could address that issue, because i think what we heard from dr. Gorka was that isis is the graduate level. But does this hold up when youre looking at afghanistan . The taliban has been able to continue to fight there after 14 years. The taliban still has sway in that region. I dont think it will be so easy for isis to make inroads despite it trying. If you look at how the idea of peace talks plays into this just on tuesday, the taliban engaged in peace talks with the afghan leadership in pakistan. This is quite significant. But what is their calculation . B