Existing legislation. Since some of the advances with samesex marriage as well as other advances in the lgbt movement, theres sort of been what they call coming back for the t coming back for the transgender rights issues coming back for adding gender identity to local and state laws. Federal executive orders, president obama has included gender identity and transgender issues on many of those where just a few years ago it was very unlikely those things would be included. I think some of the misconceptions over the transgender portion of the lgbt movement is, first that the lgbt movement is a completely unified movement with an organized set of priorities that everyone in the movement agrees about which isnt entirely true. And the transgender portion of the to community often times has been left on the sidelines as issues such as nondiscrimination laws samesex marriage have been pursued as priorities. The issues in the Transgender Community have been left on the sidelines and oftentime
A minister. A congressman. A senator. A voice for the voiceless. And a champion for hungry children. In some ways it is and higher need that georges adult life began in war. When asked about his military service he would always minimize his heroism. But the fact is that if he had done nothing after reaching the age of 25 years old today we would be celebrating the life of an american hero. 35 missions in the be 24. As scott said so well last night there would have been a lot more had the war gone. A lot more than one close call. Shrapnel penetrating the windshield at one point, nearly killing him. A blown wheel, an emergency landing, and on his 30 fifth and final mission, so much fire that when he landed they counted the holes in his fuselage and wings and it number 110. Georges life was not an easy one. He saw more than his share of hardship, loss he fought many battles beyond the ones in the airplane. The hits he sustained in world war ii were easier to see but in truth he was riddle
Mike pence cast the tiebreaking vote to confirm President Trumps nominee for education secretary betsy devos. Both the ayes are 50 and nays are 50. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the nomination is confirmed. The 5150 vote to confirm betsy devos. Just moments ago, devos tweeted this. I appreciate the senates diligence and im honored to serve as education secretary. Lets improve options and outcomes for all u. S. Students. Our senior congressional reporter manu raju is joining us live from capitol hill right now. Manu, this is unprecedented, historic first for the Vice President to cast the tiebreaking vote. Reporter absolutely, wolf. We have not seen this before. This shows how controversial of a nominee this was. Lisa murkowski and Susan Collins expressing their view days ago. Mitch mcconnell knew they were voting no which caused them to have Jeff Sessions stay in the vote to cast a vote and forced mike pence to come in here and vote yes breaking that tie. This came af
Multiple touchdowns. Thats something were working on confirming. Can you see there, the early indications that there was damage to not only power lines but some of the structures there. Damage there to houses. Craig . We also just saw one of what i would imagine will be a string of Emergency Responders heading to the scene there. Cal perry, do stand by for us, if you can. Mike steele, the Communications Director for the Louisiana Governors Office of Homeland Security. He is in baton rouge right now. He joins me now on the phone. Mike, what more can you tell us right now about the size and scope of these twisters . Well, this started right around daybreak this morning. It popped up in several different areas all at the same time. Its been a crazy morning for us here trying to monitor everything thats going on. There were several warnings all across the southeast corner of the state. We were tracking everything as it happened, but as you guys are showing, some of the damage to new orlean
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