A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin id like to vitiate. The presiding officer were not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin i ask to speak concerning we have a colloquy, speak on the protection act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Manchin madam president , as you know very well, weve been asking for immediate passage of the miners protection act not just for our state of West Virginia but for all the miners across america and basically the retired miners who have done everything thats been asked of them. We have some of our colleagues today and im going to go, at this time, if i can, and my other colleagues will allow me, i would defer right now to senator brown from ohio, since he has other commitments. Hell be coming back and forth, if he could go ahead and get started at this time. And ill come back and go to our other senato
Do you have any questions . You look like you have one. [inaudible] 2009 was the Helmand Province afghanistan and was like the height of the whole war taxed out going around Helmand Province to eliminate as many bad guys as we possibly could in the eight hour time period before the marines were in and they were the first ones there. In the 90 day time frame i accumulated most of my kills or whatnot. The average 2,000 per 35 guys. So thats how this whole thing came together. After i got out i have really bad im not going to call it ptsd but your you are used to g a certain lifestyle for so long and everything comes to a halt. So i picked up contract in and worked with some cool guys and bad got shut off. I lost my house and my car and i started writing a diary. Put everything on pen and paper after a failed suicide attempt. 22 veterans kill themselves each day on average and i was about to become one of those statistics. I wrote a journal and turned into a self published book. We got br
And it is not a ride for the faint hearted the cabin sky in a georgian mining town. Hello. The leader of a rebel group has been killed in syria. The group says its secret headquarters, situated on the outskirts of the syrian capitol, damascus, was targeted in an air strike which what it said were russian war planes. The group leader has died in the attack. It is the Largest Rebel Group in damascus, it is one of the most organized rebel groups and consists of thousands of fighters. Al jazeera has gained firsthand access to the site of a Maternity Hospital damaged by russian air strikes in syria. At least 14 people have been killed in recent attacks. Our correspondent has this exclusive report. Translator there have been russian air raids against this syrian city on aloan poe. The raids have targeted this Maternity Hospital. This is not the first time this hospital has been hit. As you can see, the outer fence has been destroyed and there are many injured inside of the building. This is
He had goblets made of silver to award the winning competitors. Agriculture in Corpus Christi brought many wealthy families to the area that helped bring success through the ages. Corpus christi has subsisted mostly on agriculture based in sheep, cotton, and cattle. King ranch subsists mostly of cattle. They have the running w brand. He sent he fenced his land in barbed wire. That stopped transporting of any goods through his land without his control. Since he controlled who was on his land, he also controlled the cotton that could be smelled around the Union Blockade and eventually sold to mexico since they could not get it out of the ports in Corpus Christi to sell for profit. King ranch has been one of the prominent wrenches in the area. They own most of the land between here and mexico which control the lot of the commerce happening during the mid to late 1800s, before the railroads came into town. After the civil war, with all the ranch money being made by king, entity and others,
Forces in disarray, many militia groups hold sway in tripoli and elsewhere, supposedly enlisted to prop up the government, but in most cases, mostly loyal to their own leaders and agendas. The cicely why the Prime Minister was taken may remain murky, but it is thought many militias were angered by the recent seizure by u. S. Forces of an al qaeda suspect on the streets of chirpily and accuse the government of complicity, although it denied this. What has unfolded now in tripoli raises further questions and alarms about the stability of libya. What do we know about the libyan Prime Minister . Who he is and the challenges he faces as libyas leader. Mr. Zeidan was a career diplomat but affected from colonel qaddafi in 1980 and was working as a human rights lawyer in geneva when the 2011 civil war began. He then returned to libya and then became the main point of contact with europe and the opposition. He is credited with winning recognition from several european countries. Entering parlia