A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Mcconnell i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell im not sure if you have a fax machine at home, not Many Americans do anymore. Neither do a lot of Small Businesses. So it seems a bit a odd to tell Small Businesses they need to fax in enrollment foamplet for be obamacare for obamacare. That is what the Obama Administration is now doing. I might paraphrase the president , the 1980s called and they want their Health Policy back. Now, to be fair, snail mail is also an option and it looks like the president s people will try to have the issue fixed soon despite passing the law more than three years ago. But then again this is the same president who told us that obamacare is working the way its supposed to, president obama said, and that those who already have Health
Please join me in thanking Charles Duelfer for his presentation today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] taking you now to new york city where the u. N. Security council is about to meet discuss and possibly vote on a resolution to set guidelines for removing chemical weapons from syria. It was announced yesterday that five the councils permanent members including the u. S. And russia had come to an agreement on a resolution and its now going to be brought before the other members of the Security Council for consideration. Reuters has a story on a resolution saying the major Sticking Point up to this point was russias opposition to enforce compliance with the threat of sanctions or military force. The article goes on to say the draft resolution makes the measure for removing weapons legally binding but provides no automatic enforcement of syria fails to comply. Instead the Security Council would have to draft a second resolution and we will take a look now inside the room. The Secur
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Iraq had wmds the whole time i feel a combination of two strong emotions oh, my god, shock and awe laughter i finally understand what you were talking about theres no telling what else bush was right about. I bet some of those weapons were nucular . laughter this vindication must really warm dick cheneys arc reactor . I dont know what hes got in there now. Nothing but nothing is going to kill my buzz over these wmds not even the second line of every story about them. These were not the weapons we went to war over. They were not the ones to justify the invasion. They were from the old iraniraq war. Stephen shake it like a polaroid picture. Beyonces, and lucy lius, and baby dolls. Get on the floor. You know what to do. Im sorry. I didnt catch any of that. Point is, iraq made these awful weapons, and america had a moral obligation to punish them and anyone who helped them. This has to be one of the bitterest ironies of the iraq war. These are weapons that iraq had manufactured with help f