Time for a period of general speeches followed by debate and a procedural vote on a u. S. District court nomination. Thatll be followed by a vote on legislation sponsored by senator Claire Mccaskill dealing with Sexual Assaults in the military a. Also on the agenda, Senate Democrats plan an allnight session to talk about Climate Change and other environmental issues. Over in the house, theres no legislative business today. The chamber will gavel in at 2 00 eastern for a pro forma session. The house will return tomorrow at noon with eight suspension bills being considered including a resolution that calls on the u. S. To impose sanctions on russia for its intervention in ukraine. You can watch live coverage of the house on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and fadi chehade is the president and ceo of the Internet Corporation for assigned names and num
Largest climate protest in history, over 1000 people preparing to march sunday. We speak to clayton thomasmuller of the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. Nacpil. O lidy not that 1 of the 1 are the same people that are denied ,orkers rights in this country so for labor, this is our fight. Estela vazquez joins us, 1199tive Vice President of seiu, and we will discuss also feel companies with dr. Serene jones, president of the unions deal logical seminary. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Voters in scotland have opted not to form an independent country. With a record turnout of 84 , about 55 of voters chose to remain in the United Kingdom, while 45 chose independence. In the wake of the vote, british Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give scotland more independent powers as part of a process known as devolution. The people of scotland have spoken, and it is a clear result. They have kept our country
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
Thomasmuller of the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. Nacpil. O lidy not that 1 of the 1 are the same people that are denied ,orkers rights in this country so for labor, this is our fight. Estela vazquez joins us, 1199tive Vice President of seiu, and we will discuss also feel companies with dr. Serene jones, president of the unions deal logical seminary. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Voters in scotland have opted not to form an independent country. With a record turnout of 84 , about 55 of voters chose to remain in the United Kingdom, while 45 chose independence. In the wake of the vote, british Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give scotland more independent powers as part of a process known as devolution. The people of scotland have spoken, and it is a clear result. They have kept our country of four nations together come and like millions of other people, i am delighted. As i said during t
Are available fors eerie gun for syria. When we examine new figures on what it means to be a household in the u. S. Tomorrow morning at 7 a. M. Eastern. Next, a for him on this. The book war from earlier this week. They will talk about potential u. S. Strikes and opposition. Minute. 90 ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is frederic hof and on behalf of fred kemp, the president of the Atlantic Council and michelle done, the director of the center for the middle east, i would like to welcome you all to todays program. This is a joint production of the Hariri Center and the Atlantic Council. Over the past two weeks, we have witnessed a truly extraordinary chain of events that began on the 21st of august with a chemical attack in a suburb of damascus. In the fullness of time, i think we will probably know for sure what motivated the assad regime to take this step and what it was actually thinking. In terms of trying to get away with it. What is objectively clear at this point is