Vote the presiding officer is there any senator in the chamber who wishes to vote or change his or her vote . Seeing none, the motion is agreed to. The yeas are 49 and the nays are 44. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas p. Barber of michigan to be an under secretary of the treasury, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of thomas p. Barber of michigan to be under secretary of the treasury shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk should call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer is any senator in the chamber who wishes to vote or change his or her vote . Seeing none, the
Becoming combat troops. They would to volunteer and meet the same physical standards as men. Whole process would take two to three years. But in reality, women have been serving on the front lines in iraq and afghanistan for the past ten years. As of today, look at this number. 152 female Service Members have lost their lives, they have been killed in iraq and afghanistan. And at least 958 more wounded. In all, 292,000 women deployed to iraq and afghanistan. Joining me now our special panel, a former marine corps captain, executive director of the Service Womens action network, a woman to file Class Action Lawsuit to challenge the militarys ban on women in combat. Also military analyst retired army come cell jack jacobs, a recipient of the National Medal of honor and Michael Smerkonish with us. Its a great pleasure to have you on. When this news came out yesterday to the fact that we would have this announcement from secretary panetta, the discussions right away went in the direction o
Thank you. Ghana just played mali. Thank you, general. Likely question is mali was part of the Counterterrorism Program for the past eight years. As we can see, last year mali has had to gold problems. Difficult problems. The program is designed to strengthen african militaries. It does not seem to have worked very well in mali. My question is, in the washington, you say youre going to expand to other african countries and train them t. Why give medicine to more people than the one person who took it certainly has not recovered . It could be argued that they are doing worse. When i bring africa to the u. S. . I know a lot of africans are anxious about this. The question about mali is a fair question. The kernel probably has some more insight on this. We have had a u. S. Training effort with the mali forces for some number of years. Some of that has occurred in mali and some of it was mali officers coming to that u. S. For training. There were some who led the military coup, which overt
Think, central to the next chapter in this transition. I just wanted to comment on that. The second question as it relates to afghanistan is one that senator boxer raised and her work on this has been exemplary, on women and girls and in particular, i have a an amendment that we got through the National Defense authorization act which would require both state and defense to file a report on the efforts to promote the security of afghan women and girls just by way of itemization monitoring and responding to changes in womens security that will be part of the report. Secondly, improving gender sensitivity and responsiveness among the Afghan Security forces and increasing the recruitment and retention of women in the Afghan Security forces. So both with regard to the election and women and girls. Senator with respect to women and girls, i had a conversation with senator boxer earlier and with senator cardin, in which i committed to the ongoing significant efforts of secretary that secreta
Attorney general declined to comment. An mit grad student thought it would be neat to show where every Single Person lives in the u. S. On a map. He created this unbelievable picture. Each one of these dots represents one person. 341 million dots. The map allows you to zoom into the local level to see where everybody lives. Wow. Dangerous, i think. Thats it for me. Cnn newsroom continues with don lemon. Hey, don. You just heard the militarys aboutface, but you are about to see how women are training to face every soldiers worst nightmare. Rolling. The story keeps changing as the twists get more bizarre. Who is sat fault in the manti teo saga . Chilling new details about a teens alleged plot targeting walmart and now his uncle said even your owner reporter got several facts wrong. Intimate new pictures of jfk and his famous family. Welcome. Im don lemon. Game on. The battle over gun control is kicking into high gear. Dianne feinstein stood near this wall of guns flanked by Police Office