Can take. Not really knowing or understanding consequences of what that pill might do to that their body in the long run. But in africa, they dont have that option. They just want to live. Over here, theyre able to live because they have medicine available. In africa and asia, they dont have that option some of the people, because they dont have the medicine. And i think you have seen a rise, a its cyclical, seems to happen every ten years, that this disease starts to rise again amongst the young. And im at a loss to explain it because, you know, everyone knows the consequences of being hiv positive. As i say you can live a safe and healthy life like a diabetic. It is probably easier to treat someone with hiv than a diabetic. That would be my explanation, why youre seeing a rise. In the rural south its it is also a huge problem as well. And i think, again, a lot of it is stigma. A lot of people not wanting to admit they have the disease. Not a lot of people are being tested. Not a lot
Passage. We have a rare moment for the Senate Foreign Relation Committee and the senate as a whole to demonstrate this. And coming together to demonstrates our ability to give constructive input on one of the most Important National Security Issues of the day and strain our divisive influences in this body and demonstrate our ability to overcome them and show the relevance and Work Together to come together in the best interest of our nation. With that, madam president , i yield the floor. Next, the Supreme Court Court Hears Oral Argument in several samesex marriage cases. Then we open it up to you and later a debate on samesex marriage on todays washington journal. Throughout the day we have been seeing comments from a number viewers. This one from maxwell who says it has been legal in the uk for a while and their society is still entact and no one elses marriages have been ruined. Get the government out of marriage all together. Facebook. Com cspan. And on twitter jennifer who covere
Well, certainly if you look at that diagram you can see we are down more than 10 billion over where we would have expected to be if we had stayed on that dotted green line which is the trajectory for nih going back to 1970 so it will take quite a bit to make up that ground. The other thing the other thing i might show you a consequence of that for people trying to get Research Funded that is the success rate, an investigator who has sent there grant in is facing. You can see going back a couple of decades that has been in the range of 25 to 35 percent. More recently we are down in the zone of 16 to 16 to 17 percent, which is very unhealthy and has caused a great deal of teefor. What is the number . One out of six would be funded at this time. How easy you turn away . Five out of six. What does that mean . I see where you are going a number of grants we find each year at the present time is about 9,000 which means we are turning away about 55,000. I do not think i can tell the differenc
Secondclass status of these petitioners marriages. Thank you very much. Justice roberts thank you counsel. Case is submitted. During this month, cspan is pleased to present the winning entries in this years student cam documentary competition. Student cam is an and or competition that encourages middle and High School Students to think critically about issues that affect the nation. Students were asked to create a documentary based on the theme the three branches and you to demonstrate how a policy or action by one of the three branches of government has affected them or their community. This year, our grand Prize Winners are anna gilligan, katie demos and Michael Lozovoy from the school for the creative and performing arts at bluegrass in lexington, kentucky. Their entry focused on the subject of minimum wage. Narrator the federal government committed created the minimum wage in 1938 at the height of the great depression. It was designed to keep americas workers out of poverty and did
Because when these countries borrow money even from a Development Bank for a boondoggle project that doesnt work, they are often on the hook for paying the money back and there have been experiences like that across continents. And across decades. With respect to t. P. P. , it is never fun passing a trade bill in this town and because people are understandably concerned about its potential impact on specific industries, but also the general concerns that people have had about globalization and technology displacing workers. We are addressing those. Systematically. Here is what im confident about. This will be the most progressive trade bill in history. It will have the kinds of labor and environmental and human rights protections that have been absent in previous agreements. Its going to be enforceable and its going to open up markets that currently are not fully open to u. S. Businesses. Its going to be good for the u. S. Economy and because i always believe good policy ends up being