,or cherry Pick Committee today senator casey for serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. They have both been real leaders on this subject. Was the first author of the pandemic and the preparedness act. How do you say that . It the all hazards preparedness act. Helps protectaw us from the full range of Public Health threats. Terrorism,asters, and the outbreak of Infectious Disease. 2013, senator burr and can senator casey led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards hacked act. Many contributed to this committee. Now the bill midst to be reauthorized for a second time. The second weg is have had this year. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations in advance of the reauthorization of the act included from the assistant secretary for preparedness for once. The fda, and the cdc. It is critical we reauthorize the act before many of the provisions expire in september. I hope we can do this in a bipartisan way. I expect that has been the
Completelyent is inaccurate or ridiculous, it pantsands on fire on fire. Host how do you make sure you are giving campaigns and candidates the right ratings . Guest this is the second this is the Third Campaign we have been Fact Checking. And likeurnalists most, we are listening to the news and seeing what the candidates say. We are listening for things that would make the average person say i wonder if that is true. That is how we pick the facts to check. We dont balance the ratings in any way, because we think the facts need to speak with themselves. The ratings are whatever they are. Do that whenyou the truth is not always clear . Guest we have a method for Fact Checking . Every fact check is little diversity there is a of political discussion we have in the u. S. , the we emphasize a few principles. We emphasize original sources, primary documents, primary evidence, our reports are written in a way that the entire story is, this is what we said, we wanted to know if it was accurate
In addition, Congress Needs to do its job. Fighting zika cost money. Research into new vaccines, and by the way they Just Announced the first Clinical Trials in humans that cost money. That is why it might ministration proposed an urgent request for more funding back in february. Not only do they not pass the request they worked to cut it. And then they went for summer recess. The experts and the folks on the front lines have been doing their best. But now the money that we are using is rapidly running out. The possibilities could be delayed. This is not the time for politics they have now contracted it oves in 50 u. S. States we know of more than 1800 cases connected to travel to infected areas and that includes nearly 500 pregnant women. Its now present in almost every part of puerto rico. No we have the first transmission in florida. They were certainly had more. Congress is on a summer recess. A lot of folks talk about protecting americans from threats is a serious threat from amer
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] sarah polk was on diplomacy and her strong suit is intelligence and political discussion. She made no bones about the fact she took an interest in politics. And that she was her husbands partner. She grew naup political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. Because she would not have married him if he had unfortunately for james k. Polk he died three months after leaving the white house. And sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became a shrine to her husband and she would invite anybody who wanted to to come to visit and see the objects she had collected through her long and illustrious political career. To live there for many years on her own. During the civil war, generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay respects. It is an interesting commentary
Of africanamericans in this country. So by the time Robert Smalls died in 1950, he died brokenhearted, and financially, not near as well off as he once was. And so i have spent a lot of time talking about the history of this. As i used to say to my students when i taught, if it happened before it can happen again. And we see all the speculation about what the Supreme Court is going to do with the most important civil rights act, which i think was the Voting Rights act of 1965. And most experts think that thats about to come to a significant, and i call, a noble end. Oh grams of affirmative action, that simply means youre going to take positive steps. You cant be passive. Youve got to take positive steps to overcome the current effects of past discrimination, the history. Not going to happen by itself. If you bring that to a close, and people are speculating that that is about to happen, in fact i saw a few days ago one of the leading scholars, legal scholars in this country who was say