This morning, the long march for equality for lgbt q americans took a step forward, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that federal employment discrimination protections do in fact extend to lgbt q americans. Believe it or not, before today, it was allowed, the federal government did not say you could prevent let me say that a different way, before today it was not a settled legal matter that you could sue your employer for firing you solely on the basis of Sexual Orientation a sexual identity. In 2020 in america it was still okay to discriminate against people because of the Sexual Orientation and identity. Is that unbelievable, 21stcentury . Still allow . Now it isnt because of the Supreme Court and they deserve credit for that case and one of the cases on the basis of todays ruling originated in my home state of new york where a skydiving instructor was fired for admitting his Sexual Orientation. So today the Supreme Court did the right thing and ruled that Workplace
Outbreak. Lets start with the less scary of the topics, six more states hold the democratic primaries today. What are the story lines use still trying to digest super tuesday from last week . Im glad you said super tuesday to make because someone said many super tuesday and thats just tuesday. River number of states up tonight. The most critical one for both of the campaigns as they spent the last couple days is in michigan. Its a state Bernie Sanders one bat back in 2016. Discover largest delegates, when hundred 25 up for grabs and its a state that appears to be tilting towards former Vice President joe biden. Hes got the support of not just his former rival cory booker and, hares but also the governor of the state budget what brca1 her race back in 2018. The mayor of detroit, the lieutenant governors of young dynamic up and. Establishment if you will in that state of the newly elected establishment seems to be going behind former Vice President biden. Biden is almost certainly going
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
Minutes for an opening statement. A bedrock tenet of the United States economy. Free flow worldwide has always been a bipartisan goal and to that end im proud to serve as cochair of the Global Investment in america caucus as well as mr. Holden, mr. Himes and mr. Manes. It promotes Global Investment in the United States economy and helps educate members about the importance of Foreign Direct Investment. Today the United States is the largest foreign investor and recipient of the greatest amount of Foreign Direct Investment through the capital is provided a good deal of the energy that has kept her economy vibrant and compensated for the notoriously low National Savings rate to provide the fuel for growth of u. S. Businesses and jobs. On the site of u. S. Workers and jobs are related to foreign men. Most of these jobs pay handsomely, far better than other u. S. Job, but of Foreign Investment is to be a force for good, and must not be welcomed unthinkingly any more than one might be the f
The section of the bill . The gentleman from hawaii. Mr. Chairman, i have [inaudible] the clerk will distribute the amendment. Without objection the amendment is considered as read. Is the gentlelady having trouble with remarkable . I think the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. What i will be doing is ill be offering the amendment and then withdrawing it because i do not have at the end to come because they do not have the requisite waiver. However come having said that, i would like to present the animate and withdraw it at the conclusion. So 171 seeks basically a specific war memorial at pearl harbor hawaii. Mr. Chair, this is a very unique situation in that there is a rear admiral retired livening of lloyd who served in world war ii as a submarine officer aboard the uss under the command of John S Mccain junior, father of john mccain the third. And he advocated for many years the creation of the pacific war memorial at pearl harbor. In hi