Experience our great rivers, experience the environment that we now have in this country that we treasure and is so much a part of who we are across the country and in, of course, the state of maine. Ed muskie was a great man. He was a great member of this body, and its an honor for me to say its an honor is a gross understatement to be standing today in his seat, the seat that he held for those important years from 1958 to 1980 and served our country so, so well. Ed muskie is a man who belongs to the ages, who we all miss, who made such a difference in all of our lives. Thank you, mr. President. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. King mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The presiding officer without objection. The senator from maine. Mr. King i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each
That really target of the preacher was because of steps taken after the first . They actually had on lawful access to for more information that was breached the first time. Breach, call it a except for that one individual. It was not public or circulated. I want to thank the fbi for their very effective that resulted in the successful mitigation within 36 hours. The reason we are not saying anymore is because the investigation the is proceeding great proceeding. Everything was put on the web and put on a public website. The intruder wanted to show how clever he or she was and wanted the world to know. I just have one last question, mr. Chairman. I want to come back to mr. Mirus ms. Ramirez. Ftc uses both its unfairness and deception authority being relatively clearcut. In that case, you have a company access. It makes materially misleading statements regarding sick dirty measures taken. A good number of the ftcs actions come under its Unfairness Authority, with some argue it provides l
Ms. Speier, for five minutes. Ms. Speier madam speaker, thank you. Last week, as the world watched in disbelief, the trial of Brigadier General sinclaire concluded much as it began, flawed and unjust. Even with the world watching, the military once again demonstrated its outright incompetence at administering justice. Brigadier general sinclaire walked out of the court a free man even though he had plead guilty to these charges. He plead guilty to an inappropriate relationships with his accuser, an inappropriate relationship with another female army captain, an inappropriate relationship with a female army major, possessing and displaying pornographic images and videos on his computer in afghanistan. He plead guilty to using a governmentissued travel card for personal purposes for a trip to tucson, arizona, and a trip to fort hood, texas, to see his mistress. He plead guilty to attempting to start an inappropriate relationship with a female army lieutenant. Sexually Explicit Communicat
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Access to 501 c 3 and 501 c 4 stacks extell status. Do you read that in the declaration of independence . I dont read that no it doesnt read that way. So its not really an explicit entitlement or right. Its a process you have to qualify for, is that correct . Correct. There are many different ways of trying to figure out how somebody qualifies, and whether they qualify, is that correct . Yes. And by and large, historically, irs has had a Standard Operating Procedure for determining those that status. Either 501 c 3 or 501 c 4 or other status. Is that correct . Correct. In this particular case, what were all excited about is that a filter was created in a Regional Office that seemed to target people for their political views, both right and left, but apparently mostly right. Is that right . They were as noted, inappropriate criteria used primarily 9 name of the organization to select them for further review. Now one of the problems with that here is an add verb. The word used in the sta