Lowest names you can think of. Which they did. He was a very honorable man, and he hated that his name was being used in a way that wasnt being honorable to he or his family. The United States government and all governments frown upon this because, okay, youre disturbing their ability to fight a war, youre also disturbing their commerce. And semmes countered with that. He said he was doing nothing that hadnt been done before, especially by the United States. During the war of 1812 and especially during the american revolution. We didnt have a fleet during the american revolution. And there were people, since the government could not bay pay these people, they made them, the if you will, privateer, private individuals who would go out and stop commerce or disrupt the british fleet. And thats exactly what they did. This weekend learn about the rich history and literary life of mobile, alabama. Saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 and sunday at two on cspan3. Coming up today at 12 15 easter
The problem werent enough. Theres no doubt that weve lost some time, but the websites Getting Better each week. By the end of this month, it will be functioning for the majority of people who are using it. And so i think that were going to have time to catch up. There were several congressional hearings yesterday on the issue. Nancy cordes has more on the investigation and the report that warned of big problems with the site. Reporter with startling fore site the Consulting Firm predicted more than six months ago that the rollout would be involved with evolving requirements, insufficient end time, end to end testing and significant deficiencies. This report lays out the chaos that was going on, but these all of this information was known within the white house recommend mckinsey was hired by the administration to do the review and interviewed 40 people involved with the website including henry chow, a key manager for medicare and medicaid. Chow testified he never saw the 14page present
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Potential threats from russia as the war continues. Thank all of you who have been working so hard to the front lines and to protect the Critical Infrastructure that america relies on every hour of every day. The sub partnerships are the heart of everything that we do and are vital to ensure the security in particular of chemicals the facilities that store them. Foundational to our nations most important supply chain. Just like everything that we do, this is not a Medicine Mission that the government can do alone, this is something we have to collaborate with and work on as a nation. We know that the threat is only getting more complex, more dynamic and dangerous. Whether it is nation state threats, or terrorists, threats from cyber criminals, we are dealing with a very difficult threat environment. I think the good news is, we have incredible people working across industry across the state and local level, developing defensive strategies that are going to help us ensure that we can pr
Every life has value and no life is disposable. [applause] this government, our government, we will fight to continue to change so that we value our differences and we honor the strength of our diversity, because we cannot fall victim to the attitude of washington, d. C. , the attitude that says i am always right and youre always wrong, the attitude that puts everyone into a box that they are not permitted to leave, the attitude that puts political victories ahead of policy agreements, the belief that compromise is a dirty word. As we saw in december regarding the dream act, we can put the future of our state ahead of the partisans who would rather demonize than compromise. As your governor, i will always be willing to listen as long as that listening ends with us being willing to compromise for the people who sent us to do our job. Because you see, in the end, i have had no greater honor in my life than having twice been elected to be the governor of the state where i was born and rai