The Free South Africa Movement represents the collective strength of all of the people who took the immortal words of Frederick Douglass to heart. All those people who believe that where there is no struggle, there is no progress, took action wherever they were, inspired by the people of southern africa, and the imprisonment of leaders like Nelson Mandela, all of us everywhere, doing what they could. We picketed in bad weather. We filed legal briefs. We packed supplies for refugees. We drafted legislative language. Many of us, like many in south africa did not live to see a free south africa. Many more did not live to see this day. I would like to ask you on their behalf to take a moment of silence, for those we lost are too many to name here. All of them are remembered. Thank you. In the spirit of our common ancestors, and our future descendents, we thank you in this emancipation hall. We thank president mandela, and the people of southern africa, for bringing us together, reminding u
next, and a panel discussion hosted by the bar association in new york city, thane rosenbaum argues that revenge and justice and not be true least those of ideas and contends that our core system would better serve victims of crimes by acknowledging their feelings of vengeance and take that into account in the education of criminal cases. this is the adenauer and 20 minutes. welcome, as you come into the forum on law culture and society spring conversation. and this one is very different for us, and part because we are being hosted with the book many of the city bar association. of course, we have c-span. how cool is that. so you re all a part of this, and rare privilege or year. we have very interesting, a distinguished group of special guests, and i will introduce the berkeley and then we will set up the theme for the 9mb in the conversation. starting off to my far right is one of america s best known criminal defense attorneys. his most recent success and one of the cl
irresponsibilities. we have american troops fighting abroad. we want to make sure that they are fully funded. a government shutdown will not do that. colleagues on the other side are coming up with a unbalanced short-term extension that funds the troops. well, i say to my colleagues, you want to fund the troops not for one week, don t shut the government down. that s the best way to support our troops. so it s time for republicans to be responsible. it s time for the majority of republicans, who i don t agree with on many issues but who i know are mainstream and really don t like this government shutdown, to stand up to those on the hard right, to accept the compromise we re so close to working out and drop the ideological riders so that we can move forward. mr. president, we are at a crucial time in this country. we ve had a rough few years. we re beginning slowly to climb our way out of it. this is risky. a government shutdown is risky. and, mr. president, the shame of it a
that democrats and republicans in washington can agree on and perhaps that is that the aarp leadership doesn t necessarily protect the best interests of the american senior citizens but they pledge to represent. so i simply take a few as representing the leadership of aarp, please don t mislead our seniors. they sent all of us, republicans and democrats alike to this body to represent them. please don t use ms ponds to line your pockets on their backs. without a yield that. cannot comment? the gentlelady yells back. i think it s very important that we not allow the purpose of this hearing to be taken in a different direction. the seniors of this nation deserves the right to know how money is being spent and whether it s been spent in their best interest. with that, i yield five minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. thank you, mr. chairman. i actually agree with the notion about the senior citizens. i would first of all like to thank aarp because i have