Summer state work period. Everily day countless terrorists are plotting their next attack against the United States. There are measures that we can take today that will help make americans safer at home and while traveling from destinations abroad. Several of those measures are included in the f. A. A. Bill that we passed with over 90 votes in the United States senate. Madam president , today i call again on the house of representatives to take up this bill so that we can continue our work to keep americans safe. Madam president , i yield the floor. I suggest madam president , before i yield the floor, i have seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders sm. And i ask unanimous consent t these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the Senate Recess un
Using our property free, the public airwaves. Tomorrow will be the most coordinated, informed, diverse critique of the mass commercial media ever brought together in one day. And one of them [ applause ] and one of the presenters will be arguably the greatest promoter of the First Amendment in the 20th century, phil donahue. Nobody [ applause ] nobody demonstrated a belief in the First Amendment like phil donahue. He brought on his show, again and again, people who despised him, who disagreed with him, who assailed him, thats the ultimate test of the belief in First Amendment. He will discuss how he broke through one taboo that was conventional taboo for most of the other media after another, and opened huge areas of American Life and voice to expression. Day three will be waging peace over waging war. We want to get rid of this idea that peace is something weak but wars something strong. Our wars have failed again and again, and you will see the documentation of that by some of the mo
Issues in the south similar or different when it comes to wildfire . Again we talked about neopolitical boundaries answer with lots of wildfires do not as large but they are all catastrophic when we have them. We have again at the impact on the budget effects those states not in the west just like it affects the states in the west. If we look at the state and private programs and the mitigation efforts and the employment of the service forsters and others were doing work for the private land owners, they are so impacted outside the west as a result of these fires and what the budget is handled. So its a very Significant Impact for the country spend what more can we do on public lands since much of it in action stems from lack of public Land Management . Does speed is our focus principally is on private land and so thats what our focus is. But certainly the more management we have on both public and private lands, the more successful we are going to be a mitigating not only the risk but
Jurors because of their race. Foster was convicted of killing a 79yearold white woman by an all white jury. Well hear argument first this morning in case 148349, foster versus chapman. Mr. Bright. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. The prosecutors in this case came to court on the day of jury selection determined to strike all the black prospective jurors. Maybe you could address first the question we raised on friday with respect to which court certiorari i should be directed to . Yes, your honor, we filed this originally certiori to the Supreme Court of georgia. Of course this court in sirius versus upton issued certiori in 2010 of the georgia Supreme Court in a similar situation. It appears to us from looking at this over the weekend that r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company versus durham county, which the court has cited in 1986, the court said unless there was positive assurance that the decision was not a decision on the merits, then the writ went to the spate Supreme Court
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