Mr. Nelson mr. President , i ask for a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting in florida. The presiding officer without objection. The senate will observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Florida School shooting. Mr. Nelson mr. President . The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Mr. Nelson mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Nelson mr. President , those were all our children. Thoalings of us who those of us who are parents, you can imagine the parents of those children wondering what else can be done. Because yesterday a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in northern broward county, parkland, florida, walked on to the campus with a gas mask, smoke grenades, and carrying an ar15 assault rifle. He pulled the fire alarm. He waited for the students to come out into the hallway and he opened fire. And as a result, 14 families are grieving. Their worst fears have become reality, and more than a dozen other
Mr. Zarda passed away in 2014 and his estate continued the suit. Heres the oral argument from september of 2017. Good afternoon. Each side has been assigned 30 minutes, divided ten minutes per person. And that time may be exceeded depending on how things go during the argument. We will hear from mr. Antollino. Good afternoon, your honor and all your honors. My cocounsel who works with me. We are proud to represent Melissa Zarda and bill moore, executors of the zarda estate and asked the court to construe and unite title vii with life as we live it and under the plain language and its interpretations. We ask that you find that Sexual Orientation discrimination a sex discrimination under title vii. Donald zarda was a male. He was known as gay though he was not traditionally feminist when he was a great skydiver. When a customer complained that he identified himself as gay, he was fired. And for the revelation it was a violation of the statute because his sex, a male, who was attracted to
On sunday, august 2nd booktv is live with media benjamin cofounder of the Political Advocacy Group code pink on in depth, our live monthly callin show. Shes the author or editor of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare. Other titles include the greening of the revolution which examines cubas use of organic agriculture and stop the next war now on how to create political change through activism. Her other books cover topics such as how to aid People Living this the third world profiles of Inspiring Women and further examinations of cuba. Media benjamin, live, sunday august 2nd on in depth. And you can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook. Com booktv, on twitter booktv or call in. Ginger adams otis talks about the 100year struggle to integrate the new York City Fire department which continues today. The fdny has only 300 black firefighters out of a total of 11,000. During this event held
The expense of the very people they serve. This is not deflategate. All right . This is a normal issue of which there are allegations after a very long run eight year investigation. Federal investigators say the 11 term congressman and four others allegedly engaged in a series of five schemes misappropriateing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal charitable and Campaign Funds. Then they tried to hide it. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detect. The investigation started with a tip to the fbi in march of 2013 and led down a path straight to fattah and others. 20 year veteran of Congress Also used funds illegally to pay off his 2007 Mayoral Campaign debt. He paid personal expenses for he and his wife, paid for a Vacation Home and helped reduce his sons Student Loans by 23,000. Corruption like what is charged today really shakes public confidence. Fbi says the 58yearold fattah also took 18,000 bribe payment from former depth pew tha
Mississippi historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors, bradley and cummings and Mississippi State university, thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the Mississippi State capital. We are very proud of this building and it was recently designated a National Historic landmark which is very appropriate. [applause] in our bicentennial year. Im really pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. The series will cover mississippihistory and 17 volumes , seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working their fingers to the bone right at this minute on the next volume and then a few to be signed. This series is as i said meant to cover the whole history of the state and its aimed at a wide audience. Dollars, teachers