Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats such a powerful turn in the book when you describe how the decision of northerners to challenge southerners to duels actually decreased the violence and you quote from that remarkably moving letter which you said moved you to tears when representatives wade, chandler and cameron all pledged to challenge future duellers to fight. You write when it became known that some northern senators were ready to fight, for sufficient cause, the tone softened and the abuse went on. We have this really wonderful new exhibit on the civil war and reconstruction, Thaddeus Stevens cane, when i show the cane and tell the story i quote your book how some would run for congress during that period on the grounds that my left hook is better than the other guy. Im going to beat him up because im tougher and you bring that to life. Incredibly powerfully. Norm ornstein, its often said or been said by norbert mccarthy, a scholar at princeton, we are mo
He also talked about the kavanaugh confirmation hearing and how it compared with Clarence Thomas confirmation. As i said, i am thrilled and delighted to see such a crowd this is a notforprofit volunteer educational organization. At the Unitarian Universalist fellowship in boca raton. Thank them for the use of the hall. Cspan is here, so this is an historic occasion. I am tony laducca. You encountered several of the Board Members when you are checking in today. Carol, whocknowledge is where . Where are you, carol . Our executive director. [applause] doing a lot of the heavy lifting associated with this. There are a couple of business items i want to address. Photographs, recordings not permitted. We have already turned off the cell phones. Ok. We are beginning our full the 15th. Monday we have a open house scheduled 1 00ext week, the 10th, at at the Boca Raton Community center, which is right near the city hall near palmetto. You have a Program Brochure on your seats when you came in th
Objection. Mr. Mcconnell i now ask unanimous consent the committee on Veterans Affairs be discharged from further consideration of h. R. 4336 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk h. R. 4336, an act to amend title 38, United States code and so forth. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding . Without objection. The committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the ernst amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, the ernst title amendment be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 4 50, s. Res. 418. The clerk calendar number 450, senate r. E. S. 41, recognizing luani sanchez for the selfless and dedication to respective causes and
Of the administration. He has been a little bit more aggressive, little bit more outspoken in the past and i think thats more his character to be more pointed and to be more pointed i guess. Martha roby has been very stick to the facts and i think im hitting everybody but a mix of folks that are hoping to represent the full crosssection of the house and also there was some controversy and there were some criticism from people like therell issa who is a relatively controversial member of the house says none to be in sparring contest with the administration. There was pushed back from him that he was shut out of we thought would be as committee after he was the former chairman of the oversight committee. So there was an effort clearly made here from the republican side while certainly aggressive and active not overly partisan and not overly controversial. Host lets look at the democrats. Four of the five democratic members are also Ranking Members of other committees and clearly the demo
Has to give, to authorize to use this right . And this is what we have to discuss. The most simple answer would be the u. N. Security council. But sometimes u. N. Security council is not very active with taking urgent measure. Thats why i dont think that you have to speculate that it can continue to [inaudible] to other countries. I suppose that in baltic countries there will be no such violation as what is having in donesk and lugansk. And which violation are you talking about . Killing people, innocent people. Children. But do you know how many people were killed in those two places . Well, ive seen figures of 3,000 before. Yeah. Around 3,000. Destroyed houses and destroyed infrastructure. We think that this is humanitarian catastrophe now. Right. But if you i know were in theoretical territory here, but this principle of russia i remember, i remember, i remember in kosovo, i was there, how many people were killed there as protect to use military force of nato. You cannot compare wha