President bush invited us down and told us we had to be there at 7 in the morning every tuesday. That inclusion created a chemistry among us that allowed us to deal with a crisis and made a huge difference in a ships that came from it really made a difference in terms of what we were able to get done. Joint caucuses, opportunities for republicans and democrats to sit together and break bread together and listen to the leadership together rather than separately so these joint, maybe separate caucuses dont become pep rallies for your side. Bringing spouses together, and opportunities to get to know one another on an informal bases is the way we used to do things. It made a difference. We dont have that happening today. Several times we face the crisis of acting in the senate we would have a joint conference meeting. Tell him about the Graham Kennedy agreement. We came to terms with the house voting to impeach the president and we would have to have the trial. But we were not sure how to
To other countries command we support cancer research. In fact, theyre would not be a Clinical Trial program in europe except that we set it up, and operating office in belgium and got them all going, and now they do well. But the Cancer Institute set that up. People who have made major discoveries have done it with us dollars. And that was the big point. We did not know where the cure might come from and therefore we should not restrict the grants just to the United States. [applause] thank you. I would like to thank the dr. Very much for this amazingly informative and everyone had lots of good questions. I hope you will come up and meet with our speakers and thank you for coming. [applause] cspan washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up thursday morning executive director and president and ceo of the Truman National security project on the us policy in the fight against Jihadist Terrorism and they will examineit will examine how migrati
North of allentown pennsylvania. The house who lived with her owner several doors down. Knew her name. Bill, a policeman arrived to the house were a call was made to evaluate the situation. The officer noted injuries to the catseye and trail hind leg and the blood trail. The officer made a decision to put the cat down. Made a decision to in the cats life firing a single shot instantly killing the cat. And exactly when the 1st started flying. An officer of the law that we entrust with a badge did not show any compassion and did not follow the law to aa t. We are not sure what happened. Was the story started getting more attention it changed. A change. Org change. Org petition calling for animal cruelty charges garnered more than 200,000 signatures, and the department did investigate. He made a judgment call which many folks did not agree with. Thewith. The officer could have extended other efforts to capture the cat before the cats life was terminated. The officer has been fired. That i
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate ontinue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer i arrived at my office this morning to a politico on the front page head line blumenauers death panel bill lives on. Its actually a terrific article by jo ann kenan but a terrible headline about nonexistent death panels symbolizes why three congresses later we still have not helped families deal with the most difficult circumstances any of us will ever encounter. This issue hit me with full force 10 years ago in the midst of the Terri Schiavo case. Where we watched one familys tragedy turn into a National Media circus and a political spectacle. All because one 27yearold woman didnt have a conversation with her loved ones to make her wishes kno
And it was all gods will. Soanyones personality affect did negatively her Husbands Administration, it was certainly jamie jane pierce. Mrs. Pierce suffered greatly from depression and had three sons. Her first two sons died when they were very young. Her third son was 11 years old at the time Franklin Pierce was elected president. On a train ride between andover, massachusetts, and boston, the train went off the tracks and mrs. Pierce saw her last son crushed before her eyes. She considered this to be gods will, as a way of not providing any kinds of distractions for her husband. The fourears, two of pierce years, she did not appear publicly. When she finally did appear publicly, she was always dressed completely in black. It did not help her relationship with her husband and it set a permanent pall over the quality of the administration. The depressing entertaining style, she had black decorations on the table and stiff wired flowers presented at each of the womans seats affected ever