Stability and ethnic tensions. The rise of extreme parties across europe and the leaders of the European Union are behaving as if nothing is happening. The foreign secretary said none of the allies, not austral australia, not new zealand, not canada, not the u. S. We are here to do what is in British National interest. No american politician would ever tolerate. So while all our friends run the world entitled to their view, but when it comes to some of this, particular with the United States, when theyve got a border with new mexico and the ultimate authority for federal law, maybe question can take more note off of them. Thank you. Your partner in crime, so to speak, sir malcolm talked a great deal. We talked about world war i and ii and this collective response to those threats. We are members of nato and as dr. Fox said with permanent members of the u. N. Security council, were leading members of the imf, the g7 and the g20, why is it that given our unique particular role in the wor
The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski madam president for the information of all senators, we are were working now to set up votes on several pending amendments to the bill and these votes would be after lunch today. Right now were looking at 60vote thresholds on the fischer amendment along with a boxer sidebyside. The sanders amendment and the lee amendment. I do understand that the boxer amendment is now filed at the desk and i would also ask unanimous consent that the fischer amendment number 18 be modified with the changes that are at the desk. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski thank you madam president. I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call ms. Murkowski madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski request
Undivided past. Joining us on the tv is politics professor at princeton. Shes written a new book called the birth of politics eight greek and roman ideas and why they matter today. Professor were the greeks and romans successful politicians . They were. They managed in different cities date to develop the worlds first democracy and they that they produced works of art and literature great works of architecture and Political Institutions into voting for example which remains fundamental and the romans of course were for 500 years and in the empire for another 500 said depending on the nature of success they have a lot to offer. But for some of the similarities between the two clicks that is an interesting question. They emphasized the role of the election for the people studying the terms of legitimacy so thats true in the greek democracies and the Roman Republic so for example no law could be passed without the assemblies we think about the eu meet in rome in the senate for example but
Full of yellowed, all letters. Would you please take it off my hands. I take i take it and they proved to be a treasure trove of the personal letters of the widow of the commander of this voyage. I use them a lot from beginning to end, but that is where. Usually it is paraphrasing or snippets. Time for one more. This gentleman has been waiting. Just a minute. I guess i want to get something clarified. He said he did not marshal arguments and try to make a case. I thought if your writing a book telling a story one of the things readers want to know is what did the writer think . Dont you draw conclusions about what is right and wrong . Was joe mccarthy bad or good . Do you just have the facts and expect your reader to draw conclusions . I think that you what i try to do is to draw conclusions through narrative and not your argument. I wrote this book about kit carson. A fairly complicated dude. Consider this great indian killer, his 1st wife was indian, his 2nd wife was indian. He india
Still smarting over scott rebuffing my valentines proposal but i know his wife so i know why. I know why. We have a story about which stocks and wall street ratings are working and which arent. Love never means having to say im downgrading. We will name some names first to sue. Happy valentines day. Thank you. To you too, ty, and to everybody out there. This has been a terrible winter. We all know that. But now its really started to show up more and more in the economic models as economists are really tracking the impact and taking it more seriously. A survey by the philly fed cutting its q1 growth impact from 2. 5 to 2 . It believes q2 growth will pick up to 3 . It also believes that hiring will slow down so were watching that very carefully. Meantime, shares of orbitz taking off. Today shares are trading down just a fraction, you could actually almost call that unchanged. Is the terrible weather hurting the travel industry or in some cases, helping it . More with jane wells reporting