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Ms. Tobias. Do you believe roe v. Wade should be overturned . I do. Thank you. Im sorry, the answer is, yes. I believe unborn children should be protected. Thank you. Senator graham . Senator graham. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for having the hearing, because i think its an important topic, and i would like to join with ms. Tobias recommendation that we have a hearing on my bill which is the paincapable unborn Child Protection act, 1670, and have a joint vote on the senate floor and see where everybody falls out on it because its a subject worthy of debate. Lets see if we can find some Common Ground here about how all these laws work. Ms. Tobias, is it your understanding that 1670 would proprevent a ban prevent a ban on third trimester abortions that protect with exceptions for the life of the mother and rape and incest . 1670 . Yes excuse me, the other one. 1696. The one today . Yes, maam. Im sorry. Yes. This bill would limit, would prevent a ban
With the same name and come from the same place and follow them from slavery, civil war, reconstruction, jim crowe and up until today and compare and contrast. Chris tomlinson on his family slaveowning history and how the legacy of slavery still affects american society. He talked to the brother of former nfl running back about the familys former lineage from the hill. Now a conversation on the ongoing violence in iraq and the threat and influence of the group known as isis. We will hear from the state department advisor. The Atlantic Council hosted his 90minute event. Welcome to the Atlantic Council i am the direct of the center here. I am happy to welcome you to a converation on the state of play in syria, iraq and the broader region and whether the threat of isis or whatever i should call it today could forge a coalition among states in ways that rarely see eyetoeye and we want to push this dimension of the overall question. I am particularly pleased to welcome ambassador lukman fai
Everyone thought hillary would win. Obama comes out of the blue from nowhere and swedes everything away. He with two terms. Leave it to the democrats to come up with someone on the left of Hillary Clinton. Host which is what we talked about yesterday. Think the Democratic Party has a lot of the same internal divisions but the democrats are more cohesive. They are poised to run for president on the democratic side that tend to be, if you look at haveon and warren, probably a lot more support within the wings of the party than the republicans do and the republican field is a little more unsettled. Really near the end of his second term, and i mean in the final year as the up, the issue is does hillary run or not. If she does not, it is probably a wideopen yield on their spot. And you the presidency, have a political figure that at least appears to be a consensus candidate at this time. It is different for republicans are now. They have been out of power for a while. They have not had imm
High. They dropped patience from their guidance. We anticipate it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when the committee has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 objective over the mediumterm. Betty she is neither promising nor ruling out a rate increase in june. The president of the Swiss National bank is pledging to keep Interest Rates at record lows. Dropping his defense of the frank as to his countrys economic challenges. Officials will take currency controls steps if they need to. This morning, he thinks Market Forces will do the job. Im convinced markets will rally. The swiss franc is overvalued. That is not attractive at the moment. Betty the bank forecasts and inflation rate this year of 1. 1 . The weakest rate in 65 years. One of the gunman suspected of killing 22 people in tunisia was known to the countries tell intelligence services. Test countrys intelligence know