Members who provide updates on the committees findings from the Previous Year and give an assessment of what was discussed throughout the day. Madam chair, when youre ready. Thank you. Were continuing this afternoon with panel 3. So well get the perspectives of the Services Trial Defense Service organization chiefs regarding conviction, and case adjudication process and victim declination. I suspect we might hear something slightly different than we heard this morning. Staff, can you tee this up, please . Thank you, maam. This is in response to the rfis. We just pulled together some questions and im going to read the first one and this concerns the referral process. The defense rfi responses indicated victim preference may play an outsized role in whether or not a Sexual Assault case is referred to trial. What consideration or way should the convening authority give to victims wishes regarding the disposition of a Sexual Assault case . Colonel bennett, can you start us off . Make sure
June 19 of 2014 does nothing to save us from Global Warming. Thats a quote that i will use when it is my turn for questions so that people wont question the accuracy of that. No one should be surprised. We have been here before. Nasa dr. James hanson said the protocol will have little effect on temperatures in the 21st century and will take 30 to reduce warming. Even when secretary contradicted lisa jackson in july of 09 of course she was the chairman of the director of the epa at that time, she honestly testified that u. S. Action would not impact world co 2 levels. You dont have to go back to that time because that question i asked at one time sitting right here i said if we were to pass any of these bills at that time would this have the effect of reducing co 2 emissions world wide . She said no it would not. This is not where the problem is. The problem is china and india and so forth. We all know that. I am going to go through here to try to get these points across and then we wil
Politico is reporting today that jeb bush has been preparing for a potential president ial run since leaving the Florida Governors Office eight years ago. Part of the strategy was to downplay the decision. Politeco says a sudden burst of fundraising now is part of that plan. In addition the former Florida Governor has head lined more than 50 events around the country and helped to raise an estimated 10 million for other republican and conservative causes. Today jeb bush will head to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and hell share his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing the nation both here and abroad. Cspan will have live coverage of that at 12 30 eastern. A couple of other live events today. Cspan will have coverage of president obama and Homeland Security second jeh johnson. Hell be speaking at a white house summit on combatting violent extremism. The threeday event is looking into radicalization and recruiting for isis and other such groups. And then at 3 00 eas
Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid ask con scene the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed for a period of morning business and senators allowed to speak up to 10 minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now ask unanimous consent that at 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow friday, april 11, all postcloture time be yielded back and the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on calendar number 574. Further, that following disposition of that nomination, the senate proceed to vote on cloture on executive calendar number 613. If cloture is invoked all postcloture time be yielded and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination, that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. No further motions be in order to the nominations that any statement
Congress should not give the irs additional power by forcing tax preparers to get an irs license before they assist taxpayers with their tax return. Tax preparers are already regulated by several statutory requirements posing civil and criminal punishments from everything from failing to keep a list of the returns prepared in three years to actual tax fraud. Tax preparers are required to recommendation steer with the irings rs to obtain a number so they include on every return they prepare so that the irs can track and analyze their return. These tools already provide the irs with what it needs to identify, track, and penalize a few bad apples without up necessarily burdening the majority of the lawabiding preparers. We have a few recommend the solutions superior to licensing. First, its protection and anticompetitive. Rather than protecting consumers, licensing regulations can protect large incumbents and industry insiders from competition by erecting costly barriers to entry. Indeed,