Without freedom or liberty. May they be instruments of justice for all americans. May your spirit live with them and with each of us and may your grace around us and those we love that in all things we may be the people you would have us be in service to this great nation. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. P senator santorum the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from california mr. Mcnerney. Mr. Mcnerney i ask everyone to join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Senator santorum the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the g
You got this widely fragmented field and it appears in order to break out you got to Say Something outrageous. And youre here very nicely talking about Robert Putnam which is terrific. But its not outrageous. Do you think you can do basically what you did last time, sort of plodding along . Are the rules going to be fundamentally different this time and its going to be all about money and all about being provocative to get the Media Attention . Can you be plotting and get to the finish line . Senator santorum i hope so. Thats we havent really changed how who i am as candidate and what i believe in. And i dont think iowa has changed. I know everybody likes to look at all the things going on in the national media. But in the end, iowas going to cut this field down dramatically much more than whether you attend the debate or not. If you can go there and connect as we did in the past, and be successful, we are going to be one of a handful of guys or gals i should say who are going to be th
He has a poverty summit. When you talk about using the power of the presidency to try to change and start a debate in this country of what we can do so the situations that are occurring every single day in america because children are abandoned by a system that is not focused on kids, i think we can make some real changes. Weve got about 10 minutes left. Well try to get in three more questions. Paul. Paul senator, four years senator santorum what if i filibuster . Paul senator, four years ago your family played a big role in your campaign. Youre a dad of seven. How have things changed in four years . Is it easier, harder . How do you how do you stay dad . Senator santorum its hard. Seven kids, going through those teenage years and everything its theres challenges out there. Ill be honest with you. I feel first, the biggest issue, if you recall four years ago, was our daughter bella and the Health Problems that she had. Im just were just real excited shes doing better she has ever done
Not just a criminal record, but an arrest record. It is easy to find just looking at the internet. One of the ways that congress is focusing, state lawmakers are focusing on having opportunities for people making mistakes is this ban the box campaign, where employers are not allowed to initially ask you about your arrest. If you committed a crime that is relevant to your work obviously if you have committed a Violent Crime or sex crime, we do not want you working around children if you have not been successfully rehabilitated, so there are common sense campaigns, but the idea is to give folks that have made mistakes a Second Chance. Host park storm tweets in the percentage of blacks is way out of proportion with the total percentage of blacks in the u. S. Population. Jim says i am not buying that white folks buying dope get a pass but black folks selling dope get life in prison. Larry is calling in from indiana. Mary, go ahead. Caller mr. Butler, lets start for a beginning. Suckers wor
Had been released, the question with respect to folks who had been released was on what grounds were they ror d, paroled, were they deported, what is the legal circumstance in which they found themselves. It created a great deal of fear for our clients because they did not know how to reach their attorneys to tell them that they were being transferred or once they were in a few facility, they didnt know how to reach them. And it obviously interferes with the legal representation that were giving our clients. I know you probably dont know the answer to all the transferees, but do you have any idea why some of the transfers were happening . These particular transfers were happening because they were winding down artesia. They were closing artesia, and the currently detained population had to be moved, some of them had hearings that were scheduled for the weeks during which the transfers were going to be happening, and so we were able to negotiate a pace for those transfers that would all