washington journal continues. host: joining us now to talk about political stories to watch in 2014, shane goldmacher of national journal. he is their congressional correspondent. good morning help new year. when it comes to the agenda when congress gets back in session, what s on the list? guest: they are coming back. they are coming back after three years of the at least productive legislative work in congressional history. there s a lot on their agenda. unfinished business. the first thing the senate will be taking up, is the effort to reextend unemployment insurance which expired at the end of this last year. 1.3 americans lost their long term unemployment insurance. democrats trying to push to reextend. they will be taking up confirmation of janet yellen as the next chairwoman of the federal reserve. she will be the first woman to hold that post. because he rewrote the filibuster rule, she s almost guaranteed to be confirmed. they took the key procedural vote. in th
in sum there is little reason to question a legitimate reason of the government when it s talking about the identity of the person arrested and it talks about identification of arrestees. what do we make of that language as you fold it into the california statute? well, the first time the court talks about the identification of arrestees, it s from florence or hibble where it says in every criminal case it s necessary to know who has been arrested and who is being tried. when we talk about identifying arrestees, it s arrestees who are being prosecuted. because everyone in maryland was necessarily being prosecuted. understand california it s important to remember that for the population that i m most concerned with, those who will not be prosecuted at all, that decision they have been unconditionally released from the criminal justice system within 72 hours or two working days. that is long before the samples would even get to the lab. they are mailed to the laboratory.
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modernizing conservatism. here is a brief look. in 2001, before september 11, one of the big issues that the new president faced was whether and how the federal government should fund embryonic stem cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos. to all of us, this means of the taking of a human life. whether it was moral to spend money on that public research. the president made a decision that said you could spend money on cells that already existed but not new ones, you would not be using federal dollars to encourage the further destruction of human embryos. he said these kinds of issues are going to stay with us, they are not going away and we need help in thinking about them. he called together the bioethics commission, a group of 18 scholars, almost all of them academics. they would come together several times a year and consider a bioethical question with how it public policy applications and provide advice to the administration and the country in the
give us your analysis of that. there s no question that he is not only mysteries but a president and an autocrat at the same time. clearly, this is a very, very difficult situation. how do you remove a president who has functionally no term of office and the power of the state behind him, the power of the military behind him? that is a conundrum that we have not yet managed to figure a way out of. i would like to see a system where the international community could in fact joined together to bring about a change in the regime such as assad. we are not there yet. we don t have a united nations or any multinational contract in any fashion that has been able to successfully do that. that is really a major hole in the international system today. is he being propped up by some of the most imperial presidents currently in office, namely mr. putin and the iranians? certainly the iranians have helped out. we have a new regime in iran that is trying some kind of agreement with t