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CSPAN June 24, 2009



sotomayor s record. i d like to hear more from her on the scope of the second amendment to the constitution an whether americans and whether americans can count on her to uphold one of the fundamental liberties enshrined in the bill of rights, the right to keep and bear arms. i d also like to hear more from judge sotomayor on the scope of the fifth amendment and whether the government can take private property from one person and give it to another person based on some elastic definition of public use. and i want to hear more from her on her thoughts on the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment of the constitution, which reads in part: no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. obviously the third issue is going to be very much in the news, probably again as soon as next monday when the supreme court hands down its decision in the ricky vs. destafano case, a case in which judge sotomayor participated on the pane ....

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CSPAN2 June 23, 2009



the city discriminated against them based upon race under the settlement agreement and refused to promote them because of quotas. their cases reached the supreme court with the high court splitting 4-4 which allowed the settlement to stand. more recently another tkpwraoufp public safety officers made a similar claim, a group of mostly white new haven, connecticut, firefighters performed well on a standardized test which denied promotions for lieutenant and for captain. other racial and ethnic groups passed the test too, but their scores were not as high as this group of mostly white firefighters. so under the standardized tests, individuals from these other groups would not have been promoted. to avoid the result, the city threw out to avoid this result, the city threw out the test and announced that no one that took it would be eligible for promotion regardless of how well they performed. the firefighters who scored highly sued the city under federal law on grounds o ....

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CSPAN June 23, 2009



women in iraq and afghanistan experienced sexual assault or harassment and 59% of these women were at a higher risk for mental health problems. these are tragic numbers and we need to we need to act immediately to address them. the difficulty women face is unacceptable. these women have sacrificed so much for our country this bill takes the first step to meet these challenges and follows up on recommendations provided by veterans service organizations by requiring the secretary of the v.a. to study the barriers women face as they seek v.a. services. similarly, h.r. 1211 improves training and education for v.a. professionals to help treat women veterans. this education will help to address the concerns that many women veterans have that the v.a. doesn t understand their needs. this is why i support h.r. 1211 and strongly urge my colleagues to vote yes on this important bill. i thank the chairman and yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gent ....

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CSPAN2 June 9, 2009



very important and none of you will be surprised to know i want to talk about the mandatory recall provisions of the bill and i want to start with ms. dewall. first of all, do you think that the current current provisions of the bioterrorism act are sufficient to give us the mandatory recall that we need in a robust food safety system? no, i don t. and why is that? well, the bioterrorism act didn t really give them mandatory recall but it does give them the authority to take certain actions like administrative detention and some other actions when they meet a very high standard. but to interrupt you, it really has the one-step back and one-step up. is that sufficient to give us the whole traceability? i m sorry. it s a mandatory recall and i meant traceability. that s what has when you break my train of thought, huh. thank you for that clarification. the one-step the one-step up and one-step back traceability was a good first step into this area but i ....

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