Celebrated life in our clinic. In fact, our kernel used to refer to the physical there be clinic as a happy place. So, i decided i would write my own article and i wrote what i felt was a seemingly innocuous article. I wrote about taking the group of our patients swimming for the first time. I didnt consider this article to be particularly fantastic and it wasnt super funny, so i wasnt really prepared for the reaction that i got when people called me and people emailed me and i realized that the ashleys had been correct out of that this had been a story that people wanted to know about and also that i was the right person to write it because i would be able to write about walter reed in a humane and humorous manner with the insight that an outside reporter might not have. So, walter reed shut down and i was part of the group that transferred to the new walter reed at bethesda Naval Hospital and a wrote the book. Before i turn the manuscript into my publisher and rented out my chain of
[silence] mr. President. The senator from texas. The mac as your president come i rise today to speak about one of the Saddest Development in the United States senate. Namely the allout assault on the First Amendment been led a Senate Democrat. It is important to clarify what the issue before this body is not about. The issue before this body is not about access to this, despite a whole lot of politicking by Senate Democrats to suggest to the contrary. In this body, the number of people who would do anything to restrict access to contraceptives to anybody is nero. Let me repeat that. There is no one in this body, there is no one i am aware of across the country who is advocating restrict in anyones access to this. Mr. President , my wife and i are blessed with two little girls. I am very glad we dont have 17. Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about restricting access to this. What are we talking about . What we are talking about is the federal government using brute force to force peop
Quorum call mr. Sanders mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Mr. Sanders i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Sanders mr. President , i wanted to inform the members about an important hearing that was held this morning at the Senate Veterans committee. And i also want to thank the members of the senate who in the midst of a very partisan environment last month voted with 93 votes, overwhelming support to pass a very significant piece of legislation to help the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country, the legislation that was written by senator mccain and myself. And i thank him very much for his help in this effort. One of the important provisions in that legislation was an understanding that the needs of our veterans are a cost of war. They are a cost of war quite as much as guns and tanks and planes and missiles are a cost of war. It seems to me to be fairl
Is there a number of times that they get to do this . Thats a good and tough question. Its so tough that i decided not to use the mike. Thats a good and a tough question. What the law provides, what the administrative procedure act provides is that a court can compel an agency to take action of the delay taking when its been unreasonably delayed. Unreasonable is not a precise term but i dont know how it can be written in any other manner. It depends on what the circumstances are. And as i indicated, there have been times when courts have told agencies its now time to get your act together and do this. Those cases have been rare and involve much longer delays than the current one and they involve powerful evidence that the agency is not merely trying to force a law in, its not trying to enforce it at all. As i said, and as professor turley noted, there have been cases of administration sitting on their hands and not carrying outlaws and that clearly is illegal and unconstitutional. Its
Judge to pursue civil rights communication. Becoming the first of many legislative victories over the next 50 year that is have been critical tools for protecting civil rights. Throughout the past 50 years, our university has been grounded by the legacy rendered by the out comes of the dedicated commitment of countless locals, as well as National Civil rights activists. Signed in law on july 2nd, 1964, the Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation. Todays keynote speaker, attorney genric holder has made protecting civil rights a tough priority of his administration at the department of justice. In his commencement address, he offered the following insight about the future path of civil rights in our country. It is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All of our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates. This is the next and more profound stage of our civil rights. I believe that presentations and discussions in todays symposium highlight the critical importanc