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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140911

Representative massie, who is a tea party republican, who stands first and foremost for localism, would forget those principles when it came to the District Of Columbia. And try to interfere with local matters in this city. We had the same thing happen to another colleague, a republican from maryland, who should have known better, who has a particular distaste for the decriminalization of marijuana laws that is going on all over the United States, 18 states so far, legalization in two states. So he tries to get a law, indeed got a law that we now have kept from getting through block te, that would the districts recently passed marijuana decriminalization law. What this means is that there a ld be a fine rather than conviction for possessing marijuana. The district didnt do it by the way for the reasons that some states, the 1 states, perhaps some of them 18 states, perha ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings 20130110

Womens equality act would have a 10point agenda. Shatter the Glass Ceiling by passing a equal pay law. Number two, have zero tolerance for Sexual Harassment in the workplace, period. Number three, strengthen employment lending and credit discrimination laws. Number four, strengthen Human Trafficking laws. Number five, end Family Status discrimination. Number six, prevent landlords from denying housing based on the source of funds. Number seven, stop housing discrimination for victims of the domestic violence. Number eight, stop pregnancy discrimination once and for all. Number nine, protect women from domestic violence. Number 10, protect a womans freedom of choice and enact the Reproductive Health act ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Public Affairs 20130109

Extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. Some of these efforts are successful. As you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face Different Levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. The taliban are not operating. Theres less threat against you and your family. Therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the Security Forces from those provinces. We purposely go and try to recruit students from the south or places [indiscernible] since the School System was not to this standard, i does not matter. Were not successful to bring them as much as we want. Do you want to talk about these issues . In terms of who revises the Afghan National ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Public Affairs 20130109

I believe i firmly believe that each one of us in this chamber much opposed this session with a courtcutting principle. Until every person in our state who wants a job can find one, we have more work to do. [applause] we cannot stick our heads in the sand or simply hope for the best, not one other states are actively recruiting jobs from every corner of the globe. Jobs that can and should come to connecticut. We must compete for every single job. With that mind set, we began to tackle the challenges of Economic Development in an holistic way in our state. Our first five programs, along with the addition of jackson laboratories, has leveraged a 180 million commitment public funding to drive more than 2 billion in private investment. That same program it possible for connecticut to bring two fortune 500 companies to our state. The last time we talked about two fortune 51 companies was in 2006, and that was because they were le ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Public Affairs 20130109

We are live at the National Press club in washington. The National Governors association will lay out issues of priority to them. We will hear from the chairman and the vice chair, the better jack markell of delaware, governor jack markell of delaware, and mary fallin of oklahoma. It is the time of the year for state of the state addresses, and we have several to date. The governor of connecticut will talk about Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and the recent shooting in newtown, andrew cuomo of new york is expected to oppose a weapons ban, and then talk about hurricane sunday Hurricane Sandy relief. Tonight, bob mcdonnell, who yesterday announced a tax for transportation funding over five years. Well have all of those live today beginning at noon with the gove ....

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