Youre not the dominant race you are excluded from the courts and education and access we as a country try to you are wrong. We are not done with the journey almost every delegation under every flag everyone marching looks like. Until the United States marches in and you see this great diversity of athletes and it reminds us again in the past ten days should remind us we are not done so to do the hard work with their own families and do that legislative work that needs to be done to make progress but lets keep going. And tell it is done my friend said to me last weekend founding documents are great we just never live them out for everybody. I cannot wait for us to continue the work in this body toward becoming a more perfect union. I yield the floor. Las americanser gettembe for us to gather together but last monday gave us an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country and we honor the sacrifices the
Before we proceed to todays hearing id like to take a moment to recognize last monday was memorial day. It was a different memorial day for me and other americans than normal and it was more difficult for us to gather together. But last monday gave us an opportunity, an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country. And we honor the sacrifices they made to keep us free. While let me start by saying that the veterans we honored on memorial day, they served our country and that peaceful protests are a demonstration of the freedom our veterans served to safeguard and protect. And while we reject the defacing of our National Monuments i would take another moment to express my gratitude the National Park service, its employees and volunteers who quickly restored our memorials. All of them but especially those that recognize the service of our men and women particularly the world war ii memorial. I know that
had he seen the maintenance records. there were some tragic missteps here. reporter: investigate or mark peters followed the policy of only following up on 10 to 15% of inspection reports. nearly 2,500 buildings had reported unsafe facades. the commissioner calls that dob response inadequate. if any of these people had done what they were supposed to do, we might have had a different outcome. reporter: outside of the planade, home to many seniors and assisted living programs if that is the case, that s tragedy. they were disgusted when they learned about the inspector s arrest. it s appalling and i don t know how they sleep at night. we were actually stunned that such a horrible, horrible thing happened. the dob, the city did improve and uncovered ways the city can more rapidly remedy the most dangerous situations, improve practices and hopefully prevent similar tragedies. the building owner today declined comment. the building inspector, if convicted on cha
the lives and careers of several family members including grover cleveland vice president adlai stevenson and two-time democratic democratic illinois governor adlai stevenson second. this originally aired in 1996 and it s about an hour. c-span: jean h. baker, author of the stevensons: a biography of an american family, what s the scope of this book? guest: well, it s pretty broad and it s a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. and it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. and that s adlai ewing stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. it took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc., and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. c-span: did you ever meet any of them? guest: yes, i did. the most prominent stevensons tha
please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. could you get that pretty quickly? , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. if in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the national security of the united states and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium? yes, particularly if it were for other than peaceful purposes. you think iranians are trying to hold a bomb before we get involved? made theave not determination to go to that step. aey have approached this from threshold capability. for the iranians the decision is a political one. they certainly have the expertise if they so chose. would it take them if they made that decision? them a that depends on a lot of factors and closed sessions. gentlemen, we appreciate your testimony, your service. i joined a number of colleagues