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bipartisan inhofe-mikulski amendment to the national defense authorization act. what does our amendment do? it stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. every year when the senate debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. one of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are? our troops don t view commissaries as a subsidy. they view it as do i as an earned benefit. i m fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. now, what are the commissaries? since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a network of stores that provide modestly priced groceries. the commissary system is simple. if you re ....
resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. the bureau of prisons now takes up almost two-thirds of the department s budget. that s really untenable and unsustainable. so i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. but we but that we need to use that tool effectively. senator blumenthal? thanks, mr. chairman. at the outset i d like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. yates nomination. without objection. and i d also like to include a number of letters, i referred to them earlier, from colleagues, law enforcement officials, officials in georgia, in support of that nomination. without objection those are included. thank you, mr. chairman. let me just ask you about olc opinions, ms. yates. it s been a tradition common to, i think, most rec ....
not back to the role. also the cup to her bedroom like mad or angry relatives of the housing welfare reform that publishes the forest and the supposedly having extra the biggest banks . do you think you ve read that the company to cover them with you. his excuse was that much time and just after eleven pm and the developing story has to talk about the people s council in eastern ukraine is not too sticky hot dogs as a leader on this evening to protect the region of the top of this republic. this follows a similar announcement of the city of demands galle left activist leaders have said that the region will decide whether to split a one mile from the capital no later than may the eleventh now this statement was issued off a group of pro russian activists told the local government building in finance comes to bake the seeds of a scene because kami of the city pop cult and i m also a nearby you ve got square protest is ok potter securities said this building during a mass ....
main road of them were reportedly injured offered not to get the stats to bother the record of importance soaring housing costs which could lead to the bench what looked like a lot actually. yes god will cause them to get treatment in america but is then sent back to the board of the hundreds of children killed every year this out the story . the beach is just too and is just awesome at two pm. goodman and kevin doing this these are the national team which beat the weekly over and over the top stories of the separate days but one that said graham a kicking off the mike the stout with three people have reportedly been killed. schools injured as police crackdown on anti government activists instead and skits in ukraine to teach the way the popular unrest against the two appointed leadership in kiev is not limited to ten cities. these are pictures of reese they receive from the dems to bring it to state i amid reports that the light sector group has joined the offense to t ....
implements the war and housing costs pushed its lead to the eye. what looked like it was a lot but actually it wasn t me. yet half dome will cut them to get treatment in america but is said about the war so well and that children are killed every year is our top story . it uses opted to match me kevin and it s just up the one i am in now. well big news coming up weekend. this morning kids interim government s preparing a massive crackdown on protests is in the east of the country involving the armed forces demonstrators would give an ultimatum to vacate all seized government buildings by six am gmt on monday. at the national security council that this is the operation could to stop the aromatic could stop the light that says a wave of popular unrest against the two appointed leadership think it is noted tendency to use one else thought this is too savvy ask for up to three people reportedly killed early sunday. the system of peaches received a letter from the restive ci ....