thank you. tracy is next followed by sue. thank you so much for your comments. i wanted to first point out before i ask you a question. it was really gratifying for me to hear how much the comments of mr. winkler and mr. st. germane were congenial to the ideas and theory offered about procedural justice. mr. winkler you didn t use those words but it s pretty much, i think, this idea of reform is consistent. i think that s good. here is my question. in your written testimony you mentioned two things. the centralization is an important key to repairing trust between individuals and then you have an idea about the federal mandate for system wide accountability for juvenile sentssent centers. the idea we might need to look to more centralization uniformed ideas for standards for policing. if you could say a little bit about what you mean that would be helpful. if we have time, the federal mandate and what that is. definitely. i think decentralization in the sense of having
800,000 barrels of oil. and republicans, and independents, and all offers, also, handle or go to facebook.com, and, send us a email. we ll get to your thoughts, but let me begin, with showing you a couple headlines, this is how they play it, democrats, stiff landrieu, on pipeline for green lobby, and unions, also snubbed over the climate change, and, now it is doomed and, the party, where environmental lists, have emerge he, triumphant, and, far beyond the small impact, and the slight effect expected to have on gas prices. and they drew lines, and, to cross it, in the end, most were unwilling to defy it, and it was a key moment. the financial times, their headline, on this vote, party push to approval a 7 billion pipeline falls short, and environmentals, cheer,. and washington times, this morning, with their take on the vote in the senate, the vote was a victory, for activists, who have defeated, it, for the causes of their movement, and, republicans, vow to return to t
others. we will miss you. mr. chairman, i will never forget the day the gentleman from iowa told me earlier this term that had he known that i would one day be on the rules committee, he would have been nicer to me for the last ten years. it was at that point, i appreciated the raw power that came with this appointment. but to the gentleman from texas, i want to thank you for bringing up the i think it was the case church amendment from 1973, the series of amendments ten years later. i mean, sometimes we think about defunding as some sort of exotic thing that people do. it has been a technique that has been employed by both sides of the dais in the past and sometimes it has changed the course of history.j&p so i thank youu%2zr for bringing your amendment here today and certainly appreciate the time that all of you have spent with us this evening. mr. chairman, i ll yield back. thank you very much. ms. bachmann, i want to add my hearty congratulations to you, and about the
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toy? what about rodney king? by the way, not only is this a long train of abuses. it goes back further than commission report which said our nation is moving toward two society, one block, one white, separate and unequal. 50 years ago, we were dealing with this same issue, and it is on us today and we must make a call to action to reverse this trend so that every american, all-americans, can feel that the government really is liberty and justice for all. so instead of a system of justice that works for some, it doesn t work for all, this injustice takes place within a social and economic context and i have to say that when officer wilson confronted michael brown on canfield drive in ferguson, the interaction did not take place in a vacuum. ferguson, missouri s unemployment rate is 13%, over double the national average. the number of poor people in ferguson doubled over the last 10 years. in 2012, almost all of ferguson s neighborhoods had a poverty rate of over 20%. the fact