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on monday, the supreme court issued the stupid opinion which we talked about forgive you for calling that a compromise decision. that s how i do it. just imagine for a moment if during this period of a 4-4 split on the court, brown v. board of education have come up. .. i can t help but think about that and in the context of other cases that are bound to have come up to the court during this period. senator leahy, i am glad that you pointed out that we have some civics students seated behind us here today. i hope they are learning something, but think of the lesson that where we are at this moment in connection with this nomination teaching them is teaching them. these are matters that should be of critical importance to all of us on both sides of the aisle. the future really is at stake. these kinds of decisions that were issued on monday have real consequences. in brown v. board of education, you had decisions in one part of the country that went one way, and in ....
of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the united states looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the international discussions about the u.s. could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the united states and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the foreign policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u.s. was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. and i remember when ....
the constitution of civil justice comes to order. the chair is authorized to declare recessed committee at anytime. welcome to you gentlemen. sorry for being a little late. we called this hearing today to examine hr-3765, the a.d.a. education reform act of 2015 and hr-241, the access act of 2015, which are two common sense proposals that require plaintiffs to require defendants with written notice and opportunity to correct an alleged a.d.a. violation voluntarily before they may file a lawsuit and force a business owner to incur legal costs. overall purpose. when a.d.a. was signed into law by george h.w. bush, it was to provide the disabled with equal access. it s hailed as the most sweeping, non-discrimination legislation of the act of 1964. enterprising plaintiffs and their lawyers have abused the law by filing a flurry of a.d.a. lawsuits aimed at churning out billable hours rather than improving access for the disabled as the a.d.a. intended. these predatory lawsui ....
jesse holland. mr. holland talked about his book subseven the invisibles . jesse holland you write in your brand-new book, i decided i would write a second book in 2008 while riding on that then senator barack obama s presidential campaign bus and he made a week and stopped at his home in chicago illinois. why did you leave your forwarded back? guest: part of the reason why i wrote about the african-american history in washington d.c. was because of barack obama and his campaign. it brought up a lot of interest in african-american history having the first african-american president of the white house and i was lucky enough to be assigned by the sociedad press to cover obama that weekend and i literally remember pulling up to a couple of blocks away from the obama s townhouse in chicago thinking to myself, what book am i going to write next and literally right there on that spot is where it hit me and i got so excited about the topic i immediately called my editor a ....
brian: what was the idea? jesse: the idea was to write a story about the african-american slaves who lived inside the white house. back then, the country was still talking about how great and how unique it would be if an african-american president lived inside the white house. i said to myself, i understand that would be great but he cannot have been the first african-american to live there. and then the thought process went on so who were the first african-americans to live there? we knew there were african-american butlers but i thought there had to be someone before them. i decided to write a book about the african-american slaves that lived inside the white house with the first presidents and that is when the invisibles: the untold story of african american slaves in the white house got its start. brian: we have an artist rendering of the first presidents house in new york city. you say in your book that there were nine slaves working for george washington insid ....