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agree more. we hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. i want to thank you mr. president, and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. with that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. hatch: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: i suggest the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. morning business is closed. under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination. executive office of the president, michael p. botticelli of the district of columbia to be director of the national drug control policy. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided. mr. hatch: i notice the ....
could do to advance to us policy proposals. i also think it is an issue that members of this committee could well take up and ask the basic questions, what role do we want them to play is it strictly housing, is it liquidity. are there other ways it can be constituted given the way that the whole world but that s not really my question. i do have a question. my question relates to the approved merger which i don t believe will be the last. i have communicated to you in correspondence deep concerns held by people in the region about the continued commitment of the merged bank to invest in housing. also communicated to you concerns about govern nans. after all, this is a five-time zone federal home loan bank region now. and we ve repeatedly asked for the letter setting forth the terms and conditions. we ve been repeatedly told we cannot have it. i want you to know that as that relates to sensitive financial matters, i completely understand. but i do not know what the co ....
plus ready to wear. the evolution of spacesuits moves light years ahead. we ll bring you nasa s new design. we begin with the death penalty. we re not going to debate the issue, we know there are opinions on both sides. but tonight the execution of one condemned killer is raising questions about how capital punishment is carried out. the inmate was clayton lockett a man who buried his victim alive. his execution in oklahoma last night was botched. lockeett died of a heart attack more than 40 minutes after being given a lethal injection. oklahoma s governor is ordering a review to find out what happened and why today the white house had this to say about the incident the crimes are indisputably horrific and heinous but its also the case that we have a standard in this country that even when the death penalty is justified it must be carried out humanely. ziva branstetter is an editor for the tulsa world newspaper. she witnessed the botched execution last night and j ....
and more pakistani schools are destroyed by the taliban. some of the hundreds since 2007. well, first those deadly tornadoes, and now the floods. families across the south and up and down the east coast, try to put their lives back together after 65 tornadoes, some of the worst flooding that anyone has seen in years. these are live pictures from northwest pennsylvania. torrential rains from the coast of alabama through the eastern seaboard. rattling nerves, and making a mess of the commute. sarah has more. reporter: dangerous floodwaters swallowing entire communities in the florida panhandle. the rushing water ripping apart roads, stranding drivers, and flooding homes. we have been through tropical storms and hurricanes as you know. in 2014 and five, and we still did not have this much water. in pensacola, 20 inches of rain hit the area in just 24 hours. some people ditched their cars for canoes, and rescuers pulled people from rooftops. children saved by boat. ....
schools in pakistan. and the danger, it isn t over. river overflowing cresting three feet above flood stage. we are also learning that as many as 65 tornadoes touched down across the u.s. this week, they were followed by those rains that swamped florida s coast, and then traveled north. stranding drivers and flooding homes. we have been through hurricanes, like ivan and dennis back to back, and 2004 and 5, and we still did not have this much water. 20-inches of rain hit the area in just 24 hours. some people ditched their cars for canoes rescuers pulled people from roof tops. children saves by boat. everybody i own is gone. firefighters carried an elderly woman to safety after her car got stuck, and it was a similar scene moving north where another driver got trapped he had to be rescued by raft. the rain proved too much for an entire block of a street, that collapsed. sending several parked cars into a ravine. the sidewalk is gone, is everything just felt, it w ....