the bechtel foundation and others we've got a lot of generous people i want to say one other thing about the club. some of you that know me better than others are aware of my politically i think inclinations on the conservative side who pains me, however, the dialog the political dialog in our country has become unfortunately bitter, contentious, derivative and one of the things that the club offers all of us is an opportunity for civilized dialog in a world that sorely needs it so congratulations to all of us particularly to the people are involved directly that with the commonwealth club and gloria and may god bless that wonderful project. thank you (clapping) and now to give us some words of prayer and benefit decision that go beyond any message arab by doug and reverend >> it's a an honor to participate in this wonderful event today. those and those are the words of living god the jewish law follows the word of in teaching codified in the sixth servant plaques sure that the opinions of the stability and the benefit of for all of informed debate over the issues effecting socialite for

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companies lining cargill, coke industries, bechtel and levi strauss. in fact, according to one law professor's estimate, 90% of corporations are closely held. the scope of today's ruling has president obama calling on congress to act. >> what we're talking about doing is pressing congress to actually take the step that's required to address this problem. >> reporter: the president wants congress to pass a law restoring the contraception mandate for all companies essentially using the executive and legislative branch of government to overrule the. >> i additional branch. >>> the supreme court also dealing a blow to a north bay company today. the justices rejected an appeal from the drakes bay oyster company which is fighting to keep its lease. the secretary of the tyne yor refused to renew the lease for the business which operates on national park land. the agency wants the estuary to return to a more natural state. despite the decision owners will continue to fight. >> today was a disappointment. but not really a setback. today we learned that the supr

it guys and so this is this is any company in america that is closely held like koch industries or bechtel you know where the owner decide. that the corporation has a religion is now capable of doing things out the door has there been open to a really disturbing to rain while the this is in itself was focused on these particular forms of contraception in these companies the underlying legal logic could be applied to nearly any corporation for nearly any form of medical care was well. one of the more common means that i hear from the republicans is you know eventually we're going to get the latino vote you know because most of these folks are catholic and the catholics are all united with the church opposition to birth control so we're going to keep up this you know keep defending the hobby lobby thing because this is actually going to help us with that. validate or debunk that what's what's really going on here that's a really great question it's actually a common misperception that that latinos somehow aren't supportive of women's health and rights what we know is that particular when it