mr. brown: mr. chair, i yield to my friend, the gentleman from mississippi, and chairman of the committee. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. topson: thank you, very much -- mr. thompson: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i appreciate the gentleman giving me the time. let me be clear this bill enhances opportunities for t.s.o.'s. it increases the possibility of them getting employment by putting them on the g.s. chedule for federal employees. i'm somewhat mystified that a bill that's designed to bring a group of employees in a system that all other federal employees are in is somehow penalizing those employees. the very intent of this bill is to level the playing field for t.s.o.'s who -- everybody agrees doing a wonderful job. but i continue to be somewhat baffled by the arguments against it. i support the gentleman from maryland's amendment. this amendment adds additional language to the bill to reintegrate congress' intent that t.s.a. employees should have the same protections and benef

mr. brown: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i would add i watched up close and from afar senator alexander and senator murray so often working together on issues like this and absolutely believe senator alexander saying it's a good idea. but i think it's what senator murray just said that it's costing businesses all kinds of costs imposed on businesses the result of people coming to work sick. it's more expense for public hospitals, more expense with more people getting sick and what that means to medicaid. these costs are impossible to quantify today of our not having a sick leave policy. a year from now we'll be able to look back on what the costs really were. they will be overwhelming, a solid, coherent sick leave policy of something modest like senator murray is calling for today but first i want to talk about the coronavirus. i was first notified by my governor that we've run into a shortage in my state of the test kits that are necessary. some 320 illinoisans have been tested to date. these are people who should be

coming -- >> supervisor ronen: mr. brown -- >> could you please let me finish. >> supervisor ronen: yes. >> i believe in what you are saying, and we do need to have the staffing and appropriate staffing, and we do have to have it in h.r. i was there in the contract negotiations when we talked about staffing, many times, and i'm going to say yes, they are right. i don't know what happened in the meantime. >> supervisor ronen: how long have you been in your position now? >> three months. >> supervisor ronen: okay. do you think it's an attack to ask you -- >> no, i don't. i don't. >> supervisor ronen: do you think that's something i should expect the director of h.r. and d.p.h. to know? >> yes, and you should give me adequate enough time to ask me. >> supervisor ronen: i don't know a more basic question to ask that. i didn't know we have -- i'm sorry. i'm flabbergasted. i will move on. so given that you did prepare to come here to give a step-by-step explanation of the hiring process, what we -- what you actually gave us in the

coming -- >> supervisor ronen: mr. brown -- >> could you please let me finish. >> supervisor ronen: yes. >> i believe in what you are saying, and we do need to have the staffing and appropriate staffing, and we do have to have it in h.r. i was there in the contract negotiations when we talked about staffing, many times, and i'm going to say yes, they are right. i don't know what happened in the meantime. >> supervisor ronen: how long have you been in your position now? >> three months. >> supervisor ronen: okay. do you think it's an attack to ask you -- >> no, i don't. i don't. >> supervisor ronen: do you think that's something i should expect the director of h.r. and d.p.h. to know? >> yes, and you should give me adequate enough time to ask me. >> supervisor ronen: i don't know a more basic question to ask that. i didn't know we have -- i'm sorry. i'm flabbergasted. i will move on. so given that you did prepare to come here to give a step-by-step explanation of the hiring process, what we -- what you actually gave us in the

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate the comments of my friend from texas. i only heard part of them, but i appreciate his interest in what we need to do to deal with this coronavirus. i hear so often in this body that it's about the economic issues, which it s

mr. brown: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i would add i watched up close and from afar senator alexander and senator murray so often working together on issues like this and absolutely believe senator alexander saying it's a good idea. but i think it's what senator murray just said that it's costing businesses all kinds of costs imposed on businesses the result of people coming to work sick. it's more expense for public hospitals, more expense with more people getting sick and what that means to medicaid. these costs are impossible to quantify today of our not having a sick leave policy. a year from now we'll be able to look back on what the costs really were. they will be overwhelming, a solid, coherent sick leave policy of something modest like senator murray is calling for could really make a difference there. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: thank you, mr. president. i come to the floor today to remember the life and service of a colorado hero and reflect on an

coming -- >> supervisor ronen: mr. brown -- >> could you please let me finish. >> supervisor ronen: yes. >> i believe in what you are saying, and we do need to have the staffing and appropriate staffing, and we do have to have it in h.r. i was there in the contract negotiations when we talked about staffing, many times, and i'm going to say yes, they are right. i don't know what happened in the meantime. >> supervisor ronen: how long have you been in your position now? >> three months. >> supervisor ronen: okay. do you think it's an attack to ask you -- >> no, i don't. i don't. >> supervisor ronen: do you think that's something i should expect the director of h.r. and d.p.h. to know? >> yes, and you should give me adequate enough time to ask me. >> supervisor ronen: i don't know a more basic question to ask that. i didn't know we have -- i'm sorry. i'm flabbergasted. i will move on. so given that you did prepare to come here to give a step-by-step explanation of the hiring process, what we -- what you actually gave us in the

i think mr. brown stayed in number 10 when they were prime minister boris johnson still has the flat there. i presume that's where he's self-isolating in terms of the news flow, absolutely, it's been quite devastating. let's be honest about it, over the last few days. on friday, 578 mortalities in the united kingdom that lept over the weekend to 1 icti -- 1,228. dr. harris was talking about the large number of deaths in recent weeks being pretty much as expected she also talked about the uk being in for the long haul listen in. >> over time, probably over the next six months, we will have a three-week review. we'll see where we're going. we need to keep that lid on and then gradually we will be able to hopefully adjust some of the social distancing measures and gradually get us all back to normal i think three weeks for review two or three months to see whether we've really squashed it about three to six months ideally. lots of uncertainty in that. >> reporter: of course, that flies in the face of all

coming -- >> supervisor ronen: mr. brown -- >> could you please let me finish. >> supervisor ronen: yes. >> i believe in what you are saying, and we do need to have the staffing and appropriate staffing, and we do have to have it in h.r. i was there in the contract negotiations when we talked about staffing, many times, and i'm going to say yes, they are right. i don't know what happened in the meantime. >> supervisor ronen: how long have you been in your position now? >> three months. >> supervisor ronen: okay. do you think it's an attack to ask you -- >> no, i don't. i don't. >> supervisor ronen: do you think that's something i should expect the director of h.r. and d.p.h. to know? >> yes, and you should give me adequate enough time to ask me. >> supervisor ronen: i don't know a more basic question to ask that. i didn't know we have -- i'm sorry. i'm flabbergasted. i will move on. so given that you did prepare to come here to give a step-by-step explanation of the hiring process, what we -- what you actually gave us in the

mr. brown: thank you. sorry. mr. president, had chance after chance after chance to get ahead of this coronavirus pandemic in the united states. he failed. congress can't make the same mistakes. senators should not leave town -- i just saw senator mcconnell on the floor. it is his decision, one senator from one state can make this decision to walk away, to fail to take care of the $12-an-hour worker who's sick, who has to choose between going to work and perhaps getting circum, perhaps -- getting sicker, perhaps getting infected, perhaps stay home and give up their $12-an-hour job. we've put in that position. senator mcconnell, whose office is down the hall, can make that unilateral decision on whether we stay and actually do the right thing. congress has no business leaving. we shouldn't leave town until we pass the house package to help workers and support our communities. and president trump needs to sign f we need to do our jobs, take care of the workers who are going to need help paying their mortgage, paying th

it was a complete victory in which mr. brown and 11 friends managed to defeat a very powerful mayor. and they won their battle. that is an example where people with no money managed to resist and win. another of my favorite stories a parent is a friend of mine is a parent activist and was very an advocate of reducing class side on - - class size trying to get rid class size reduce making no progress. but she saw student privacy is a very powerful issue. and she was in colorado and became very upset because bill gates put up $100 million to put a data-gathering organization called emblem with the idea they would gather every point of data about every student in the district. it would be managed with software buyer rupert murdoch corporation and that is put into a cloud managed by amazon and 400 data points of every student and what could possibly go wrong with that? they didn't like it one bit and reached out to parents and every district that signed on to surrender their data dropped the last 20 drop out of new york state then e

mr. brown: that's not the point. the point is -- mr. cotton: will the senator yield? mr. brown: certainly. mr. cotton: will i answer my question? when did they receive -- mr. brown: i don't know the day. it was a day or two later. mr. cotton: where has the house been for the last week? where has the house been the last week? mr. brown: i have the floor and i will keep the floor. the fact is that we were in negotiations with speaker pelosi. i assume with leader mccarthy. in the senate we were this close to legislation. senator mcconnell went home. he's not -- senator cotton is not disputing the fact. he went home with a political event with the justice of the supreme court for gosh sakes. went home -- we didn't vote friday. we didn't vote saturday. we don't vote sunday, monday, tuesday. we didn't vote until wednesday. senator mcconnell did patched all of us just a few days ago to do negotiations within our committees. i sat with -- a senator: would the senator yield for a question? mr. brown: i'd like to sort of explain -- if the time comes out of your time, i'd be glad to.

coming -- >> supervisor ronen: mr. brown -- >> could you please let me finish. >> supervisor ronen: yes. >> i believe in what you are saying, and we do need to have the staffing and appropriate staffing, and we do have to have it in h.r. i was there in the contract negotiations when we talked about staffing, many times, and i'm going to say yes, they are right. i don't know what happened in the meantime. >> supervisor ronen: how long have you been in your position now? >> three months. >> supervisor ronen: okay. do you think it's an attack to ask you -- >> no, i don't. i don't. >> supervisor ronen: do you think that's something i should expect the director of h.r. and d.p.h. to know? >> yes, and you should give me adequate enough time to ask me. >> supervisor ronen: i don't know a more basic question to ask that. i didn't know we have -- i'm sorry. i'm flabbergasted. i will move on. so given that you did prepare to come here to give a step-by-step explanation of the hiring process, what we -- what you actually gave us in the

a bit of mr brown, western frost, across many parts of england and wales, but in the north—west of thesles, and some outbreaks of rain. but the vast majority of us with a fine day on monday. that front is going to move through monday night into tuesday, and it is actually going to introduce cloud and possibly some rain across the west and north—west of the uk. a little bit messy, i think, forecasting the cloud amounts on tuesday, could be a bit of cloud here but more especially i think in the north—west of the uk. basically the north—west of the uk. basically the further south and east you are on tuesday, the better will the weather will be. and very mild. towards the end of the upcoming weekend into the weekend, it looks as though the weather is going to settle down, with high—pressure building. a lot of sunshine the way. —— a lot of sunshine on the way. this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan—jones. our top stories: spain introduces strict new emergency measures as it's announced the wife of the prime minister has the coronavirus. a partial lockdown has come into effect in france. restau

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quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. brown: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: the united states senate used to be called the greatest deliberative body in the world. it's the senate where hugo black wrote labor law reform and essentially he and another senator created the united states senate. this is the desk in the senate chamber where senator mcgovern frl south dakota passed legislation with senator dole across the aisle for feeding programs, both for hungry people in the united states. i just met with a number of people from the cleveland food bank and the midohio food bank and second harvest food bank, and also senator mcgovern, the mcgovern-dole legislation fed hungry kids around the world. this is the body that used to do those kinds of things, the greatest deliberative body in the world. but under leader mcconnell, whose office is down the hall, we see something different. this body, the

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s to shop a better world has restarted but also a nonsense did write off desire not to mr brown the future of europe and it and of course it so-called shorts are over. as it is today called michael and all of that has happened it's like cyclical trend is the one micron started out my hope that he would present a new political vision well because it will come political purposes it seems i soon realized he didn't have a political program and suitable it will because i made that up and that is one of the reasons i was drawn to the idea of format it makes me just what i saw happening was a kind of populism even though his populism share some of my values with it all but it's according to his right. hand these have moved on thanks i was opposed to late i confident that today one of us will have a seat in the european parliament with that whether in germany don't carry out or elsewhere at the end of the day that's all that matters to me because i had hoped that we could stand in france and italy and defense are inevitable i will run next time we'll call it up myself. hi everyone i just voted in

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mr. brown: mr. president, thank you, the senator from illinois. if we want to get something done, we get something done. we find a way through unanimous consent to all of us agree. who can say anything but this is a national crisis? we're going to lean, we're going to make our unwillingness to do anything contingent on some parliamentary trick? no. we are paid to do this job. jus because senator mcconnell has taken four days and not done it doesn't mean we shouldn't. we should work. thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. markey: thank you, mr. president. i want to echo what the senator from illinois is saying and what the senator from ohio is saying. we're in a national emergency. we should have already finished this phase of dealing with this crisis because there are many more phases to deal with. we should ensure as part of this debate that there is sick leave for every single worker in our country. that's not in this package as it's coming through right now. we have to make sure everyone is covered. we need unempl

i'll address this to you maybe mr. brown when he comes back next continue how many nurses are participating on his task force. what their names are and have they actually been released to got to the meetings. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i work in the emergency department. thank you guys for having this hearing and many more that might follow. i'm reading comments from a colleague of mine and the poor resources on the guaranteed coronavirus outbreak and we have a lack of preparation for managing the patients in other hospital the patients are going to other units and often bypassing the e.d. we're losing quickly without replacement and have no one in our disaster position. they have one person persist? i worked the past two shifts but there's no space. one without the other is useful in either direction. the lack of leadership and transparency by the nursing director is a big problem and the engage. the survey after a year or more. i find it insulting the only i time we see the ceo is when regulatory s

thought people would have made fun of him, he would've thought he would've been annoying you'd be mr. brown knows, whatever the people actually really liked him and did not tease him, and respected him thought he was a nice guy. he was able to pull off this incredible thing that he was a super dorky, gay, only child was sucked at growing up in south bend indiana. he was liked and respected by his peers. [laughter] >> host: so we just talked about this but you tried really hard to not look millennial liberal. he tells about that? >> one of the things i think is happening now in particular, especially since bernie sanders does have such a solid millennial base, as people kind of think, god, all millennial socialists. in fact it's a little more complicated than that. the actual registration for the democratic socialists of america is way up, way up from 2010, like it certainly has increased a lot while bernie sanders has been running for office but 35000 people which could fit in side fenway park. it's not true that every millennial is a socialist. in fact, what is true is that some of the ide

mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i rise to honor a leader in the fight for justice, a great ohioan who we lost last month, judge nathaniel jones. at a ceremony dedicating the federal courthouse in honor of judge jones in 2003, former congressman louis stokes said that the courthouse served as a testament to the outstanding public service by a local who made good. judge jones certainly was that. born in youngstown in 1926, he served a country that did not yet recognize his full legal equality. he served his country in world war ii. he went on first to be a journalist, to work for youngstown and -- to work for the youngstown newspaper. he covered jackie robinson when jackie robinson played in aaa and game a friend of his. he went on to become a respected lawyer, a federal judge, an international civil and human rights advocate. he was a local who made good but more importantly, he was a man who did good. he committed his life to the pursuit of justice and equality. we're all the better for it. he led efforts to end emp

power developing to the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against mr brown we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generation the brush pioneering future energy. you're going to one of the top stories here which is there are growing concerns about the scale of the corona virus pandemic in the u.s. after the governor of new york state said 5000 cases have been diagnosed there alone in the past day. spain is now overtaken china to recall the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims still just half the number and it's a need for the death rate in the west to tear it appears to be slowing. in china travel restrictions are beginning to be lifted in who bay province where the outbreak. it's 1st recorded people can now leave the area for the 1st time in 2 months if they can prove they're in good health. the pandemic has forced russia's president to perspire in a referendum which was expected to extend his time in office but i'm

i'll address this to you maybe mr. brown when he comes back next continue how many nurses are participating on his task force. what their names are and have they actually been released to got to the meetings. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i work in the emergency department. thank you guys for having this hearing and many more that might follow. i'm reading comments from a colleague of mine and the poor resources on the guaranteed coronavirus outbreak and we have a lack of preparation for managing the patients in other hospital the patients are going to other units and often bypassing the e.d. we're losing quickly without replacement and have no one in our disaster position. they have one person persist? i worked the past two shifts but there's no space. one without the other is useful in either direction. the lack of leadership and transparency by the nursing director is a big problem and the engage. the survey after a year or more. i find it insulting the only i time we see the ceo is when regulatory s

i'll address this to you maybe mr. brown when he comes back next continue how many nurses are participating on his task force. what their names are and have they actually been released to got to the meetings. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i work in the emergency department. thank you guys for having this hearing and many more that might follow. i'm reading comments from a colleague of mine and the poor resources on the guaranteed coronavirus outbreak and we have a lack of preparation for managing the patients in other hospital the patients are going to other units and often bypassing the e.d. we're losing quickly without replacement and have no one in our disaster position. they have one person persist? i worked the past two shifts but there's no space. one without the other is useful in either direction. the lack of leadership and transparency by the nursing director is a big problem and the engage. the survey after a year or more. i find it insulting the only i time we see the ceo is when regulatory s

mr. chairman and ranking member brown for holding this hearing. it is a very important topic for my community. thanks. >> thank you. senator warner? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm going to cover some ground that my colleague senator van hollen covered. we need to talk about metro. i think the senator already mentioned in many ways the federal government literally runs on metro. i think it was pointed out that close to 40% of metro's riders during rush hour are federal employees, and that is critically important to the functioning of our government. also serves a critically important role in terms of continuation of government in the event of a disaster, ever have deal with evacuation similar to what we dealt with post 9/11, the burden falls on metro, as well as the fact this is the nation's metro system. it is obviously used on a regular basis by tourists who always come to washington or it's absolutely critical in national events like inaugurations. back in 08, congress put together and recognized this, in the legislation back then and laid out a

37 seats while the blue—and—white alliance i benny gantz has a brown 33 and now just we need to wait and see if mre some sunshine at some stage of the day. frosty andi some stage of the day. frosty and i think in places first thing but xiao was clearing northeast england and east in scotland. some pull away from northern ireland but then spread across scotland. early clea ra nce spread across scotland. early clearance from wales but then to england, catchy showers can be heavy and wintry on hills. behind the blue skies does return. some of us get to double figures and most of us will not. and with light winds and clear skies on tuesday night, a widespread frost setting and if you icy patches possible, temperature dropped from falling too far. cloud and outbreaks of rain arrive. this is when the state wet weather. some uncertainty but every new forecast wa nt some uncertainty but every new forecast want to send it for the north. it means a spell of rain across much of england and well setting it and reaching towards northern ireland in southern scotland and some snow into the higher parts of the pe

there were some attempts to come to a copper brown eyes -- to come to a compromise. how are things standing? mr. mccarthy: i'd like to see the -- get us to a point where e can find some compromise, find some reforms. i believe we can get there. we have been talking with steny hoyer on the democrats -- the democrats in the appropriate committees. we have made ideas across to them. we have been waiting for them to give us their feedback or make an offer back, if you would call it that. i thought we'd get one two days ago. i thought we'd get one yesterday. i was hoping we'd get it today because time is running out next week. when i get done with this conference, i know the leader has a colloquy on the floor right now. i was going to call him after the colloquy to see when we can solve this problem. >> last question. reporter: when it comes to [inaudible] senator johnson will issue -- why isn't house republicans looking to this when you had the gavel? is it about politics? mr. mccarthy: it's not about politics at all. did you know this beforehand? the knowledge when i became aware of it, we were no

brown. >> thank you, mr. chairman. so i've been here a little over a year and probably the first committee meeting that vividly stuck in my mind is when you were here roughly a year ago and of course, you said basically everything then that you're telling us now and i guess what amazes me most about this place is how we seem to shrug it off like it's never going to have impact in the present. health care costs, undoubtedly are the driver. i took it on in my own company 13 years ago and there are solutions. mostly the reason we're not making headway on health care costs is i've never seen an industry more dug in and stubborn in want to go maintain the status quo. when you have 80 u.s. senators that come up with some idea how to fix your business, that is like the 2 by 4 across the head and nobody is paying any attention, from pharma, to hospitals, the whole gamut, practitioners as well. then you've got the health insurance industry which is kind of like the darth vader out there that keeps everything behind closed doors

brown showing off the pipes as reggie from the latest season of the award-winning amazon prime video series "the marvelous mrse of you may be binge watching while staying in this weekend. that role is the latest in a year for brown that has included a part in the highest grossing animated movie of all time, "frozen 2." the lead in the acclaimed film "ways" and the fourth season of the hit nbc series "this is us" where he plays the beloved randall pearson. since it launched, "this is us" has been among the highest rated shows in all of television, turning brown into an emmy and golden globe-winning star. but what may appear to be overnight success actually was a 13-year acting grind for brown. beginning in grad school at new york university and continuing through a series of small tv roles. sterling and i got together here in new york last fall near his old nyu stomping grounds for a sunday sitdown. >> this is a good moment because years ago when you were in school, you'd walk here and watch other people. >> absolutely. >> and now everybody in this park is watching you. isn't that a weird thing for you? >> it'

brown. >> mr.resident, members of this body, ladies and gentlemen, i assure you that i'm inexpressably happy and pleased with this surprise. it was only yesterday that supervisor called me in and reminded me he was going to do something to acknowledge my work. i must say i was hesitant about accepting any commendation. because the work that i do is my duty. when my sunday school teacher in jacksonville, mississippi, told me at the age of 8, i should know what my name meant in hebrew, i mentioned to her i hadn't quite understood what it meant. she told me, sit down, son. your name in hebrew means amos the prophet, the prophet who bears the burdens of the people. the people. and while you're honoring me today, and this is a celebration, but i would candidly remind you that celebrations only last for a moment. but the struggles of life go on from one generation to the next. secondly, i wish to acknowledge the presence of my wife, who is standing over there, capturing this moment, jane. [applause and c

mrs. dream narrated by lewis freely. city of romans narrated by blair brown.mbia narrated by rusty young and brian rameau's. the house we grew up in by lisa jewell narrated by karina fernandez. >> the audie awards goes to penguin house audio for the city of girls. [applause] the finalist for mystery. >> mystery. along came a spider, 20 fifth anniversary edition by james patterson narrated by tate dish. performance by sammy hoag, narrated by hillary hubert. [applause] >> narrated by peter noble. the lost to narrated by stephen shanahan. the new iberia blue eye james lieber. >> the audie awards goes to harper audio for the chestnut man. [applause] >> the finalist for thriller/suspense. >> thriller/suspense, blood in the water by jack flynn never aided by dion graham. breathing by jessica graham narrated by hillary huber. the incident by stephen king narrated by santino, lady in the lake by laura lipman narrated by susan bennett. winter don by alex mcallister narrated by our pack. >> the audie awards goes to simon & schuster audio for the institute. [applause] >>

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brown. senators durbin and stabenow ere part of this but couldn't be here for further obligations. now we have senator leahy. senator leahy: thank you, mr. leader. crisis, and serious i'm afraid that the white house rhetoric and ing not facing reality. to we're doing is trying substitute reality for their rhetoric. the american people are looking for leadership. believe it's up to us to provide that leadership. at we're doing is looking people. those are the ones, not corporations. people. we respond to and hear from in our states. been said, paid sick days so people can stay home to protect of r health and the health others. that's critical. it's critical they be able to critical but it's that they're not fearing they're lose their house or children to go to school. small businesses and to unities, we're trying help them in vermont. i applaud our governor who's doing that. net.y those who can't pay their rent mortgages.heir but also the american people are rhetoric.re than they're facing reality. it does not help at all when the a sident comes in wearing of the hat, a member c.d.c., says he understands it better than the doctors do and

brown and a cnbc contributor. congressman gottheimer still with me. mr. ralston, as we hear about more and more cancellations we need to think about the economic impact for each state. your state nevada has one industry, gaming, leisure. when we're seeing all of these hotels and these casinos close, what is that going to do in terms of a tax shortfall for the state of nevada? >> it's going to be devastating. several of them are already closed. more are going to close. the state budget here, as you just said, is totally reliant on the gaming industry. the state budget is made up of half of the revenues are from gaming and sales taxes, and those are about to disappear here. so there's probably going to be a need for a special session of the legislature eventually to decide what to do. but the question is, what do you do when you are so reliant on one industry? and all of the economic development or lack thereof, diversification here is coming home to roost. they've tried. but when the gaming industry goes under, as it's going under now for a month, for two

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brown v. board of education decision, which ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. mr.river analyzes how strom thurmond and other contributors used both segregationist and legal arguments to craft what they called the declaration of constitutional principles. the supreme court historical society hosted this action or in -- lecture in the supreme court chamber with justice elena kagan offering introductory remarks.

brown v. board of education decision, which ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. mr.river analyzes how strom thurmond and other contributors used both segregationist and legal arguments to craft what declaration of constitutional principles. the supreme court historical society hosted this action or in the supreme court chamber with elena kagan offering introductory remarks. jeremy: good evening. i'm vice president of the supreme court historical society and i'm excited to see you here tonight on the second letter on the supreme court. we're very privileged tonight to have as our host, justice kagan. she will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. let me just tell you a few things about justice kagan you may or may not know already. born in new york, raised in new york, educated at princeton, oxford, and harvard law school.

brown v. board of education decision, which ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. mr. driver analyzes how strom thurmond and other contributors use segregationist and other legal arguments to draft what they called the constitution of declarational principles. justice elena kagan offing introductory remarks. >> good evening and welcome to everybody, i'm jerry libben, i'm a vice president of the supreme court historical society and delighted to see everybody here tonight in our second lecture of the leon silverman series on dissents in the supreme court. we are very privileged tonight to have as our host justice kagan. she will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. let me just tell you a few things about justice kagan you may or may not know already. born in new york. raised in new york. educated at princeton, oxford and harvard law school. then became a clerk to judge abner mickva on the d.c. circuit, followed by a clerkship with justice thurgood marshall here at the supreme court. then a couple of years of law practice, and then in 1991, entering acad

brown v. board of education decision, which ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. mr. driver analyzes how strom thurmond and other contributors use segregationist and other legal arguments to draft what they called the constitution of declarational principles. justice elena kagan offing introductory remarks. >> good evening and welcome to everybody, i'm jerry libben, i'm a vice president of the supreme court historical society and delighted to see everybody here tonight in our second lecture of the leon silverman series on dissents in the supreme court. we are very privileged tonight to have as our host justice kagan. she will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. let me just tell you a few things about justice kagan you

brown. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and no, mr. mayor, you can't have your job back.nd i also want to thank, a member of the board of supervisors who i've had the pleasure of working closely with to deal with many of the challenges that we not only face in this city but with our african american community, and i want to thank them with their partnership and their leadership, starting with the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee, supervisor sandra lee fewer, and supervisor ahsha safai. thank you all so much for your support. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: now tonight is really about a reflection. it's also about celebrating our history, our culture, and what makes us all so special. i feel like it was just yesterday when i was up here when we kicked off black history month, because it was just yesterday. we know february is one of the shortest months of the year, but we don't have to wait until black history month to celebrate african american culture and history in this city. so today, like every day, we are going to lift up everyone through life,

mr walters skipped a. big smear insists it's much better than waiting for cold inevitable long term wine. the government has agreed to kick in 40000000000 euros to kick start new industries in the brown coal region . and. auntie in a given of her end result at a starched and enzyme household fire may our then pour ya boy be outside and most us ima. get is just counted on this is tell her i know and it's. and get leaked the region is already seeing the fruits of germany's embrace of renewal energy wind turbines and solar farms sprouting up next to power plants germany still relies on domestic and imported coal for about a 3rd of its electricity but around 40 percent comes from renewable energy. the i aim is to make that 65 percent by the end of the decade. in a given me i have also come to tense in a in a game at home. and there in a title. the reagan hoping to turn the old coal fields into an eco tourism destination as disused mine pits a rehabilitated into artificial likes. the 2038 deadline should give the region plenty of time to adapt. but many activists insist the world can't wait. we have to phase out poland germany right now if we don't do that it's going to be quite another f

brown. senators durbin and stabenow were part of this but couldn't be here because of other obligations. now we have senator leahy. >> thank you, mr. leader. we have a serious crisis and i'm afraid that the white house believes in using rhetoric and not facing a reality. what we're doing is trying to substitute reality for their rhetoric. the american people are looking for leadership. i believe it's up to us to provide that leadership. what we're doing is looking at people. those are the ones, not the corporations, it's the people that we respond to and hear from in our states. as has been said, paid sick days so people can stay home to protect their health and the health of others. that's critical. it's critical they be able to stay home, but it's critical that they're not fearing that they're going to lose their apartment or house or building or their children to go to school. small businesses and communities, we're trying to help them in vermont and i applaud our governor who is doing that. safety net, those who can't pay the rent or afford their mortgages. but also the american people are getting more than rhetoric, they're f

brown skin? where did the skins come from, and what was the permission that was granted? mr. hardesty: there is a lot going on. that is a big question. slavery largely disappears by 1400 or so, especially after the black death. said, other forms of unfreedom still exist. they do have experience of using bound labor even in the absence of slavery. a few things happen in the 1500s that are key for understanding what is happening in new england . the first is englishmen begin traveling abroad. they go all over the world. and they begin writing about what they encounter and what they see. one of the things they spent a lot of time in his in the caribbean and latin america. by the 16th century when they visit a place like cuba or mexico or peru, they see large numbers of africans that the portuguese and spanish use. what this doesn't their minds is it links slavery to blackness, slavery to african nest. -- africanness. through these travels, that is one of the things that happens. the other development that comes out of the 16th century and into the 17th century is the nature of c