mr. coates, good to see you again.nks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> stephen: i'm mad at you, man. >> all right. >> stephen: you are the national correspondent for "the atlantic." and author of this month's cover story "the case for reparations." you have it right there. >> i do have it right here. >> stephen: it's a brace 15g,000-word argument talking about slavery, jim crow, discriminations that come up to this very day. >> right. >> stephen: do you think the best way to heal nation is to bum people out? [laughter] because this is well argued. i can understand it, and i don't want to understand it. >> right, right, right. >> stephen: make your case to the good people out there and understand, some of these people are not white. so don't be mad at them. >> i wrote that with that in mind. >> stephen: it's not just for white people. didn't know. because it's kind of an attack. >> okay. well, i think it's our history. and i too think it's necessary to bum people out sometimes to heal people. you go to the do

mr. coats: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: mr. president, i rise to oppose the nomination of crystal nix-hines to be the u.s. ambassador to the united nations educational, scientific, and cultural organization, otherwise called unesco. and i wanted to speak on this nomination to once again express my firm opposition to the administration's stated intention to circumvent u.s. law, law that was passed by this body, regarding funding of unesco, an intention repeated by ms. nicks hines -- nix-hines at her testimony last year. there's nothing personal in this foreign policy me relative to this individual. i have not met her, i'm sure she's a woman of good character, perhaps qualified for the job, but nevertheless, it's important i think that we understand before we take this vote what we're doing here, and why we shouldn't be doing it, and that ms. mix hines has been central -- ms. nix-hines has been central to advancing her nomination into confirmation to this organization. if confirmed, this nomination will result in the fact that th

mr. coates i grew up in the jim crow south. i was pretty young then. i do not know how to explain this, because i saw it for what it was as a young boy. guilt -- you white are talking about justice. this is so important to me. robinson, when he was on, i wanted to thank him too. jim crow is so incredibly disgusting that a little child could see it. it is amazing to me that we have not done anything about this. you can here i am breaking up a little bit, because i saw this in reality. and it is really disgusting. whatf we -- i don't know we can do, because it is very difficult. but i know what i would do. and everybody would be really mad. toould give free education every african american person in this country, and i would make sure it was a good education. and i would help them in every way i could think of. breaking up too much. thank you. you do not really go into the house. -- the how. guest: one of the reasons why i did that -- you are talking about 250 years of enslavement in this country. african americans were slaves in the colonies and in this

mr. coats: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: madam president, last week our nation commemorated the 70's anniversary of d-day. leo sheer of huntington county, indiana, is one of those courageous veterans who survived the assault on the beaches of normandy and last month he made thedjourthe journey to washingt, with the honor flight network to receive a hero's welcome from a grateful nation. my office had the honor of greeting leo and his group of heroes whe upon their arrival ae world war ii memorial. and leo made an unforgettable impression with his humility and strength of characteristic. leo is a member of what we now call "the greatest generation," and i think he easily deserves that title, where duty comes as second-nature. where braggadocio is not present, where simply standing up and serving your country in a time of crisis is responded to overwhelmingly without complaint and with true honor and dignity. sadly, there are a dwindling number of those not only who arrived at the shores on d-day in normandy but those wh

mr. coates i grew up in the jim crow south. i was pretty young then.ot know how to explain this, because i saw it for what it was as a young boy. guilt -- you white are talking about justice. this is so important to me. robinson, when he was on, i wanted to thank him too. jim crow is so incredibly disgusting that a little child could see it. it is amazing to me that we have not done anything about this. you can here i am breaking up a little bit, because i saw this in reality. and it is really disgusting. whatf we -- i don't know we can do, because it is very difficult. but i know what i would do. and everybody would be really mad. toould give free education every african american person in this country, and i would make sure it was a good education. and i would help them in every way i could think of. breaking up too much. thank you. you do not really go into the house. -- the how. guest: one of the reasons why i did that -- you are talking about 250 years of enslavement in this country. african americans were slaves in the colonies and in this countr

mr. coats: mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum and ask that the call of the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coats: mr. president, last week the senate confirmed sylvia burwell as our new secretary of health and human services. she is now the administration's main interpreter of obamacare. she is a new face and will be its primary sales person to the american people. i think the president made a competent choice and i supported her confirmation, but i think i would be remiss if i did not mention or bring to light the difficult job she has ahead of her. from its botched web site to ever increasing premiums to canceled health insurance plans, obamacare has been and remains a complicated mess of broken promises and confusing implementation. i was back home in indiana last weekend and the week before that obamacare remains, along with complaints about overregulation, the top two things on people's minds. just friday i was in dekalb county and noble county in no

mr. coats: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coats: mr. president, just this last fall, environmental protection agency administrator gina mccarthy embarked upon a national listening tour to gather feedback on possible new energy regulations through the environmental protection agency's regulatory power. notably absent for her tour across the nation to hear from those in terms of what their reactions would be relative to proposed rules regulating the use of certain energy sources, that listening tour surprisingly didn't stop at any of the major coal producing production or user states. now, my state was notably absent from that despite our request that she listen to what hoosiers have to say about their source of energy and what it does for their economy, how it helps attract jobs to our state and how it helps our residents to keep uti

mr. coats called his experience attempting to access care through the department long, painful, emotional and unnecessary. he testified that, i am here to speak for those to come so they might be spared the pain i have already endured and know i have yet to face. mr. speaker, the problems the department of veterans affairs is now facing represents failure on at least two fronts -- failure of accountability and failure of access. over the last several weeks, the house has addressed v.a.'s lack of accountability through the passage of two pieces of legislation -- h.r. 4031, the department of veterans affairs management accountability act and h.r. 2072, the demanding accountability for veterans act. today, with the passage of h.r. 4810, we will address the department's access failures. for barry coats, as he so eloquently said, for all those veterans still yet to come. mr. speaker, i urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker

mr. plawer, which was a pipe bomb with end caps on it, those end caps were painted red with a gold coating>> but questions remained. why did rick white target churches? investigators believe white was angry at the first assembly of god church for turning down his membership application, but he couldn't bomb that church, at least not right away. it would have been too obvious. so, he chose the oakwood united methodist church as his first target, possibly because his ex-wife was a member. >> he was experimenting. he was trying to get different things to work, different initiators for the device, different triggering systems. >> the forensic evidence shows that white placed the pipe bomb in a green cooler, not caring who would pick it up. church member brian plawer was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. in the first assembly of god church bombing, white used a stronger bomb, since this was his primary target. he placed the bomb on top of an outdoor air conditioner. this one had a timer designed to explode during the sunday service. 33 people were injured. in october of 1998, a grand

mr. chairman. i will submit for the record, a question on the convention and relations we're trying and i would like a response on that. >> senator coats? >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> based on my previous service in the senate, some service now, i'm fully awaiver that the pentagon has a contingency plan on the shelf for just about every possible scenario, from nuclear war to an invasion by canada and everything in between. my question is, given what you've seen here happen in iraq. and maybe we didn't anticipate how stunningly quick territory could be yielded and major cities could be taken over without resistance. but nevertheless, after we failed to negotiate a sofa agreement status and forces agreement with iraq, there had to be some anticipation that some of the territory would be up for grabs. that there would be scenarios where lack of confidence in the leadership war and the capability of the iraqi military on its own would lead to something like this the was there a plan on the shelf? if so, what is it? if there wasn't, why isn't it? general dempsey, i noted and i wrote down the quote, i think you said we're in the process of

coats. >> thank you mr. chairman. based on secretary hagel and general dempsey. based on my previous service in the senate and some service now, i'm fully aware that the pentagon on a contingency on the shelf for just about every possible scenario everything from a nuclear war and an invasion from canada and everything in between. my question is given what we've seen here happen in iraq, maybe we didn't anticipate how stunningly quick a territory could be yielded and major cities could be taken over without resistance. nevertheless after we failed to negotiate a status of forces agreement with iraq, there had to be some anticipation that some of this territory would be up for grabs and scenarios where a lack of confidence in the leadership or capability of the iraqi military on its own would lead to something like this. was there a plan on the shelf, if so what is it? if there wasn't, why isn't it. general dempsey, i think i wrote down the quote. you said we are in the process of developing options. that is different than having options thought through and strat

young man who asked many questions but gave no indication of ache deserter, let alone the turn coat that mrport suggest that the army's unit's lack of security and discipline is much sergeant's history. >> so did you hear that? that it was the army. >> platoon's fault that he wandered off. >> it's enlisted buddies none of whom wandered off. their fault. including some people who died looking for him. pretty outrageous suggestion. served with bergdahl in afghanistan. he was there. here is what he said. >> i think it's pretty outrageous claim to kind of pretend that all of these, you know, first person sources and everyone that was there is just not credible. guys that served for the country in afghanistan and to just now say that we're not credible sources after our service and looking for this guy that they are now, you know, lauding his return, it's an outrage just claim. he made the choice to join the army. he went to afghanistan, that's great. but, you can't just look at what you are currently doing. you have to look back and looking back he left the unit. he abandoned the post. you know

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mr. vice chairman. senator udall -- i will just read the list, udall, king, widen, mikulski, rockefeller, coats, collins, heinrich, risch, and levin. >> thank you, madam chair. let me begin by asking unanimous content to enter into the government published by the reform government surveillance coalition. >> without objection. thank you. >> madam chairman, the reform government surveillance coalition is made up of leading american companies aol, linkedin, drop box, facebook, yahoo!, and twitter. and i think the important sentence in their letter is in the next few weeks the senate has the opportunity to demonstrate leadership and pass a version of the usa freedom act that woot help restore the confidence of internet users here and around the world while keeping citizens safe. the coalition goes on to express real concerns with the house bill and urges us in the senate to make some significant changes to the house bill. in that spirit i want to make an initial set of comments and then, of course, i have questions for the panel. on january 17th the president ordered a transition away from the bulk collecti

mr. clement was making about the phrase, to the public, using his example of the valet parking, using a comparable example after coat check room, there are situations all the time which people place property momentarily at the disposal of another and then retrieve later and it is distributed to them at that later date, not in their capacities as members of the public but as the true owners of the property. and i think some kind of distinction along those lines is essential in much more mundane applications of the copyright act. for example, if i invite 10 friends over to watch the super bow, that's a private performance. it is not a public performance. that is not because my friends are not members of the public. they are and in some other capacity it is would be important to regard them as such. if the theater down the street had a screening of casablanca and happened those 10 people were the only 10 people who attended, it would be a public performance because they would be in their capacities as members of the public. so i think in a wide range of situations dealing with public performance, distribution to the pu

mr. clement was saying about the phrase to the public. using his example of the valet parking, using a comparable example of a coat check room. there are conversations all the time in which people place property momentarily at the disposal of another, and then retrieve it later, and it's distributed to them at that later date, not in their capacities as members of the public, but as the true owners of the property. and i think some kind of distinction along those lines is essential in much more mundane applications of the copyright act. for example, if i invite ten friends over to watch the super bowl. that's a private performance, not a public performance. that's not because my friends are not members of the public. they are in some other capacities, it would be important to regard them as such. if the theater down the street had a screening of casablanca, and those ten people were the only ten people that attended, it would be a public performance, they're in their capacities as members of the public. for -- in a wide range of situations, dealing with public performance, it's essential to ask, not only are these individuals

mr. clement was making about the phrase "to the public," using his example of the valet parking, using a comparable example of a coat checkroom, there are situations all the time in which people place property momentarily at the disposal of another and then retrieve it later. and it's distributed to them at that later date, not in their capacities as members of the public, but as the true owners of the property. and i think some kind of distinction along those lines is essential in much more mundane applications of the copyright act. for example, if i invite 10 friends over to watch the super bowl, that's a private performance. it's not a public performance. that's not because my friends are not members of the public. they are. and in some other capacities, it would be important to regard them as such. if the theater down the street had a screening of casablanca and it happened that those 10 people were the only 10 people who attended, it would be a public performance, because they would be in there in their capacities as members of the public. so i think for in a wide range of situations dealing with public perform

mr. jordan walked out of his home as he does most days to get the bus into town. the only hint he had a plan, under his coatoarded a ferry, joining up with fellow veterans and others making their way to normandy. but back at home when he hadn't returned by evening, the search was under way. eventually word got through, bernie had crossed the channel and gone awol to join his brothers in arms. >> bernie, come the morning, he thought, it's d-day now. i'm off. i'm going. >> reporter: proof the d-day spirit lives on. >> are you going to be in trouble when you get back to the home? are you going to face the music? >> yeah. i'll have to face that. but there we are. it's one of those things in life. you get good things, you get bad things. you do your best in whatever your situation. >> reporter: a hero's homecoming for a veteran still with a bit of fight. now, lester, the ferry company has offered bernie free travel to normandy for the rest of his life. and i reckon if he wants to go next year, no one's going to try and stop him. what do you think? >> i don't think so. annabell roberts, thanks very much. >>> time

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mr. coats: yes, i have. mr. leahy: madam president, next month colonel michael coburn, who's the director of the u.s. marine band, retired after nearly 30 years with a history rich in perio federated organiz. we like the marine band, of course. his son is a marine. but it's especially nice here because colonel coburn is a native vermonter. and his appreciation for the band known world wide as "the president's own," began decadessindecadesago with the td you're phony yum playing st. alban's native -- uphonium playing st. alban's native at a band camp in vermont. in 1937, colonel coburn joined "the president's own" as a uphonium player. he then ultimately became the band's director, a post he's held for the last decade. now, his tenure has taken him around the world and back again. he's played for presidents and foreign dignitaries, at state dinners and inaugurations and regular performances that thousands have witnessed here in washingtonal 8th and i, at the marine barracks during their weekly -- washington at 8t