Political activists who support President Obama's call for Congress to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy heard of the interim steps and offered full support — even though they criticized the administration as having taken too long.
But the newly inaugurated president's speech was rambling and filled with the same boilerplate denunciations of U.S. foreign policy heard from his confrontational predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
On Wednesday, Minnesota's Legislative Commission on Planning and Fiscal Policy heard from University of Minnesota economists about income inequality in the state.
As a queer transgender employee of Target, one who specifically sought out a career with the company due to their inclusive policies, hearing the statement of positive representation of what it means to be a truly trans-inclusive company was comforting.
It will be hard to get the policies heard over the 24-hour blare of hate.
In the meantime, New Zealand's political parties are trying to concentrate on getting their election policies heard through the almost constant chatter about the revelations in the book, particularly the Prime Minister who has literally run away from reporters endless questions raised by the book's contents.
Two of those forced to retire have filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, contending that the policy forbidding hearing aids is discriminatory toward those with hearing loss, according to the officers' lawyer, Colleen M. Meenan.
As the committee exercises its authority to call witnesses to learn information for possible use in legislative policy, the hearing is shaping up to be an under-oath showdown between Clemens and McNamee, with Pettitte and Knoblauch as possible referees.
Congress has mandated a progress report from the White House before Sept. 15, and Mr. Bush chided lawmakers for calling for a change in policy before hearing the views of the two men who are, as administration officials repeatedly point out, "on the ground in Iraq".
It's also fair to say that for a company growing as rapidly as they are — with aspirations as audacious as supporting over a million users per engineer — an 'Open Door' policy for hearing out every last complaint is quite impractical.
