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Congress: Republicans ****** Democrats


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  • The Senate stands in recess under the provisions of S.Con.Res.3.  The Senate will meet at 11:30am on Monday, January 21, 2013 for the Joint Session for the Inaugural Ceremonies.
  • The Senate will recess upon conclusion of the Joint Session.

the Senate Convenes: 10:00amET January 22, 2013

  • Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for debate only until 12:30pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.
  • The Senate will recess from 12:30pm until 2:15pm to allow for the weekly caucus meetings.

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The next meeting is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on January 18, 2013.

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a Plan to Reduce Gun Violence

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President Obama Introduces a Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
 
President Obama puts forward a specific plan to protect our children and communities by reducing gun violence, introducing legislative and executive action that combined would close background check loopholes to keep guns out of dangerous hands; ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and taking other common-sense steps to reduce gun violence; make schools safer; and increase access to mental health services. January 16, 2013.
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Come see us when in Washington DC this weekend!


NMAAHC -- National Museum of African American History and Culture

WHAT TO DO IN WASHINGTON DURING
THE INAUGURATION WEEKENDBehind the Dream: the Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly

Saturday, January 19, 2013, 2:00 pm

Join us for a conversation between award-winning author and Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood and Clarence B. Jones, Dr. Martin Luther King’s personal lawyer and speechwriter.

National Museum of American History, Warner Bros. Theater
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Metro: Smithsonian or Federal Triangle

Free and Open to the Public. Seating limited.
RSVP requested Register at www.nmaahc.si.edu/events

Help us Celebrate History in the Making at an Open House hosted by the NMAAHC

Sunday, January 20, 2013, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm

 
  • Take a virtual tour of the Museum
  • View groundbreaking ceremony highlights
  • Meet museum staff and fellow Charter Members
  • Enjoy music and light refreshments
  • Show your membership card to receive a special photo (quantities limited)
  • Become a Charter Member

S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Avenue NW
Washington DC
Note: Copper-dome entrance kiosk located between Smithsonian Castle
and the Freer Sackler Gallery.
Metro: Smithsonian

Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963

On view now through September 15, 2013 in the NMAAHC’s temporary gallery on level 2.

National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Metro: Smithsonian or Federal Triangle

Guided exhibition tours offered Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 am, 12:00 noon, and 1:00 pm. Maximum group size for each tour is 15. Please meet in front of exhibition entrance.

For more information about Changing America, visit www.nmaahc.si.edu.
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Got Input! for Union of Concerned Scientists


Happy New Year! I’m excited to be kicking off 2013 with people like you standing with me.

In this new year, what issues are most important to you? Take our online survey today to tell us what YOU think are the best ways to bring about change together.

2013 is already off to an exciting start, thanks to pressure from UCS supporters like you:

  • Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has pulled its funding from the Heartland Institute, a climate denying think-tank, adding to the series of funders who are distancing themselves from this anti-science front group.
  • Congress temporarily extended important tax credits for clean wind energy development, bolstering one of the fastest growing renewable energy industries and retaining tens of thousands of American jobs.
  • Congress also extended key incentives for non-food biofuels.

Together, we’re already working hard to ensure the first actions of the Obama Administration’s second term are informed by objective science and to continue to challenge attacks on science from media pundits, big polluters, and front groups who deny the facts.

But we want to know what YOU think. Click here to take our quick online survey by January 25. It’ll only take a few minutes of your time and will provide vital feedback that will inform the fight to defend science and efforts to build a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.

We have an ambitious agenda for 2013—but with your support, I know we’ll win big victories this year. Together, we’ll work to replace old, inefficient coal-fired power plants with clean, renewable sources of energy such as the wind and sun; to cut our nation’s projected oil use in half within 20 years; to support healthy food and farming by incentivizing farmers to grow a wider variety of healthy crops rather than subsidizing crops used to make processed food like corn syrup; and much more.

Please take a moment today to let us know what you think about our work together and how best to respond to the most pressing issues facing our world today.

Sincerely,

Kevin Knobloch
President

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