美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-11-04
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Hosting an international event can come with an intense spotlight1. Yesterday, we talked about some of the challenges that Russia is facing as it gets ready for the next year's Winter Olympics. There's also been a focus on a controversial Russian law that deals with homosexuality. The law doesn't make it illegal to be gay but it prohibits distributing information to minors2 that promote same sexual relationships. The law had some people concerned about the upcoming Olympics. What kind of behavior would or wouldn't be acceptable from athletes or fans? On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said everyone would be welcomed at the games, quote: We're doing everything so that participants and guests feel comfortable in S. regardless of nationality, race or sexual orientation3. What kind of impact could President Putin statement have?
President Putin is clearly on attempt to cool some of the international anger over Russian's anti-gay propaganda law which makes it illegal to tell children here that gay and straight relationships are equal. It's being
blandly4 discriminatory. His words are unlikely to be satisfied gay and human
activists5 around the world who aren't just worried about what this law means during Olympics, they're angry about it's very existence and what it would mean for gay people in this country before, during and after the games.
Next up today, advise and consent. Its phrase out of the US constitution and it's one of the responsibilities of the US Senate. Work like this: the president nominates people to feel certain positions in the US government, then the Senate advises and consents or it doesn't. Senators consider the
nominees6, ask them questions, then they either confirm or deny the nominees for the jobs. This is Senator Lindsey Gram. He's threatening to block every
nomination7 from President Obama until he gets the answers about the attack on the US facility last year.
"To this date, we don't have the ...FBI interviews of
survivors8 conducted one or two days after the attack. We don't have the basic information about what was said of the night of the attack that's been shared with Congress as of this date."
The terrorist attack Senator Gram is talking about is the one on the US
consulate9 in Benghazi Libya. 4 Americans were killed and Senator Gram says they died in a different way than the Obama administration says they did. He's been pushing to get details on what happened and on the administration's response. He want's the Senate to be able to question the survivors of Benghazi attack. So, what about Senator Gram's plan to block the
nominations10? He could do that. The rule of the Senate allow members to hold up nominations through different methods. It's something
Democrats11 and Republicans have done. The goal is to force action or compromise.
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