Will you join me in thanking Justice Kagan . [applause] thank you very much. [applause] tomorrow on cspan epa administrator talks about cooperation tweeb the u. S. And china over policies related to the environment and climate. Her remarks come at the center for American Progress live at 10 30 a. M. Eastern. A speech about American Education policy in connecticut. On august 9, 1974 Vice President ford was sworn in as president of the United States. This is the dress that ms. Ford was wearing at the swearing in ceremony. She was less than excited about becoming first lady but president ford encouraged her saying we can do this. She resolved if i have to do this, im going to have fun doing it. Within 10days she had a state dinner to entertain king hussein of jordan. She had to prepare for that as her role of first lady and she hit the ground running. First Lady Betty Ford monday night at 9 00 eastern. Next is constitution and role judges with Supreme Court thomas. This is from the 2013 L
Nominations result . All president ial nominations only require a simple majority now. On the cspan year in review, we show you some of the debate over the past year. Comments from harry reid, Mitch Mcconnell, and even video by c span viewers using the cspan video library. Are dark days in the history of the senate. I hate that we have come to this oink. Point. And now, our request for a joint at ang, all the senators time when attendance around here is frequently quite spotty, in an obvious effort to keep as members from hearing the concerns and arguments of the other side is possible. It remains our view that for this to be the kind of joint session of the senate that it tendencybe, given the of the senate to have sparse attendance on monday night, to have this meeting on tuesday, before it is too late. Mr. President , i dont want him to feel sorry for the senate and certainly not for me. Speak continue to try to in a tone that is appropriate. People start believing it. Quiteesident,
Host that breakthrough year, is something that took leisa the president s press conference. It was highlighted in the paper today. Here is president obama yesterday talking about the economy and his 2014 being a breakthrough year. Up and whathat all it means is we head into next year with an economy that is stronger than it was when we started the year. More americans are finding work ad experiencing the pride of paycheck. We are positioned for new growth and new jobs and i firmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. Outlined in detail earlier this month we know there is a lot more we are going to have to do to restore opportunity and brought based progress for everyone. It is a good start that earlier this week for the first time in years both parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget. That unwinds some of the damaging sequester cuts that created headwinds for our economy. It clears the path for businesses and for investments that we need t
Wisdom and experience. I would like now to call for his observations. Thank you, senator. First off, im president of the james river whole company. I very much appreciate invitation today from senator mcconnell to come speak with you. I left yesterday after a 48 hour workday, over two days. We furloughed or laid off for 200 employees. Our company as a whole over the last six months has had to do that for many employees. These are communities of just 1000 or 2000 people or 3000 people. When you have that type of Economic Impact due to regulations, and many of which are regulations that come from washington, that have very little understanding of what the outcome is for the local folks, for folks who get up and go to work everyday, the impact will mean for their families, that is wrong. Obviously were having hearings today in d. C. This is not my first visit here. I have been here on numerous occasions. I very much wish and invite you to coal country. You have heard people speak that the
Today, an encore presentation of human day, with the chief of washington, d. C. s metropolitan police. She talked about Department Growth in the past 23 years she has been a police officer. A lot of things have happened. Decline fromnitial the 500 down to the 200 range the declined over about 10 years. That was the kind of burning out of the crack cocaine epidemic. It was a 20 year run of sheer hell for most cities. The Violence Associated with crack cocaine markets we had 200 openair markets in the city. There would be drive buys and six or seven people would be shot or killed in a single incident. The 400s downrom to 50, and stay there for some time. Why did that wayne . If you look at drug patterns, trucks tend to spike in popularity. Cycles and 20 year go down. The crack cocaine epidemic is no more. There are still people who use cocaine. There are still people who use crack cocaine. It is nowhere near what it used to be. Driving the violence that dropped us down into the 200 range