The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , april 23 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable rob woodall to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Bane he shall, speaker of the house of representatives. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend ribble, dunmar pennsylvania. The chaplain we come today knowing that you are worthy of all worship. We declare that you are the creator and sustainer of all things and the one who provides the means of forgiveness of mankind. We, your created beings are your stewards. Father, we thank you that you allow us to live into a nation that is able to worship you. Give them the ability to discern the times in which we see and to see the consequences of their actions. Guide them in making decisions that is best. Bring new spiritua
Emancipation proclamation. But followed by other historians on the controversy and debate. Part of four days of American History tv at 9 30 on cspan3. The president of the United States [applause] thank you. Happy new year to you. Hello, everybody. Thank you. Everybody have a seat. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the white house. I realize that the last thing you want to hear on new years eve is another speech from me. But i do need to talk about the progress being made in congress today. For the last few days, leaders of both parties are working toward an agreement that will prevent a middleclass tax hike from hitting 98 of all americans starting tomorrow. Preventing that tax hike has been my top priority. The last thing that folks like the folks appear on this stage can afford right now is to pay an extra 2,000 in taxes next year. Middleclass families cannot afford it, businesses cannot afford it, our economy cannot afford it. Today, it appears an agreement to prevent this new
Against this canard. It is just not true. Why do you not find out . We went through. We have a lot of people who were critical of npr but were listeners. Most people to criticize it had never heard it. It was just a word on fox news. They never listen to it. We got several listeners who were not supporters. They like to the content, but they were very biased, so we took apart their anecdotal experiences, and we examine them closely for some clues, and then we did some quantitative stock based on pew and other Research Outlets you had attempted to evaluate media, and ira said it changed the way that he was reporting, but i cannot say it changed mine. I know that will in dear me to all of our critics, but we try to disclose exactly who we are in a way that npr as a general rule does not. They like to their hosts to be uninflected in their presentation, and we made a conscious choice, bob and i did, that if we were going to criticize people for not disclosing things, then we would try to
Unstable. We are seeing extremism. We are seeing a major shift in this region. We are not dealing with iran in a vacuum. The decisions we make have to be decisions for the region. We are dealing with a United States that is tired of war. It has not gone well in the two big wars it conducted in the middle east. It spent trillions of dollars, a lot of mud and blood and treasure. It is very clear that the americans are more interested in nationbuilding at home. These are important context to bear in mind. Hopefully the Iranian Regime will change. Hopefully, the administration will take diplomacy very seriously. Or that sanctions really change the koran and governments mind and they change course the iranian governments mind and they change course. It is quite likely and possible that iran may go nuclear before any of these things take effect. Before sanctions, as rigorous as they are, produce a result, or before there is a democracy movement. Then, we are really left with two choices. We
Influencing machine. She sat down recently at fort university. This is an hour and 20 minutes fordham university. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Our moderator is the author of four books on cultural programming and for 15 years, he was the head of special projects at the directors guild. He frequently moderates and events around the city for bafta, the screen actors guild, the producers guild, the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. Please welcome brian rose. [applause] next, but could not be more delighted to have Brooke Gladstone here tonight. She is the managing editor and cohost of nprs on the media and author of a highly acclaimed book the influencing machine. we will be doing a signing of her book. She has been at npr for many years, including a threeyear stint in moscow where she covered the last turbinate years of president yeltsin. I know all of you die hard groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that pulls you in. Each week, even at 7 00 a. M.