There seems to be little or maybe no progress in sight for another covid19 relief bill House Speaker nancy pelosi, she said in a Conference Call with the House Democratic caucus, shes not budging until a new bill is signed saying the house is going to stay in session. The problem most americans dont care about details of this continued fighting they oimply understand nothing good is happening for them in the meantime and not surprisingly i got 2 very different viewpoints from our political analysts. In a normal world, the deal could and would be reached the president would families businesses and the economy are falling off a cliff. As federal funds dry up. They move closer to speaker pelosis number and you have a deal but covid relief doesnt fit in with the Trump Campaign theme that the economy is roaring back. It doesnt fit in with his Campaign Theme that the virus is going to magically disappear. So you have a campaign thats under cutting the need for a deal and in november while th
Your back, you scratch mine and we spend the money. But as a consequence were borrowing a Million Dollars a minute. I think we need to be very aware of where we are situated as a country. I think we need to be very aware of the consequences of continuing to borrow a Million Dollars a minute. I think as we go forward we have to understand what the founders intended for our country. We need to understand where our richness, where our greatness came from. Were the richest, greatest, most humanitarian country ever known in the history of man. In 2014 alone we gave away privately, through charity, nearly 3 400 billion. That doesnt happen in cuba, they dont make wealth. If you want to know why we won the cold war, we beat russia and all of communism because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of communism. Because we produce great wealth is why we were able to defeat the soviet union. If you dont know how wealth is created and you dont realize where wealth come from, if we dont real
Have been a member of the National Press club for 25 years. I tweet, so you will see a lot of tweets, d. C. \ \ dcconcussions you will find additional under our National Press club site. Various press releases have been put on the wire this morning including Health Research on the way here. Washingtons department of health provided a grant to childrens medical medstar, and the agency first didnt Health Research, offering their Technology Platform to collect data and information from parents, teachers, and coaches, and provide information for done diagnostic questions to help student athletes. Monitoringefer to a and Prevention Program implemented on the playground of the d. C. Parks and rec department. The will smith movie, returnedon, has attention to the issue of football and concussions. An item we just saw on the Cable Network about a sports injury, a young at wheat, the student had , it was found. It is not just nfl players. The movie noted the first autopsy, which helps identify,
Other efforts . A Super Committee [indiscernible] all these issues around transparency and oversight [indiscernible] and the way forward. Thank you. I do not know. I would be curious to hear what those kindss is and of programs. Is there a blueprint . I hesitate to say there is a blueprint because that sounds so concrete and fixed. There are certainly those conversations going on. They go on between the iraqi authorities and key institutional donors and Civil Society groups. And iraqi organizations. If you take the example of how do you program most effectively to stabilize areas that have recently been retaken from isis, for example. Within those conversations all are looking at this issue seriously and developing their own strategies for engagement. I think one of the kind of key messages of this research is within that conversation and within that roadmapping and blueprinting. The necessityet bignvesting equally as evidence and Civil Societys role in governments as you might invest
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the National Press clubs Morning Newsmaker Program here in washington, d. C. Todays topic is preventing youth sports concussion and what washington, d. C. , is doing about it. One of the first major metro areas in the region to provide a grant for research, education and monitoring of concussions in youth sports. And were also here to talk about other youth sports injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends and concussion research, state policies and whether or not the u. S. Department of education should adopt federal compliance mandates. Every state in the union has a concussionrelated law on the books and a sports and youth Injury Program regulation on the books. Enforcement is the issue, and compliance is the issue, and thats what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be talking to us about. My name is mike smith, and i serve on the National Press Club Newsmaker committee, and the comm