The iranian people a mandate to pursue a more moderate course. And given president rouhanis stated commitment to reach an agreement, i am directing john kerry to pursue this effort with the iranian government, in close cooperation with the european union, the united kingdom, france, germany, russia and china. In the meantime, president obama could come face to face with rouhani, who is speaking later this afternoon. And the big question today, will the two speak to one another . If they do, it would make history. It would be the first meeting between u. S. And iranian leaders in more than 30 years. The white house says that no meeting is scheduled. Joining me now for more on all of this, former ambassador Mark Ginsburg, a former white house middle east adviser and rula gibrio. What did you make of the president s speech . As someone who is totally immersed in the middle east, this speech is almost entirely devoted to middle east issues, from the Israeli Palestinian conflict to the effo
With fewer federal dollars available. Under map 21 texas has submitted six letters of interest and we continue to have open and forthright discussions with u. S. D. O. T. About her projects. They have been good partners to work with and we certainly appreciate their willingness to meet with us and work through the new tifia process. U. S. D. O. T. Was a lot of discretion to evaluate and choose eligible projects under specific criteria. U. S. D. O. T. Is have the authority to weigh and compare the relative merits of projects under the selection criteria and to choose those that scored highest under that weighted scoring system. Over time u. S. D. O. T. Continued at criteria such as livability to the list of their selection criteria and too much discretion seem to be permeating the process and made the the program more about me being subjective as opposed to funding the best projects and older order to meet mobility. Map21 eliminate discretionary criteria as it established a limited set
Those in with all of these other sources. Host david, thank you very much. I urge everyone to read the book and, later, you can look at the context in those transcripts of these tape recording as they come out over the next year. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. On affirmative action in the prelim to the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument in fisher be the university of texas. The authors report the agree with the National Goals of affirmative action but now agree the system hurts more than helps minorities. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to roger and cato for hosting this event. Im thankful to have such a good kick off to the book, which is actually being officially published today. As roger mentioned i am going to start and talk a little bit about the mismatch idea itself and some of what we have done in the book. Stewart is going to try to relate this Martin Fisher and what will be happening tomorrow. I a
The highly respected president s and in the case of canada, the Prime Minister are satisfied with the deal. Its good for canada and good for mexico. Good for all three. This is good for all three. Just that fact makes it good for us. This is good for all three. This is a much different deal than nafta. Much more of a reciprocal deal for the United States. Go ahead, peter. We will do the kavanaugh questions. You talk about being treated harshly. We will do that in a lets finish up trade. You have a lot of people who want to run over to the Wall Street Journal and start writing. I cant hear you. A mexican journalist . You are going to keep the tariffs on mexico for steel . Until such time where we can do something that will be different like quotas, perhaps. So that our industry is protected. We are not going to allow our Steel Industry to disappear. It was almost gone. If our country kept going the way it was going, within two years we wouldnt have a Steel Industry. We have to have stee
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. , march 4, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Ms. Foxx thank you, mr. Speaker. Every year washington imposes thousands of pages of rules and regulations on Small Bus