Transportation security issues. Now the new president of the Kennedy Center for the performing arts, Deborah Rutter, outlines her u future plans and emphasizes the importance of arts and education and cultural diplomacy, from the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome. My name is myron delkheim, the Washington School of media and Public Affairs and former International Bureau chief with the Associated Press and the 107th president of the National Press club, the National Press club is the worlds leading committed to our professions future through our programming, with events such as this, while fostering a free press worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our website at press. Org. On behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journal iists who are cb members, if you hear applause in our audie
And youve got five trillion dollars of outstanding obligations now that somebody has to deal with. Thats in the current of housing finance. Thats not in the future. So, somebody has got to deal with that. And whether its fannie or freddie or somebody else, i mean, thats, i think, a decision that congress has to make, not fhfa. Let me switch topics here for just a minute. That has to do with the mortgage debt relief act. Director watt, i dont think any state has felt the impact of falling home values more than the state of nevada. Congress passed mortgage debt relief act to ensure those who owe more on their mortgages than they do on their homes are now worth would not be hit with additional income taxes. Im not going to ask your opinion on the irs or thank you. On income taxes. But i think its unfortunate. No one gets hit more than lowincome, middleincome families. I think its unfair and i think most would concur that its unfair, that individuals would have to pay taxes on income that
Committed to our professions future through our programming, with events such as this, while fostering a free press worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our website at press. Org. On behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journal iists who are cb members, if you hear applause in our audience, note that members of i would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences, after our guest speech concludes, well have a question and answer period and well ask as many questions as time permits. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. I wou i would like each of you to stand as your name is announced. Elizabeth smith brownstein, a member of the press clubs history and Heritage Committee and a writer of our online newsletters this week in the National Press club history. Doris margolis, president of Edito
Continuing resolution referred to as krom any bus strategy which keeps the government operating until mid february. The reason, obviously because republicans will have control of the house and senate next year . There is talk of that. So it is varying degreeses. The basic premise of that is that many of the republicans and some of the republicans in congress, realizing they will control both chambers starting on january 3rd. Are wondering why democratic majority leaders soon to be minority leader harry reid and other democrats would have such a say on a bill spending them until last so that notion is that lets do another temporary one and then the new republican dominated senate and house could come up with a spending bill after that. But Republican Leaders kind of want to wipe the slate clean and are preferring a measure that could be done now that could get congress through the whole entire next fiscal year without having to readdress it in the spring. But whether they could win over
Not widely heard in the white communities. But the b or flip side would be heard even less. What we discovered quickly is how many of the bside songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. Since theres very few data bases and none of them are complete on all gospel music, didnt know that. We didnt know the sheer number of songs that had very overt songs like there aint no segregation in heaven type songs, at a time when possessing one of those songs, much less singing it was a very dangerous thing in the deep south. You could get killed for a lot of things in the deep south, but singing that sort of song outloud, well, thats a risk. The texas ranger hall of fame, it was set up in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers. And honors at this point 30 rangers who made major contributions to the service or gave their lives under heroic circumstances. We have paintings or portraits of all of those rangers. They really begin with steven f. Austin. Austin was very successful