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Time. The usual calm and quiet conversation has led to a conclusion that now i can ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment in order to call up amendment 4039. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The clerk will report the amendment. The clerk the senator from arizona mr. Mccain proposes amendment number 4039 to amendment 3896. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from virginia. Mr. Warner mr...

Look, protecting the middleclass society used to be the democrats holy mission. Once upon a time they wouldve looked at the situation we are in today, rolled up their sleeves and tackle the situation with a certain amount of relish. Shared prosperity was once the parties highest aim area defending the middleclass world that we live in was a sacred path for them as they never tired of reminded us back in the days of truman and albie jay. To this day, democrats are the ones that pledged to raise t...

[inaudible] i get everyones attention. I am keith, im the director of the program here at george university. Today we are thrilled we have Deirdre Mccloskey and and conversation with my good colleague tom, deirdre has come out with a third volume of her trilogy the bourgeois inequality, well talk about that in the introduction but i want to personally congratulate deirdre on this collection. I think it is the most ambitious work and economics done done during my career at least in economics and ...

Speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference following todays program. Hosting our event is dr. James j. Carafano who serves as Vice President of our katherine and shelby column Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. He is also our e. W. Richardson fellow. Hes a graduate of west point and a 25year veteran of the army, serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has served as visiting pro...

I know how deeply personally affected he has been. And i guess i tell you why i am doing this as a means of telling you why senator blumenthal and i are doing this, and i tell it through a prism of a story that just awful, awful series of days following the shootings in sandy hook. Senator blumenthal and i went through the first of what were umpteen wakes and funerals, and we were standing in line at the first wake about to talk to the first set of parents who had lost in this case their young d...

[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barr...

And then drive it forward in 2017. Thanks for listening. [applause] i know j stand before you and lunch but i am happy to take any questions for you. Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contri...

It is the heart of gold that come from the people in this beautifully picturesque and again amazing place. Its a great honor to celebrate talkeetnas centennial today here in the United States senate. And with that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Gram mr. President . The presiding officer the mr. Graham mr. President . The presiding officer the senator South Carolina Program Program i wish i could go. I wish to see that before i die. In three minutes the final game of the championship round o...

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