Talking about the uniqueness of election 2016. This is the weirdest election cycle of my lifetime. So if some of your listens listeners have thought there are awfully weird. Yeah about 300 million americans and probably 10 billion people around the world are watching this saying sure is strange. And its strange from this aspect. That the president ial election so far seems to be about everything but the issues. At elections, its issues that separate the two candidates and the two parties and this year it seems that issues dont play a role. At least in the campaigns. I still believe theyre important to people in North Carolina and people around the country. And they will play a part in the senate race that im in. I think over 50 of the people in North Carolina believe that jobs and the economy is the i think it is the most important issue. And i think its a huge responsibility for congress to create the architecture to allow growth to happen in our economy and jobs to be created. You kn
And the Charlie Hebdo and november 2015 terrorist attacks in paris. Just interviewed numerous heads of state including president barack obama and george w. Bush as well as senators, governors and foreign dignitaries. Before time, she was a small for bloomberg or she covered the white house, congress and the 2004 president ial campaign. She received an m. S. In journalism from columbia and an undergraduate degrees in International Relations and art history from tufts university. She was a 2015 Harvard Institute of politics fellow at the 2016 new America Foundation fellow. Welcome. [applause] tonight second panelist is the honorable kay hagan who serve as United States senator from North Carolina from 20092015. Prior to her time in the u. S. Senate she served and the North Carolina senate from 19992009. After taking office in january of 2009 senator hagan served on four committees the Armed Services, banking, housing and urban affairs, Small Business and not a partnership, and Health Edu
Democracy. When we can look our brothers and sisters in the eyes, black, latino, young, women, so sameday registration, getting out there and thinking about what were passing legislatively , racial inequality. We must be on the forefront. Really being there on the ground. The black lives Matter Movement is a movement afoot, a Climate Change movement afoot. They can register. They are registering people to vote, but we have to commit to them that we are going to deliver for them, not just take that vote. Thank you very much. Thank you. [laughter] [applause] Robert Weissman has led Public Citizen since 2009. As well as anate expert on a wide variety of issues. The floor is yours. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Thank you to the committee for your leadership, and thank you for your stamina. Solve itsll not greatest problems if we dont rescue our democracy, severe inequality, catastrophic climate get there ifll not we dont deal with the democratic def
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Burch and even the name the John Birch Society is even less known in china than it is in the United States which is not surprising. While the name of mccarthy may be well known or pretty well known in china, the name of a Birch Society did not reach that same level, mccarthy was in Political Office and had a different kind of platform from robert welch. In the Birch Society. I think think if the book were to be translated in published in china then there would obviously the more interest and it would be extremely interesting to know if there is more information in the archives about the incident. As far as i know the communist party to the late 50s and 60s, while they followed american politics at a distance in terms of the Civil Rights Movement and were quite concerned and quite interested in what they viewed as oppression of africanamericans, blacks in u. S. Society and this was evidence of the ills of capitalism. Not to mention imperialism, there was not that much attention, partly