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Global governance should be the focus. What are the implications, if any, of a increasingly republican u. S. Congress. Do i give that to paul . Be my guest. You know im optimistic actually that certainly with time were going to realize and i think were probably already there or nearing on the verge of a breakthrough that american politics is about inclusiveness and working on both sides of the isle and were going to move away from being bitterly opposed on two sides of the isle and get back to a...

And that was hed asked you about mindless austerity, mindless sequestration cuts, ndless which was both in your written testimony and your spoken testimony. Do you really mindean mindless or was that a misspeak . What i mean by that is we sspea should look to make smart cuts hould in programs that arent working. It doesnt say smart. It says mindless. The implication of mindless is that it t applies a kind of across the board one size fits all approach to cutting spending as opposed to what i thi...

Republicans economic agenda, included massive unpaid tax cuts for the rich. Two unpaid wars and a doctrine of no regulation no supervision of wall street. It is this radical agenda that precipitated the financial meltdown and shattered our economy. How bad was it . On the night of thursday, september 18th 2008, the secretary of the treasury came to the capital for an emergency meeting with congressional leaders to inform us of the severity of the meltdown. When i asked the chairman of the fed, a...

Abbot the case against our children. He fought for 5 billion in education. Now he is proposing standardized tests for fouryearolds. Heard enough question . The answer. Is she will use education to build an economy for all hardworking texans. You decide. Who will be best for texas. Wendy davis is embroiled in scandal again. To sheer influence profited from her day job. She crossed from potential to real conflict of interest. Now that legal work as part of an fbi investigation. Unfit to be governo...

The president and thank him for what hes doing and a i pray we get a fair hearing on h. R. 5407. God bless you, brother, and i hope you continue to do what youre doing on the floor of the house. Mr. Jeffries thank you. Its now my honor and privilege to yield time, mr. Chair, how much time do we have remaining . The speaker pro tempore approximately 14 minutes are remaining. Mr. Jeffries let me now yield to my good friend, the distinguished congresswoman who represents the neighboring district at...

For a living wage. You wouldnt have to have legislation about minimum wage if you werent bringing in millions of people illegal and ausing them to compete with people that are trying desperately to find jobs, doing everything they can to find jobs. But we also know that for the First Time Since president carter, over 90 million over 16 Million People who could work, are not looking anymore. With this new five Million People the president is all of a sudden with the stroke of his wand, all of a s...

Solid waste seasoned transport system, 21. 2 million for passinging lanes on highway 59 between douglas and gillett and casper and shoshone. Funding for the High Altitude Sports Performance training center, Unconventional Oil and gas reservoirs research, entrepreneurship initiative, Science Initiative, Literacy Program and athletic competitiveness. All at u. W. And subject to private matching funds. Heres the deal. We have one fouryear land grant university. In those areas that are important to ...

Years. Ill continue with the introduction, but i want to say a couple things. First of all, please silence your cell phones, tweet up a storm if you want, but silence your cell phones. To tweet, its pelosiatbrookings. And also, we will be circulating cards for you to ask your questions, im going to try to ask as many of them as i can. I want to thank all the folks of brookings who have worked very hard. Nancy pelosi has proudly represented californias district for 27 years. She has led the House...

Executive order on immigration. Talking about the possibility of the u. S. Sending arms to ukrainian forces. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday, david brooks, columnist for the new york times, on writing an article and awards he gives that at the end of your. The sydney awards are given to the best magazine essay of the year and they can be journals like the new yorker or the atla...

Welcome everyone here today. This is a very exciting day. Im e. J. Dion, a senior fellow here at brookings, as you know, brookings likes to be in the middle of the great debates in our country. This is going to be a year, i think, of really fundamental debates about the future or about what happens to growth and is it shared. We might actually get around to arguing about what should our government spend money on and how are we going to pay for it . Weve had crises, rather than having real argume...