Who also tom folley died today. He served for 30 years. House Speaker John Boehner released a statement about tom foley saying he was warmhearted. He would call leaks on both sides of the aisle. She had a solid sense of fairness. He was 84 years old. He had a solid sense of fairness. He was 84 years old. Cspan, wouldnt you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, greetings, conferences, which of the u. S. House, all as a Public Service of private industry. Cable tvreated by the industry and funded by do local cable or satellite provider. You can watch us in hd. Today president obama officially announced former Defense Department attorney jeh johnson as his nominee for department of Homeland Security secretary. He will represent replace janet napolitano. From the white house rose garden, this is about 20 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the president and Vice President of the United States accompanied by jeh johnson. Good afternoon, everyone. Please have a seat. Presiden
It is the budget problem overall. As was just said, members of congress do not vote against research. They just let cuts in research happen because of what is now in place, a budget that is constantly taking money away from research and innovation and putting it in the hands of old people, like me, who frankly should not be getting the percentage of revenue that is now coming to our generation. The reason we have the best Research Universities in the world is that, for some 70 years now, the federal government has invested heavily in research, competitively awarded research grants, which go to faculty members at the university of michigan, the university of virginia, harvard, stanford, and all the other great universities in this country that carry out research. What is the result of that research . A Great Innovation system. Economists now acknowledge that 60 or more of u. S. Economic growth over the past few decades is based on innovation. A huge percentage of that innovation is done
Yes we do have time for questions. I think the unifying theme that you hear from this Diverse Group is, people want our leaders to govern and we want them to lead. It is time for them to doppler urging from one crisis to another and focus on some of the longerterm issues. I will quote Erskine Bowles here who regularly says we have made all of the easy choices. We have made all of the stupid choices and now it is time for this country to start making some of the real choices. We hear a lot of the interest here about just how important that is. I would be glad to turn questions over to the secretary, to any of our speakers today. Yes . You talked often about sequestration, ask to the head, suicide. It is deal actually submits the cuts under sequestration, putting the Defense Department for the foreseeable future. If thishe senate deal is a failure of leadership as you have referred to it . The fundable the fundamental challenge was to do whatever was necessary to and the shutdown of the
Europe and asked several questions. Affirmativeaction means a lot more than just the use of race or sexbased preferences in university of michigan. Section 26 only focuses on this one aspect of university of missions. Another point to understand is that section 26 is not all about university of missions. This is a much broader law that applies not just your race and ethnicity but also sex and other this is a broadbased law that was primarily motivated by the people of michigans decision to move past the day when we always focus on race and exactly as greater invited the states to do you can you can see how that discussion gets mired when you look at some of these statistics that we have been talking about. Is someone who has multiple racial boxes checked more or less diverse than someone who only has one box checked . Is someone who comes from outside the country say from mexico youve done something much more. You are basically saying, because fisher and grutter weve always applied str
No matter whether you abreed with his views or not. He will be missed by both sides of this house and our thoughts are with the right honorable member and other members of his family at this time. Im sure the house would also join ming tribute to the pgb Paralympic Team following Great Success at the sochi games. Kenny gallagher won our first ever gold medal at the paralympics. Mr. Speaker this morning i had meeting with ministers and colleagues and in addition to my duties to the house i will have such further duties today. Mr. Speaker i think the whole house want to associate themselves with the Prime Minister and the remarks on congratulating the paralympics team. Of course the paralympicsed in buckingham. Mr. Speaker, today unemployment has fallen 63,000. This has been evident in where we have growth in the private sector continue. Does my right honourable friend agree with me that we must sustain this growth by continuing to tackle the deficit , the pork industry and continue with