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In the Powerpoint Presentation was that there wasnt enough flexibility in the tax code in rhode island to attract businesses. Thats a very controversial position. There are a lot of people who think that you give away the store to get some factory thats going to be in massachusetts 20 miles away and move it to warwick and that looks like a big success for the governor of rhode island but in fact its a zero sum game that is hurting all those neighboring states. Do you think that could work though...

Mom. You are also an economist. Is there an actual economic benefit to inspiring girls to reach higher . Absolutely. I fall into the camp that the single greatest underutilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls. 50 of the talent tool pool, the brains, the innovation and creativity, that is underrepresented across the board and it is its not a womans issue to help get women and girls into science and technology and business and go. Its a societal issue. If we could figure out a way ...

That all led people to say, well, we cant really trust them. In your state of the state speech last week you said just because this didnt happen doesnt mean the problem doesnt go away. What is next . If it is such a toxic brand and you went and did so much twoshg get there, is Medicaid Expansion going to happen while youre governor . I certainly hope so. Again, we think the approach that we made was a really practical, smart answer to a real problem. So we still have you know, the program we thi...

Negotiations, iran did ask about that letter. And last night, the one who spearheaded that that letter took to the floor to express concerns over Irans Nuclear program. When it comes to the role congress should have in this process in doing with the wrong nuclear program, we want to ask our first 45 minutes how much influence congress should have over the process. The numbers are on the screen. You can make this conversation happen on our social Media Channels as well. The New York Times highlig...

So the consequences, madam president , of failing to raise the debt ceiling are crystal clear. Interest rates on middleclass expenses like home mortgages, and Student Loans shoot up. Housing markets, automobile markets and others decline, many are laid off. And then others are laid off in a cyclical cycle. As most cycles are. The dollar will lose its value, making everyday purchases more expensive and the federal Government Faces terrible choices about who to pay, seniors, veterans, military, cr...

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Conservation, creates millions of jobs right here at home, makes us more Energy Secure and Energy Independent and works with our friends, not our enemies. And i think we can get it done. Ive been around here long enough to know that things arent easy but i refuse to be cynical, i refuse to be, you know, woe is me, the world is coming to an end, which i hear a lot around here. I think theres a lot of positive things going on in our country today. The economy is improving. In north dakota, your st...

The revenue side. So we have to, i believe, address that, and i would hope that when we come up with this specific bill that well send it to you and your organizations and that you would then indicate to us whether you can support these kind of alternatives to sequestration. I happen to agree with senator king who phrased it earlier today, it may have been senator cain, but one of the two of you have talked about the fact that we talk a lot about getting sequestration. Whether or not you could r...

Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organ...

Wideranging sanctions. Thats coming as the g7 summit in brussels for which russia was excluded for the first time in six years and was taking place. And on capitol hill, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looked at the political situation in ukraine following last months elections. Thats coming up next on cspan2. Also today a bipartisan agreement was reached in the senate on a bill that aims to address some of the problems that the va medical facilities. And president obamas pick to head the...