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His mother and fathers families were both from virginia. We claim him as a brother in virginia because of affection he held for the south, for southerners and virginians during his entire life even during the difficult war years and especially the days after the war. We must especially claim lincoln as a virginian because the project of his mature adult life was to pick up and rescue from the most virginia value that all men are created equal and work to continue the project that was authored by...

The worst Mass Shootings in us history. Twentysix people, 20 schoolkids, six adults. Governor malloy had to face Hurricane Sandy in october 2012. As well as hurricane irene. Governor jay nixon of missouri my governor of governor of the state of 6 million been governor since 2004. Member of the state senate and lawyer. Governor nixon face the civil unrest and ferguson, missouri in the aftermath of the shooting death of michael brown. In addition Governor Nixon has had to contend with what cragg f...

During the president ial term. The reality is that the senate has never stopped confirming judicial nominees in the last few months of a president ial term. I agree with senator grassley or at least i agreed with him. Frankly, now im not sure where the senior senator from iowa stance. He issues contradictory statements every day on this one issue. Another person willing to confirm was the first term center from kentucky, senator mccamley. In fact, 40 years ago the republican leader said it had a...

Its the Biggest Company no one has heard of it almost every american probably comes into contact with a. But theres georgiapacific lumber like so many other products you are a consumer of the industries and it was an epic fight who is going to have the control of the company that the father started and the two that lost out are the ones you dont hear about. Host what do bill and fred do . Guest he started up his business of fossil fuels. It has call and gas. He has his company that had a differe...

You arrived. I think you were age 29. Oh, my god. You were 29 and two days early from being eligible as United States senator. And through all those years weve worked together, weve been dear friends. Weve been a part of the Progressive Network of america. And when you were elected Vice President , we talked about my experience with the office and youve taken the vice presidency a big step forward. Partly because of [ applause ] aided by your experience in the senate as sometimes chairman of the...

Program. You can see this or any of our programs in their entirety at our website cspan. Org. Earlier today Vice President joe biden announcing his decision not to seek the democratic nomination for president. Heres a quick look. As my family and i have worked through the grieving process, ive said all along what ive said time and again to others, that it may very well be that that process by the time we get through it closes the window on mounting a Realistic Campaign for president. That it mig...

I am amused by those who point to the small size of the Greek Economy to the relatively small size of the Banking System and suggest it means it has no or very little systematic risk. I think we should have learned over the last two years that none of us can fully and easily anticipate where Systemic Risk may come from. European stocks advanced on news of the greek retreat. Germanys 10 year yields are below those of japan for the very first time. Australia, the central bank unexpectedly cut its ...

Line up were ready to take some questions. Hi, my name is sean, and im from the university of san diego. So speaking about incentives for Congress People to take the long view, take the hard vote, what do you think in your opinion is the best solution to incentivizing individual Congress People to take the long view . Well, first of all, nobodys going to do something that deliberately and intentionally causes their loss. That wou defy the laws of nature. So im from kansas so if i went up and i s...

I can add on both of those, just take that as another example and what is uncertainty. That matters a lot. You can get different results. You need to have that on the bigger issue of uncertainty and ambiguity, one of the things we havent talked about at all is what the view of the nation should be regarding uncertainty. When you move away from the standard and expected framework or even within that we have to have the government be riskaverse. Once you move into areas where there is not ambiguit...

Thought and we have women that have opportunities that maybe we could all benefit from. What would he be able to day what could she do to make things better for herself. I think that having an open mind as to what kinds of jobs we have, womens professions are still part of this and if you could think about this, you will have a chance to make a higher salary and that is something to think about. So whether you agree or disagree with some of the solutions, it starts an important conversation abou...