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Spouse when you are negotiating to buy a car or a house or a brother or sister. So it is a how to deal with people saying and the essence is that you have to relate and you have to know where you end up with decency and you have to have a certain cultural scale. So the book is about a lot of negotiations as ambassador and governor. And sharks are not easy to deal with and its important you relate to that chart to get what you want. And in my case, diplomacy is a political prisoner and i had a ve...

The other party, you could do an amazing job there now, much better than you ever could before. But there are other things that are at play as well. For example, population sorting. Theres a wonderful book that some of you might want to read by a guy named bill bishop called the big sort. And he basically talks about how people, in a sense, they kind of vote with their feet in that people tend to move and concentrate with people like themselves. People are more comfortable when theyre with likem...

Things, you know, id threat cant agree with all of your points but i agree with your basic will go because there is always a disconnect between what is provided to folks, whether it is the gas tax that goes to building roads and highways that people use every day but not realizing that they are paying for that. A variety of other things that people use that the tax system paid for but not realizing that connection. So the whole idea you bring up, stephen, that you believe that to connect the tax...

History with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt has touched so many of us in such a personal way. Because i lost my mother to breast cancer, betty ford is a heroin to me. Because my family has been victimized by alcoholism and i know what it is to watch good, fine people stare into their personal despair, i will be forever grateful for the betty ford clinic and for the millions of other people whose lives have literally been turned around and often say you may not have gone to that clin...

Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [appl...

Friends. 33 hours away from the possibility of anited states of america becoming a deadbeat nation not paying its bills. Melissa in fact jus moments ago, fitch putting our countrys credit on negative watch. Its a big deal to markets and investors. This just as reportedly there is progress being made in washington right nowo end the shut down. In a few hours the house will vote on a plan tund the government through february 15th, raise the debt limit to februaryth and cut off subsidies to congres...

People worried about washington keeping their spending type. Time for stocks now. Nicole petallides is at the new york Stock Exchange. Nicole the dow is down about ten points. The s p pulling back one quarter of 1 . A lot of the retailers loved like the biggest losers. 500 stocks are comprised and represent oriole to autos to airlines. The sector that was really lagging where the retailers. Oil has been moving to the upside. There is a lot going on with that. And oil spike of two dollars. Now, l...

Is u. S. Supreme court heard oral argument in questioning the constitutional treaty parties. The case bond versus the u. S. Involves governments prosecution in that pennsylvania woman under federal a federal law designed to ban chemical weapons. The woman was found spreading toxic chemicals on her friends personal property. The underlying issue in the case is the question of when the federal government may intrude on powers traditionally given to the states. In this case police powers. Here is t...

Nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk George Jarrod hayesle of maryland to be United States district judge. The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy i ask unanimous consent to yield back the time before the vote. The presiding officer without objection, all time is yielded back. The senate will tom company order. Come to order. The senate will come to order. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture moti...

Gas it makes sense to say those are chemical weapons but with respect to otherwise harmless chemicals the only thing under the governments theory that turns them from chemical weapons weapons chemicals into chemical weapons as a verb. Its their malicious use in that puts it yuan an odd situation. If congress had come in and said look there are certain chemicals that by their very nature are almost inherently weaponized congress would have a lot more authority to proceed. Counsel we permit that i...