the administration hopes that the congress would do by way of action or legislative action or otherwise that could be constructive in helping to not just show solidarity, but to continue the focus that should be brought to bear on what these brave citizens of syria are trying to accomplish. i ve been working in the middle east since 1980 in a peace corp. volunteer, and i really liked the president s speech on the arab spring because i think he laid out for the american people why change in the arab world matters for us and what it means for our own national security, and the point the president stressed that i really appreciated is the democratic transitions underway from morocco to the persian gulf do matter to us. we have big interest in that part of the world, and it can be positive change, and we should be supporting democratic transitions throughout the region, and there may be times when our assistance is needed directly and our assistance is only needed indirectly,
us would, but we realize that to let the debt ceiling lapse would be a disaster, to not raise it. and so i have not, i have not heard of a single democrat who has said the debt ceiling ought to lapse. and i ve heard scores of republicans, elected official republicans, and thousands of others and groups in that right-wing firm mean firmament g their members to let this debt ceiling lapse. my guess, is god, forbid, it happens, and we re doing everything we can to prevent it from happening, they will retract that language or they will find ways to explain what they really meant because their analysis that it doesn t matter or it won t do much harm is unfortunately dead wrong. happy to yield. mr. harkin: if the senator would yield for another question, again, there s a lot of misunderstanding and i can i sympathize with this among the general populous that somehow raising the debt ceiling means that somehow we can go and borrow more money in the future and go further in debt. i
as poking fun at the publishing business. for example, i said last year that publishing was a sinking ship. and i meant that in a positive way. [laughter] i did not say that publishing was a sunken ship. i said, and i believe, that publishing is still very much in the process of sinking. you know, publishing is a carnival cruise ship. it s on fire, the toilets don t work, but we are surviving day to day on pop tarts and spam. [laughter] and i think we can all agree that is a pretty darn positive assessment of where publishing is right now. [applause] i m glad there is some agreement. but just to be clear, if in the course of this evening i do poke fun of publishing, it s not out of disrespect. it s because i m an ice hole. there s also agreement on that. that s what i m paid to do or what it would be paid to do if i were being paid tonight. [laughter] tonight i am a pro bono asshole. and i relish that task, i really do. if you want to switch things up a little bit to do somet
the fifth point that we saw, that we think is important is that parents and teenagers are concerned about geo-location services places that can track your behavior, we found that 91% of parents found that search engines and online social networking sites should not be able to share their physical location with other companies before they have been given the specific authorization to do so. a strong majority of teenagers, 81%, said the same thing. geode-location services have popped up geo-location services have popped up recently, and on the radar as a serious concern. the sixth point is that approximately 70% of parents think schools need to educate kids about privacy it needs to be part of the basic curriculum in school as social media and digital media, more broadly, have revolutionized the lives of students across the country. the seven. we found is that parents want updated privacy laws. we will speak to that with sharon genachowski, jon leibowitz, and deputy secre
txp oratte a l e soo mendigwe h net us im ineelir keom r cr.lyt ne bs to be a senator? thank you for the question. i would also like to welcome our audience here and the audience at watching at home. in this election, it is about very clear choices in different philosophies. you have my opponent who has been in government all of his life. he is about growing government. i am about growing the economy. he is about raising taxes. i want our money to stay in the hands of our families. when mr. blumenthal is talking about middle-class tax cuts, that is just not true and he knows it. but i do not want is to raise taxes on anyone. if we raise taxes on small businesses, we are absolutely going to cramp not only their growth, but it will impact the middle class. let s not raise taxes on anyone. we have to focus on making sure that small businesses that create 70% of the jobs in this country will have the ability to grow and to create jobs. if we hand