Questions on education, health care, and Climate Change. If you run for the president of the United States, it is an expensive proposition. Now is thatight especially since Citizens United , what we have seen is a major corruption of our political process and the concept of meaning oneeting person one vote. We are america here. If we were arguing about an issue, majority wins. Everybody has the same vote. But increasingly in american politics, that is not the case. You have a handful of billionaires who are literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars in all kinds of ways electing candidates who represent the wealthy and the powerful. And that concerns me very much because that undermines american democracy, which is why you end up in congress with Republican Leadership talking about tax breaks for billionaires and cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid. Go out on the streets of indianola or anywhere else, it is not like that. That is what the money interests want. We ha
To gaveluse is about in so we are going to leave the hearing. You can continue watching on cspan3 or on our website cspan. Org. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. November 19, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable mark takano to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from oregon, ms. Bonam
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
Its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston. Delighted to be a small cog in in the Service Alliance machine that produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Belle sawhill for conceiving of this day and working tirelessly over a period of at least six months to bring it about. And also our president john allen for lending his vast experience and immense moral authority to our enterprise this morning. And i think its a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, whats the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. Its useful to keep them separate. The first has to do with service as an avenue of personal growth, the expansion and the deepening of character. The second has to do with actual good done for others, ser
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