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Is the safest out. The safety of every community is our highest priority. For thousands of commuters that take amtrak into or out of the city, the derailment make an unscheduled transfer to silver spring. It is challenging and only monday. You can see the work going on. They are pulling a big section of rail. Im not sure if that is going in or out. They are rushing to move a lot of the rail cars out of here and got most of them out already. They want to get the track reopened. But they are going...

Wonderful panel that we have. Im just going to be making a personal introduction and very shortly turning it over to my colleague. Tom mann who is a senior fellow in governance studies and then of course needs no introduction to all of you but of course Julia Gillard australias first Prime Minister and e. J. Dionne. First female Prime Minister. [laughter] thank you. She really looks great, doesnt she . The first female Prime Minister. [laughter] and then the e. J. Dionne. The laughter covered up...

And i could not do what i did without her, so thank you to senator mcconnell, mr. Leader thank you. Its been an honor to serve in his body. I will have more to say next week in my Farewell Speech but i did not want this day to go by without expressing my appreciation. Thank you. Today former Senate Majority trent lott and former democratic leader tom daschle talked about issues in congress including the Affordable Care act, immigration policy, the eric garner decision and the need for bipartisan...

It was important to hamilton, for example. Jefferson very adamantly disagreed with burkes reading of france. He was a friend of paines, a close friend during the revolutionary years. He thought that paines great pamphlet, common sense, was extreme lu important and ought to be extremely important and helped it get distributed. He helped him get a job as the secretary to the committee on Foreign Relations of the continental congress. And he was a kind of patron of Thomas Paines in some ways. When ...

They comes under the faintest bit of scrutiny it just vanishes into nothing. Host thats amazing. You mentioned earlier that the whole chasing of paper and the whole zealousness of this Debt Collection business got to a larger height during the Great Recession after the financial crisis because people simply have less money to pay and they have more debt that accumulated. You talk about the term shadow economy which i find very interesting. In the term shadow banking usually its about hedge funds...

To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next sli...

Ladies and gentlemen, the doctor is in the house. He is going to the senate. I guarantee you he and i will stand tall. We wont stand with president obama 90 of the time. We are going to stand together with you 100 of the time. , givecelebrate tonight thanks to god, and get it tomorrow morning to fight and take back this country. Ladies and gentlemen. The man of the hour. Kenny davidson. [laughter] i can tell you bill cassidy is not only an honorable representative, not only a great , but a lovin...

Going to be we saw it happen with speaker gingrich and it can happen here. Boehner walked away from a deal shortly after that. I want to come to the interplay between the leadership on the republican side in in a second but i have to ask this based on what you said. I think you know the president gave what was initially an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register editorial board, speaking although he did not get the endorsement of that paper in one of the things he said in the intervi...

There is not domestic you. Thank you so much. Right behind you. I noticed mr. Ornsteins pantheon of views that are still in congress favor mr. Lugar will be in a few. It seems once they are on their way out or out the door, they say all the right things. When they are continuing to run, Olympia Snowe is another great example. What would you suggest we do as a public for others do to encourage politicians in office to the right thing because the right thing to do . Tom, you can start. Im curious ...

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...