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Great issues forum has brought the campus noted thinkers. Elliot richardson, the former attorney general, known as a hero of watergate. David gergen, a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court sandra day oconnor. Tennis icon and humanitarian arthur ashe. Governor of new jersey and chairman of the 9 11 commission. So jack, you have got to live got a lot to live up to. Today i had the privilege of introducing our speaker jack rakove. An exceptional student and teacher of history, a Pulitzer ...

Titan, you can get a quick refresher on this. The polio vaccine was discovered in pittsburgh. Much of organ transplant technology happened there. We are and have evolved into a medical, technical mecca. Carnegie mellon is there. We have through westinghouse and others the threequarters of the Nuclear Technology in this company. I havent seen begun to talk about the steelers, the pirates and the penguins. You need to understand that this story can be told about any city in the country. But this w...

Wonng of the constitution the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1996. Writetinues to research, and speak prolifically. The principal area of research are the areas of the revolution and constitution. Practice and theory of James Madison and the knowledge inrical constitutional litigation. He is the author of six books. Most recently revolutionaries a new history of invention of america the finalist for the George Washington prize. His other publications include James Madison and the creation of the A...

My reaction was, if theyre that worried about it we should be that worried about it as well. I think focusing on the border is something thats very important. I think the economy i really do think that we need to have an immigration policy that understands and complements that promotes our commerce within the United States. We need to understand that immigrants are a very important part of our work force. I think that Legal Immigration can improve our economy can improve productivity, can result...

Be it. If it takes a week who cares . We ought to do this the right way. I think i would hope that we could all agree on that if not on the substance of the underlying bill, at least on the process to which we bring it to the floor. With that, i will yield back my time. I thank the gentleman very much. I stated earlier we live in glass houses up here. The gentleman is making a good point. I would like to retort that in the 110th congress when mrs. Slaughter was chairman the congress in the first...

I thank you so much. Delighted to be partnering with bank of america and to kick off this series, i cant think of anyone better or more timely to have a conversation with than bill gates. So appreciate you joining us this morning and to all oaf you who are here. You were going to start off in a i thinks unlikely but absolutely fitting topic, which is the subject of ebola and the crisis in africa and potentially beyond africa. Recently foundation announced it is donating 50 million to help with t...

Coordination, would result in a savings every year. If there were to be gentlemen pooling of the policies we could be talking about tone billion euros 10 billion euros. This kind of work, brought together from the different committees, sometimes from legislative proposals, sometimes from general areas where there could be a better allocation of resourceses of could translate these figures into one coherent whole. Highlights a debate that has been going on in the think tank and intellectual commu...

You remember this a couple of weeks ago, they were talking about if you are coming out of europe, you had to turn on before boarding a plane we forget about the terrorist plot that never happened. It may surprise you to know there has been as many as 60 terrorist plots against the United States since 9 11. A few of those have been successful. They are terrible things. These terrorist have been able to bring these things to fruition. We have the boston bombers, couple of recruiters killed by isla...

Independents and all others, 202 5853882. You can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or send us an email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. Politico has this headline in the newspapers this morning about the midterm elections. Run as warves hawks. She is quoted as saying we need to get out of iraq in a responsible way. She declared in may of that year. Say that goes on to out of iraqng get in 2008, but she is now being more tough on this issue of serious saying that the ...

Wouldve gone to syria and iraq to fight. There are many across the globe. When you think about europe, think about the fact that many of those people have passports and are able to come back to europe and then travel to the United States after that. Syria has been involved in a terrible situation for many years three plus years of civil war, 150,000 people have died. The home of isis is there as well as other hardened al qaeda groups. There is another group. They were most recently infamous for ...