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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20141009

[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for joining us today by an executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress and im thrilled youre here with us today. Whitman of all races make up 18point 5 of the United States congress. Women of color makeup and abysmal 4. 5 of congress. These numbers exist in direct contradiction to the fact that women make up half of the population and are more likely to vote than the male counterparts. We will hear about the reflected Democracy Campaigns new research which shows the persistent upward under representation of women and women of color throughout the country at all levels of government. Over the summer the Re ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20141009

Against isis forces in iraq and syria. And how Media Coverage of president ial candidate gary hart and his alleged extramarital affair changed political reporting. Also your calls and comments on National Security issues in 2014. Washington journal is live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern everyday on cspan. Secretary of state john kerry that with british secretary Philip Hammond at the state department and spoke with reporters after the meeting. They took questions about the International Response of the ebola outbreak, the Russia Ukraine conflict, and the military response to militants in syria and iraq. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Im very privileged to be here with foreign secretary
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20141009

She joined us in january. She has a really rich of history of campaign work, working inor electoral politics and policyja and research and she was the perfect person to take over from pillar. Im delighted to call you up. Thank you. [applause] thank you, donna. Im really lucky, i guess depending on your perspective maybe really unlucky who is the person to gets to present results of an effort which donna said was conceived of and carried out by a large team of people, many who are here today, many so of whom i think are up all night getting our website and other assets going. I really appreciate your work and second donnas thanks to all of you. Today i would like to do three things. First im going to talk about what our research revealed. Second i offer preliminary thoughts about what it suggests. Third, i will talk a little bit where we might go from here. But to start, lets look at a short video we put together, if i can operate this. Have you ever wondered what does america look like ....

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