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And take questions. This is about an hour. Dave thank you for coming. Our guests are jeff zients and brian deese. Zients is in maryland native graduated with honors from duke university. He joined been consulting and worked for bain consulting. Our guest is a father of four and has undertaken a series of challenging government roles including serving as chief performance officer and heading the offer dubbed tech s urge. Brian deese spent time at the center for American Progress and worked on the Obama Campaign and the transition team. At the age of 31 his first assignment after joining the whi...

One of the things thats interesting in that context is this debate thats occurred around discretionary levels in particular. I think that the thing that we can do to most helpfully encourage the kind of deal that would be good for the economy and good for our National Security is be very clear, both about where the president stands, and about how you could get from here to there. And so one of the reasons why, if you go back and look when the president announced his budget he was very clear when he went out and he said two things. He said, i will not accept a budget that locks in sequester Goi...

Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, 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 with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Defazio, for five minutes. Mr. Defazio well, last we...

What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. Sam rayburn saw National Needs and he made things happen. He was an activist ...

For d. C. Dysfunction. Its down 481 points since the Government Shutdown started. President obama will nominate Jessica Yellen to replace ben bernanke. Theyre denying the death benefits to fallen soldiers. Im embarrassed. All of us should be. A natural gas line in oklahoma. Homes have been evacuated. No one has been hurt. An nooind detective is cue in court. Hes the latest biker arrested in if road rage incident. Were not bad parents. We thought he was at a friends house. Were hearing first from the father of the nineyearold who managed to stow away. Anne an arrest for several Congress Members...