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We kick about the days were Financial Companies take massive ricks risk. We cannot afford that. The country cant afford it. The middle class cannot afford it. We need to ensure that the executive compensation does not go back to encourage executive risktaking and shortterm is him. I talked about stock buybacks with publicly traded companies, how ceos dont have the incentive to go for the future, but rather swing for the fences today. Theyre not bad guys are women. The process incentivize action. This tended in 1980 when president reagan made it easier for company to buy back stock close to sha...

W. Bush administration. When i was in congress we were able to set aside some differences and accomplish some great things. It was the last time we had a balanced budget and our nation. Back to that. I think there is opportunities that now we can Work Together from whatever political thingsion to get some done, particularly infrastructure but it has to start out, any bipartisanship starts out with a process. You build the framework for an initiative by working with the other party from the very beginning. Bipartisanship is not this is an idea, can we get your support for it . That is not true ...

Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contribution rate. It is a fascinating story. You have to figure out the story. I think that is a great point. The way the public and the private sector have come together we have studied this to achieve the policy in canada. Okay. How could you work to bu...

[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid...

All given to him in an instant. So that makes him a formidable presence i think in the party going forward, if we were to looking at 2020, or beyond there. Jamie, go ahead, jump in, jim. One of the people she didnt name, her own governor, nikki haley i think would probably be on the agenda in 2020. You know, she is finishing her second term now. There is a prospect of a woman in the white house. She would be an attractive female candidate on the republican side so. You have to include her. Paul ryan and who knows. They seem to have a deep bench. Republicans have a much, much deeper bench of po...