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Welcome everyone here today. This is a very exciting day. Im e. J. Dion, a senior fellow here at brookings, as you know, brookings likes to be in the middle of the great debates in our country. This is going to be a year, i think, of really fundamental debates about the future or about what happens to growth and is it shared. We might actually get around to arguing about what should our government spend money on and how are we going to pay for it . Weve had crises, rather than having real arguments about that in the past few years. Its an honor for me to introduce [inaudible] join us today. Sh...

Bad crash in oxen hill. Take a look at the aftermath. The cars were totaled. This happened around 10 00 last night on livingston road and livingston terrace. One of the cars were on fire when investigators arrived. Were still working to find out what caused the accident. Eight people were involved in the crash, three of them in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. The heart broken mother of a 9yearold boy shot in the head. She wants answers and wants the violence to stop. Jaden stansel was not the intended target but instead was caught in crossfire. Police tell us some men drove to the ...

And also, oversight over how tax dollars apart from social insurance are spent. This is an arena which is, at present, shaped heavily by corporations that, despite record profits, pay far less in taxes as a percent of the federal budget than in the 1950s and 1960s. The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after another cycle the least worst gets worse. It is time to redress fundamentally these imbalances of power. We need a deep initiatory ...

One clear sign of the reign of corporations over our government is that the key laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s that we use to curb corporate misbehavior would not even pass through congressional committees today. Planning ahead, multinational corporations shaped the world trade organizations autocratic and secretive governing procedures to undermine nontrade health, safety, and other Living Standard laws and proposals to do better. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves to ask to choose between lookalike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching o...

A National Security meeting to get updates on where we are and what we are doing. And particularly when were in the moment of a particular threat or challenge. I think what the department of Homeland Security was really talking about is sort of a generic set of threats and challenges that are out there that were working to respond to. We have an unprecedented level of communication and information sharing, intelligence sharing taking place. With other countries. We have the Counter Terrorism Partnership Fund which were requesting money from all of you to implement. And thats 390 million which ...