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Thank you for joining us. I am honored to be here with my women colleagues who have taken the lead on when american succeeds women succeed. And we have the leader of the issue here. She is the booster of it all shall we say and sets the pace for all of us. Donna edwards the share of the Workman Group is here. We have the vice chair of the ste steering community. You will be hearing singing from Michele Grisham from new mexico and judy chew of california is here of the asianpacific organization. At lunch we presented what we will present to you to our members. It was not only advocacy, but a ca...

Eroded from 1968. They will get that chance. We believe the minimum wage is absolutely critical to lift people so that they can be full participants in this economy. We have heard economist after economists tell us this is a demanddriven economy. If it is a demanddriven economy you have to have demand. Raising the minimum wage will increase demand. Raise the growth level in our country, create jobs and be good for everyone which is the central theme of this conference but they will get their chance. . How will republicans do you expect to get . I dont think we are every c confidant we will get...

Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have to be specific in our laws, and when we debated these changes before the Judiciary Committee back i...

Horrible impact on the american dream. 95 of uninsured americans will see their premiums cost less than what was expected. Its a hypothetical, a mythical comparison. There is nothing to it. Its fiction, if you will. You can huff, you can puff for 21 hours, but you cannot blow the Affordable Care act away. We sent the senate a continuing resolution that funds the government and stops obamacare before it costs one more job. Every hour that ticks by puts our country closer to a shutdown. I hope our democratic friends who voted for the law will look themselves in the mirror and truly think about w...

A busy night for you and all of you down there. What happens now in washington . What can be accomplished first of all in the Lame Duck Congress depends what message we hear from the president in the press conference is afternoon. May set the stage for cooperation, defiant tone could lead to an even deeper animosity between the executive branch and republican dominated congress seated in the new year. I think they will try to get as many appointments through the senate that may have been stalled today and give the president the ability to give people on the payroll generally first. Other than ...