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Passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repeated that goal at the beginning of this year and sai d i would give it my close attention in all of my energy. Two years ago, americans faced a judgment at the polls that the nations problems had been subordinated for too long to problems abroad. Working middle income families from a corporate downsizing, Defense Industry conversion, violent crime, college costs, and inflated Health Insurance costs all made americans ask us here in washington to focus on america needs. President clinton and the Democratic Congress resp...

You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In september 1994, Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell announced the end of efforts to pass a Health Care Bill that year. The press conference followed a year and a half long effort by the Clinton Administration and members of congress. Up next on American History tv, senator mitchells press conference followed by reaction from republican leader robert dole. It is about an hour. George mitchell at the beginning of this congress, i said the passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repe...

You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In september 1994, Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell announced the end of efforts to pass a Health Care Bill that year. The press conference followed a year and a half long effort by the Clinton Administration and members of congress. Up next on American History tv, senator mitchells press conference followed by reaction from republican leader robert dole. It is about an hour. George mitchell at the beginning of this congress, i said the passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repe...

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...

40 years ago, in the wake of watergate, the United States senate created a special committee to look into the activities of United States intelligence services. It was the Senate Select committee for governmental operations it quickly took on the nickname of its chairman, frank church and it was best known to history as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months. It reviewed more than 10,000 documents and called 800 witnesses before the committee and its staff. Its legacy includes the creation creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which we know as fisa. Two f...