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Welcome, everyone, to brookings. Im bill, the managing director here. And were delighted that were joined today by senator murkowski. One of my favorite johnny cash songs growing up was called springtime in alaska and if you remember the chore us, he says, when its springtime in alaska its 40 below and by that standard its downright balmy here tpwheasheds. Were delighted that senator murkowski is here today. We wanted to make her feel at home so we deviled up some summer weather for her and im sure shes wondering what the big deal is all about. The senator is the Top Republican on the Senate E...

Country grew a whopping 22. 6 million jobs. And he left Office Running an nual surplus of under 128 billion projected to grow into the trillions. Then under the eight years of president bush we added only 1. 2 million jobs. What a stark difference. And the Budget Surplus was turned into an annual 1. 4 trillion deficit. When president Obama Took Office, our economy was shedding over 800,000 jobs a month, and the Bush Administration administration left office with in worst job creation record 75 years. Nevertheless in the five years since prom took office, we have created president Obama Took Of...

Security issues . What are the things that we have to be concerned with as a nation and what is the armys role in those National Security issues . So i hope we will have a good discussion on that today. We face many challenges today, whether it be budgets and balancing our budget, reducing that debt and what is the right level of funding for our military . We face social problems which was mentioned, such as assault and harassment. We are working on the issues of suicide, the issues of taking care of our soldiers who have been wounded both with physical injuries and those that are nonvisible i...

Bank of south sudan, picking up the pieces economically when this is all done will be much, much harder if we pull that support out now. So i do think that its important and imperative that Development Assistance continue. That the modalities be examined. That the strategies be updated as the situation changes. But that we keep the commitment to the people of south sudan and not harm them further. And one last point. The building leverage is critical. Thats what weve got to be looking for all the time. The aid doesnt i agree. The aid doesnt make a big difference to these guys. But it does make...

Congressional, but generally, you know, voters dont have a ton of familiarity with the people on that ballot. So i think for the voters it was actually a pretty typical election. There and you remind me what the other questions were . So the others were would you expect a similar effect in a higher visibility race, and would you expect the parties really to start weighing in this more often in primaries, primaries and higher level races such as for congress . So they, these endorsements were for congress as well. So we actually have a pretty broad distribution state assembly, state senate and ...