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Seated while the Vice President leaves. On behalf of brookings, and myself, thank you so much for coming by. Thank you. Congratulations. [applause] president , house and senate leadership, and remarks about funding the government passed september 30. First, president obama speaks to reporters in the Briefing Room followed by remarks from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell and majority leader harry reid. Then, members comment to send the senate will funding the Government Back to the house. First from Senate Democratic leaders then republican senators ted cruz, marco rubio, and mike lee. Th...

At the same time, republicans in the house are holding their own meeting to discuss the way forward on the budget battle. This is all happening a day after the Senate Passed and then sent back to the house legislation that would continue to fund the government until november 15th. Senate democrats stripped a provision that would have defunded obama care. Meanwhile, the president is holding firm on the budget and the debt ceiling. I will work with anyone who wants to have a serious conversation about our economic future. But i will not negotiate over congresss responsibility to pay the bills it...

Syria didnt even admit they had chemical weapons until about 30 seconds ago, now, theyre signed on to get rid of them and their closest allies in the world are going to make sure that happens. Unimaginable. That coming on the same afternoon as another diplomatic breakthrough. The u. S. President speaking by telephone to the iranian president tonight for the First Time Since 1979. Were going to have more on both of those stories coming up this hour. This is a very, very big news day. But the domestic news of course is dominated by our own congress shutting down our own government for no externa...

Resolution that had been seen as an intractable problem. Syria didnt even admit they had chemical weapons until about 30 seconds ago, now, theyre signed on to get rid of them and their closest allies in the world are going to make sure that happens. Coming on the same afternoon as another diplomatic breakthrough. The u. S. President speaking by telephone to the iranian president tonight for the First Time Since 1979. Were going to have more on both of those stories coming up this hour. This is a very, very big news day. But the domestic news of course is dominated by our own congress shutting ...

We have a regular system for actually making decisions about what we will export and to whom we will export them. This system takes many things into account. But it is fundamentally based on upholding the United States national interest. It is not controlled by exporters, unlike in europe where exporter interests actually dominate their policies. This arms trade treaty will do nothing to change that, but it will give exporterdominated nations a shield to hide behind. Now, every nation state can control the arms trade if its truly willing to do so. And the United States is ready to help. But fe...