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Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you and good evening. Good evening. It is a good evening. Mr. Speaker, mr. Senate president , members of the general assembly, distinguished guests, my special guests, my family, my husband andy and my son tommy and my daughter cici. [ applause ] and of course my fellow Rhode Islanders. [ applause ] tonight i stand before you filled with optimism for our future because tonight we begin this year stronger than weve been in decades. [ applause ] you know, four years ago, our Unemployment Rate was the highest in america. Today its in line with the...

To study, although i wasnt planning on being a historian. I was originally going to go into the foreign service. Cspan can you remember when you first got interested in history, say, in high school, or even grade school . Guest no, because it was taught so poorly in high school i cant imagine why i would have been interested in it from the High School Teacher. He used to have us read from muzzey, the textbook. That was how we did history. Each would read a paragraph, and hed go up and down the row, and i would plan ahead when i would be reading, and then id go ahead and read on my own and keep...

Watching, but there are a significant number of people in my whole state of florida on Social Security and on medicare. As i said, my mother is one of them. Im an enormous supporter of these programs. I also look at these programs and i look at the number of people going into it and how long they are going to live, and the math tells you these programs are going to have some big problems in the years to come which threaten not just to take them down but threaten to trigger a debt crisis in america. So we have to deal with the spending side and create a more disciplined way of spending in the f...

Senators come to the floor to talk about the budget resolution and tax reform. We would hear from senators merkley and murray and later senator jack reed of maryland. Our nation was founded on a principle encapsulated in the first most important words of the constitution we the people. Our founders wanted us to have a nation that didnt work for the powerful and privileged but for the people by the people and for the people as president lincoln so eloquently described the nation mocks by hand for the privileged i am for the people. Tomorrow a bill this coming to the floor that couldnt be more o...

Consent that my intern be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Merkley thank you, mr. President. Our nation was founded on a principle encapsulated in the first three and most important words of our constitution we the people. Our founders wanted to have a nation that didnt work for the benefit of the powerful and the privileged, but for decisions by the people, for the people, as president lincoln so eloquently described our nation. Not a nation by and for the powerful, not a nation by and for the privileged, but by and for t...