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Now, the confirmation hearing for labor secretary nominee Alexander Acosta. He takes questions from the Senate Health education and pensions committee. Nearly three hours. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [no audio] Senate Committee on Public Health and education will please come to order. Senate committee on Public Health and education will please come to order. Were holding a meeting on mr. Acosta for secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement and then introdu ....
Everyone knows thanksgiving traffic can put people in a fowl mood. Happy thanksgiving, everybody. Lets go pardon these turkeys. Come on, guys. Come on. Ok. All right. Ok. Is this tater or tot . This is tot. I am signing documents for tater also. I should stand on the side so everybody can see it. Tot, i hereby pardon you from the thanksgiving table. We hope you have a wonderful time at gobblers rest. Do you want to waive at him . Do you want to touch him . You want to do that . What you think . That was good. What do you think . You want to try it . No . Kind of soft, right . There you go. All right. Congratulations. [applause] president obama you guys did great. Give them a big round of applause. [applause] president obama happy thanksgiving, everybody. [applause] tonight, a Supreme Court justice reflects on her life and career and how education and Public Service were part o ....
We know what teams we belong to. If you think the biggest problem in america is the other Political Party, and the Political Party you are a part of has all the answers if you could think wish the other people from the field i have people to introduce you to. Washington, d. C. Doesnt have good answers now. The moment of disruption we are entering is not just one side is right and the other is in the way. One is enlightened, one is retrograde, it is we dont have the right policy conversations for the magnitude of what we face. Most of the challenges are not easily reducible to core democratic or republican platform positions. I will name two or three and then you can tell me where i am wrong. If you tried to make a National Agenda at the political level of what is urgent, what is important that we are not tackling, we ....
We know what teams we belong to. If you think the biggest problem in america is the other Political Party, and the Political Party you are a part of has all the answers if you could think wish the other people from the field i have people to introduce you to. Washington, d. C. Doesnt have good answers now. The moment of disruption we are entering is not just one side is right and the other is in the way. One is enlightened, one is retrograde, it is we dont have the right policy conversations for the magnitude of what we face. Most of the challenges are not easily reducible to core democratic or republican platform positions. I will name two or three and then you can tell me where i am wrong. If you tried to make a National Agenda at the political level of what is urgent, what is important that we are not tackling, we ....
I make this argument not based on theory or ideology that on facts. Facts that all too often we forget in the immediacy of current events. Here is the most important fact, the integration of the Global Economy has made life that are for billions of men, women, and children. Over the past 25 years, the number of People Living in extreme poverty has been cut from nearly 40 of humanity to under 10 . That is unprecedented. And it is not an abstraction. That means children have enough to eat. Mothers do not in childbirth. Meanwhile, cracking the genetic code promises to cure diseases that have plagued us for centuries. The internet can deliver the entirety of Human Knowledge to a young girl in a remote village on a single handheld device. And medicine and manufacturing and education and communication, we are experiencing a tr ....