Technologies . Without further ado, please join me in welcoming to politics and prose. Jamie suskind suskind. Thank you so much and good evening and welcome. Thank you all for coming out tonight. Its its lovely to be doing live events again. Im a british here in d. C. , so im going to start with a story about british guest in d. C. , a much distinguished one than myself in, 2009 or so, the Prime Minister of the united, a guy called gordon brown, came here. And he really had one purpose. He wanted to boost poll ratings because he wasnt doing so well. And he thought that a good way of doing would be to come and meet the glowing new president s of the United States. Barack obama, and bask in some of his reflected glory and bring it back with him to the United Kingdom. Things didnt quite go to plan, though when gordon brown got here to the United States. There was the traditional ceremony in which gifts were exchanged between the heads of government and and gordon gave the president a seri
A world of powerful technologies . Without further ado, please join me in welcoming to politics and prose. Jamie suskind suskind. Thank you so much and good evening and welcome. Thank you all for coming out tonight. Its its lovely to be doing live events again. Im a british here in d. C. , so im going to start with a story about british guest in d. C. , a much distinguished one than myself in, 2009 or so, the Prime Minister of the united, a guy called gordon brown, came here. And he really had one purpose. He wanted to boost poll ratings because he wasnt doing so well. And he thought that a good way of doing would be to come and meet the glowing new president s of the United States. Barack obama, and bask in some of his reflected glory and bring it back with him to the United Kingdom. Things didnt quite go to plan, though when gordon brown got here to the United States. There was the traditional ceremony in which gifts were exchanged between the heads of government and and gordon gave
And circumstances continue to move and in undesirable direction. I want to tell you it is because the japanese side denied the existence of such an agreement or understanding, which was reached 40 years ago, and certainly this is an acceptable , ashe chinese side, because i said before, this is a historical fact. In spite of this, we are still ready to sit down and have dialogues with the japanese side to find jointly away to control, manage the current situation. But the japanese said to us there is no such dispute the between china and japan, and that has made it impossible for dialogues to happen. China and japan are perpetual neighbors. The two countries have very close business ties. Sit downill ready to and have dialogue with the japanese side, but first the japanese side needs to recognize there is such a dispute. Of the whole world knows there is a dispute here. I believe there will be a day when the japanese come back to this table and dialogue. So, how things will go next is
Mr. Murphy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy if were in a quorum call, i ask that it bees dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i ask seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy thank you, madam president. Last week, the house of representatives voted for the 53rd time to repeal or undermine all or aspects of the Affordable Care act. This is beginning to be a broken record. I was in the house of representatives for a period of time, so i got the privilege on voting on 30 or 40 of those different pieces of legislation. Republicans, of course, shut down the government a year ago because of their pique over the Health Care Law. There are those that still h
At the last debate he said congress was too dysfunctional to do anything then focus on border security. Is Worker Visa Program antiquated and leaving out a solution to do with the 11 or 12 million illegal workers. All of them are connected. What he does not appear to know is all the illegal immigration in this country is a result of people overstaying the visa program. You cannot deal with the situation by focusing as he wants to on the border only. Also what he has to understand or should understand, in order to secure the border you will have to get a compromise. Democrats and republicans in the senate and house we have a compromise. In the senate and enough in the house to pass Immigration Reform. Ll notane or boehner wi bring it up to vote. Had a program and the right wing is supporting m actually torpedoed it. His approach is to do nothing only by closing the border and not doing anything else on the other aspects. This was a question related to border security. I want to hear wha