I am deeply honored to serve you and to serve president obama in your noble endeavor to achieve israeliPalestinian Peace. The fact that later today, israeli and palestinian negotiators will sit down in this building to resume final status negotiations after a threeyear hiatus is testament to your extraordinary tireless efforts backed by president obama to try to resolve this intractable conflict. President obama made the case so eloquently in his historic speech in jerusalem in march of this year. He argued to an audience of young israelis that peace is necessary. Peace is just and peace is possible. And you, mr. Secretary, have proven him right. Shown that it can be done. I could not agree more with president obama. It has been my conviction for 40 years that peace is possible since i experienced the agony of the 1973 yom kippur war as a student in jerusalem. In those dark days, i witnessed firsthand how one of your predecessors, henry kissinger, broke a ceasefire that ended the war a
And we do, all of us, share a common goal. We all want every working american to be able to save for a dignified, wellfinanced retirement. I trust we all agree that it is in the interests of every American Business to see every working american have a real ownerships take in the American Enterprise. I am very confident that these two goals can be achieved in tandem by strengthening both are public and private Retirement Systems and the that make thems successful. There is too much knowledge in this audience today to really talk about retirement saving shortfalls, woes, and problems, and we know there is a serious risk arising over poverty if we do not ask soon to shore up our public and private Retirement Systems and lift americas Retirement Savings rate. That is why we are here this morning. The most salient point i want to make today is that we are actually much closer to solving americas retirement challenge than i think most everyone realizes. In the workplace savings arena at leas
Night trying to do something. But weve got to turn america around to recognizing that when you deal with these issues, you are loving america, you are building america. And we should not take second class citizenship to say our issues should be pushed back and others be pushed forward. I thank you for being here tonight. Im going to come down in the audience. Tereasa v. Smith. Please raise your hand. Please come down to the front. Tereasas question members of congress is and i think this im getting a lot of these questions. You heard some solutions here tonight. How do you intend to work with established groups to have vision for helping young people to have an economic base for money for many years. How do you intend to work with established groups that have a vision for helping young people for having an economic base for many years . The solution this evening from many folks in the stage, how does the Congressional Black Caucus plan to work with the groups. How are you already respo
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