That is what keeps us rich and strong. Along with the opportunity to make a great. Freedom and opportunity they are not republican or democrat. They are american values. But if we dont stand up to you defend these ideals, then who will . With a few years it was the teapartier this squeaky little voice that said i will stand up. I will stand up for the aclus. To stand in the way of the ever expanding government that regulates us too much or defense too much to extinguish one liberty of the American People after another. That teapartier will never be content to let the principles of american greatness slip away. And we must contend for them. Thank you. God bless you. God bless the United States. [applause] we have time for a couple questions. So to put this in policy terms the way people talk about to maintain the house may be gave the senate but this comes up all the time with republicans and democrats do we go small ball to get a few things done or do they go after big ideas . With the
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome good morning, everybody. Im john walsh, im with the Washington Office unlike america and its my behalf or to want me to this mornings event on the International Impact of the u. S. Trend towards Marijuana Legalization. This is the sixth event in the brookings series on Legal Marijuana. It again in october 2012 with an eye to what might happen if, in fact, the states of colorado and washington voted to approve Legal Marijuana. In fact, that it happened. Weve had a series of events since then about federalism issues, about public opinion, and have published a cities of papers including two recent papers on the rollout of Legal Marijuana in the states of colorado and washington. Todays topic is going to be what are the International Impacts of this shift within the United States, especially given the fact that the United States was the chief architect and has for decades been the prime defend of the u. N
Important Public Health issue of want toa virus, and i thank the centers for Disease Control and the nih and medical professionals across the country, especially those at Emory University health care, with been proactive in containing and treating the virus. I agree with president obama and all of you, we have to be as aggressive as possible in preventing any transition of the disease within the United States , and boosting containment in west africa. But i also think we need to pause here. This is a wakeup call for nihica that we cannot allow funding to stagnate any longer. Earlier this year in the Budget Committee i offered an amendment to the republican budget to restore the cuts to nih. The budget cuts that have been inflicted over the past two years, and repair the damage of the Government Shutdown last year. Unfortunately it has not passed, on a partyline vote. Wewill only save lives if can robustly find medical research in america and keep america is the world leader. I would li
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N washington the president stakes out new aggressive political ground on healthcare. Eight million signups he says democrats should be boasting. I dont think we should skwraoeus or be defensive about it. I think there is a strong, good tell. Story to wen on the money front super p. A. C. s are raising minute for 2014 candidates at an astonishing clip. After another deadly randolph this time in kansas. They didnt. Anything. They were ambushed. Law enforcement struggles with what to do next. Baker ofthe week peter the new york times. Molly ball of the atlantic. Matea gold of the Washington Post and Pete Williams of nbc news. Award winning reporting and analysis. As it happens. Y live from our nations capital. Washington week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by by. We went out and asked people a simple question. How old is the oldest person you known . We gave people a stick are and had them show us. E learned a lot of us have known someone who lived well