The speaker members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you his excellency Mohammad Ashraf ghani president of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan. President ghani in the name of god the merciful and compassionate Speaker Boehner Vice President biden, Senate Majority leader mcconnell, House Majority leader Mccarthy House minority leader ms. Pelosi, Senate Minority leader, ladies and gentlemen of the congress, please allow me to thank you for your gracious invitation to address this unique forum of deliberative democracy. Above all else id like to begin by thanking the people of the United States whose generous support for my country has been such immense value in advancing the cause of freedom. More than one million brave americans have served in afghanistan. They have come to know our snowcapped mountains, our valleys our windswept deserts, our parched fields our rivers and our plains of waving wheat, but more important, knowing our gentlemenograp
Your honor, in this area the court has said that assumptions like that cannot be the basis of the way district lines are drawn because time is running out, there is in your presentation youre saying we are attack the statewide plan. We are not picking one district or the other. And you have been attacked on that point. The attack is that claims have to be district by district they cant be statewide. So i would like your answer to that question. There hasnt been a claim as far as i know that was statewide. Your honor, our claim is that the exact same policy was applied in every black majority district which is we will use racial data to repopulate as close as we can possibly do it to the exact same black percentage. Thats a policy applied in all 36 districts. And how are your clients hurt by that . It seems to me you have to come up with a client in one of the other districts that would have been as you put it more competitive had this packing not occurred. Your honor i assume thats the
Am going to do. I think the controls we are talking about, not just on benefits, that on the undercutting of wages, people reading rock into the people being brought into the country i think they will help bring the migration down. If you are saying to me if it would be better for the country to join the European Union mr. Paxman i have not mentioned the European Union. You are making up the questions yourself. Mr. Miliband i believe we can n bring in controls on migration. Mr. Paxman is there any natural limit to the population of this country . Mr. Miliband i will not get pulled into a speculation about numbers. The limits are expressed in the decisions you take year by year, and i have explained decisions i will make. Mr. Paxman as it seems do you now competitors theres no figure that you are willing to share with the public mr. Miliband i will not pluck a figure out in the air. Mr. Paxman but you have thought about it . Mr. Miliband we need to have controls on migration. Mr. Paxman
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Wealth going to those at the very top, not just the top 1 , but the top. 1 or the top. 01 of the population, has risen sharply over the last generation. Some are calling it a throwback to the gilded age of the robber barons. Now as secretary of state, i saw all the way extreme inequality has corrupted other societies, hobbled growth, and left entire generations alienated and unmoored. From guatemala to greece to pakistan, i urge them to pay their fair share, to provide services that would be the base on which more of their fellow countrymen and women could climb out of poverty. I addressed governments to address their people and include positive visions for the future. In the middle east and north africa, we saw the explosive results when opportunity and potential are denied for too long. But one could ask him what does that mean for us . We are not like them . Imagine a young single mother trying to raise a family today. After all, there are some 10 million single moms working hard to