For this to occur. And so the idea sounds great, but how do you get people to relinquish their powers and sampling to give it up to the intellectuals and to the people that have the best experience and can do this kind of thing to make it work. I would say that in democracies around the world, you are seeing this. Look at qadhafi, look at where assad is now. And people in the streets are now beginning to either vote in the ballot box or vote in this square in some way. Im thinking about iraq and you said that they have to have a purpose. But they are so dysfunctional they are just waiting to survive, that is what their purpose is today. We just saw the iraqis get rid of him. We see the elections, whoever is in offices the people who choose. But that system has so Many Political parties with the need to form Political Parties, its a dysfunctional democratic system. But the more Political Parties they are, look at how bad it is with us. You have a situation where its even worse than the
Im very pleased to be hosting this event in conjunction with the German Historical Institute. Before i introduce the speakers let me give a word of thanks to three individuals who were instrumental in putting this together. Amanda, the assistant director National Come a center and chris graduate student in history at George Washington university and is serving as an intern at the center. Is one of a series of congressional briefings that the center hosts. This one is in partnership with the German Historical Institute. Its part of an ongoing effort on the part of the center to ng his torque insight historic insight to contemporary issues. The center is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of this program is not to advocate for any particular policy. But rather to provide Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public in general when they deal with difficult contemporary issues. Consensus among historians that immigrant communities have been vital to American Econom
Clearly if these prices persist for a long time, then the reductions in capex that we are seeing are clearly going to start coming in down the road. Right now i think were looking carefully, were being prepared with analyses for alternative pathways forward. Right now consumers are having the benefit. Excellent. Ok, a question over there and the mike will be made available. Please identify yourself. Im a Public Policy scholar here at the wilson center. Can you talk about what the role is for biofuels to remain in the future energy mix . Well, i think the first of all, we certainly continue to invest in biofuels. In fact, just in i guess it was october i was pleased to be in kansas for what is now the largest commercial functioning biorefinery in the country. Our loan program helped put that into place. So if i go back to the what i mentioned about our entry in this book, first of all, actually i think its important that sorry. Let me go back a step. As we celebrate our incredible incre
Legislatures of threefourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the congress. Mr. Goodlatte yield to the gentleman from colorado, mr. Tipton. Mr. Tipton amendment xxiii section 1 the district constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as congress may direct a number of electors of president and Vice President equal to the whole number of senators and representatives in congress to which the district would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state. Mr. Goodlatte i now yield to the gentleman from colorado, mr. Buck. Mr. Buck they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered for the purposes of the election of president and Vice President to be electors appointed by a state, and they shall meet in the district and perform such duties as provided by the 12th article of amendment. Section 2 the Congress Shall have p
We will use headlines this morning to talk about your job situation. You can give your thoughts. We have three lines this morning. If you found a job, and you want to tell us about it call in guest guest 202 7480003 202 7488000 for democrats. [audio clip][audio clip] join the cspan conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. 5. 6 was the previous number. It jumped up a bit. That is according to the New York Times this morning. Also, if you look at the various demographics and unemployment it goes up to 4. 9 for whites. 10. 3 for blacks. 6. 7 for hispanics. 4. 1 percent for asians. Also, a number that gets talked about a lot is Labor Participation rate. In january, those employed were 59. 3 . The labor force was 62. 9 . To help us give context is mr. Reddy. Could you tell us first and foremost why we have seen so a jobs added last month but the Unemployment Rate went up. Guest the unemployment going up while youre adding jobs can actually be seen as a good thing, and a good