Cu cu culmination his his hard work. That is true. You dont advance your cause by claiming personal credit. Let me give you another example of how a president s legacy can be totally different from what we think at the time. Harry truman to be bipartisan here, take a democrat, went out of office with the lowest poll ratings in history till that time. 2530 years later we had vietnam, watergate, and we looked back at truman and saw the real deal an authentic leader who got all of the big things right and the Little Things wrong. We forget the hawaiian sports shirts and stuff. That became endearing. Harry truman once said i wonder how far moses had gotten if he stopped to take a poll in the middle of the desert. Truman became a model of a divisive leader who took big decisions, who took responsibility, and by and large history has been much kinder to him than historians were at the time. In terms of obama, we said he wanted to be a transformitiative president but we will not know for 1015
Agency. However since then, there have been no responses from the department. Despite repeated followup inquiries from the requester. On january 27th of this year, 15 months after the initial request, i sent you a letter asking for prompt action on the request, and to keep me informed on the response that would be forthcoming. Despite additional inquiries, the only answer i received so far is, were working on it. Its now been 20 months. Almost two years since their simple initial request under the freedom of information act, and five months since my letter inquiring about the status of that request. Is this the treasury standard for expedited treatment . Congressman, in general, our performance on foia is better than that. Im not familiar with the specifics, im happy to look into it. You know, its just hard to believe that theres some reason the department is ill have to look into the matter and get back to you. Stonewalling that one. Another matter, id like to bring your attention. Th
You as the user, you are the little guy. Otherwise share their firsthand experience. There are a lot of regulatory items we have to address. Clearly its one of the reasons we want to be here on the hill. In admission is to bring that Affordable Access to the masses and also be able to provide services about safety, military, government usage and nongovernment usage to the benefit of the population a general. Our hope would be that wireless can be treated differently in terms of net neutrality. Recognize that it is a serious resource. It is not exactly same as data floating over a fiber network. It needs careful consideration. Monday night at 8 00 eastern on the communicators on cspan 2. Coming up next on cspan Prime Ministers questions. Then a look at the 2016 president ial election and the views of potential voters. That is followed by rick perry talking about ways to create better Economic Opportunities for minorities. This week in the british house of commons, Prime Minister David C
Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber quorum, but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. My distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s. O. B. But, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don well, we are still influenced by Thomas Jefferson who wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues. Members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question their motives, and they are not to read a newspaper while another person is speaking. The senate has a high sense of decorum. I remember senator robert byrd who epitomized the sense of decorah, decorum, and when he was mad at somebody, he would pour
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