A combination of how far this anxiety anger frustration goes and where it gets channeled in the future. Thank you. Peter, why dont you take a stab at that, because you didnt weve spent time together, so i know you missed a Little Something also. Well, thank you for reminding me. If ruth had to do it, equal opportunity. Right, and i have the benefit if you missed it, Dana Millbank had to eat a column. No, that was the recipe in the washington post. If you dont get it, you dont get it. I read ruths columns, by the way, i want to say right off. I read them every day so i remember how i should think. [ laughter ] i mean, after all, i am an ethnic irish Second Generation Roman Catholic from maine, so i have no business actually thinking any other way than the way ruth thinks. But if you look at the situation, you know, its the question everybodys asking right now. I think i look at it from experience. Ive been on president ial campaigns. Ive been a tough contested primary. I spent most of m
Tart start. Ms. Collins madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the calling of the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins and, madam president , i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins thank you, madam president. Madam president , last week the Senate Passed the National Womens History Museum commission act, a bill that i authored with the dean of the Democratic Women senators, senator mikulski of maryland. It passed finally as part of the National Defense authorization act. Our legislation will create a commission to evaluate and plan the establishment of a Museum Dedicated to womens history right here in our Nations Capital, and i know that the presiding officer shares my view that this is long overdue. I am, in fact, pleased to have had all of the women senators as cosponsors of this bill, and im thankful for the support of many of our other colleagues as well. Sen
Thats when i first started getting bit from the bug i didnt come from a terribly political family or anything like that. Do you know who captain shreeve was . He was a river boat captain, and he broke a logjam on the red river. Thats my high school. In louisiana . In shreveport, louisiana. The captain shreve gators. Is it louisiana or louisiana . It depends on what part of the state, kind of like missouri or missoura. I say louisiana. Everybody thinks their state is a little different from the others, but louisiana really is different. And politics is part of the culture. Less so now, but weve just always had such colorful characters, that it was, you know, there was college football, high school football, and louisiana politics. So it is easy to get bit by that bug in louisiana, or probably easier than in a lot of other states. Who is the first politician you ever met . I think i actually shook hands with spiro agnew in high school once. But the first politician i knew was bennett joh
And growing up in russia and i have noticed that basically if they are smart and if they are liberal, they try to leave the country. You mentioned Silicon Valley how russia is one of the languages. Russians are verys bart are very smart but they are not looking to improve stay in their country because it is so shaky the legal system and so forth. Then you see the other guys that are staying, nationalist and skinheads and people like that who are going to protest in beating up immigrants and stuff like that on the streets. They are not just of the streets, protesting and they are rising up and taking positions and government as well. That is just about the future of russia in its self. Putin, the man is 61 years old and he is not going to be around very long. [laughter] we are all very old on this panel. [laughter] sorry about that. Speaking as a member of the younger generation, im looking for to russias future. I do not mean to offend anybody. Just a russias history, it has had a very
I want to read that and then ask you again, when did charlie cook become charlie cook . The greeks had oracle at delphi. Washington has charlie cook. Please tell us how many seats we will pick up . When did you become known that, well, if charlie says it, it is ok. I started my newsletter in 1984. I had a half dozen jobs out of college. I had no idea where i was going with it. But when i looked back, every single job was good preparation for, you know, doing what im doing now, as editor of the newsletter. It is almost as if it were very carefully planned. Tell us what those jobs were. Well, while i was in college, the first paid job i ever had in politics was as an elevator operator in the u. S. Senate, the second semester of my freshman year in college, which is basically giving tourists, you know, where they are asking for directions and stuff. Then two years as an intern in senator johnsons office, and then i interned for a year at Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. Then when