The American People believe congress is broken. The American People believe the senate is broken. And i believe the American People are right. During this congress, the 113th congress, the United States has wasted an unprecedented amount of time on procedural hurdles and partisan obstruction. As a result, the work of this country goes undone. Congress should be passing legislation that strengthens our economy, protects American Families. Instead were burning wasted hours and wasted days between filibusters. I could say instead were burning wasted days and wasted weeks between filibusters. Even one of the senates most basic duties confirmation of president ial nominees has become completely unworkable. Mr. President , there has been unbelievable, unprecedented obstruction for the first time in the history of our republic, republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent president obama from appointing his executive team or confirming judges. Its truly a troubling trend that rep
So, ladies and gentlemen, and congressman, thank you very much for that conversation. Heres how were going to proceed for the remainder of our our. We will engage in a short and brief conversation up here. Ive a couple of questions im going to pick up on based on your comments this morning and then we will open the microphone for questions from the floor. So be thinking about the questions that you want to ask and when the time comes well ask you to raise your hand and do our usual procedure of wait for the microphone and identify your identify yourself. Let me start out with a couple thoughts of your very useful description of both while youre doing what youre doing and what you hope to do. Theres a lot on worth the effort peace if you will. I think he made the case very strongly for why its important or critical. Its a little harder though to talk about the possibilities, not necessary the possibilities of undertaking the effort of the possibilities of achieving results. How are you
I could take a picture and within minutes, tweet it to a Million People. It just finally allowed me to really share the experience with many people who wanted to come on board. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the United States and five other world powers resumed talks with iran today over reining in its nuclear program. Negotiators gathered in geneva, while in tehran, irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei said his country is willing to negotiate, but will not be cowed by sanctions. translated t
I could take a picture and within minutes, tweet it to a Million People. It just finally allowed me to really share the experience with many people who wanted to come on board. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the United States and five other world powers resumed talks with iran today over reining in its nuclear program. Negotiators gathered in geneva, while in tehran, irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei said his country is willing to negotiate, but will not be cowed by sanctions. translated t
Ever seen since we have been alive. But were coming out of it, and there are many, many bright spots in the economy. We get good Economic News pretty much every day. We also get some mixed Economic News pretty much every day, so its not happening as fast as we would like it to. Its not happening in every sector of the economy and every sector of the economy like we would like it to, but it is happening, and one of those bright spots is manufacturing. Last year, manufacturing contributed 1. 87 trillion to our economy. 1. 87 trillion in manufacturing, thats how much a difference it made in our economy. There are 17. 2 million u. S. Jobs, thats jobs in this country, one in six private sector jobs are tied to manufacturing. It also provides a very strong return on the investment we make. So if you invest a dollar in manufacturing, what it does is it adds 1. 48 back into the economy. America is a powerhouse when it comes to manufacturing, and we need to keep it that way. Everybody knows, yo