Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Trade, money and politics are our issues this week, and my guest is the outspoken journalist who runs the iconic harpers magazine, which for 164 years now has thrown open its pages to some of the most ferociously independent voices in american letters, from mark twain, jack london and Herman Melville to william styron, Joyce Carol Oates and david foster wallace. As the president and publisher of harpers for the last 31 years,john r. Rick macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democr
Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Trade, money and politics are our issues this week, and my guest is the outspoken journalist who runs the iconic harpers magazine, which for 164 years now has thrown open its pages to some of the most ferociously independent voices in american letters, from mark twain, jack london and Herman Melville to william styron, Joyce Carol Oates and david foster wallace. As the president and publisher of harpers for the last 31 years,john r. Rick macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democr
Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Trade, money and politics are our issues this week, and my guest is the outspoken journalist who runs the iconic harpers magazine, which for 164 years now has thrown open its pages to some of the most ferociously independent voices in american letters, from mark twain, jack london and Herman Melville to william styron, Joyce Carol Oates and david foster wallace. As the president and publisher of harpers for the last 31 years,john r. Rick macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democr
We want to hear from you. You can also make a comment via twitter cspanwj is our twitter handle. Alex rogers is with the National Journal. Mr. Rogers, can you explain what is going on in the senate and what is going to happen today and perhaps over the weekend as well . Alex the send it is in a race against time. They are trying to figure out a few matters. The first on the schedule is a trade legislation that is not time sensitive but that the Republican Leadership wants to pass before leaving for memorial day recess. After that, there is going to be a time sensitive deadline. The end of the month, the nsa bulk collection of telephone meta data will and by midnight, may 31. The administration has there could be some lapses if the senate does not pass a house passed bill by the end of today. Then, of course, there is a third item. A Highway Trust Fund authorization the house has passed a temporary two month bill there as well. So, they have a lot on their plate. The jet fumes, the sena
And instead we embraced, and instead we returned to the truth that our parents and grandparents understood that the more a person learns the more a person earns. [applause] that a stronger middle class that a strong arer middle class is not the consequence of Economic Growth a stronger middle class is the cause of Economic Growth. [applause] im not even sure our parents and grandparents, democrats and republicans alike even had a word for that type of economics. They called it common sense. [laughter] in other words, the more money that workers earn, the better customers businesses have, and the better our economy grows. So together we actually, we passed the living wage. We raised the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour. [applause] we made college we made college more affordable more more people and four years in a row without a pennys increase. We made our public schools, as tom mentioned the best in the country for five years in a row. We made it easier for people to vote and not harder.