Afterwards, she took questions from the audience fmentsnoo absolutely. What is the best way to do that . Get involved. Get involved with the Johnson County democrats and go to jcdems. Org, get out your phones right now and head there, sign up for our weekly email. There is a new letter that will send you events in our area as well as details about the caucuses, information about training online, and also in person, so please go to that site, join the Johnson County democrats, and help us take back he state, the country, and support our local democrats. Thank you. Next, please join me in welcoming state senator joe olkcom to the stage. Snoo sen. Bolkcom good afternoon, iowa city. Happy holidays. I am state senator joe bolkcom. Thank you for coming to see Elizabeth Warren this afternoon. If youre already a committed warren supporter, thank you for your support. We have a lot of work to do in the next 63 days. If you were still undecided about who you are going to support, thank you for t
Billion, next year approaching 1 trillion in one year. That is a shocking number, especially so when the economy is strong and unemployment is low. We have reached a point where deficits are at about the place they were at the height of the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009. We have done that without those kinds of fiscal pressures for dealing with a Great Recession. It is a function of letting spending go without getting it under control. The National Debt has exceeded 23 trillion. How much money is that . Guest it is hard to get your head around that number. There are different ways of thinking about what counts is the National Debt. Some people will say we are approaching 20 trillion dollars because they do not count debt the government owns itself. We are at unprecedented places in terms of deficit and debt. There is no prospect for slowing the growth of that debt at that point. We are looking at deficits that get larger over time. In a moment when we might have some of the physical
Would love to take advantage of the fact it is a relatively small group of us to take questions and get to know and have a sense for what brought you here. Despite you are here in iowa, and here politics is a combination of sporting events and Community Gathering and education all in one. I have been joking that iowans are a special breed because this is one of the only places where democracy still functions the way it is intended. Someone help him . That is iowa nice. Lugging that thing they used to send teams. Now it is like one person. It is true, a sign of the times. Here in iowa, you all are very very lucky and privileged and , accustomed to being a place where democracy works as the way that it is intended. Your vote matters where im not other americans votes do not matter. They look up and see the point pipes clogged with Corporate Cash and lobbyists. Most americans say there is not much i can do about that. I am not sure it will make a difference. Here in iowa, you can flush th
Safety of the 737 max 8 airplane. He appeared before the house transportation committee. Committee on transportation infrastructure becomes order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to request resources. Without objection. I also asked the chair and raking member of the full community the recognize for 10 minutes each of the first round of questions. Without objection, its awarded. I want toegin, explain an administrative matter regarding some of the documents we may use in todays hearing, and that will be entered into the record. Two unanimous consent request in regards to two documents, list a and list b. List b. T on the b a we have been asked that it provides ample authority to release these documents. And the documents from boeing, owings attorney boeings attorneys agreed to these documents. I see nothing that is export sensitive in these documents. Documenttamped every they stepped us as export control. However, to prevent confusion with regards to documents wit
Mr. Yang hello. Thank you all, so much for being here. I feel like this mic is a little bit unnecessary. There are not that many of us, right . Pretend it is a stadium. Hello. I am andrew yang. I am running for president in 2020. How many of you have seen me talk . So many of you. That is fantastic i suppose. So i am going to give a combination of remarks for the people who have heard me i would love to take advantage of the fact it is a relatively small group of us to take questions and get to know and have a sense for what brought you here. Despite you are here in iowa, and here politics is a combination of sporting events and Community Gathering and education all in one. I have been joking that iowans are a special breed because this is one of the only places where democracy still functions the way it is intended. This is cbs, i want to say. Someone help him . Thank you. That is iowa nice. Sorry about that. Mr. Yang you cant be lugging that thing they used to send teams. Now it is l