Sponsors. Second to our incredible speakers and moderators. Third the entire team especially rachel hof and Ryan Richardson our external affairs team. Incredible work they did to make today as seamless and credible experience as it has been. I thank you all for coming and appreciate you. Have a good evening. The house and senate are in session today. The Senate Working on several judicial and executive nominations. The house debating and set to vote on a couple of tax related measures today. Earlier today on the house floor, texas democratal green responded to media comments by morning joe host questioning this weeks Congressional Black Caucus speeches on the ferguson grand jury decision where members held up their hands while on the house floor. Here is congressman greens remarks from earlier. I rise today to say thank you to the many persons who serve in Law Enforcement. They have difficult jobs and they do their jobs well. I salute them. I also salute those who have been engaged in
Can have some confidence that the security being provided at those last points of departure to the u. S. Are similar to ours. So we believe that we have the best security in the world. It is the gold standard, and thats why terrorists have looked elsewhere. Ill just highlight three incidents in the last three years that demonstrate, unfortunately, the dedication of the terrorists, particularly alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the lengths they will go to to try to blow up a u. S. Bound airliner. So we just go back to Christmas Day three years ago which youre all familiar with, with the young knew gene man nigerian man who was given a bomb with no metal in it. Thats the reason we have the advanced Imaging Technology here in the u. S. , body scanners as theyre referred to sometimes. Because those enable us to pick up nonmetallic as well as metallic items. Lets have those as a deterrent to force the terrorists to come up with new and innovative ideas. Forchew fatally, that attack did not
I would take all those billions of dollars being wasted right now on at the corporations, and i would put that money into three full years of the best preschool education in the entire world. If they cannot afford to do that, talk about 30 billion if we cannot afford to do that, i do not see what help we have upholding any sense of dignity, pretense of democracy, in the eyes of people in the rest of the world. [applause] i just have to add one thing to that one point i will add, to deny this to children is an act of thievery, but it is worse than stealing a car. This is an irreversible theft. You never get to live the second year of your life again. Thatthis is it you get it once. Then it is gone forever. I think the president fails to act on this aggressively, that dramatically, prophetically, to get this for us quickly i think is not just a budgetary issue. I think it is a theological abomination, a crime against the innocent. I agree. [applause] i say all the time, quoting the conve