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Operation. The university was founded in 1851. How long have you been president , president kalor . Well, less than that for sure. Im just starting my fourth year, im the 16th president of the university so people tend to serve in this job for a long time. What are some of your priorities as president . Well, its really Pretty Simple for me, im very interested in accessibilities and affordability. For qualifies minnesotan s and im interested in the university providing a truly excellent education for those students. Also interested in being sure that we help drive the economy of the state of minnesota, that were the home of inventions and innovations in medical care, science and engineering and we also have a critically important responsibility to maintain the liberal arts and be a place where Creative Work of all kinds takes place. So its a pretty broad span, but at the end of the day were interested in our undergraduate student, ensuring they get an excellent education. That they can
When the media was going to be there because hed show up and that was always a tip that things were pretty important. The business of the house has been a little bit corrupted. Not a lot. A little. Because its interesting to note its interesting to note that that money, that relationship with the media is one which generally squares the members of the house. It is always a situation where if you watch the members, you watch hes got his eye on there and if you look, youll find that instead of intelligent debate, all of a sudden, weve got a guy who is making a big speech being where he need somebody with whom he was having a discussion on important issues. Just to return to one point, ive done pret i well because i learned something. And that is how one can take a units of compound interest rule. And one of the reasons you know what is i have to report it. You can be pretty sure its fairly truthful. And it does very frankly keep me and the system sort of now on to some questions about th
Martin omalley called for the repeal of the Death Penalty, asking for tougher gun control laws increasing our jobs in maryland. This 35 minute event is part of the maryland public television. Thank you. Thank you all. Got bless you. Thank you very, very much. Bannermr. Speaker, mr. President , distinguished minority leaders, lieutenant brown, governor hughes, attorney general gensler, colleagues and city colleagues, mayor vincent gray from our neighbors and new columbia. [laughter] ambassadors, members of fema of these United States. [applause] Katie Omalley and the men and women of the maryland general assembly, there is more that unites us than divides us. This year, one of those things is the mighty, mighty baltimore ravens. [cheers and applause] my goodness. Also bipartisan agreement. Look, all of us are familiar with the ravens story, but their are also a number of remarkable people who are with us. I want to share a few of their stories with all of you. First, one of our nations
We are here today to talk about a universal background check that would help make our nation we are here today to talk about a universal background check that would help make our nation safer and limit highcapacity magazines. They are used in crimes and violence across america. Even though far more people die each year from handgun inflicted injury than assault weaponinflicted injuries. We believe the limit on high capacity magazines, even in handguns, is necessary. No more than 10. Thank you. First i want to acknowledge of the family members out here who have lost loved ones in shootings. I especially want to acknowledge you, maya, who lost her father. I was also listening to all of the statistics here which was important. I am a former prosecutor, i believe in evidence. The statistic i will never forget is the one from newtown, conn. Shared with me by a relative of one of the young victims. Charlotte bacon loved her girls got troop. Her girl scout troop once had 10 girls and now ther