I help them what did you hope to accomplish. I actually hope to bring more of a Wider Community voice. I work with a lot of people ive talked about district lifting but i work with a lot of workforce cooperatives all over the city. I want to get a better sense of whats going on in San Francisco but i want to make sure that low and moderate income folks have jobs in the city and so i want want to make sure we keep those ideas in mind when were doing anything to support people. I think its easy as policymakers to elect people on the committee or stuff like that to lose sight of the actual people were servicing. That about all the different possibility of what is a barrier for them to Access Employment and i would want to hope to add that into the conversation so you think its not happening right now. I think it is i think you can always add more. So im looking to get a feeling for what exactly tangible you said a Wider Community voice thats an intangible thing its also challenging but ho
Geothermal, biofuels, the way they are doing now in europe and even in countries like china and india, then 25 years from now, tom and kay will know that a sustainable lifestyle is possible and their children can look forward to a much safer and more secure second half of the 20th century. From kim marion of westminster, massachusetts, i expect to see more Severe Weather patterns, colder colds, warmer warms, drier days, wetter floods, bigger storms, higher which winds, more dust, more mud, loss of marginal growth plant and animal life. I have many, many more letters. As i said, i received more than 5,000 letters from people in massachusetts and across the country. I wish i could read every one of them. I dont kid myself. We are up against an army of lobbyists, and we will not win all the fights ahead. But here in the United States senate we have leaders who will fight as hard as we can to protect our environmental future. The senator from rhode island, senator whitehouse, has shown ded
Manufacturing jobs. And Infrastructure Bank. With me on the podium is the chairman of the policy committee. Who Will Champion the infrastructure which the president mentioned a few minutes ago. We need to facilitate the efficient, private Sector Investment and infrastructure. We need to compete from broadband systems. With an Infrastructure Bank, we will be able to outbuild a partnership between the Public Sector and private sector. Clean energy. Clearly, that is the future. That is the vision we have of an america that has powered itself by clean energy. We need to invest in clean energy to create jobs and make america competitive in the most important, new economic sector. China is doing that. Europe is doing that. America must do that. It is doing it as a result of a bill we passed, the american recovery and reinvestment act. We need to continue on that path. Currency reforms. Under democratic leadership, we pass a bipartisan bill that sought to level the Playing Field by Holding Ac
We will also hear from president obama, who signed the deficit reduction measure into law, part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling. First, Senate Majority leader harry reid and republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell will talk on the senate floor about the january fiscal deadline. Since our country voted to return president obama to the white house, i have spoken often about compromise. I remain optimistic that, when it comes to our economy, when it comes to protecting middleclass families from a whopping tax hike, republicans and democrats will be able to find common ground. President dwight eisenhower, a republican, once said, people talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all usable space. So said white house and higher. Dwight eisenhower. Too often, we face off, not realizing that the solution rests somewhere in the middle. I remind everyone of one fact. This congress is one vote away from avoid
Or should it . Your calls and comments. You can join in on the conversation. 5853881, the line for republicans and 2025853880 for democrats. If youre an independent, the number to call is 2025853882. You can also join in on wj ebook or twitter at cspan or send us a tweet. Based on the comments of the new Homeland Security secretary jay johnson who spoke on friday, immigration stirs the old fight. The houses retreat on legislation puts pressure on the white house to stem Record Number of deportations. The piece by Laura Meckler reveals the house retreat may produce an unintended ripple in the form of increased pressure by the president to unilaterally stem his record setting rate of deportations. The matter has long been a source of tension between the obama mention and many immigrant right groups. These groups who are central to the liberal side of the immigration debate are furious at the administration for deporting people who could legally stay in the u. S. Under legislation that th