Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w
Great attendance with the wonderful diversity in her field. But today we come to one of our two major events of the year, our summer signature program. And i need to think to friends who sponsor and made todays great event worthwhile. First of all my friends and forum. In forum is a research and consulting progra firm that hasn open for 52 years and very much embodies the great tradition of innovated Economic Research at the university of maryland. Secondly our friends at the National Association of realtors, since 1908, they have been the voice of the Real Estate Community of washington and provided valuable Economic Data and research and the critical sector of the economy. With that in mind, with those organizations supporting us and with the large and distinguished audience behind us, we have come to a moment and i have to tell you, i cannot imagine a better marriage of a moment and a speaker then what we have today. Jim is really a man who embodies best the bark field. One of the j
Anything of active democratic voting and significant raining. This event marks the 12th installment of bob and Elizabeth Dole series on leadership. Some of us now the purpose of this leadership is to call on leaders of national politics, arts and education to grapple with what are the characteristics that allow some people to enable true leadership and to struggle to overcome the obstacles, diverse interests that are part of the dynamic and true democracy, and the first Year Anniversary with 3 legislators who live this question every single day. We are proud to name the series in honor of extraordinary service, the true partisans of the truest sense of overlong careers have real adversity and showing confidence in and creativity to dignify differences and build coalitions and make the country a better place. When senator dole joins senator baker there were a few ideas about a little context for today. And met a partisan, actually recognize the story of the country is not 200 years of c
Welcome to the National Economists club 2019 senator mitch are account. Im happy to say we are having a better year, our Weekly Lunch Program is enjoying great attendance. We have rich diversity of speakers, intellectual diversity of the field. We come to one of our two major events of the year, our summer signature program. I want to thank two friends, two sponsors that made it worthwhile. In for him is a research and consulting firm, very much embodies the tradition of innovative Economic Research at the university of maryland. Our friends at the National Association of realtors since 1908 they have been the voice of the Real Estate Community in washington and provided some invaluable economic data, Economic Research and the critical sector of the economy. With those organizations supporting us with this large and distinguished audience behind us we come to a moment, i cannot imagine a better marriage of a moment and the speaker, then what we have today. James bullard is really a man
With the question of the characteristics and circumstances that allow some people to leadership and what allow some of us to struggle to overcome the obstacles and the diverse interests that are part of any dynamic and true democracy. We are extremely fortunate to have our firstthat live this question every day. We are very proud to name the series in honor of the Extraordinary Service of bob and olivia stole. Elizabeth dole. Showing the confidence and creativity to signify differences as you note as we enter the discussion that when senator dole joined others to help found there were a few ideas and animated the ambition for a little bit of text. We are aggressively bipartisan, not nonpartisan or postpartisan, but actually recognize that this is not been classic cohesion. The a of bipartisanship is creating the resilience that allows us to have consistent policy going forward. The second idea we talked about a little bit in the room is that they wanted to make sure we are in the arena