the things he has put on the list are all very popular actions so the white house is proud of them. to be attacked for doing those things reminds the country that the president has taken the popular actions and the republicans in congress haven t. they like that contrast so they are speaking with the president s agenda of taking executive action where they can and now are talking about it more than ever. they invited the press to see the president start a meeting with his cabinet today. the president went out of his way to say he was going to be asking cabinet secretaries to start talking about what executive action they could do on their own on things that congress could not act on. so the obama administration likes the way this looks. the republicans choosing to sue the president for trying to do so much the white house sees this as a gift. this is something they can work with. i believe that we can win. you can sense how they have grasped on to this and are running with it. there is
made it so clear that they don t want to do anything together not even the things that they would want to do alone, that does appear, i think, to have sunk in despite what the president said there. i think it appears to have energized the president and the white house like nothing else on the domestic front on this second term thus far. something is going on right now and i think the immediate political calculation is clear. i think the white house and the administration is proud of all of the things that the president has acted on through executive action at all of these speeches and events. the president lists all of the things he has done. he always starts with raising the minimum wage to the extent he could for federal contract workers, fair pay for women, making student loans more affordable. the things he has put on the list are all very popular actions so the white house is proud of them. to be attacked for doing those things reminds the country that the president has taken the
don t think republicans want to do something together. i don t think they would think that is fun. the fact that republicans have made it so clear that they don t want to do anything together not even the things that they would want to do alone, that does appear, i think, to have sunk in despite what the president said there. i think it appears to have energized the president and the white house like nothing else on the domestic front on this second term thus far. something is going on right now and i think the immediate political calculation is clear. i think the white house and the administration is proud of all of the things that the president has acted on through executive action at all of these speeches and events. the president lists all of the things he has done. he always starts with raising the minimum wage to the extent he could for federal contract workers, fair pay for women, making student loans more affordable. the things he has put on the list are all very popular action
there was a time when republicans, even ones who fought against environmental regulation, paid at least a little lip service to earth day. let me compliment the house of representatives on this earth day 1999 on a bipartisan basis. those days are over. in fact, according to a search of the congressional record by the sunlight foundation, republicans in congress haven t uttered the words earth day since lamar alexander said it in 2010. mr. president, today is earth day. and that s just a small glimpse of a much larger and more dangerous trend. the republican party marching backwards on the environment and climate change. because it wasn t always this way. as far back as 1988, dan quayle promised a republican ticket would deal with the dangers of climate change. the greenhouse effect is an important environmental issue. it is important for us to get the data in to see what alternatives we might have to fossil fuels.
much cleaner environment for america this is has been earth day this week and earth week people talk about saving the environment. there was a time when republicans, even ones who fought against environmental regulation, paid at least a little lip service to earth day. let me compliment the house of representatives on this earth day 1999 on a bipartisan basis. those days are over. in fact, according to a search of the congressional record by the sunlight foundation, republicans in congress haven t uttered the words earth day since lamar alexander said it in 2010. mr. president, today is earth day. and that s just a small glimpse of a much larger and more dangerous trend. the republican party marching backwards on the environment and climate change. because it wasn t always this way. as far back as 1988, dan quayle promised a republican ticket