Its a new day, as president ial pressure to attack syria intensifies. Its been less than 48 hours sips the president said he needs congressional approval for his attack plan, and now the full court press is on. Sunday, obama dispatched secretary of state john kerry to the sunday morning talk shows. Kerry along with several members of the obama cabinet made their push for support. The big name they want in their corner is senator john mccain. Hes been invited to the white house today. The arizona senator has been an outspoken critic of white house plans to limit air strikes. In fact, he said the United States failure to intervene in syrias civil war is shameful. Aljazeera reports from washington on the Obama Administrations plan. He would ask congress to approval military action against syria. Secretary of state john kerry took the lead defending the president s decision. The fact is that the president clearly had sufficient case presented to the the American People that assad had engag
Everyone. His fingerprints is on every one of the patients. He has written those chapters of American History. Ferro. N talia next, a discussion on the many changes in the role of first lady from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama. Well hear from women authors, historians and journalists with an introduction by the former Communications Director for first lady, laura bush. This is just under two hours. [applause] hi, everyone. Thanks, anne, it is so good to be back. I have such fond memories of being care. Probably most importantly, learning care. It is great to see all of the teachers. I cannot imagine coming for the position i had a being mrs. Bushs our secretary not to say thank you. Thank you for all you do. From someone who went all across this country visiting all sorts of schools and all kinds of conditions, we really appreciate all you do for children. When i was preparing for todays lecture, i thought of a lot of different stories i could possibly tell, but then i got so wrap
God given right to go as far as their talents their hard work will take them. For most americans, this ideal is personal. My parents emigrated here for an opportunity to improve their life and give their children a chance of better one. They made it to middleclass. My dad worked as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and maid. I didnt inherited money from them but i inherited something better, real opportunity to accomplish my dreams. This opportunity to make it to the middleclass no matter how you start out in life, it isnt bestowed us from washington. It comes from a economy where people can rick their own money to open their own business and hire more people to help others start a business and create jobs. President s in both parties from john k. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan that Free Enterprise economy is the source of our middleclass prosperity. The president obama, he believes its the caution of our problems. The economic downturn happened because our government didnt tax enough,
Drilling. Now we will go live to the house floor here and cspan. Guest pleased to be here. Host you are here to talk about the Electoral College. The election wrapped up over a month ago. Why are we talking about the Electoral College and what happens today . Guest this is the next step in the election. The Electoral College is not a place but a process. Today is the process where the electors get together in each state, and they go through a complex process. But it is generally managed by the secretary of state or some other officials, and they give their votes for the electors in that state for a particular president. President obama has 332 Electoral College votes and romney has 206. So in the states where romney won, those electors will vote for him. And in the next step is for them to send it to six different places in washington, d. C. , but the main thing is they send a record of this to the senate. The senate than tallies them, puts them in two mahogany boxes. One box and they
Here on the side of caution, if you were wrong and came before us and you disclosed 6103 would you be protected by something called speech and debate . No. What could happen to you if you release 6103 information. If you erred on the side of liberal . Anywhere from removal of position to criminal prosecution, sir. Thank you. I recognize the Ranking Member. Thank you. I want to begin by picking up where chairman left off. Im asking about troubling testimony we heard yesterday about personally intervening to block the committee from receiving documents. I listened to what you just said. I want to take that no to consideration as i asked. The hearing yesterday and the acting head testified that the irs was about to send us documents last week. With information related to category of progressive or left leaning groups that may have received they determined it wasser. Admissible to share the information with our committee. Because it related to cat dwoirs that rather than specifically ident