Friends, washingtonians, and citizens listen up. I come here today not to bury marion but to praise him. When marion was born to the theme park we call life, he open the gate. He looked and left and saw the highest space marilyn. Space mountain. Helooked to the right and saw the highest of the fine roller coaster in the world. And he saw a big fares will in front of him. Around and he said, im going to ride every ride in the park. And he did. Twice. , it was sixarion months after the riots. I was in a threepiece suit wearing five foot eight jewish boy from baltimore who are just purchased his first nightclub in the district. Black baptist from mississippi running a milliondollar corporation on u street. Two years later, marion was wearing a three piece suit and i was wearing at the she a dashiki. We became friends. My friend was never a racist. My friend was against racism. Thoseend gave a voice to people who had no voice. Gave opportunity to qualify people that had nowhere to show the
That there israel crime out there that they have got to tackle, day in and day out, but they will only be a to do their job effectively if everybody has confidence in the system. Right now unfortunately, we are seeing too many instances where people do not have confidence. In some cases, those may be misperceptions, but in some cases, that is a reality. It is incumbent on all of us as americans, regardless of race, that we recognize that this is an american problem and not just the black problem or a nativeroblem american problem. This is an american problem. When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that is a problem. It is my job as president to help solve it. [applause] a little less than an hour ago, eric holder announced from the Justice Department that there will be a federal investigation. Good evening. I want to provide an update regarding the case involving eric gardner, the Staten Island resident who died tragically in july of this year. Death,
Before we go home. It is a strong piece of egislation that pushes the administration to words forward slightly more robustly. The genie is out of the bottle. It is difficult to see how we dont end up in a frozen onflict. We are where we are. Is there somebody who wants to hold on, i think theres a microphone coming. Would you identify ourself . My question is about the how do you expect will the white house signee bill . Sgign the bill . Is authorizing legislation comes on the unit it authorizes, it does not demand. It passed unanimously out of committee. If it passes, it means it has to pass through unanimous consent meaning every senator has agreed to it. They would have difficulty be twins of be like this, should it occur. I dont think they would. What he think the impact of oil prices will be on pollutant . It is better than any of sanctions we have put in place. I had a group in yesterday. One of the great privileges that people like you and certainly people in tennessee give me i
Host we have been talking with sam goldfarb from cq roll call. Thank you very much. Explores the history and literary culture of all money of albany. Tonight on cspan, a Senate Debate on the fiscal cliff. Shaun donovan discusses it. Harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell when backandforth on fiscal cliff issues and a proposal to raise the debt ceiling. Here is part of their exchange. Yesterday afternoon, i came to the floor and offered president obamas proposal on the fiscal cliff to show that neither he nor democrats in congress are acting in good faith in these negotiations. With just a few weeks ago before a potentially entirely avoidable blow to the economy, the president proposed a plan the members of his own party will even vote for. He is not interested in a balanced agreement, not particularly interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff, and clearly not interested at all in cutting any spending. With the president is really in, as we learned just yesterday, is getting as much taxpayer mone
Authors who have a very cool index of economic uncertainty. It is a very innovative paper. They estimated that the debt limit struggle probably subtracted about 1. 5 from gdp growth during that summer when it was happening egos of the uncertainty and inactivity that was caused by levels of uncertainty. Each time we go through that, there are consequences. I would like to add if that is what it takes to get spending under control, we need to concede that in the long run there will be a benefit, which means we do not have these deficits. In the fullness of time, whether a struggle last summer was worth it, if we have the spending cuts and deficits are lower, it might have higher Economic Growth in the long run because we went to that struggle last year. Your position is that we should be ready to go through that struggle again and to call upon the National Debt is necessary in order to enforce spending limits . That, of course, is not my position. We should never default on the National