Demographically so they dont feel threatened, then you actually stand a chance of rain taken beyondeing face value. I think many of us are aware of this, but this is not simply moral question although it is a moral question. It is really a strategic one. Andandidates and parties political actors want to succeed , we will have to reckon this in a serious way. Our localcontrol system are the ones that do if you want to engage the electorate, that means to vote for you, we need to start turning out a different crop of candidates gloria hinted at this. If you want the policy outcomes that many of us want, more progressive policies on a range of topics, this is one very clear path to getting it. But thank you all so much. You were wonderful. Thank you all for coming. [applause] you will be able to watch this program again later today. Congress is out until november 12, but news from capitol hill today. The federal government budget deficit has fallen to 486 billion, the smallest pool of red
Could result and Mary Landrieu taking over the Energy Committee in the senate. That would set up a game of musical chairs. A likely is seen as successor to mr. Baucus as head of the finance committee. And Mary Landrieu could then take mr. Wydens spot. She comes from a state where oil and Gas Companies are asian employers. She voted for the keystone Xl Pipeline Oil and gas employers. Re major she voted for the keystone xl pipeline in a symbolic decision. President obama does not want to make a decision on the massive keystone xl pipeline. Not have to. He may House Democrats and other critics of the project, which has put traditional allies such as labor unions and vists arental acti hinting that the state might have to restart its environmental review. Ed bywould be motivat suspected conflicts of interests and could push a decision down the road for another few years, possibly until mr. Obama leaves office in 2017. That is the story in the Washington Times. Here is usa today, many canno
I was in graduate school at the school of journalism at northwestern and we launched what now is the Washington Program in 1966. I was supposed to go back and work at the Chicago Daily news but i ran into a friend, a friend of mine who became a key confidant to Sergeant Shriver in the war on poverty and got recruited to work on the war on poverty so i have been here ever sense. The first job actually was the most incredible job and a Young Journalist could have because Sergeant Shriver didnt trust the bureaucrats to tell them what was going on in the poverty programs so he hired a bunch of Young Lawyers and journalists like me to go around the country and write indepth reports on what was going on. I got assigned to do the deep south and much of my political philosophy was really shaped in those years. Host so, where was your trajectory . Who else worked for you over the years . Guest well, i spent two and a half years on the war on poverty and then i went to work on capitol hill and w