Shot. Nonetheless he made it here and been a fantastic member of Parliament Standing up for his constituents. In wales since the election 22,000 more small business. Employment in wales going up by 52,000. Unemployment coming down private sector growth. We see Real Recovery in wales. It needs my honourable friend back here standing up for his constituents and for wales in the house of commons. I have here, mr. Speaker, a cutting from a york crest on the 24th of april 2010. Which says and i quote. David cameron last night dismissed claims the tory was put up the mps in the election november, last november. Why should the public believe promises he makes at this coming election . I have given the strangest possible answer. This time in government, we know what needs to be done. We know the changes and the truth is, both sides of this house have voted for a 30 billionpound adjustment. The labour front bench voted for it too. We have set out what needs to happen with departmental spending
What result is and, clearly, what were looking at is something that is the an tistithesis of what you can see would truly exist within a competitive environment. I think its time, thank you. And this is a complicated issue. I think its time to open it up to the audience. Yes, sir . Right here. Theres a microphone . Yes, there is a microphone. The thing i learned about running an Organization Even though it was a notforprofit i was the ceo oval,f, we needed revenue. The revenue seems to be the heart of the problem. We talk about businesses. I dont know of any business that restricts its price increases to how through some other criteria other than what the market would bare. The market would bare these lower prices, they lower the prices. If the market could bare higher prices, they raised the price. I think the biggest problem, one of the big problems was the new Regulatory Regime in the post office. And congress has limit to an external inflation as the limit on how much that you can
But just think about the example of delivering a package at the same time youre delivering the mail. The incremental cost of delivering that package given that you already have these enormous economies of scale and scope based on the monopoly product. We would be very uncomfortable if we said that the military could provide could have a private business for private security forces. I dont see any difference. Frankly. Second you know, the kirby. The activities of this Government Agency in the private market to postal product. We heard from our friends proposals for a whole line of new products. This would only compound the problem. The notion that the Postal Service, as the expertise to handle backnking services and financial services. To me, this is, you know, in the 1970s, the Oil Companies had a lot of money because oil prices had skyrocketed. They said we are all going to become conglomerates. And they started buying businesses, they had nothing to do with the oil business. And ten
Conversation. It could lead to collaboration and better results for our cities and our country. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Thanks for that ending. Thanks everyone for participating. [applause] Hillary Clinton obviously part of this discussion here at the center for american progress. This is questions continuing over emails she sent during her tenure as secretary of state. The House Committee on benghazi revealing yesterday the server that contained those emails was wiped clean. The committee learned of this from a clinton attorney after requesting the server be turned over to a third party as part of that investigation into the 2012 benghazi consulate attack in libya. Its not certain when the server was erased though Benghazi Committee chair trey goudie suggested it was sometime after october 2014, when the state department asked for secretary clinton to turn offer her public records. The Republican National committee, meanwhile releasing a Statement Today about ms. Clinto
Many aspects that someone could look at and judge whether that was a good reform or battery form. People grabbed onto that particular conclusion and try to use it to their best and. We are talking with professor philip here at the university of maryland about his book on the congressional Budget Office. The cbo was used in two ways or in one way it should have been used in two ways. One way is to help a Super Committee to set the parameters. So director elmendorf went and testified on the nature of the problem that was facing the country and what kind of thing was what needed to happen and what would be a reasonable trajectory for trying to get the deficit down for example, and clearly cbo stepped behind the scenes and worked with the committee answering questions. Theres an awful lot of work that they do that isnt visible in the sense that they are providing advice when asked to congressionally staff the committees. Now, what would have happened if the Super Committee had been success