Four. I am neither the first or the last. The point that i wanted to reflect was that this is a tradition in the history of. Ociety people have to put themselves on the line. People have to take risks. Citizens have not just an , notest but nomination just believing in idea but standing for it in challenging the government when it goes to backfire. If we see our constitution being a violated on a massive scale by we have been demanded our officials to smirnov that they will protect becomes diffusion against all enemies not just foreign but domestic as well, we have a duty to stand up and do something about it. I tried my best to do that. I will hope that others will do the same in the future. I hope that will have no need for something as dramatic as we have seen in the last year. The last one, i have lost track of. Sorry. Are you working on a tool to protect journalists . That is still an area of active focus. I am doing a lot with the freedom of press foundation and doing other thing
Solidly middleclass folks and more than 90 in bankruptcy because of a medical problem, a job loss, or a family breakup. The squeeze on the middle class was getting tighter, and more and more families were deep in debt. Bankruptcy was their last option to scratch their way back to dead flat broke and tried to build some kind of future. Credit Card Companies saw this and they figured out that they could boost the profits if the squeeze these people a little harder. So they wanted to change the bankruptcy laws so that hundreds of thousands more people every year would be locked out of bankruptcy and left mired in debt. Their profits by squeezing people, drowning in medical debt and deal with job losses. I was truly appalled. Now, understand how this fight shape the. Credit Card Companies were smart. They had already led to a lot of powerful folks to support them, both democrats and republicans. They had money to lower. They had lobbyists galore. And the families going bankrupt, they had n
Again, we are like morning in boston at the edward m. Kennedy institute dedication ceremony. We expect the remarks of president obama, Vice President biden, and first Lady Michelle obama. Inside the institute is a recreation of senator kennedys Office Sometimes referred to as the hideaway office. Back in 2005, he gave cspan a tour. He told us about the history of office and the capitol building, and shared stories about his family. Live coverage, once again. We are at boston at the edward m. Kennedy institute for the dedication ceremony of that building. President obama, Vice President and the first lady are there and are expected to give remarks. Also along with senator john mccain and senator elizabeth warren. Coming up, secretary of state john kerry was excited to also common, but he is in a meeting with ranking officials in switzerland since last thursday, as he tries to reach a political deal with iran in exchange for sanctions relief. He was expected to be here bahia that he is s
Career. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in giving a warm boston welcome to senator john mccain. [applause] senator mccain thank you, ted. Mr. Vice president , all of ted friends and colleagues visible here today, it is a privilege to be here to help dedicate his institute. A fitting memorial for a man who gave a halfcentury of Dedication Service to our country in a place he truly loved, the United States that. I wish i hadnt already told my best anecdotal ted at his memorial service. It might have been appropriate here. It concerned an exchange that he and i had on the senate floor that was known for its bigger. Its volume and vigor. A story that we both enjoyed telling. Since many of you were present the last time, i wont repeat it today pity though, its a good one. [laughter] we were on the floor. [laughter] we went to freshman senators one democrat and one republican, who got into a parliamentary dispute. I sighed taking place, so i went down and actually took the side of the f
It as a success to a certain extent. There is a modernization going on, but if you were to have predicted chinas capabilities based on their economic and Technological Base and assume they were rivals, one could imagine a world where they had built far more than they have. Certainly, far less than they are capable of. Absolutely, we want more interaction. But in some ways you have not seen the kind of actionreaction that you saw with the soviets. Working with questions of, how low can you go . Deterrence of load numbers. What is the minimal amount . A big debate. How you answer the question depends ons depends on how you answered some of the questions i laid out in my remarks. There are some people who think that we are that we have, you know reduced quite significantly a end we are going much lower. Might be from omatic. Others think we can go much further. Let me push back on something you said. Let me push back on something you said. When you said the clash was about economics, the