When the ebola has been such a big concern for many, including politicians who in some cases ran campaigns on ebola, we have have thethe senate opportunity to confirm a Surgeon General for this country. There are a number of nominations that must work its way in before the end of the year. We believe that we heard the public right. We will stick to trying to help as much as possible all those families that are survived the difficult times as a result of the wall street crash. We will focus most importantly on the middle class. We can build on the more than 10 10. 5 million jobs created over the last 54 months. We can hope to continue that progression of more than 200 thousand jobs created for the last nine months we continue to have more americans with Health Security that we take for granted in this room. We learned just recently that we have the highest rate of High School Graduation in our country ever. We saw that five states, four of them red, the people in those states said, we s
Previously mark also served as of the tant director 2011 and 20113 months at analyst known as reduction the super committee. Next we have steve bell who director of ior economic policy. On the that steve worked staff of senator pete and budget 1981 to 1986 and last but not least we have bob, he executive tkroebgter of the Concord Coalition. He served a member of the debt force, also no one as the commission who pro a solution for addressing the fiscal challenges. With that ill pose the first panel and each of the panel will have ten minutes to answer and open it up for questions. What do you is, see as the major opportunities for progress in the upcoming can lawmakers w best take advantage of them. Well start with mark. Here and ou for being thanks to the Concord Coalition nd ben for organizing this event. I have entioned substantial experience failing a grand bargain. The concept was relatively traightforward and it was a concept that was pretty broadly to. Eed would have to agree o c