Camaraderie, the french that was felt. It was such a relief. Lets pray that this is just the beginning, and i think it is. I think there is determination here to take this bipartisanship even further. We have seen it during the course of this year with the comprehensive immigration bill, passage of the farm bill, and now the senate, a Bipartisan Senate rose to the occasion and wrote this deadlock and took the lead is to do it. Fd into need to show that and hope that the speaker, the house of representatives, and other members as well will watch carefully as the American People react. Watch carefully and understand their responsibility not to work with us in a bipartisan fashion to solve all problems. One of the saddest parts of today was to pick up the morning paper and read Republican House members say we won this battle. Honest to goodness, how can that possibly say that. This is not a win when it comes to a loss of federal employees and the services across our country. We have to co
Any such plans that might be in the preliminary stage. Theres an important election suggesting the nsa is a very dramatic role in the drone campaign. I wonder if you can talk about that but also more broadly, keith alexander, was this prompted by the Edward Snowden scandal in terms of the terms of the presidency ended . The answer is no pity if we can confirm several weeks ago general alexander confirmed to the president in the spring of 2014. When he was extended for the third time as the director of the nsa for the fiber command in march of 2013, general alexander indicated his interest in retiring next spring. And having served as the director since 2005 and commander of u. S. Cyber command since 2010, general alexander served in extraordinary and let these agencies through critical periods of clintons transition. The president looks forward to continuing to work with general alexander until his term as complete and he thinks him and the men of the nsa for the patriotism and dedicat
Insurance companies and trying to figure out how we are going to make ends meet with Health Insurance going up 100 , because of obama care, this deal does nothing for them. And to all of the seniors, to all of the people with disabilities who are right now getting in the mail notifications that they are losing their Health Insurance because of obama care, this deal does nothing for them. Mr. President , this fight was always about the American People who are hurting because of obama are. And unfortunately today, the United States senate is saying, you dont have a voice in washington. This is a terrible deal. And i urge my colleagues to oppose it. Now, none of us should be surprised that when the senate votes, this deal is going to pass and pass by a big argin. None of us should be surprised, but mr. President , the outcome could have been different. I would ask you, mr. President , to imagine a different world. We saw in the last two months millions of americans rise up, sign a nationa
Direct their criticism, direct retention, direct their cannon fire at House Republicans and at those standing with the American People. Yet at the same time, mr. President , to the millions of americans who rose up in the last couple of months, i want to give a word of encouragement, a word of encouragement about the path forward. A couple of months ago, the washington establishment scoffed at the notion that the American People might rise up. That was viewed as silly, parochial, couldnt happen. A couple of months ago, the washington establishment scoffed at the notion that the house of representatives would stand strong saying, we should fund every bit of the federal government but we shouldnt fund obamacare. Yet, mr. President , what we have seen in the last two months has been extraordinary. Millions of americans speaking out in overwhelming numbers saying, obamacare isnt working. Mr. President , the unions are jumping ship. Senatetic members of the and house went to the president a
It is the budget problem overall. As was just said, members of congress do not vote against research. They just let cuts in research happen because of what is now in place, a budget that is constantly taking money away from research and innovation and putting it in the hands of old people, like me, who frankly should not be getting the percentage of revenue that is now coming to our generation. The reason we have the best Research Universities in the world is that, for some 70 years now, the federal government has invested heavily in research, competitively awarded research grants, which go to faculty members at the university of michigan, the university of virginia, harvard, stanford, and all the other great universities in this country that carry out research. What is the result of that research . A Great Innovation system. Economists now acknowledge that 60 or more of u. S. Economic growth over the past few decades is based on innovation. A huge percentage of that innovation is done