Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog
Weve got 493 billion out of the pentagon Defense Budget and were about to cut half a trillion, which brings it close to 950 billion. Out of the 10 year budget. The signal that sends to the world is that the united dates is not going to be in a position to contribute to a more peaceful and stable world in the decade ahead. The mac thanks, afterwards, Substance Abuse and Mental Health administration. This week in her book, drink, the intimate relationship between women and alcohol. The former editor at large of canadas macleans magazine examines what she calls the closing gender gap in the world of risky drinking. She argues heavy drinking is contributing to several Health Conditions and cancers and more women in the early draft for more than 20,000 a year in the u. S. Alone. The program is about an hour. Just goes so nice to be here. Host im excited to have this visit with you about the new book called drink, very intriguing and provocative and like i said, right when i was working in t
Nancy pelosi response to squeaker boehners remarks about House Republicans and women candidates. She is joined here by other democrats at this 40 minute briefing. Good afternoon. How are you all . Thank you for coming. Shelling to start telling grandchildren stories. He says greatgrandchildren. We all think our grandchildren are great. To believe. Good afternoon, everyone. Yesterday, as you know, president obama made a call to act regarding income inequality in our nation, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay for women, and in the workplace, earl Early Childhood education and prek have been part of his proposal all along. I was excited to hear what he said echoed. When women succeed, america succeeds, and this is our agenda. Income inequality, as he pointed eroding thely middle class, which is the backbone of our economy. Earlier, a representative from kentucky talked about how it is the right thing to do to improve the health of thousands of his citizens over the next decade. He als
Cutting it back. Rex thank you so much. Thank you to all of you and thank you to the chairman. I went to my times of thank you for allowing me to do so. That concludes our first round of questions. We will go to one followup per side. Dr. Burgess will begin with five minutes of followup. I wanted to followup with talkingff we were about. There is a crisis of confidence. The president has sold the Affordable Care act on a raft of us premises. You can keep your plan, false. You can keep your doctor, false. These are broken promises and easily the opportunity cost that americans are paying for for the a quarter will Affordable Care act. There was a promise made to seniors. Medicarese your dollars as a payee bank and we will improve medicare and allow seniors to keep their doctors if they like. Do you have an opinion as to whether or not this was another row can promise . It is. Fixable . Sical it is the problem. Should be a medicare damage in the ways we described earlier. Their promises.
Better word, politically activist terms. I do not think Eleanor Roosevelt, as much as i admire her, was the most influential first lady in american history. She had an enormous amount of influence wash was there. Not. Not only in terms of articulating president s president roosevelts andiatives from attack expanding the Democratic Party coalition. You know, having a huge role in shaping Social Security. The homestead pottage act. The youth administration. The federal loan oh grams. To antecedent, if you well, be National Endowment for the arts. She helped influence the administration. And were profoundly effective party organizers. Some of those students that i grassrootsk for organizations campus and use Eleanor Roosevelts training manual for canvassing. She was influential in shaping policy. I think that nancy reagan and Hillary Clinton were more acrossial on specific theboard policies. Let me interrupt you for a second, i am fascinated with what you say. Im trying to define influenc