In our country, children who cannot help themselves who are the victims of modernday slavery, what in the world can we do . So we mark 100 days here in the United States senate with the new republican majority, and as i look back, i dont think i dont think anybody can deny that under the majority leader stewardship weve had some significant accomplishments in a relatively short amount of time. Sure its been bumpy along the way. The xl pipeline was a significant bump in the road but we had strong bipartisan vote and unfortunately the president decided to be told that legislation, but after years of this chamber being used solely for the purpose of messaging and can ducting political show votes we are actually starting to get some things done. Its done. Its pretty exciting. As somebody whos been here since 2002 its hard to believe, i say that because ive actually been here during different phases and cycles of the senates senates operating and i have to tell you, the last four years or s
Worried about how title ii impacts their broad or services, not broader services, not any potential violations of Net Neutrality which, by and large with a few exceptions, theyve lived under for the past decade. So its really important that we have that discussion about broader broadband policy and that we have it soon. Lets not get rid of protections in order to have it. Host Christopher Lewis walter mccormick, Julian Hattem is with the hill newspaper. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Today the United States institute of peace and the Woodrow Wilson center hold a discussion on the politics of a nuclear deal with iran. Participants include former congressman jim slatly of kansas and Howard Berman of california former National Security adviser stephen hadley, and a former member of irans parliament. Live coverage begins at 9 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. U. N. Secretary general ba
Npcdinner. Remember the public attends our dinner. Applause of evidence is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. After our grests speech we will have a question and answer period. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Our head table includes guests of our speaker and also working journalists who are club members. Let me introduce them to you now. I ask each foreign stand briefly as names are announced. From the audiences right, baha altawil, correspondent for egypts on tv network. Kathy bank a nebraska of the a member of the npc Journalism Institute board. Rachel oswald, writer for roll call. Wuhan bo, undersecretary ed hes been on the job since 2007. Hes the eighth person to hold this pest. During bans tenure, the u. N. Has responded to the crisis in darfur, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the effects of global warming, and terrorism. Ban also faces challenges such as water shortages worldwide. The Ebola Outbreak in western africa and civil conf
Just think of that. 12 democrats, 11 republicans, Something Like that. Today we have over 60 House Democratic women. [applause] not enough. We want more. But all of us who were there, that dozen of us for the time, we took responsibility to try to put more women in congress across the country. I am proud that in california our delegation of democrats is a majority of women, not even counting our two senators. Women are empowered in california. I also want to acknowledge that although our members are great here, two of our colleagues have gone on to the senate. Senator elect Tammy Baldwin [applause] senator elect mazie hirono. Only the second woman of color to serve in the senate. That is very exciting. Unfortunately we do not have kathy hochul this next congress, but the future is soon coming upon we know they will be making a great public contribution. So here we are. We are still finishing up some of our campaigns. We are very proud of the success as you see here today. Why is it imp
Ill leave that question hanging there, i think. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] did we get anything right . Um, well, i think that what did the get right in the middle east, well, lets just try and end on a happier note. I hope this doesnt sound frivolous, you know, but there is this, there is this earlier history of a welcome, benign presence of United States in the middle east, you know . The era which saw the creation of institutions. Fine, important institutions like the American University of beirut. [inaudible] excuse me . [inaudible] a lot of good stuff. Well, its and i think, you know, its worth remembering that moment. And i refer anybody here who isnt familiar with the work of medici to a historian of that relationship at Rice University to his work. Its a really fascinating moment that is less known than it should. And on that somewhat e evasive response [laughter] ill say thank you very much for your questions. [applause] for more information, visit the authors web sit