create new deal legislation including social security, unemployment insurance and the minimum wage. the author spoke at the ninth annual book festival which is library of congress hosted on the national mall. this is very interesting and personally meaningful to me because the genesis of my entire book, which is the woman behind the new deal. it s the life of francis perkins i ll explain to you how that happened. and much of the research was done at library of congress which is sponsoring today s events. it s a wonderful institution. the beautiful buildings, there s such important research materials there. and it s all available free. these public access libraries are really one of the things that make our nation great. and i m very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. now, this is a self-selecting crowd. i know some of you already know who francis perkins is. but a lot of people don t. so let s start by
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0 issues, but with gun legislation coming up in the senate, any hints that they talked about that? i haven t gotten wind of that from my sources on capitol hill yet. i will say at the last dinner, they were pretty careful to avoid that. at that one they touched on immigration which has a much deeper bipartisan consensus and is less divisive emotionally, if you will. i would say i would be surprised to hear they got into that at any great length. ezra klein, if you can imagine them getting off their talking points in the dining room and i can, when they close the door and it is really that kind of meeting, it s definitely possible, where do you think they would find the biggest area to find some sort of common ground? there s actually a fair amount of common ground. the problem is whether or not the common ground extends to politics. so a couple of not even a year ago, mitch mcconnell went to the wall street journal and said that in order to consider more revenues, he would need
0 deficits by nearly another $2 trillion so that all told, we will have surpassed the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that independent economists believe we need to stabilize our finances. but it does so in a balanced and responsible way, a way that most americans prefer. we don t yet know exactly what the republican senators said about the president s budget at dinner tonight, but the republican leader of the house of representatives immediately attacked the president s budget today using the most absurd and childish comparison that you can. you ve heard this a thousand times. he compared a family s budget to the federal government s budget. the president s budget never comes to balance. every family has to balance its budget, washington should as well. that is, of course, not true, unless you don t count the family s mortgage as part of their budget. financially prudent families usually carry very significant debt, which they can afford in the long term. that debt come