Good morning, everyone. My name is nirra tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress, and im really honored to be joined by our esteemed Commission Members for the new report from the Inclusive Commission a commission convened over a year and a half ago. Im very honored to be joined by our cochairs, dr. Larry summers, former treasury secretary, and ed ball shadow chancellor of the exchequer for the u. K. We convened this commission because we at cap are very focused on the challenges the middle class is facing in the United States, challenges of stagnating wages rising costs. What we recognize these were not just trends that the American Public is facing. Its really Global Trends are faking us and we can learn from other countries. So that is why weve undertaken this effort. I hope everyone has gotten our report, a very big report. And im going to now turn it over to larry and ed, and then i will ask questions of our Commission Members to get their thoughts, and then r
On newsmakers republican senator john hoeven of north dakota. William adams, the 10th chair announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities. The initiative is part of the institutions 50th anniversary celebration. The Government Institute titian was founded in 1965 with a mission to support research, education, preservation, and programs and humanity. This National Press club event is about one hour. Tuesday night, president obama delivers his state of the Union Address. Live coverage begins at it 00 p. M. Eastern. The gop response, delivered by joni ernst and the reaction for open phones, live on cspan and cspan radio. On cspan2, watch the speech and congressional reaction in the u. S. Capital. The state of the Union Address live on cspan cspan2 cspan radio, and cspan. Org. William adams the 10th chair of the National Endowment for the humanities announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities. The initiative is part
The category of things where i think there will be bipartisan support. I think those are very clearly legislative issues that the congress will take the lead in terms of the timetable and focus they will do. Not mentioned because i thought that they were very contentious. As her matter of fact as a matter of fact, on the ledger of putting things in columns of more contentious or greater possibility for working together, i see both of those in that category of greater possibility for working together. I think the question will come back to a point that was just raised in terms of deficits and that sort of thing. As one looks at cost. The administration has expressed support for both of them. So the question is a legislative approach to achieve them. We want to thank you for coming and thank secretary burwell for joining us at new america. We hope youll come to future events here. Not always as high profile as this one, we are really glad we could host you today. Thank you very much. Tha
Hello, im antonio mora, welcome to a special edition of consider this. 20 years ago, a bomb destroyed pan am flight 103. Only one man was found guilty. We are confident this day that al magrahi was responsible. Aljazeera tornado exclusive information that points to another party. The intelligence we got indicates iran, libya. If they didnt retaliate against the United States, we would consider to shoot down them. As long as the relatives are alive, questions will continue to be asked. Its supposed to be a closed case. The pan am 103 bombing on september 21st in 1988 killed 270 people. 189 of them americans returning home for christmas. It remains the deadlyist terrorist attack in the history of the united kingdom. But despite a three year investigation, and agreement by libya to pay 2. 7 billion for the families of the victims, for many, the questions still remain. Questions in a provocative documentary on the bombing that just aired on aljazeera. Lockerby, what really happened . Did l
Hello, im antonio mora, welcome to a special edition of consider this. 20 years ago, a bomb destroyed pan am flight 103. Only one man was found guilty. We are confident this day that al magrahi was responsible. Aljazeera tornado exclusive information that points to another party. The intelligence we got indicates iran, libya. If they didnt retaliate against the United States, we would consider to shoot down them. As long as the relatives are alive, questions will continue to be asked. Its supposed to be a closed case. The pan am 103 bombing on september 21st in 1988 killed 270 people. 189 of them americans returning home for christmas. It remains the deadlyist terrorist attack in the history of the united kingdom. But despite a three year investigation, and agreement by libya to pay 2. 7 billion for the families of the victims, for many, the questions still remain. Questions in a provocative documentary on the bombing that just aired on aljazeera. Lockerby, what really happened . Did l