Critical to increase a little bit of the institution to be able to maintain the excellence and teaching capability of our institutions. So, i main focus now is making sure that we raise funds for scholarship, for grants, and making sure that we bring your kids and my kids also to a Great Institution that prepares them for a lifelong learning, lifelong job and lifelong citizenship in a great country. Provost, here is a tweet from one of our viewers, lauren, who says Virtual Schools will be one tenth the cost. Well, Virtual Schools are great for people who are very interested in that. But i believe sincerely in the residential experience for students. Its not i mean, its not only bringing the students here to study, but bringing students here to socialize, to create networks, to make friends, to meet people from all over the world. If you stay in your bedroom, thats very difficult, very, very difficult to produce what i call a whole citizen. We believe we produce Online Education for peo
Office as well. Joe served in a number of different positions as bill has, ranging from committees and the house to the office of management and budget in the administration, and has served as chief economist, staff director and variety of those positions and served with bill on the Bipartisan Policy Centers Debt Reduction task force which came out in 20 10, which came out with a plan to reduce the debt which is inherited some of the proposals and policies that bill has been talking about up here with tax reform, entitlement reform. So joe youre jumping in the middle here, but we were talking the question was in terms of priorities in the federal budget and the growth in the Entitlement Programs and Interest Payments and how thats crowding out some of the other pieces. And so what do you think of the federal budget in terms of how it addresses our priorities as a country and where you see it moving forward . Well, i assume that bill probably used this word already three times, the budg
Outside the box. I began my education in fort greeley while the School Facilities were a bit rustic the high quality of education i received inside those walls is what i remember so much. I thank each and every teacher who has taken on the high calling of educating our children. While we certainly have room for improvement in our schools, we should also celebrate our achievements. In nevada last month, at one of the toughest High School Wrestling tornments in the country, senior josh roteman won his weight class and earned the tournaments outstanding wrestling award. Josh is the first allamerican athlete from the high school and has been accepted to the u. S. Naval academy. This past spring, kristine fenderson of fair banks captured a silver medal at the United States decathlon super quiz. A competition that attract teams from around the world. These individual successes serve as reminder that the next generation has the talent and drive to succeed. Its up to us to provide the opportun
Starts to pump and for once in my life, i go, if i had a damn cell phone. I could call someone. So after that event i broke down and joined the cell phone generation. Patient spaceshipone, that was pressure. I had not found the vehicle loan the vehicle and 10 months. My flight the second x2 flight would be on a monday morning. The night before sunday night was the first airing of the Discovery Channel plus program called the black sky and there was two parts to that. The first part was the race to space which was focused mainly on all the effort it took to get the first fight back in june. That was being played out on national tv and when it broke between segments instead of going to commercial, the reporter he would interview birds and say the first question was who is the pilot tomorrow . And he would answer that question so miles pushed further and said how do you think it is going to go . I do not know if you know bert but if you have an audience, a crowd, he knows how to work it a
Faithful as we anticipate a long and challenging day remind us that you call us not to success but to faithfulness. Give our senators and the members of their staffs wisdom to make the commitment to be true to you and to serve your purposes. Let not discordant notes destroy the melody of their labors as they seek your counsel and wisdom. Lord guide our great nation. Help it to be a lighthouse to a dark and turbulent world. Prosper the works of our hands until the kingdoms of this world become the spring board for your eternal reign. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell for years the democratled senate refused to pass a balanced budget. It usually fa