To discuss. What sets it apart . Guest one is just the beauty, the building and the magnificence of the marble statue, the largest marble monument portrait in the United States, then and now. What further has set it apart is the use of this space i am sitting on all the way to the steps as a platform for the discussion of grievances, for the aspirations for a more perfect union, for what reagan called unfinished what lincoln called unfinished work. It has evolved into the setting for demonstrations, gatherings, meetings, concerts that all point to completing that Unfinished Business of his. Host describe where you are and for those who havent been there, with the should know. Guest i am sitting about 50, 40 feet from the reflecting pool on the far end of the monument. And of course the memorial is behind me up 87 steps, i think i have that right. Finished in 19 and they waited for it to settle on the soft ground before it settled for it to settle before they had the dedication. 100 yea
Globalizations done in ripping apart american policy and politics and how to bring it back together and he points to really these wall things that have come up. I dont think he quite meant trumps border wall, but rather protectionism things to try to block ourselves off to try to restrict trade to restrict peoples choice and on the other hand having to recognize that its very disruptive when technology moves fast globalization moves fast and his his metaphor the bridge is we need to find ways to get people from one place to another we are not going to stop the world from changing. Something thats you know, all too painfully a parent and the geopolitics today. Ive known plan for a very long time is a leading scholar in Public Finance and a number of other fields. He served with distinction and the council as head of the council of economic advisors in the in the early 2000s under president bush and has since been dean of the Columbia Business School and written many important papers, an
Send us a tweet, post your comments on facebook, and you can also email us. During Opening Statements yesterday up on capitol hill before the Senate Armed Services committee, the joint chiefs of staff, general Martin Dempsey had this to say about the possibility of combat troops. Our military advisers will help the iraqis conduct campaign planning, and coordinate the coalition activities. If we reach a point where i believe our advisors sure accompany iraq troops on attacks on specific eye sill targets ill recommend that to the president. Saying that he will recommend that to the president , the possibility of combat troops, if he deems it necessary. Front page, courtesy of the museum here in washington this morning, with the headline, case for ground forces. They shows this, bipartisian support fraction, a majority in both parties back president obamas plan for military campaign against militants in iraq and syria. Bae 53 total approving, 29 disapproving, republicans back it by 64 to
There mccaskill posted second in a series of roundtable discussions aimed at combating Sexual Assault on College Campuses. College officials and victims advocates. This is just under two and a half hours. Thank you all for being here today. Assume senator tester and senator blumenthal will join us at some point today. They will have an opportunity for putting anything on the record it would like. I would like to start by welcoming the participants. This is the second round table in a series of three focusing on the complex and various issues that surround Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Two weeks ago we had a discussion on the clary at and the campus safe act. On thursday we will be holding the third roundtable discussion on something i am very concerned about, and that is the coordination, working collaboration between Law Enforcement and University Campuses in terms of holding perpetrators criminally accountable. I am holding these roundtables to bring together a Diverse Group of
Allow emitters of that pollution to trade credits and decide for themselves what costs that point source polluters are willing to pay for the ability to send Carbon Dioxide into the air. Weve heard over and over the Horror Stories coming from our friends on the republican side. As a member of the Energy Committee in the house of representatives when we debated the waxmanmarkey bill i heard it over and over again. They told us that electricity prices were going to dramatically spike and that yes, you are going to have a benefit to the environment from reducing Carbon Dioxide but you are going to have catastrophic consequences for the economy because everybody was going to have to pay for that. Well, you know, i guess i can understand how people would believe that if there wasnt any empirical evidence to test their theory. Luckily, new england has just that evidence. New england has tested this idea. Frankly, the whole world has tested this idea because weve reduced ozone depleting pollu