A. M. Eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion. Next a hearing on the u. S. Economic outlook with keith hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office that provides analysis. This is two hours. Welcome to the committee on the Budget Hearing on the Congressional Budget Offices and outlook. I want to thank everyone for being here this morning. Were holding the hearing to discuss the congressional economic outlook, which gives us a tenyear projection of our spending, our National Debt and how the economy is going to perform over the next decade. The report forms the corner stone of the work at the House Budget Committee and i want to thank everyone at the cbo for hard work in producing this report. Id also like to welcome the cdo director, keith hall, director hall, i do appreciate you taking the t time to testify today and lookak forward to your insight we discuss this report. Thei discussion we will have today is a serious one because we face enormous fiscal and economicwe challe
15842069, whats it all about . Neil well, generations is a whole new way of looking at how the past shapes the future. Our book retells the entire story of america from the perspective of separate generations moving through time. We follow each of these generations from childhood to old age, starting with the first puritan colonists and going through the small children of today. Along the way we discovered some outstanding patterns in history that seemed to be recurring in the appearance of generations. We found, for instance, that every generation belongs to one of four lifecycle types that seems to repeat in the same order over time. The appearance of young war heroes is almost always followed by the appearance of a young generation that appears indecisive and conformist to others. The appearance in history of passionate, young moralists is always followed by a generation which appears wild and uneducated to elders. So, what we do is take these patterns and try to use them to show am
So if the president can support that and certify that, then this falls away. So, we do not say that this deal is not allowed. We simply say that u. S. Institutions, financial institutions, cannot be used for this. And we cannot and will not use the Exportimport Bank at u. S. Tax , a u. S. Taxpayer funded entity, to do this. At the end of the day in april of this year, secretary jack lue told us that. That there would be no access. In eith and either he misled the United States citizens and this body at that time, or they changed their mind. They havent told us which. But neither one is acceptable. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the previous question is ordered on the bill as amended and on the amendment offered by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Huizenga. The question is on the amendment by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Huizenga. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. The question is on the eng
This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our values. Its not just a matter of idealism. I believe it is practical for the United States to support democracies. [applause] pres. Obama because history shows us that countries with democratic governance tend to be more just, and more stable, and more successful. Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create the young people who are here, what theyre able to do through the internet and technolo
This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our values. Its not just a matter of idealism. I believe it is practical for the United States to support democracies. [applause] pres. Obama because history shows us that countries with democratic governance tend to be more just, and more stable, and more successful. Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create the young people who are here, what theyre able to do through the internet and technolo