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To deal with entitlement reform which democrats are trying to reform . How do we deal with this major threat to our country. The debt is going to have to be dealt with. The question is how. We can deal with it in a more orderly and constructive way or we can wait until we have a debt crisis. The cause of our longterm debt the way our Entitlement Programs are structured. My mother is on medicare. Our Social Security and medicare is still going to be the best thing in the world but it will be different than our parents. Those were designed at a time when there were as many as 16 workers for every retiree. Now there are only as three. We need leadership that pushes us in that direction. This president has never invested any Political Capital in reforming those. When paul ryan his proposal to save medicare, the president was responsive, not with a plan of his own, his response was to raise a bunch of money to attack republicans. This issue is going to be. With one way or another area the l
Scalia will only read the brief but you can imagine others would say if i wanted an extended version of the argument im really interested in a specific issue in the book you can go to that if you want to know more. But i wonder if they will this play this role. It to my mind ultimately that would be a good thing because if you dont want to access it, you dont have to. A will always still be there but its another place out there and information which will hopefully be to better inform an opinion by the court. Richard is next on book tv. He examines the historical debate whether Franklin Roosevelt was indifferent to or a defender of europe during world war ii. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Thank you for that generous introduction and i am grateful for the center of advanced studies for the invitation and for the preparation work done. Fdr and the jews was published in march of last year and has generated a good deal of response since then. I regret to report what all reactions w
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem
And we have seen the extraordinary progress since that time. A united germany. Nations in central and Eastern Europe standing tall as proud democracies. A europe that is more integrated, more prosperous and more secure. We must never forget that the spark for so much of this revolutionary change, this blossoming of hope, was lit by you, the people of poland. [applause] history was made here. The victory of 1989 was not inevitable. It was the culmination of centuries of polish struggle, at times in this very square. The generations of poles who rose up and finally won independence. The soldiers who resisted invasion, from the east and the west. The righteous among the nations among them jan karski who risked all to save the innocent from the holocaust. The heroes of the warsaw ghetto who refused to go without a fight. The free poles at normandy and the poles of the home army who even as this city was reduced to rubble waged a heroic uprising. We remember how, when an iron curtain descen