It is something that will double us for quite some time. Maybe fuelling the extremism in the United States as satisfactory in the United States, what are the factors you can identify that you think happened with bipartisanship in the United States . Can you reiterate that . You think that the state of the economy is one of the biggest factors fueling the extremism in the United States, what other factors can you identify . Contributing to extremism . One thing, immigration, multiculturalism, White Nationalist movement, is very concerned that whites will be reduced to minority status in america. That is one thing that seems to be fueling the nationalist movement. To reiterate what i said earlier about the chicano separatist movement. They are becoming more emboldened because the demographic balance of power is shifting in their failure in the american southwest. There are more demographic trends that could give rise to political the extremism. That would be, i would say, inefficiently e
Sides of the Cash Register are torn with regard to hiking the minimum wage to 15. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the worst flooding in decades literally drowned parts of the Florida Panhandle and coastal alabama today. The deluge was triggered by the same front thats spawned tornadoes and killed at least 37 people this week. Ifill streets turned into rivers, and cars into islands, as it started pouring yesterday, from gulf shores, alabama to pensacola, florida, and didnt stop. I came down about 6 00 this mor
Important work. In many ways, it seems like he has done a good job. Everybody has heard about the claims backlog. Is underle dont know bush, do you know how we did claims . We did them by paper. That meant an individual veteran could have files this page. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of veterans. Our member talking to shinseki and he said i will convert that from paper to electronic. We will have those claims down accuracy. S with 98 they have cut the backlog in half. They are on the way to fulfilling that goal. One of the National Embarrassments is the level, highlevel of homelessness among veterans. Vietnam vets living on the streets. Since shinseki has been an office, we have reduced that by 24 . Also, as a result of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we have seen an increase of folks coming into the v. A. No one denies there are problems. But if you talk to the average veteran who is in the v. A. We held a hearing last week. The largest veterans organizations in america. T
The modifying video competition report, some of those things. I have got a piece of legislation weve passed out of the full house twice now, very bipartisan, i think it was unanimous earlier in this Congress Called the fcc consolidated reporting act which really tries to take a broad view and to eliminate a lot of the outdated reports, to streamline the reporting process. Something that i think you have seen bipartisan support to do in the house. Were trying to get the senate to take that up. Im not sure if you have a comment on what you think should happen there, if thats something youre supportive of generally, especially as it relates to the bipartisan bill in the house trying to move through the senate to ultimately become law to streamline the process as your staff has suggested. So on the senate side, its senator heller who has been pushing on this, and i know that he and senator rockefeller are talking about it in terms of their package of legislation over there. I definitely ag
Wyoming. In 1954, when i was 13 years old about to go into the eighth grade, my dad moved the family to wyoming. He had a choice between wyoming or montana and it was a good day because lynn and i grew up together. I first took her out when she was 16 years old. We will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, august. [laughter] [applause] if dad had picked montana and wyoming, of course i would of never married lynn. Nixon invented before, sponsored by the Nixon Library when i had other books to write, to publish. And now we wanted to have an opportunity for lynne to present yours. Its a superb book about our nations fourth president , and the plan is i will ask your questions and she will respond. At the end of the period of time well open it up, take some questions from the audience as well. With that let me begin by asking why madison . What made you decide James Madison needed another biography . Before you get the august am so grateful to date for joining on this book tour. I star