In a real sense. First, it is great to be here. Thank you. Thank you for still being in this audience after this. Louder voice louder voice i think resilience is another word for success under stress. Success under stress, that is, there are stressors of various kinds that our nation and our whole world faces and being able to whether those stresses and being able to succeed on a variety of measures is a good definition of the r word. I mean, three or four years ago, people didnt use of the r word, and now, we have probably set a world record today for the number of times of this word has been said. And in the shifting towards resilience [laughter] i think they mean different things. I think sustainability means achieving some balance between equity, economy, and environment, and there are like six or seven other e,s that people have worked out es that people have worked out. And oh, do you drink after governance . [laughter] no, i was just taking a drink. It just kind of slits in ther
Neighbors or friends or strangers in need, came to help. And people who today still spend their time every day helping others, rolling up their sleeves, doing the hard work of changing this country without the need for credit or glory. Dont get their name in the papers, dont see their day in the sun. They do it because its right. Live the basic values that define this country, a value that we have been reminded of in these past 10 years as we come back from a crisis to change this city had an economic crisis that spread throughout the nation, the basic notion that i am my brothers keeper and my sisters keeper and we look out for each other and we are all in this together. That is the story of new orleans at also the story of america, city that for almost 300 years has been the gateway to american soil. Where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance [laughter] the volume makes you believe all ayou makeshings b you believe all kinds of things. It has brought together people co
See the money in the bank account but they could not spend it until the reform was done. This shifted the political balance because all of a sudden people said they were supporting the subsidy reform because now they could use the cash transfers with incredible opportunity. For various other reasons it did not work out so well now the subsidies are back. I think having done it once there is a chance they might able to do it again. Dudash on the point of if it will be politically easier, it will be politically easier where the economic case is compelling. It can be in subsidies, but it is especially compelling in the whole Energy Sector where there will be they will be desperate to attract Foreign Investment. The kind of oil regime that they have and they are moving in the direction desired by International Oil companies. In general they will be looking for Foreign Investment because there are many good reasons to get Foreign Investment. Particularly Foreign Investment which is a genera
Legislative work in taking up a bill today to reauthorize an Early Childhood Home Visiting program through 2022. Current funding expires at the end of the month and a vote on the measure expected later today. Also starting debate on a bill. Hat denies social [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] glad tiedings Pentecostal Church of mangham, louisiana. The chaplain thank you, mr. Speaker. May we pray. Our eternal god, may divine direction be upon the members of the peoples house. The osama bin ladenist pleaded for thy saving help among the nations. May the representatives from chicago to San Francisco from new york to new orleans, o god, be granted the wisdom of solomon and the strength of the great apostle paul. May the holy ghost bless this body. From Committee Rooms where compromise is made, to this very floor, may grace and peace
Mr. President. Can we ask about the dossier . Mr. President , what is your reaction . I think it is very send what they have done with this fake dossier, which is made up. I understand they paid into medicine of the money. Hillary clinton always denied it. The democrats always denied it. Now in because it will come out in a court case, they said, yes, they did it by the admitted it and they are embarrassed by it. I think it is a disgrace. It is a very sad it is a very sad commentary on politics in this country. [indiscernible] i dont think so. We have great unity in the Republican Party. Thats ok. They have to do their thing. Unity. Great if you look at what happened yesterday at the meeting, we had virtually every senator, including john mccain. We had a great conversation yesterday, john mccain and myself and about the military. Lovefest. T a maybe it was a lovefest. Standing ovations. There is great unity. If you look at the democrats, with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton my that