Listen on the free cspan radio app. Now, utah republican senator mitt romney takes part in a Georgetown University ritual conversation on American Leadership during times of crisis, specifically the coronavirus pandemic. He criticizes the governments initial response to the pandemic, saying he thought the world was surprised at the u. S. Efforts. From earlier this week, this is over one hour. Good evening and thank you for joining tonights virtual form hosted by the to do politics and public services, commonly referred to as geopolitics. The school ofin Public Policy and the school of business. At georgetown, ive had the opportunity to attend many geopolitics fellow discussions and events. Im also part of a team launching a new student organization, the mcchord refugee and policy organization. Our guest tonight, senator mitt romney. It is a tremendous honor to introduce him. Shipg up, growing up or saved his leadership saves dealer picks and helped the economy of my state. Republicanth
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A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
Came in different sizes never fairly standardized but we didnt have grand day coffee lattes or extra large portions of chips and things like that you name it cars homes cruise ships televisions furniture everything seems to have gotten bigger since i was a child how did that happen and is bigger really always better well as the whole economy geared towards super sizing everything today we look at the business of big welcome to an extra large edition of made its not just the things that we buy that have gotten bigger its also the advertising for the whole buildings can now be draped in gigantic posters which of course also have to be produced and now there is a machine that can do just the Worlds Largest a Digital Printer for soft materials can generate prints up to 600. 00 square meters in size our reporter went to pottstown near berlin to see how its done. The worlds biggest passenger plane. A massive container ship. A huge bucket excavator. Monster dump truck and infinity just to. It