you might have gone to get your coffee, seen your friends. i was here at 30 rock with my entire staff. i went to a school play that day. but by the end of the evening the w.h.o. had declared covid a pandemic. seattle shut down their school system, the first major district to do so, the stock market fell off a cliff. the sign of a lot more pain to come. the first case of covid popped up on capitol hill and the nba suspended its season leading all the rest of major sports to follow suit. that all happened in one single day. it was a stunning disruption to all of our lives and as we know it was just the beginning. one by one states shut down, businesses closed and normal life came to a complete halt. but we also know the future is much brighter than it has been in a long time. tonight president biden will mark the anniversary. tomorrow he signs the american rescue plan into law, hopefully getting more help to those who need it most. remember, we went from no vaccines to three va
weekly jobless benefits that goes through september. there is expansion of tax credits affordable care act subsidies. and there s also funding for schools, states, and vaccines and a lot more as well. here s how an eligible family of four earning under $150,000 a year, couple earning $96,000, i should say, with two children, would receive here. each person gets $1,400, plus there is a $3,000 tax credit for each of the two children age 6 or older. the total help for this family is going to be more than $11,000. still not a single republican in the house is expected to vote for it in the coming moments as was the case in the senate. i call upon my republican colleagues to stop their march madness and show some compassion for their constituents who are less than wealthy. i ve heard people across the country say this bill today is costly, corrupt, and liberal. it s a laundry list of left-wing priorities that predate the pandemic and do not meet the needs of the american famil
Bring in at the end of this year and this year of discussion. As you know, one of the worlds great Woodrow Wilson experts, one of the two great Woodrow Wilson experts teaches on our faculty. As professor tom not, the other is tony smith. Choose my words very carefully, i found that in the age of trump, it is important to choose your words carefully so i want to tell you why i consider them to be both wilson experts but of a different quality. To my mind, thats not has done more than anyone to tell us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with, to tell us the history and the moment of Woodrow Wilson, twotime what he confronted and have you confronted it in the world if you live 10. Professor tony smith has done more than anything to tell us why this matters. President since wilson, it has not been a question of whether there will some in but how much and the question that animated Woodrow Wilson, those of democracy and promotion, so much of the subject of his book and work tonight continues t
To my mind, professor not has done more than anyone to tell us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with, to tell us the history and the moment of Woodrow Wilson, to tell us what he confronted in the world he lived in. Professor tony smith has done more than anything to tell us why this matters. Frankly, every president since wilson, it has not been a question of whether or not they were will sony and whether or ian or not. Re wilson so much of his book tonight still continues to guide American Foreignpolicy. Some might say hot might say haunt american policy. What professor smith will help us understand in a more foregoing way helps drive america today. Im pleased to have the author of this book, why wilson matters , to explain to us. Then you can go buy your own copy. Professor smith, the floor is years. Applause [applause] professor smith i think everything is working. I think he introduced me in a way that introduced my family. My sister and i grew up in Richland Hills in the heart of t
We found in the age of trumpets important to choose your words carefully so i want to tell you why i find them to be both wilson experts but of a different quality and a different tone and tenor. To my mind the professor knock has done more than anyone to tell us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with. To tell us the history and most moment of Woodrow Wilson, what he confronted and how he confronted it and these developments of his own thinking in the world he lived in. Professor tony smith as the other side of that coin has done more than anyone to tell us why this matters. So frankly every president since wilson has not been a question of them or of whether or not they are will sony and but rather how much. Animated Woodrow Wilson in particular of democracy in so much of professor smiths work in the subject of his book tonight will continue to guide American Foreignpolicy today, one might even say would continue to haunt american policy today. What Woodrow Wilson said will not help us