You want to work. Come here if we need your skills and we do. My dance card is filling up. We will have you back. I guess some of you here will have to catch tammy, buster, bob, linda during the break and ask them for the names of those leaders that i wanted to put in nomination. We are up against our time. This has been a terrific panel. Think stu linda chavez, bob , buster tammy bruce soaries. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] onceederick douglass stated, im a republican. A black dyed in the wool republican and i intend to belong to no other party than the party of freedom and progress. Those words describe the mindset of a true Public Servant dedicated to the benefit of society beyond the party title and beyond the name. Senatorsiana state the same. Llory is when he asked why he made such a decision to switch he said it was the right decision because the individual must we free to pursue his ow
I think it is safe to say that bill bennett says conservativism will never be a Popular Movement as long as it is perceived to be against the interests of minorities. In many ways, we have earned that perception. As bill also said that when liberals see blacks, they see a sea of it comes and conservatives see a sea of aliens. It is important to acknowledge that in the 1960s when conservatives talk about limited, small government, hostility to Central Government it was not for Central Government intervention in the states, we would not be sitting here. Just knowledge in the past doesnt mean we arent stuck there and it changes as our circumstances change. Back in the 1960s, it was important for Central Government intervene, but today Central Government interferes with ability. You cannot generalize about black community anymore any other. Theres a poster in my Office Written by bill raspberry when he was a reporter for the post. Its as poor negroes will not benefit from the gains of the
On thursday morning president obama will be traveling to dcginia to the washington suburbs. He will be sending a plan to address health care delays at the v. A. Congress passed the bill before leaving for their summer recess. It is designed to limit wait lists for v. A. Patients. Live coverage begins at 11 20 eastern time. Itator Bernie Sanders says is time to hire more doctors, nurses, and staff at v. A. Health care facilities. Tweets that she will watch the president signed legislation to reform the v. A. And help thats into law. Looking forward to meeting v. A. Secretary macdonald. The hill newspaper had this story. President obama said yesterday that it was premature to fasttrack experimental ebola drug for approval. Even though a deadly outbreak of the disease was in africa. I think we have to let the science guide us, the president said at the u. S. Africa summit in washington. Think allw, i dont of the information is in as to whether this drug is helpful. To american doctors who
Institute. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] we are in kind of an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, hes supposed to be here is ill will something. So i guess lets see if i can just craig, can you hear me . Hes ill with something akin to muteness. Hes looking pretty good. [laughter] craig, can you hear me at all . You think hes scary looking . Hes not scary looking. [laughter] hes just an ill man. Lets see if we can we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. [laughter] if worse comes to worse, ill just tell you what i think he would have done if i could control him like a puppet. [laughter] all right. Now maybe hes hearing me. Craig, can you hear me . I can, robert. Nice to hear you. All right. We lost you for a bit. So whats wrong with you . [laughter] or. Lets see, i didnt want to leave la jolla sunshine for washington d. C. No, a number of things going op but, you know, it would have made montezuma proud. [laughter] le
An Army Aviation Restructuring Initiative both of those combine to be 6 billion. If we dont get those reforms. Were going to have to find 6 billion, and find another half a billion for brac, thats who it costs every year for excess infrastructure. If we dont get those things, were going to have to find that money somewhere. Great thank you. For navy and marine corps, it is slowing down the growth of pay and compensation. Its we simply have to do that. We are at the point where were choosing between keeping people or getting them the tools that they need to do their job. And i think that the proposals that have been put forward are reasonable, theyre sound. And from talking to sailors and marines around the world they are the thing that concerns them the most is certainty. And the concern about sequester and whether they will have the tools to do the job that they joined the navy and marine corps to do. Congressman, in addition you heard me with the compensation reforms, i agree with br