Former Florida Governor jeb bush is gathering policy experts and dedication leaders Fourth Annual education summit. We covered yesterdays events pick. Thats where we begin. Mr. Bush says the unions are barriers to better schools. How would you fix your School System . We want to get your take on it. Also, send us a tweet, post your comments on facebook, or send us an email. We begin with the Washington Times headline we want to show you what the former Florida Governor had to say at yesterdays event. [video clip] we need to have a teacher Evaluation System that is based on teachers being professionals and not part of some collective trade Union Bargaining process. We have a system to reward teachers based on an industrial and unionized model that is completely inappropriate for the 21st century, completely inappropriate. There are incredibly fine teachers that get paid less even though they are doing the lords work consistently over time and there are teachers that are mediocre that ge
Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our National Security interests by violating wellestablished International Norms against the use of chemical weapons, by further threatening friends and allies of ours in the region, like israel and turkey and jordan, and it increases the risk that chemical weapons will be used in the future and fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them agai
That we are considering tonight, now would encourage the remaining states to work on passing and enacting similar legislation. This will bill creates treatment programs administered by the department of health and Human Services with states that meet certain requirements that are in the bill. Food allergies affect 9. 9 million children. This legislation is especially important because 25 of individuals who are injected with an epipen dont know they have allergies that warrant the use of epinephrine. No student experiencing a severe allergy reooks should lose their life because there was no medicine present signed to them. The passage of this bill will save lives of countless students across our great country who live with severe allergies. I commend the bills author, my steny from maryland, hoyer, who has worked on this legislation for three years and for congressman phil roe for their bipartisan work. At this time, if its appropriate, i would like to yield such time as he may consume
Here is how you can weigh in this morning. Republicans,for democrats,0 offor independents. Or you can reach out to us on facebook, off of twitter, and at journal cspan. Org. It was a fourpage document that was put out by the administration, showing some of the cases they are making as far as what they have found in syria. This is what was unclassified, not everything was put out there. You can also find this document at our website, cspan. Org. A little bit from it also it says there is more to the document and the information that was given by the administration yesterday. Kerry givingstate the case, we will show some of those clips as well during the course of our first 45 minutes together. For the information that was given on syria yesterday, we want to get your thoughts and if you were convinced by it. If you want to give us a call, the phone lines go ahead and make those calls. Theill get an update from white house perspective of possible u. S. Intervention. The White House Corre
8. It is also a back to work week for members of congress. Lawmakers return tomorrow following the fiveweek august recess. Congress coming back to capitol hill with a growing list of issues to vote on, including the budget, the debt ceiling, and immigration. We be in with more on syria and today we are breaking down the vote and the question this way, for those that support military intervention, the number to call is 2025853880. , 2025853881. If you remain undecided, thats number to call is 2025853882. We are also collecting your e. Ails at journal cspan. Org lets begin with some of the headlines outside of washington dc. The boston sunday globe. From the front page of the Chicago Tribune is this headline times he l. A. He spent the time preparing for his speech and also a golf outing. The president is doing a series of Network Interviews tomorrow. Lets go to the front page of the New York Times a couple of polls over the last few days. A new pew poll showing the majority of americans