United states and sets a path to a responsible appropriations process this year and next. Since the beginning of this years appropriations process, democrats have called for relief fl damaging austerity budget level caps so congress can invest in our nations future. Unfortunately the majoritys budget resolution and appropriation bills would have strangled Economic Growth and not met our nations need with cuts to pell grants that help families Pay College Tuition and Law Enforcement grants, for example. The list goes on and on, from the start of the appropriations process, i urged my majority colleagues to negotiate reasonable spending caps that protect our economy and national priorities. Im pleased these talks finally happened and resulted in this bipartisan package that provides an additional 40 billion for defense, 40 billion for nondefense over two years. These investments are critical. Upon its passage, i look forward to working together in a similarly responsible manner to reach
[applause] dean wow. Audience dean, dean, dean, dean. Dean well, you guys, you have already got the picture here. I was about to say, you know, im sure there are some disappointed people here. You know what, you know something, you know something, if you had told us one year ago that we were going to come in third in iowa, we would have given anything for that. And, you know something, not only are we going to new hampshire, tom harkin, were going to south carolina, and oklahoma, and arizona, and north dakota, and new mexico. Were going to california, and texas, and new york. And were going to south dakota, and oregon, and washington, and michigan. And then were going to washington, d. C. , to take back the white house. Yeeaaahhhh we will not give up. Audience no. Dean we will not give up in new hampshire. We will not give up in south carolina. We will not give up in arizona, or new mexico, oklahoma, north dakota, delaware, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. We will not quit now or ever. We
United states. Cheers and applause[] audience [chanting dean] [applause] mr. Dean well, you guys, you have already got the picture here. I was about to say, you know, im sure there are some disappointed people here. You know what, you know something, you know something, if you had told us one year ago that we were going to come in third in iowa, we would have given anything for that. And, you know something, not only are we going to new hampshire, tom harkin, were going to South Carolina, and oklahoma, and arizona, and north dakota, and new mexico. Were going to california, and texas, and new york. And were going to south dakota, and oregon, and washington, and michigan. And then were going to washington, d. C. , to take back the white house. Yeeaaahhhh [applause] we will not give up. Audience no. We will not give up in new hampshire. We will not give up in South Carolina. We will not give up in arizona, or new mexico, oklahoma, north dakota, delaware, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. We
We need each other and you see the nextgeneration playing this out every day in terms of their choices, where they live, coming back to cities. The third emerging trends is this an oftentimes is emanating from cities and counties. In this case a senior Governors Office and its a new way of leadership. Its that new wave has been embraced by men and women who are solving problems in cities across american its not about ideology. Its about solving problems. Its not about bureaucracy. Its about doing the things that work. Its not about a chain of command, its about ever widening circles of collaboration, inviting more people to be a part of solving our problems together. Thats not only the New Hampshire way, thats the maryland way and thats the american way. We are the greatest problemsolving people ever brought forward on the face of our planet. So you have 38 days to govern until election day. Are you ready . Lets all join hands and contact the voting, shall we . The good news is that me
Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was expelled from kabul by the homage karzai government muster karzai government last week. The Afghanistan Government attributed the expulsion to an article mr. Rosenberg had written reporting that highlevel Government Officials were discussing forming an interim government as a possible solution treaty government to the countries current electoral crisis, an action that would effectively map amount to accrue. Mr. Rosenberg will discuss his own situation and the outlook for afghanistan based on his many years of reporting from the country. He has been covering afghanistan since 2008, first as the south asia correspondent for the wall and then forl, the New York Times, which he joined in november 2011. He did a stint in afghanistan in 2002 when he was a reporter for the Associated Press based in nairobi. The National Press club released a Statement Last week criticizing his expulsion by the karzai government and welcoming the statements by the pres