Back into military action in the middle east. Russia has annexed part of ebola has rampaged across africa. President ow you obamas first appearance at the u. N. Summit. He spoke at the Climate Change summit. It is 15 minutes. [applause] mr. President , secretary , for allfellow leaders the media challenges we are gathered to address his week, terrorism, instability, there isdisease one issue that will define the contours of this it century more genetically than any other, that is the urgent and growing threat of changing climate. By years have passed since many of us met in copenhagen. Since then, our understanding of Climate Change has advanced to advanced. Both in the deepening science that says this once distance to threat has moved firmly into the present, and into the sting of more frequent extreme weather events that show us what these changes may mean for future generations. O nation is immune in america, the past decade has been the hottest on record. A longer eastern coast, th
Any likelihood of that anytime soon. You never know what might happen. In terms of what would happen if Justice Ginsburg did step down, it depends insignificant part on which Party Controls the senate. That is going to be the big question. We will know more about that shortly. It is a political process question and it depends on who votes for who. I think it is what controls the senate. We have already seen the filibusters eliminated. While they are Still Available for some dream Court Supreme court nominations, it would be naive to think that harry reid would not get rid of those as well as there was any pushback on whoever the president nominates. If the democrats maintain control of the senate, the president could appoint another ginsburg if he wanted to. I think he could easily get 51. That is all he will need when harry reid takes the next step. Chief justice pater decried the partisanship around nominations and reminded us that scalia was unanimously confirmed. Ginsburg got just
We want to be able to see how that works. Seven people have received zmap as part of a compassionate use effort, including those first individuals we heard about who were airlifted to emory hospital in georgia. We really dont know with just seven individuals treated whether this works and individuals are not. Those were the only seven doses that existed trade existed. For technical reasons, thats not trivial. These antibodies are developed in a tobacco leaf program. That is how the factory is put together. Turndoesnt necessarily into something were you turn the crank and you have lots of it. There are two or three other therapeutics that are also potentially promising, but none of them have been in human trials. We have a big push as well. As far as nih, we did not receive additional dollars. That goes through to december 11. Clearly whatever happens after hope for additional dollars. This will cost a lot of money. We are talking about ebola and other topics here with the National Inst
It is my hope i know the president would welcome us. I hope their team will realize that it is not just a matter of welcoming. They should realize it is more likely to work out better if they do it with congress. The pay for, very tough question. We have a cr as well as a syrian authorization on the training of equipment, but we will have to grapple with a longerterm appropriations, not another cr. I am fully expecting, as part of that for there to be funding requests. But that is another reason why congress should debate the stuff up front. We ought to be asking the question, how much will it cost and how are we going to pay for it . Iraq and afghanistan were the first wars that United States decides to do on a credit card. Iraq and afghanistan were the first to where we said, we can kind of do this, members of Congress Kids wont get drafted now. We can get blackwater or a thirdparty to do stuff we dont want to ask troops to do. There has been a progressive executive overreach by putt
Act is working. And families, businesses and taxpayers are better off as a result. Four years after president obama signed a law, middleclass families have more security and many who already had insurance have better coverage. If fewer americans are insured and come at the same time, we are spending our Health Care Dollars more wisely and we are starting to receive higherquality care. As we walk through the evidence, it might be helpful to add a little historical context. As a country, we have been wrestling with these questions of how to cover the insured for as long as the Brookings Institution has been here. As a matter fact, even longer. In 1912, Teddy Roosevelts Progressive Party platform called for universal health care along with priorities like womens suffrage and a national highway system. In the 19 20s, women got the right to vote during in the 1950s, president eisenhower delivered this nation a highway system. 80 years ago, president Franklin Delano roosevelt succeeded incre