Rich and poor. Do you know that in the year 2000, there were 111 billionaires in the world . There are now over 2500 billionaires in the world. 15 years, what does that tell you about policies of the 1 for the 1 and by the 1 right . So i would argue that the way we grow food for a Global Market is a way of like putting a huge pipe into our Water Systems and sucking the water up and taking it away. Remember when you grow food, when you use water to grow food you are consuming that water. That water does not get returned to the watershed. So what do we need . I call for a new water ethic. And a new water as they would say that water is not just a resource. As i said for our pleasure and profit inconvenience, but it is the essential element that gives us life. And it is to be respected and revered, and we need to come up with a new relationship with water. We also and if i were queen of the world and could make every leader in the world do as i say and save the worlds water, all policy, a
Mr. Cardin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin i ask unanimous consent the floor privileges be granted to elise medical mellinger for the dwraition of Senate Consideration of h. R. 3304, the National Defense authorization act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin let me first comment about the National Defense authorization act. It is an important bill for us to pass and i thank senator levin and senator inhofe for the manner on which they worked on this legislation, bringing it together, in the committee it was a bipartisan bill, as it came to the floor it maintained that focus on helping our troops and helping preserve our National Security. And as we are starting to consider amendments, i think that same cooperation was there there. Powerful we lost track unfortunately we lost course, but the bill before us represents
Four years. Most cabinet secretaries dont stay past the first term. We have an interesting moment where the president asked the secretary to stay on anything shes been doing a fantastic job. He says will you stay and someone told us he didnt put the screws to her this time and she didnt want to stay. Guest we had a situation where leon panetta told him on election day that he wasnt going to stick around and the successor susan rice the one that obama wanted to put into the job was getting absolutely destroyed on capitol hill over benghazi in the talking points on the morning talk shows in addition to that her charms to maneuver some of the senators to her side. Chanted that getting so hes looking at a situation where he will have to have a new defense secretary and that new secretary of state. He has someone who has become most loyal and strong advisor to him. If we keep Hillary Clinton in here for a while we can resurrect susan rice a little susan rice a little bit. An interesting mom
Watergate hearings, the impeachment hearings and finally his departure from the white house. And thenit was too passionate a time to use the images right away for any major purpose. I had done it as a historic document primarily. And so i had to wait andwhich i did, until about three years ago, and at which time i took the negatives out of storage, where i had them, and produced about 1,000 work prints and edited them. And now, 25 years later, the book is published, and there is an exhibition at the same time at the National Museum of american history. Cspan where does this photo come from . Guest this is in the oval office. It was one of the earlier photographs that i did during his presidency. He just sat in the chair, and the only thing you could hear werewas the rustling of the pages as he turned them. I used a very quiet camera, whichwhich i like to use. Its like an m camera, which doesnt make the sound that aa largethat a single lens reflex does. I didnt want to get thrown out. I
Consolation. Bless as well the men and women who serve our nation this day in our armed forces. May they and their families be assured of our deep gratitude for their service. O god, you have blessed every person with the full measure of your grace and given us the bounty of your spirit, lead us this day in the ways of peace. We pray for peace in our hearts , that we will be freed from selfishness or envy, that we will replace any enmity with goodwill and hatred with charity so we might lead lives of generosity and kindness. May there be peace in our world among all nations. May each nation sense its shared destiny and in a new spirit of hope and trust, one with another. Help us to be men and women without excuse and may all that we do this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The p