Prove it. Let the bill go to the floor and see what happens. Just vote. Let every member of Congress Vote their conscience. They can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down. Speaker boehner responded on the house floor. Now, the American People expect when their leaders have differences and in a time of crisis that we will sit down and at least have a conversation. Really, mr. President , it is time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk. On sunday the speaker said there are not enough votes in the house to pass a clean continuing resolution to fund the government. Right now as many as 21 republicans say they could pass a possible extension to Fund Programs the shutdown has paralyzed so far. It is going to hurt working families, entrepreneurs, folks in agriculture. It is not a good thing. More of the shutdown continues today. Access to all Veterans Affairs regional offices will be shuttered. 10,000 workers are being furloughed. It cou
Brothers own socalled americans for prosperity organization, or the secretive identity laundering machine known as the donors trust. We dont know how much these groups have actually raised or spent on election activities, but the koch network is expected to spend nearly 300 million on the 2014 midterm elections. The center for Public Integrity reported last week that the Koch Brothers are sponsoring 10 of all ads in Competitive Senate races. Thats more than 43,900 senate ads between january 2013 and last month. Americans for prosperity alone, that Koch Brothers organization, sponsored 27,000 ads. Thats one in every 16 ads in all senate races this cycle. And, of course, those polluterfunded ads make up way more than 10 of just the republican ads. Why is that . Because the focus of this apparatus is on republicans, on buying and coopting the Republican Party as the polluters political instrument. The numbers are staggering. And lets be clear about one thing their intention not to add to
Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It helps me better understand my own family and many mysteries surrounding my own family. Rachel l. Swamss book is a comp
1982. She appeared at George Maison university. Heres the twenty minute interview on booktv. For thirty years this book has been in bookstores the winner of the pulitzer prize, the National Book award. The author is alice walker, the name of the book the color purple. She joins us at George Maison university. Thirty years. What are you thoughts about the color purple being around for thirty years. It seems so recent in many ways. What do you think about it staying power . I think its very real relevant to peoples lives they get a lot of now richment and selfsense out of it. Its very good for me that its staying around. Thirty anniversary. What is the campus doing . Well, there is a large celebration of literacy and of learning from books called fall for the book. And i think it will be many wonderful writers talking about how they write, why we write, and communicating with the students and with the people, the townspeople and other people who come to hear us. And the whole campus is r
Corrections . All in favor, say i. E posed. The minutes have been passed. Well go on to the next item, please. Item three for the directors report. Good afternoon. Mayor lee presented his proposed balanced budget for 2015 and 16 this week. You will hear from our cfo details on our own budget, but i wanted to give you highlights on the overall city budget. The mayor really focused a lot on his investments and opportunities for all San Francisco residents, including investment into affordable housing, Service Increases to make San Francisco more livable, maintaining and improving or citys social net and youll hear today regarding the takeback of our firsz Year Community service cuts. The budget also continues to grow the citys reserves to offset the impact if an economic downturn does occur and the citys reserves for Economic Stabilization loss will grow over the next two years. The City Projects to have a 234 million across its general reserve Budget Stabilization reserve and rainy day