Minutes. We at the Des Moines Register believe in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to practice the best of iowa nice and please let our speaker have his say without interruption. And if you happen to bring a sign, please keep it down so that people behind you can see the speaker. Our next speaker is robert f. Kennedy junior. [cheering] [chanting bobby] mr kennedy is an author and attorney whos been focused on environmental causes and childrens welfare. Hes a founder of Waterkeeper Alliance and a founder of the Childrens Health defense and now hes running for the democratic nomination for the presidency. Please welcome Bobby Kennedy to the soapbox. [cheering] thanks a lot, Des Moines Register, and thank you so much to all of you for coming out here today when i did my announcement speech in boston a couple of months ago, i talked about how my purpose in running was to challenge the corrupt merger of state and corporate power, which was strip mining the American People and destro
We at the Des Moines Register believe in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to practice the best of iowa nice and please let our speaker have his say without interruption. And if you happen to bring a sign, please keep it down so that people behind you can see the speaker. Our next speaker is robert f. Kennedy junior. [cheering] [chanting bobby] mr kennedy is an author and attorney whos been focused on environmental causes and childrens welfare. Hes a founder of Waterkeeper Alliance and a founder of the Childrens Health defense and now hes running for the democratic nomination for the presidency. Please welcome Bobby Kennedy to the soapbox. [cheering] thanks a lot, Des Moines Register, and thank you so much to all of you for coming out here today when i did my announcement speech in boston a couple of months ago, i talked about how my purpose in running was to challenge the corrupt merger of state and corporate power, which was strip mining the American People and destroying the
And if you happen to bring a sign, keep it down so that the behind you can speaker. Our next speaker is Robert F Kennedy junior. [cheering] [chanting bobby] mr kennedy is an author and attorney whos been focused on environmental causes and childrens welfare. Hes a founder of Waterkeeper Alliance and a founder of the Childrens Health defense and now hes running for the democratic nomination for the presidency. Please welcome Bobby Kennedy to the soapbox. [cheering] thanks a lot, des moines register, and thank you so much to all of you for coming out here today. When i did my announcement in boston a couple of months ago, i talked about how my purpose in running was to challenge the corrupt merger of state and corporate power, which was strip mining the American People and destroying the american middle class, strip mining them of their equity, their wealth and ultimately their democracy. I am going to try if i got the time to talk about three examples of how that is happening, how that
Sent to President Bidens desk to be signed into law. Senator mccarthy, senator schumer and the president spoke about the legislation which suspends the debt until january 2025 and could reduce the deficit by 1. 5 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Speaker mccarthy after the house passage. Speaker mccarthy thank thank you all for being here. I want to start by saying how grateful i am to garrett graves and Patrick Mchenry have given their time and talent for more than a month. We would not be without them and the country and congress owes them a debt. On february 1, i got my first meeting with the president. Ive been thinking about this day before my vote for speaker because i knew the debt ceiling was coming. I wanted to make history. I wanted to do something no other congress has done. That we would literally turn the ship, for the first time in quite some time we would spend less than a year before. Tonight we all made history. Because this is the biggest cut and savings this c
One would details veto , im offended that because a ak with my book. In light of the other question, the idea of distinguishing accept treasury purchases into market functioning purchases and qe purchases. Have done that maybe they would have kept to be going quite so long. Theres reason why. We have to go. Thank you so much. This is been terrific. Thank you so much. I love we are color coded. We did that on purpose. Thank you so much. [applau force. It so much. Thank you for having us here today for this important event and deeper. Weve been working on this issue for many years. We ran on task force in 2010 that is the shadow and a few of the recommendations on Social Security and the secretary of education is president who committed to fiscal policy. One thing we are going to do is link the policy to the money policies stakeholders care about and explain why it needs to be invested. We are going to zero in on Social Security and i had a fantastic group of folks here that help folks u