Always paid a lot of attention to what their customers tell them about how theyre being treated and how theyre satisfied, because if youre a good business, retaining a customer and thabbling relationship is a lot easier than trying to obtain new customers. But some of these institutions are large. They got away from this. Theyre coming back to it because we now create a new pressure on that. You can watch the entire interview today on news makers at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. When you go behind the scenes as a photographer, youre there to see, not hear, not listen, not really, you know, repeat anything that you hear, and its kind of a mutual agreement, because we are let into meetings that are sensitive. I was there when president obama was at a rally and at the same time, the hurricane had just come up the east coast and was up in the north, and he was on the phone on a secure phone, talking to a directors and trying to organize it. Really unique time to be in t
We look forward to be supportive and we can. A number of governors would say the idea of making it easier for folks who have come year from elsewhere to kick their education here and who may want to stay here and have jobs here, we should make that easier for them. It is a big debate around a lot of issues. We look forward to working with the administration and congress on that. The states have had different reactions to health care reform. Some are in the process of forming their own insurance exchanges. Other states are leaving it up to the federal government. He proudly each have different perspectives on it. Is Health Reform going to work in 2014 given the responses on the state level to it . I know we each address it. I will start. Devastates are taking a different approach. One has to do different states are taking a different approach. In delaware, we decided to to a state federal partnership after a significant concentration consultation. Number two, the issue was do we expand
Bob will speak on innovative publicprivate partnerships. Thank you very much. I will try to be brief. I think of it as a bit of an onlution in the way we Work Community development are increasingly heading. For years, housing has been a cornerstone of the work that many banks have done in Community Development. Iti, it has been an anchor. In terms of the work that many institutions have has been supported by the Community Reinvestment act. As important as it is, sometimes it traps funds in geographies where it is needed, but we cannot go beyond that. Institutions go where and do that sort of investing more it is greatest need, not where there is just a regulatory incentive to do it. Housing has been a cornerstone of our work and secretary him. An, we worked with building innovation. One of the things about Community Development has been that it has been very cylert. Sikloed. Often, it was directly with Community Organizations not necessarily in consultation or alignment with the Mayors
And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number of women in congress and state legislatures, especially california. [applause] fromhould know that 19842008, in the nine bay area counties in california, they sent six women to the house of representatives, 2 to the u. S. Many of us know, celebrated the selection of nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. Mary had a hand in many of those campaigns, and she continues to be involved in working on an urging women to run and win. Escalchi,have daniel od a known voice and face to many who attend the conference. He is a political consultant and campaign strategist. He has worked in many emerging countries and tradition in transitioning co
Very thrilled to be on the stage with governor barbour and mayor castro. We will talk about immigration, one of the vital immigration by the vital issues facing our country today. If youre watching at home, expand the audience and bring more people in to watch the event. Lets start quickly with the bill that governor barnes has mentioned. The 1965 bill. It changed the quota system that had been in place for a long time referring to the National Origins act of the 1920s. One of the things that president johnson thought that as a southerner, he was often looked down upon by the rest of the country for having been a southerner. He thought that this law that had been in place for so long did the same thing. It had strict limits on immigration from countries in the asiapacific, for example, and that what were doing was looking down on those countries and wanted to change that. He said at the time to the speaker that there was no bill before the congress that was more worthy of passage based