Him. We have got buildings named after him. Why dont we see what he said about default . And just know, when he was president , republicans and democrats raised the debt ceiling no less than 18 times, i say to my friend. 18 times we raised the debt ceiling because, yeah, we had a debt from prior bills and Ronald Reagan said send me a debt ceiling increase. Look what he says. He said the full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic Financial Markets and the value of the dollar. Ronald reagan, 1983. And thats when our economy was much smaller than it is today. So how does the party of Ronald Reagan now get us to this point where three days were about to default . I didnt hear one word out of them when they decided to put two wars on the credit card and a huge tax break for billiona
Little bit of white house exploits. Lets get headlines from olivia sterns. After the close of u. S. Trading, jcpenney, the struggling retailer posted its first quarterly profit in more than two years and shares rallied in afterhours trades. Retailers return to discounting at last. The income was 35 million in the quarter compared to a loss of 552 million a year earlier. A little bit better numbers from jcpenney but coming off of a very low comparative figure. Tesla out with details on its socalled giga factory plants. This could help to drive down the battery packs. They hope to make investments my the year 2020. They will invest 2 billion. They also see volume at about 500,000. An activist investor carl icon escalating his attack on john donahoe, the ebay ceo. Carl icahn sent his letter to shareholders highlighting the leadership of Mark Andreessen and scott cook. Ebay holds the claims quote blatantly false ebay called the claims blatantly false. My next guest turned what kids did for
Place at the Ronald Reagan building. We spoke with senator mark warner. Tony hawk will talk about the olympic sports and maybe a little bit of white house exploits. Lets get headlines from olivia sterns. Close of u. S. Trading, jcpenney, the struggling retailer posted its first quarterly profit in more than two years and shares rallied in afterhours trades. Retailers return to discounting at last. Was 35 million in the quarter compared to a loss year earlier. N a a little bit better numbers from jcpenney but coming off of a very low comparative figure. Tesla out with details on its socalled giga factory plants. This could help to drive down the battery packs. They hope to make investments my the year 2020. They will invest 2 billion. Aboutlso see volume at 500,000. An activist investor carl icon escalating his attack on john donahoe, the ebay ceo. Carl icahn sent his letter to shareholders highlighting the leadership of Mark Andreessen and scott cook. Ebay holds the claims quote ebay c
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Washingtons or rosa parks or Frederick Douglass collection, i could go on and on you could do it from home. Thank you to everyone who have stopped by the loc pavilion and of course everyone who stopped by our open house yesterday. We cant thank you enough your stories your work have completely inspired us from prison librarians to army librarians to of course children and youth young adult librarians. We were so inspired by all the stories. We were hearing. One thing that was spotlighted during the pandemic was the Important Role of libraries across the nation. People discover that librarians are frontline workers during this pandemic whether you were giving out free covid tests or doing Contact Tracing or just trying to help your communities get through that entire pandemic. So todays conversation is as vital as librarians you all have an Important Role in the release of proper information. So today that librarian of congress along with her with our esteemed colleague will be discussi