That because of our strength, the power of our banks, all we americans have to do if Congress Rejects this plan is return to the bargaining table, puff out our chests and demand a better deal. Ive heard one critic say he would use sanctions to give iran a choice between having an economy or having a nuclear program. Well, folks, thats a very punchy sound bite, but it has no basis in reality. As dick said, i was chair of the Foreign Relations committee when our party came across to enact round after round of economic sanctions against iran. Remember, even the toughest restrictions didnt stop Irans Nuclear program from speeding ahead. From a couple of hundred centrifuges to 5,000 to 19,000. Weve already been there. If this agreement is voted down, those who vote no will not be able to tell you how many centrifuges iran will have next year or the year after. If its approved, we will be able to tell you exactly what the limits of irans program will be. The fact is that it wasnt either sanc
[general chatter] [laughter] democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. You can find her remarks in our video library. It look at tweets from some of the republican president ial candidates. Dr. Ben carson said he had a great time at blakes Family Restaurant in manchester, new hampshire. Ted cruz will be in iowa fundraising for the Republican Party appearing with steve king. Today in washington dc, a discussion on oil prices and their impact on racking. That will be hosted by the Atlantic Council. We will have that live at 3 00 eastern time. The u. S. Senate is meeting this afternoon. The house returns tomorrow. We spoke this morning with a capitol Hill Reporter to get a look at the week ahead in congress. Their district work period. What is on tap for today and the rest of the week . Guest a big issue in the senate this week is going to be trade. All eyes are on president obama. One of his Top Priorities for a second term is to get some of these International Trade deals done
Political points might not be as critical as it has been. As the political Balance Sheet begins to shift may be ever so gradually in favor of other things than scoring political points, it might even go in the direction of showing that you can govern or get things done. In effect, in this formulation compromise and consensus building can become on some issues political benefits for the Majority Party and maybe for more than that. I will stop right there. I just want to say that i thank you again for the opportunity to the bpc and the political scientists in the Washington Area to talk about the print. We appreciate the publicity that it is getting at events like this. John great. We are going to stay here in our chairs. I will turn to sarah binder. They have comments about the print. Colleen and john noted that it has 29 essays. They are going to go through them one by 1 no. [laughter] they are not going to go through them. They will pick topics of interest. We have it well set up to h
That summer was an incredible summer. The summer of 1964. In those days, most senators didnt have a huge internship program. I was the only intern in the office. My boss was deeply involved in that, as was ted. It was an incredible time to be in washington, but i had been there the summer of the year before on the house side. Got to be at the Martin Luther kings i have a dream speech. I did not hear a word of it. There was a mass of humanity all the way down to the lincoln memorial. Then the next summer, breaking the filibuster on the civil rights bill and it passed. Next summer, i didnt have a job but i went back to visit my friends. And i just happened to hit it on the perfect day. I was sitting in the outer office hoping senator cooper would talk to me for a few minutes. He walked out, grabbed my arm and said i will take you to the capital to see something important. It turned out, that was the day that lbj signed the Voting Rights act of 1965. There i was, not exactly up front, bac
All of these recommendations raise serious concerns about the way director mayorkas was overseeing the eb5 program and in turn should be considered as a qualifying factor to determine his fitness to be secondincommand in charge at the department of Homeland Security. To summarize, we know that the National Security staff and the department of Homeland Security conducted reviews of the Investor Visa Program that mr. Mayorkas has been overseeing since 2009. These reviews found that the program created a danger to National Security, including the threat of exploitation by spies, criminals, and other National Security threats. I and others have asked for more information about the potential National Security vulnerabilities in the program and we have received no answers. What we do know is that director mayorkas dramatically expanded a program that the administration, even d. H. S. , believes for a threat to National Security. And according to a draft report by the Inspector General, he di