[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
Perfect. The Founding Fathers set up a first tee with the imperfections. Its called working together to solve problems. If theres a thick, thin me to be ironed out, glitches like fixing the website. Obviously the website should work. The Affordable Care act as i described this afternoon is so much more than a website. It means so much more to millions of people. Im ready. All of my colleagues on my side of the aisle are ready, willing and able to hammer out some of those problems that crop up. What we are not willing to do was repeal it and go backwards. [applause] is there any chance that congress will Work Together . Specifically, im a lemonade in the salary cap on the fakir reductions. , federal reductions . Fica for Social Security. You now, that concept is part of the broader discussion, which i hope we get to in congress on what to do about making sure that we had to do one terms of the sea of Social Security. Its really important and theres a variety of Different Things we can d
Silly. I am honored to represent detainees reagans before the media no other American School of irish roots. There are fifty thousand undocumented irish meaning in the United States because of their status. They are on a boat returned to ireland to visit Family Friends and neighbors Immigration Reform initiative in the us centers for the us house of representatives is a renewed opportunity to transform the start line. My great grandfather left here in time of stress. Seeking to better himself and his family. So many irishmen and women from every walk of life played a role in creating the three of them. Im certainly proud to be part of the great Irish American tradition. O bond between our two countries runs deep and strong and im proud of the year. In recognition and celebration are times that by. The irish tommy for Immigration Reform and all of Irish American hope that the laws and life with and who was living in the shadows to reach their potential tension between the United States
Demonstrations in recent weeks. They say the document favors islamists and doesnt do enough to protect minorities. The United States has urged president morsi to build trust across egypts political divides. Given the Muslim Brotherhoods domination of the political scene, i asked our correspondent whether there are fears jipt may become a oneparty state. That is what some of the people in the opposition are saying. It is not what other people in terms of the Muslim Brotherhood are saying and also what a number of egyptians who dont particularly sornte with one associate with one side or the more. What i think we are looking at is a very deeply split egypt and one that is about to launch into a parliamentary election campaign. Now the opposition faces an uphill struggle. It has not been terribly unified. It has to manage to unify itself more over the problems that broke out with this referendum. The question is whether they can sustain that unity for the Muslim Brotherhood and for presid
Celebrating. The team, once again, world cup champions. [ siren ] sirens over israel warning residents to take shelter as incoming missiles from gaza rain down on the country. Rockets hit as far as tel aviv. In gaza the israeli Bombing Campaign is in its seventh day. The military is escalating its air Strike Campaign over the palestinian territory. Tens of thous aned of palestinians in gaza thousands of palestinians in gaza have fled the fighting. Israel warned 100,000 people in northern gaza to leave their homes. Now a threat to the north as well. Hours ago rockets from lebanon were fired into the country. The Israeli Military responded by firing artillery into lebanon. Since israel launch the its military campaign in gaza 890 rockets have been fired into israel. 172 were intercepted by israels iron dome. Israel launched 1400 air strikes in the gaza. The casualties there are staggering. At least 172 people have been killed, 32 of the dead are children. In more than 1,200 others they h