Republican support in the house for his plan the proposal on the fiscal cliff has embarrassed the speaker, but the speakers failure means a solution to the fiscal cliff is, if theyre going to be one, now resting squarely upon president obama. Arsine to be vacationing president alone cannot propose gislation that wins majority support in both the house and senate, and the decision to go over the fiscal cliff now depends on his ability to successfully negotiate and to forge a compromise that appeals to both republicans and the far left in mr. Obamas party. The president metwith Senate Majority leader harry reid this afternoon and talked with Speaker Boehner to begin anew that effort to reach compromise. Averting this middleclass tax hike is not a democratic responsibility or republican responsibility. With their foes the American People have determined that governing is a shared responsibility between both parties in this Congress Laws can only pass with support from democrats and republ
Republican support in the house for his plan the proposal on the fiscal cliff has embarrassed the speaker, but the speakers failure means a solution to the fiscal cliff is, if theyre going to be one, now resting squarely upon president obama. Arsine to be vacationing president alone cannot propose legislation that wins majority support in both the house and senate, and the decision to go over the fiscal cliff now depends on his ability to successfully negotiate and to forge a compromise that appeals to both republicans and the far left in mr. Obamas party. The president met with Senate Majority leader harry reid this afternoon and talked with Speaker Boehner to begin anew that effort to reach compromise. Averting this middleclass tax hike is not a democratic responsibility or republican responsibility. With their foes the American People have determined that governing is a shared responsibility between both parties in this Congress Laws can only pass with support from democrats and rep
Republican support in the house for his plan the proposal on the fiscal cliff has embarrassed the speaker, but the speakers failure means a solution to the fiscal cliff is, if theyre going to be one, now resting squarely upon president obama. Arsine to be vacationing president alone cannot propose legislation that wins majority support in both the house and senate, and the decision to go over the fiscal cliff now depends on his ability to successfully negotiate and to forge a compromise that appeals to both republicans and the far left in mr. Obamas party. The president met with Senate Majority leader harry reid this afternoon and talked with Speaker Boehner to begin anew that effort to reach compromise. Averting this middleclass tax hike is not a democratic responsibility or republican responsibility. With their foes the American People have determined that governing is a shared responsibility between both parties in this Congress Laws can only pass with support from democrats and rep
Behind me here and we have seen dozens of people streaming out of here over the hours and so many people have are just angry frustrated upset not knowing what they were gonna find when their kids showed up when they came to get their kids. I should say taught to grandmothers talk to parents talk to one man in particular whos picking up his four year old daughter who said she was blissfully unaware of what was going on thankfully, but once you guys listen to some of what he said to me so i come at this time normally to pick up my daughter and the streets were closed off and the police said theyre gonna bring my just gonna cart everybody down the street and i just knew that was in the case. I heard about the shooting at the high school and my daughter to elementary school. So i just had to figure out a hey to come and come and grab did you have any fears any thoughts running through your mind . Obviously your daughter. Shes so young. Hey, youre anxious. I mean you hear about this happeni
Once again, in keeping with timehonored tradition, i have come to report to you on the state of the union and i am pleased to report that america is much improved and there is good reason to believe that improvement will continue. My duty tonight is to report on the state of the union, not the state of our government, but our american community. And, to set forth our responsibilities, in the world and words of our founder, to form a more perfect union. The state of the union is strong. As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers, yet the state of our union has never been stronger. [applause] it is because about our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward and the state of our union is strong. Next tuesday, president obama tuesday, president obama delivers his state of the union address, followed by the gop response and your reaction. The state of the union, tuesday night on cspan, cspan r