Ms. Swain this is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington d. C. , the home of our 28th president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921. Youll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two Wilson Administration first ladies, ellen and edith. Ellen and woodrow met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial eff
President obama finishing an address to the nation just moments ago announcing the normalization of relations with cuba and it has some far flung effects. John harwood is live in washington with some of the details on that for us. The president reversing a policy that was set in place 50 years ago during the time of john f. Kennedy. This is another indication that this president meant it when he said he was going to make big changes in office. This is something he can do with the stroke of his pen. Here is the president. Though the policy has been rooted in the best of intentions no other nation joins us in imposing these sanctions and it has had little effect beyond providing the cuban government with rationale on restrictions. Today cuba is still governed by the castros. Neither the american nor cuban people are well served by a ridged policy rooted in events that took place before most of us were born. Reporter now, the president cannot with this action lift the embargo. That is emb
Was there anything disclosed . I guess im just befuddled that in nine of the ten meetings in the white house there was nothing of any consequence discussed that would require disclosure. I will just say i am befuddled by that. One thing is the important uncertainty. Can anyone stress the importance to the providers in the internet space of certainty and i cant agree more with my life in the public sector. Certainty drives returns and with certainty you invest in innovation and i would say its obvious today the way things have worked. We have the Number One Service in the world. The investments have been billions that commissioner pai said trillions of dollars we lead the world today. Wales were unanimous agreement litigation is coming and likely to take three years. The chair man said guaranteed there is litigation. If thats not the definition of uncertainty i dont know what that is. The folks looking to invest and innovate in this world have to live under the certainty of which court
Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid ask con scene the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed for a period of morning business and senators allowed to speak up to 10 minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now ask unanimous consent that at 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow friday, april 11, all postcloture time be yielded back and the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on calendar number 574. Further, that following disposition of that nomination, the senate proceed to vote on cloture on executive calendar number 613. If cloture is invoked all postcloture time be yielded and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination, that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. No further motions be in order to the nominations that any statement
Thank you, madam chair. And thank you for holding this hearing. I appreciated. I know this is a focus, this panel on cybersecurity but weve also talked about reliability and a new the next panel can focus on the. I appreciate your willingness to move forward on figuring so quickly after your taking the chairmanship. I like to ask a couple of questions because we have great experts here who may be can give us a preview of what were going to next also for us to be able to compare and contrast with her from some of the industry folks. First i guess, chairman lafleur id like to hear from you a little bit about what you think we ought to be doing in terms of reliability. You were quoted as having said am also very concerned about the price both the applet magnitude of price spikes and increase we saw this when it when we see the ice spikes its a symptom protecting reliability is causing this issue. Can you elaborate on that . Is that an accurate quote . Yes, but always in the context. We ha