Matter as quickly as possible. President park has been calling for the issue to be resolved by the end of this year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of ties. Disagreement on the issue has been a continuous cause of friction. Park insists the solution must be accepted by the former comfort women and convincing to south korean people. South Koreas Foreign Ministry said it will comment after it makes a concrete decision. In the meeting, tokyo was told to promise this will be the final settlement of the issue and they will stop setting up statues memorializing the comfort women. The okinawa government is losing ground in a longrunning spat over the relocation of a u. S. Military base. A request by the island prefectures governor to continue efforts to halt the project has been dismissed by an independent panel. And hes now planning to file a lawsuit against the state. Governor onagawa had revoked construction permits for reclamation along the coast of nago city. The l
Again and said, ill bet it makes you mad, dont get . [laughter] that was such a good start, i told all over iowa. Scott, you might be the ones turning it around. [inaudible] thats what i did. You probably heard in utah. You are exactly right. Let me see if i can do to i wanted to make four points. Let me see how quickly i can make it. Went i think about my job as United States senator given my background, i think about how can i give bill haslam more tools to be a better governor . Because i know if i give them those tools he will do something with them. And i think of the federal government in the internet age as a place where we ought to invest in things that empower states and people to do things for themselves. Kind of in the way apple created ipad with that telling you what the app is, you can create an app and a lot of people can use it. So here are four tools that we worked on, three in a bipartisan way, one is not one is partisan in washington by dont think it is so much among
Never gotten anything done. We dont need that advice. They dont want to do any better than we do, and really they dont know how to do it at all. Guess we are all pioneering a little bit we would try to find a fairway to reward outstanding teachers, give them 10 months and 11 months contracts, pay them more for being good. Good. So theres a 10th of a penny in washington. Is it partisan difference right now but i dont think the democratic and republican governors would have the same difference of opinion democratic and republican senators have. So i bring this to your attention, and you may want to talk to your senators between now and the end of the year. We need to fix no child left behind. We need to get rid of the way, but we dont need to do it in a way that creates more of a National School board. We have two very distinct points of view right now in washington. So on market place fairness we are bipartisan. On this we are partisan. On changing the workforce act, we got that done in
Line. Talk us through has been banned from attending. Several foreign politicians have been banned from attending the funeral and the Memorial Service in moscow today, including a polish senate seat seeker, who was denied a visa to russia at the last minute. Also another prominent Opposition Leader, he was not allowed to attend the funeral the movie actually applied for a day release to do this. Those three people are definitely not attending the ceremony, but there ares ill representatives there are still representatives of foreign officials that are going to be there. While the u. S. Ambassador to russia attended the Memorial Service earlier today. As well as the government official, the russian government was represented by the deputy Prime Minister, who came this morning. As well as public figures and politicians, the general public of course came, hundreds of people came in, they queued for hours to get inside of the center. Many brought flowers which they covered with his coffin,
I would, too. Id rather not sit down and have a huge meal. You can do your escape anyway. Houdini. Yes, hoda houdini. Thats right. I know you guys have been checking your mailboxes lately and Christmas Cards are coming. Its christmastime and the cards are coming and the photos with people and their children are coming. And their animals. And the animals. And the long newsletters. We have a question because its that time of year, do you guys like getting those holiday produced cards . The massproduced . Or do you like the bragging cards, the ones that have the info that the families we saw one this one of our producers had that we dont want to reveal, but oh, my god. Yeah, i dont know. Nobody has a year like that where everything is just fabulous. Yeah. I wish everybody did, yeah. It makes people feel a little crumby, i think. Plus, this whole Facebook World that we live in. Ive got to talk about me. Everything thats happened to me, everything good. I understand why people like to keep