In 2013. For three decades, chairman wheeler has been involved in the sector as a chairman and entrepreneur. He has been a Venture Capitalist and lobbyist. He has served as president and ceo of both the National Cable Television Association and the open position north the organization known as the ctia. As a journalist, i found him more interesting that a lifetime ago, he worked for syndicated columnist mark shields, a friend of mine. The osu version of the speakers press Club Luncheon series that brings you all here today. Given that chairman wheeler used to be an industry lobbyist, his record is rather surprising. Commissions the strongest rules in enforcing that neutrality. He find at t 1 million for tapping speed on unlimited data plans. He increased Competition Among the makers of cable boxes and work to get more internet options to people in rural areas. Chairman wheeler put the entire broadband industry under a stricter regime. He has done so many things that have angered his fe
Years. Now it has come to a functional standstill. As noncontroversial nominations some of which were approved out of the committee by overwhelming votes, the majority of republicans, majority of democrats, they languished on the executive calendar. Now our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did their best to slow the pace of confirmations when the senate was under democratic leadership. And now theyre sluggishly moving nominations under a senate they control. And, mr. President its culminated in the irresponsible partisan blockade of president Obamas Supreme Court pick. Lets talk about some real numbers here. More than a year into this new congress more than a year into this new congress the Republican Leadership has allowed only 17 judges to be confirmed. Okay . How many months do we have here . We have 12 in the last year of this congress. We now have, were in the end of april, so thats four. And so thats 16 months. Its one a month. Now let me show you the contrast. And id sa
People working to get themselves out of poverty. Sam from the financial times. Thanks very much. You were talking earlier about the u. S. As a bright spot, among advanced economies. The story of the president ial campaign has not been that American Voters feel this has been a bright spot recovery. Is there a risk the administration is feeling out of touch with public mood about the u. S. Economy at the moment or are we overestimating just how negative people feel about the economy . First of all, i dont know, you know i look at evidence from the measures that economists look at about how people feel about the economy are the Consumer Sentiment index and the Consumer Confidence index from the Conference Board and the university of michigan. When you look at measures like that, you see that confidence has been consistently rising since the recession. And last year reached levels we hadnt seen in over a decade. So i see a number of ways in which people are positive both about their situat
Mckinley gave those the next president of the United States [cheering] [applause] president obama is on a trip to a United Kingdom, including the meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron. He will stay in britain on saturday before heading to germany on sunday. The president and Prime Minister cameron held a joint press conference with they talked upcoming referendum on britains membership in the European Union. President obama wrote an opinion piece in the telegraph arguing for britain to stay in the eu is present is one hour. Prime minister cameron good afternoon and welcome. It is great to welcome president obama on his fifth visit to the United Kingdom. Barack has been president for more than seven years. I have been Prime Minister for nearly six years. And our two countries have been working together through some of the most difficult and troubled global times. We faced the aftermath of the banking crisis, the need to revive growth and create jobs in our economies, new threats to
Eligibility, for federal benefits. Justice alito the only federal none, those two statutory references. Gen. Verrilli as i said, that is the tale on the dog. If i can go to the merit. Repeatedly, you have heard it referred to statutory observation, that is flat wrong. There is a district case and he can read the opinion in that case, which we referred to, is describing as extra statutory paid the other key point that statutory. The other key point mother theory about the scope of you can get Work Authorization is that either congress has to say to get Work Authorization. Decideneed to get dhs to whether people in this category can get Work Authorization. Forget about deferred action, there are millions of people to now,ork authorization under existing law, who could not get it if that were the proper interpretation. Millions of people are in these proceedings, for cancellation of removal. Hundreds of thousands of people have parole and another of those people qualify. That is why in 19