November president ial election. This is an hour and half. One of the best things about sitting across from you is that, for all of us who have been part of the institutes staff, we are wondering what you been thinking, with this experience has been like for you over the last yearandahalf, two years. So tonight, we get to hear for the first time your reaction to the campaign. Thank you very much. I want to thank the in boyer for the support the university has given the institute politics, including making it possible for us to hire such Extraordinary People like Steve Edwards and been restored and all of the other people and ben reeseberg and all the other people. [applause] you have been wondering what i have been doing and i have been wondering what you have been doing. [laughter] those who were disappointed by this outcome, the democrats elated by this outcome given the conventional wisdom around this campaign, the president s Approval Ratings that were barely above 50 , often dippi
The colonists were sending ships ever where to get muskets and cant after the british had sent more troops to boston after the Boston Tea Party and the so called coercive acts and it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. Maybe they did not intend to use it but that was a big debate. The king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies are less it was officially sanctioned. They were very alert to this. As soon as the colonys found out about the order prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies, in New Hampshire and then rhode island, colonist patriots over the monitions so everyone knew what was coming in the winter of 70741775. This brighter suggests that 1775 was a critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. That is sunday night at 8 00 on cspans q7a. Next a discussion with the all women delegation to congress from New Hampshire. For the first time in u. S. History, th
Economy and create jobs and remove all doubt, remove all doubt in the full faith and credit in the United States of america. Every time you come to this floor its a question, why are we here . We are here to do the peoples work. Lets sit down. Get it done. And move forward. Instead of filling the agenda however worthy some of those initiatives may be, instead of not along with passing a middle income tax this is also reminiscent of a year ago. The president proposed, the house and senate, democrats and republicans, voted for the payroll tax holiday. The republicans in the house resisted. Painted themselves into a corner until they had no choice. The issue had been made too hot for them to handle and they finally had to come around to supporting the payroll tax holiday. And here we are again. 100 of the American People will receive a tax cut when we pass the middle income tax cut. The wealthiest people in our country will receive a tax cut up to their income of 250,000. We are asking th
That we normally dont have heard namely 25 fuel efficiency as an example. We very much would like to have competition on all of our programs. Continues,estration its compounding effects, we may be forced to down select earlier than we would like. That is the risk of sequestration, ok . I would like to give an example that is exactly what had happened on jack comes program. Joint air to ground missile it 30 million mark and then a 69 sequestration on top of that. It is not that we wanted to make the cut, but we were forced to cousin budget shortfall. General posten would you like to add . It is critical not only because as you say we have fuel savings, 25 there. It also has a maintenance savings. It is key to our developmental programs in the future. We are working to get that in the current platforms of and apache but it is also tied to our joint multirole aircraft. Sequestration places this program at risk of having to do it early down select which will, appearsntinue and it that we w
President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who had at least a taste of the National Stage or, which was more of a consensus in the political committee, that he might take rob portman from ohio because ohio is so important. Portman was a guy who is a centerright conservative, who might be more broad. I think barack was surprised by the choice. Do you think portman could have changed the outcome . I dont know. There is a lot of reflection on that in romneyland. When you were talking about the adjustment that obama felt he had to undergo, and tel