The most vicious insult at me when he said i was the only person he ever met whose eyes lit up at the words held discussion. Poverty is a subject we talk about when events such as those in baltimore grab our attention. And then we bury it. We say it is not a lyrically shrewd. I salute georgetown. All the others who are gathered here for the summit. From all religious traditions all over the country. Our friend once said, if you cut everything jesus said about the poor out of the gospel, you have a book full of holes. These are people who understand what the scriptures said. Two organizing points. The first is, when it is time to go, please keep your seats so the president can be escorted out. The other is we agreed we should direct more attention to president obama than other members of the panel. I say that in advance so you know this was our call and not some exercise in executive power. This was our decision to do this. We hope this will be a backandforth kind of discussion. Feel fr
[applause] thank you all the more for making them available to help us out with this. Thank you so much, bob. All right, so as we transition now id like to ask our panelists to come up for what is entitled champions for justice leaders working to end Youth Violence. If you could join me now in welcoming our mayors from camden, minneapolis, oakland and salinas as they come up. [applause] so this is kind of exciting. For me. This is an opportunity now for us to have a conversation with leadership that really is tasked with leading the work. And so when we thought about this conversation, we knew that we would hear the support from the administration. We knew we would have congressional leadership and folks at the federal level speak to what we can do at the national. But so much of what we do when it comes to addressing and preventing, reducing Youth Violence is led by our mayors. We know when we put together the formum we said we needed commitment, clear commitment from mayors, our chie
Influence on the presidency from Martha Washington to michelle obama, sundays on cspan3. As a compliment, cspans new book is available with historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women providing lively stories of these fascinating women creating an entertaining and inspiring read. It is available as hardcover or ebook. Next, u. S. Mayors discuss the problem of Youth Violence. Followed by a panel of innercity young people offering their perspectives. The s. E. C. Chair talks about the recent adoption of open internet rules and other issues facing the f. C. C. Before annual National Summit on preventing Youth Violence was held in washington d c this week held in washington, d. C. , this week to share information and strategies to reduce and prevent violence. This forum from tuesday featured mayors discussing programs and issues in their cities. It is just under an hour. From tuesday featured mayors discussing programs in their cities. It is just under an hour. Thank you all the mo
Let somebody else speak now. Mr. Clerk . If you can have some basic respect for other speakers, please let somebody else speak, mr. Green baum. Mr. Green baum, please respect the next speaker on the list. Mr. Green baum please stop speaking and let the next person speak. Thank you. So there are 2 minutes to speak. We just ask for respect for everyone. So as many people can speak. Hi, my name is wendy kaufman, an engineering instructor and i have been there for 30 years. I love this school because of the opportunity it offers my students and i look and see how much it serves. I want to thank supervisor mar for having this study done and having miss campbell doing it. It shows so much important work about how this economic and i want to add the social health of San Francisco. It mentioned it really didnt address many questions it could address. I want to address some of those here. The impact of the actual Accreditation Process on city college has been enormous. Both financially and also
Vote vote vote mr. Reid madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid for those are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, were in a vote. Mr. Reid madam president . [no audio] the presiding officer are there any other senators wishing to vote or change their votes . On this vote, the yeas are 41, the nays are 56. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. Mr. Reid madam president , for those students that are out there trying to learn what goes on in the senate and for those professors who teach what goes on in the senate, this is not totally new but its its in the category of being fairly new. This is an example of republicans filibustering not one of our bills but their own bill. How about that . 26 republican cosponsors and they filibustered their own bi bill. We have asked on a number of occasions what weve done around this body for decades you come up with a list of amendment