State. When we act others follow. Lets shape that action together and fashion a carbon plan suited to the genius and capabilities of our great state. [applause] we can do this. It has already been done successfully in many other places including ten american states and 35 countries. I cannot tell you today what our joint effort we will produce, but i can but i can say that after six years of no progress on this front washingtonians deserve access. And developing my budget i took the same approach of looking to tested solutions for revenue proposals. Has the nations most unfair tax system the nations most unfair tax system from our lowest paid pay nearly 17 percent of there income in taxes and that top 1 percent pay less than 3 percent. A new teacher page three times more in taxes as a percentage than our wealthiest citizens and we no their are many forces driving inequality but we can make policy choices that move us toward an economy that works for all washingtonians work toward a fai
clapping . Thank you so much clapping . Wow. Welcome to the peoples house of San Francisco. Historic. Historic day today for all of us for the struggles for many, many years i want to thank all of you for sharing this historic moment in San Francisco, california. Wow. Its been a long road. Many years but gosh it feels good to have love triumph overcome ignorance to have equal it triumph over discrimination to have that diagrams end right here in San Francisco. Wonderful, wonderful. Its a great place to be today in this hall where so many marriages have taken place and so many people have loved each other. Were the very first one with phyllis. Thank you phyllis thank you very, very much. And many more weddings to the celebrated in San Francisco many more. I know all of you have had some of those feelings before just maybe over 9 years ago and, of course, in 2008 when i had the prim of sharing that moment. I want to thank all the people behind me its an incredible history. Mayor willie b
Our bipartisan bill, and i would ask our leadership to bring this legislation to restore Economic Growth and job opportunity to the senate bill to the senate floor for action as soon as possible. Thank you, mr. President. I would yield to my colleague from pennsylvania for his remarks. Mr. Casey mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Casey mr. President , thank you very much. I first want to commend and salute the work thats been done already on this legislation by the senior senator from maine and for her leadership. Senator collins appropriately focused on the issue of jobs and job creation. I know in our state weve got, at present we are finally below the half million unemployed number. We went many, many months when the Unemployment Rates went as high as gosh, it must have been as high as 550,000. It went down, but it hovered around a half a Million People for far too much months. Were below that now. Were at about 443,000, still a big number, belo
Now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian People in opposition to the assad regime. Eliot this recognition by the u. S. Is a major step forward for the Syrian Rebels even though the president was quick to say they do not support the chaos in the country. There is a small element of those who oppose the assad regime that are, in fact, affiliated with alqaeda and iraq, and we have designated them as a terrorist organization. Joining me now to help us understand what this means in syria and the larger context of the middle east, from the hoover institution, one of the most astute observers of middle eastern politics. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much, governor. Eliot is this recognition by president obama too little too late or appropriately calibrated calibrated. You stole my line. Its too little, too late. It doesnt matter what the Obama Administration is doing. We
clapping . Thank you so much clapping . Wow. Welcome to the peoples house of San Francisco. Historic. Historic day today for all of us for the struggles for many, many years i want to thank all of you for sharing this historic moment in San Francisco, california. Wow. Its been a long road. Many years but gosh it feels good to have love triumph overcome ignorance to have equal it triumph over discrimination to have that diagrams end right here in San Francisco. Wonderful, wonderful. Its a great place to be today in this hall where so many marriages have taken place and so many people have loved each other. Were the very first one with phyllis. Thank you phyllis thank you very, very much. And many more weddings to the celebrated in San Francisco many more. I know all of you have had some of those feelings before just maybe over 9 years ago and, of course, in 2008 when i had the prim of sharing that moment. I want to thank all the people behind me its an incredible history. Mayor willie b