Region where too often arab youth are taught to hate israel from an early age, he understood how hard peace would be. Im sure he was alternatively angry and bemused to hear the same critics depend on the defense architecture that he himself helped to build. I dont believe he was naive, but he understood from hardearned experience that through security comes making peace with your neighbors. We won them all, he said of israels worse but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to, release from the need to win victories. And just as he understood the practical necessity of peace, shimon believed that is ra israels exceptionalism was rooted not only in fidelity to the jewish people but to the moral and ethical vision, the precepts of his jewish faith. The jewish people werent born to rule another people, he would say. From the very first day, we are against slaves and masters. On the hardships of the diaspora, he found room in his heart for others who suffered. He came to hate
Republican point of view why you would say that and those are the intellectual arguments you are making. But the problem is the policies he is proposing dont address the issues you are raising. [applause] not only do they not address the policies you are raising but actually they take us in the opposite direction. Jennifer mentioned the independent Tax Foundation which did an analysis and they found that Donald Trumps tax plan would boost the after tax incomes of the top 1 you would get an additional 1400 on your taxes because they would be reduced. This is going to happen every time this is why that could work and good for the american. In the late 70s, we had a change in effort and it it collapsed. This is a simple model of saying are you better off than you were four years ago . He won the largest Electorate College victory. It was a very bold approach that said if you cut regulations and taxes you stimulate the American Economy and get dramatic growth. The truth is we came out of a
The past and shed light on where we are today there is much more significant accountability and oversight constraints with respect to the fbis surveillance activities than there were in the past. Just this last week the director of the fbi was telling a story about how on his glasstop desk, underneath the glass, he has the onepage argueization hoover submitted to Bobby Kennedy for observation for surveillance if dr. King. It has no limitation on dureration, the scope, what could be done with what was collected duration it was a broad authorization. It director keeps that on his desk right now and every morning he is responsible for certifying applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which was enacted after the king survilance. So the director literally puts the stack of applications on top of the onepager every morning. The applications are like this. Each one of them is quite extensive and thick with numerous recitations required by the law and i can talk about tho
Forward. Our bill also gives more companies greater incentives to invest in assets that will help their businesses grow and expand. His, too, has been a longtime this has been a longtime e priority for the Business Committee and many members of congress. We were not able to make it permanent but we did improve and extend the important tax incentive. It will have key components to make america more competitive on the active stage. It expands the afe from subpar income and it provides a five year extension for the control for corporations through provisions. Both of these tax provisions give American Companies with american stockholders and employing American Workers a greater about to compete internationally. This is important if like me you want to see u. S. Companies remain u. S. Companies. In addition to the Top Priorities for businesses in the United States it would provide significant tax relief for families. The deduction for state and local sales tax, makes permanent low income m
Fear, fomenting fear stifles serious debate and constructive solutions. That the carefully drawn reforms in this bill, doing it at the last minute is all the more regrettable. This nation deserves more than that. This nation should not allow our liberties to be set aside by passing fears. America will always face the threat of terrorist attacks both outside our borders and inside. We didnt do away with all our Civil Liberties after the Oklahoma City bombing, even though that was an american who did that, someone who had served in our military, churchgoing, so forth. No more should we do it if the attacks come from outside our country. We talk about 9 11, we have all the evidence necessary to stop 9 11 before it happened. Everybody who has looked at that now agrees, that bothered to translate the material we had, if had bothered to listen to people in minnesota who tried to warn about it, we could have stopped that. But because mistakes were made then, lets not take away the liberties o