Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i thought was a very positive statement for the country and moving forward in a way out of a fiscal of this. Abyss. Thi i could not have imagined a better time to have been here with all of the things that have happened. Let me ask you to look back over those 12 years and ask what the high point was. When we could Work Together. Maybe the single event that would and body that is the gang of 14. John mccain and i put together six other democrats and six other republicans to avoid what was then called the
Was then called the nuclear option, changing the rules, turning the senate into a smaller version of the house, where the rights of the minority caucus are ignored. Consequently, we were able to Work Together that way, crossing party lines, crossing with the id administration wanted done or what the caucus leadership on both sides wanted done, it showed we had a certain independence. I will never forget the late senator robert sitting in an office with us all together, sobbing, saying, we saved the senate. We came to an agreement that we were going to vote to give a judicial appointees and up or down vote, rather than having to go to a filibuster. It was very difficult to get 60 votes. It was difficult at times to get 60 votes to tell what day it was or whether it was day or night. We proved we could Work Together. That did not work in perpetuity. For that period of time, there was a willingness to cooperate and Work Together, the likes of which we have not seen since. Harry reid has a
Most heavily populated states, means you are seeing newcomers are not welcome, existing renters can not buy houses, our children cannot buy houses. That is not the american dream, to stand in the way of our future. Host the book is entitled american nightmare how government undermines the dream of homeownership. This is from drake cinders what land use restrictions would you approve of . Guest a buy support local homeowners imposing their own i would support local homeowners imposing their own restrictions. This is how it works in houston, which has no zoning. Half of the residential neighborhoods have restrictions. If you live in a neighborhood without restrictions, you are allowed to petition neighbors, and if 75 agree, you can write covenants and restrictions for your neighborhood. If the developer says we think your neighborhood would be more valuable if we changed it, and we will pay you to change, you can vote to do that. That happens all the time. You get an evolutionary system
Today on cspan, the impact of Student Loan Debt on students and parents, followed by a look at Space Exploration and innovation. Later, a discussion on nasas budget and mission. My first conservative was a friend of a friend i never met a conservative in my life. I was impressed by him, because he answered questions, he was very composed. He was not rancorous. He tried to gauge his responses to the level of my request. Over the course and not understand of anything this guy is saying, but he is so damn polite. Maybe theres something in his convictions. Playwright and reformed the mamet. Al david sunday night at 11 15 eastern. Booktv. According to a report, the u. S. Now has more Student Loan Debt and Credit Card Debt. Next, a discussion on how to ease the debt burden on students and their families. Hosted by propublica and the Lower East Side tenement of new york city. [applause] with a degree comes student debt. Im really happy to be here tonight. It is great to take some time, to hav
Poverty . Will be develop a system where no longer will abstract power waned while others get stronger . The global minotaur will be remembered as a remarkable piece to whose rain created and destroyed the illusion that the Global Economy was stable. Thank you. [applause] right. Questions . I think i am going to moderate myself. Ok, you have to line up. This is the way you do it here, isnt it . That is a brilliant vision of where we have been. Can you elaborate a little bit more on where you see us going . Very briefly, i think that we are in a state of sustained bewilderment. Because, lets face it. In the 1930s, the new deal, despite some early successes failed by 1936 or 37. 1938, we have the second great depression. It was only the war that managed to do the recycling the new deal failed to accomplish, due to fdrs backtracking. Now we have a World Economy which conceivably, that technically finds its way forward to plug the gaps and black holes. 20the g20 easily agreed to a plan tha