[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
Perfect. The Founding Fathers set up a first tee with the imperfections. Its called working together to solve problems. If theres a thick, thin me to be ironed out, glitches like fixing the website. Obviously the website should work. The Affordable Care act as i described this afternoon is so much more than a website. It means so much more to millions of people. Im ready. All of my colleagues on my side of the aisle are ready, willing and able to hammer out some of those problems that crop up. What we are not willing to do was repeal it and go backwards. [applause] is there any chance that congress will Work Together . Specifically, im a lemonade in the salary cap on the fakir reductions. , federal reductions . Fica for Social Security. You now, that concept is part of the broader discussion, which i hope we get to in congress on what to do about making sure that we had to do one terms of the sea of Social Security. Its really important and theres a variety of Different Things we can d
Bill daly and bill crystal editor of the weekly standard. Then look at president s, past, present and future. The authors of three new books, author of the bully pulpit. And peter baker author of days of fire. There are no leftovers here, this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, face the nation with bob schieffer. Cbs news political director john dickerson. Dickerson there are two breaking stories this morning first a metro north commuter train derailed in new york city. So far four people have died and more than 60 are injured. Some of them critically. No word yet on what caused the derailment. Also today the Obama Administration says dramatic progress has been made to the health care. Gov website. To talk about that and last weeks agreement to halt Irans Nuclear Weapons Program in exchange for some loosening of the economic sanctions, im joined by the two top senators on the Foreign Relations committee, democrat chairman bob men mendez of new
Please take your seats. We are about to begin. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is malou harrison. A pleasure to welcome each and every one of year this afternoon. Happy anniversary to Miami Book Fair international. 30 years in this community. A round of applause indeed. [applause] are thanks to Miami Dade College for all of its leadership and efforts, all of the volunteers. Students, faculty and staff who come together every single year for the past 30 years and we can expect that to continue to bring this Cultural Enrichment to our community. Id also like to thank our sponsors. Airy, as well as American Airlines and all of the friends of the fair, many whom are seated in the first couple rows. Thank you for your support. Those of you who are not yet france had the opportunity to join us as friends of Miami Book Fair international. Please come on in and take your seats as quickly as you can. Thank you. Match. This year, we are asking you to consider making a special donation to the