Charlottesville, virginia, was hosted by president George H W Bush and laid down education standards that are still in effect today. The george and Barbara Bush Foundation founded this hosted this gathering. [applause] George H W Bush said he wanted to be the education and environment bush and oneofakind look, gentler america. How better to tell us his vision for this summit than George H W Bush himself. The spirit of this summit is how can we get results . We are here to put progress before partisanship, the future before the moment, and our children before ourselves. And now it is time to defined goals. This is the time for action. I value your advice and ideas as we continue to refine the federal role. To those who say money alone is the answer, i say that there is no one answer. If anything, hard experience teaches that we are simply not getting our moneyss worth in education. Our focus must no longer be on resources. It must be on results. This is only the third time in nation tha
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Understanding that a businessman would have when hes about to the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, ms. Verna teller, southern tiwa, pueblo of isleta, new mexico. The chaplain o creator and great mother, having asked and received your permission to invoke your blessings today to all directions, to the east, north, west, south and the center we thank you for the life you give to all your children, the two legged ones, the four legged, those who live in the waters and those who watch over us from the skies above. Sacred pollen, sacred earth mother, sacred water that man fests your desires, o creator and great mother, we thank them for the nourishment they give us equally with no regard to race, color, or creed. Creator and great mother, bless those standing before you who carry a sacred trust to all of us who inhabit turtle island, our homeland, and i pray today that you will give them the wisdom and the courage to carry out their sacre
Natalie andrews covers congress for the wall street journal reporting at wsj. Com. On twitter, she is a w sj, thank you for joining us. Thank you. America hosted a discussion on ranked Choice Voting also called instant runoff voting. It takes voters second and third choices into account if no candidate receives the majority. This is one hour 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to new america. Im glad we have a nice room, comfortable chairs. Im the director of the food and political reform and when i welcome you all to a discussion of the possibilities of ring Choice Voting as it approaches and revives our democracy in various ways potentially solving and bone jump different challenges. America was founded in 1999 with the idea of creating a home for new generation of both people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions, i am one of the oldtimers although i was not here 1989 but i knew the founders and some of the creation and forming the polit