What the experts say when they told you you cant win you can when. Please help me welcome back to ohio again, David Mcauliff mcau. [applause] thank you, governor, mrs. Joanne and all of you. I have never in my life had such an uplifting appreciated welcome as we have had since we arrived in ohio several days ago to begin our talk about the pioneers. The generosity, the good spirit, the honesty, decency so many of us were brought up on is so prevalent part of the everyday life of your state i hope you dont ever take it for granted and keep it going. You were wonderful. Thank you. Dont get too big for your britches. [laughter] the dedication to community and family which are so important or major objectives in this society, civilization, whatever you want to call it that our predecessors and all of you still believe in. I came upon this subject quite by chance. I often thought the role of luck in life to come and get a commencemengive acommencement so university in 2004. Of course i acce
Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congress have voted to scrap much of the bush Era Education plan, meaning the government will continue to shift billions of dollars to states but well cut her loose and many of the Strings Attached to funding that is a little bit about what happened in congress this week. And the president was in oklahoma, and heres the article in the wall street journal. Rivals team up for justice revamped. One president obama praise conservatives charles and david koch for their efforts laughter rippled through the
He was history teacher and came to congress and realized there was no organization saying nice things about the congress and thought there ought to be somebody who did that and created the u. S. Capitol Historical Society as a way to create an organization whose responsibility would be to educate the public about the capital, the capital building, the people who served here and the architecture thats here. For over 50 years, we have been doing this with publications. With guide books to the capital. Calendars that we produce and many members purchase and issue to their constituents. And other ways. Were formed by congress, but were not a federal agency. Were a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We have to raise all of our own dollars for people who help sponsored this evening tonight are part of that organization of people who help us stay in business. And every year we try and honor a committee of the congress. This year the ways and Means Committee and we try and alternate between
Were turned away and sent back to syria in the philadelphia area. So, a lot of these folks just say theyre so furious about this in particular, that its unconstitutional and unlawful, that theyre getting these big protests together and going to meetings. In king of prussia, they had 3,000 people meet to figure out how do we protest effectively against this new president. What do you think of, number one, was it unconstitutional, jim, the executive order, and, number two, to the panel, are these protesters gonna be able to get some steam behind themselves and make a difference . Does it matter . The man won the election. Well, you know, monica, i dont know if its unconstitutional, but i can tell you, when i worked for bill clinton, i worked on executive orders. These things are vetted interagency. Lawyers from, you know, many different departments are gonna touch these things, look at them. All the possible contingencies are, you know, vetted and looked at. Unless its some absolutely em
Hello. I would like to welcome you to Union Station. This is a magnificent building here in washington, d. C. , just a couple of walks from the u. S. Capitol building. At the nonprofit here in washington dc who responsible loyalty is stewardship of this building. This building was built in 1907. It was not only one of the largest buildings in the world, but it was certainly the most magnificent train station that had been built to date. This station has undergone many changes throughout the year. In 1912 andeted service during world war i when the uso took over part of the building. It went through many, many changes from being an actual station to a place where it was not so active and people may have been here sleeping on benches, using the building for shelter and finally, with world war ii, the station became the center of the world again with the servicemen coming back here and serving 200,000 people a day and significant alterations made in this magnificent hall to serve the men