Getting that metal, getting the National Medal of the arts meant, personally for me, it was quite an achievement and one that i felt really humbled to receive. That the arts mattered. And to have the arts recognized at that level of the country of government, it was a profound act. Not just for me, but for every young person in this country who wanted to express themselves, whether with paint, words, song, or bodies and dance. It meant all of those things. I wrote as a hobby and i did not know it could be a profession at all. I had no role models. I had never met a novelist or a poet. All of these people that wrote these things were names in a book. And the only one i really had a visual was long gone. To me, it was something i did as a hobby. I really thought that i was going to be one of the three things, to be a doctor, lawyer, or teacher. I do not feel that pressure that you will become a doctor, lawyer, or teacher. It was just in the air. And i discovered creative writing classes.
Announcer thanks for watching. Announcer the British Parliament is in recess for the holidays. Prime ministers questions returns january kent. Now january 10. Now we review the events that happened in the british house of commons since the summer. This is an hour. 18 months on from the referendum results, the Prime Minister scripts through phase one of the negotiations. Host facing claims that they are pushing people into poverty and destitution, ministers make changes to the welfare benefits. No government is perfect, no benefit system is perfect, no debates, no motion is perfect but we Work Together to make this better. Host in his budget, the chancellor announces a boost for House Building and firsttime buyers. But Opposition Mps recommend discomfort for sluggish Economic Times ahead. Before the wind abrasive hit us, the position for millions of people as if we have been struggling with nine years of austerity. Host but with every passing day, the u. K. Inches closer to brexit. We a
Right. Thank you, gentlemen, a great challenge to be faced as governor is trying to anticipate the actions or consequences that our actions are going to have down the road on future generations. This next panel is going to give us some insights on what that future might look like. Theyre going to start by looking backward over the past 25 years to let us kind of get a capsule sized look of how the country has changed. Certainly, i think most of you, if you talked back and told me in 1992 what we have now, i wouldnt have believed it. The explosion of internet, the unbelievable changes in telecommunications, demographic changes, the social changes, just how we do everything. This is such a different world than we had 25 years ago and i think, if you believe any of these, whether its moores law or any of these compounding acceleration laws, the next 25 years, the rate of change is going to be even more rapid, hopefully that rate of change will be for the better. Our panel is going to offe
Cspan. The fullmotion is on the order paper. To move the motion i call representing army welfare, british minister overseas in germany, kate jones. Please give her a warm welcome. [applause] thank you, mr. Speaker. I have a dream, a dream that one day i thank you for such a heavy impact that will change the world forever when Martin Luther king gave a speech, the plague of racism on the country. I campaign of acceptance at what was there was none. I have a dream. I we dream that one day lgbt people no longer live in fear. That is being that not to be obtained without [inaudible] i believe will not be realized today and tomorrow or this coming term in part of. Begin to write the injustices because what we can accomplish it today. This legislation will not on transfer in the real world. Its often a pair for my interactions with young people particularly my own constituents, discrimination is not the feature of human condition. It is a learned behavior. Which makes to questions. Where was
Im pete davis, Senior Vice President and past president of the club. The National Economist club was started in 196 by herb stein, the chair of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since presenting leading economists talking about issues of the day. Today were very pleased to mark gold wine of the committee for responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. Before i introduce mark, let me tell you about some upcoming programs. We have dr. Alice rivlin on february 1st at a luncheon right here at the chinatown garden talking about fed policy and maybe a little bit about the budget. Shes a former vice chair of the fed and, of course, the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office. We also have commitments to speak in february although the dates havent been set by the current chair of the council of economic advisers kevin hasset and also the Congressional Budget Office director. Mark gold wine is one