who was the chief pressure at the white house for the bush and obama administration for several years. and he as a chief pressure was general manager and runs for president and is in charge of all of the white house resident staffers in the conduit between the first lady and the resident staff. so the chief pressure plays a crucial role of and i m excited he came tonight. these are seriously devoted people who really devote their lives to the white house. they work white house flextime whatever 85 hours a week you want to work they say. they were very generous to me and guided me into their home. some of them that at the white house and fellow months. some of them got near it. one of the head housekeeper his mentor has been, chief engineer measuring him for is in a warm which was a great story. so i set out to get to know these people and i feel like i ve done them a bit of a service. they seem happy most of them was how the book came out. a few of them have passed away since
important because they touch local communities. every one of them is about a local community in some way. we have to keep making that pitch. we also need to make this argument about the public relevance and how not only how much poorer we would be without them and the work that we do but how incapacitated we would become if we did not have these entities doing what they do. with only two years left of the obama administration how do you approach priorities to get as much done as you can? i was just talking about this with a few people this morning. i think we have to think about the most important things 1st of all. and sort them out. things that would be reasonably pursued in his timetable. there is a way that i and my administration might have a longer life than that. we do understand there is this big moment coming. the scope of the work that we agree to take on we don t want to take on things that could not reasonably be done for eight years. that is too far. trying a
is funded by taxpayers. our speaker is chair of the organization since mid-2014 and we hope to hear bro adams plans for marking that opportunity organization. it s politically eclipsed in recent years 146 million-dollar budget grants generally go to state humanities councils museums, research and educational institutions. than native of michigan adams has degrees from colorado college and the university of california and santa cruz. his formal education was interrupted by three years of service in the army including one year in vietnam. it was partly that experience he says that motivated him to study and teach the humanities. he has said quote it made me serious in a certain way and as a 20-year-old combat infantry adviser i came face to face acutely with questions of writers artists philosophers and musicians are examining in our work starting with what does it mean to be human unquote. later he coordinated the great works in western culture program at stanford university
i want to talk about an area that i talk to you once before about community banks they were not the speculators that brought about the financial collapse then they re trying to figure out a way to remain relevant. during the tarp time the preferred stock of community banks or now held by treasury considerations of treasury to make it easier to be able to recoup they re preferred stock. we share the view that community banks way a critical role in local economies and in creating an engine for small business growth and local economic activity. we have in the incb t.a.r.p. program to work with community banks. appreciated. i was interested in your exchange in regards to the us harmonize with the unit international community and the fact that we have high corporate tax rates and i i also was interested in the exchange on simplification where you are trying sen. wyden wants to get the code much more simplified command i agree. i would put in the plug that you take a a lo
office as well. joe served in a number of different positions as bill has, ranging from committees and the house to the office of management and budget in the administration, and has served as chief economist, staff director and variety of those positions and served with bill on the bipartisan policy center s debt reduction task force which came out in 20 10, which came out with a plan to reduce the debt which is inherited some of the proposals and policies that bill has been talking about up here with tax reform, entitlement reform. so joe you re jumping in the middle here, but we were talking the question was in terms of priorities in the federal budget and the growth in the entitlement programs and interest payments and how that s crowding out some of the other pieces. and so what do you think of the federal budget in terms of how it addresses our priorities as a country and where you see it moving forward? well, i assume that bill probably used this word already