Scene and to the girl scouts emilys impacted this weekend. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. It is my second time at the National Press club. Thank you for having me back. I guess i did an ok job the first time. I want to thank the organizers of the luncheon. In q4 organizing this amazing lunch. I want to thank my colleagues from the girl scouts of the nations capital. I know they are in the room. Where are you . [applause] ceo, their board president , and their Steering Committee members. Thank you for your hospitality today. And the prestigious members of the National Press club here in the room and on camera this morning. Tos an amazing opportunity be here with a room full of girl scout leaders. I sure this leadership mantle with many people. Would like the ceos of our local Girl Scout Councils to please stand up. [applause] these are representatives of 112 ceos who are doing an amazing job to continue this movement that has been around for 104 years. I would like to recogni
Local politics was i had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder about my hometown. I wanted to see her you could combine the best of those worlds and have a community which was more prepared for the future, better educated, more economic development, and was also a place of great character, a place a city where everybody would love to live. Steve it was a fulltime job with parttime pay . Sec. Castro that is right. The charter that governed the mayor and council had been passed in 1951. It was a lot smaller city back then. The job that was definitely a fulltime job. Basicallyhe pay was 50 a meeting, so 50 a week, then one 3000 payment every year. 2015,ar after i left, in the voters actually passed an initiative so that the mayor could make 65,000 or something in that ballpark. You know, i like to think that my work in the work of others hopefully contributed to that. But when i was there it was basically 4000 or so. Steve this white house had considered you for a number of cabinet positi
Pennsylvania. Every minute of the republican and democratic onties National Convention cspan, cspan radio, and www. Cspan. Org. This past week, a partisan a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers drew attention to campus sexual reading the statement by the victim of the stanford Sexual Assault case. The event began with congresswoman jackie speier, who began the reading. We are going to do something that has never before been done on the house floor. Sexual assault survivor who was attacked on the stanford campus last year. The sexual predator received a sentence of six months in county jail, of which he will serve only three. For committing a violent crime. We are not moved by the felons excuse of alcohol, we are not moved by the judge who said a longer sentence would have a, quote, severe impact, unquote, on the offender. We are not moved by the felons father who said that his son should not serve jail time for, quote, 20 minutes of action, unquote. Emily d. O. E. Is a survivor in every doe i