And the fact is, she has been the most visible chief of staff in modern history. She has done more radio, television appearances, and interviews in six months than any chief of staff ive known in 40 years in a fouryear in a fouryear situation in one term. Shes very serious about it. She went to a meeting of democrats in new york where you know, Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. She has been beseeched by democrats who obviously most Party Leaders in this state or ill say many dont want joe sestak. They have been searching for a candidate. They went through a variety of people, including Montgomery County commissioner josh shapiro. They are trying to find a candidate, and its obvious you dont resign a position if youre just thinking about it. The announcement will be is imminent. There are two ways to look at this. Lets start with the money. She, first of all, faces sestak. Hes got almost 2 million on hand. And then she would face pat toomey, whos sitting at over 8 million. Hes g
Jim . Honor, the whole group. It is a humbling honor, blessed be part of it. Thank you for the great introduction. I can skip part of my talk. I want to go back one step. My granddad was a corn farmer during the Great Depression in colorado. He had to sell out. My granddad left and went north to find a new business. He started making grain doors for the railroad is this. That is how we got started in 1936. I jumped in my children, well my dad. He was six years old then. Now he is 85. We got into halftime, and his you, that is 12 hours a day. Is still hurting cattle herding cattle. My daughter is working in dallas , the halftime incident. Some of you may know about it. Some of the objectives you have here, my son just got deployed. He is heading overseas soon. [applause] it is a lesson i have been given. We started with 15, now we have 480. 300 independent contractors loyal to us, on top of our employee base. Ive been on quite a ride. On company is 80 dependent it. We look uniquely at t
His his credentials on financial matters are impeccable. Peter is the chair and financial policy studys for the [indiscernible] aei, he joining practiced banking corporate and financial law. He has held a number of government positions. During the reagan administration, he had a role in reagans proposals for deregulation in the Financial Services industry. He was white House Counsel to president reagan later. And then also served under new york governor nelson rockefeller. Is the author of ronald reagan. He has written many books on financial risks. He frequently writes columns that are published in the wall street journal. As well as the oped pages of the new york times. Ladies and gentlemen, lets give a warm steamboat welcome to peter wallison. [applause] [singing] well, it is wonderful to be here. I must say i have to give a lot of credit to jennifer because i have written a book and it is an important book, i think, but what jennifer saw in this book when it first came out, which w
The problem with that is when job,graduate and find a there are only so many of that type of job. But frankly, there are more jobs these days that you can get without having a college degree. Most of my employees with our half, had noaybe background and what we do prior to working for us. We train them. You looking for basic skills and then train them. Paul exactly, we are looking for hardworking ethic. And we have settled with saying we will teach them the rest. My cto has become the educator in chief, helping employees develop and grow skills. You can see that across all industries. I dont think there is a job shortage. I think there is a worker shortage. But i dont think theres a people shortage. Bob we could spend a lot of time. Heidi, if you could address this briefly and then audience questions. Heidi i think the key is education reform, and private Public Partnerships like ibm is doing. Things like that where you got employers telling the Education System what skills they need a
We begin with the breaking news. A shocking sexual abuse scandal. Sources telling cnn that Dennis Hastert at one time second in line from the presidency allegedly sexually abused a student when hastert was a boys wrestling coach. A stunning allegation. The feds say he paid nearly 2 million in recent years to keep this former student silent. Hastert coached boys wrestling in this high school in yorkville, illinois from 1965 to 1981. He then went on to become one of the most powerful men in the United States. The longest serving republican speaker of the house. A man whose colleagues endearingly referred to him as coach. Pamela brown is outfront. Reporter first sources say Dennis Hastert, the longest serving Republican House speaker was paying hush money to a student at the Illinois High School where he once taught. More than a Million Dollars for the former student to keep allegation hastert had sexually abused him quiet. Hastert has not commented publicly but he abruptly resign from th