David skorton, the secretary of the smithsonian institution. [applause] ms. Amy sherald, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mr. Kehinde wiley, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mrs. Michelle obama. [cheers and applause] president barack obama. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium kim sajet, the director of the Smithsonian National portrait gallery. Good morning. Mu name is kim sajet and it is my pleasure as director to welcome you to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Every commissioned portrait involves four people. The first person is the sitter, a person with a largerthanlife persona, who may be curious to see how his are her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. In a spirit of building anticipation, i bid a warm welcome to president barack obama and his wife, former first lady, Michelle Obama, who we honor today. [applause] the second person is the artist who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true
Center. Put that package on the floor, you can find this in all of our washington journal discussions online. Take you live to the white house for the daily briefing. The president unveiled a legislative outline for rebuilding infrastructure in america. The six doctors follow. Funds toion in federal spur at least 1. 5 trillion in Infrastructure Investment with partners of the state, local, tribal, and private levels. New investments will be made in rural america, which has been left behind for too long. Regulatory barriers that needlessly get in the way of Infrastructure Projects will be removed, permitting for Infrastructure Projects will be streamlined and shortened. Americas workforce will be supported and strengthened. , as of the president said many times we will build new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across the land. We will do it with american heart, hands, and grit. The president released his fiscal year 2019 budget, which is three of the president s mo
Country. Cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. President barack obama and former first Lady Michelle unveiledortraits were in washington. Theear from them and artists. This is just under an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kim sajet, the director of the Smithsonians National portrait gallery. [applause] david skorton, the secretary of the smithsonian institution. [applause] ms. Amy sherald, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mr. Kehinde wiley, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mrs. Michelle obama. [cheers and applause] president barack obama. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium kim sajet, the director of the smithsonian National Portrait gallery. Good morning. Mu name is kim sajet and it is my pleasure as director to welcome you to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Every commissioned portrait involves four people. The first person is the sitter, a person with a largerthanlife pers
A better alternative than a bloated bureaucracy which is an efficient and which cannot be controlled and their unions involved in that. What i see in the Charter Movement and what i think we have all seen is that not only Movement Toward programs like vouchers which rely on individual choice, a rational act, but also jonathan alluded to literally the running of part Charter Schools and that is like, how is there not a bigger conversation that is not just by the outraged left about the problem with that . I think think that is a real issue. I hope we can all assume that a forprofit Charter Management Organization operating exclusively in low Income Neighborhood that they probably have some intention beyond social mobility and created citizens. I would like to point that all of that is very macro unless you lose live close to a Community Like this. We see this and lots of schools and lots of ways. One area i am passionate about is the unromantic area of school lunch. If you look at the h
Receiving kids from other schools that have been shut because they were failing. So suddenly two Percentage Points and lo and behold we have now put that on watch lists. What do you do to principals when that happens . Decapitate them . I am not sure. I like teachers. There are hundreds of thousands of wonderful teachers in schools in the United States. I do not like to see them lead to, beaten up by ignorant politicians just catering to [applause] many in arizona know about School Choice. No other state in the United States has embraced School Choice like arizona. Over two decades of School Choice policies and in your work, you call the idea of choice the society centrality of markets. I would add competition and choice. Really in arizona, put forward as if it is a little innocuous. A better alternative than a bloated bureaucracy which is an efficient and which cannot be controlled and their unions involved in that. What i see in the Charter Movement and what i think we have all seen