school history teacher and i will try and probably feebley fail to do him justice in describing this beautiful room you ve chosen for your 25th lecture. you have chosen a remarkably historic room. but first, i have to thank the offices of the senate cure rater and historian who prepare histories of our art and rooms. without them this introduction simply wouldn t be possible. so to begin. in the early 1900s the house and the senate decided they had outgrown their space. they commissioned two architects from new york. to build them a house and senate office buildings. those have now become the cannon house office building and the russell senate office building. interestingly, if you know they re sort of mirror images from above. but those two individuals were educated in paris and a part of that education brought this beautiful art that you see around this room. they took great care to design this room. in fact, they spent over a year finding this black vained marble that came
showing the largest al qaeda gathering in yemen. we are aqap and we are a force to be reckoned with. this doesn t increase our concern because frankly our concern was incredibly high. the bureau of planned management released 400 head of cattle for failing to play grazing fees. our grazing fees are minimal. our battle is who owns there land. we begin with a disturbing videos from al qaeda, which first appeared on hard core islamist websites is believed to be from march and shows an open meeting of 100 or more al qaeda fighters in yemen, a country that has seen a number of u.s. drone attacks. the man believed to be al qaeda s number 2, nasser alw ahishi, fighting the biggest enemy adding we have to move the cross and the bearer of the cross, america. spokesman maria harf told the press the u.s. is well aware of the threat. we know they have been increasing in strength. we have been increasingly aware of them since 2009. this doesn t increase our concern because f
you see why essentially the republican race for the white house ended today. steve, what happens to delegates committed to santorum now? that s a good question. i don t know what the actual delegate rules are. but we know that he never would have made it. the way it works at the convention, they cast their votes, then they re free. i don t think it has a whole lot of bearing on exactly what they do in their first ballot. jim, it looks like mitt romney, it will be a lot easier for him now, is going to finally get those 11,044 sometime in june. we are also following breaking news involving george zimmerman. he s the florida neighborhood watch volunteer accused of shooting trayvon martin. zimmerman s attorney, craig sonner, just announced he has withdrawn from the case because they have lost contact with zimmerman. we ve also learned that zimmerman contacted the special prosecutor who will decide on charges against the advice of his lawyer. this development comes as we are
coming up, the u.s. postmaster general, pat donahoe, on the future of the u.s. postal service. after that, different perspectives on the global economy. then the international monetary managing director. and an outline of the chinese economic policy. the u.s. postmaster general announced 35,000 s employees might lose their jobs even though the postal service is not going out of business. he made those remarks at the postal service headquarters in washington. this is about 45 minutes. we are doing this to delay the audition for a s service that will have a sustainable model their far into the future. we must create a low-cost operation on network. our immediate goal is to reduce costs by $20 billion by 2015. we have to meet this goal to return to profitability. megan is playing a big role in what we are doing now and saving the postal service going into the future. the i am going to walk you through some changes to our network that will change our operating model. it
workers, teachers and others. next week, the president will explain how he intends to pay for this, early indications are that he ll ask congress to raise taxes on wealthy and businesses which will not be well received by lawmakers. dozens of new jobs coming here to the bay area z an electric car maker called coda plans to be up and running in the next few months. and that is where we re live this afternoon. this company was in a bit of disarray. a ceo and another executive quit as the launch of the new sedan was pushed back until in year, but now, they re planning to open a plant here and are planning to bring more job autos they led a tour of the plant, expected to be up and running by the end of the year. this is a exciting time on many different level autos they will partner with a company that makes car processors. there are 200 employees in los angeles and expects to bring 50 new jobs to the bay area. it s so consistent with california s environmental ethics and