President obama thank you. Thank you. Speaker members of congress, i have the distinct honor and present to you the president of the United States. [applause] president obama thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Madam speaker, Vice President biden, members of congress, distinguished guests, and fellow americans our constitution declares that from time to time, the President Shall give to Congress Information about the state of our union. For 220 years, our leaders have fulfilled this duty. Theyve done so during periods of prosperity and tranquility, and theyve done so in the midst of war and depression, at moments of great strife and great struggle. Its tempting to look back on these moments and assume that our progress was inevitable, that america was always destined to succeed. But when the union was turned back at bull run and the allies first landed at omaha beach, victory was very much in doubt. When the market crashed on
To be United States district judge for the federal circuit. The presiding officer the question now occurs on the stoll nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote . On this vote, the ayes are 95. The nays are zero. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The president will be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate will resume legislative session. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from nebraska. Mrs. Fischer i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Fischer mr. President . This summer parents across the country will be preparing their children for the coming school year. Whether
More about how that has evolved and Rubber Company placed in that. Okay. Its funny, so i thought i would have to let a lot of grunt work that you guys have laid a lot of the grunt work for me. Alecs talked about the two copyrights in every recording that you here. Theres the composition the notes and lyrics and the sound recording. The sound recording is that artist, that recording artist interpretation of that composition. And then fixed permanently somehow to be a recording. So before 1995 1998 before the performance right was created in those two laws there was no performance right according under federal law. But some in 1998 there was and there was no one to collect the royalties for the performance right. So as services developed and as they need to pay royalties develop the industry collectively created an entity to collect those royalties and that was soundexchange. Initially it was kind of this come in the corner of an office a group of people trying to figure out how are they
Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. This is an amazing city. I relocated here last july from new york, you might be surprised to think im from new york and what i love about the city is that everyone is connected. Im taking over this morning and my driver says where can i take you and my driver said i told him the barber center. Barbara jordan, theres a center named after Barbara Jordan and i said yes, did you know who she was. He said not only do i know she was but i had a radio show in washington, 50 years ago on the station it doe
From reform to maybe substantial tax cut in the end that wont be substantial, i dont know. I dont know. Stuart something is better than nothing. Remember Obamacare Repeal and replace. Weve still got obamacare. Neil god bless your optimism. I dont know what youre drinking there but i mean have at it. Stuart dont start with me on that. Neil all right. You know, im looking at bakery products. As long as they keep taxes low on them im fine. Thank you very much, my friend. We are following that, political storms are brewing here over this tax cut but were really following what so going on with irma as well. Just to bring you uptodate, still a category 5 storm. Wind in excess of 185 miles per hour. There is entire visitor evacuation for florida keys. Theyre barry over sea level. Three feet of sea level the surge from this start is expected to be north of seven feet. You can do the math. Better part of valor to get the heck out of there. The president declared a state of emergency not only fl