Well, good morning, everyone. What a pleasure to see a full crowd here tonight. I mentioned to the president that i was worried about the crowd showing up and he said dont worry, theyll be here. Its like field of dreams, they will come. We built it. Thank you for coming out and braving the roads this morning. My name is gary greg, the director of Mcconnell Center, and its been a pleasure of mine to be able to work with the students of the Mcconnell Scholars Program and many of you in the audience over the last 17 years. Over those years weve had some of the most consequential leaders in America Today visited with us, spoken to us here at the university of louisville and i think that today is no exception to that. We have been able to host, for instance, moments of historic importance like vicepresident biden here the day that mubarak resigned in egypt. And we broke news and had some very important things happen in the louisville tarmac that morning. Secretary of state colin powell deli
Thank you very much. I want to express my gratitude to you for your service. View, a done, in my seamless job of plugging the gap. When this program started in the early 1990s, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. I hope youll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] weve had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. There might be none more interesting than our guests this morning. You brooklyn. Mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. It was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the United States and it. It is also why last year Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people. He was elected to the new York State Assembly at the age of 23. In his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him to run. Basically life of a corporate lawyer was to be 6 respectable and comfortable. But chuck, my life would have been a lot easier if you had listened to your parents.
Seamless job of plugging the gap. When this program started in the early 1990s, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. I hope youll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] weve had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. There might be none more interesting than our guests this morning. You brooklyn. Mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. It was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the United States and it. It is also why last year Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people. He was elected to the new York State Assembly at the age of 23. In his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him to run. Basically life of a corporate lawyer was to be 6 respectable and comfortable. But chuck, my life would have been a lot easier if you had listened to your parents. Since that first electoral victory, yes cap the perfect batting average of never losing a single
Senatorers namesake Mitch Mcconnell introduced senator schumer and they talked about the relationship. Thank you very much. I want to express my gratitude to you for your service. View, a done, in my seamless job of plugging the gap. When this program started in the early 1990s, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. I hope youll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] weve had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. There might be none more interesting than our guests this morning. You brooklyn. Mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. It was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the United States and it. It is also why last year Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people. He was elected to the new York State Assembly at the age of 23. In his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him to run. Basically life of a corporate lawyer was to be 6 respectabl
Was mayor, when i ive used to rationalize that i was not a politician. It is getting harder to do, which concerns me because i once heard that when god created the earth, he promised to put good and honest politicians in every corner of the earth. And then he made it round. [laughter] its catching up with you, isnt it . I have been in congress 12 weeks. Can you imagine 12 weeks packed with more . We have had three votes on shutdowns, two shutdowns, memos and memos, immigration and tax reform. I am counting about one page or issue per week in every week ive been there. I will say this. Congress worked on tax reform for 31 years and i had been there three days when i passed it. [laughter] [applause] rep. Curtis thats right. Youre welcome. Havee three bills in, i done seven town Hall Meetings in the last two weeks. My office has received 20,000 d nelson the last few weeks. I am really enjoying it. People ask me what is the Biggest Surprise to me when i go back . I would like to share it w