Big thanks, fred, for your shirt inspection sort introduction. I think you did a good job without getting too carried away. Thank you to the city club for the opportunity to be with all of you today. Did has been a longtime friend, supporter, and i did not know this was your luncheon. Thank you for having me here. , rightere six years ago before i became speaker. I came to your indication, to an economic speech where i called on the president s to fire his economic team. They did not like that. They savaged me after the. I think i was right. Here is six years later, no longer the speaker of the house after spending some 25 years. As i told the students at notre dame, notre dame gave Vice President biden and i an award. And you know that is a let word. In english, it means rejoice. Exactly what i have done every day since i left. [laughter] people stop me and think im going to go back into the government. I had a cab driver wondering if i was running for the senate last year. Oh, no, no
You can watch the communicators tonight on cspan and cspan2 at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. Tonight on cspan, we hear from Vehicle Technology experts and government consultants about the latest technology and the future of transportation. So, today 90 of the accidents that happen on our roadways are due to human error distracted driving, drunk driving. If we, in theory, eliminate humans from the driving equation, then we eliminate 90 of the accidents. That in itself is huge. I mentioned also enhanced mobility for the elderly and disabled. That is also exciting. Another part is rethinking power rethinking our land use. If we have more of a shared use society where people are not purchasing as many vehicles that sharing them, then we can potentially reduce the land used for parking. In cities, that can be try to reimagine san franciscos streets without that dedicated land. You can see the potential for adding like lanes, adding a pedestrian space. That is my utopian perspective. You can watc
am out west. marathon talks lead to a new debt deal. at least in theory. the president backs it. so do leaders of both parties. still, no reason to celebrate just yet. in syria, a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. more than 7 0 people killed and counting. and new this morning, a big change to health coverage. the federal government will require insurers who provide birth control without co-payments. now, in just a few hours, we could see the beginning of the end of the debt crisis. it s been the issue in washington for weeks. and you re probably tired of the finger pointing and doomsday predictions. today, that could all come to an end if the house and senate approve a compromised plan. the deal identifies about $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years and raises the debt ceiling by about the same amount. bipartisan committee must find ways to trim another trillion a, a so-called deficit posse. the president and house speaker admit the plan isn t perfect
9:00 am on the east coast, 6:00 am out west. marathon talks lead to a new debt deal. at least in theory. the president backs it. so do leaders of both parties. still, no reason to celebrate just yet. in syria, a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. more than 7 0 people killed and counting. and new this morning, a big change to health coverage. the federal government will require insurers who provide birth control without co-payments. now, in just a few hours, we could see the beginning of the end of the debt crisis. it s been the issue in washington for weeks. and you re probably tired of the finger pointing and doomsday predictions. today, that could all come to an end if the house and senate approve a compromised plan. the deal identifies about $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years and raises the debt ceiling by about the same amount. bipartisan committee must find ways to trim another trillion a, a so-called deficit posse. the president and house spea