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Senator Marco Rubio of Florida speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, along with Al Cardenas.
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April 2nd, 2023 - TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA - The Toronto Marlies, AHL affiliate of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, battle the Belleville Senators at Coca-Cola Colesium on April 2 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo credit: Christian Bonin/TSGphoto.com)
The United States and China are engaged in a critical economic and strategic exchange that will have wide-reaching implications for the American people and for the world. How can the two countries work together in partnership to tackle future global challenges while addressing important concerns at home? What are the prospects for future collaboration? What are the major challenges?
Please join the Center for American Progress as it hosts Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who will offer his perspectives on the strategic relationship between the United States and China. The event will be moderated by Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President at the Center.
Click here to watch the video: www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/12/kerry.html
Idaho's U.S. Senator Jim Risch, left, and Ohio's U.S. Senator George Voinovich learned about numerous INL programs during a 2009 tour.
Senator Cantwell visited the LCC campus to talk to a group of students about their education and career goals.
April 15th, 2023 - TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA - The Toronto Marlies, AHL affiliate of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, battle the Belleville Senators at Coca-Cola Colesium on April 15 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo credit: Christian Bonin/TSGphoto.com)
December 26th, 2022 - TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA - The Toronto Marlies, AHL affiliate of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, take on the Belleville Senators at Scotiabank Arena on Monday December 26, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo credit: Christian Bonin/TSGphoto.com)
Senator Kerry CAP
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. In a poll taken in 2007 fifty-nine percent of Americans endorsed taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more thought we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public were still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
In December 2007 representatives of more than 180 nations met in Bali to chart a course toward a new global agreement to control climate change that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Together - in spite of American obstruction - they produced a roadmap for the new climate negotiations that set a target date of 2009 for the next treaty. How do we avoid the missteps that plagued the Kyoto Treaty? How do we create a framework that includes industrialized nations as well as the developing world? Sen. Kerry - who attended the Bali conference and led the U.S. Senate delegation - laid out a strategy to follow the Bali roadmap and expand the existing emissions trading market, promote an efficient and effective technology development and implementation program, launch an aggressive effort to protect the world's remaining forests, and embrace technology transfer. This will require innovative financing and investment - and, if properly implemented, will create major new opportunities for American industry to create the jobs of the future.
Titus Caesernius Statianus (c. AD 105 - ?) was a Roman politician, senator and friend of Emperor Hadrian.
Statianus native of Aquileia, and was a son of the knight Titus Caesernius Macedo, who was in the year 107 Caesariensis Procurator of Mauretania.
The portrait can be identified as depicting the same person found on a relief portraying the Emperor Hadrian hunting and surrounded by companions. His face is modeled with many nuances. It shows highly individual features.
During the Hadrian’s rule, Roman portraiture began to depict eyes not only by painting them but by modeling them: here the pupil is kidney-shaped and the iris is indicated by a delineated circle.
Marble sculpture, c. AD 135
München, Glyptothek
Senator Kerry CAP
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. In a poll taken in 2007 fifty-nine percent of Americans endorsed taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more thought we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public were still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
In December 2007 representatives of more than 180 nations met in Bali to chart a course toward a new global agreement to control climate change that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Together - in spite of American obstruction - they produced a roadmap for the new climate negotiations that set a target date of 2009 for the next treaty. How do we avoid the missteps that plagued the Kyoto Treaty? How do we create a framework that includes industrialized nations as well as the developing world? Sen. Kerry - who attended the Bali conference and led the U.S. Senate delegation - laid out a strategy to follow the Bali roadmap and expand the existing emissions trading market, promote an efficient and effective technology development and implementation program, launch an aggressive effort to protect the world's remaining forests, and embrace technology transfer. This will require innovative financing and investment - and, if properly implemented, will create major new opportunities for American industry to create the jobs of the future.
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“Because of the policies George Bush has pursued and John McCain
would continue, the entire Middle East is more dangerous. The United
States and our allies, including Israel, are less secure,” said Sen.
Joe Biden (D-DE) at the Center for American Progress.
McCain “does not have a plan” for Iraq, said Biden. McCain’s plan is “the
same as President Bush’s plan: Stay, Stay in Iraq until the very last
of Iranian influence is eliminated. Stay in Iraq until the last member
of Al Qaeda is killed. Stay in Iraq indefinitely.”
Sen. John McCain said he has soaring hopes of
accomplishing the plans that have been set forth in regards to Iraq,
and that he hopes to see the war ended by 2013. Sen. McCain and
President Bush both also have insinuated that it would be a large
mistake to leave before Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated.
Biden challenged their plan, saying that it is imperative to bring
home our troops without leaving chaos behind in Iraq. “We are spending
$3 billion a week on this war, while losing 30 to 40 U.S. soldiers and
personnel a month.”
“John continues to cling to the failed strategy of this
administration, which is that it is possible to have a Shia-dominated
central government, strong enough that it in fact controls the whole
country, and has the support and confidence of the Kurds and the
Sunnis. I wish that were true but I don’t believe in the lifetime of
anyone in this room that will happen,” said Biden.
Biden argued that the costs of our involvement in Iraq have
outweighed the benefits and have ironically strengthened the greatest
challenge to U.S. interests in the region: Iran. But “the idea that we
can wipe out every vestige of Iran’s influence in Iraq is a fantasy,”
Biden said. “Even with 160,000 American troops in Iraq, Prime Minister
Maliki, our ally in Baghdad, greets Iran’s leader with kisses—Iran is a
major regional power and it shares a long border—and a long
history—with Iraq. Right now, Iran loves the status quo, with 140,000
Americans troops bogged down and bleeding, caught in a cross fire of
intra-Shi’a rivalry and Sunni-Shi’a civil war.”
Biden explained that by “drawing down, we can take away Iran’s
ability to wage a proxy war against our troops and force Tehran to
concentrate on avoiding turmoil inside Iraq’s borders and instability
beyond them.”
“We are no closer to the President’s stated goal of an Iraq that can
defend itself, govern it and sustain itself in peace,” Biden said, and
“we can’t keep treading without exhausting ourselves and doing great
and permanent damage to our vital interest around the world.”
Senator Risch and his wife Vicki take a picture in front of Payette Lake during the Summer 2022 state staff meeting
Senator Kerry CAP
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. In a poll taken in 2007 fifty-nine percent of Americans endorsed taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more thought we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public were still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
In December 2007 representatives of more than 180 nations met in Bali to chart a course toward a new global agreement to control climate change that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Together - in spite of American obstruction - they produced a roadmap for the new climate negotiations that set a target date of 2009 for the next treaty. How do we avoid the missteps that plagued the Kyoto Treaty? How do we create a framework that includes industrialized nations as well as the developing world? Sen. Kerry - who attended the Bali conference and led the U.S. Senate delegation - laid out a strategy to follow the Bali roadmap and expand the existing emissions trading market, promote an efficient and effective technology development and implementation program, launch an aggressive effort to protect the world's remaining forests, and embrace technology transfer. This will require innovative financing and investment - and, if properly implemented, will create major new opportunities for American industry to create the jobs of the future.
For more information or event video visit: cleanenergysummit.org/
Center for American Progress Action Fund, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas have once again brought together some of the most respected leaders from industry, science, government, and advocacy organizations to define a policy agenda for creating good jobs in the new economy and for accelerating the nation's clean energy transformation. This year's "National Clean Energy Summit 3.0: Investing in American Jobs" assessed the progress made since the first summit in 2008, including the major clean energy investments in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, while also looking ahead at further steps and policies needed to transform Nevada's, and the nation's, economies into thriving clean energy hubs. Expert panels convened to discuss deployment of clean energy, growth of new energy efficiency markets, advancing energy independence, and ensuring long-term prosperity for Nevada, the nation, and the world.
UNLV Photo Services / GERI KODEY
Senator Chuck Schumer swung by the office during his Aug. 1 visit to Fire Island. (photo:Janice Hahn)
Senator Kerry CAP
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. In a poll taken in 2007 fifty-nine percent of Americans endorsed taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more thought we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public were still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
In December 2007 representatives of more than 180 nations met in Bali to chart a course toward a new global agreement to control climate change that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Together - in spite of American obstruction - they produced a roadmap for the new climate negotiations that set a target date of 2009 for the next treaty. How do we avoid the missteps that plagued the Kyoto Treaty? How do we create a framework that includes industrialized nations as well as the developing world? Sen. Kerry - who attended the Bali conference and led the U.S. Senate delegation - laid out a strategy to follow the Bali roadmap and expand the existing emissions trading market, promote an efficient and effective technology development and implementation program, launch an aggressive effort to protect the world's remaining forests, and embrace technology transfer. This will require innovative financing and investment - and, if properly implemented, will create major new opportunities for American industry to create the jobs of the future.
Senator Kerry CAP
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. In a poll taken in 2007 fifty-nine percent of Americans endorsed taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more thought we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public were still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
In December 2007 representatives of more than 180 nations met in Bali to chart a course toward a new global agreement to control climate change that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Together - in spite of American obstruction - they produced a roadmap for the new climate negotiations that set a target date of 2009 for the next treaty. How do we avoid the missteps that plagued the Kyoto Treaty? How do we create a framework that includes industrialized nations as well as the developing world? Sen. Kerry - who attended the Bali conference and led the U.S. Senate delegation - laid out a strategy to follow the Bali roadmap and expand the existing emissions trading market, promote an efficient and effective technology development and implementation program, launch an aggressive effort to protect the world's remaining forests, and embrace technology transfer. This will require innovative financing and investment - and, if properly implemented, will create major new opportunities for American industry to create the jobs of the future.
Utenriksminister Børge Brende og senator Amy Klobuchar i Washington 26. februar 2015.
Foto: Frode Overland Andersen / UD
Exploring Issues in and Policy Solutions for Credit Card Markets
During the last three decades, credit cards have transformed the American economy. They have revolutionized the daily mechanisms for payment and borrowing, and in the process, have contributed to the mass consumerism that distinguishes American culture and supports the health of our economy. The days of the “one credit card family” are a thing of the past, with some 1.5 billion cards in circulation today—five for every American man, woman, and child.
Not surprisingly, the rapid growth of the credit card market has been coupled with a dramatic rise in consumer debt (as of September 2006, credit card debt in the U.S. totaled $857 billion) and record profits for the industry. This relationship raises some important questions. For example, why are credit cards so much more common in America than in Japan and the United Kingdom? Why do credit card companies continue to issue cards to customers who are such bad credit risks? What aspects of credit cards most often lead consumers into debt traps? What specifically can policymakers do to solve these problems, and are these solutions politically realistic?
As part of the Center’s ongoing efforts to highlight and address consumer debt issues as a key component of our Economic Mobility Program, CAP assembled a distinguished group of experts who discussed these questions and the policy options for moving forward. First, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan who commissioned the recently released GAO report entitled "Credit Cards: Increased Complexity in Rates and Fees Heightens Need for More Effective Disclosures to Consumers" delivered opening remarks. This was followed by a panel discussion with Ronald Mann, the author of the book, Charging Ahead: The Growth and Regulation of Payment Card Markets, and David Wood, Director of the aformentioned GAO report on credit cards. Also, the Center's Director of the Economic Mobility Program, Derek Douglas, discussed a Center report regarding a safety rating system for credit cards.
Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont USA • Our junior United States Senator Bernie Sanders hosts a Labor Day celebration.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks about his vision for America can raise the bar on accountability in higher education at an event hosted by Third Way. Senator Murphy addressed the gathering and answered questions from Third Way Senior Vice President Lanae Erickson.
Senator Kerry CAP
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. In a poll taken in 2007 fifty-nine percent of Americans endorsed taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more thought we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public were still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
In December 2007 representatives of more than 180 nations met in Bali to chart a course toward a new global agreement to control climate change that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Together - in spite of American obstruction - they produced a roadmap for the new climate negotiations that set a target date of 2009 for the next treaty. How do we avoid the missteps that plagued the Kyoto Treaty? How do we create a framework that includes industrialized nations as well as the developing world? Sen. Kerry - who attended the Bali conference and led the U.S. Senate delegation - laid out a strategy to follow the Bali roadmap and expand the existing emissions trading market, promote an efficient and effective technology development and implementation program, launch an aggressive effort to protect the world's remaining forests, and embrace technology transfer. This will require innovative financing and investment - and, if properly implemented, will create major new opportunities for American industry to create the jobs of the future.
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the junior United States Senator from Vermont.
Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. A self-described democratic socialist, he favors policies similar to those of social democratic parties in Europe, particularly those instituted by the Nordic countries. He caucuses with the Democratic Party and has been the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee since January 2015.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before transferring to and graduating from the University of Chicago. While a student, he was a member of the Young People's Socialist League and active in the Civil Rights Movement as a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, he participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Sanders settled in Vermont in 1968, and ran unsuccessfully for Governor and U.S. Senator in the early to mid-1970s as a member of the Liberty Union Party. As an independent, Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont's most populous city, in 1981. He was reelected to three more two-year mayoral terms before being elected to represent Vermont's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 1990. He served as a congressman for 16 years before being elected to succeed the retiring Republican-turned-independent Jim Jeffords in the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012, he was reelected by a large margin, capturing almost 71% of the popular vote.
Since his election to the Senate, Sanders has emerged as a leading progressive voice on issues such as income inequality, universal healthcare, parental leave, climate change, LGBT rights, and campaign finance reform. He rose to national prominence on the heels of his 2010 filibuster of the proposed extension of the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthy. Sanders is also outspoken on civil rights and civil liberties, and has been particularly critical of mass surveillance policies such as the USA PATRIOT Act, as well as racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. He has long been critical of U.S. foreign policy, and was an early and outspoken opponent of the Iraq War.
Sanders is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Berlin Town Meeting
Monday, August 24 at 2:00pm
White Mountain Chalet
161 E Milan Rd.
Berlin, NH 03570