"But with those two exceptions, outside of the Scott Peterson trial, nothing — a speech, a proposal, something in the democratic discourse — nothing will be national news unless it occurs within a ten-minute cab ride of downtown Manhattan or downtown Washington, D.C. Los Angeles, Chicago, St . Louis— they don't exist.
The Phoenix speech proposal was "very difficult for me, somebody who works with the Latino community, to defend," said Alfonso Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.
When the Texas legislature reconvened this week for the first time in a year and a half, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) delivered a speech outlining proposals to cut taxes, address education funding, and improve school safety.
The glaring gap in the Queen's speech proposals is of course Lords reform.
It would be great if a commitment to gold-standard permanence for all children in care or on the edge of care was the outcome of the debate on the Queen's speech proposals.
May originally raised the prospect of a crackdown on executive pay in her Conservative party leadership bid in July 2016 in a speech that included proposals to allow employee and consumer representatives to sit on company boards, and make shareholder votes on executive pay legally binding.
But aside from a speech outlining reform proposals last year, she hasn't talked about the issue much.
Obama gave a speech on his proposals at the White House on Tuesday, where he was joined by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz)., who was shot in the head along with 18 others at a supermarket in Tucson five years ago this week.
Obama began his five-minute statement with the complaint that he wouldn't be able to get the networks to break into their regularly scheduled programming for a speech on policy proposals.
By The New Yorker February 10 , 2009At The Balance Sheet, James Surowiecki wonders why Timothy Geithner gave a speech on his bailout proposal without ironing out the specifics: Well, that wasn't the most auspicious political début ever.
At The Balance Sheet, James Surowiecki wonders why Timothy Geithner gave a speech on his bailout proposal without ironing out the specifics: Well, that wasn't the most auspicious political début ever.
