| Description |
xvi, 195 pages ; cm. |
| Series |
The reference shelf ; v. 84, no. 6
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Reference shelf ; v. 84, no. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Remarks to the Graduating Class. "Do big things" / First Lady Michelle Obama ; "Yes, and" / Jane Lynch ; "Four truths" / Bob Woodruff ; Memory and ethics / Elie Wiesel ; "Bear witness" / Billy Shore ; "The fourth instinct" / Arianna Huffington ; "The importance of saying yes" / David Evans -- 2. Debate on the Congressional Floor. Floor statement on the DISCLOSE Act / Senator John McCain ; The American people are angry / Senator Bernie Sanders ; The Middle-class Tax Cut Act / Senator Carl Levin ; The health care decision of the Supreme Court / Mike Enzi ; The Affordable Health Care Act / Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ; The Paycheck Fairness Act / Senator Debbie Stabenow ; Dark money donors, show yourselves / Representative Raúl Grijalva ; Fiscal responsibility / Senator Dianne Feinstein ; Republican intransigence and obstruction / Representative Steny Hoyer ; "Let the tide rise for all boats" / Representative Mike Kelly -- 3. A Decade After 9/11. Joy cometh in the morning / President Barack Obama ; Al-Qaeda after Bin Laden : implications for American strategy / Brian Michael Jenkins ; Strength in resilience / Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton ; Remarks at the Pentagon on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 / Vice President Joe Biden ; My personal Jihad / Maham Khan ; The great American spirit / Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta ; Tenth anniversary of 9/11 / Senator Jeanne Shaheen -- 4. Education Today. Res non verba--deeds not words / US Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller ; Education is essential to a better life / Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta ; Remarks of the US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the State Higher Education Executive Officers' Higher Education Policy Conference / Arne Duncan ; Here's to another outstanding twenty-five years / Joanne Weiss, chief of staff to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ; Investing in America's future / Assistant Secretary of Education Brenda Dann-Messier -- 5. Occupy Wall Street. Who rules? By what authority? / Virginia Rasmussen ; Don't stop until you have restored democracy / Lawrence Lessig ; "We the people" / Judith Butler ; The Occupy movement / Bobby Rush -- 6. Privacy and the Internet. We will not fail our children / Arne Duncan -- Victim impact statement / Jane Clementi -- Online and overexposed : consumer privacy, the FTC and the rise of the cyberazzi / Federal Trade Commission Chair John Leibowitz ; Internet privacy / Edith Ramirez. |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American. |
| Added Author |
Boucher, Brian.
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| ISBN |
9780824211202 issue 6, paperback |
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0824211200 issue 6, paperback |
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9780824212490 volume 84 |
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0824212495 volume 84 |
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