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Joni Ernst
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks to General Nicholson on Military Operations in Afghanistan - Feb. 12, 2017
February 12, 2017
ERNST: Thank you so much. It is great to see you back on American soil. Thank you for your continued service. I want to thank your family for their support of you, and for sharing you and your talents in a leadership capacity in a difficult theater of operations. So thank you and your family very much. I like to pick up where we left off in Afghanistan when I visited a couple months ago. You better than most understand that a General had directed the establishment of the First […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Lecture, Speeches
Discussion with the First Lady, Secretary of Education - Jul. 19, 2016
July 19, 2016
MR. OAKLEY: Thank you all for joining us this morning. (Applause.) I am so excited to be here. You all are -- everyone is so excited, it’s so cute. MRS. OBAMA: They’re all excited. MR. OAKLEY: Everyone is excited. Like I said, this is the third annual, and it has just gotten bigger and better every year. We have an incredible panel of inspiring people that we will be chatting with all morning. And I got to say, I am I think most excited to see this many people here. […]
Elizabeth Dole
categories: Interview, Speeches
"A Few Good Women" Interview - Nov. 5, 2007
November 5, 2007
From the "A Few Good Women" Oral History collection created by Barbara Hackman Franklin. The collection consists primarily of oral history interview transcripts, original tape recordings of the interviews, and photographs and related papers donated by the interviewees documenting high-ranking women working in the Nixon administration. Dole was interviewed by Jean O. Rainey. JEAN O. RAINEY: It is Monday, November 5, 2007, and I am in the office of Senator Elizabeth Dole. First, Elizabeth, I want to ask you about your family. You grew up in North Carolina. DOLE: Right. […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Speeches
Questioning During the Confirmation Hearing of Tom Price - Jan. 18, 2017
January 18, 2017
WARREN: Thank you Mr. Chairman. Congressman Price, more than a 100 million Americans now receive their health care through Medicare and Medicaid programs. These are seniors, people with disabilities, middle-class families who have parents in nursing homes, countless numbers of children and they all benefit from these programs. So I want to understand the changes to Medicare and Medicaid that you have already proposed. The budget that you recently authored as Chair of the House Budget Committee would have cut spending on Medicare by $449 billion over the next decade, […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Speeches
Questioning Betsy DeVos at Senate Confirmation Hearing - Jan. 17, 2017
January 17, 2017
WARREN: We don't have a second round. I asked my staff to pull the records from the hearing we had with King. You said when you called on me, I think we have time for a second round. Senator Warren, you can be the first in the second round. I heard that, I was the only one who stayed and had questions. SEN. ALEXANDER: That is why we had time. WARREN: I understood the people that had questions could ask them. Well we are doing precedents, I understand was the […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Speeches
Confirmation Hearing of Dr. Ben Carson - Jan. 12, 2017
January 12, 2017
WARREN: Dr. Carson, thank you for being here. CARSON: Thank you. WARREN: Before we get into some of the questions that I raised in my letter, to you earlier this week, I just want to get an answer to a –I think a simple yes-or-no question. If you are confirmed to lead HUD, you will be responsible for issuing billions of dollars in grants and loans to help develop housing and provide a lot of housing-related services. Now, housing developments is an area in which President-elect Trump and his family […]
Catherine Cortez Masto
categories: Interview, Speeches
Confirmation Hearing of Dr. Ben Carson - Jan. 12, 2017
January 12, 2017
CORTEZ MASTO: Thank you Mr. Chair and ranking members of the committee. I look forward to working with all of you. Thank you very much. Dr. Carson, welcome and congratulations on your nomination. And welcome to your wonderful family sitting here with you. There’s been a lot of questions, so with your indulgence, I’m just going to get right to them because it’s getting to be a long day for you. My colleagues have asked a number of questions, and I would like to just reaffirm some of them. In […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks by the First Lady Michelle Obama and Former First Lady Laura Bush - Sep. 16, 2016
September 16, 2016
These remarks were at an event at the National Archives. MR. WOODRUFF: Well, what an honor is it to be here today. I have a chance—first of all, I want to tell both of you that my wife, who is also my commander— MRS. OBAMA: As it should be. (Laughter.) MR. WOODRUFF:—she wanted to say hi to both of you and what you're doing for the veterans out there. I also want to mention, I just had a chance to—and I had the chance to see President Bush at the […]
Laura Bush
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks by First Lady Michelle Obama and Former First Lady Laura Bush - Sep. 16, 2016
September 16, 2016
These remarks were at an event at the National Archives. MR. WOODRUFF: Well, what an honor is it to be here today. I have a chance—first of all, I want to tell both of you that my wife, who is also my commander— MRS. OBAMA: As it should be. (Laughter.) MR. WOODRUFF:—she wanted to say hi to both of you and what you're doing for the veterans out there. I also want to mention, I just had a chance to—and I had the chance to see President Bush at the […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks during Conversation with Robin Roberts at Working Families Summit - Jun. 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
MS. ROBERTS: Good to see you. MRS. OBAMA: How are you? MS. ROBERTS: Oh, doing well. MRS. OBAMA: Doesn’t Robin look good? (Applause.) MS. ROBERTS: Oh, thank you. MRS. OBAMA: You look good! MS. ROBERTS: You're just saying it because it's true. (Laughter.) But it has been, all day long here, and that lively group discussion which has preceded us, talking about the role of women in the workplace and the fact that nearly half of the workforce is made up of women. Yet when you see the Fortune 500 […]