Sentences with phrase «presidents speech today»
Today during the Presidents speech today, a reporter asked how many Iraqi had died in this war, the President answered about 30,000.
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South by Southwest attendees will see both President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama deliver keynote addresses, with the president's speech set to open the tech - focused leg of the evePresident Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama deliver keynote addresses, with the president's speech set to open the tech - focused leg of the evepresident's speech set to open the tech - focused leg of the event today.
Ahead of President Barack Obama's anticipated speech on the U.S. economy today, one survey shows that business owners are feeling quite optimistic on the topic.
«The time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform,» President Obama said in a speech today.
Today, the NY FED President presented a speech at the Japan Society in New York City, titled, «Lessons at the Zero Bound: The Japanese and U.S. Experience.»
Today's much - anticipated speech by President Obama unveiling his latest jobs plan is not just an opportunity to jockey for political position, it's an opportunity for investors.
«I am signing today an executive order to defend the freedom of religion and speech in America, the freedoms that we wanted, the freedoms that you fought for so long,» the president said in a Rose Garden ceremony.
President Obama addressed abortion for the first time since his election during his speech to Notre Dame graduates today.
«We assembled here today,» President Trump said in his inauguration speech, «are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power... From this day forward, it's going to be only America First.»
«So, I didn't stand locked in arms, I knelt today, because I wanted to make it clear that our rights to free speech and protest in America can not be muted by the president.»
The President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has welcomed today's launch of a consultation document on strengthening the Government's anti-avoidance rules, and accompanying speech by the Exchequer Secretary, but warned of the dangers of not correctly targeting new regulations.
President Donald Trump plans today to deliver a broad and harsh critique of Iran in a speech declaring that the landmark Iran nuclear deal is not in America's national security interests.
In a non-partisan speech, president Mahama said: «What we are enjoying today is a cumulative work of all the governments that have... so when a new government comes you don't have to start from level one, you start from where they left off and then you take it to the next level so cumulatively we are making good progress.
Brown, who had a bit of a tiff with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand over who was more responsible for President Obama's visit to the Queen City today, is on the list of elected officials expected to be on hand for the big speech at Industrial Support Inc., while the junior senator is not.
Theresa May opted against namechecking the European Commission president in her speech today.
President Barack Obama's post-campaign operation, Organizing for America, will give Democrats the keys to his coveted data hot rod later today during a speech to the Democratic National Committee.
«He gave a stem - winding, almost revival - type speech today,» one Democrat said of the vice president.
President Putin is expected to use a speech today to encourage Crimea to join Russia and the Russian parliament, the Duma, will vote to recognise Crimea as Russian on Friday.
President Barack Obama used his speech at Rutgers University's commencement today to praise the 250 - year - old school, while slamming the «anti-intellectualism» in American politics.
Away from President Xi, one of finest speeches you'll hear today was from new Tory MP @heidiallen75 on tax credits: «Something must give»
Hours before delivering a big speech today on immigration policy in Arizona, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will fly to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto — a trip that will take him to a nation he has repeatedly scorned.
Following the swearing - in of the President and his vice today [Saturday], January 7, social media has been awash with some quotes in Nana Addo's speech, believed to have been lifted from...
In a speech today (excerpts of which have already been released by his campaign), Mitt Romney accuses President Obama of trying to create complete economic equality: >
In his speech today, the President will lay out his vision for an immigration system for America's 21st century economy and will call on Americans across the country to join a constructive conversation on this issue.
DeWitt, N.Y. - Vice President Joe Biden gave a personal and progressive speech today as he urged supporters of U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei to vote on Nov. 4.
Speaking today at a White House event honoring the nation's top elementary school teachers and scientist - mentors, President Barack Obama gave a stump - like speech about the need «to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.»
«You'd choose today,» answered the man who posed this question in an April 2016 speech, President Barack Obama.
In his speech in Cairo today, President Barack Obama indicated his intentions to support scientific initiatives in the Islamic world as part of his vision for promoting peaceful relations between the United States and countries with a Muslim majority.
In his first campaign speech devoted to science and technology, President Bill Clinton today pledged $ 100 million to a National Science Foundation (NSF) effort in 1998 to improve and expand the Internet.
So it's easy to say, or at least guess, that if Hillary Clinton were president of the United States, Margot Robbie could start writing her acceptance speech today.
gave a stirring speech in which she pointed out that Hollywood, foreigners, and the press are among the most vilified groups today in the wake of President - elect Donald Trump's electoral college win.
In a speech that triggered advance controversy — and logistical headaches for school officials — President Barack Obama today urged America's K - 12 students to study hard and stay in school, saying, «What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.»
By 1997, as it became evident that this goal wasn't going to be met, President Clinton returned in his State of the Union speech to the old model of substituting quantity for quality: «We must make the 13th and 14th years of education - at least two years of college - just as universal in America by the 21st century as a high - school education is today.»
No president today could give such speeches, calling unabashedly for citizens to sacrifice themselves in the cause of protecting and expanding democracy and freedom.
The Chicago Teachers Union will put on a major public relations blitz today, with a rally in Springfield and a speech by President Karen Lewis in Chicago.
Quoting extensively from U.S. President Theodore «Teddy» Roosevelt in a speech with more political overtones than usual, Evers suggested the comments in a famous address by our nation's 26th President provide advice for today's Wisconsinites in the areas of improving school finance, fostering healthy students and connecting communities.
AFT president, Clinton BFF and reportedly her favorite candidate for Secretary of Education Randi Weingarten added, «Today's speech on education repeats the same flawed ideology anti-public education zealots have been shilling for years.
In a speech today in Buena Park, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, cited former LA Unified superintendent John Deasy as a failed example of school district management and argued for collaboration over fiat as the pathway to success in public education.
It could be argued that not every speaker listed in the glossy brochure for today's seminar provides uncontroversial evidence in support of this outlook: the keynote speech is to be delivered, in a few hours» time, by George W. Bush, a president far from universally viewed as successful.
There's plenty to parse in today's speech, including the president's unfortunate mashup of the clarity of basic greenhouse science (which is where the «overwhelming judgment» of scientific assessments lies) and the much tougher challenge of discerning what factors have caused recent large losses from fires, drought and storms.
Various updates appended The best thing about the Paris climate conference known as COP21, which began today with a round of position - staking and prodding speeches by President Obama and dozens of other world leaders, is that dealing with global warming has become normal, and that's a good thing.
Today, the President will be giving a speech at Georgetown University on climate change issues, with announcements of initiatives that will be taken leveraging the powers of the Administrative Branch because the Congress is unable (and, to a large extent, unwilling) to take meaningful action to address climate change: whether mitigation or adaptation.
WASHINGTON (June 25, 2013)-- President Obama's speech today, in which he laid out a suite of climate and energy policies, demonstrates the growing demand for heeding the risks scientists have identified from a changing climate, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
However, during a speech today in the US Center at Copenhagen, Secretary Chu addressed this point by highlighting the recent deal Presidents Obama and Hu reached in November.
President Obama's supporters, his critics, and the media all want the same thing from his climate speech today: drama.
In his big speech on climate change today, President Obama mocked Republicans who deny the existence of man - made global warming by derisively referring to them as members of «the Flat Earth Society.»
In his speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Obama announced, «So today... I'm directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution standards for both new and existing power plants.»
(06/25/2013) Five years after being elected president and six months after winning a second term, President Obama today gave his first speech devoted solely to climate change and announced several executive actions to begin weaning the United States (historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases) off fosspresident and six months after winning a second term, President Obama today gave his first speech devoted solely to climate change and announced several executive actions to begin weaning the United States (historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases) off fossPresident Obama today gave his first speech devoted solely to climate change and announced several executive actions to begin weaning the United States (historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases) off fossil fuels.
President Bush plans to use a Rose Garden speech on global warming policy today to propose several ways to improve the situation, government officials say, including an increase in money for basic climate research and an effort to coordinate American climate - modeling efforts with those abroad.
President Obama will today give a high profile speech on climate change as the biggest threat to national security, according to the New York Times.