obama weekly address: gop will try to repeal wall street reform video
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washington ampmdash president barack obama is warning voters that republicans seeking control of congress would roll back his hard-won wall street overhaul bill he says the gop039s promised repeal of the new law would be a major setback for consumers and would bring back a financial system whose near-collapse led to the worst recession since the great depression

how wall street reform is working for you
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learn more about the wall street reform and consumer protection act also known as dodd-frank signed into law by president obama a year ago today watch to find out more about the consumer protections and long term structural changes put in place by the historic act and get the facts about the lobbyists and special interests who are trying to undermine ithttp:mybarackobamacompagesharewall-street-video-share

president obama039s press conference on the g20 summit
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president obama speaks to the press about the world economy and progress made at the g20 summit november 4 2011

tom cotton on new immigration ban health care reform wiretapping claims morning joe msnbc
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sen tom cotton r-ark discusses meeting with the president on immigration the gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare why he says the party is moving too fast on health care and trump039s tweets subscribe to msnbc: http:onmsnbccomsubscribetomsnbcabout: msnbc is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines insightful political commentary and informed perspectives reaching more than 95 million households worldwide msnbc offers a full schedule of live news coverage political opinions and award-winning documentary programming -- 24 hours a day 7 days a weekconnect with msnbc onlinevisit msnbccom: http:onmsnbccomreadmsnbcfind msnbc on facebook: http:onmsnbccomlikemsnbcfollow msnbc on twitter: http:onmsnbccomfollowmsnbcfollow msnbc on google: http:onmsnbccomplusmsnbcfollow msnbc on instagram: http:onmsnbccominstamsnbcfollow msnbc on tumblr: http:onmsnbccomleanwithmsnbctom cotton on new immigration ban health care reform wireta

ohio quotyes on issue 2quot
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http:wwwcitizensunitedorgthe cincinnati enquirer says vote yes on issue 2it will permit us to pay teachers based on merit not just seniority reward the best teachers for a job well donereform tenure so we can replace the othersunions need the right to bargain for wages but we parents and educators deserve the right to run our own schoolscommon sense reforms to help our children and grandchildrenvote yes on issue 2

reform pensions now
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tv ad for the illinois is broke campaignillinois is broke and springfield lacks the political courage to make the tough decisions to get the state back on track beginning with just telling you the truth legislators in springfield along with your industry advocates will have you believe that you as a teacher have nothing to worry about - that your pension fund is intactteachers click here http:wwwillinoisisbrokecomteachersto take action click here: http:wwwillinoisisbrokecomtakeactionaspxhttp:wwwillinoisisbrokecom

the clinton years or the 1990s: crash course us history 45
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you can directly support crash course at http:wwwsubbablecomcrashcourse subscribe for as little as 0 to keep up with everything we039re doing free is nice but if you can afford to pay a little every month it really helps us to continue producing this contentin which john green teaches you about the united states as it was in the 1990s you039ll remember from last week that the old-school republican george hw bush had lost the 1992 presidential election to a young upstart democrat from arkansas named bill clinton clinton was a bit of a dark horse candidate having survived a sex scandal during the election but a third party run by ross perot split the vote and clinton was inaugurated in 1993 john will teach you about clinton039s foreign policy agenda which included nato action in the balkans and the oslo accords between israel and the plo he039ll also cover some of the domestic successes and failures of the clinton years including the failed attempt at healthcare reform the pretty terrible record on glbtq issues welfare reform which got mixed reviews and the happier issues like the huge improvements in the economy also computers cheap effective readily available computers came along in the 1990s and they kind of changed the world culminating in this video which is the end of the internet until next week

white house white board: the costs of repealing health reform
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stephanie cutter an assistant to the president who has been working on implementing the health reform law takes to the white house white board to explain what repealing it would mean for family premium costs and american jobs

a deeper look at stem learning
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a new set of reports from change the equation cteq paints a wide-ranging and in-depth picture of science technology engineering and mathematics stem learning in each state and the district of columbia vital signs 2012 examines not only student performance but also access to educational opportunity and the amount of instructional support schools and teachers receive the 51 state reports which include never before available data offer specific recommendations for each state to improve stem teaching and learning in grades k-12to view multimedia news release go to http:wwwmultivucommnr56347-change-the-equation-vital-signs-2012-report-k-12-stem-learning

aila pres stump on immigration reform
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yesterday the senate took a momentous step forward with a vote of 68-32 in favor of final passage of s 744 the quotborder security economic opportunity and immigration modernization actquot this moves the united states toward real immigration reform which is so vitally important for immigrant families businesses and the entire economyto view multimedia news release go to http:wwwmultivucommnr62251-american-immigration-lawyers-association-aila-on-immigration-reform-bill

michele bachmann calls for 039insurrection039 against the gop if leadership doesn039t fully repeal health care reform video
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never one to shy away from inflammatory rhetoric rep michele bachmann r-minn called for an quotinsurrectionquot against the republican party if the new class of gop leadership -- from which she is notably absent -- doesn039t successfully advance a quotcomplete and utterquot repeal of health care reform quotif they don039t i think there needs to be an insurrection here in washington dc against our own leadership -- because that is the message that039s come loud and clear out of this election: a full-scale repudiation and rejection of the federal government takeover of private industryquot bachmann said in a recent interview with cnsnews

school system reform: how and why is a priceless tale with dr john merrifield - youtube
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in this episode of the podcast dr john merrifield covers school reform and the obstacles that come with iteducation reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education education reformers desire to make public education into a market in the form of an input-output system where accountability creates high-stakes from curriculum standards tied to standardized teststhe studies most widely cited in the united states based their findings on small-scale restriction-laden us programs and a handful of larger but still restriction-laden foreign school choice programs the extensive restrictions and small size of those programs make them virtually irrelevant to the widely acknowledged transformational change imperative because the most intensely studied programs lack most and sometimes all of the key elements of market systems such as profit price change market-entry and product differentiation they don039t help us determine whether the unleashing market forces will produce mor

herman cain proposes electrified border fence as immigration reform says he was joking
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gop presidential hopeful herman cain came down hard on immigration saturday on the campaign trail telling crowds in tennessee that part of his policy would be to build an electrified fence on the mexican border that could potentially kill anyone trying to enter the country illegally he backed away from that proposal sunday morning however saying he wasn

bbc documentary 2015 - the victorian era of british history british empire
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bbc documentary 2015 - the victorian era of british history british empire the victorian era of british history and that of the british empire was the period of queen victoria039s reign from 20 june 1837 until her death on 22 january 1901 it was a long period of peace prosperity refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for britain1 some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the reform act 1832the fields of social history and literature often refer to the victorian era as victorianism especially when discussing the attitudes and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century the study of victorianism is often specifically directed at victorian morality which refers to highly moralistic straitlaced language and behaviour those who study victorianism are victorianists the era was preceded by the georgian period and followed by the edwardian period the later half of the victorian age roughly coincided with the first portion of the belle poque era of continental europe and the gilded age of the united statesculturally there was a transition away from the rationalism of the georgian period and toward romanticism and mysticism with regard to religion social values and arts2 in international relations the era was a long period of peace known as the pax britannica and economic colonial and industrial consolidation temporarily disrupted by the crimean war in 1854 the end of the period saw the boer war domestically the agenda was increasingly liberal with a number of shifts in the direction of gradual political reform industrial reform and the widening of the voting franchisetwo especially important figures in this period of british history are the prime ministers gladstone and disraeli whose contrasting views changed the course of history disraeli favoured by the queen was a gregarious tory his rival gladstone a liberal distrusted by the queen served more terms and oversaw much of the overall legislative development of the erathe population of england and wales combined almost doubled from 168 million in 1851 to 305 million in 19013 scotland039s population also rose rapidly from 28 million in 1851 to 44 million in 1901 ireland039s population decreased rapidly from 82 million in 1841 to less than 45 million in 1901 mostly due to the great famine4 at the same time around 15 million emigrants left the united kingdom in the victorian era and settled mostly in the united states canada new zealand and australia5during the early part of the era the house of commons was headed by the two parties the whigs and the conservatives from the late 1850s onwards the whigs became the liberals these parties were led by many prominent statesmen including lord melbourne sir robert peel lord derby lord palmerston william ewart gladstone benjamin disraeli and lord salisbury the unsolved problems relating to irish home rule played a great part in politics in the later victorian era particularly in view of gladstone039s determination to achieve a political settlement southern ireland achieved independence in 1922

tomas lopez fired for saving a man we need tort reform
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tomas lopez talks with fox ampamp friends about his firing as a life guard because he went out of his quotzonequot to help save a drowning man if ever there was a case that screamed tort reform i think this would be it