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- Senators Howell Heflin (D-AL) and Bennett Johnston (D-LA), retiring from the U.S. Senate, talk about the public perception of that body and other parts of the government. In a panel at the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, moderated by Norman Ornstein.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama announces that he is elevating the Small Business Administration to cabinet level status. He also urges Congress to give him authority to consolidate government agencies for efficiency and cost cutting purposes. Obama describes the complexity small business owners face navigating through the bureaucracy and promises to streamline the process. Held at the White House. Recording ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-01-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton addresses members of the National League of Cities. Clinton says that more welfare money has been returned to the hands of the states in his two years in office than in the twelve GOP years which preceded him.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-03-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clintons press conference outlines ways of paying for his new middle class tax cut and introduces Vice President Al Gore, who speaks of specifics for reinventing government. The program continues with specifics from other cabinet members: Alice Rivlin, Federico Pena, Henry Cisneros, White, and Williams.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-12-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vice President Al Gore speaks on re-inventing government and presents the National Performance Review to President Clinton. Clinton accepts, "Creating a government that works better and costs less", the document prepared by Gore's committee--saving 108 billion dollars over five years.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-09-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Obama talks about civility and the need for legislators to work together to insure that the U.S. can compete in a rapidly changing global economy. To sharpen the country's competitive edge, he calls for increased spending on education, infrastructure, clean energy technology, and high-speed Internet, while at the same time, in a nod to the burgeoning deficit, proposes a five-year freeze on domestic discretionary spending and a massive, cost cutting reorganization of the federal government. He also discuses health care, the tax code, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, national security, gays in the military, and immigration. Obama closes by saying that America is still a place where a person can rise from humble beginnings to achieve great things.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection