Representative American speeches 2011-2012 / edited by Brian Boucher.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: The reference shelf ; v. 84, no. 6Publication details: Ipswich, MA : H. W. Wilson, c2013.Description: xvi, 195 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780824211202 (issue 6, pbk.)
  • 0824211200 (issue 6, pbk.)
  • 9780824212490 (volume 84)
  • 0824212495 (volume 84)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 668.2 .R47 2013
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 Ra�ul 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Ra�ul 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.

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