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Representative American speeches, 2011-2012 / edited by Brian Boucher.
Contributor
Boucher, Brian.
Imprint:Ipswich, MA : H. W. Wilson, 2013.
Descriptionxvi, 195 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:REMARKS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS: Do big things / 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.
Note: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 / Senator Mike Enzi -- The Affordable Care Act / Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- The Paycheck Fairness Act / Senator Debbie Stabenow -- Dark money donors, show yourselves / Representative Raul Grijalva -- Fiscal responsibility / Senator Dianne Feinstein -- Republican intransigence and obstruction / Representative Steny Hoyer -- Let the tide rise for all boats / Representative Mike Kelly.
Note: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 Hillary 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.
Note:EDUCATION TODAY: Res non verba: Deeds, not words / U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller -- Education is essential to a better life / Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta -- Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the State Higher Education Executive Officers' Higher Education Policy Conference / U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan -- Here's to another outstanding twenty-five years / Joanne Weiss, chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan -- Investing in America's future / Assistant Secretary of Education Brenda Dann-Messier.
Note: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: we'd better pay attention / Bobby Rush.
Note:PRIVACY AND THE INTERNET: We will not fail our children / U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan -- Victim impact statement / Jane Clementi -- Online and overexposed: consumer privacy, the FTC, and the rise of the cyberazzi / Federal Trade Commission Chair Jon Leibowitz -- Internet privacy / Edith Ramirez.
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Boucher, Brian. | Obama, Michelle, 1964- | Lynch, Jane, 1960- | Woodruff, Bob, 1961- | Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016. | Shore, Billy. | Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos, 1950- | Evans, David. | McCain, John, 1936-2018. | Sanders, Bernard. | Levin, Carl, 1934-2021. | Enzi, Michael B., 1944-2021. | Reid, Harry, 1939-2021. | Stabenow, Debbie. | Grijalve, Raul, 1948- | Feinstein, Dianne, 1933-2023. | Hoyer, Steny H. (Steny Hamilton), 1939- | Kelly, Mike 1948- | Obama, Barack. | Jenkins, Brian Michael. | Clinton, Hillary Rodham. | Biden, Joseph R., Jr. | Khan, Maham. | Panetta, Leon E., 1938- | Shaheen, Jeanne. | Miller, Tony. | Duncan, Arne. | Weiss, Joanne. | Dann-Messier, Brenda. | Rasmussen, Virginia. | Lessig, Lawrence. | Butler, Judith, 1956- | Rush, Bobby. | Clementi, Jane. | Leibowitz, Jon, 1958- | Ramirez, Edith, 1968- |
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 21st century. | September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. | Education -- United States -- 21st century. | Occupy movement -- New York (State) -- New York. | Privacy, Right of -- United States. | Internet -- Law and legistlation -- United States. | United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017. |
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